Kevin Clarke🍺

Chief Correspondent for America magazine ( @americamag). Send pitches/story ideas for Dispatches to [email protected].

[Kevin Clarke🍺 @ClarkeAtAmerica]

Many T.P.S. holders have been working and building lives in the United States for years. Figuring out how to live underground may be preferable for many over a return to Haiti or Syria to rebuild lives in those troubled countries.
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The unsung story behind the growth and impact of the Catholic Church in Africa https://t.co/4AfCXu0w5Q

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Is the World Cup distracting Mexico from news of crimes and disappearance? https://t.co/MBOGLXklY7

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How churches can respond to Europe’s historic heatwave https://t.co/UxYGcu0G0l

[Kevin Clarke🍺 @ClarkeAtAmerica]

Figuring out how to live underground may be preferable for many over a return to Haiti or Syria to rebuild lives in those troubled countries. That will no doubt be especially true of T.P.S. holders with U.S.-born children.
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Venezuela’s Catholic Church leads post-earthquake humanitarian efforts https://t.co/bqnx078tE0

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Argentine Catholic priests join hunger strike to protest Milei government https://t.co/u3fTRcnd6u

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Oh snap! Bill Kristol!

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“Moreover, it turned out that Vance mentioned this report after being told by the Springfield city manager that it was baseless. Apparently, Vance’s Christian conversion never got to the ‘Thou shalt not bear false witness’ part.”

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[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

So military troops under the direct control of Trump and Hegseth will be on the streets of our nation’s capital for the rest of Trump’s term. The rationale—they’re here to help with a crime emergency—is laughable. But of course the real reason is ominous.

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[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

The GOP has opposed broad-based, global tariffs since WW2… because they don’t work. Like Reagan, we should use them against individual countries who are unfair. But, global tariffs are bad economics and bad for American consumers.

[Kevin Clarke🍺 @ClarkeAtAmerica]

“Finish the Job”

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

Finish the job. Make sure Iran never has the ability to threaten Americans again.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Yet another attempt at bullying from the worst free speech president of my lifetime. Perhaps since Wilson.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Speaking off-the-cuff at lunch with 200 poor people from the Diocese of Rome, and welcoming them to the Pontifical gardens of Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo XIV says:

“I didn’t prepare a speech because I am hungry. I’m hungry for justice, I’m hungry for authentic charity, I’m hungry for a Church that knows how to opens its doors, welcomes and looks after everyone.”

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Kristol's framing here is worth sitting with directly because it inverts the argument this administration has spent a decade making. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is the version of the American Dream Republicans claim to be defending. Thirty five years of work. A business that gave other men jobs. Three sons pushed through college specifically so they would not have to labor in the sun the way he did. He was in the process of legally regularizing his status, filling out paperwork, providing fingerprints, doing the thing every immigration hardliner insists people should do instead of staying undocumented.

He did the thing, and his own government shot him anyway, then went silent. More than six hundred open misconduct complaints are currently sitting with the DHS inspector general, a number large enough that this case is not an aberration inside that count, it is one more entry in a pattern the government's own watchdog office is already tracking. Kristol's line lands because it is not really about Lorenzo at all. It is about what it says when the people running the country cannot manage a fraction of the discipline, humility, or accountability that a construction worker who never wanted his own children to see him in pain managed for three decades without anyone asking him to.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“When socialism finally came to America it wasn’t the lefty, Scandinavian version with universal health care and free college. Oh no. Instead, we got a command economy à la Chinese communism and it was ushered in by the right.” https://t.co/dpMaT5DP7N

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UPDATE: The Trump administration told U.S. employers on July 10 that work permits of Haitians with Temporary Protected Status will now expire on July 24, extending the cut off by two weeks.

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[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

And as I wrote yesterday: "It is Lorenzo's family who are calling for a full and honest investigation into why a peaceful man was killed while driving to work by agents of our government...And it is our government that is stonewalling and covering up."
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Ya think?

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Exclusive: A survey of CIA analysts reveals concern that political pressure is undermining intelligence work during the Trump administration, @shaneharris reports. https://t.co/Sbcv5cDNr0

[America Magazine @americamag]

Will the Trump administration accept a more humane policy for Haitian migrants?

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[America Magazine @americamag]

“The Other Bennet Sister” on BritBox places Mary Bennet in the spotlight and follows her own journey towards finding happiness.

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[America Magazine @americamag]

New documentary brings 'farm boy' martyr Blessed Stanley Rother to wider Church

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