Meaning he is going to try to rig the election. Cant we just say it out loud at this point?

Many T.P.S. holders have been building lives in the United States for years. Figuring out how to live underground and hide out from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents may be preferable for many over a return to Haiti or Syria to rebuild lives in those troubled countries.

It's getting hot out there How churches can respond to Europe’s historic heatwave www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

"Defending human life also includes welcoming, protecting and assisting immigrants, whose hopes, sacrifices and contribution have formed part of the history of this country from its very beginning..."

The reflecting pool has become too perfect a metaphor for the Orwellian nightmare we live in, propping up the various narcissistic delusions of dear leader.

Am I a ‘heritage American’? I guess not ... ‘Diversity doesn’t diminish us’: A visit to Lady Liberty as the Supreme Court rules on birthright citizenship www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

The loose talk about anchor babies and birth tourism promote corrosive misunderstanding and suspicions about immigrant families. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

After 12 years of very hard work by remarkable people, the Presbyterian Church divests from fossil fuels! A beautiful message amidst the heat and smoke! pres-outlook.org/2026/06/coal...

I'm just saying, it seems like a sign www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...

“Diversity magnifies us as a people ... It doesn’t diminish us.” - Paulist Fr. René Constanza, our president, as quoted in this essay from @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social related to our pilgrimage on Wednesday in Lower Manhattan and on Liberty Island:

The U.S. is blessed with one of the most scientifically and technologically advanced health care systems in the world. And yet, when it comes to health outcomes among the world’s wealthiest countries, the U.S. ranks last. Read "Sick in a Hospital Town," a 5-part series:

Catholic members, agents and collaborators of the Trump regime who are implicated in this tragedy may try to look away, but a final reckoning awaits them. Meanwhile, Bishop Barron is more worried about "communists" in New York! Lord have mercy!! ✝️

Loose talk about anchor babies and birth tourism promote corrosive misunderstanding and suspicions about immigrant families. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

So many of us seem to have profoundly lost the hope and the confidence in the worth and power of the immigrant experience that used to unite us. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

President Trump is showing signs of buyer’s remorse on the deal he just signed at Versailles. Already, a chorus of self-described realists and war-happy members of the American and Israeli commentariat are in an uproar over the Trump retreat. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

Are U.S. diplomats ready to embrace a true realism, to accept that the path to the geopolitical good, if not to the perfect, lies through diplomacy and compromise, not threats and missile strikes? www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

After Iran debacle, is the Trump admin ready to listen to the Vatican? www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

After the Iran debacle, are U.S. diplomats indeed ready to embrace a true realism, to accept that the path to the geopolitical good, if not to the perfect, lies through diplomacy and compromise, not threats and missile strikes? www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

“This powerful businessman has enormous influence and can benefit from preferential treatment from any type of government, regardless of its political affiliation.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

The war chest for immigration enforcement suggests that the turmoil experienced by cities like Chicago, Los Angeles and infamously Minneapolis is only going to continue through the balance of Mr. Trump’s term in office. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

The June riots were explicitly directed toward migrants, a more accurate term for what happened would be “pogrom.” While racial diversity has increased, Northern Ireland remains the most ethnically homogeneous region in the United Kingdom. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

While Gaudí was a magnificent architect, his holiness consisted largely in a very ordinary spirituality. “He put his trust in divine providence and that never disappoints.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

A $240 billion war chest for immigration enforcement suggests that the turmoil experienced by cities like Chicago, Los Angeles and infamously Minneapolis is only going to continue through the balance of Mr. Trump’s term in office. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

Delaney Hall Is Named After Their Family. They Want It to Close. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/n...

Could New York become the next Minneapolis? www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

Was last year’s chaos in U.S. cities far from the border an anomaly in American life or a trial run? Tom Homan promises “an ICE surge” on the streets of New York, a deeply unsettling threat in a city that is home to more than 3.1 million foreign-born people from more than 150 countries.

For Jesus, sin is often a failure to bother to love. As I mentioned in the podcast with Hasan Minhaj, this insight is from the moral theologian James Keenan, SJ.

Welp

The ultimate toll of the outbreak must also be measured by its economic and social impact, according to Father Edouard Makimba Milambo, the executive secretary of Caritas Congo. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

What a headline. Acts like he’s still on Fox. Pete Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’ - The Guardian apple.news/A110SDPyKSyq...

Geez when you put it like that, it sounds terrible

From June 2024 ‘The world’s on fire’: How the Catholic Church is responding to global warfare www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

“The abrupt cessation of international humanitarian aid—specifically the closure of certain U.S.A.I.D. services in 2025—has had a significant impact on the capacity to respond to the Ebola crisis.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

Home run. If I was drinking coffee I would have spit it out

Here’s that Russia hoax again! Trump Urges ‘Less Shackled’ Pulte to Fire Intelligence-Community Employees - The Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

“Fear is prevalent within the communities—a reaction that is entirely understandable given the severity of Ebola.” That fear can lead to “greater caution and better adherence to preventive measures.” But fear may also result in “mistrust, stigmatization or delayed access to health services.”

Caritas Congo on community engagement: “The objective is to provide reliable information, reassure the population and promote appropriate behaviors, so that vigilance does not spiral into panic but contributes to effective, solidarity-driven response.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

Man they were letting the Trump people book their own interviews and they were still coming off as incompetent maniacs

Stalinist intrusionist!

Recurring nightmare

It takes strength to look the person who could fire you in the eye and tell them that both they and their boss are giant pieces of trash. You usually don't win, but you definitely leave a mark, and you write your place in history. That's what Scott Pelley did today.

American men, please ask for the help you need

NEW: Rep. Jamie Raskin is calling on Todd Blanche to resign. "[W]e must demand that Todd Blanche resign. An Attorney General who has disgraced himself by settling a bogus lawsuit with a $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded bonanza payout to convicted cop beaters."

See you in Philadelphia this Friday at 7 PM, to talk about "Work in Progress," and work and faith in general, with former US Senator Bob Casey, Jr (grad of Scranton Prep and Holy Cross, and former JV). At a benefit for the Ignatian Volunteer Corps! ivcusa.org/news-events/...

The Concept by Teenage Fanclub, best pop vibe in history? Letting Apple Music put together a playlist it thinks I like is a little terrifyingly dead on. Am I already a robot and don’t know it and how come @Pontifex didn’t address auto-gen playlists in #magnificahumanitas?

Oh snap

The Justice Department removed information about the January 6 insurrectionists from its website. @lawfaremedia.org has preserved and posted it www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...