Artifice of Eternity

When her mother died late last year, Episcopal bishop Mariann Edgar Budde described her as “a woman of deep faith and courage, of tenderness and vulnerability.” Her mother, Ann Björkman Edgar, who emigrated from Sweden as a young adult, lived most of her life in the United States. But her heart remained in Sweden. A few weeks after her mother’s death, in a sermon at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Budde displayed a similar deep faith and courage in remarks addressed in part to the newly inaugurated president of the United States, Donald Trump. “In the name of our God,” she said, standing just a few feet from the president, “I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.” She said that there are LGBTQ children—in Democratic, Republican, and independent families—who fear for their lives. Some immigrants, she said, may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority are not criminals. “I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, ...

Trump admin will cut hurricane forecasters out of key satellite data in one month

  "I'm the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me," Trump said during an interview with CBS's Norah O'Donnell in the lead up to the 2016 election. "I’ve made a fortune by using debt, and if things don’t work out I renegotiate the debt. I mean, that’s a smart thing, not a stupid thing."  "We’ve got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt," Trump said a few months prior on the campaign trail during an interview with The Washington Post. When asked how long it would take, Trump responded: "I would say over a period of eight years … The power is trade. Our deals are so bad." 

Afford to LIVE & Afford to DREAM This has always been the best agenda in American politics. Mr Mamdani is keeping faith with the Declaration of Independence. NYC Democrats have nominated a Democratic Socialist!!! And I helped. “His critics said that he should wait his turn,” said Letitia James, who backed a candidate, Adrienne Adams, who suggested as much. “His critics said that he didn’t have the right name. Well now all of them know his goddamn name.” Mamdani won the “higher income” vote of New Yorkers. As well as the “middle income” voters

 

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The President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Press Secretary openly lying about what its own Defense Intelligence Assessment is saying: the bombing mission failed to destroy anything but entrances. It only set Iran back by months of its current work.  And the work wasn’t even near accomplishing weapon grade material or delivery capability. It’s Bush lying about “weapons of mass destruction” all over again!

He got rid of the best military minds on Day One and put in an alcoholic, underage predator, sex assaulter. “ Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says Preliminary classified findings indicate that the attack sealed off the entrances to two facilities but did not collapse their underground buildings.”

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A Marine Corps veteran says he feels betrayed after his father was beaten and arrested by masked federal agents while working at his landscaping job, caught up in one of the ongoing ICE workplace raids that advocates say have left immigrant communities terrified and on edge. Alejandro Barranco told CNN Monday that his father, Narciso Barranco, was detained by federal agents Saturday afternoon while working as a landscaper at an IHOP in Santa Ana, California. The 25-year-old Marine veteran said his father was born in Mexico and has lived in the US since the 90s. He is undocumented but has no criminal record, his son said. “He was always a good dad,” Alejandro Barranco said. “He always made sure we had food on the table. He always taught us to respect, to love our country, to always give back.” Alejandro Barranco served four years in the Marines, he told CNN. His two younger brothers are currently active duty Marines. “It’s hard for us,” he said. “We feel hurt, we feel betrayed....

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 … the ones who sheltered Osama bin Ladin… have nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Now you know who you are.

“ Preston Damsky is a law student at the University of Florida. He is also a white nationalist and antisemite. Last fall, he took a seminar taught by a federal judge on “originalism,” the legal theory favored by many conservatives that seeks to interpret the Constitution based on its meaning when it was adopted. In his capstone paper for the class, Mr. Damsky argued that the framers had intended for the phrase “We the People,” in the Constitution’s preamble, to refer exclusively to white people. From there, he argued for the removal of voting rights protections for nonwhites, and for the issuance of shoot-to-kill orders against “criminal infiltrators at the border.” Turning over the country to “a nonwhite majority,” Mr. Damsky wrote, would constitute a “terrible crime.” White people, he warned, “cannot be expected to meekly swallow this demographic assault on their sovereignty.” At the end of the semester, Mr. Damsky, 29, was given the “book award,” which designated him as the best stu...

 

Travel and visa restrictions imposed by the Trump administration threaten patient care at hundreds of hospitals that depend on medical residents recruited from overseas. Foreign medical residents often serve as the frontline caregivers at busy safety-net hospitals in low-income communities. Normally the residents begin work on July 1. Orientation programs for some of them already started this week. Now some of those hospitals are racing to prevent staffing shortages. “If international medical graduates can’t start their medical residencies on time on July 1, the ramifications are so far-reaching that it is really unconscionable,” said Kimberly Pierce Burke, executive director of the Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers. Senior residents leave hospitals in June and go on to start their careers, she noted. Hospitals rely on new residents to replenish their ranks. “If they don’t come on July 1, that leaves a hole in the patient care team,” Ms. Burke said. “Who’s going to pic...

What shall I render to the  Lord      for all his bounty to me? 13  I will lift up the cup of salvation      and call on the name of the  Lord , 14  I will pay my vows to the  Lord      in the presence of all his people. 15  Precious in the sight of the  Lord      is the death of his saints. 16  O  Lord , I am thy servant;      I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid.      Thou hast loosed my bonds. 17  I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving      and call on the name of the  Lord . 18  I will pay my vows to the  Lord      in the presence of all his people, 19  in the courts of the house of the  Lord ,      in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the  Lord !

 

Assassin arrested.

And this is true for NYC, too, compared to EVERY red state in the south.

It’s mid-month Pride. I have two things to say. 1. Family is a word originating from Latin: familia - which meant household. [Stanley Tucci reminds us of this in his Milan episode.] A household was a group of extended family and servants. It was not constituted by one man with one wife. In the Greek New Testament, the words used are variations of  οικογένεια - also household of extended family and servants. And, in fact, the Latin word, familia, was taken from famulus - servant. And the koine is “ the state or verification of being a homebred slave.” 🤔 2. Me and my Christian friends should know that unless we were born of a Jewish mother, St Peter and the first church thought we were unclean, too. The One who changed their minds is still changing minds: “I have said these things to you while I am still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything…” (John 14:25-26) Peter’s stubbornness gets checked by the Holy Spirit i...

Los Angeles is not experiencing widespread riots and violence. The videos are covering the area where there have been protests because the news is happening where the tear gas and less-lethal rounds are being used by police and federal agents. That makes it look like it’s everywhere because they seldom provide perspective when posting or broadcasting. Here’s some perspective. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/13/us/la-protests-immigration-law-enforcement.html?rsrc=ss

The same guy telling you LA is on fire, told you people were eating dogs in Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Republican Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is all but certain to inflame an already intense debate inside the G.O.P. about the fiscal consequences of their bill to enact President Trump’s agenda. ___

 

“A powerful sign that President Trump’s tariff-driven trade war is at risk came in   a friend-of-the-court brief   filed in April by a coalition that included many prominent conservative and libertarian lawyers, scholars and former officials. The brief was also a signal of a deepening rift between Mr. Trump and the conservative legal movement, one that   burst into public view   last week with the President’s attacks   on the Federalist Society, whose leaders helped pick the judges and justices he nominated in his first term. Among the people who signed the brief in the tariffs case was Richard Epstein, who teaches at New York University and is an influential libertarian legal scholar. “You have to understand that the conservative movement is now, as an intellectual movement, consistently anti-Trump on most issues,” he said.”