Last night, I was excited to be with my friend Martha Hennessy, peace activist and granddaughter of Dorothy Day to speak about Dorothy’s life, the meaning of holiness and the work of the @DayGuild . Thank you to St Paul the Apostle @ApostolistNYC@thegnewsroom@PaulistFathers
Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke
No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.
@gillibrandny Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) help people with disabilities stay in their homes, surrounded by the people they love, instead of in institutions. Please #ProtectHCBS
Am I understanding this correctly? The President, the Vice-President, the Speaker of the House AND the Secretary of State were all at the White House Correspondent's Dinner together and security was so laxed that a guy ran through security with a long gun? I call bullshit.
Don’t forget that this is his first attendance to a correspondents dinner as president.
Missed the other 5….
A dinner where you’re mocked in the best of times and he is at his lowest ratings ever.
Every right wing commentator is now talking about a ballroom construction.
The Secret Service failed to properly secure a building during a time of war?
With a president with two previous assassination attempts.
There are so many improbabilities that we are meant to believe.
So true, CHAOS. CORRUPTION. MANUFACTURED CRISIS.
Another “shooting scare,” this time at the correspondents’ dinner—and we’re supposed to just accept it?
That’s THREE incidents in under two years tied to Trump. Not coincidence. Not random.
These staged spectacles keep showing up right on cue to feed the same agenda.
Wake up—the ballroom wasn’t just a backdrop, it was part of the show.