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Dr. Phil accused of deleting incriminating texts amid bankruptcy filing

......Merit Street Media is the famous psychologist's TV network, intended to replace CBS as the home of the "Dr. Phil" talk show. In 2023, Merit Street Media was formed as a joint venture 70% owned by Christian group Trinity Broadcasting Network and 30% by McGraw's production company Peteski Productions.

Everett said McGraw intended to pay his own company, Peteski Productions, while opting out of paying "unfavored creditors" like Trinity and sports group Professional Bull Riders.

Merit Street, of which McGraw is the sole director, filed for bankruptcy on July 2, just a day after McGraw and Peteski created a new company called Envoy Media.

In private messages, McGraw described a "gangster move" to make Trinity a "passive minority investor" through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to court docs obtained by USA TODAY. Court records state McGraw planned on "taking the money and running instead of following through on his end of the bargain."

Trinity and Peteski became partners under a purported 10-year agreement worth $500 million. Under the agreement, Trinity would offer production and distribution services while Peteski would produce new content, including 160 episodes of the talk show over five to six months, according to court records......
....The Christian broadcaster said it spent over $100 million through its own services as well as offering loans to Merit Street by the end of June, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Eventually, it spent $13 million monthly on production efforts despite McGraw not delivering a single episode......
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Congressional Leaders Meet with Faith Leaders and Impacted Americans
On Day 30 of the government shutdown, House Democratic Leader Jeffries meets with Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, faith leaders from across the country, Members of Congress and Americans impacted by cuts to healthcare and SNAP, demanding the end of the morally catastrophic healthcare crisis and weaponization of hunger against hardworking American taxpayers.
Stand up for the poor, the least of these, the sick, and the uninsured, break the cycles of violence, hate and endless war.
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They seem to be putting the armor on the outside, allying with narcissistic leader who is obsessed with defeating those made vulnerable, with concentrated wealth and power.

US Catholic bishops select conservative culture warrior to lead them during Trump’s second term
U.S. Catholic bishops elected Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley as their new president on Tuesday, choosing a conservative culture warrior to lead during President Donald Trump’s second term.......
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Detroit Archdiocese launches transformation plan -- What to know
Earlier this year, the church revealed the global Catholic population is growing -- up more than 1.4 billion Catholics.

While it’s growing in some areas, the Catholic faith is declining in others, including Michigan and the Metro Detroit area.

As a result, the Archdiocese of Detroit announced this past Sunday that it will undergo a major restructuring because the number of Catholics in Metro Detroit is declining.

According to the Archdiocese’s website, mass attendance is down, and at least two-thirds of parishes have fewer than 600 weekly mass attendees. There are fewer priests, and there has been a dramatic decline in baptisms, first communions, and confirmations, along with a steady drop in Catholic marriages.......
Austerity and mergers, diluting of diversity, militarization, concentration of power.
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Dearborn, officials talk solidarity after anti-Islam protests
Mayor Abdullah Hammoud and various state and federal leaders will be talking unity in the wake of numerous protests and clashes in the city on Tuesday. Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and US Rep. Rashida Tlaib are among the speakers.
Public officials talk loving our neighbors, unity, and diversity as our great strength.
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we used to live in a world where conversation tween humans required spoken words vs today where the cuteness
of life is typed to an account that spreads around the globe in seconds and now THAT comment and that person
becomes famous!!!!! for typing some comment to swirl the universe as tho its important what that asshole typed
for the wurld to read. now everyone can be famous just type some crapola and send it out.

pol and twit have become junkies. as tho what they type and flash is more important than reality.

im finding it all so flimsy and pointless , cant imagine where its headed. why bother with fact when i
can type some twitter shit and thus rule the wurld!
Who are these..flag-sucking halfwits fleeced fooled by stupid little rich kids They speak for all that is cruel stupid They are racists hate mongers I piss down the throats of these Nazis Im too old to worry whether they like it. Fuck them.
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We go to war with the media we have, not the ones we want.

I am similarly appalled by the cultural fallout of Internet, but we're stuck with it. The best plan, in fact the only plan, is to figure out ways to subvert it.
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Can either have militarization protecting the church from Christianity or Christianity protecting the church from militarization but you cant have both. I can understand why the trump administration is so afraid of the Christian church and why it would want to take it over and militarize it and cancel out its message and mission, to have it mislead people away from its natural opposition to abuse of power and people and greed.

Christian leaders urge protecting worshippers' rights after protesters interrupt service
...One of the church’s pastors, David Easterwood, leads the local ICE field office, and one of the leaders of the protest and prominent local activist Nekima Levy Armstrong said she’s also an ordained pastor.....

....Many faith leaders were dismayed when the government announced last January that federal immigration agencies can make arrests in churches, schools and hospitals, ending the protection of people in sensitive spaces......

Several pastors called for better security in churches.

.... one of the founding pastors at Cities Church in 2015 who served there until 2023, said safety would have been his first concern had a group disrupted service, especially since the fatal shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school Mass last summer.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/68cP_stAxho

Protesters Disrupt Church Service in MInnesota Where ICE Official is a Pastor
...The U.S. Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently serves as a pastor...
Instead of calling for an end to the racist anti Christian policies of ice, and the policies of selling weapons of war to the public, and to protect immigrants and American citizens, we see some church leaders calling for militarization of the church which opens up dozens of new ways for people to be abused and victimized by violence, surveillance, suspicion and imprisonment.
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Minnesota Lawyer Defends Protest at Church Whose Pastor Is Top ICE Official
We speak with activist, civil rights attorney and ordained minister Nekima Levy Armstrong about her role in a protest at a St. Paul church on Sunday, where one of the pastors, David Easterwood, also leads a local ICE field office in the Twin Cities area. "I believe that if someone professes to represent the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to preach it, that they should not be allowing ICE agents to drag people out of their homes," Levy Armstrong tells Democracy Now! She spoke from an undisclosed location after Trump officials vowed to investigate and possibly arrest the demonstrators.

Protesters Disrupt Southern Baptist Church of Pastor Who Leads ICE Office in Minnesota


ICE agents drew guns on off-duty officer in Minnesota, chief says
Immigration agents have stopped off-duty officers in Minnesota "solely because of the color of their skin," a group of local police chiefs alleged, as concern grows over the handling of immigration enforcement in the state.

American citizens are being stopped on the streets "with no cause and are being forced to produce paperwork to determine if they are here legally,” said Mark Bruley, chief of the Brooklyn Park Police Department, which operates in a suburb north of Minneapolis.

He added that police officers “fell victim to this while off duty” and that the stops appear to “target” people of color......
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