This past weekend, I was up in Bangor Saturday and Sunday at Stake Conference. It’s a regional church meeting where members of multiple congregation from the area come together for instruction and a worship service. We had a visiting General Authority (someone from the international leadership level of the church) come to speak to us […]
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That’s a pretty lame title, I’ll admit, but I wasn’t sure how else to phrase it. As I’ve been watching the news and hearing the rhetoric from the Republican side of the aisle, I am continually disappointed in the lack of empathy, care, or understanding shown for people who are different from them. Whether it’s
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There’s been no shortage of posts flying around the interwebs about everything Musk and DOGE has been up to. You’ve got people who are in favor of all of it, saying the government has never been audited, and expressing how appalled they are at how much fraud Musk has found in so little time. Millions
Who* Do You Trust? Read More »
So . . . Trump was sworn in on Monday, and I haven’t said a darn thing about it on the blog. Part of this is just due to exhaustion. I’m far from excited for what’s coming up, and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the firehose of yuck coming out of DC. But some
Welp, that happened. Of all the possible outcomes, I never would have guessed we’d have the results the next day, and that Trump would have won both the Electoral College and the popular vote. I am on the record many (many) times saying exactly what I think about Trump and his politics, and so none
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