Links & Quotes
Some links and quotes that caught my eye this week.
In what may be the best-known parable that Jesus told, what’s the difference between the hard path where the seeds failed to produce anything and the fertile soil where the seeds produced an abundant harvest? The fertile soil had a plow applied to it. In the same way, God wants to “plow” the hard places in our life so that there can be an abundant harvest! Check out this full sermon here.
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Joe Biden Is Shrinking the Welfare State
“By the estimates of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 15 million people are going to lose their health insurance over the next few months, including 5.3 million kids. Worse, based on historical trends, 6.8 million of those people will lose their Medicaid coverage in spite of still being eligible for it simply because of bureaucratic trifles ...
“The effects of the declaration’s end will go well beyond this, affecting working people’s ability to get free tests, vaccines, and affordable treatment for the virus. It also means the end of extra food stamps, another generous program set to continue as long as the emergency exists and a vital lifeline for working people struggling to keep up with grocery bills in the face of inflation ...
“From a practical and moral standpoint, this is obviously a travesty. But it’s also a needless own goal for the president, putting an already deeply unpopular Biden in the position of running for reelection in a year’s time with millions of people losing their health insurance — and his potential Republican opponent being able to boast he’d been the one to extend it to them in the first place. More than that, it makes a mockery of his frequent public statements insisting that his administration will ‘continue to fight for racial justice,’ since, as the HHS, acknowledges, 15 percent of those who are about to lose their coverage as a result of his decision are black and one-third are Latino ...
“If the idea is that Americans are now tired of thinking and caring about the pandemic, making supporting any COVID-related policies politically toxic, then this is the wrong way to go about unwinding those. Americans didn’t hate that the pandemic response included protecting them from being kicked out of their homes by greedy landlords, getting financial support for the government while they were unemployed, or having health insurance and a variety of other health care needs guaranteed.”
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Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, (exhibition postcard), La Bertesca, Milano, [opens June 11], 1974 [addressed to Centro Di, Firenze] [Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc., New York, NY]
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if you truly don’t think that you have, like. a moral obligation. as a normal, compassionate person. to bring yourself to the polls on election day and—on even the smallest, the tiniest of chances that it will mean something—cast a strategic vote that will keep the strongest, most well-funded, most barbaric military machine in all of human history out of the hands of a bunch of guys who are calling for live military tribunals, and the jailing and killing of political opponents, and the jailing of librarians, and mass “deportation” (killing, more likely) of peaceful protestors and immigrants, and the rolling back of environmental protections, and the gutting of social services, and the labeling of queer people as pornography, and the scrubbing of pornography from public life (which just means killing queer people), then like. i don’t know what to tell you. i don’t know what to ask you except what the fuck are you thinking.
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I have compiled a stamp "collection" art piece for my gallery wall, and I'm just now completing it... so I bought the Donald Sutherland stamp to complete the collection. Looks like I have Panem President Snow stamp or something on my wall 😭
I love it
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Terroriser: I think it's going to be spirit box because Vanoss just walked around with it without turning it on.
Vanoss: What are you talking about? I had it on.
*Ms. Vixen laughing*
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