John Kenneth White
@jkennethwhite.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus, Catholic University. Author of Grand Old Unraveling. Columnist for The Hill.
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"For an organization that spent untold millions over decades to influence national politics on a single life issue, the response to real terror in our streets and government-driven deprivation of basic needs has been embarrassingly inadequate." #RebuildMyChurch www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...
What is American Catholicism in this moment of political crisis?
U.S. bishops have spent untold millions to influence national politics on abortion, but their response to real terror in our streets and government-driven deprivation of basic needs has been embarrass...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"For an organization that spent untold millions over decades to influence national politics on a single life issue, the response to real terror in our streets and government-driven deprivation of basic needs has been embarrassingly inadequate." #RebuildMyChurch www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...
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Some good news from Kansas. apnews.com/article/redi...
Kansas Republicans drop push to enter nation's widening redistricting battle
Top Kansas Republicans have given up for now on forcing a special session of the Legislature to redraw the state’s U.S.
apnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Some good news from Kansas. apnews.com/article/redi...
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“Jesus says very clearly: At the end of the world, we are going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner? Did you receive him, and welcome him, or not?” #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #WelcomeTheStranger www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope: ‘Spiritual rights’ of migrant detainees must be respected - Vatican News
In remarks to journalists in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo calls for “deep reflection” on the treatment of migrants in the United States, urges
www.vaticannews.va
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
“Jesus says very clearly: At the end of the world, we are going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner? Did you receive him, and welcome him, or not?” #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #WelcomeTheStranger www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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It’s a beautiful fall day for @houserepublicans.bsky.social to come back to work and restore benefits for the American people.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It’s a beautiful fall day for @houserepublicans.bsky.social to come back to work and restore benefits for the American people.
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If you have requested a mail-in ballot, remember to bring it to your local county election bureau or a Dropbox by 8 p.m. Tuesday!
If you’re voting in-person, remember to head to the polls tomorrow.
Make sure your voice is heard!
If you’re voting in-person, remember to head to the polls tomorrow.
Make sure your voice is heard!
November 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you have requested a mail-in ballot, remember to bring it to your local county election bureau or a Dropbox by 8 p.m. Tuesday!
If you’re voting in-person, remember to head to the polls tomorrow.
Make sure your voice is heard!
If you’re voting in-person, remember to head to the polls tomorrow.
Make sure your voice is heard!
My latest column in The Hill: thehill.com/opinion/cong...
thehill.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My latest column in The Hill: thehill.com/opinion/cong...
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So great to join Hunterdon County Democrats in Flemington, New Jersey this morning to knock doors and get out the vote for @mikiesherrill.bsky.social and Democrats up and down the ballot.
With three days until Election Day, we’re doing the work to turn out every vote.
With three days until Election Day, we’re doing the work to turn out every vote.
November 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
So great to join Hunterdon County Democrats in Flemington, New Jersey this morning to knock doors and get out the vote for @mikiesherrill.bsky.social and Democrats up and down the ballot.
With three days until Election Day, we’re doing the work to turn out every vote.
With three days until Election Day, we’re doing the work to turn out every vote.
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"It is for us, and above all, for us believers to convert instruments of hatred into instruments of peace; it is for us to point out the sinister operations that revolve around money & arms trafficking; it is for us to have the courage to look up toward the stars of Abraham's promise." #PopeFrancis
November 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"It is for us, and above all, for us believers to convert instruments of hatred into instruments of peace; it is for us to point out the sinister operations that revolve around money & arms trafficking; it is for us to have the courage to look up toward the stars of Abraham's promise." #PopeFrancis
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Trump is more interested in hurting people he sees as his enemies than working for all Americans.
He should stop weaponizing SNAP, follow the federal court order, and ensure millions of Americans don't go hungry.
I am tired of Donald Trump dividing our country.
He should stop weaponizing SNAP, follow the federal court order, and ensure millions of Americans don't go hungry.
I am tired of Donald Trump dividing our country.
November 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Trump is more interested in hurting people he sees as his enemies than working for all Americans.
He should stop weaponizing SNAP, follow the federal court order, and ensure millions of Americans don't go hungry.
I am tired of Donald Trump dividing our country.
He should stop weaponizing SNAP, follow the federal court order, and ensure millions of Americans don't go hungry.
I am tired of Donald Trump dividing our country.
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A decade or two too late, McConnell. You can’t pave the way for this regime and then finger wag when they remove the mask of respectability.
A remarkable smackdown by Sen Mitch McConnell (R-KY) of the head of the Heritage Foundation
October 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A decade or two too late, McConnell. You can’t pave the way for this regime and then finger wag when they remove the mask of respectability.
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The two National Guardsmen, Captain Dylan Blahna and Staff Sgt. Demi Palcock, said they want no part of deploying to Chicago to help deport immigrants. "This is not what we signed up for...Look at 1930s, 1940s Germany.
MORE OF THIS!!!!
#NationalGuard
MORE OF THIS!!!!
#NationalGuard
October 31, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The two National Guardsmen, Captain Dylan Blahna and Staff Sgt. Demi Palcock, said they want no part of deploying to Chicago to help deport immigrants. "This is not what we signed up for...Look at 1930s, 1940s Germany.
MORE OF THIS!!!!
#NationalGuard
MORE OF THIS!!!!
#NationalGuard
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"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...
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.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"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...
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"An economy that kills, that excludes, that starves, that concentrates enormous wealth in a few to the detriment of the many, that multiplies poverty and grinds down salaries, that pollutes, that produces war, is not an economy: It is just an emptiness, an absence, a sickness." #PopeFrancis #Hope
October 31, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"An economy that kills, that excludes, that starves, that concentrates enormous wealth in a few to the detriment of the many, that multiplies poverty and grinds down salaries, that pollutes, that produces war, is not an economy: It is just an emptiness, an absence, a sickness." #PopeFrancis #Hope
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And there it is...
Announcement is made that the US House will be out of session again next week
They haven't voted since mid-September
Announcement is made that the US House will be out of session again next week
They haven't voted since mid-September
October 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
And there it is...
Announcement is made that the US House will be out of session again next week
They haven't voted since mid-September
Announcement is made that the US House will be out of session again next week
They haven't voted since mid-September
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Republicans cut food assistance by $187 BILLION so they could give tax breaks to billionaires.
The reality is, they don't believe in fighting hunger.
Well, I do. It impacts millions of Americans across the country, urban and rural.
We must protect SNAP.
The reality is, they don't believe in fighting hunger.
Well, I do. It impacts millions of Americans across the country, urban and rural.
We must protect SNAP.
October 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Republicans cut food assistance by $187 BILLION so they could give tax breaks to billionaires.
The reality is, they don't believe in fighting hunger.
Well, I do. It impacts millions of Americans across the country, urban and rural.
We must protect SNAP.
The reality is, they don't believe in fighting hunger.
Well, I do. It impacts millions of Americans across the country, urban and rural.
We must protect SNAP.
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“We spoke with multiple people who had been in there for more than a week, more than 10 days – in the same clothes, not having bathed and no access to toothbrushes." #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks
Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention length
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
“We spoke with multiple people who had been in there for more than a week, more than 10 days – in the same clothes, not having bathed and no access to toothbrushes." #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Donald Trump is bringing our economy to its knees.
Instead of addressing the affordability crisis, Trump is jacking up costs with his reckless tariff taxes and his health care cuts.
Instead of addressing the affordability crisis, Trump is jacking up costs with his reckless tariff taxes and his health care cuts.
"Nearly half of all states are now in or near recession, inflation is climbing, and the labor market is losing strength."
Ranking Member @congressmanboyle.bsky.social on the Fed's decision to cut interest rates amid Trump's economic chaos:
Ranking Member @congressmanboyle.bsky.social on the Fed's decision to cut interest rates amid Trump's economic chaos:
October 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Donald Trump is bringing our economy to its knees.
Instead of addressing the affordability crisis, Trump is jacking up costs with his reckless tariff taxes and his health care cuts.
Instead of addressing the affordability crisis, Trump is jacking up costs with his reckless tariff taxes and his health care cuts.
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"Consider, human, the wondrous dignity that God has conferred upon you. He formed and created your body in the image of his Beloved Son and your soul in his own likeness. And still, all creatures under heaven know, serve, and obey their Creator better than you do." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi
October 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"Consider, human, the wondrous dignity that God has conferred upon you. He formed and created your body in the image of his Beloved Son and your soul in his own likeness. And still, all creatures under heaven know, serve, and obey their Creator better than you do." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi
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I've been back here in DC ready to work, but Republicans haven't opened the House of Representatives in over a month.
Why have they been off on vacation instead of working to end this shutdown and stop millions of Americans from losing their health care?
Why have they been off on vacation instead of working to end this shutdown and stop millions of Americans from losing their health care?
October 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I've been back here in DC ready to work, but Republicans haven't opened the House of Representatives in over a month.
Why have they been off on vacation instead of working to end this shutdown and stop millions of Americans from losing their health care?
Why have they been off on vacation instead of working to end this shutdown and stop millions of Americans from losing their health care?
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Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
October 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
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Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."
"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."
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"Trump tariffs force cancellation of Hudson Valley's long-running Christmas festival. Organizers said tariffs 'tripled' costs of stars and lights..."
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Trump tariffs force cancellation of Hudson Valley’s long-running Christmas festival
Organizers of Rhinebeck’s Sinterklaas festival said tariffs pushed up prices more than 300%.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"Trump tariffs force cancellation of Hudson Valley's long-running Christmas festival. Organizers said tariffs 'tripled' costs of stars and lights..."
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www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...
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Pepper ball rounds Trump immigration agents are firing at protesters:
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October 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Pepper ball rounds Trump immigration agents are firing at protesters:
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/v...
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