BORDER: CLICK https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1921008311492624867 [1:37] to hear President Trump announce his new deportation policies. Promises made, promises kept.
CATHOLIC: Funny how the priest from Chicago became the Bishop of Chiclayo. 🙂
DIPLOMACY: Wouldn’t it be refreshing to hear some praise for how Trump helped end a war that started a week ago?
DOGE: After DOGE highlighted the absurd federal retirement process, OPM announced they are going digital. This will reduce the average time federal workers have to wait from 3-5 months to less than 1 month.
In other news, DOGE’s audits are revealing noncitizens who have registered and voted in U.S. elections. So far, they have referred 57 cases to DOJ.
CLOWN MEDIA: CLICK https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1920481676318195943 [:15] to hear the host of MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki snark that Mr. “Art of the Deal” still hadn’t made a single deal … just hours before he announced he’d finalized a trade deal with the UK.
FYI: While Psaki was Biden’s Press Secretary, she was famous for not answering questions from reporters, telling them she’d “circle back to that” at a later date.
- https://notthebee.com/article/trump-strikes-trade-deal-with-uk-just-hours-after-jen-psaki-mocks-him-on-msnbc-for-not-making-any-deals
- https://www.dailywire.com/news/both-countries-will-become-stronger-trumps-trade-deal-will-give-u-s-more-access-to-u-k-economy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jen_Psaki
TARIFFS: This is just one of a number of announcements like this I’ve seen lately.
- https://notthebee.com/article/built-in-america-lego-announces-a-366-million-investment-in-manufacturing-in-virginia
- https://humanevents.com/2025/04/07/human-events-trump-just-reset-the-great-reset-the-golden-age-is-on-the-other-side
TRANS: Best comment on X – “I can’t believe of all people she would dead name Gulf of America.”
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: On May 2, Dryden United Methodist Church posted the UMC’s new mission statement (graphic above). Note that it contains not one word about salvation, eternal life, or fidelity to the Holy Bible. Also on May, Dryden United Methodist Church, which was founded in May of 1831, announced it is closing permanently on June 30.
CLICK https://x.com/Protestia/status/1920838163964326181 [3:30] to hear a sermon recently preached by a United Methodist pastor (not Dryden’s), dressed as a fig tree, vehemently disagreeing with Jesus, then using his interpretation to condemn capitalism. Not the Bee opined, “Given the costume he’s wearing, I think it would have been a more spiritually fruitful sermon if he had just repeated the words ‘I AM GROOT’ a few dozen times instead of whatever the heck he attempted there.”
FYI: I googled and found the source of the fig tree sermon. It’s Allendale UMC in St. Petersburg, FL, which bills itself as “A social justice, anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming congregation of believers.” The staff page includes the following about the pastor, “Rev. Andy Oliver (he/him/his) [whose] ministry weaves together creative liturgy, prophetic preaching, and hands-on community engagement. He is a passionate advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, immigrants, racial justice, reproductive freedom, climate action, and all people at the margins. Pastor Andy is deeply involved in local, statewide, and national advocacy. Under his leadership, Allendale has become a hub for social justice, partnering with justice centered orgs beyond the local church.”
The church’s events features one new member Sunday per month, one Charity Drag Bingo Night per month, parish participation in St. Pete Pride Parade on June 28 and Drag Gospel Worship on June 29.
- https://notthebee.com/article/watch-this-united-methodist-pastor-vehemently-disagree-with-you-guessed-it-jesus
- https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=992321269689243&set=a.501387315449310
- https://drydenumc.org/
- https://www.ithaca.com/news/dryden/dryden-united-methodist-turns-180/article_8ade984a-7be2-11e0-b2e7-001cc4c002e0.html
- https://www.youtube.com/@allendaleumc
- https://www.allendaleumc.org/
- https://www.allendaleumc.org/events/
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