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Public facing historian & theologian. Focusing on Catholic Social Doctrine, immigration advocacy, & Hx of slavery & the Catholic Church.
"If you want peace work for justice!" Paul VI
"If you want peace work for justice!" Paul VI
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Renditions to a foreign prison to serve life sentences with absolutely zero legal basis.
www.axios.com/2025/04/09/k...
www.axios.com/2025/04/09/k...
Migrant detainees should be in El Salvador prison "for the rest of their lives," Noem says
The detainees were arrested and deported to a foreign, maximum-security prison without being given a court hearing.
www.axios.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Renditions to a foreign prison to serve life sentences with absolutely zero legal basis.
www.axios.com/2025/04/09/k...
www.axios.com/2025/04/09/k...
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These bills would add unreasonable bureaucratic hurdles, set unrealistic deadlines to submit petitions, ban important quality control measures, and threaten volunteers who collect petition signatures with felony charges and massive fines.
What is SB 7016? Florida bills would make gathering petitions for ballot initiatives tougher
Citing cases of fraud, two bills in the Florida Legislature would strongly restrict the process to get a citizen-led amendment on the ballot.
www.tallahassee.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
These bills would add unreasonable bureaucratic hurdles, set unrealistic deadlines to submit petitions, ban important quality control measures, and threaten volunteers who collect petition signatures with felony charges and massive fines.
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The cowards at Paul Weiss own this most of all, but they are joined in disgrace by Milbank, Willkie Farr, and Skadden. Trump suggested there are other firms that have agreed to debase themselves, but did not reveal the names.
Trump claims it’s proven that the 2020 election was rigged, citing the fact that law firms are giving him money
April 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The cowards at Paul Weiss own this most of all, but they are joined in disgrace by Milbank, Willkie Farr, and Skadden. Trump suggested there are other firms that have agreed to debase themselves, but did not reveal the names.
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$721m to help Louisiana protect itself from Natural Disaster, gone
Red Rural Recession.
www.fox8live.com/2025/04/10/l...
Red Rural Recession.
www.fox8live.com/2025/04/10/l...
Louisiana officials lament Trump administration’s cuts to FEMA grant programs for storm impacts
Hundreds of millions in expected project grants evaporating
www.fox8live.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
$721m to help Louisiana protect itself from Natural Disaster, gone
Red Rural Recession.
www.fox8live.com/2025/04/10/l...
Red Rural Recession.
www.fox8live.com/2025/04/10/l...
Every one should be primaried
These are the Democrats who voted for the SAVE act which will disenfranchise tens of millions of people, including married women who changed their maiden name:
Jared Golden (Maine),
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.),
Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Ed Case (Hawaii).
Jared Golden (Maine),
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.),
Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Ed Case (Hawaii).
April 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Every one should be primaried
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There’s an amusing Graham Greene novel called The Bomb Party in which an eccentric, incredibly wealthy man toys with wealthy Genevans to see just how much sycophancy they’ll perform and how much humiliation they’ll endure to satisfy their greed.
We’re living in that novel now.
We’re living in that novel now.
April 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
There’s an amusing Graham Greene novel called The Bomb Party in which an eccentric, incredibly wealthy man toys with wealthy Genevans to see just how much sycophancy they’ll perform and how much humiliation they’ll endure to satisfy their greed.
We’re living in that novel now.
We’re living in that novel now.
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Let me be clear: the so-called SAVE Act is not about security. It is not about election integrity. It is about suppression — pure and simple. This bill is a modern-day poll tax cloaked in patriotic rhetoric, and it represents one of the most dangerous assaults on the right to vote in a generation.
April 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Let me be clear: the so-called SAVE Act is not about security. It is not about election integrity. It is about suppression — pure and simple. This bill is a modern-day poll tax cloaked in patriotic rhetoric, and it represents one of the most dangerous assaults on the right to vote in a generation.
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
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there is no “epidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
there is no “epidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.
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Rep. Jayapal: "If you try to eliminate birthright citizenship, jail people for free speech, slash funding, use Cold War-era regulations to do mass deportations, then yeah. You're going to get nationwide injunctions. So maybe if you don't like the injunctions, stop doing the illegal stuff."
April 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Rep. Jayapal: "If you try to eliminate birthright citizenship, jail people for free speech, slash funding, use Cold War-era regulations to do mass deportations, then yeah. You're going to get nationwide injunctions. So maybe if you don't like the injunctions, stop doing the illegal stuff."
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On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
March 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
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I'm teaching a course on the history of anti-democracy in the US, and before each class I have to choose which of the 47 relevant things that have happened since last class to briefly mention before getting into the lecture on stuff that happened in the more distant past. This is very not normal.
It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.
April 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I'm teaching a course on the history of anti-democracy in the US, and before each class I have to choose which of the 47 relevant things that have happened since last class to briefly mention before getting into the lecture on stuff that happened in the more distant past. This is very not normal.
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REP. BRYAN STEIL: It shouldn't be lost on your viewers that George Soros has poured millions of dollars in
BOLDUAN: I looked up the numbers. Soros has donated $2 million. By comparison, Elon Musk has donated more than $19 million.
BOLDUAN: I looked up the numbers. Soros has donated $2 million. By comparison, Elon Musk has donated more than $19 million.
April 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
REP. BRYAN STEIL: It shouldn't be lost on your viewers that George Soros has poured millions of dollars in
BOLDUAN: I looked up the numbers. Soros has donated $2 million. By comparison, Elon Musk has donated more than $19 million.
BOLDUAN: I looked up the numbers. Soros has donated $2 million. By comparison, Elon Musk has donated more than $19 million.
Elias is doing excellent work to save democracy while Schumer, Jeffries, and much of the dem leadership is making concessions and rolling over for GOP fascism.
🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that the Pennsylvania date requirement for mail-in ballot violates the First and 14th Amendments. Counties cannot reject ballots from counting undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots.
A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!
A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!
🚨 Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections
Learn more here.
www.democracydocket.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Elias is doing excellent work to save democracy while Schumer, Jeffries, and much of the dem leadership is making concessions and rolling over for GOP fascism.
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Last year, the elite law firm Paul, Weiss started an initiative to fight extremist hate and violence through litigation. Now it's made a deal with the Trump administration to adopt “a policy of political neutrality with respect to client selection and attorney hiring."
Paul, Weiss Said It Felt ‘Called Upon’ to Launch a Center to Fight Hate. Now It Won’t Talk About It.
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Last year, the elite law firm Paul, Weiss started an initiative to fight extremist hate and violence through litigation. Now it's made a deal with the Trump administration to adopt “a policy of political neutrality with respect to client selection and attorney hiring."
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Why is it that we hear the loudest yelps about "antisemitism" from deployers of (((George Soros))) conspiracy theories?
Mike Johnson: "We've seen this movie before. George Soros groups and others literally pay protesters."
March 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Why is it that we hear the loudest yelps about "antisemitism" from deployers of (((George Soros))) conspiracy theories?
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DOJ, the nation’s chief law enforcement office, is sending a message that normalizes lawless conduct that harm our elections. Not only is DOJ not defending voting rights, it is poised to defend people who undermine the right to vote.
BREAKING: Trump Justice Department says it will “review” prosecution of Colorado election conspiracy theorist Tina Peters | The Colorado Sun
coloradosun.com/2025/03/03/t...
coloradosun.com/2025/03/03/t...
Trump Justice Department says it will “review” prosecution of Colorado election conspiracy theorist Tina Peters
A top Justice Department lawyer wrote Monday that the “review will include an evaluation of … whether the case was ‘oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice o...
coloradosun.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
DOJ, the nation’s chief law enforcement office, is sending a message that normalizes lawless conduct that harm our elections. Not only is DOJ not defending voting rights, it is poised to defend people who undermine the right to vote.
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This MF’er just brought Andrew Tate, a rapist and human trafficker, to Florida! 🤬
The hypocrisy is astounding!
The hypocrisy is astounding!
March 3, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This MF’er just brought Andrew Tate, a rapist and human trafficker, to Florida! 🤬
The hypocrisy is astounding!
The hypocrisy is astounding!
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The Army deleted my “Why I served” video where I talked about how I decided I wanted to attend West Point/join the Army after one of the cadets my family used to sponsor died in combat. Probably deleted because she was the first black woman to be CSM at West Point.
March 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The Army deleted my “Why I served” video where I talked about how I decided I wanted to attend West Point/join the Army after one of the cadets my family used to sponsor died in combat. Probably deleted because she was the first black woman to be CSM at West Point.
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Some churches send missionaries to the very countries they celebrate pulling US aid for food and medicine from…
WWJD
WWJD
March 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Some churches send missionaries to the very countries they celebrate pulling US aid for food and medicine from…
WWJD
WWJD
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WATCH: “Not even an hour!”
KANSAS Rep. Roger Marshall leaves his own town hall after voters on both sides of the aisle express concern about veterans being fired from their federal worker jobs.
KANSAS Rep. Roger Marshall leaves his own town hall after voters on both sides of the aisle express concern about veterans being fired from their federal worker jobs.
March 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
WATCH: “Not even an hour!”
KANSAS Rep. Roger Marshall leaves his own town hall after voters on both sides of the aisle express concern about veterans being fired from their federal worker jobs.
KANSAS Rep. Roger Marshall leaves his own town hall after voters on both sides of the aisle express concern about veterans being fired from their federal worker jobs.
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Hard not to think about how the majority of white women voted when you see a headline such as this: "Franchetti's firing has left the military without a single woman in a four-star general or admiral leadership position." www.military.com/daily-news/2...
No More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by Men
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint...
www.military.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Hard not to think about how the majority of white women voted when you see a headline such as this: "Franchetti's firing has left the military without a single woman in a four-star general or admiral leadership position." www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, signed on December 5, 1994, by Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
Ukraine agreed to eliminate all nuclear weapons on its territory. In return, the signatories provided Ukraine with security assurances, including:
Ukraine agreed to eliminate all nuclear weapons on its territory. In return, the signatories provided Ukraine with security assurances, including:
March 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, signed on December 5, 1994, by Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
Ukraine agreed to eliminate all nuclear weapons on its territory. In return, the signatories provided Ukraine with security assurances, including:
Ukraine agreed to eliminate all nuclear weapons on its territory. In return, the signatories provided Ukraine with security assurances, including:
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“Have you said thank you once? Just say thank you” is what abusers say.
March 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
“Have you said thank you once? Just say thank you” is what abusers say.
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