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Pope Francis’s Stunning Rebuke of JD Vance Exposes MAGA’s Dark Soul The vice president took a stab at theology to defend the administration’s rank cruelty. Then a higher authority weighed in.

Pope Francis' remarkable rebuke of JD Vance and Trumpism lays bare an essential truth: Trump is overseeing a massive and systematic abandonment of obligation to the global poor, and Vance's theological obfuscation can't make that disappear.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1914...

LANSING — Local governments and universities unwilling to help enforce federal immigration laws could face financial penalties under a state House resolution approved Tuesday.

Ew. Yes. Someone did this!?

UN warns HIV could surge if U.S. ends support

UN warns HIV could surge if U.S. ends support — Ending U.S. support for HIV programs risks a global increase in infections, warns the UN AIDS agency.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/un-aids-agency-says-hiv-infections-could-soar-worldwide-if-u-s-drops-support

ABA It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform. Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity. We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit, and social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few. But it is wrong. And most Americans recognize it is wrong. It is also contrary to the rule of law. The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair. We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law. We stand in that familiar place again today. And we do not stand alone. Our courts stand for the rule of law as well.

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

@michigandems.bsky.social @mihousedems.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency

I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know. We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else.

I work in the office carrying out the government purge. Here’s what I want you to know.

Just saw this posted on FB and had to share.

JFK on why he founded USAID.

“The economic collapse of those free but less-developed nations which now stand poised between sustained growth and economic chaos would be disastrous to our national security, harmful to our comparative prosperity and offensive to our conscience”.

Support Canada products!! Give them a try!!

I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period.

I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt.

But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

Trump's twisted values: Pardoning Jan. 6 rioters and denying babies citizenship | Opinion President Donald Trump wasted no time showing Americans what he and his Republican Party value in America and its citizens.

"If you find yourself siding with the felonious billionaire over the bishop, it might be time to take a good, hard look in the mirror."

Their faith lets them worship power while they’re offended by mercy. It’s not Christianity they’re practicing.

The GOP Plot to Bankrupt Planned Parenthood Republicans don't need Congress to hobble Planned Parenthood.

Wrote about the upcoming Supreme Court case on South Carolina's Medicaid program, a manufactured Texas lawsuit filed to Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, and the 2015 hidden-camera propaganda videos that connect them, for @slate.bsky.social:

I’m a Marine. I Can’t Get One Part of the Pete Hegseth Hearing Out of My Head. It’s time to prepare for the worst-case scenario under Trump.

He won’t say whether he would follow unlawful orders as secretary of defense. That’s terrifying.