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Thank you, Bishop Budd, for being the one religious leader to call our “president” out on his hate and reckless ignorance, following that succession of sycophantic clergy who littered the inauguration with pseudo-prayers. Thank you for presiding over our now truly national cathedral!

I moderated my language above since my initial post: The way that Bishop Budd extols peace, mutual respect, and recognition of shared dignity is the way forward, rather than mockery and dehumanization.

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Long may we remember you, Benjamin Lay!

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Telling it like it is: beat those swords into plowshares!

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What a great metaphor for our “infatuation” with Elon Musk: Once you’re “in” with him, a fire starts, and it’s inescapable! Talk about going up in flames —🔥 😱 🔥

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Boot Elon back to his den!

how do people not understand this

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CEOs go home!

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Louder! I can’t HEAR you! But let’s be clear: Trump alone is NOT the problem. The oligarchy is. A host of spineless, selfish, supine, sycophantic corporate bullies, such as Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and the bilious Elon Musk, are aiding and abetting Trump. This hydra has many, many heads …

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Why shouldn’t thieves of this magnitude be wanted?

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As Hermann Göring said, so Trump has done; and, let’s not forget, Ivana Trump said he’d read Hitler’s speeches … but back to Göring:

“the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

Trump’s first aim is an internal war against the weak and marginalized (immigrants, trans and queer people, et al.), just as it was in Germany, while he threatens to take Panama, Greenland, and Canada, just as another dictator once menaced the Sudentenland …

We are fools if we can’t see where this may lead.

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In the midst of such repression, racism, and queerphobia, queer Black courage and joy thrive! Congratulations and much love and health to you both, Venton Jones & Gregory Scott, Jr.! ❤️

As the new legislative session commenced on Tuesday, Jan. 14, Venton Jones, one of the first Black gay men to serve in the Texas legislature, got down on one knee and proposed to his longtime partner, Gregory Scott Jr., just after being sworn in at the State Capitol in Austin. Via People.com

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Blogger JoeMyGod reports, from Reuters, that the felon in chief is again separating immigrant children from their families, this time those of refugees in the US from Afghanistan, as well as leaving Afghans working with US troops there as potential victims of retribution by the Taliban. Trump’s regime begins day one with this act of EVIL. We should now be prepared for anything. When a man with so much wealth and power attacks the defenseless, then no wealth or power can defend anyone against him. We have been warned …

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Officer Michael Fanone knows the meaning of law and order and asserts, from hard-won experience, that Trump, our new Mussolini, does not.

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“Mein führer, I can walk!” — Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Dr. Strangelove’ from 1964 or the presidential inauguration of 2025? 😱 — more ignominious news of disgraced cretin Elon Musk …

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Christians, rejoice! Trump put aside the Bible when sworn in! Surely he is your candidate and god’s—which god, though, is the question … 👿

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Anyone born in racist, apartheid-era South Africa by any chance? So, we’re going to deport the immigrant sources of chaos and crime in our midst? 🙋🏼‍♂️ I have JUST the person in mind as the first deportee …

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The time has come, once again, to march, to demonstrate, to mobilize — to arm our sling, as David, to make Goliath fall …

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And Trump just promised, on the day we memorialize Dr. King, to make the United States “color blind.” We must mourn once again, and in our sorrow, find strength.

Be A King

@BerniceKing

"With my mother. Daddy's funeral.

He wasn't assassinated because he wanted his children to be judged "by the content of their character."

But for dismantling racism, poverty & militarism.

He wanted corrective measures to eradicate racism, not the delusion that it doesn't exist."

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