🪚🔧🪛🔩⚙️ Board of City Commissioners 🪚🔧🪛🔩⚙️ in #ShawneeCounty#Oklahoma in passed ordinance prohibiting sleeping outdoors, sitting or lying down (on the sidewalk?) “God bless us, every-one”
[Rolling Stone]: The Key to Mike Johnson’s Christian Extremism Hangs Outside His Office
The newly elected House speaker has ties to the far-right New Apostolic Reformation — which is hell-bent on turning America into a religious state
By Bradley Onishi, Matthew D. Taylor
The #WashingtonPost’s sympathetic look into the roots of new #SpeakeroftheHouse who said “You know, we don’t live in a democracy” but a “biblical” republic in 2016
I’m just going to say it. The new Speaker of the House has a very palpable “it puts the lotion on its skin” vibe pulsating off of him. Does he have a crawlspace that needs checking? #speakerjohnson#speakerofthehouse
Like our new House Speaker I was also ordained by God, but for me it’s to write jokes on Mastodon. So if you don’t boost my jokes then you hate God. #nerlingersjokes#speakerofthehouse
I often hear excuses from US pro gun people who say stuff like: "yeah but not everywhere is unsafe" and "mass shootings don't happen all the time everywhere"
But the thing is..
The fact that it DOES HAPPEN is insane :amaze: Just because it didn't happen near you THIS time doesn't mean it's okay..
@stux But the #massshootings do happen all the time. I'm fairly certain I saw a stat that we averaged more then 1 per day. It's unacceptable, yet accepted.
According to the new #speakerofthehouse Mike Johnson, more prayer can prevent gun violence...
Since you literally wrote the book, can you comment on the connection between the new #US#SpeakerOfTheHouse and that redhead #Russia'n woman from the #NRA?
#BREAKING. UPDATE. At least 16 killed, 50 to 60 people are injured in the incidents, though it’s unclear how many are injured due to gunfire, the sources told CNN. #Maine#GunViolence
@bruce@michaelbrien@GottaLaff
This is the 565th Mass Shooting this year, the 31rd Mass Murder. - Gun Violence Archive #LewistonMaine#MassShooting
FYI #MikeJohnson the new #SpeakerOfTheHouse voted against:
Assault Weapons Ban (H.R. 1808)
H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act
The Protecting Our Kids Act (H.R. 7910)
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (S. 2938)
Called gay people “destructive.”
Compared gay people to pedophiles.
Helped organize anti-gay protests on college campuses.
Fought laws that provided health benefits to same-sex couples.
Perfectly A-OK with every Republican in the House of Representatives.
The GOP is not only not moderate, they’re obvious extremists.
Mike Johnson: ‘Depraved’ America Deserves God’s Wrath (www.rollingstone.com)
Mike Johnson said during prayer calls with right-wing pastor Jim Garlow that "depraved" America deserves the wrath of God.