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WOW🔥: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor publicly HUMILIATED Brett Kavanaugh in front of an entire university audience — and she didn't hold back for a single second.
Sotomayor, who grew up in a Bronx housing project, raised by a single mother after losing her father at age 9, called out Kavanaugh by name at the University of Kansas for having absolutely no clue what it means to live paycheck to paycheck.
The issue? Kavanaugh signed off on emergency orders allowing immigration agents to detain workers at bus stops, car washes, and street corners — then had the nerve to write that these detentions are "typically brief" and that most people "promptly go free."
Sotomayor wasn't having it.
"This is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesn't really know any person who works by the hour," she said. "Those hours that they took you away, nobody's paying that person. And that makes a difference between a meal for him and his kids that night and maybe just cold supper."
Read that again. A missing hour of work means a child goes hungry that night. And Brett Kavanaugh — son of a lawyer, son of a judge, product of elite private schools, buddy of the man who appointed him — doesn't understand that. Can't understand that. Because he never had to.
This is what happens when you stack the nation's highest court with people who have never stood in a line at a food bank. Who have never skipped a meal so their kid didn't have to. Who have never been snatched off a street corner on the way to a job that feeds their family.
Sotomayor earned her seat the hard way. Kavanaugh was handed his amid credible allegations of sexual misconduct that his patron in the White House bulldozed through anyway.
One justice knows what poverty looks like. The other can't even imagine it. And yet they have equal votes on the future of millions of working Americans.
That's not justice. That's a rigged system wearing robes.
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV enrages MAGA by boldly calling for aerial bombardment to be BANNED FOREVER as Trump carries out a bombing campaign of mass murder in Iran.
This kind of moral leadership is utterly foreign to Republicans...
“Airplanes should always be carriers of peace, never of war. No one should be afraid that threats of death and destruction might come from the sky,” Leo stated during a meeting with Italian airline ITA Airways.
“After the tragic experiences of the 20th century, aerial bombings should have been banned for ever. Instead, they still exist, and technological development, positive in itself, is being placed at the service of war. This is not progress, it is regression," he added.
While he didn't mention Trump by name, the reference was clear. Trump began his illegal war against the people of Iran by blowing up a girl's school, killing at least 175 innocent people. The American and Israeli terror campaign has continued apace, targeting civilian buildings and crucial oil infrastructure in an ever-escalating series of war crimes.
Pope Leo has not been shy about condemning the war. This past weekend he once again called for a ceasefire and decried the suffering and death inflicted by the conflict as a "scandal to the whole human family."
“We cannot remain silent in the face of the suffering of so many people, the defenseless victims of these conflicts. What hurts them hurts the whole of humanity,” said Leo. “I strongly renew my appeal for us to persevere in prayer, so that hostilities may cease and the way may finally be paved for peace.”
As it so often is after Pope Leo says something anathema to MAGA, social media is now abuzz with Republicans calling him a "communist" and demanding that he shut his mouth. Meanwhile, those same conservatives are incapable of even explaining why Trump is waging this war — unsurprising since Trump himself is constantly changing his story. For our money, we'll side with Pope Leo.
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Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation."
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV enrages MAGA by warning against "propaganda" being spread in the midst of the war and demands that the "suffering" of the victims be shown to the world.
Trump has well and truly met his match...
"In the dramatic circumstances of war, information must guard against the risk of turning into propaganda," Leo wrote on X. "It is every journalist's duty to verify the news, so as not to become a megaphone for power. They must show the suffering that war always brings to populations, which entails showing the face of war and recounting it through the eyes of victims."
The remarks come in the wake of Pope Leo's call for a ceasefire in the Middle East because, as he said, "violence can never lead to the justice, the stability and the peace that peoples are awaiting." He has also referred to Trump's illegal Iran War as "atrocious violence."
The pope's condemnation of war propaganda comes amidst a growing effort by the Trump administration to tamp down on unflattering coverage of the conflict. MAGA FCC Chair Brenda Carr has even floated the possibility of going after the broadcast licenses of networks that run "fake news," which translates to any news that Trump doesn't like. The White House wants no coverage of the death that they're inflicting on innocent men, women, and children in Iran and they want no mention of the military bases that Iran is destroying in return. The pope rejects that idea.
Under Leo's leadership, the Catholic Church has become one of the most stalwart bulwarks against MAGA fascism, with a particular focus on the treatment of migrants and the need for peace. The world is lucky to have him during these dark times.
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Robert De Niro on Donald Trump: "He’s a punk. He’s a dog. He’s a pig. He’s a con. A BS artist. A mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Doesn’t do his homework. Doesn’t care. Doesn’t pay his taxes. He’s an idiot."
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