Andy Barnett

We are interested in developing a regular overpass protest. This would involve:

Creating appropriately sized signage

Finding a safe location to stand and park

Recruiting sufficient members

Selecting dates and times

If you are interested in participating or assisting, contact us.

A definite escalation by the diocese.

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.

Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

It’ll stop when we stop it.

Three scotus justices per district , 39 total, with 20 year terms. No single judge should have generational impact. Potus nominates two and the congress selects one after hearings. Random panels that can be appealed to the full court.

Our 249-year-old system -- two-party presidentialism -- has sometimes worked in spite of itself due to favorable conditions, un-codified norms, & a few periodic fixes.

That run is clearly over. I argue below that we need a multiparty democracy with the legislature supreme and a limited executive.

We’re citizen not customers.

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”

My kids’ school is on lockdown. Because of ICE. On fucking Halloween.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

In recent years, many young people have approached the faith through social media, successful programs and popular online Christian witnesses. The danger is that a faith discovered online is limited to individual experiences, which may be intellectually and emotionally reassuring, but never “embodied.” Such experiences remain “disembodied,” detached from the “ecclesial body.”

why would he come for online trads like this

Hell, Michigan - Wikipedia

Just as scary. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%2C...

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

But it just may be a lunatic you’re looking for.

So I have a Friday story for you. It’s one I promised to tell before. The themes are “seek help when you need it” and “communicating with family is important” but also “pay attention to how your coms work.”

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Editorial: As a nation grows sick and the rich grow richer, Catholics must act Millions of Americans face an imminent health care crisis. Yet hope is faith in action. And the time for Catholics to act is now.

"Human dignity demands that every person have access to health care — not as a commodity, but as a fundamental right flowing from the sanctity of human life. The common good requires that we protect the vulnerable first, not reward the wealthy." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...

Republicans want to starve children to pressure Democrats into gutting healthcare.

How do we know?

Mike Johnson just admitted it.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Lots of “main character syndrome “.

That smile says "people are going to be giving me, the Vicar of Christ, sports jerseys for the rest of my time on earth, and that is not a problem I thought I would have in my papacy."

Shock Video Shows ICE Agent Assaulting Woman Who Asked If He’s A Good Christian Hundreds protested Tuesday at an ICE facility in southwest Colorado after agents detained two children on their way to school.

This is ugly. But the reason this lady was protesting is even worse. ICE thugs detained two children and their father on their way to school. One child appears to have been beaten in detention, and no one seems to know where the 12-year-old girl is right now. The family had been seeking asylum.

Now send the Chicago native a Packer jersey.

Just a reminder that Antifa is not a real organization but the Proud Boys are. The Oath Keepers are. Patriot Front is. The KKK is. Anyway, enjoy your day.

Poverty and hunger in America are a political choice.

I found it easier to understand Speake Mike Johnson once I realized he's not just a "flawed Christian."

He is the new Roy Cohn, another duplicitous closet case always eager to advance the agendas of genuinely awful people.

Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

I sure do miss CBS. But, it’s dead to me.

No Kings. We the people are sovereign.

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” From Measure for Measure (Shakespeare)
We can not give into doomscrolling or settle for the easy defeatism so common on social media. We will protest, will will advocate, we will fight.

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I see a lot of doomerism. "This doesn't matter. They are unstoppable." To paraphrase Le Guin - Their power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
This is our task.