Rev. Kathy Tew Rickey

Pardon Me? Trump's abuse of the presidential pardon is undermining the rule of law

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Is it stating the obvious that one reason Trump is wooing Mamdani is to keep him from turning Trump Towers into public housing? (And wouldn’t be awesome if Mamdani did?)

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Deportation without due process is abduction. Transporting abductees to another country is human trafficking. Trafficked people in prison is a concentration camp.

"Hope will never be silent." --Harvey Milk

"You gotta give them hope," Milk said. Proud to know Cleve Jones, who was a close friend and aide of Harvey's, and others who carry on his legacy in San Francisco and beyond.

Harvey Milk would've been 95 today. If.

Okay folks, if you’re wondering, ICE operates under administrative law. They are not part of the judiciary nor enforcers of criminal law. If they say they have a search warrant, it’s likely NOT sanctioned by a judge or court of law.

Noem Gets Epically Schooled By Dem Senator After She Proves She Has No Clue What 'Habeas Corpus' Is The incompetence is off the charts.

The incompetence is off the charts.

I ask, where are the writs when I read of high profile cases of individuals detained for WEEKS without being charged or arraigned? This protection applies to every BODY with feet on U.S. soil.

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TLDR: Election of Cardinal Prevost, a critic of conservative politics, may signal Rome’s concern that America’s ideology of exceptionalism has infected religious institutions and leaders, effectively silencing critique of and resistance to fascism.

Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism During the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, where bishops, archbishops, and abbots convened in 1884 to, among other issues, discuss the establishment of the Catholic University of America, the Arch...

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This is the meaning of the lines, "First They Came For..." As George Takei says: "the poem is not that long, folks."

Too many examples of disregard for the rule of law take place daily and most are coming from the Executive while the legislature remains unmoved and mute. While abuses accumulate, the fabric of our free society frays at the edges (the margins) degrading the whole of our well-being.

Civics 101: Three Branches of Government - Legislative, Executive, Judicial - created as a system of checks and balances on political power. Disregard of the judiciary and rule of law erodes our democracy and our freedom.

Another crack in the foundation of democracy as the discretion of the judiciary is undermined.

DOJ Indicts A Judge On Tuesday, the Justice Department’s indictment against Wisconsin state Judge Hannah Dugan was made public.

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There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.

Regarding my previous repost: if we can’t laugh at the absurdities du jour, despair will win. Humor is transcendent.

“Hold on, Leon. Some guy named Pete is texting me about Yemen…”

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Joyce Vance on 47’s justification for using the Alien Enemies Act to circumvent due process.

“Our systems go to great lengths, sometimes protecting people whose views we vehemently disagree with or giving due process rights to violent criminals, in order to ensure that all of us have those rights available to us when we need them. That’s what’s at stake here;* this is about our rights too.”

Please bring your papers. We have a table outside of Williams Sonoma. If you’re not a quarter Cherokee, we’re sending you back.

Reading the book, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Published in 1993, her dystopian vision was eerily prescient.

Trump holding a sheet showing Tesla pricing with talking points.

Encouraging your cult...er...base to buy a $60K - $100K car when they are upset at the high price of eggs is a level of disconnect a President shouldn't have towards their constituents.