The vile comment about Michelle Obama is part of a nearly 20-year project to deny and defile the Obamas because their very existence confronted and did damage to the centuries-old lie of white supremacy and white control.
Part of that project hardened into a cruel conspiracy: Barack was gay and Michelle was trans. It was an attempt to emasculate him and defeminize her, while creating a scandal and branding them as secret-keepers and liars.
As long as the Obamas exist as qualified, competent, unmarred people, an example of excellence, they remain dangerous.
I had to open the library for this man so that he could read and get read. #ReadingRainbow
Dear Chris,
I can start by telling you who my audience is not.
It is NOT you.
It is NOT the pundit class that rarely leaves the safety of its Georgetown cocktail parties.
It is NOT the chattering class who gets paid to pretend it knows the mind of the American people.
It is NOT for anyone who looks at everything through the lens of politics.
The people I am talking to are tired of the bullshit.
The people I want to speak with are the 50 million Americans still sick and suffering. The families fighting for the lives of the those they love.
Whether they are people living in the shame and fear of being canceled, or consumed by grief after the loss of someone they love, they are just looking for a slight glimmer of hope that they too can get back up again.
My audience is the people who feel unheard, unseen, and uninvited, just like me.
My audience also includes my perceived enemies, those pitted against me by you and your colleagues in the media. I want to meet them where they are and help build a bridge. A bridge built of that which connects all of us. That’s where we begin to actually heal.
And it’s not as if my intent is difficult to understand or discern. Just read and listen to what I have said on this platform, and the 18+ hours of unscripted pod casts I have done.
I think your shock as to why anyone would care says far more about you than it does about me. Take a look at the comments to your post.
And I also know this: people are tired of the bullshit. They’re tired of you and the chattering classes’ obsession with my family as Rome burns.
So instead of wondering why people care about what I have to say, Chris, maybe you should concern yourself with why no one cares anymore about what you and everyone you represent has to say.
@ChristopherHale Are there any videos of JD and family attending mass every week like we have of President Biden? No matter where he was, at home or abroad, Biden found a way to go to mass or have mass said for him and his staff. He didn’t monetize his faith. He lives it.
Here are the policies that come from “the Left”
Social Security
Medicare
Medicaid
ACA
Food stamps
Unemployment insurance
Clean air and water
Weekends
Work place safety
Food safety
“The Left” created the American middle class
Flood the timeline with Michelle Obama.
Michelle Obama earned degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law, served as First Lady, became a bestselling author, and inspired millions around the world.
Today, WE post Michelle Obama.
This is a portrait I painted of one of many heroes of mine from the Civil Rights movement. The Rev. James Zwerg, circa 1961. He was one of the Freedom Riders, along with John Lewis, William Barbee, Catherine Burks, and many others, who pulled into Montgomery, AL on a bus May 20, 1961.
He volunteered to step off first.
The mob was waiting with baseball bats, chains, and clubs. They beat him until three of his vertebrae cracked, his nose broke, and every tooth in his head was fractured. They beat him unconscious on the pavement. A Black stranger in coveralls walked up and said, “Stop beating that kid. If you want to beat someone, beat me.” And they did. He saved Zwerg’s life.
White ambulances refused to take him. He lay in the street for over an hour. That is the moment I painted. Bloodied suit. Head bowed.
At Martin Luther King Jr.’s urging, Zwerg later went to seminary and was ordained in the United Church of Christ.
Rev. Zwerg is now 86 and lives in Tucson, Arizona. His courage and conviction, alongside that of countless others, helped save this nation. These are the people I celebrate as we near our 250th anniversary as a nation.
Biden at 80. Trump at 80.
One rode bikes, worked out daily, passed historic legislation, released yearly physicals, and answered endless questions about his age and health.
The other falls asleep in public, rambles through speeches, looks visibly swollen, and has reportedly taken multiple cognitive tests ordered by doctors.
Guess which one the media treated like a five-alarm health crisis. 🙄
@atrupar Northern Ireland is much more complicated that that idiot says, and it seems most of the rioters are in areas that specifically don’t want to be Irish but actually align with the colonizer England.
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This is revolting: The Trump administration is preparing to deport brave women fleeing Iranian repression to Central African Republic, an impoverished country in the middle of a civil war. https://t.co/y9pxvK2Odp
🚨🚨Trump just opened up the protected parts of the Pacific to commercial fishing.
David Attenborough wants you to look at how commercial fishing is being done. 👇👇👇
People complained to Jesus in the same way when he only named the poor in the Beatitudes.
They felt it felt unfair Jesus only named certain groups as “blessed.”
Blessed are the poor, the meek, the persecuted — shouldn’t everyone be blessed?
Yes, God loves everyone, but Jesus has a preferential love for those who are marginalized, excluded, and suffering injustice.
He singles out the downtrodden not to deny others’ worth, but to underline the worth of those whom the world treats as worthless.
In Jesus, God turns the world upside down so that the last become first.
In a society where black lives, immigrant lives, and refugee lives are too often pushed to last place, proclaiming that these lives are holy is not a negation of anyone else’s dignity — it’s a necessary affirmation of those whom our sinful world consistently undervalues.
“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity.
“You are not numbers or case files.
“You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV
Mehdi Hasan: “Some people say Bari Weiss will be fired because the ratings are going down and the chaos. That misunderstands what’s going on here. She’s not there to make CBS win in the ratings. She’s there to make CBS a safe place for Trump and MAGA”