Bernadette Foley

Semi-retired lawyer, some ROL work in Kosovo, Russia, Afghanistan, traveler, teacher. R/T are not endorsements.

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

Pope Leo shook the hands of each of these 20 migrants who just arrived to Europe during his visit to Lampedusa on July 4th, reminding everyone that all human life carries immeasurable worth. A powerful moment of compassion at Europe’s doorstep.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Hundreds of masked white nationalists marched on Washington DC waving Confederate flags and chanting anti-immigrant slogans on the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨URGENT: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in immediate danger, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and his lawyer warned Saturday, after a prison visit revealed the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital bearing fresh, severe injuries to his head, eyes, ears, and neck, so disfigured his own attorney initially struggled to recognize him.

🔹Attorney Nasser Odeh, who saw Abu Safiya Thursday at the underground Rakefet interrogation facility in Nitzan Prison, said he arrived shackled hand and foot, escorted by masked guards, struggling to breathe and speak, unable to sit upright, and repeatedly on the verge of losing consciousness.

🔹Abu Safiya told him that after his Supreme Court appeal was heard June 10, four or five guards entered his solitary cell at Ganot Prison and beat him with a hammer and batons, and that since his June 24 transfer to Rakefet he has been beaten daily, losing consciousness several times without receiving medical treatment.

🔹“This is the last time you will see me,” he told his lawyer. “They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving. This is the end.”

🔹PHRI notes the escalation in torture began directly after Abu Safiya challenged his detention in court. He has been held without charge since December 27, 2024, under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law.

🔹The group has appealed to Israel’s attorney general and prison service demanding his immediate transfer, an independent medical examination, and an urgent judicial visit “before it is too late.”

Photo: Amnesty International

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

Literary what Martha Stewart went to federal prison for and he just announces his kids are all guilty.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

The corruption is staggering in scale and scope, it doesn’t stop, and Republicans in Congress refuse to do any oversight because, as Mike Johnson admitted this week, they serve as a protection racket to cover up the crimes of the regime.

[HJN🌹 @HJNRose1]

@RonFilipkowski

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

This image is from today. A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white nationalists prepare to march on our nation's capital.

This is America's 250th anniversary. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

In 1290 all Jews were driven out of England. In 1306 they were expelled from France. In 1430 exiled from Germany, followed by Spain and Portugal. Boycotted in Italy, and time after time tossed out of every major European city.

After the centuries of expulsions, in 1492, Muslims (The Ottoman Empire) opened their doors for the Jewish. in the late 17th and 18th centuries, as the Ottoman Empire became less stable, Jews were finally allowed back into England after 366 years of total banishment.

After 1848, hundreds of thousands of Jews left Central Europe to escape rising nationalism and "pogroms" (anti-Jewish riots).

After WWI, Britain took control of Palestine from the Ottomans. From 1917 to 1939, Muslims (Palestine) opened their doors for the Jewish as usual.

In 2026, some Western politicians lecturing us (Muslims) on how to live peacefully with Jews!

Read some history.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

China added over 543 Gigawatts to their grid last year. 434 GW was renewables because they are faster to build. The U.S. added a paltry 53 GW. We are losing the “AI race” to China because these idiots hate green energy. This is suicide by stupid.

[Bernadette Foley @forestland6]

@Renk_tj @DrHananAshrawi UNRWA (largely a social services org) did not "fail" - it provided valuable services in food, health & education to refugees & people wrongfully detained within arbitrary boundaries. The failure was political, on the part of the Israeli government & the Int'l Community.

[Bernadette Foley @forestland6]

No respect for the office. No respect for the rule of law as a measured response and careful approach to the concept of ordered liberty. She's a joke, a very pathetic betrayal of what it means to be a US Attorney.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: U.S Attorney Jeanine Pirro announces U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn has been charged by a federal grand jury for pulling on sealant in the Reflecting Pool and faces 10 years in prison.

This is complete bullshit. Trump destroyed the pool. Send HIM to prison.

[Bernadette Foley @forestland6]

Hey idiot, maybe not the best time to announce your continued plans to attack our environment - while much of the country is going through a heat wave. Some places, like Brooklyn, lost power today due to high demand. Go suck on an oil hose.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Energy Secretary Chris Wright:

“I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for new wind and solar projects”

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

Just what kind of people are running the United States?

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

Just hours after the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela that killed over 1,900 people, ICE attempted to deport children and families from the Dilley Trailer Prison to Venezuela. They were woken up in the middle of the night and sent to Arizona on their way to Venezuela. The families were ultimately sent back to Dilley but worry that they could be deported at any time.

It is unthinkable to send children and families, who have committed no crimes, into a country plunged into chaos by natural disaster.

Last week, 146 men, women, and children were deported back home to Venezuela hours before the earthquakes—many are suspected to have been killed. These actions are cruel and un-American. I am calling on the Trump Administration to halt all deportations to Venezuela and to shut down the Dilley Trailer Prison.

[Bernadette Foley @forestland6]

Disband the so-called "Board of Peace" - it is not representative of UN values.

[Board of Peace @BoardOfPeace]

UNRWA has no place in the new Gaza. We are turning the page on the complex of perpetual aid dependency & conflict. The people of Gaza deserve better.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Theodore Roosevelt said the national parks were the greatest gift this country ever gave itself, and the greatest idea we ever gave the world.

More than 100 nations copied it.

Donald Trump looks at that gift and sees a piggy bank for his own pet projects.

This week we learned where our national park money has been going. Not to Yellowstone. Not to Yosemite. To the walkway outside his office, where Trump ripped out American flagstone and laid down Italian granite at a cost of $689,000 to taxpayers. He said he paid for it himself.

That was a lie.

To cover his vanity projects, they are robbing the parks. Spending on parks outside Washington is down $854 million. More than 900 projects went unfunded. They even pulled money from a guardrail on a Colorado cliff that the Park Service flagged as a safety hazard.

I serve on Appropriations.

The power to spend belongs to Congress, not to a king redecorating his palace. These parks are not Trump’s to loot.

They belong to all of us, and I will fight for every dollar.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: The House has PASSED @RepThomasMassie’s resolution to FORCE the release of names of Congressmen who used the Congressional slush fund to pay out for sexuaI misconduct settlements, 420-0

These are TAXPAYER DOLLARS being used to PAY OFF accusers.

And it’s all about to be public.

The Committee on Ethics must now preserve and public release all relevant records.

[dan d @DanJDeBrak]

I'm always for being open about mental health, but important context is that Kean, as a state rep, voted against the New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act, which established 40 hours of sick leave for employees a year.

Kean just took *4 months* of paid sick leave.

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

Detained by ICE on her way to Mass yesterday, Sr. Letty is reunited finally with Sr. Norma Pimental, Pope Francis used called Sr. Norma his “favorite nun.” Quite a moment that shows the human face of rounding up people randomly.