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Posted by former US Congressman @AdamKinzinger on Facebook. Beautifully written, in both form and substance: Hey everyone, happy Sunday. Are you ready for some good news? I know I am. We are told, over and over, that America has gone cold on the rest of the world. That we have decided the people on the other side of the ocean are a threat to be kept out. That the welcome mat got rolled up and put away for good. Then a soccer team from the North African nation of Algeria showed up in Lawrence, Kansas, and within a week the whole town was wearing green. For today's Good News Sunday, I want to tell you about one of the best things happening in this country right now. It is happening at a soccer tournament, and it has almost nothing to do with soccer. The World Cup is here, 48 teams playing across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Each team in the tournament picks a base camp, one town to live and train in between matches. Germany set up shop in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Spain is training in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And Algeria, playing two of its games up the road at Arrowhead, picked Lawrence and made it home for the summer. What the people of Lawrence did with that is the part I can't stop thinking about. It started small, with a whole town of people who had never given Algeria much thought deciding, more or less overnight, that this was their team now. Flags went up in shop windows. Folks pulled on the green jerseys. People drove over just to catch a glimpse of the players. And then a local news crew stopped an older gentleman on a Lawrence sidewalk, standing in front of a storefront draped in a whole row of Algerian flags he had clearly just gone out of his way to find. They asked him what he actually knew about the country whose colors he was flying. He grinned, paused for a beat, and said something along the lines of: not much yet — but we want to welcome you here. There is no agenda in that man. Nothing performative. Just a neighbor, thrilled to his bones that these strangers chose his town, and perfectly at ease with the fact that he has a lot left to learn about them. The welcome only got bigger from there. The University of Kansas, the state's flagship school that calls Lawrence home, sent its marching band out to the training ground. They had spent the previous days learning Algeria's national anthem, note for note, and they played it as the players walked out for practice. Think about what that means for a moment. These men are thousands of miles from their families, living out of a hotel in the American Midwest, preparing for the biggest sporting event of their professional lives. And the first thing they hear when they step onto the grass is the sound of their own country's song, played by a hundred American college kids in red and blue who learned it just for them. Several of the players stopped walking. A few of them looked like they weren't sure what to do with themselves. Algeria did its part, too. The team opened a training session to the public and spent the afternoon out on the grass with neighborhood kids, walking them through drills, signing autographs, posing for pictures. There are children from small-town America who are going to be telling the story of the day they trained with a World Cup team for the rest of their lives. And the Algerians have spent the last week calling themselves honorary Kansans, falling hard for a corner of a state most of them could not have found on a map two months ago. But it's not just Lawrence. This is happening all over the country, in towns you would never expect. The city of Alexandria, Virginia threw a street festival with an evening of Croatian food and music, and wrapped a city bus in the team's red and white. After crowds in Spokane, Washington flocked to watch Egyptian superstar Mohamed Salah, a brand-new Egyptian restaurant in town suddenly had locals lining up for food most of them had never tasted. All told, 19 American communities that are not hosting a single match still raised their hand to take in a national team and call them neighbors for a month. There is a story we get told constantly about who we have become. That Americans have soured on outsiders. That we have decided the rest of the world is a threat. That we look at people who do not talk like us or pray like us or come from where we come from and see a problem instead of a person. And then a college town in Kansas goes and learns every note of a North African country's national anthem, just so a group of strangers feel at home for a few weeks. An old local stands in front of a row of its flags and tells them, in so many words: we don't know much about you yet, but we are awfully glad you came. That is who we actually are when nobody is telling us to be afraid. The band on the field, playing somebody else's song as if it were their own. The neighbor who knows next to nothing about you and waves you in anyway. We forget it sometimes. The good news is that it takes about one afternoon to remember. That, my friends, is good news for your Sunday. — Adam

@JoyceWhiteVance @JCassid69022617 And the minute they gut the voting rights act, they prove exactly why we needed a voting rights act.

Watching Donald Trump drive the Republican Party off a cliff would be a lot more fun and satisfying if the rest of us weren't in the backseat.

Fire appears to be burning along Highway 287, south of Terry Lake. A recent wind gust in Laporte was recorded at 73 mph out of the west. If you live west of Gregory Road and north of Vine Drive, prepare to leave NOW. Do not wait until smoke or flames are on top of you. Get your essentials together and be ready to go immediately.

This is how the world sees us.

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Republicans want to decide what books you can read, what history your kids can learn, which medicines you’re allowed to take, what surgeries you can have, what gender you’re permitted to be, what sports you can play, which bathroom you can use, who you can love, and who you can marry. They want to tell you how many dolls and pencils your kids can have and how much food they can eat. They want to own your library, your classroom, your hospital bed, your bedroom, your remote control, your kitchen table and your front door. They want the right to break into your home, disappear your neighbor, take your children, beat you, execute you in the street, and then tell you—despite the evidence of your own eyes and ears—that what you saw is not what you have seen. They want you afraid: afraid to record, to document, to criticize, to stand up, to speak out, to organize, to protest, to protect, to utter words they don’t like. They want to own the page, the pill, the joke, the chant, the kiss, the very pronoun in your mouth and the weapon on your waist. They want to decide where you can go, what you can say, and which of your rights they can take away. They want the power to take your life and then lie about it. They want to play judge, jury, and executioner and they want you to shut up about it or you’ll be next. This is tyranny failing miserably to masquerade as order. But sure—tell me how it’s the liberals who are “coming for your freedoms”, won’t you.

I remember.

I stand with the fundamental American principle of being able to protest my government without being killed.

The White House @WhiteHouse

10 months ago

We stand with the brave men and women of ICE and law enforcement who risk everything to keep our communities safe.

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This is one of the best, frame-by-frame breakdowns here by Brenna Perez of the Minnesota ICE shooting, proving without a doubt that ICE agent wasn't in danger, and he murdered Renee Good. Make sure everyone sees it.

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DOJ is still in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Beast sign 🪧 ever. 🏆

If this was in the US they’d have had AR-15s, high capacity magazines and body armor, and the local police would have sat there fearfully waiting for back-up by being outgunned. Gun control laws don’t mean nothing ever happens. They do mean it happens less and that outcomes are dampened.

Mark Gottlieb @MarkGottlieb

10 months ago

The fact these scumbags could only get their hands on a shotgun and a single shot rifle clearly saved dozens of lives. Anyone who doesn’t see that is a fool. Like this guy.

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When you separate children from their parents and zip-tie them like criminals, expect to see us rise up against you. We are the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the generation that fought the fascists. We defeated you in 1945 and we'll defeat you in 2025. Count on it.

We don’t need a fake video of Donald Trump dumping shit on America, because we see it every day for real.

This week: -Three more universities rejected Trump's extortion compact -Over a dozen airports refused to play Kristi Noem's propaganda video -30+ press outlets refused to comply with Pete Hegseth's new restrictions The only way to rebuke Trump's authoritarianism is solidarity.

This is Marine Colonel Doug Krugman, a 24-year combat veteran. He has resigned citing Trump's disregard for the Constitution: "I have given up the service I loved for the freedom to do the right thing...to speak in defense of our country." RETWEET if you stand with Col. Krugman!