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Tim Wood
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Beardo, Poet, Pastor, Theologian, Earthkeeper
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Married to a Dutch Citizen
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Suggestion:
If you're considering running for Commander in Chief, don't tell soldiers "you're full of shit'

Doubly so if they just told you they like Mom, Apple Pie or Thanksgiving Turkey
JD Vance: "How many of you really like turkey?"
Many soldiers raise their hands.
Vance: "You're all full of shit."
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Somewhere there are food scientists (who like mysteriously didn't study AI) who are like seriously wowed by an LLM that has like eaten too many romance novels and like enjoys flirting with guys who can cook up the best dark chocolate
No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Reposted by Tim Wood
NEW: Earlier this month, I spent the day with the Luhmanns — a family rooted in theologically conservative Christianity.

In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE.

In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
How one conservative Christian family is pushing back against ICE
A coalition of activists, everyday citizens and people of faith — including theologically conservative Christians — who have pooled resources and learned new technologies to mount an effort they say i...
religionnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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I’m suggesting that this admin will take a lone wolf attack like this as an opportunity to oppress hundreds of thousands of people who have absolutely nothing to do with it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
At least 470 people, organizations and institutions have been targeted for retribution... in a drive for cultural and political dominance, Reuters found

www.reuters.com/investigates...
Trump’s campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting
A Reuters investigation documents at least 470 acts of retribution under Trump’s leadership.
www.reuters.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Violence has no place in America. Michelle and I are praying for the servicemembers shot in Washington, DC today, and send our love to their families as they enter this holiday season under the most tragic of circumstances.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
ICE handed people a giant non-violent resistance opportunity: use their spying against them by doing everything the algorithm flagd

Time for car air fresheners that look like inflatable frogs

apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
In 1994, the US guaranteed Ukrainian security so that Ukraine would give up one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world

Then Russia invaded Crimea

Why does anyone think US security guarantees have any value to Ukraine?
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
@jackjenkins.me for the score
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Waiting for South Park to use Trump's Mamdani line verbatim

Trump, with a loving squeeze:
“It’s ok, honey, you can say yes.”
November 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
9M+ on Tehran. 15M in metro area.

if NYC or LA had to moved it would headline
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Reposted by Tim Wood
Trump bought Boeing bonds while rewarding the company billions in federal contracts.

He bought Intel bonds after directing the government to acquire a stake in the company.

He bought Meta bonds while pushing AI-friendly policy.

Trump isn’t governing — he’s cashing in.
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
In coverage of arrests of US citizens, green card holders and undocuments, i haven't seen any discussion of what it will take to hit 3k arrests a day

81 arrests first day in NC in city of roughly 800k

Based on that ratio, their deployment area will have to include 300M people
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
or we raise the top marginal tax rate on salaries and gains to reduce income inequality
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
November 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Six veterans serving in congres released a video to remind service members: under their oaths and under law, they can disobey illegal orders

This has been so since Neuremburg judges rejected "just following orders" as a Nazi defense

Trump calls for them to be hanged

youtu.be/zXdFX80k0Pw?...
'HANG THEM': Trump melts down, accuses six Dems of ‘seditious behavior’
YouTube video by MS NOW
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
In other news the NY Times reports that Google announced a new version of their AI that is 72% accurate

For some things I'm fine with a C- .... But, is a C- really the kind of work people want to hold up as their best work?
November 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Reposted by Tim Wood
BREAKING:

Here we go with the first allegations of violations of the preliminary injunction Judge Ellis issued on November 6 in Chicago Headline Club v. Noem:

"As this Court was issuing the Preliminary Injunction on November 6, federal agents shot pepper balls at a moving car"
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Reposted by Tim Wood
Delita Martin (b. 1972, Conroe, Texas, U.S.), I Shall Not Be Moved, 2025
Acrylic, relief printing, lithography, charcoal, decorative paper, and hand-stitching on paper
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
lf my last post was too subtle: When your version of Christianity lines up perfectly with your political party ... you're being used
#Hauerwas

www.edgewaterpcusa.org/home/theolog...
Theology 101: When your version of Christianity lines up perfectly with your political party — Edgewater Presbyterian Church
Theologian Stanley Hauerwas said, “If your version of Christianity always lines up with your political party, you’re not being discipled. You’re being used.”
www.edgewaterpcusa.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
As US continues to grow less religious, it is looking more like europe. The unasked question: how much of the change is being driven by the rise of christian nationalism and entanglement of evangelical christianity with Trumpism?

news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...
Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
The 17-percentage-point drop in U.S. religiosity over the past decade is among the largest declines measured in the Gallup World Poll.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Reposted by Tim Wood
NEW: So, the courtroom at the "Broadview 6" arraignment in Chicago yesterday featured lotsa Methodist pastors.

Why? They were supporters of defendant/fellow Methodist Brian Straw.

"If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us,” one pastor said. religionnews.com/2025/11/13/m...
Methodist pastors march into courtroom with 'boring suburban dad' indicted for protesting
CHICAGO (RNS) — ‘If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us,’ said a Chicago area UMC pastor.
religionnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
work in progress: et spiritus sanctus
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM