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This is the one I find myself listening to the most.

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Watched the replay of their Cavern Sessions the other day and thought the same thing.

There are two different paths to “no more billionaires,” and it’ll be interesting to see which one the billionaires choose.

Every so often I think about what all in the world is clearly better now than, say, 30-40 years ago. There are big things, of course. You know what some of those are.

But let me also submit: Sound quality in large music venues.

An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die.

May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.

Bernard LaFayette, Freedom Rider and Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85 Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died. https://to.pbs.org/47ug2uu

people should be allowed to donate their bodies to wildlife instead of science. chuck me in the gator enclosure

Hospitals.

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

🚨 Embattled Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, is dropping out of his re-election bid

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

I've been thinking about the Rangers' decision to display One Riot, One Ranger, and what it says about who this team is for. So I wrote about that. It's a big ol' bummer.

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Oh thank goodness.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but real change and getting big things done takes a really, really long time. Way longer than you think. (it’s me, I need to hear this.)

I love when the contemporary pastor swaps into the traditional service so I get to hear her preach.

She's fantastic.

My 5 year old told us proudly and brightly at dinner how he comforted a scared first grader during a lockdown at school by explaining all the ways he could tell that *this* lockdown was a drill.

Thinking about growing up in churches where women couldn't pray, much less preach & how so much is lost in those churches.

Getting to hear Ms Louise Jackson pray at church is something the world should experience. She prays with a fervor that feels like it could bring heaven to earth right now.

Every D who votes for Mullins cares more about the feelings of their fascist buddies than the safety of you and me.

Oh 100%. That man was a saint on earth in his old age with a singular focus on helping people. One of the best people I've ever known.

Also loved to tell his kids to stop worshipping their orange king.

Folks knowing he opposed the split very nearly kept the church from splitting off. A legacy.

I can definitely appreciate the scepticism on organized religion, we didn't go to church for 3 years in Palestine bc we couldn't find a safe one. There are a few, just weren't good fits. Very protective of what we think the kids should experience.

We don't go to families churches at all.

100%.

It was my semi regular HS refuge from the fire and brimstone baptist upbringing and a good place to spread my wings in college.

My first introduction to 'we take the service aspect seriously, go do good'.

My wife's grandpa voted against the split though and he died like 2 months after it became official and I'm still pissed they put the new church name in his obituary. He'd went to it since before UMC existed, but I still hated knowing it was in there forever.

Ya it was a mean spirited split.

It almost sent all the Wesley Foundations in Texas under losing the funding.

I hate seeing the churches I've been to split off when I see there signs. But there's a special joy in seeing ones I expected would split still in the UMC.

I would definitely go to a UMC again. Good friends of ours are the pastor for one of the local Tyler ones, but their one service lasts until 1215 most days and I'd be snoozing in the pews. The kids would be gremlins by then.

Our DOC church gets out at like 1030 and it's glorious.

That's my wife's family by far.

They all go to the same Methodist church they have for generations and were so happy to leave the denomination.

I just don't get it. So much of the giving got cut off and that's what they took pride in.

Thankfully most of my Wesley Foundation friends ended up UMC.

It is perhaps, my primary useful skillset.

It requires that the appointee be a registered Oklahoma voter in the same party as the previous senator — in this case, a Republican — for at least five years. They are also barred from running for the office in the next special or general election. “We’ve set specific eligibility guidelines for the appointee, and also prohibited the person from refiling for the office once the special term is fulfilled to protect the seat from the unfair advantage of incumbency,” Paxton said in a statement at the time. “This bill encourages a robust election cycle for this important elected position, as the appointed individual is only meant to be a placeholder so that we don’t go underrepresented in the U.S. Senate.”

Intereseting tidbit re Oklahoma's Senate seat once Mullin resigns:

Yes, the OK Gov would appoint a temporary replacement, but under Oklahoma law, they would only serve until the November special election *and wouldn't be allowed to run for that.*

Seat warmer ONLY.

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Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.