Trump’s Warp Fail
By Frank Schaeffer The U.S.A has the DEADLIEST day of the pandemic record; 3,903 die and over 125,000 are admitted to hospitals as CDC warns the post-New Year COVID surge will kill another 82,000 Americans…
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via AlterNet: Attorney for Blackwater murder victim: Trump’s pardons ‘a slap in the face’ to US justice
Written by Roger Sollenberger / Salon Read at AlterNet With less than a month left in his presidency, President Trumpon Tuesday pardoned four Blackwater security contractorswhose convictions for killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2007had in recent years become a right-wing rallying…
How To Give Love, Create Beauty and Find Peace
When you were born and raised in the world that I was, there is a lot you can take for granted, including the certainty that everything you believe in is true. But breaking that appetite…
The Wild West and the Wild Left is no place reasonable people want to live.
by Frank Schaeffer It seems to me that NRA/open-carry/gun lobby AND de-fund the police activists are BOTH mistaken. We think of these movements as opposites. They aren’t. They both express individualistic impulses from people who…
via Washington Post: Until Biden’s win is certified, the U.S. remains vulnerable
Opinion by David Ignatius Read at Washington Post Not to be alarmist, but we should recognize that the United States will be in the danger zone until the formal certification of Joe Biden’s election victory on…
…It Was About Revenge
For Trump’s evangelicals resistance to cultural “progressivism” – “the liberal agenda” – “abortion/gay rights” mattered more than experience, credentials, know-how, integrity, honesty, even Christianity itself. Now-since Trump’s election loss-they even have abandoned U.S. democracy as…
Just One of the Young Mothers
Early in my life, because of the family I was born and raised in, I was fairly certain about the kind of life I intended to live, and how I was prepared to measure success….
I was an evangelical insider: Here’s what they’re saying about Trump’s loss.
I was an evangelical insider: Here’s what they’re saying about Trump’s loss. I come from an evangelical leadership family so I track what’s happening. NEW recurring theme: Angry evangelical chat room exchanges are increasing where…
via The Guardian: ‘It’s surreal’: the US officials facing violent threats as Trump claims voter fraud
By Ed Pilkington and Sam Levine Read at The Guardian On 1 December Gabriel Sterling, a Republican election official in Georgia, stood on the steps of the state capitol in Atlanta and let rip on Donald Trump. “Mr…
From Hollywood to Hitchens
I escaped the Evangelical World for some place far less crazy: Hollywood. There I made four low-budget movies that you might catch on late-night cable. Then I wrote a novel called Portofino which got some…