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Pope Francis lifted the world as he led the Church with his profound moral voice. As he returns to God, may his call to humility and concern for the least among us continue to resound.

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"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 20 hours ago • 1781 comments

This

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Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1316 comments

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

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"Everyone knew that Pete Hegseth did not possess the leadership qualities, background, or experience to be Secretary of Defense." (By @crgibs.bsky.social)

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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

submitted 2 days ago • 908 comments

Who could’ve foreseen that it would be a disaster to put an unqualified Fox weekend host with a drinking problem and sordid personal history in charge of the military

submitted 2 days ago • 658 comments

We could have been talking about $25K down payment assistance for new homeowners in a thriving economy right now, but here we are.

submitted 2 days ago • 359 comments

Rights of due process don't depend on our personal opinions of the accused. For example, I regard the January 6, 2021, criminals as insurrectionists and traitors - yet I am still glad that each and every one of them got a proper trial before they were convicted and sentenced.

submitted 3 days ago • 147 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY (from @BennettCartoons ) 🇺🇸 😕

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

Unemployment up. Stock market down. Mortgage rates up. Consumer confidence at worst levels since the Great Depression. Are we great again yet?

submitted 4 days ago • 774 comments

Kseniia Petrova fled political persecution from Putin and escaped to America. She’s a brilliant scientist—one of the most talented Harvard’s seen in 20 years. Now she’s in ICE detention, facing deportation while Trump turns the White House into an arm of the Kremlin. She should be released, NOW.

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Murray Osorio PLLC, counsel for Kilmar Abrego Garcia: "If the government believes there is a legitimate case to be made, it should present that case in a court of law … not on social media. But that cannot happen until Mr. Abrego Garcia is returned to the United States and given full due process."

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

Harvard rejected policy changes demanded by Trump — becoming the first university to directly refuse to comply with the regime’s demands. Other universities should take note. Every institution, group, firm, or individual that surrenders to Trump’s tyranny invites more of it.

submitted 4 days ago • 110 comments

Do they even read the files they post?

submitted 4 days ago • 599 comments

People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 697 comments

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 4 days ago • 289 comments

In today’s atmosphere, it’s obvious why a book warning of totalitarian censorship would be in the American Library Association’s list of most commonly challenged books

submitted 4 days ago • 441 comments

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

submitted 4 days ago • 1928 comments

This is the beginning and the end of it. #FascismGrowsInAmerica

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I don't understand how some folks are unable to see that the illegal disappearing of people is a class issue. The wealthy and well-connected get due process. The rest of us don't. This is part of the oligarchy, not a distraction from it.

submitted 4 days ago • 871 comments

You mean to tell me that the guy who facilitated the release of 5,000 TALIBAN SOLDIERS can't manage to get back the one guy he sent to El Salvador by mistake? I call bullshit.

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Judge Luttig is incredible.

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"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News

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Pam, are you willing to file a sworn declaration stating that Abrego Garcia is a “top MS-13 member”? Don’t worry, I’ll wait.

submitted 4 days ago • 78 comments

They should not be considered "astronauts" just for spending ten minutes in the upper atmosphere. We should honor real astronauts who went through a highly selective process, not these wealthy women who didn't. (NASA’s 2021 class had 12,000 applicants for 10 spots.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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Ending the government's free, easy-to-use tax filing service means giant tax prep companies get a big boost while working families pay more. That's what "efficiency" means to Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

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"More than 1,000 lawyers in 42 states have completed training in order to offer their services, organizers said." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/b...

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Quick point. Congress can use the spending fight in September (remember Chuck Schumer surrendered till then) to prevent a single dollar from being used to house prisoners in El Salvador.

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In today's edition of "Not A Drag Queen!" patch.com/florida/brad...

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U.S. Economic Policy Uncertainty Index soars to highest level in history 🚨 Congrats everyone, we did it 🥳🍾🫡

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‘Federal law prohibits the president from “directly or indirectly” telling the I.R.S. to conduct specific tax investigations.’ www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

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AOC: Some of the Republicans whose districts we visited just warned their leadership that they’re not sure they can vote for Medicaid cuts now. We’ve got them on their back foot. But our job is not done. We will rally every corner of the U.S. We will not stop until they actually vote no.

submitted 5 days ago • 348 comments

You are going to hear a lot of candidates pledge to ban stock trading by members of Congress because it's so popular. 86% support in one poll I saw. Consistent across parties. The trick is to hold them to that pledge.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Say it with us: Constitutional crisis

submitted 5 days ago • 217 comments

The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships. The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”

submitted 5 days ago • 386 comments

I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.

submitted 5 days ago • 2949 comments

I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

submitted 5 days ago • 569 comments

NEW: House leadership is attempting to shut down the only independent office that investigates misconduct and corruption in Congress. CLC and 19 partners sent a letter calling on House members to take action and save the Office of Congressional Conduct.

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“Sickening and heartbreaking” Someone who was at the Marge Greene town hall where folks who dissented were arrested/targeted/tased by police — who has voted for both parties — writes about what she saw 👇🏽

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Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

submitted 5 days ago • 1870 comments

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

submitted 6 days ago • 994 comments

Trump claims prices are “going down” on “almost all products” even with his tariffs. Has that been your experience? What have you noticed that is getting more expensive?

submitted 5 days ago • 141 comments

So, we're less than 90 days into this shit show and: - Grocery prices still high - Trillions in wealth lost because of dumb tariffs - People being snatched off the street and disappeared - Ukraine war still going - Thousands of veterans fired But at least they made trans people feel shitty, right?

submitted 5 days ago • 126 comments

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

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