John D

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Whose side are you on?

Taco Fell

Well, threatening to unleash the US military against peaceful Americans in a dystopian flouting of law *has* gotten everyone to stop talking about Donald being on Jeffrey Epstein's list.

A Permanent Stain on Our History The Trump administration’s embrace of nativism is as shameful as it is self-destructive.

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Stop Saying This About Nonprofits: 3 Myths We’re Done With Nonprofits aren’t hobbies. They’re not scams. And they’re definitely not second-rate businesses.They are essential, society-shaping institutions led by bold, brilliant changemakers. In this article, G...

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The Culture-War Furies Behind Trump’s Film-Tariff Plan The president doesn’t have the authority to impose tariffs on movies produced abroad, but he still wants to be the right’s designated culture commissar.

'Trump’s unquenchable thirst for maximum pop-cultural renown and increased control over the culture industry is working mostly to transform the old right-wing culture-war hustle into an engine of economic and civic destruction.'

Via @benschwartz.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Chicago is on to something.

The bronzer is looking rather Wonka lately.

Opinion | Pope Francis Was a Champion, if an Imperfect One, for L.G.B.T.Q. People He helped L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics feel more at home in their church. And that meant their families and friends also felt more at home.

Pope Francis Was a Champion, if an Imperfect One, for L.G.B.T.Q. People www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

*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.

POPE FRANCIS DIES AT 88 Pope Francis, history's first pontiff from the Global South, has died at age 88 following a hospitalization for double pneumonia, setting the stage for a high-stakes secretive election to determine hi...

BREAKING: Pope Francis, history's first pontiff from the Global South, has died at age 88 following a prolonged battle with double pneumonia, setting the stage for a high-stakes secretive election to determine his successor.

Rest in Peace Pope Francis. Pray for us. www.vaticannews.va/en.html

Should the Cross ever be about guilt and shame?

Why is no one talking about the millions of Americans the House GOP wants to uninsure? Thank Punchbowl.

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Thank you for your commitment to justice and truth.

I’m sure this visit will be use by the Trump Regime as propaganda.

First-of-its-kind sensory room at church welcomes neurodivergent parishioners Fr. Jim Worth first learned about the benefits of sensory rooms after attending a panel discussion organized by Together We Bloom, a local nonprofit dedicated to serving the needs of neurodivergent ch...

My parish in New Jersey. Radical Gospel Hospitality. First-of-its-kind sensory room at church welcomes neurodivergent parishioners www.ncronline.org/news/first-i...

Vance’s favorite demagogic tactic, which he brings to every argument, is to reshape his opponent’s position in an absurdly extreme and preposterous way so he gets to argue with a fictitious person who doesn’t exist. It would take one phone call from Trump - everyone knows that.

This Ordeal is the Passion - Catholic Standard

Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar of Washington, DC.
"It is time now for you to reclaim your conscience. What you are doing is worth nothing if it is stained with unjust cruelty. That is not what America stands for." www.cathstan.org/voices/this-...

The Useful Idiot’s Useful Idiot Meet Steve Witkoff.

The Useful Idiot’s Useful Idiot
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Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top.

#HandsOff2025

Seeing these enormous crowds gathered outside to protest Donald Trump, I am reminded of how Donald had to move his inauguration *inside* the Capitol because he was afraid (rightly) that the crowds outside would be too small.

#HANDSOFF #NYC

Caligula Nero Kim Jong Trump is about to win another fake championship on his own course while the economy tanks.

It would be funny if not so tragic.

A Way in the Wilderness Lent is a season of reflection—but also a season to prepare for the work ahead, to sweep aside everything that has not worked and find new ways through the desert.

"It has become clear to me in the past few months that the immigration legal system has dropped even the slightest pretense of its orientation toward justice."

@olivalejandra.bsky.social: 'A Way in the Wilderness'
www.commonwealmagazine.org/lent-reflect...