Sunday, March 16, 2025
Americans could watch and learn
Excellent. Now do oust tyrranical Trump.
At least somebody is taking it to heart
Things would be different if the Democratic Party elite hadn't pushed Bernie out and given us Joe Biden in 2020.
It's Sunday
Ah, the traveling preacher story.Morris faces five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.
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The indictment comes less than a year after Morris resigned from Gateway Church in Southlake after an adult woman, Cindy Clemishire, said Morris repeatedly sexually assaulted her while she was a child in Oklahoma in the 1980s. Morris was at the time working as a traveling preacher.
Texas Tribune
I wonder why he didn't flee the country. He had plenty of time. Maybe he figures they all get off lightly, and his money will protect him.
Clemishire’s disclosure came as the Dallas religious community was still reeling from a handful of recent sex abuse scandals. Since then, at least a dozen Dallas-area churches or pastors have been accused of committing or concealing sexual misconduct — allegations that have ensnared some of the area’s most prominent leaders and institutions.
"Christians".
No comment.In 2017, Morris was tapped by Gov. Greg Abbott to help support the so-called “Bathroom Bill” that sought to ban transgender people from using their preferred bathroom — in part by arguing that it would allow children to be sexually abused.
Like minds, Trump and Morris, when it comes to sex and children.During Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Morris was among at least three other Dallas-area religious leaders who served on Trump’s evangelical advisory board. And in 2021, Morris was part of an effort to mobilize conservatives and evangelicals ahead of Trump’s 2024 presidential bid.
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Saturday, March 15, 2025
Nice work, Chuck

Chuck must go. We need actual representation. We need fighters. Not self- 4thinterested surrenderers.
UPDATE 3/16/2025:
Friday, March 14, 2025
Turn about is fair play
Sure, Senate Dems refused to back House Dems on the CR, but now they're demanding the House "act quickly" to bail them out.
Bullshit.
Chuck must go
I’m agnostic about whether a shutdown brings more advantage than risks.
One thing I am absolutely certain of, however, is that Democrats on both sides of this debate are framing it in terms of 2026. Those justifiably furious at Chuck Schumer are thinking in terms of primaries against any Senator who supports cloture. They’re demanding a filibuster so that elected Democrats, as Democrats, be seen wielding some power, so the party doesn’t look feckless to potential voters. Those afraid of a shutdown are discussing electoral consequences in 2026. Polls are measuring who would be blamed in the polls.
This mindset has plagued both sides of Democratic debates for two months, with disastrous consequences.
Democracy will be preserved or lost in the next three months. And democracy will be won or lost via a nonpartisan political fight over whether enough Americans want to preserve their way of life to fight back, in a coalition that includes far more than Democrats. You win this fight by treating Trump and Elon as the villain, not by making any one Democrat a hero (or worse still, squandering week after week targeting Democratic leaders while letting Elon go ignored).
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Democrats who want a shutdown have done none of the messaging to those already hurt by Trump’s power grab work to make it a short term political win, to explain the tie between right wing capitulation to Trump and services shutting down. Instead, they’ve been fighting among themselves, mobilizing politically active Democrats.
I get the anger with Schumer — though I do think his concerns about the courts need to be taken very seriously. But until Democrats stop thinking in terms of their own leadership in Congress but instead think exclusively about winning the political fight with people being hurt, not as Democrats, but as people opposed to fascism, they’re going to be looking for power in the wrong places.
Emptywheel
Says it all.
Thursday, March 13, 2025
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