🇺🇦Pamela Nasution Schapmann🇺🇸🇲🇨

Christ follower. Former (and future?) podcaster.

[🇺🇦Pamela Nasution Schapmann🇺🇸🇲🇨 @pamschap]

The FDA and CDC recently authorized a third dose of the Moderna or Pfizer Covid vaccines for those who are moderately to severely immunocompromised (that’s me! 🙋🏻‍♀️). So thankful to have been able to get this booster on Saturday. ♥️ Please get the vaxx!

[WABJ - Washington Association of Black Journalists @WABJDC]

Donald Trump’s name is being removed from the Kennedy Center right now

Via @DCNewsNow

[Más Ciencia @MsCiencia2]

Niños haciendo siluetas de películas con agua en la entrada.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The Kennedy Center ordered employees to remove President Trump’s name from the performing arts venue, strip all references from signs, brochures, the website and other materials — and to update email signatures and letterhead immediately. https://t.co/1J2FEPH33q

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

That is the worst-designed sink in the history of sinks.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A wholesome moment.

Mom giving her daughter one of the best experiences — memories that last forever, not just a day.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Pouring one out for The Reverend Jesse Jackson. A giant and a champion for civil rights and equality.

But can anyone read Green Eggs and Ham better? No.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Please watch all of this.

[🇺🇦Pamela Nasution Schapmann🇺🇸🇲🇨 @pamschap]

@BarackObama @MichelleObama Gorgeous!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Should be an Olympic sport

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."

[Julie Roys @reachjulieroys]

At least 163 worshippers were kidnapped when armed bandits stormed 2 churches during Sun. svcs in Nigeria’s Kaduna state.
The attack underscores ongoing insecurity, with officials facing criticism for failing to protect freedom of worship amid kidnappings.
https://t.co/SnVTotcgWy

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

JD Vance: “Denmark has not done a good job keeping Greenland safe.”

400 children who were shot dead in their classrooms would like to have a word about being kept safe.

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

when we say "keeping the recipes alive", this is EXACTLY what we mean

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

We must take heed, is the thing. We must take heed lest we think we ever age out of foolishness or faithlessness. We don’t. Look at Solomon. Time doesn’t heal. Time tells. It tests. And tries.
Time can make us lazy. After all, who’s watching anymore? It can make us meaner. Angrier. Harder headed. More bitter. More prideful. More selfish.

It can make us freak out. Fear that our lives will end without us ever feeling “alive” again, how ever we might define alive.

We have an opportunity here to examine our own lives and take heed lest we assume we’re beyond blowing them up sky high.

Can we finish well? Yes. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, help me. This kind of thing scares the living daylights out of me. My story is not over and there’s still time to be even more foolish in my future than I’ve been in my past. And that’s saying something.

We CAN finish well. But it will not be accidental. It will not be incidental. It will take humility. It will take a radical mindset like that of the apostle Paul. He adopted one goal. One absolute pursuit. “This one thing I do.” All else was a far and distant second.

It will take everything we’ve got. And the revelation will be that Jesus IS everything we’ve got.

How I thank God for the cross of Christ. How I thank God for his grace. How I thank God that he loves Philip Yancey so much that he wanted him to finish well. To repent. To pivot. To love his wife and his family well. To love the Giver of eternal life well. Thank God, none of us can take that right from Philip. His public life may be over. Beyond repair in our eyes. His private life is not. That’s what’s so amazing about grace.

Jesus, be with them.
Jesus, be with us all.

[Ifeoma C. N @__iffff]

Her husband went away on a boys’ trip and she re-did his home office.

The outcome is so beautiful and functional. I love the shade of green she used for the walls.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

Here are my top 10 Labrador Retrievers of all time!

[🇺🇦Pamela Nasution Schapmann🇺🇸🇲🇨 @pamschap]

@BethMooreLPM Beautiful!