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Robert Bingham

@rcbingham.bsky.social
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pastor, theologian & psychotherapist in Baltimore, Maryland ...writing & editing thegathering.blog ...engaging at the intersection of theology, psychology & politics.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 07/10/2026
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 98.5%.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This administration has the “Trump Gold Card,” tried to place his name before John F. Kennedy’s on a memorial, printed his portrait in passports, and last week launched something called “Trump TV” under White House auspices. A simple term exists to describe these efforts: propaganda.
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The Problem With Trump’s New Taxpayer-Funded Ads
They clearly violate the intent of the law. But that doesn’t mean they’ll be easy to stop.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sigh…me too #OnEarth
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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They all knew ahead of time who he is...
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"For the tech bros to remain dominant, their story has to change. So, Silicon Valley’s best storytellers no longer want our capitulation to their technology’s inevitability. They want us to panic..." #OnEarth ...gift article from the NYT by the excellent Tressie McMillan Cottom.
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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Gift Article)
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 05/09/2026
Someone asked me today about my plans for the Fall and it took me a moment to realize she meant my plans for the Autumn and not the collapse of civilization.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Grateful..,
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Streeter: National media is finally catching up to what we’ve been saying about Baltimore
COLUMN | Baltimore has been on an upswing in so many ways and the national media is finally catching on. It’s about time.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Promises promises… #GiftArticle 
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Opinion | Trump’s Economic Record Doesn’t Come Close to His Campaign Promises (Gift Article)
The president likes to boast about the “greatest economy we’ve ever had.” His record falls far short.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We’d be lost without Dr. Gladys West, whose work helps us navigate the world around us…literally. She not only shaped the future of GPS, but did so as a woman in a male-dominated field. #OnEarth
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"The truth is that the demons are here. We elected them." - Bret Stephens NYT #giftarticle #OnEarth
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Opinion | Call the Veep, Agent Mulder! (Gift Article)
Have the “space Jews” come to get us at last?
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“we have to know…”
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"The post-American reality is not a world without America, of course. As a geopolitical actor, the United States has become a kind of lumbering zombie — a beast that can be startled into reflexive actions but lacks higher functions." - - well said Stephen Marche! 😂😂😂 #OnEarth #giftarticle
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Opinion | The Zombification of America (Gift Article)
Much of the world feared abandonment by the United States. It’s actually a new beginning.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A parable for parents and other grown-ups…9 The father drove home certain he had won something. His son sat beside him in silence, having lost more than the match.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A parable for parents and other grown-ups…8 And the very people he meant to rescue are the ones left standing in the wreckage, wondering why the air went out of the game, and why winning suddenly felt like losing.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A parable for parents and other grown-ups…7 When a person cannot tolerate discomfort and mistakes his own emotional reactivity for leadership, he does not calm the system. He infects it.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A parable for parents and other grown-ups…6 The boy’s team lost badly. Not because they lacked skill. The oxygen had simply gone out of the stadium. A system flooded with someone else's unmanaged anxiety has little room left to play.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A parable for parents and other grown-ups…5 And the boy's own teammates, who had been playing loose and alive a minute before, went stiff and small. They could feel that something had shifted beneath them, even if none of them could say what.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A parable for parents and other grown-ups…4 The moment the father broke that agreement, the anxiety he had been carrying moved off of him and into everyone else. The other team's parents began shouting too.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A parable for parents and other grown-ups…3 But a team is more than eleven players kicking a ball. It is a system, held together by an invisible agreement that the game is fair and the adults can be trusted to let it be played.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A parable for parents and other grown-ups…2 He came off the sideline. He did not go to comfort his son. He went to the referee. He shouted until the call reversed, until the boy was sent back onto the field with a card that no longer existed. He believed he had won something.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A parable for parents and other grown-ups…(in 9 posts) There was a father who could not bear to watch his son lose. One Saturday with the match tied, the referee raised a red card, and the boy walked toward the bench with his head down, and something in the father snapped.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm a therapist too...and I agree with this essay
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Opinion | I’m a Therapist. Not Everyone Should Be in Therapy.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
#MatthewVines is always worth reading…
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Opinion | I’m Gay, Not Queer. It Matters.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
worth remembering again today... #OnEarth
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
On the 250th anniversary of our country’s founding, America’s increasingly senescent president turned the White House lawn into a tacky, bloody gladiatorial arena while capitulating to Iran. - Michelle Goldberg NYT #giftarticle #OnEarth
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Opinion | A Garish Spectacle of American Decline
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
hand me a parachute...
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Courageous must-read essay from #MaraGay. "The suggestion that partisan gerrymandering has nothing to do with race is fantastical...." #giftarticle #OnEarth
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Opinion | A Shocking Betrayal of Black Americans
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
To observe the aggrandizement of power in the executive...the destruction of the nation’s public health infrastructure and the attack on racial and gender equality is to see a furious effort to restructure the existing nation to match the one envisioned by far-right ideologues. #giftarticle #OnEarth
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Opinion | America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"Most people remember Pinocchio as a story about lying. The nose grows. You get caught. Lesson learned. But that reading misses what the author was actually doing. The book is a close study of a society where deception is woven into every institution, every transaction." #worthreading #OnEarth
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We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World
I have always wanted to own a Montblanc Writers Edition dedicated to Carlo Collodi, the Italian author whose real name was Carlo Lorenzini. He took his pen name from the Tuscan village where his mo…
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Leo said: “We tend to think that the only issue of morality is sexual. And in reality, I believe there are much greater, more important issues, such as justice, equality, freedom of men and women, freedom of religion, that would all take priority before that particular issue.” #OnEarth #giftarticle
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Opinion | Pope Leo Chooses Social Justice Over Pelvic Theology
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
On Friday, the D.R.C. reported 246 suspected cases. Most Ebola outbreaks end before they get that big. #OnEarth #GiftArticle
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Opinion | I Survived Ebola. This Is What Scares Me Most About This Outbreak.
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penboyasgod.bsky.social @penboyasgod.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Easily, the most corrupt president in history:
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Rep. Janelle Bynum @bynum.house.gov · 17/05/2026
An attack on Black America is an attack on all of America. Remember: if they come for us, they’ll come for you next. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...
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The Fight for Voting Rights Returns to Selma
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Sigh… the title says it all. #GiftArticle #OnEarth.
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Opinion | What Happened When Trump Abandoned the World’s Poorest Children
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The first three grafs of this article blew my mind… #OnEarth
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Longevity Science Is Overhyped. But This Research Really Could Change Humanity.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
this ought to be the front page photo in every newspaper today...
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Comparing the economic well-being of five generations of Americans at ages 36–40. Millennials had a real median household income that was 20% higher than that of the previous generation... Additionally, lifetime income gains for younger generations far outweigh their higher educational costs.
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Has Generational Progress Stalled? Income Growth Over Five Generations of Americans | Demography | Duke University Press
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Coherent and accessible summary of the damage Trump has caused in our country and around the world. #OnEarth #GiftArticle
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Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”
theguardian.com
The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
the "prophetic task" of the Church does not involve seeing into the future. It demands gospel commentary on the present. Walter Bruggeman nails it here, and the Pope is practicing the prophetic task. Step up pastors...blasphemy from the President and SecDef mounts higher day by day. #OnEarth
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
the wicked outcomes of this "gospel" cannot be overstated... "Hegseth has made clear that every missile the United States fires, every bomb it drops, every Iranian it kills, is for Jesus. Praise be the Lord, who has given America the power to wipe out an entire civilization." #giftarticle #OnEarth
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Opinion | Pete Hegseth’s Gospel of Carnage
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Look at the women at NASA. They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points. And they are doing it all with joy.👇
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Indeed George!
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets.
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is brilliant, daunting and true. Read this piece, and act on it... "You don’t lose a country all at once. You lose it in pieces, so slowly that most people don’t notice until the place they loved is gone." Heather Delaney Reese #OnEarth
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The US blockade-no fuel shipments to Cuba for over three months. Hospitals can't run generators. 11 million people in darkness. Meanwhile, we're telling Iran that restricting energy flows is unacceptable. Evidently blockading energy is an act of aggression — unless we're the ones doing it. #OnEarth
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Out-of-date intelligence fed into a strike decision is not a battlefield accident. It is a choice made in advance: a choice to be insufficiently careful with other people's children. Right intention is not satisfied by good wishes. It requires the effort to make those wishes real. #OnEarth
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Robert Bingham @rcbingham.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"Despite immense cost in lives and treasure, both the American and Iranian people seem, for now, to be in a worse place than before Trump started the war." #OnEarth
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Opinion | Does Trump Risk Turning America Into a Rogue State?
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