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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦

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Chaplain, PhD Christian Worship Author: Suffering, Soul Care & Community: The Place of Lament in Corporate Worship. (Wipf & Stock, 2023), musician, teacher. I enjoy nature, birds, music, poetry.

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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · Apr 23

“Let me
keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,

which is mostly standing still and learning to be
astonished.”

-Mary Oliver “Messenger”

A grassy hillside with trees in the sunshine.

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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1h

‘“… Leavitt concluded with this: “At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president’s main priority.’”

That ballroom is the most ridiculous, giant middle finger to the entire country. It is literally setting in stone his intention to enrich no one but himself.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1h

Dickerson and Dubois have brought such warmth to that broadcast. So, I guess it’s natural she wants them out. Can’t be having that.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1h

Zooming in, I see that house and think how lovely it must be to wake up to that view everyday. Gorgeous, indeed!

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1h

Mother Nature couldn’t make up her mind, it seems.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 19h

". . he asked, very nicely. . . " So pathetic.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 19h

Stunningly beautiful.

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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 19h

Their main reason (perhaps only reason?) for pushing the false theory of anti-Christian bias is to ensure they continue to own the large voting block of the Evangelical Right.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 19h

This thread is horrifying. Zhao allowed child sex traffickers to funnel money through his currency. No wonder Trump's fixers (aka the GOP) don't want the Epstein files released.

Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 20h

With Trump pardoning Changpeng Zhao and accusing the Biden administration of persecuting him because it hated cryptocurrency, here's a reminder of what the IRS's cybercrime investigators dug up on CZ and Binance. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 19h

More on this. . . and it's worse.

bsky.app/profile/eric...

Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 20h

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 20h

Vance's best friend? Yikes. That takes everything to a whole new level of fear and corruption.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 20h

This is scary, Chris.

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Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 1d

A Watery Sun. 9°C and rather breezy. Rabbits.

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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 20h

What an exceptional shot, James. That sky! Your Yorkshire is lovely in any view.

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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 20h

"Mr. Zhao is the majority owner of Binance, which has a deal with the Trump family’s crypto start-up that is poised to generate tens of millions of dollars a year."

(gift article)

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Pardons Binance Founder With Ties to First Family’s Crypto Venture

www.nytimes.com

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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Mr. Graff. I’m so grateful for your work.

“Once you elect or appoint someone who has no moral core — who then appoints people with no moral core and fires those who do — nothing else in the system of checks-and-balances turns out to matter.”

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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1d

“Once you elect or appoint someone who has no moral core — who then appoints people with no moral core and fires those who do — nothing else in the system of checks-and-balances turns out to matter.”

What a great, albeit chilling and heartbreaking piece by Garret Graff.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...

The only check-and-balance that actually matters

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Captain Fanta @sassy0210.bsky.social · 2d

FDR Memorial, Washington DC.

-RIP East Wing-

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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1d

I really hope this happens. Was thinking today that Jimmy Carter, as thrifty as he was, is rolling in his grave.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1d

It really is. Have collected lots of seeds and already looking forward to spring planting. (The only thing I really like about summer! 😅)

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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1d

The hill in the snow sounds delightful, James. Fingers crossed for a lot of snow to come!

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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1d

Chef’s kiss, indeed.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 1d

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1d

It's heartbreaking, honestly.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1d

So, in other words, just more of the same.

Sickening.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 2d

1,000 times yes:

Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 2d

Notice how it’s always, “the Bible must inform our laws!” until it comes to the +2,000 verses in the Bible that discuss the generous use of wealth and possessions in a way that prioritizes the needs of the poor, this sick, the stranger, the vulnerable, and the oppressed.

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