U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to deport migrant Kilmar Abrego for a second time but does not plan to send him back to El Salvador, where he was wrongly deported in March. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/27/world/trump-abrego-trial-deport/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #venezuela #elsalvador #us #republicans #donaldtrump #immigration #kilmarabregogarcia #humanrights
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"We’re living in a moment where cruelty is not only normalized but celebrated. …
Beware of any Christian movement that acts like the world is filled with enemies to be destroyed rather than full of neighbors to be loved.
Such movements have nothing to do with Jesus."
~ Benjamin Cremer
I usually try to avoid linking to X or Facebook, but this is worth sharing.
#Trump#Republicans #cruelty#war #violence #immigrants#MaskedThugs#ChristianNationalists #evangelicals
Marine Le Pen's far-right French party rebuffed an offer of support from the U.S. that came after a court barred her from running for office. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/25/world/politics/le-pen-far-right-french-us-support/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #marinelepen #france #us #donaldtrump #republicans
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Just a reminder that the #West destroyed #Iran ’s #progressive #democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, & installed a #dictatorship in his place.
The #US & #UK have been terrorizing that country for as long as any of us have been alive.
It’s sick.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
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#Stalin gave people #healthcare. #Liberals have been promising to give us healthcare since #FDR & have failed to deliver on that promise for 9 decades.
And when you dare get mad at them about this & bring this up, there's always some excuse why it can't ever be done.
Why am I supposed to believe after nearly a century that #Democrats will EVER follow through on this promise?
#Politics#Republicans#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#Trump#Biden#USA#Fascism
#Israel is the spear-tip of #Western #imperialism in the region, & #Netanyahu is now openly calling for #assassination & #regimechange in Iran. They want to destroy the country to extend their hegemony.
These people are murderous monsters, all of them.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
I cannot emphasize this enough, an #Israel / #Western #regimechange operation against #Iran would lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
We have seen this play out before, several times in the past decades.
Anyone who tries to justify this madness will have blood on their hands.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#Trump #JDVance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
Just a reminder that the #West destroyed #Iran ’s #progressive #democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, & installed a #dictatorship in his place.
The #US & #UK have been terrorizing that country for as long as any of us have been alive.
It’s sick.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
#Israel is the spear-tip of #Western #imperialism in the region, & #Netanyahu is now openly calling for #assassination & #regimechange in Iran. They want to destroy the country to extend their hegemony.
These people are murderous monsters, all of them.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
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As Randall Balmer has for some time now reminded us, the alliance of the US Catholic bishops with white Southern evangelicals predates the arrival of abortion on the scene as a major issue. That alliance began with opposition to the civil rights breakthroughs Democrats ushered in for people of color in the 1960s.
Abortion is a cover issue for the racism that lies beneath it all. And the authoritarianism….
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/
"There seems to be a growing gap between a Catholic community in the US that is becoming more conservative and a church leadership in Rome that is open to new ideas.
[Massimo] Faggioli believes that 'in some sense, this church is already in a situation of soft schism'. But he doesn’t think a full-blown schism is in the cards."
“'The real goal of [most] neo-traditionalist voices is not to break away and make their own small church,' he said. 'Their project is to win back the entire Catholic church, in the long term, to what they think is real Catholicism.'”
J. Oliver Conroy reports on the attempt of MAGA Catholics to buy the papacy now that it's up for bids again.
"Steve Bannon, perhaps the most public and inflammatory voice of rightwing Catholic discontent, has said he intends to organize a 'show of force of traditionalists' with confrontational 'wall-to-wall' media coverage. Most politicking, however, will take the form of quieter wheeling and dealing."
#Catholics#Republicans#MAGA#Bannon #papacy
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/maga-catholics-vatican-pope-conclave
"There seems to be a growing gap between a Catholic community in the US that is becoming more conservative and a church leadership in Rome that is open to new ideas.
[Massimo] Faggioli believes that 'in some sense, this church is already in a situation of soft schism'. But he doesn’t think a full-blown schism is in the cards."
As Randall Balmer has for some time now reminded us, the alliance of the US Catholic bishops with white Southern evangelicals predates the arrival of abortion on the scene as a major issue. That alliance began with opposition to the civil rights breakthroughs Democrats ushered in for people of color in the 1960s.
Abortion is a cover issue for the racism that lies beneath it all. And the authoritarianism….
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/
J. Oliver Conroy reports on the attempt of MAGA Catholics to buy the papacy now that it's up for bids again.
"Steve Bannon, perhaps the most public and inflammatory voice of rightwing Catholic discontent, has said he intends to organize a 'show of force of traditionalists' with confrontational 'wall-to-wall' media coverage. Most politicking, however, will take the form of quieter wheeling and dealing."
#Catholics#Republicans#MAGA#Bannon #papacy
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/maga-catholics-vatican-pope-conclave
Ryan Burge parses the data about the 2024 election and finds:
"The Catholic vote is clearly a Republican vote now."
But attributing the growing Catholic vote for Republicans (white Catholics have for some time voted GOP, but now non-white Catholics are moving in that direction) to the abortion issue is a red-herring, since "the share of Catholics who are truly pro-life is not that large."
~ Ryan Burge
https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/2024-election-post-mortem-catholics