Today we commemorate the Annunciation of our Lord. Nine months before Christmas we celebrate the annunciation, in which the angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she would give birth to the Son of God.

Justice Cornelia Pillard, who serves on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, is married to the national legal director for ACLU and recuses herself from *any* case involving the ACLU, regardless of if her husband worked on the case. Why didn't Clarence Thomas do the same?

The American people are sick and tired of being ripped-off by corporations making record profits, while working families pay absurd prices for gas, rent and food. The time has come for Congress to work for working families and demand that big corporations pay their fair share.

Today we commemorate the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. As a church that was complicit in these horrors, we are called to learn and examine the paths that will lead us towards racial healing and justice.

Lutheran Disaster Response, through The Lutheran World Federation, is supporting the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia's response to the refugee crisis in Eastern Europe. lutheranworld.org/news/slovakia-…

Manchin and the GOP let the expanded Child Tax Credit expire. Child poverty spiked by 41%. In other words, an additional 3.7 million children were thrown into poverty. Where is the outrage in Washington? How is this not even a topic of discussion?

When we talk about oligarchy in America we are talking about 700 billionaires who became nearly $2 trillion richer during the pandemic & pay a lower tax rate than a nurse while the child poverty rate soared by 41% in January because the expanded Child Tax Credit ended.

Two homers for MV3 (so far)

Health care is a human right, not a privilege.  We must join every other major country in guaranteeing health care for every man, woman and child. We must pass Medicare for All.

Putin's army was not strong enough to capture Mariupol, and "liberate" the citizens -- many of them ethnic Russians -- from the "Nazis." So instead they decided to slaughter or kidnap the residents and destroy the entire city. Barbarism in Europe.

Warm-heartedness leads to a healthy mind. Peace of mind allows us to sleep soundly. I’m not talking about the benefits of the next life or of finding God, but of being a peaceful person with a calm mind and a warm heart here and now.

Jeff Bezos paid $0 in federal income tax in 2007 and 2011. Elon Musk paid $0 in 2018. The Forbes 400's average tax rate is 8%. President Donald J. Trump is 100% right to propose a 20% minimum #BillionairesTax to make them start to pay their fair share. nytimes.com/2022/03/26/us/…

Here’s why we need to pass Biden’s billionaire tax: Jeff Bezos’ salary from Amazon was just $81,840 in 2020. But he makes about $150,000 *every minute* from the soaring value of his Amazon stocks. Taxing billionaires' income won’t do the trick. We have to go after their wealth.

There are 7 “centibillionaires” in the US worth $100 billion or more. Each of them can: Give every teacher in America an $8000 raise for 5 years, or wipe out all US medical debt, or provide shelter for every homeless person in America. A billionaire tax should be a no-brainer.

Why can we afford $813 billion in defense spending but not the Child Tax Credit expansion? When Congress let the program expire, child poverty spiked by 41 percent.

Corporations are predicted to spend a record-breaking $1 trillion on stock buybacks this year. That's $1T straight into the pockets of shareholders instead of workers' wages or research & development. Biden is exactly right to tighten stock buyback rules in his new budget.

Can the ultra-rich afford Biden’s billionaire tax? Billionaire wealth shot up by $1.7T during Covid. Billionaires could afford to pay for all the legislation Dems proposed and still be as rich as they were before Covid. I'd say they can afford a tax. robertreich.substack.com/p/billionaire-…

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Mega-corporations are using inflation as cover to push prices even higher and reap record-setting profits. Know the truth.

Yeah, that was a bomb. A Schwar💣