The Catholic Church and the Trump Administration Are Not Getting Along The religion’s call to radical love can’t countenance this much cruelty.

Pope Leo: "Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

“I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” Judge Mark L. Wolf writes on his decision to resign from the federal bench. “President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes”:
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I

JD's family has spent $35M on vacations. Kash Patel used a $60M FBI jet to go on a date. Trump spent $98M to golf for 24% of the days of this term. All our tax dollars. But you think single moms getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?

The unemployment rate for 20- to 24-year-olds is 9.2%, its highest level since 2016. #EconSky

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Rebels Post Videos of Mass Killings in Darfur as the World Watches After the fall of El Fasher to the R.S.F., observers fear for the next target in the war.

Humanitarian and foreign-affairs professionals agree that what is happening in Darfur now is on a scale unlike anything seen in the conflict so far. Why is so little being done? https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-fall-of-el-fasher

The funny thing is that on the WaPo site, if you click on the comments section, it gives you an AI-generated summary of people's responses that is basically like "They all disagree with the paper's right-wing turn"

Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’ Ticket sales at about 40% unsold compared with before president made himself chair of US performing arts center

Ticket sales for the Washington National Opera have collapsed since Trump took over the Kennedy center

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

America’s Future Is Hungary MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Venezuelans begin fleeing U.S. as protections end and threat of war looms TPS expired for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans on Friday. Many are shuttering business, selling homes and boarding planes, or scrambling to find a way to stay.

“These are people who did everything by the book, paid taxes, had no criminal records, opened businesses and contributed to their communities...now they have become collateral damage in this cruel, unjust and inhumane political game.”

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The subject of those quotes had been on his mind for a while.

Here's a prescient passage Carl Sagan wrote one year before that last interview, in his 1995 book “The Demon Haunted World.”

Replace "crystals" and "horoscopes" with "cell phones" and "Facebook" and it could have been written yesterday.

Incredibly destructive.

Terror Returns to Darfur Only American pressure can stop the killing in Sudan.

"However terrible the war and its consequent famine in Sudan is today, it can still get much worse"

From Alex de Waal, who knows Sudan better than anyone

www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

Most of these guys would rather hoard more than give back just a little so more people could buy their products. Truly an all out assault on the middle to upper middle classes in a service based economy.

No warrant. Invaded a daycare for somebody with documents. Horrific stuff.

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the hubris of virginia republicans thinking they had a shot in a state brimming with current and former fed workers whose lives have been made miserable by the leader of the GOP

From the President’s hometown daily: “There are about 160,000 Palm Beach County residents — roughly 1 in 10 — that rely on SNAP to afford meals and are now facing food insecurity ahead of Thanksgiving, said Sachs, www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/l...

It's been 42 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.

Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

None of them know anything about the pardon for the guy who made Trump a fortune in crypto. bsky.app/profile/atru...

At Gatsby’s gold soirée, Trump lifts his glass—
To health for the rich, the poor can kiss ass.

He dines on their rations, proclaims it “so fair!”
While dining on caviar and cutting their care.

If only there were some way to identify the shooter there in the headline

Voters divided on midterms despite broad Trump disapproval, poll finds Most Americans disapprove the president’s handling of top issues, and a majority say he has gone too far in exercising his powers.

3 in 5 Americans disapprove of Trump's job performance, the highest level since after the Jan. 6 attack. Americans disapprove even of his handling of issues historically favorable to him like immigration, crime and the economy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

Dissecting the Trump Administration’s Effort to Circumvent the War Powers Resolution for Boat Strikes Analysis of Trump administration's claim that War Powers Resolution's regulating US troops in "hostilities" does not apply to boat strikes.

Today, Trump-Hegseth run out of time on War Powers Resolution and boat strikes.

DOJ has come up with a theory why the law does not apply.

It's wrong, and per this article, several GOP Senators and a Trump cabinet member flat rejected that theory when Obama tried it in 2011.

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"I am worried about how quickly basic democratic rules and norms have been weakened."

Former President Barack Obama discusses democratic backsliding and defines the stakes ahead of the 2025 election.

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