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“Sometimes it seems like they have literally thrown out the book.” Trump is breaking every rule in the CDC’s 450-page playbook for health crisis washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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The virus has achieved what climate change thus far has not—shown with urgency that we are residents of 1 planet without borders or boundaries, that what we do affects everyone else, that we are all responsible for the common good. This crisis will pass. The lessons must endure.
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With the gates of the manor closed to keep out the fever, the master and his guests enjoyed a night of carefree festivity. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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“I don’t take responsibility at all.” Infighting, missteps and a son-in-law hungry for results: Inside the Trump administration’s troubled coronavirus r… washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Today’s Gospel: Return of the Prodigal Son. We typically focus on the prodigal and his father’s gracious mercy—but neglect the context. To those who are complaining that Jesus “welcomes sinners and eats with them” he “addressed this parable.” Their counterpart is the elder son.
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He called the Danish PM nasty for saying it was absurd to think of selling Greenland to the US. He called Nancy Pelosi and Meghan Markle nasty. He famously interrupted Hillary Clinton to call her “a nasty woman” during one of their debates. Badge of honor. #nastywoman
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Fannie Lou Hamer (d 3/14/1977), graduated 4th grade, spent 20 years as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta, rose up to be a courageous prophet in the Freedom Stuggle. Evicted from her home for registering to vote, jailed, savagely beaten, but still she persisted.
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In that nonviolent struggle ordinary people became saints and prophets. Inspired by a vision of justice and freedom, sustained by faith, they found the strength to confront their fears and stand up to dogs, fire hoses, clubs, and bombs.
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In Camus’ novel “The Plague” an outbreak of bubonic plague in a N African port city serves as a metaphor for its moral counterpart. Among other things, Camus had in mind the response of French citizens—whether collaborators or resisters—to the Occupation.
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On one level, the admin’s response to the current virus has been consistent with a pattern of incompetence, spin and lies, denial of reality, self-congratulation, partisan boosterism, scapegoating of foreigners, blaming of messengers and truth-tellers...
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But as with Camus’s novel the virus is also a metaphor for a spreading moral contamination that has infected large portions of the country—a political party, 3 branches of govt, the Dept of Justice, immigration service, large portions of the media, churches, etc.
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Political rivals who once called the Leader a con-man, a pathological liar, etc, eventually caught the virus: pledging their loyalty, repeating his lies, attacking his enemies, laughing at his “jokes,” saluting his assaults on the law and constitution.
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