All men and women, especially Christians, are called to fix their gaze on those who suffer, on the pain of the lonely, and on those who are emarginated for various reasons, for without them we cannot build a just society. Only together can we build communities of solidarity capable of caring for everyone, in which wellbeing and peace can flourish for the benefit of all. Caring for the humanity of others helps us to live our own lives to the full.
Summer 2024: Orbán skipped meeting President Biden and went straight to Mar-a-Lago.
The day before, he met with Steve Bannon and the head of the Heritage Foundation.
They're coordinating an authoritarian playbook across borders and American midterms are the next chapter. 🧵⬇️
Kash Patel refused to deny that the FBI is buying up Americans' location data. This is a shocking end run around the 4th amendment and exactly why we need to pass real privacy reforms NOW.
The Washington Post reports a predictable game plan: WH will declare an emergency (Chinese interference), to manipulate the US midterm elections. Strategy seen 100s of times previously among wannabe authoritarians. See https://t.co/eGGXsHdrMr
"...the White House is circulating a 17-page draft executive order claiming China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting. eg to mandate voter ID and ban mail ballots." https://t.co/2kTjeXr6xm
The latest data just released from the Varieties of Democracy project estimates that in the United States, the 100-point Liberal Democracy Index peaked at .85 in 2008, slid 10 points under Trump 1.0, recovered slightly after J6, and then plummeted to .57 in 2025 under Trump 2.0, reflecting the largest one-year fall in American history. Data and definitions here: https://t.co/dsQO4liOMU
Sen. Warnock: 8.2 million people registered to vote in Georgia, the Republican Secretary of State found 20 instances of noncitizens who were registered, and only 9 attempted to vote. The SAVE Act would disenfranchise 150,000 Georgians for every instance of a noncitizen voting in the last decade
"The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history," one of the world's top democracy researchers says in a new report. https://t.co/jOIZ1Or2AM
One of the most successful deceptions of our time was getting many Americans to fear diversity more than racism, equality more than misogyny, democracy more than fascism, immigrants more than authoritarians, the poor more than corrupt billionaires, and empathy more than cruelty.
Hey MAGA…they lied to you about Hunter Biden and Burisma. And they did it with Russia’s help because TrumpRussia wasn’t a fucking hoax. The resistance was right and we tried to warn you for a decade and you called us deranged.
Former Trump administration official William Wolfe admits that he and his fellow Christian nationalists intend to gain power and impose their morality upon everyone: "Frankly, yes, we are going to impose it upon you. If you don't like it, I'm sorry." https://t.co/aVTXKOlZWd
Joshua Haymes & Brooks Potteiger (Pete Hegseth's pastor) pray imprecatory psalms against James Talarico: "I pray that God kills him. Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ ... If it would not be within God's will to do so, stop him by any means necessary."
@conservmillen “Some professions should be sex segregated” author concludes.
Not because all men are child sexual predators — vast majority are not — but because “average” man is more likely to be a child sexual predator than a woman is.
So restrict individual rights based on probabilities?
@MissyPurcell Agreed. He may not have been diagnosed with a learning disability, but his ignorance is astounding and perpetual. Many brilliant leaders are dyslexic!
God help parents of transgender children — and trans children themselves — who he relentlessly attacks, but who can’t speak up.
@rcobooth@voxdotcom Excellent piece. ADF — with Heritage, and the Family Policy Alliance state-based groups — is methodically undermining civil rights and funding pseudoscience. Flush with $, they’ve gone global. Progressives don’t seem to have nearly the same $, longterm strategy or network.
Losing our leading position in medical innovation is one of the biggest losses for America — all thanks to Trump trying to “own the woke” universities and NIH scientists and public health experts.
We are destroying our future and our children’s futures. Funding medical research and should be one of the highest priorities of our generation. Yet we are decimating and dismantling it all while diseases keep rising. Let’s remember who did this.