When Harry Truman left office in 1953, he was nearly destitute. Worried about his financial predicament, his friends arranged for some public companies to offer him a board seat. The Trumans declined, explaining that “the office of the presidency belongs to the people, so it wasn’t his to sell.”

www.bloomberg.com/news/article.... Per my friend - Most economists predicted that 3-6 months after the tariffs first took effect consumers would face higher prices on everything. And lest anyone be misled even with “cuts” the current tariffs are now the highest since 1929.

Cardinal McElroy: “we are called always to have a sense of the dignity of every human person. And thus, - a wider indiscriminate massive deportation across the country would be something that would be incompatible with Catholic doctrine.” www.ncregister.com/news/cardina...

If we can blow up purported “Drug Boats” we can certainly interdict instead, capture the drugs and people without the unlawful loss of life. Instead, Trump chooses the illegal route of summarily killing people.

Justice Sotomayor with a graphic dissent as the Supreme Court allows Alabama to move forward with the execution of Anthony Boyd by lethal gas:

My favorite US Cardinal.

How can one man be so thoroughly corrupt and incompetent? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Mike Johnson is such a fraud and fake Christian

Disaster industrial complex overtakes S&P 500 as climate worsens www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."

We gotta do a nationwide inquest into antisocial behavior. Leaving your dog's poop on the street. Not returning shopping carts. The What's Wrong With You initiative

Please be safe ~ rumor has it that disrupters are being planted to cause trouble. Safety reminders:

Roberts Is Just As Responsible For Chump As Chump Is ! Both Have Failed This Country.......

He wants to dictate what the press can say. What a university can teach. Whom a company can employ. And to whom the law shall apply. He who wants all this is not a president, But strives to be a dictator. And all who succumb are not citizens, But subjects.

From a friend: Too often, we speak about political violence as the ineluctable consequence of hateful speech. This is a road we must not go down. The First Amendment, unique in its breadth and near-absolutism, affords every American the right to offend others but not the right to harm others.

So the press could’ve cared this much when Melissa Hartman, her husband AND THEIR DOG were murdered by a Trump supporter. They just chose not to.

Facts are facts: Right-wing extremists account for the overwhelming majority of extremist-linked deaths in America.

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Replacing the head of Bureau of Labor Statistics with a stooge, proclaiming that crime is up when it’s down, and taking over the Smithsonian are all about trying to take over facts. But facts are facts whether or not Trumpists agree.

"Her businesses, known for donating meals to homeless shelters, supporting local police, providing funding for high school baseball teams... “She gives back to the community, creates jobs for young people, pays taxes. Why would you want to remove someone like that?” www.12news.com/article/news...

SCOTUS is off the rails!

Justice Jackson did not come to play today (Birthright citizenship/nationwide injunctions)

Pope Leo condemns US bombing Iran

NEW: Pope Leo’s newly appointed Bishop, Michael Pham, outside the court in San Diego: “We need to speak up for the voiceless in our society - and we will.” The video then shows masked ICE agents leaving without snatching anyone today. More of this resistance nationwide! 👏 (🎥 PSL San Diego)

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In homily in which you can bet every line was vetted by Pope Leo, Chicago’s Cardinal Cupich says at Sox Park: “It is wrong to scapegoat those who are here without documents, for indeed they are here due to a broken immigration system.”

by nearly every measure California ranks ahead of states like MS, AL, AR, MO, SC, TN and SD. CA has lower murder rate, lower crime rate, higher education, higher health ratings, higher minimum wage, higher well-being, safer envirnoment, etc than all those states.

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

What a Texas showerhead salesman discovered about 'Made in the USA' labels - NPR The idea that American consumers will amicably accept 8-20% price increases for clothing, groceries, electronics and cars as a result of Trump’s tariffs is ludicrous.

www.politico.com/news/2025/05... What an obscenity, the Republicans confining Charles Kushner for their post.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday night urged the legal profession to toughen up. "If you’re not used to fighting, and losing battles, then don’t become a lawyer," she said. Her remarks came against the backdrop of immense stress on lawyers from the Trump administration.

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Ken Griffin of Citadel: tariffs followed within days by waivers to specific companies are nothing less than open corruption. Trump is enriching himself and his family. Case in point: Starmer offering Trump a discount on a new Rolls Royce, only that is the tip of a huge, mostly submerged iceberg.

The most recent retweet from the new pope is 👀.

The new pope

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Cardinal Joseph Tobin's ecclesial resume was built predominantly outside of the U.S., which might ease concerns about an Americentric papacy. And cardinal electors might be attracted to his story of Vatican exile.

Thank you Canada!

My god. A Columbia senior just revealed during Rep. Ro Khanna’s Town Hall that the Trump Administration has canceled over $400 million in federal research to fight cancer and Parkinson’s disease. This is absolutely insane.

They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.

Angel of the Lord: He is not here, He is risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead. Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere

True Catholics cannot support Trump. He is antithetical to everything that is Catholic. #catholic

“Nobody is above the law.”Providence, Rhode Island filled the streets sending a message to Trump we won’t tolerate dictators! #NationalDayOfProtest #HandsOff #NoKings #50501Movement @fvp_tok

El Salvador is playing a dangerous political game. The Trump presidency won’t last and I’d expect a strong negative reaction from a new Democratic president.