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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · Nov 15

"We're all just human: beautiful, complex, broken and more resilient than we realize"
~ @nicoreznick.bsky.social

#quotes

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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 7h

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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 21h

If you take anything away from the teachings of Jesus, take away this:

The principalities and powers of this world do what is sound, practical, and self-serving . Jesus calls us to do what is right, just, and self-sacrificing.

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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 17h

Today the Pentagon goes dark. Pete Hegseth’s new requirement that reporters sign agreements to only publish Pentagon approved releases means we’ll only be told what they what to tell us

This is what happens in authoritarian countries.

www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 20h

I appreciate you keeping me honest with a gentle nudge now and again

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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah I see that. Particularly the word “sound”. I stole the thought from a novel I’m reading (no religious significance in the book) because it resonated with me that justice and morality are and have always been, divorced from the ways of the world.

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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 21h

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s get biblical, biblical…

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Rev. Justin Berkobien @justinberkobien.bsky.social · 1d

But they can’t understand
why so many young people
are deconstructing their faith

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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social · 1d

So glad to come across the @motherjones.com interview with @maklelan.bsky.social!

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Bible says so…or does it?

On this week’s “More To The Story,” religious scholar and TikTok star Dan McClellan examines how some Christian nationalists use—and often abuse—the Bible to gain political power.

www.motherjones.com

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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for sharing this

Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 1d

I needed a fun story. Everything is so serious anymore.

Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 1d

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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 1d

Sure! I’m going to the one in Princeton. If you fly into Newark I’ll pick you up at the airport around 1pm!

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SpunkyByChance @spunkybychance.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s a photo of my Dad in his Antifa uniform holding his niece. Prior to me.

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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 1d

Ditto and that was over sixty years ago

Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 1d

Hegseth’s incompetence plus Vance’s evil are quite a combo

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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 1d

Bless you

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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I’m so sorry to hear of your impending loss❤️‍🩹

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David Fitch @fitchest.bsky.social · 1d

"BAD CHRISTIANITY is very bad, and we need to be more upfront about that." Stanley Hauerwas.

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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 1d

Ice Hockey #NJDevils

Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 1d

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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 1d

I’m surrounded and my leg is getting numb

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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 1d

Wishing you a speedy recovery

Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 1d

I will be at one in my state regardless

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Jim Drumheller ☮️ 🟧 🐾 @jimdrumheller.bsky.social · 1d

I was alluding to killing someone deliberately where there was no danger, as was threatened by ICE in Kristof's post, not killing someone in a botched arrest where there was a threat of danger.