I AM WIDE AWAKE!!!!!

 

UPDATE: IN MEMORY OF ASSASSINATED FORMER MINNESOTA HOUSE SPEAKER MELISSA HORTMAN 1970 2025 & VIDEO: DRUMPF / TRUMP ON HORTMAN ASSASSINATION

 

FROM MSNBC

“In retrospect, given all of the moving ways that this White House has paid tribute to Charlie Kirk,” a reporter asked Trump, “do you think it would’ve been fitting to lower the flags to half-staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House speaker, was gunned down by an assassin as well?”

The president replied, “I’m not familiar. The who?”

Reminded of an incident he ought to have been familiar with, Trump said of lowering the flags, “Well, if the governor had asked me to do that, I would’ve done that. But the governor of Minnesota didn’t ask me.”

VERSE AND VOICE FROM SOJOURNERS 15MAI25

 

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SOJOURNERS VERSE & VOICE 21MAR23

Verse of the day There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.  - Galatians 3:28 Voice of the day Any law that makes one group of people superior to another is a direct assault on these truths because it denies the full image of God in the group deemed inferior. - Paola and Jeff Fuentes Gleghorn, “Will the U.S Finally Approve the ERA?” Prayer of the day All are made in your image God; may our laws change to reflect this truth.