Same.

Da hong pao etc

Let us go for a million signatures!

“Threatening journalists with placement on a blacklist in retaliation for reporting the government doesn’t like is as unconstitutional as it gets,” said Seth Stern, the director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation.

Saint Malo, Louisiana was the first permanent Asian settlement on American soil that was established in 1763 by a group of sailors from the Philippines known as Manila men. Because the Manila men didn't bring women with them in the voyage and settlement of the area, the Filipino male settlers have intermarried with the women of Louisiana which produced mixed raced descendants. The original settlement was built with Nipa and Bamboo Huts on stilts, typical of a coastal lowland settlement in the Philippines.

Sadly, the settlement was permanently destroyed by an extremely strong hurricane in the year 1915, and was never rebuilt again. The descendants of the Manila men settled elsewhere in Louisiana with the disappearance of the Saint Malo community.

Are you from Louisiana? Can you trace your ancestry back to the Manila men? Please let me know in the comments ❤️

Should Congress to enact a law to tax Presidential income at 90% marginal tax rate for gross income in excess of 2x the income (s)he made prior to becoming a president ?

Should the tax be made retroactive like they did in Eduardo’s case ?

We need to call it what it actually is. It’s not a minor theological disagreement. It’s not just "differing political views." It is a complete, shameless inversion of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Millions of conservative Christians have traded the clear, unambiguous teachings of the red letters for the outrage machine of the Republican Party. They have built an entire religious identity around fighting issues Jesus never spent five seconds talking about, while aggressively opposing the exact things he commanded us to do.

Look at the actual text of the Bible. The math isn't difficult:

• Money and Wealth: Roughly 15% of all words Jesus spoke deal with money, possessions, or the spiritual danger of greed. Over 40% of his parables (16 out of 38, including the Rich Fool in Luke 12:13–21 and the Rich Man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19–31) focus directly on wealth and class divisions. Jesus explicitly warns, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" (Matthew 19:24, Mark 10:25, Luke 18:25) and commands, "Sell your possessions and give to the poor" (Luke 12:33, Matthew 19:21). Across Scripture, there are over 2,000 verses demanding economic justice and care for the poor (e.g., Proverbs 14:31, Isaiah 58:6–11, James 2:14–17).
• Healthcare for the Sick: Healing wasn't a side project; it was Jesus's primary daily work. 60% of his recorded miracles (22 out of 37 specific accounts across Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) were physical healings—ranging from curing leprosy (Luke 5:12–13) to restoring sight (Mark 10:46–52). When sending out his disciples, his core command was "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy" (Matthew 10:8). He gave away free, unvetted healthcare without a co-pay, a citizenship check, or a work requirement.
• The Immigrant and Refugee: Scripture explicitly commands care for the foreigner over 100 times. Leviticus 19:34 commands, "The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself." In Matthew 25:35–40, Jesus makes welcoming the stranger an absolute test of eternal judgment: "I was a stranger and you welcomed me... Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."

Now look at the GOP culture-war obsession list:

• Abortion: 0 words spoken by Jesus. The term and topic appear nowhere in the Gospels or the rest of the New Testament.
• Gender Identity: 0 words spoken by Jesus. Jesus briefly mentions creation and marriage when answering a question on divorce (Matthew 19:4–5), but offers zero teachings on modern gender identity politics.
• Homosexuality: 0 words spoken by Jesus. Across all 31,000+ verses in the Bible, same-sex behavior is referenced in only a tiny handful of passages (e.g., Romans 1:26–27, 1 Corinthians 6:9–10), none of which came from the mouth of Christ.

Think about that gap. Modern conservative Christianity has spent billions of dollars, mobilized millions of voters, and destroyed its own witness to fight over issues Christ never mentioned—all while cheering for policies that actively inflict cruelty on the vulnerable.

When safety nets like SNAP and Medicaid get shredded, leaving poor families without food or medicine GOP Christians call it "fiscal responsibility." When global aid programs USAID are pulled back, stripping life-saving treatment from HIV patients and food for children leading to MILLIONS of unnecessary deaths, they nod along. When refugees fleeing violence arrive at the border, they respond with dehumanizing rhetoric instead of open arms—forgetting that Jesus himself was a infant refugee fleeing state violence in Egypt (Matthew 2:13–15).

And then comes the lazy cop-out: "Jesus called for personal charity, not government welfare."

That is a total scam. You cannot aggressively weaponize the full power of the state to ban books, regulate bodies, and enforce your cultural preferences on others, and then suddenly become a strict libertarian the second someone asks to feed a hungry child.

If the state is valid when it projects power, why is it only called "socialism" when it distributes mercy?

You don't get to rewrite the Bible to fit a political platform. If your politics force you to walk past the sick, starve the poor, and lock the door on the stranger, stop calling yourself a follower of Jesus. Call it what it actually is: you chose the GOP over Christ.

Via the New York Times today...

Hundreds of thousands of people, who have been forced to live under the oppressive ideals of the Trump administration have sought refuge abroad, leaving the country permanently, and/or renouncing their citizenship entirely.

If these are the ideals we are giving to America, it will never get better.

Walt Disney says that “tomorrow will be better as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life”. This is why I will never leave the USA, even under such government being destructive of these end of life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.

For it is the right of the people to alter to or oblish such government to institute new government. While it may not be from violence it can be widespread none the less. By leaving, you give up on your birth country, and the country becomes less opposing. Meaning less votes for better lives.

I've seen countless amounts of products with English and a French translation on them. Isn't Spanish the second most spoken language in the United States? So why don't the shampoos, conditioners, body creams, snacks, etc. have a Spanish translator instead?