Pope Leo XIV: Jesus told us, blessed are the peacemakers. But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.
Being a religion-and-politics reporter means donning a helmet, goggles and gas mask in January to report on faith leaders resisting ICE and then spending April checking if the President of the United States has posted more AI-generated images of himself resembling/with Jesus Christ.
Normal job.
Trump's immigration policy: An Army staff sergeant brings his new bride to the base to get her military ID. She's undocumented but a lawyer is working on getting her a green card. ICE takes her away in handcuffs and may deport her any day. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
KEEP ON REPOSTING.
KEEP THE TRENDING HIGH.
#EpsteinFiles #NoPedophiles #NoKings
#NoPEDODENTS #NoTrump
Bruce Springsteen
@brucespringsteen.net
Bring it on.
NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Be kind to yourself & others.
Thank you Eugene Goodman for saving Democracy during the Capitol insurrection #January6th
Jesus became a refugee. Matthew’s Gospel insists that how we see the vulnerable reveals whether we truly see Christ. Faithfulness requires recognition, especially when fear or a despotic leader distorts our vision in seeing the "least of these." #Matthew25 #JesusTheRefugee #ImageOfGod #HumanDignity
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
Art expresses what words cannot
Honestly. Truly. Not a bad idea.
Amazing. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love’s sake. Amen.
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
FUN FACT: You know who has been credibly accused of Human Trafficking? Donald Trump.
From a MOTHER JONES report (click to enlarge):
"Toothless in Texas" is the name of my next big country song
This is how a majority of EVANGELICALS see Trump….as head of their churches.
It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power.
Guys, this is David Brooks in the NY Times. If it's like this 90 days into this presidency with people who wouldn't be caught dead saying it last year, imagine it in two years. Something good is happening, we just have to lift everybody up so they can see it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
Senator Cory Booker -- nearly 23 hrs into this -- is more coherent than your average elected official speaking (while seated) at an average legislative hearing.
Even if you haven't been watching all along, dip in for a moment -- he is making considerable sense:
www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
18 hours and 45 minutes in, and Cory Booker is still going strong! 🔥
I've said plenty about Booker in the past, but I'm in on this. For those people saying "this is performative bullshit" yes welcome to politics. But considering most of our leaders are capitulating, I'll take this kind of performance any day of the week
Art!! 😃
