Matthew Johnson

This has been coming from the beginning. All major democracy-supporting NGOs and foundations have their legal complaints already drafted. And in time, perhaps not even much time, they will win their cases. What is needed most in the meantime is courage. Keep saying what you think, doing what you do.

And those who say “FU” win. See: Chicago.

Lesson: fight. Don’t give an inch. Don’t be afraid.

Two different statements here on Susan Collins from two Maine Democrats in the conversation for her Senate seat:

I love Chicago.

Obama gave Tom Homan an award in 2015 for deportations.

ICE is not "good" under Democrats. It is just worse under Republicans. The agency needs to be dismantled.

We’ll chat in a few weeks (I’m your new primary contact!) and helping folks get connected to seminarians and guest preachers is on my list.

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)

news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

Yep. And what tax? Federal corporate tax? County property tax? What are we even talking about it?

Truly imagine if Mamdani had used the word “Shylock.”

It would have quite literally destroyed his career and every org and leader calling him out would be making this into a month long news cycle.

Trump? Hardly a peep.

When you accept antisemitism from the president, you aren’t fighting it.

Can a dem doing a talking filibuster? Or does the vote they just took preclude that?

A great thread about the wide and deep coalition of religious people who are taking the good news of inclusive love, compassion, and justice seriously.

MAGA Rage Suddenly Takes Unnerving Turn as Trump Plummets in New Polls As MAGA figures vent over Trump’s budget bill hitting major obstacles amid awful new polls for Trump, a journalist and careful observer of MAGA explains why this is a particularly fraught moment.

Striking: Trump's budget bill is now polling in 20s and 30s.

"It’s astonishing how underwater it is," says @sarahposner.bsky.social. Rs haven't even "tried to hide" that it takes from poor to give to "megarich."

On the pod, Sarah is great on Trump's big poll slide:
newrepublic.com/article/1973...

Examples: Withhold unanimous consent. Filibuster all things (talking filibuster every day.) vote 100% against all nominations. Blue slip hold all judicial nominations.

It’s not business as usual. Don’t act like it.

So . . . Why does anything in the senate pass with unanimous consent? Why is there not constant filibuster? Don’t comment. Don’t write a letter. Take action and don’t stop.

Faith groups say House Republicans' probe into immigration work violates their religious freedom (RNS) — The Homeland Security Committee named the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Charities USA among those under scrutiny.

NEW: A GOP-led House investigation is targeting 200+ groups accused of fueling Biden's "historic border crisis" by helping immigrants.

But list includes several faith groups and *entire denominations*, and some are calling the probe a violation of religious liberty. religionnews.com/2025/06/25/f...

Sexual Predators always seem to have each others’ backs.

There's no declaration of war, and no AUMF that covers this. Entering this war is wrong on the merits; we had a perfectly peaceful way to address Iran's nuclear program. It's also unlawful. A democratic republic should not be able to enter a war of choice on one man's say-so.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Popping in here quickly to say that the courts do not have first or final say. Ever. Trans people [of all ages] deserve every single thing that everyone else does. The illegitimate court is illegitimate.

By a 52-44 margin, Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling immigration. When directly asked about deportations, again 52% disapprove of Trump's actions, only 42% approve.

43% say the federal response to ICE protests in LA has been too aggressive, 17% not aggressive enough, 25% just right. 2/

It’s so so so good

And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.

We had 2.5K in Rockford IL which is t in the spreadsheet yet

What a contrast:

On the one hand, one grandiose spectacle in the nation's capital, a panorama of propaganda put on by an aspiring autocrat.

On the other hand, thousands of assemblies of free citizens across the nation, authentic celebrations of the proposition that here the people rule.

@durbin.senate.gov ???? You up?

Brand-new polling from YouGov out this AM finds Trump's actions re: LA underwater. Double-digit disapproval on sending in Marines.

This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive.

today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

“I want to make a special appeal to soldiers, national guardsmen, and policemen: each of you is one of us. The peasants you kill are your own brothers and sisters. When you hear a man telling you to kill, remember God’s words, ‘thou shalt not kill.’”

Óscar Romero, El Salvador, March 23, 1980.

Why work hard when the world is falling down around you? When competence is devalued and idiots rule?

Unitarian Universalism is a liberal and liberating faith grounded in love and how love calls us to live with courage, generosity, integrity, solidarity, and participate in the motion of the holy. We are pluralistic and draw on many religious and secular sources to find wisdom for how to live well.