The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Last tweet of the day. Do not f*ck with @teampelosiofficial.bsky.social

There it is

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

I hate telling this story, but when tear gas is in the news... telling always feels importantm

Tear gas is an abortifacient.

When I was tear gassed, we were trying for a baby.

The following day, I bled in a way I never have before. Like no period of my life before or since.

Horror movie stuff.

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Ah yes, the famous Biden census of 2020… when Donald Trump was President.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Not “ICE” changing license plates in a back lot.

They wouldn’t do that, would they? Maybe the authorities should look into this.

If it was about illegal undocumented immigrants, why is ICE showing up at courts?

If it was about undocumented immigrants taking welfare, why is ICE showing up at jobs?

If it was about undocumented criminals, why is ICE showing up at schools?

Why are they showing up at hospitals?

In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.

“if they can do this to a senator they can do this to anybody”

they already are doing it to everybody wtf do you think weve been saying

I dunno, but maybe Democratic members of Congress shouldn't go the White House picnic tonight and pretend everything's fine and dandy, unless and until Sen. Padilla gets a phone call apologizing for what happened from Donald Trump?

Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!"

And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.

i want a covid booster tbh

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social
will you be writing about this?

Donald Trump walks into a wall.

🧵 Pete Buttigieg said it best: “Budgets are moral documents.” So what does it say when Trump meets with House Republicans to push a budget that guts Medicaid and explodes the debt? If your rep promised to protect Medicaid or cut spending—now’s the time to remind them. Loudly.
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MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people?

P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes

M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process

Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media.
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏

Wondering why Emily Feiner was dragged out of Mike Lawler’s town hall by NY State Troopers?

She had the *audacity* to ask, “What’s your red line? When will you defend the Constitution you swore to uphold?” One question & she’s accosted.
Free speech?
Not under Lawler.
@emilyjaynef.bsky.social

Can a reporter ask Trump what the three branches of government are? And, when he can’t answer and calls them “not nice” ask again.

He’s destroying what he doesn’t know or care about. He solely cares about absolute power. He knows nothing else.

How'd I miss this message during trump's campaign? "You're buying too much cheap crap from China. Your kid doesn't need 30 dolls, OK? She'll have 2 dolls & they'll cost more. And egg prices aren't coming down, we'll cut all the services you depend on, & steal your SSN number. MAGA!"

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

Reuters poll: Trump approval

37% approve
57% disapprove

U.S. adults

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old American citizen born in the U.S., was jailed in Florida under a controversial state immigration law, even though he had a valid U.S. birth certificate and Social Security card. A judge confirmed both documents were real, but said she

Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.

Van Hollen Holds Media Availability at Dulles Upon Return from El Salvador YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

My Senator, @vanhollen.senate.gov gave a masterclass in cutting through Trump administration's lies & propaganda.

He exposed a chilling truth: they're paying a foreign country to detain people they illegally trafficked without due process.

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943