D.J. Grothe

An old Bible college pal recently challenged me to explain how life can have any meaning whatsoever if God does not exist. This is my answer. (And nope, I did not give her a link to an old YouTube video of me talking, but it’s the same answer essentially) youtu.be/dAKa4Cxxzq4?si…

While advocating the use of "imprecatory psalms" calling for the destruction of their political enemies, Christian nationalists Joshua Haymes and Rich Lusk say "there are times where we have to kill" them for the good of the nation. peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch…

Miller: What President Trump is doing is a national miracle that will be studied not only for generations but for centuries to come. Trump: Kash, see if you can top that. Patel: Mr. President, thank you for delivering the safest country on God's green Earth

Four doses of an experimental vaccine to protect against Lyme disease reduced the number of tick-borne infections by more than 70 percent, according to Pfizer and Valneva. If successful, it could become the only Lyme disease vaccine available for people. wapo.st/4t7RzDY

Laughter and song, the bonds of friendship, the joy of play, the wonder of art, the beauty of nature, the gift of attention – tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel, Zuckerberg and Musk don't care for ANY of it. They see humanity as redundant, as useless, as slop, and would rather replace all of it with AI.

"A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can't do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war. Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for." -General H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.

MAGA may want Mueller to be the villain of the Russiagate story. But in reality, the Trump/Russia investigation was a fitting conclusion to his long career of service. @CathyYoung63 on MAGA's Mueller myths: lnk.thebulwark.com/3Prj5xB

In conventional diplomacy -- dare I say, conventional deal-making -- you don't give away something valuable for nothing. Trump lifted sanctions on Russia without asking for anything in return from Putin. Illogical (& that's a diplomatic term).

Ah yes, people usually enter the country illegally by just booking a plane ticket

Democratic Presidents (and would be Presidents) must possess a PhD-level understanding of every domestic and foreign policy issue, while Trump stands in front of reporters and gives an answer that would get him laughed out of a freshman year class at any of our military academies

Let me get this straight. The leading Senate Republican walked into the White House Sunday with a bipartisan deal to end the TSA nightmare. Fund everything except ICE now, get TSA agents paid today, handle ICE separately. Senate Republicans and Democrats said yes. Trump said no. Why? Because Trump is holding TSA workers’ paychecks hostage to try and force Congress to pass the SAVE Act, a voter suppression bill that would knock millions of eligible Americans off the voter rolls. He wants to make it harder for Americans to vote. Like a petulant child flipping the board when he’s losing, Trump torched a bipartisan deal his own Senate leader handed him on a silver platter. His tantrum continues as he unleashes ICE agents into airports. Agents with zero screening training, zero TSA authority, and a good chance of making everything worse. Democrats have been ready to fund TSA from day one. What we refuse to do is write a blank check for an ICE agency that gunned down two American citizens in Minneapolis and still demands the ability to kick down doors without a judge’s approval while hiding behind masks. We will not pass the SAVE Act either. Call it what it is: the SAVE REPUBLICANS Act. Non-citizen voting is already illegal. It was illegal yesterday. It will be illegal tomorrow. This bill solves nothing except the Republican party’s losing electoral math. Fund TSA. Reform ICE. End this today. Trump is the one standing in the way.

Lmao, this chart shows homicides spiking under Trump 1.0 and then falling under Biden.

‼️ TRUMP KILLS DHS FUNDING DEAL MADE IN SENATE. - Deal would pass funding for DHS without ICE and fund ICE through reconciliation. Like the immigration bill in 2024, Trump blocks bipartisan deal because he prefers the fight. Source: @PunchbowlNews

I asked the White House communications team why it habitually responds to questions about Trump’s false claims by saying “President Trump is right.” Spokesperson Kush Desai responded: “President Trump has been right about everything, and CNN struggles to accept this. Sad!” cnn.com/2026/03/23/pol…

Hi, Michael. I've copy edited your Tweet to make some suggestions you might consider. I look forward to reading more about this in your expert synthesis of the state of generational archaeological knowledge. Sincerely, A Real Archaeologist

ICE is fully funded for years. Democrats have shut down the other agencies to get ICE reformed. NPR: How ICE became the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-…

the corruption is the most structurally significant part of the administration. drain. the. swamp.

And there it is. DHS and TSA aren't getting paid because Trump doesn't want to pay them, and Thune & Johnson are too afraid to act like the leaders of co-equal branch they claim to be to call the vote and force the question.

5 billion out of 175 billion without ANY policy change isn’t a serious offer.

Punchbowl with a pretty significant report this morning, that more or less puts Trump now on the hook for the TSA funding lapse.

5 minutes before Trump’s announcement: * $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. * $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold. More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close. Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!