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July 13, 2021

"Lovefest? That's Bonkers"

Every single media outlet should either not report the Former's approval of terrorism, or they should do it like this. Anything else is utterly irresponsible.

If you only watch 1 thing tonight, please watch this rather chilling video that my producer, the great & powerful Ivy Green made, putting Trump's lying pro-terror words on Fox over images of the actual violence from January 6th.
#mustwatch @MehdiHasanShow

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1414833555834867716?s=20

July 13, 2021

This is just a straight up obituary. I am pretty sure Trump is going to have a stroke about this --

which tbh may actually be the point.

"POST TRUMP LEADERSHIP"

Flynn is publicly separating from Trump. He’s doesn’t want electoral victory through the #GQP, he wants war.

He will start talking about Trump as a historical figure, and an imperfect martyr to the cause and start asserting control of the cult.


https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1414699893197733889?s=20
https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1414697181013970945?s=20
July 13, 2021

Why I'm Not A Republicon

July 12, 2021

Is NewsMax Host, Rob Schmitt suggesting that his audience should be wiped out by covid?

You ever notice these folks never count themselves among the people God chose to wipe out with disease?

Newsmax host Rob Schmitt suggests vaccines are

“against nature,” and some diseases are “supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people”

“That's just kind of the way evolution goes. Vaccines kind of stand in the way of that”



https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1414618960616636416?s=20
https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-host-suggests-vaccines-are-against-nature-and-some-diseases-are-supposed-wipe-out
July 12, 2021

Santa Fe Church Forgives Entire State of New Mexico Medical Debt

A wonderful story from a few days ago:

St. Bede's Episcopal Church, Santa Fe, NM
Posted Jul 9, 2021

St. Bede’s Episcopal Church in Santa Fe, NM is reaching out to families crushed by medical debt through a big gift and a big partnership. Through donations, the parish wiped out nearly $1.4 million of medical debt for 782 households.

St. Bede’s worked with RIP Medical Debt, a well-respected organization that identifies households whose incomes are less than twice the poverty level or are insolvent, and owe medical debt. Then they buy the debt at a fraction of face value (as a collection agency otherwise would) and pay it off using donations from people such as us. Furthermore, they write the affected parties a letter telling them they no longer owe the debt, and equally important, contact credit agencies to verify the debt has been paid, clearing the debtor’s credit history. The letter recipients receive identifies St. Bede’s as the donor.

St. Bede’s grant of $15,000 cleared $1,380,119.87 in medical debt for the families who live in New Mexico and parts of Arizona. That includes all the available debt in New Mexico, plus Apache, Gila, Graham, Mohave, Navajo, and part of Maricopa County in Arizona–782 households in all. Said the Rev’d Catherine Volland “I don’t know if this parish has ever funded a program with such a great impact. We were able to do it because every week we set aside 10% of donations to the church for outreach. Prioritizing service to others is our gospel imperative.”.

782 families will learn what it’s like to unexpectedly get a letter that says “St. Bede’s Episcopal Church has paid off the medical debt you have been struggling with for the past number of years. No strings attached.” One recipient from a recent round of payments responded to their letter saying “ I was having a hard time trying to figure out how I was going to pay all this amount of money and it’s not been easy finding a job especially when you have two kids and with this pandemic going on. It has really been a very hard year for me and for everyone. I would love to thank personally that special person that helped me with my account. I am so thankful and I just want to say God bless you always.”.

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MORE:
https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/pressreleases/santa-fe-church-forgives-entire-state-of-new-mexico-medical-debt/

July 12, 2021

Problem? What problem? -by Tom Tomorrow

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