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Pope Francis' remarkable rebuke of JD Vance and Trumpism lays bare an essential truth: Trump is overseeing a massive and systematic abandonment of obligation to the global poor, and Vance's theological obfuscation can't make that disappear.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1914...

LANSING — Local governments and universities unwilling to help enforce federal immigration laws could face financial penalties under a state House resolution approved Tuesday.

UN warns HIV could surge if U.S. ends support — Ending U.S. support for HIV programs risks a global increase in infections, warns the UN AIDS agency.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/un-aids-agency-says-hiv-infections-could-soar-worldwide-if-u-s-drops-support

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency

I work in the office carrying out the government purge. Here’s what I want you to know.

Just saw this posted on FB and had to share.

JFK on why he founded USAID.

“The economic collapse of those free but less-developed nations which now stand poised between sustained growth and economic chaos would be disastrous to our national security, harmful to our comparative prosperity and offensive to our conscience”.

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I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period.

I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt.

But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

"If you find yourself siding with the felonious billionaire over the bishop, it might be time to take a good, hard look in the mirror."

Their faith lets them worship power while they’re offended by mercy. It’s not Christianity they’re practicing.

Wrote about the upcoming Supreme Court case on South Carolina's Medicaid program, a manufactured Texas lawsuit filed to Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, and the 2015 hidden-camera propaganda videos that connect them, for @slate.bsky.social:

He won’t say whether he would follow unlawful orders as secretary of defense. That’s terrifying.