“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis
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She's more brave than 80% of the men in this country
aug 29, 2025, 10:25 pm • 0 0 • view
The regime in the WH should feel unsafe.
aug 29, 2025, 12:31 am • 6 0 • view
He could EXECUTIVE ORDER Fingerprint ID, but guess what? He doesn’t really care.
aug 29, 2025, 12:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Our children can save us if adults will listen
aug 28, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 1 • view
Teenagers are some of the most caring individuals I’ve known.
aug 28, 2025, 8:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Can you please not retire?
aug 28, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
What??? She should retire NOW she literally does NOTHING
aug 28, 2025, 10:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Those people are marked for life. What thoughts and prayers can ease their torment? Such an easy catch phrase. It is life-long pain.
aug 28, 2025, 10:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Empty prayers to make themselves feel good is all they give. In my vocabulary that means shit. They have everything they need to STOP school shooing by passing gun reform but they don’t want to lose money so we have to lose lives.
aug 29, 2025, 2:54 am • 0 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Somebody ask Karoline Leavitt if she'd care to respond to Lydia
aug 28, 2025, 9:54 pm • 0 0 • view
The wisdom of children. Sharing this, btw.
aug 30, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
🎯
aug 29, 2025, 7:23 am • 0 0 • view
💙💙💙💙 Well said
aug 29, 2025, 4:47 am • 0 0 • view
Children in the US are all *much* better at praying than any adult. It is sick and sad that American gun culture gives them so many opportunities to practice.
aug 28, 2025, 9:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Ok but Senator? What are you doing about this? I don’t want quotes of teenagers. Show me what you’re doing about gun violence.
aug 28, 2025, 7:20 pm • 32 0 • view
And do not pretend that nothing can be done.
aug 28, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 8:20 pm • 77 8 • view
This says it all. 100%. It’s a conscious choice. America prefers guns to children. There is a positive, conscious decision to permit guns. And with that, comes death. You could decide otherwise, but you chose not to. Every single day.
aug 29, 2025, 12:28 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 11:50 am • 2 0 • view
This is a brilliant response. Thank You.
aug 29, 2025, 12:47 am • 0 0 • view
Well said, thank you
aug 28, 2025, 11:28 pm • 0 0 • view
*This crap NEEDS TO STOP. No children were ACTUALLY "PRAYING."* CHILDREN DON'T PRAY. Yes, they "bow their heads" -- ON CUE, but they don't literally attempt to speak to any "god." USE WHAT LITTLE INTELLIGENCE YOU APPEAR TO SHOW.
aug 28, 2025, 7:35 pm • 1 0 • view
If only the shooter had missed the children as thoroughly as you seem to have missed the point.
aug 28, 2025, 10:11 pm • 7 0 • view
Are you really that fucking stupid? How do you even function day to day
aug 29, 2025, 1:32 am • 0 0 • view
It infuriating
aug 29, 2025, 10:38 am • 0 0 • view
FREEWILL means we have brains to stop this killing but half of us want to kill the other! Magas hate was bread by the pos in chief, but their souls own that hate now. i suggest to love them to death! Guilt is important too.
aug 29, 2025, 1:35 am • 0 0 • view
Ban the assault guns!!!
aug 29, 2025, 3:12 am • 0 0 • view
"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others." Matthew 6:5
aug 28, 2025, 9:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Pray for an amputee to regrow an arm or leg, see if God answers your prayers.
aug 28, 2025, 9:28 pm • 2 0 • view
In Missourah they think it will! www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
aug 29, 2025, 1:37 am • 1 0 • view
Cancel my HIMS subscription - I'm moving to Springfield!
aug 29, 2025, 9:41 am • 1 0 • view
😂🤣😂🤣
aug 29, 2025, 8:40 am • 2 0 • view
So they’re studying to find something “that might contribute to this violence”. You don’t have to do a study that one of the contributing factors is GUNS you dipshit. MAGAs don’t want to try legislation that controls guns. Not any doing things that “might” help. Our kids are being destroyed
aug 29, 2025, 9:51 am • 1 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Why are you quoting her when you ONLY offer thoughts and prayers?? You are a fucking hypocrite who is doing nothing as senator but make yourself wealthy. You aren't helping Americans at all. You don't listen to what WE WANT.
aug 28, 2025, 10:40 pm • 2 1 • view
there is no god
aug 29, 2025, 12:18 am • 4 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 7:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Of all the people that actually get shot in this country, why can't he be one of them?
aug 29, 2025, 10:46 am • 0 0 • view
Those who offer "thoughts and prayers" while doing NOTHING to stop the slaughter in America's schools have their fingers on the triggers just as much as any high school killer.
aug 29, 2025, 10:36 am • 0 0 • view
Right wing are literally lying that a trans person was a shooter what the actual fuck is wrong with these politicians and their making everything about a escape goat
aug 28, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, wexare a society than runs completely on fear and force. No other 1st world country does it as much, unless run by a dictator. Which we have now devolved into from decades of fear tactics from both major parties.
aug 28, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 11:27 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 8:40 am • 0 0 • view
These kids know if guns are not limited, they will face more and more of these shootings.
aug 28, 2025, 9:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Prayer should lead to action . No one needs guns except police and army
aug 31, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
Wake up Congress, now! Listen to the children! They’re sent to school everyday all over America with little thought for their safety. Guns outnumber us. Assault weapons are bought online or in local sporting goods stores. How many children will pay the price?
aug 29, 2025, 12:02 pm • 0 0 • view
She's talking about you.
aug 28, 2025, 9:11 pm • 10 1 • view
Exactly!!
aug 28, 2025, 10:41 pm • 1 0 • view
"It is difficult to make someone understand something when their salary depends on them NOT understanding it" - Upton Sinclair
aug 28, 2025, 10:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Hello Senator, you and your colleagues need to stop playing nice. Get down in the mud against the GOP and fight for our democracy! We’re losing our country to a bunch of bumbling but determined fascists!
aug 29, 2025, 1:40 am • 0 0 • view
📌
aug 29, 2025, 5:29 am • 0 0 • view
The irony that the latest kids to die were actually praying at the time they were killed is not lost on me. It’s thoughts and actions time.
aug 29, 2025, 12:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Well said.
aug 29, 2025, 3:10 am • 0 0 • view
so when is your bill reintroducing the assault weapons ban hitting the floor?
aug 28, 2025, 10:16 pm • 7 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
Thoughts and prayers haven't stopped another one so far.
aug 29, 2025, 1:04 am • 0 0 • view
When politicians SAY “thoughts &prayers” when asked for a comment. The translation *IS*!! Ain’t a damn thing I can or want to do if I plan to keep my job. Their “thoughts” and “prayers”👉 PLEASE donors keep sending ME $$$. To parents of dead 👶, sorry about that. My job is more important.
aug 29, 2025, 7:29 pm • 0 0 • view
In short, Fuck those who offer meaningless prayers.
aug 29, 2025, 11:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 29, 2025, 9:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Thoughts and prayers and policy. Think tanks and faith leaders and politicians. Play your part. Get it done.
aug 29, 2025, 1:53 am • 0 0 • view
YOU KNOW WHAT, EVEN IF GOD EXISTS HE IS NOT THE GOD THEY TOLD US ABOUT. AS FAR AS I CAN TELL HE ISN'T GOOD OR KIND OR LOVING OR GENEROUS OR ABLE TO DO MIRACLES OR ABLE & WILLING TO ANSWER PRAYERS. WHAT HE DOES DO IS ALLOW WARS TO START EVERYDAY FOR NO REASON. THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN GET CANCER. WHY?
aug 29, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
Humans don't need God to cause cancer and start wars...they're perfectly capable of accomplishing all that on their own.
aug 29, 2025, 10:49 am • 0 0 • view
Besides I’m not sure prayers from a bunch of pedo-protectors have much sway anyway.
aug 28, 2025, 8:21 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s always the standard, pushed by people who neither think or pray, and absolutely do not care.
aug 28, 2025, 7:05 pm • 8 2 • view
Thoughts and prayers are like a bandage on a gunshot wound—kind but insufficient. We need action, not just compassion.
aug 28, 2025, 11:07 pm • 1 0 • view
🤔
aug 29, 2025, 12:37 am • 0 0 • view
On Friday I did a presentation on TOXIC THEOLOGY at a conference in the Netherlands. Because of the shooting at the Catholic school in Minneapolis, I changed the focus of my talk at the last minute. You can read it here on my Substack: drterridaniel535413.substack.com/p/where-were...
aug 31, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Prayers do not work too what part of that don't people get.
aug 29, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Everyone should be listening to Lydia!!
aug 29, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
www.startribune.com/annunciation...
aug 28, 2025, 6:59 pm • 425 94 • view
Prayers without actions are just wishes.
aug 28, 2025, 7:07 pm • 52 3 • view
Prayers are just wishes
aug 28, 2025, 9:22 pm • 30 1 • view
Prayers are just excuses to avoid responsibility.
aug 29, 2025, 12:42 am • 1 0 • view
Prayers are an abdication of responsibility.
aug 28, 2025, 10:42 pm • 20 0 • view
youtu.be/2kRt1gbUXJg?...
aug 29, 2025, 12:34 am • 1 0 • view
I wish I could read and share the article. I believe a personal perspective would carry much weight.
aug 28, 2025, 7:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Go to the page and very quickly, before the paywall thing loads do a select-all (ctrl-A) and a copy (ctrl C). Then paste it into your word processor. It is VERY worth reading.
aug 28, 2025, 7:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Or, alternatively, pay for access to the publication.
aug 28, 2025, 10:49 pm • 3 0 • view
sure. or sign up for the free access.
aug 28, 2025, 10:54 pm • 3 0 • view
www.removepaywall.com
aug 29, 2025, 9:55 am • 0 0 • view
The archive option is almost always available
aug 29, 2025, 9:55 am • 0 0 • view
wonderful essay by a teenager
aug 28, 2025, 9:09 pm • 2 0 • view
We, as a country, allow this over and over again. All the people in power should have to read this before they go on with their agendas.
aug 28, 2025, 8:16 pm • 3 0 • view
You need to say they died because of GOP policies
aug 28, 2025, 9:26 pm • 3 1 • view
aug 31, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
💔
aug 28, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Well spoken. A tragedy that it must be said at all.
aug 28, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Powerful words from this young person.
aug 29, 2025, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view
*whispers* she's talking about YOU too, tina
aug 28, 2025, 9:08 pm • 24 1 • view
Seriously God knows their prayers are empty words babbled thru stained glass teeth
aug 28, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 7:25 pm • 3 0 • view
The bills, bills, bills will get worse if we don't address the fascism first.
aug 28, 2025, 9:16 pm • 5 0 • view
Amen 🙏.
aug 29, 2025, 12:59 am • 0 0 • view
The complicit are floating like dry terdz down D’NILE
aug 28, 2025, 11:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Minnesota should ban assault weapons like UK did!
aug 29, 2025, 9:06 am • 1 0 • view
Lydia is wise for her age.
aug 28, 2025, 9:51 pm • 0 0 • view
all those who pray and offer USELESS CONDOLENCES ARE FAKERS AND TAKERS..From the UNHOLY BOOK OF PICKLEHEAD69..THOSE WHO FEIGN..SHALL BE SLAIN🙏😇👹
aug 28, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
They don’t understand or care
aug 29, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I appreciate you amplifying a message directly from one of Our young people!!
aug 29, 2025, 2:45 am • 0 0 • view
I think Lydia was addressing the vice president with this.
aug 28, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
"Faith without works is dead"- James 2:14-26 We need you to do the work, Senator. Help us do the work. The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act worked. We need to bring it back.
aug 28, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
TRUMP'S AMERICA "Autism is destroying families and these are kids who will never pay taxes they'll never hold a job" he pledges to find the cause of Autism RFK Jr Other kids will never pay taxes and never hold a job & it destroys families are those shot in mass shootings. No pledge made to end it
aug 29, 2025, 12:01 pm • 0 0 • view
How many chances do we give "Thoughts and prayers?" They don't stop the shootings. They don't heal the wounds. They don't stop the killing! They ain't a-workin'! It's the GUNS!
aug 29, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
It is the cheapest and most convenient way to pretend you care. This is so rotten. Amen, you hypocrites.
aug 28, 2025, 8:50 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 7:53 pm • 6 0 • view
If teaching religion in church doesn't make people better, what makes a person think that teaching it in school will?
aug 28, 2025, 7:24 pm • 17 0 • view
THE SINGLE BEST ARGUMENT FOR VOTING OUT ALL REPUBLICANS AND VOTING IN A SUPERMAJORITY OF DEMOCRATS: THE SENSELESS KILLINGS OF INNOCENTS FOR DECADES. DEMOCRATS WILL ENACT COMMON SENSE GUN LAWS, REPUBLICANS WILL NOT. IF YOU DO NOT CARE FOR THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN, YOU HAVE NO SOUL,YOU HAVE NO MORALS.
aug 29, 2025, 12:20 am • 2 0 • view
I cannot wait for Gen Z and Gen Alpha to start running for office in droves. They don't have time for our bullshit.
aug 29, 2025, 1:40 am • 2 0 • view