no. 540

"When the elderly, sick, and vulnerable are left without resources by this Administration, it will be the Progressives, Muslims, Jews, Humanists, and Atheists—not the Conservative Christians who will care for them as Jesus would have."

John Pavlovitz

no. 539

"Conservatives really truly thought if their butter-mold of a hate golem won, all the non white straight cis christian male people would just go back into the boxes of shame and invisibility the right had prepared for them.

They think it’s so disrespectful that none of them have."

Julius Goat on Twitter, discussing Respect.

I put this here because "butter-mold of a hate golem" is now my favorite description of Trump.

no. 538

"This exhaustion is a national epidemic.

This fatigue has become commonplace here now.

In this Presidency, America is living dog years.

We're all aging unnaturally rapidly, friends."


John Pavlovitz on Twitter.

no. 537

"If you can’t be a good example, you’ll just have to be a horrible warning."

Gwen Goodnight

no. 536

"I had a long talk with a friend tonight, and he pointed out that the law is a fine thing, even when it’s wrong. It’s the only defense we have against anarchy, against the strong overwhelming the weak. And if it’s wrong, well, then it’s our job to change it."

Grady, in Jennifer Crusie's novel "Charlie All Night"