Tim Caslin

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

A midwife says of the aid cuts in Afghanistan: 'No one prioritizes women's lives.' With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.

With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.

Threatening to impeach judges who check your power is proof you need judges checking your power.

When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful.

When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability.

Know the truth.

US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order Their arrival comes less than 24 hours after a federal judge blocked a law Trump planned to use for the deportations.

BREAKING: The Trump regime has blatantly defied the court order. www.bbc.com/news/article...

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.

Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

Trump Quietly Plans To Liquidate Public Lands To Finance His Sovereign Wealth Fund President Donald Trump’s executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund requires that the United States come up with heaps of cash quickly, which may make selling out and selling off public lands i...

Once these lands are gone, they're never coming back.

Once this beauty has been destroyed, it is forever lost.

We're watching the pillaging of the heritage of the United States by billionaires and oligarchs in real-time

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This is evil. Pure evil.

My Open Letter to Elon Musk From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.

I am the great-grandson of a man who led his family out of the shtetl to a strange land in search of a better life. I am the grandson of the three-year-old boy on that journey. My English name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan (אֶלְחָנָן)—after the warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.

This is why you fight these cowards.

The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.

Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.

He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

Stop and think about what he’s saying here.

When he tells you who he is, believe him.

The head of the Catholic Church's global charity arm has blasted the Trump administration's decision to gut foreign aid as "reckless" and lamented that it will likely "kill millions of people and condemn hundreds of millions more to lives of dehumanizing poverty." bit.ly/4175kYd

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.

Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

“This is a constitutional crisis we are in today,” Sen Murphy said. And “the people get to decide how we defend the United States of America.”

Exactly. We need more of this from Democratic leaders.

Jesuit Priest 👇🏽

Now we’re cooking!

Thank you for doing something, @schatz.bsky.social.

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This morning, Democracy Docket members received my take on the end of old era, the beginning of a new one. It is time to litigate aggressively and reject the old norms.

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Do something

This is a national emergency:

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):

1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*

2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything

3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can

4. Citizens march en mass

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

Sisters of Mercy in letter to Bishop Budde: “You spoke faithfully, expressing love and concern for the most vulnerable among us, proclaiming the Gospel in its most clear form. You did not hesitate to speak truth to power.” www.sistersofmercy.org/news/letter-...

Bipartisanship at the expense of the poor and the marginalized is not unity.

It is a joint venture of the powerful in destroying the common good.

Unity requires solidarity.

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Epic courage here.

They are becoming a really good team. Gritty win tonight. Hoya Saxa!

Jesuit Prayer today is beautiful: from John Henry Cardinal Newman:

“ God has created me to do Him some definite service;
He has committed some work to me
Which He has not committed to another.
I have my mission-
I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.

I really cannot imagine anyone could have handled the Northern Illinois loss — and everything that happened after — as well as Marcus Freeman did.

What a credit to his leadership and the mental/physical toughness of this Notre Dame team.

A wonderful prayer for the New Year and every day… “Lord, take me where you want me to go; let me meet who you want me to meet; tell me what you want me to say, and keep me out of your way.” - Fr. Mychal Judge, FDNY Chaplain (+September 11, 2001)
#NewYear2025 #PilgrimsOfHope

One of the lessons of the last month is that great wealth cannot buy courage but it can reveal cowardice.