I've often wondered why atheists seem to better exemplify the values and ethics that the Christian churches espouse, supposedly in the name of some dude that may or may not have lived 2,000 years ago. And I can't help but think that for many of them it's all just an act, that they don't actually believe a word of it.
#religion #atheism #cruelty #fascism #jesus #christianity #church #capitalism #poverty #socialism #anarchism #community #resist
In a statement entitled "Trump’s Inferno of Hate Is Intensifying," Peter Wehner warns,
"When a man with the president’s personality feels besieged and abandoned, he becomes more desperate and more dangerous. ...
Heraclitus taught that character is destiny. In Trump’s case, his sociopathy is destiny."
#Trump #Venezuela #war #narcissism #cruelty #sociopathy #amorality
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In a statement entitled "Trump’s Inferno of Hate Is Intensifying," Peter Wehner warns,
"When a man with the president’s personality feels besieged and abandoned, he becomes more desperate and more dangerous. ...
Heraclitus taught that character is destiny. In Trump’s case, his sociopathy is destiny."
#Trump #Venezuela #war #narcissism #cruelty #sociopathy #amorality
/6
We wrote for Jacobin about our recent panel with three U.S. journalists who were aboard the Gaza aid flotillas.
They described facing assaults and threats from Israeli soldiers — and said the U.S. government did little to help.
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/gaza-journalists-flotilla-israeli-abuse
"In Istanbul, Wilder noticed that while representations from other embassies “were there to receive their citizens,” there was one exception: The US. Similarly for Schnall, there was no US consular presence in sight when she arrived in Jordan, and the FCC organized her trip back to France, where she resides.
In mid-October, DRAD, FPF, and four other press freedom groups sent a letter to US secretary of state Marco Rubio criticizing the lack of official support for US journalists.
“It is the responsibility of the State Department to advocate for American journalists. Yet, the State Department has made no public condemnation of the unlawful detention of these reporters,” the coalition said. The State Department did not respond to our letter.
Neither the State Department nor the US embassy in Jordan responded to our multiple requests for comments for this article."
"The lawsuit says that🚨people detained at the fac are being held in💔abhorrent, “inhumane” conditions."
"DHS claimed in court proceedings that nearly 2 weeks worth of surveillance ft from #ICE’s Broadview #Detention Cen has been “IRRETRIEVABLY DESTROYED” & may not be able to be recovered. ACLU of IL: "Hoping #DHS can explain."
The #lawless crime spree continues, every agency takes their cues from the #Felon.
#Sabotage #DOJ #Cruelty #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Protest #USPol
https://www.404media.co/two-weeks-of-surveillance-footage-from-ice-detention-center-irretrievably-destroyed/
"The lawsuit says that🚨people detained at the fac are being held in💔abhorrent, “inhumane” conditions."
"DHS claimed in court proceedings that nearly 2 weeks worth of surveillance ft from #ICE’s Broadview #Detention Cen has been “IRRETRIEVABLY DESTROYED” & may not be able to be recovered. ACLU of IL: "Hoping #DHS can explain."
The #lawless crime spree continues, every agency takes their cues from the #Felon.
#Sabotage #DOJ #Cruelty #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Protest #USPol
https://www.404media.co/two-weeks-of-surveillance-footage-from-ice-detention-center-irretrievably-destroyed/
More than half of white Catholics voted for Trump three times. Until the US Catholic bishops acknowledge their own huge complicity in bringing us Donald Trump — since who has been leading those white Catholics all these years after all? — their statement about immigration will ring rather hollow for many of us, welcome as the words are.
Trump's vice-president Vance and his border czar Homan are, after all, Catholics.
The agenda of ultra-rich right-wing Catholics in the US has for years now been to make the Catholic church in the US an arm of the Republican party, with the bishops fully cooperating with this, and to attack and undermine Catholic social teaching and its preferential option for the poor.
Until the bishops face their complicity in what Trump is doing, many of us will listen to anything they say with muted attention.
The agenda of ultra-rich right-wing Catholics in the US has for years now been to make the Catholic church in the US an arm of the Republican party, with the bishops fully cooperating with this, and to attack and undermine Catholic social teaching and its preferential option for the poor.
Until the bishops face their complicity in what Trump is doing, many of us will listen to anything they say with muted attention.
And at the same meeting at which the US bishops made their immigration statement, they elected as their president a culture-war hero, Coakley of Oklahoma City, who is thickly allied with the hard-right Catholic organization Napa Institute, a vehicle by which ultra-rich right-wing Catholics in the US use their money to try to combat the Vatican's emphasis on social teaching. Coakley was openly contemptuous of Pope Francis.
More than half of white Catholics voted for Trump three times. Until the US Catholic bishops acknowledge their own huge complicity in bringing us Donald Trump — since who has been leading those white Catholics all these years after all? — their statement about immigration will ring rather hollow for many of us, welcome as the words are.
Trump's vice-president Vance and his border czar Homan are, after all, Catholics.
Over half of US white Catholics (and of white Christians across the board) voted for the horrors and cruelty the Trump administration is visiting on immigrants. Those white Catholics cast their votes with the same US bishops who recently issued their immigrant statement as their pastoral and moral leaders.
"But [the bishops] didn’t talk about what got us here. Over 50 percent of Catholics were okay with this, with the rhetoric of dehumanizing immigrants. They’re not talking about how we engage with those issues in the political sphere.”
Holler is talking about the fact that over half of white Catholics voted for what Trump and Stephen Miller are now doing to immigrants.
"The brief statement accurately describes Church teaching and lays out the crisis at hand, specifically mentioning profiling, vilification, and family separation. But it avoids any mention of President Donald Trump, the administration, or ICE."
As Katie Holler, a founder of the Dorothea Project, a group of Catholic women committed to highlighting Catholic social teaching, says,
Reminding us that money can't buy us love, Jared Yates Sexton writes,
"I doubt that I have to explain the significance here, but, out of an abundance of caution, let’s go. The world’s richest man had to instruct his in-house AI program to give him the simulation of a woman looking at him and promising that she will always love him."
#Trump #Republicans #SNAP #hunger #food #children #cruelty #ElonMusk
/11
https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/money-cant-buy-you-love-fascist-oligarchs
Reminding us that money can't buy us love, Jared Yates Sexton writes,
"I doubt that I have to explain the significance here, but, out of an abundance of caution, let’s go. The world’s richest man had to instruct his in-house AI program to give him the simulation of a woman looking at him and promising that she will always love him."
#Trump #Republicans #SNAP #hunger #food #children #cruelty #ElonMusk
/11
https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/money-cant-buy-you-love-fascist-oligarchs
"Fox News just gave Melania Trump its 'Patriot of the Year' award while millions of Americans struggle to pay rent and afford groceries. Trump points to the stock market as proof of prosperity, ignoring that it only reflects the fortunes of billionaires. Working people face the opposite reality—a K-shaped economy where one line soars while the other plummets."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Republicans #SNAP #hunger #food #children #cruelty
/9
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/saturday-afternoon-news-updates-11825
Kate Manne comments on "the Getty Image that told a thousand words about the current administration," a picture capturing Trump's response when a man collapsed in the oval office yesterday:
"That face: the profound indifference of a man who truly does not care about other human beings. And it’s an encapsulation of empirical findings that explain so much about the current dystopian mess we’re in as a country."
