Tim Caslin
@timcaslin.bsky.social
Dad. Theology teacher. I love Notre Dame, Georgetown, Jesuit education, Ignatian spirituality, and all things Irish.
Reposted by Tim Caslin
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
Reposted by Tim Caslin
With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.
A midwife says of the aid cuts in Afghanistan: 'No one prioritizes women's lives.'
With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.
www.npr.org
April 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.
Reposted by Tim Caslin
Threatening to impeach judges who check your power is proof you need judges checking your power.
March 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Threatening to impeach judges who check your power is proof you need judges checking your power.
Reposted by Tim Caslin
When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful.
When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability.
Know the truth.
When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability.
Know the truth.
March 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful.
When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability.
Know the truth.
When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability.
Know the truth.
Reposted by Tim Caslin
BREAKING: The Trump regime has blatantly defied the court order. www.bbc.com/news/article...
US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order
Their arrival comes less than 24 hours after a federal judge blocked a law Trump planned to use for the deportations.
www.bbc.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
BREAKING: The Trump regime has blatantly defied the court order. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reposted by Tim Caslin
There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Elon Musk says he wants to “eliminate” programs like Social Security and Medicare: “Entitlements... That’s the big one to eliminate”
March 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Reposted by Tim Caslin
Once these lands are gone, they're never coming back.
Once this beauty has been destroyed, it is forever lost.
We're watching the pillaging of the heritage of the United States by billionaires and oligarchs in real-time
www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...
Once this beauty has been destroyed, it is forever lost.
We're watching the pillaging of the heritage of the United States by billionaires and oligarchs in real-time
www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...
Trump Quietly Plans To Liquidate Public Lands To Finance His Sovereign Wealth Fund
President Donald Trump’s executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund requires that the United States come up with heaps of cash quickly, which may make selling out and selling off public lands i...
www.americanprogress.org
February 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Once these lands are gone, they're never coming back.
Once this beauty has been destroyed, it is forever lost.
We're watching the pillaging of the heritage of the United States by billionaires and oligarchs in real-time
www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...
Once this beauty has been destroyed, it is forever lost.
We're watching the pillaging of the heritage of the United States by billionaires and oligarchs in real-time
www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...
Reposted by Tim Caslin
This is evil. Pure evil.
February 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This is evil. Pure evil.
Reposted by Tim Caslin
I am the great-grandson of a man who led his family out of the shtetl to a strange land in search of a better life. I am the grandson of the three-year-old boy on that journey. My English name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan (אֶלְחָנָן)—after the warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.
My Open Letter to Elon Musk
From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.
www.democracydocket.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I am the great-grandson of a man who led his family out of the shtetl to a strange land in search of a better life. I am the grandson of the three-year-old boy on that journey. My English name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan (אֶלְחָנָן)—after the warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.
Reposted by Tim Caslin
This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
a stammering Tom Homan on AOC: "She's the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress."
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
Reposted by Tim Caslin
Stop and think about what he’s saying here.
When he tells you who he is, believe him.
When he tells you who he is, believe him.
February 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Stop and think about what he’s saying here.
When he tells you who he is, believe him.
When he tells you who he is, believe him.
Reposted by Tim Caslin
The head of the Catholic Church's global charity arm has blasted the Trump administration's decision to gut foreign aid as "reckless" and lamented that it will likely "kill millions of people and condemn hundreds of millions more to lives of dehumanizing poverty." bit.ly/4175kYd
February 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The head of the Catholic Church's global charity arm has blasted the Trump administration's decision to gut foreign aid as "reckless" and lamented that it will likely "kill millions of people and condemn hundreds of millions more to lives of dehumanizing poverty." bit.ly/4175kYd
Reposted by Tim Caslin
Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.
Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.
Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
Reposted by Tim Caslin
“This is a constitutional crisis we are in today,” Sen Murphy said. And “the people get to decide how we defend the United States of America.”
Exactly. We need more of this from Democratic leaders.
Exactly. We need more of this from Democratic leaders.
Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."
February 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“This is a constitutional crisis we are in today,” Sen Murphy said. And “the people get to decide how we defend the United States of America.”
Exactly. We need more of this from Democratic leaders.
Exactly. We need more of this from Democratic leaders.
Reposted by Tim Caslin
Jesuit Priest 👇🏽
February 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Jesuit Priest 👇🏽
Reposted by Tim Caslin
February 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Reposted by Tim Caslin
This morning, Democracy Docket members received my take on the end of old era, the beginning of a new one. It is time to litigate aggressively and reject the old norms.
Sign-up now to receive this and all Democracy Docket's premium content. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
Sign-up now to receive this and all Democracy Docket's premium content. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
February 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This morning, Democracy Docket members received my take on the end of old era, the beginning of a new one. It is time to litigate aggressively and reject the old norms.
Sign-up now to receive this and all Democracy Docket's premium content. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
Sign-up now to receive this and all Democracy Docket's premium content. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
Reposted by Tim Caslin
This is a national emergency:
February 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This is a national emergency:
Reposted by Tim Caslin
Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):
1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*
2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything
3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can
4. Citizens march en mass
1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*
2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything
3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can
4. Citizens march en mass
February 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):
1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*
2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything
3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can
4. Citizens march en mass
1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*
2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything
3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can
4. Citizens march en mass
Reposted by Tim Caslin
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
Reposted by Tim Caslin
Sisters of Mercy in letter to Bishop Budde: “You spoke faithfully, expressing love and concern for the most vulnerable among us, proclaiming the Gospel in its most clear form. You did not hesitate to speak truth to power.” www.sistersofmercy.org/news/letter-...
January 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Sisters of Mercy in letter to Bishop Budde: “You spoke faithfully, expressing love and concern for the most vulnerable among us, proclaiming the Gospel in its most clear form. You did not hesitate to speak truth to power.” www.sistersofmercy.org/news/letter-...
Reposted by Tim Caslin
Bipartisanship at the expense of the poor and the marginalized is not unity.
It is a joint venture of the powerful in destroying the common good.
Unity requires solidarity.
It is a joint venture of the powerful in destroying the common good.
Unity requires solidarity.
January 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Bipartisanship at the expense of the poor and the marginalized is not unity.
It is a joint venture of the powerful in destroying the common good.
Unity requires solidarity.
It is a joint venture of the powerful in destroying the common good.
Unity requires solidarity.
Reposted by Tim Caslin
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
January 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Reposted by Tim Caslin
Epic courage here.
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Epic courage here.
Reposted by Tim Caslin
Jesuit Prayer today is beautiful: from John Henry Cardinal Newman:
“ God has created me to do Him some definite service;
He has committed some work to me
Which He has not committed to another.
I have my mission-
I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.
“ God has created me to do Him some definite service;
He has committed some work to me
Which He has not committed to another.
I have my mission-
I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.
January 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Jesuit Prayer today is beautiful: from John Henry Cardinal Newman:
“ God has created me to do Him some definite service;
He has committed some work to me
Which He has not committed to another.
I have my mission-
I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.
“ God has created me to do Him some definite service;
He has committed some work to me
Which He has not committed to another.
I have my mission-
I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.