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Adam Hoffman raped his son’s best friend for 3 years
First-degree felony. Life without parole.
Ken Paxton’s office gutted it to 60 days. He walked free after 30.
No sex offender registration. His record scrubbed clean.
Texas protects predators with power!
NOW: Acting AG Todd Blanche reads the charges against James Comey.
"The first count is that on or about May 15th of last year, he knowingly and willfully making a threat to take the life of and to inflict bodily harm upon the president of the United States."
"Count two: Same day, May 15th, 2025, that the defendant, James Comey, knowingly and willfully transmitting an interstate commerce communication that contained a threat to kill the president of the United States."
"Both of these counts carry a maximum term of imprisonment of ten years."
🚨 JUST NOW: The entirety of US Congress ERUPTS in a standing ovation when King Charles III drops this line
“Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases in 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to CHECKS AND BALANCES."
🇺🇸Donald Trump: “We will cut off our trade relations with Spain for Israel.”
🇪🇸Pedro Sanchez: “There are things more valuable in the world than trade and money, like human life. Nothing matters to us! We will not be part of a war where women, children, and the elderly are brutally slaughtered.”
Donald Trump: “İsrail için İspanya ile ticari ilişkilerimiz keseceğiz.”
Pedro Sanchez: “Dünyada ticaret ve paradan daha değerli şeyler var, insan hayatı gibi. Hiçbir şey umurumuzda değil! Kadınların, çocukların ve yaşlıların hunharca katledildiği bir savaşın parçası olmayacağız.”
(Yürekli duruşun için minnettarız Sanchez)
@jsolomonReports It is categorically obvious and proven beyond all reasonable doubt that Trump crushed Biden in the 2020 popular vote and Biden was installed fraudulently and regardless in the most brazen violation of democracy in U.S. history.
I'm literally "permanently banned" from Twitter/X on my primary account since 2020 because I believed *vociferously* that the election was stolen. This account I have now is just a few months old because I fought for 5 yrs, thru 2 owners, to restore my account to no avail. I've literally written & mailed over 100 letters to politicians, media, & even any address I could find for @elonmusk but it didnt help. YES, the election was stolen. YES, Covid came from a lab. And YES, Hunter's laptop was real. You can read my pinned post that tells of my "evil trifecta" of opinions that got me banished 5+ yrs ago.
If you’re leaving the Catholic Church because Pope Leo is calling for peace, then you probably weren’t much of a Catholic to begin with.
Looking at you, Sean Hannity.
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has released a response to JD Vance's comments about Pope Leo XIV:
'For over a thousand years, the Catholic Church has taught just war theory and it is that long tradition the Holy Father carefully references in his comments on war. A constant tenet of that thousand-year tradition is a nation can only legitimately take up the sword ‘in self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed’
That is, to be a just war it must be a defense against another who actively wages war, which is what the Holy Father actually said: ‘He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.
When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ. The consistent teaching of the Church is insistent that all people of good will must pray and work toward lasting peace while avoiding the evils and injustices that accompany all wars'
BREAKING: Trump punishes Pope Leo for criticizing his Iran War by stripping $11 million from Catholic Charities in Florida that was supposed to help shelter and care for children who enter the country alone.
Trump is terrorizing kids in America while killing them overseas...
“The U.S. government has abruptly decided to end more than 60 years of relationship with Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Miami,” said Archbishop Thomas Wenski. “The Archdiocese of Miami’s services for unaccompanied minors have been recognized for their excellence and have served as a model for other agencies throughout the country.”
"Our track record in serving this vulnerable population is unmatched. Yet, the Archdiocese of Miami’s Catholic Charities’ services for unaccompanied minors has been stripped of funding and will be forced to shut down within three months," he added.
The Department of Homeland Security, through its Office of Refugee Resettlement, has paid Catholic Charities in Miami for years to help house children who enter the country without accompanying adults. The Miami Herald describes the program as essentially a "federally funded foster care system."
Bishop Wenski said that despite there being a recent decrease in unaccompanied minors “it is baffling that the U.S. government would shut down a program that it would be hard-pressed to replicate at the level of competence."
Robert Latham, associate director of the University of Miami Law School’s Children and Youth Law Clinic, said that the gutting of funding and possible need to move the children elsewhere could inflict serious damage on their developing psyches.
"It’s incredibly psychologically harmful to be moved,” he said. “For little kids, moving repeatedly creates bonding issues and destroys the sense of both self and community. They don’t know who they are and where they will be."
“This should only be done with a lot of emotional support that you normally would find within a family. Unfortunately, that is not there in a group home setting,” Latham added.
Of course, Donald Trump couldn't care less about the suffering of children. This man was friends with Jeffrey Epstein for years and been accused of sexual abuse himself. He started his Iran War by blowing up a school full of little girls and his administration has worked around the clock to strip funding from programs that feed, educate, and house children.
While the administration has not admitted that these funding cuts are payback against Pope Leo, the point A to point B is apparent. Trump is the most vindictive man to ever hold the presidency. He has been relentlessly attacking Leo for criticizing his Iran War. This is him using financial leverage in an effort to beat the Pope into submission. It will not work.
Please ❤️ and share to demand that the funding be doubled when Democrats take back control!
NEW: Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters today that Pope Leo XIV doesn't understand “something called the just war doctrine.”
Pope Leo is an Augustinian friar who spent twelve years leading Augustine’s religious order.
Augustine invented the doctrine. https://t.co/dMEjVtSx08
BREAKING: The Catholic Church HUMILIATES J.D. Vance and Mike Johnson by releasing a brutal statement explaining "just war theory" after they both tried to invoke it to defend Trump's illegal Iran War.
This is like arguing theoretical physics with Albert Einstein...
“For over a thousand years, the Catholic Church has taught just war theory and it is that long tradition the Holy Father carefully references in his comments on war," Bishop James Massa, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine, said in a statement.
"A constant tenet of that thousand-year tradition is a nation can only legitimately take up the sword ‘in self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed’ (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2308)," he continued. "That is, to be a just war it must be a defense against another who actively wages war, which is what the Holy Father actually said: ‘He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.’"
“When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ," he added. "The consistent teaching of the Church is insistent that all people of good will must pray and work toward lasting peace while avoiding the evils and injustices that accompany all wars.”
The statement offers a sharp rebuke to Vance, a man who claims to be a Catholic, after he argued at a Turning Points USA event that the pope was wrong to criticize the war.
“I think it’s very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology‚” Vance, an adult convert to the faith, said. “If you’re going to opine on matters of theology, you’ve got to be careful, you’ve got to make sure it’s anchored in the truth." He added that there is a “more than 1,000-year tradition of just war theory” within the Catholic Church.
Speaker Johnson, an Evangelical, echoed similar sentiments earlier today when he said that he was "taken aback" by Pope Leo's anti-war remarks.
“It’s a very well-settled matter of Christian theology. There’s something called the just war doctrine," said Johnson.
While Vance and Johnson are correct in the very narrow sense that just war theory exists, they are dead wrong in their application. The Iran War meets none of the criteria under the time-honored framework and in fact violates every single one of them.
According to the Catholic Catechism and traditions dating back to Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas, a war must have a "just cause," which this one clearly does not. Trump attacked Iran because Israel wanted to destabilize a regional adversary in order to make their territorial expansion easier.
It must be waged with "legitimate authority" but Trump didn't seek Congressional approval in blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution.
It must be motivated by "right intention" but the White House can't even articulate coherent goals for the conflict. One day they pretend it's about nuclear weapons (despite our intelligence agencies concluding that Iran was not seeking such weapons). The next day it's about bringing democracy to the oppressed Iranian people (a claim that's dramatically undermined by the killing of those very same civilians by American bombs).
It must have a "probability of success" which this war did not. Trump was never going to bomb Iran into submission and a ground war would end in unmitigated disaster for the United States. This war was always going to be a terroristic bombing campaign that resulted in nothing but the loss of innocent lives.
A war must have "proportionality," meaning that it prevents more harm than it causes. In the case of the Iran War, no harm has been prevented but mass suffering has been inflicted, not just in Iran, but also in Lebanon where Israel has launched a brutal invasion, slaughtering civilian populations and seizing land.
In other words, Pope Leo is absolutely right to condemn this war as a moral atrocity. Vance and Johnson have abandoned the true teachings of Jesus Christ to pander to the demented pedophile in the White House. They have chosen political power over truth and revealed themselves as fraudulent Christians in the process.
Please ❤️ and share if you staunchly oppose the Iran War!
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement Wednesday pushing back at JD Vance after he said Pope Leo XIV should ‘be careful’ when speaking about church teachings:
“For over a thousand years, the Catholic Church has taught just war theory and it is that long tradition the Holy Father carefully references in his comments on war. A constant tenet of that thousand-year tradition is a nation can only legitimately take up the sword ‘in self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed’ (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2308). That is, to be a just war it must be a defense against another who actively wages war, which is what the Holy Father actually said: ‘He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.’
When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ. The consistent teaching of the Church is insistent that all people of good will must pray and work toward lasting peace while avoiding the evils and injustices that accompany all wars.”
Q: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus?
Trump: I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor. And had to do with red cross as a red cross worker
🚨BREAKING The Knights Templar Order and its ruling Council demand that this offensive and blasphemous image be removed forthwith !
We supported President Trump in 2016 and 2024 (NY Times attributed our support in 2016 to be part of his victory)
However we are deeply offended by this and have no other choice but to condemn it wholeheartedly and ask for a public apology to the Christian brethren who have been deeply upset by this depiction.
We respectfully remend President Trump of the Bible Scripture found in Galatians 6:7 "God will not be mocked"
The statements made by President Trump on Truth Social regarding the Pope were entirely inappropriate and disrespectful. They don’t contribute at all to a constructive conversation. It is the Pope’s prerogative to articulate Catholic doctrine and the principles that govern the moral life. In regard to the concrete application of those principles, people of good will can and do disagree. I would warmly recommend that serious Catholics within the Trump administration–Secretary Rubio, Vice President Vance, Ambassador Brian Burch, and others–might meet with Vatican officials so that a real dialogue can take place. This is far preferable to the statements on social media.
I am very grateful for the many ways that the Trump administration has reached out to Catholics and other people of faith. It has been a high honor to serve on the Religious Liberty Commission. No President in my lifetime has shown a greater dedication to defending our first liberty. All that said, I think the President owes the Pope an apology.