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Immigration happens because American businesses need the workers. Americans have mastered demonizing immigrants while exploiting their cheap labor. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/greg-abbott-texas-border-stunt-supreme-court/677267/

Mike Luckovich, AJC.

Social media is debilitating.

Invoking a precendent set by enslavers and advocates of genocide, Sen. Mullin defends his conduct: The Hill https://apple.news/AquySbpr7RWyFrt4btkAjtg

I’m an Advent Police abolitionist. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/early-christmas-spirit-celebration/675990/

From the river to the sea… from sea to shining sea… whatever could it be… tell me what you see? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/us/politics/river-to-the-sea-israel-gaza-palestinians.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Beware the Language that Erases Reality: https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/10/open-letter-writers-war-israel/675680/

“War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. A sensitive and discriminating judgment is called for; a skilled intelligence to scent out the truth.”

— Carl von Clausewitz (1832)

In the fog of war, no one can see. Only peace creates clarity.

David Lewicki boosted:

‘Soil’ - #RSThomas
(An Acre of Land, Montgomeryshire Printing Co)
#Soil
#bardd #barddoniaeth #cerdd
#poet #poetry #poem

Text of poem -
SOIL.
A field with tall hedges and a young Moon in the branches and one star Declining westward set the scene Where he works slowly astride the rows Of red mangolds and green swedes Plying mechanically his cold blade. This is his world, the hedge defines The mind's limits; only the sky Is boundless, and he never looks up; His gaze is deep in the dark soil, As are his feet. The soil is all; His hands fondle it, and his bones Are formed out of it with the swedes. And if sometimes the knife errs, Burying itself in his shocked flesh, Then out of the wound the blood seeps home To the warm soil from which it came.

Is Jim Jordan the second worst person currently in politics or is that Ken Paxton?

Wow. Republicans are eating their own. Never would have guessed that overthrowing elections, undermining the principle of majority rule, and favoring authoritarian strongmen would have negative consequences for democratic processes. Never… would… have… yup.

The way to read Scripture is to read Scripture against Scripture. We interpret a passage against other passages which say something contrary. That's also how we "read" human beings. We look at the witness of one person against the witness of others who say something contrary, respecting both, but leaning toward the deeper integrity of witness.

The imago dei is the capacity to know and choose to act for the common good, even at personal cost.

Not a great look for Portland. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/us/security-guard-public-safety-portland.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

College isn’t about education. It’s about training people to be leaders in the capitalist oligarchy. This is from Wake Forest.