1/ Tulsa, OK mega church Victory Church took $2.1 million in CARES Act funding (despite, of course, not paying taxes themselves.)
In November, they held an indoor concert with more than 15k in attendance, in direct defiance of CDC guidelines to protect the vulnerable.
2/ Now temperatures are below freezing across the state, and guess who is refusing to open their doors to unhoused people freezing to death on the streets?
3/ If evangelicals are wondering why people are turning away from the church, I’d suggest that it has something to do with so many Christians treating Jesus as a tax shelter and not a commandment to love and take care of your neighbor.
I’m not sure that using an official govt account to make jokes about starving kids is the BEST tactic for pursuing presidential ambitions, @govkristinoem.
2/ If the closest to next steps/a call to action they ever give you is “sign this digital petition that we have no plan to physically deliver anywhere” or retweeting their angry tweets, they aren’t organizing.
Don’t be afraid to ask them “how does this move us toward the goal?”
3/ That’s called a theory of change. Obvs no one can predict the future, but an organizer should be able to tell you, “we think doing X will help do Y, which will help get us to our goal.”
If they get angry at you for asking or say that asking means you don’t care, that’s a 🚩
One of the first events of the Biden/Harris #Inauguration2021 features a female comic with a pronounced stutter talking about the experience dealing with well-intentioned ableism from non-disabled people.
This representation matters, because it says disabled ppl matter.
Inaugurations are expected to be glamorous, perfect events. Many ppl—including Dems & leftists!—wouldn't include disabled ppl for that reason, unless it was for the sole purpose of being the token disabled person talking about disability ONLY.
But hey, @sarahkendzior, you’ve successfully managed to bully one of the most tireless advocates the disability community has (not to mention a Jewish rabbi) into going private, all for an honest mistake she corrected & apologized for. Thank you SO MUCH for that.
In the screenshots that @sarahkendzior herself took, it shows that @RutiRegan apologized within **30 minutes** of having the error pointed out.
Despite that, Sarah is telling her followers that Ruti kept harassing her, which is a straight up lie, as shown in HER SCREENSHOTS.
Last night the federal government killed a woman whose parents rented out as a sex slave for her ENTIRE childhood and beat her to the point of severe brain damage.
Nothing about this was justice. We all have blood on our hands today, America. Every single one of us.
From the time she was a child, Lisa Montgomery learned that the only time the beatings and the rapes would stop was when she was pregnant. She learned to claim pregnancy as a way to survive.
The crime she committed was a DIRECT result of this trauma. We murdered her anyway.
The debate surrounding the death penalty should NEVER be about whether the person deserves to die.
It’s about whether we, as a nation, deserve the right to kill them.
After failing Lisa Montgomery for her entire life, how can we think we deserve that right?