The Political Pastor

If trump did nothing “concerning” while spending time with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein - as Ghislaine Maxwell says - then there shouldn’t be a problem releasing the Epstein files in their entirety (with survivors’ names and PII redacted.)

A gentle reminder that the VA getting rid of 30,000 people instead of 80,000 people isn’t a win.

We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.

Touché.

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

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He is corrupt. It’s happening right before our eyes.

While I appreciate the "lock him up" and "impeach him" sentiments (and I'm with you), if Mueller, Garland, and impeachment taught us anything, its that 1) SCOTUS is corrupt and 2) We have to do this ourselves. As I've been saying for nearly 8 years: it's up to us. Always has been.

Crockett: Right now, it seems like you don’t care about the constitution unless it’s the second amendment and that’s misinterpreted as well. There’s other amendments.. And we don’t get to just change it because our fearless leader says that he doesn’t like it

Not quite. Habeas Corpus is not just for American citizens or people who are here legally, @slotkin.senate.gov. It would be helpful to remind everyone that the Constitution protects ANY person that's in the United States. Not just citizens.

If South Africa is a sovereign nation, how are we able to send our own planes we paid for to transport white Afrikaners to the U.S., but simultaneously unable to send a plane to return Abrego Garcia et al?

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

Thank you to everyone who showed up, good news, the judge has been released!

No. We’re not going to fire federal workers one day and build a makeup area the next. Hegseth can put his makeup on at the red lights on his way to work like the rest of us.

This is without a doubt the best thread on the internet right now

ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.

It never ceases to amaze me that the people who insist the Ten Commandments should be on every wall of every building also go hard against LGBQ and trans people (which is not in the commandments) but will double down on sharing posts that are proven lies - which is.

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

We have each other. We are the Resistance now. All of us.

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Since Congress’s allotted funds have already been improperly unallocated, U.S. citizens are questioning whether they are legally required to continue paying federal taxes.

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

What president musty is doing by tearing apart whole departments is like finding a nail in your tire so you rip all four of them off and throw the spare in the dumpster. Sure, the leak is gone, but now you can’t drive your car and you look like a fool for proudly proclaiming you’ve stopped the leak.

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

If you voted to put a convicted felon in the White House I don’t want to hear you shrieking about how undocumented immigrants should have come here through legal channels.

Do I have this right? Elon Musk - the guy in charge of preventing wasteful spending - dropped $40M on a Super Bowl ad? We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.

Cue all the angry old 👨‍🦳🧑‍🦳 people complaining about the halftime show…

But her emails, amiright?

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

If you are a federal employee, it is advised to set your social media accounts to private to prevent outside viewership, as reports suggest that loyalty screenings have begun.

I see that Melania chose to wear her Hamburglar hat to honor the criminals in the nation--and next to her.

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr Day! May we all be reminded today that some struggles are worth fighting for, and human rights for all top that list. As tempted as we may be, we do not have the luxury of ignoring the next four years.

The tech bro billionaires bribed congress to shut down TikTok. Meta and X all lobbied heavily to get it banned to establish their tech industrial complex. Their CEOs will both be at the inauguration. All to force you to post your funny little videos on their apps. But you don’t have to.

People upset that Michelle Obama isn’t attending the inauguration seem to have forgotten that Mrs. Felon didn’t attend Biden’s inauguration, either, nor did her con husband.

Senator: I’ll speak in his defense because to err is human. Who among us hasn’t shown up drunk to work? Who here hasn’t cheated on their wife? Hegseth: Please stop helping me Senator: Who hasn’t taken off their pants at the zoo?

Ordinarily I find deadnaming abhorrent, but in the case of the Gulf of Mexico I think I’ll make an exception

My husband has a bad case of pneumonia. Looks like we’re spending Christmas in the hospital.

Don’t let it be forgotten that Mike Johnson and the Republican Party tried to hide a report showing the nominee for Attorney General had had sex with a child while a member of Congress.

Kinda wild how everyone can suddenly pronounce Luigi Mangione’s name but still can’t correctly address the sitting Vice President.

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

I keep thinking about those paycheck to paycheck “price of eggs” Trump voters who picked a billionaire to appoint other billionaires who are going to make their food less safe & more costly, their medication harder to get, their overtime nonexistent and their healthcare coverage a thing of the past.

Update: Chuck Schumer is unanimously reelected minority leader in the Senate. We suck.

So a reminder: It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom. It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president. It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child. For the record.

Elon Musk has 12 kids and spent Thanksgiving with Donald Trump

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

There’s a narrative that Gaetz was a deliberate head-fake — a distraction to boost the real candidate — but I am always suspicious of narratives that attribute four-dimensional chess to trump as opposed to knocking over the table and eating the checkers.