Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Officially Announcing My New Book, BACKSLIDE A call to reclaim a faith and a nation after the Christian turn against democracy.

@prri.org 's President and Founder @robertpjones.bsky.social is releasing an important new book this September that speaks to this crucial moment in our nation's democracy. Check out the book announcement below and be sure to follow Robby's Substack!
www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/officially...

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Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.

I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

Negotiating with himself to loot the US Treasury

How Trump's Fight with Pope Leo XIV May Hurt Republicans in the Midterms Reminder: Catholics are NOT white evangelicals.

Checkout this great new analysis from @robertpjones.bsky.social on how Trump's attacks on Pope Leo may have implications for the midterms, using @PRRI's American Values Atlas.

www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/how-trumps...

How did the US run out of missiles in Iran? We spend $800-billion-a-year on defense—but the US stockpiles barely lasted through a six-week-war.

In a war zone, US navy ships are running out of food for sailors.

USS Gerald Ford, the world’s most advanced aircraft carrier, was sidelined by a laundry fire.

And now the U.S. is running low on missiles. Despite a military budget of *$900 BILLION* a year.

Read this by @vermontgmg.bsky.social.

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Are More Americans Attending Church? New Study Questions The Hype. There is a shift happening among young adults, but it’s not Gen-Z men becoming more religious, as some suggest. Instead, young women are leaving the church in droves, bringing them on par with their m...

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Gen Z women are losing their religion, new study finds (RNS) — Women have long been more religious than men. But a new study finds the gap closing as more young women under 30 identify as “none” — unaffiliated.

Happy to be featured in this new piece about Gen Z women and religion in @rns.org, discussing @prri.org 's latest Census of American Religion.

religionnews.com/2026/04/15/s...

Amid quarrel with pope, Trump strips Miami charity of funding to house migrant kids The move comes amid rising tensions between the administration and American Catholics.

Trump is angry at the Pope, so he has canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

For much more, please check out the new report!

Among Democrats, 23% identify as white Christians, 34% as Christians of color, 8% as non-Christians, and 34% as religiously unaffiliated. Over two-thirds of Republicans identify as white Christians (68%), 16% as Christians of color, 4% as non-Christians, and 13% as religiously unaffiliated.

Young men (ages 18-29) have not become more religious in the past year; young women (18-29) have steadily grown less likely to identify with a religious tradition since 2013, when 29% identified as religiously unaffiliated. In 2024, that figure grew to 40%, and in 2025, it increased to 43%.

There is also little evidence that Americans are returning to church in higher numbers. Roughly one in four Americans attend church weekly in 2025 (26%) — a figure that remains unchanged from 2024. In 2013, 31% of Americans attended church weekly.

Despite media stories to the contrary, religious affiliation among Americans has changed little in the past year.

Check out @prri.org 's 2025 Census of American Religion, released today, providing the most accurate picture of American religious demographics. The big takeaway? There is no evidence supporting a religious revival in America, despite the headlines!
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She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

She reportedly parted ways with Bezos with a jaw-dropping $38.3 billion in Amazon stock. Their divorce settlement included a 4 % stake in the online retail giant or 19.7 million shares. Under the agreement, Bezos kept 75% of the couple's Amazon stock, along with voting control of her shares. Jan 11, 2023

MacKenzie Scott has given away over $19 billion in the last 5 years and experts say she's 'changed entire fie... MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2 billion in donations as 2024 comes to a close.

MacKenzie Scott, worth $41.1 billion, is on a philanthropic tear and has donated an estimated 46% of her net worth.

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started.

Just. Tax. Them.

New Data: Most Republicans Now Hold a Favorable View of Christian Nationalism.
(@robertpjones.bsky.social)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260414-top...

At its core, the political economy of scholarship was never supposed to rely on ~$50k from a smelting fortune. Institutions have hollowed out their support, the feds have done the same, and all that's left is inadequate private funding.

Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking if He’s the Antichrist The Iran war and a series of social media posts, including one depicting Trump as Jesus Christ, have some conservative commentators and fans suspecting the president may be the antichrist.

Whether its "desecrating Easter" or attacking the pope and now posting an AI image of himself as Jesus, Trump is doing a lot to piss off Christians lately.

So much so that many of them are now asking: Is Trump the Antichrist?

w/ @makenakelly.bsky.social

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Continued evil by ICE.👇

CORRUPT AF

Imagine if jill Biden did this

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Company backed by Trump sons looks to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran The sales drive by Florida-based Powerus – which announced a deal last month to bring aboard Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. – positions the company to potentially benefit from a war that their father...

The President starts a war with Iran.

Now, his family looks to profit from it.

The corruption is enough to make you sick.

Attorney General Pam Bondi Pushed Out The Morning Buzz: April 3, 2026

Today's Morning Buzz 📰
- Bondi to depart as AG
- Reactions to SCOTUS overturning Colorado's ban on conversion therapy
- Mississippi lawmakers pass bill that criminalizes distributing abortion pills
- Trump compares himself to Jesus at White House Easter lunch

More: prri.substack.com/p/attorney-g...

Hegseth forces out Army’s top general Gen. Randy George’s ouster is the latest in a series of clashes between the Pentagon chief and the service’s senior leadership, and comes amid the ongoing war in Iran.

Hegseth is a menace to our national security

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A country where Flag Officers are dismissed on the whim of a president or a secretary of Defense -- and where it's tolerated by those in a position to stop it -- is a country in decline