Janet K. Smith Ph.D. 😎✝️USA

PhD Heb Bible, author, birder. Democrat. Nat'l politics. ELCA Lutheran. @jksmith18.bsky.social. Wife, mother.

[Janet K. Smith Ph.D. 😎✝️USA @jksmith18]

I'm going to pin this one.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

I’m not sure Christians realize how fragile and controlling they make Christianity look when they act as though they need a president, a political party, a Supreme Court, and a nation to protect, preserve, and enforce Christianity.

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

Trump's DOJ quietly closed its criminal investigation into an Abbott formula plant tied to contaminated baby formula and two infant deaths.

Abbott Laboratories gave Trump's inauguration $500,000.

The Gordie Howe Bridge remains closed weeks after the ribbon cutting was abruptly canceled and Trump railed against its opening.

The Maroun family who owns the competing bridge gave a Trump Super PAC $1 million.

There’s a pattern here. Donors above all else.

https://t.co/0CnYSUEuzU

[CantStopPoppin @CantStopPoppin]

1/2 Debbie Wasserman Schultz's surprise visit to Miramar ICE exposed the nightmare: a "processing center" turned death camp in the making. Men crammed 75+ into spaces for 56. Women in 7x14 rooms with one exposed toilet. One bottle of water. Microwave slop. No privacy. No dignity. This is state-sanctioned dehumanization on American soil.

[Janet K. Smith Ph.D. 😎✝️USA @jksmith18]

@SociologenHD Dear Henrik, you are right in all you said above. Most Americans wish we could celebrate the 4th by tossing the whole Trump administration into the bay (metaphorically speaking). Here is a video of what we use to be and can be again. https://t.co/K6EKaWMEh6

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.

How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal. 

At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest. But time and again-including 250 years ago-those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress.

And yet today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted-but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum.

As we mark 250 years, what do we see? 

We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world— one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands —those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone —and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

It’s really too bad that all the billionaires here in the U.S don’t feel the same way because if they did this Country wouldn’t be struggling right now.

[Janet K. Smith Ph.D. 😎✝️USA @jksmith18]

@PLSgetserious Great point, Huck! I admire McC, but I disagree with this statement in light of how Trump has used the military in his speeches.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

State ownership of companies is communism.

Shocking to me how passive Republicans have reacted to these Trump actions. I thought they believed in capitalism, free enterprise, and the like.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Performative patriotism always cares more about waving the flag and demanding that people show respect for it than it ever does about embodying what it actually stands for.

Performative Christianity does the exact same thing with God and the Bible.

[Janet K. Smith Ph.D. 😎✝️USA @jksmith18]

@TokyoTom2020 It's heart wrenching. So hard to watch this walking infestation devastate our beautiful country. And the GOP lawmakers standing by doing nothing about it. May God call every one of them to account for it.

[Thomas P (TOM) Logan 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 @TokyoTom2020]

Yes

[Janet K. Smith Ph.D. 😎✝️USA @jksmith18]

On our 250th birthday, America is being raped and the treasonous, cowardly, weak GOP lawmakers don't care at all. It's all about them staying in power where they can join the grift.

[Thomas P (TOM) Logan 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 @TokyoTom2020]

和訳

『”アメリカ250” という米国独立記念日プログラムは、何百万人もの人々を惹きつける万博のようなものになる予定でした。

しかし、トランプ大統領はお金を盗み、許可を拒否し、“フリーダム250”と改名したので、彼自身と共和党員のすべてを作ることができました。』

トランプはあなたからアメリカの誕生日を盗んだ！ 🤬』

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

When the president gets away with raping kids, stealing thousands of classified documents, and mounting a deadly coup attempt, but an Olympian gets brought up on federal charges for pulling paint chips out of a pool, you’ve got yourself a shithole country.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Do you remember last year when Trump announced his massive across the board tariffs…He called it liberation day, it actually led to a stock market crash. That liberation day announcement was made on April 2nd of last year, and Trump’s financial disclosures show that he made 327 stock purchases six days later, on April 8th, while the market was down…So he makes those purchases on April 8th. The next morning, just after the market opened, he told his followers on Truth social: ‘THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY.’ Hours later, he paused his tariffs and the stock market had a historic rally, so historic in fact, it represented the biggest single day gain in the history of the Bloomberg billionaires index. To put it simply, it appears an official act by Trump cratered the stock market. Trump then bought the dip and then used another official act to bring the price of the market back up. Trump of course insists that all his stock transactions are handled by his two adult sons [@EricTrump & @DonaldJTrumpJr] without his involvement or knowledge of the individual trades carried out on his behalf. When asked about the timing of these specific trades, the White House told us tonight that President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public, saying there was no conflict of interest. The White House also directed us to the Trump Organization. We’ve reached out to them, but we haven’t heard [anything] back.”🤦‍♀️

[Janet K. Smith Ph.D. 😎✝️USA @jksmith18]

Unlike Mike Pence, who temporarily held back the dam of corruption by one brave act, this one man did the opposite and unleashed hell on America.

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

I’ll never forgive glitch Mitch McConnell for stealing Obama’s SCOTUS pick, claiming 8 months before the election was too close - then stealing Biden’s SCOTUS pick, claiming 8 days before the election wasn’t. He’s responsible for this shitshow.

[Janet K. Smith Ph.D. 😎✝️USA @jksmith18]

This is heartbreaking and disturbing on several levels.

[Based Meth Enjoyer @methadvocate]

One more thing. Today is a mournful day for me.

12 years ago, my cousin, Mohammed Abu-Khdier, was kidnapped from his home in East Jerusalem by three Jewish settlers. He was beaten with tire irons, doused in gasoline, forced to drink gasoline, and then burnt alive.

I’ll never forget his death, I remember the night when his body was discovered, Mohammad’s mother called my mother. We were both in the living room, and I could hear the poor woman shrieking and crying in grief from across the room.

What is worse, is not just the murder, but the humiliations that the Jews brought to the family: within a week, Israel police had ‘leaked rumors’ to Israeli media that Mohammad was actually killed by his own family members for supposedly being a homosexual. Both claims being obviously untrue, and were very humiliating to his family.

Then, during his funeral, IDF detained another one of his relatives, Tariq, an American citizen from Florida. They dragged him into an alley and stomped this poor 15 year old kid unconscious. We know about this because there is recorded video of them doing it, and Tariq was even interviewed by George Stephanopolous.

I will never forget, I will never forgive. I wrote an article about his death on my substack two years ago, I hope you’ll read it, it’ll be below.

May God have mercy on your soul, Mohammed.

[Janet K. Smith Ph.D. 😎✝️USA @jksmith18]

@OJoelsen Thanks for this tour of Denmark.

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

This is absolutely bonkers: newly uncovered text messages reveal that Republican operatives INSIDE the North Carolina State Board of Elections are secretly collaborating with the NC Republican Party to force local elections officials to obey partisan directives - or be fired.

This is a smoking gun: @DallasWoodhouse, the disgraced former leader of the NCGOP who Republicans nevertheless hired to help run the State Board of Elections, is working hand-in-hand with NCGOP legal counsel to pressure officials and even arrange votes.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

The world is slowly getting it.
This company is not what it claims to be.

Palantir is a surveillance and data collection front-end for Nazi psychopath Peter Thiel. It is Cambridge Analytica for the broligarchy. It needs to die in a fire and its ashes thrown into a volcano.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"