Talarico: One thing is clear today, we’re about to take back Texas. We’re done being divided. We’re done being played. We’re done being pitted against each other. That old politics is dying, and a new politics is being born — through all of us.

In Nov ‘25, the GOP fought to cut ACA subsidies because $23B was “too expensive.” PWMB estimates $65B has been spent on cruise missiles since Sat. Add in oil spikes, supply chain disruptions, and trade losses the total could reach $210B. Don’t tell me healthcare is too expensive.

There are over 3,800 children locked up in ICE concentration camps (calling it what they are). Here are children who passed while in ICE custody. May they rest in peace. Kristi Noem must be held accountable before this number grows exponentially. #KillerNoem

One of the consequences of this war is that some people around the world will truly believe that the Jesus Christ of ALL Christians is the one of Trump, Hegseth, Vance, Mike Johnson, and the circus of preachers around the White House.

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Here's what I believe: no more business as usual in the Senate. We shouldn't be voting to proceed to normal legislation until Republicans schedule a debate and a vote and on a declaration of war against Iran. Let's see if Trump has the votes to authorize war. I bet he doesn't.

In a new text approved by Pope Leo, a top Vatican commission warned the world's 1.4 billion Catholics against using cosmetic surgery, saying it can lead to a "cult of the body" and an unrealistic search for a perfect figure. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Pete Hegseth clearly needs therapy. Praising murder without mercy and dismissing suffering and violence reveals a profound moral and emotional corruption and sickness. His capacity to glory over destruction is inhumane.

The situation is so tragically serious that today the Vatican Secretary of State invokes Immanuel Kant (for a long time viewed as a direct threat to Catholic doctrine) in this interview: “A violation of right in one part of the world is felt in all parts.” www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...

Family devastated after man dies while in ICE custody at Adelanto detention center

“Pope Leo is cut from the same cloth as Pope Francis. Somebody who wasn't just preaching from a pulpit, but getting his hands dirty trying to help people. “I can’t wait to meet him.” — Barack Obama

Yes!

Why is @nicollewallace.bsky.social so obsessed with Joe Rogan?

I said this a while ago but it bears repeating: The U.S. right is fully captured by a) christian fascist accelerationists seeking to start the Biblical Apocalypse, & b) those actively manipulating (a) for profit. Everything they claim to care about will last only so long as it serves (a) or (b).

Way too many people don't get that christian dominionism is apocalyptic accelerationism VERY LITERALLY SEEKING to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world. That is not hyperbole or misinterpretation or a joke. And they have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power.

We are a nation awash in lies. My new book - Liar’s Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America - is a playbook to help us prevent politicians who lie from holding office. Real change is needed. It publishes May 19 and you can preorder it now in the links here: linktr.ee/liarskingdom

"Peace is a breath of the eternal. While to evil we cry out 'Enough!', to peace we whisper 'Forever.'" #PopeLeoXIV #PrayForPeace

"This is the way a mad king wages war. If he wants to stop tyranny, he should start at home." NEW — The Editors on Trump's irresponsible and childish war in Iran: www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-editor...

On March 3, we celebrate St. Katharine Drexel. Growing up white and privileged in the era between the Civil War and civil rights, Drexel committed her life and fortune to aiding the welfare of two politically abandoned communities: Native and African Americans.

Let's retire the name Angel Families. They are always exploited for demonic purposes, as Ted Cruz is doing now. If they was to target entire communities for the actions of a few heinous representatives, let's with young, white, Christian men.

Celebrating Jane Goodall on this #WorldWildlifeDay. She was a British primatologist, ethnologist, anthropologist & founder of the Jane Goodall Institute. #WomenInSTEM Film for #WomensHistoryMonth: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦, a 2017 biographical documentary (streaming).

Cory Booker yelling at Noem bc she doesn't know the names of the American citizens she snatched.

Now he's laying into her for not training her dog. A 14-month old dog is a teenager in dog years. She's shaking her head. At that same ... "you killed a goat. Those are bad decisions. Not unlike what happened in Minneapolis."

Now Thom Tillis laying into Noem.

Yes it should, if more Americans had functioning consciences. Reminder that Sen Durbin wasn't considered "moral enough" to be honored by many Catholic bishops.

Fill the air with poems So thick Even bombs Can’t fall through -Peter Levitt

3 ICE agents got McDonald’s and then went on a joy ride through the neighborhood tonight around 1 AM. This has nothing to do with public safety and is all about terrorizing people and burning through taxpayer dollars. This is why we can’t rest until every last agent leaves our state.

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

Hey, I’ve seen this movie before. It ends with the Republican president betraying the Kurds and leaving them to die while no one in America cares.

Please do not forget Nurul Amin Shah Alam.

ICE is directly interfering with medical care in hospitals and clinics nationwide Nearly 40 have died, with critical meds and care being withheld That’s not justice, it’s inhumanity Thankfully @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is taking the lead in safeguarding patient care.

JamesTalarico to Pete Hegseth in unearthed clip: "I'm asking you to tell your voters right now that Donald Trump lost the election in 2020. Can you admit that?” Hegseth: “I-it’s not your show…” Talarico: “Is this an uncomfortable question for you?”

Democrats MUST insist on a vote on an Authorization of Military Force (an AUMF) for Trump’s war in Iran. My friend @kaine.senate.gov is leading the charge on a War Powers Resolution (WPR) that I support. But it's not a substitute for an AUMF. 1/ A 🧵on the difference. It's important.

The White House medical team didn’t know POTUS got a CT scan. They claimed it was a MRI for weeks. Now instead of acknowledging he might have a pre-cancerous skin condition, they dance around the issue. Trying to fool the public just makes it worse.

You cannot invoke Almighty God in the name of violence.

How depraved you have to be to still support this person.

How is he "ending a regime"? Game out for me how this ends up in an inclusive, flourishing democracy. The most likely scenario - by far - is the the same hardliners (maybe even worse hardliners) end up in control. Just a different name on the door.

Hegseth: “We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it.” The truth: We did start this war two days ago. And now, apparently, we're not going to finish it in a way that will make it worth fighting. And we have a constitutional crisis. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Trump may have ordered a deadly military strike on a girls’ elementary school in Iran because the Pentagon was using an out-of-date map. At least 175 people, including dozens of young girls between seven and 12, were killed Saturday in an attack on a southern town miles from Tehran. trib.al/1BhX9NO

Call Rep Self's office, 202-225-4201, and ask his staffer who put our service members in harm's way and why. The staffer I just spoke with had nothing.

#Lebanon Since the early hours of this morning, 100ks of people have been fleeing their towns and homes, following relentless Israeli bombings on several areas. Our teams have witnessed large waves of displacement, severe traffic congestion and people desperately seeking safety elsewhere.

While we're watching them bomb Iranian children, they're filling US concentration camps.

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Iranian parents are still picking up pieces of their daughters at an elementary school.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” — President Eisenhower, 1953.

Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more. It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.

1. According to multiple reports both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to attack Iran. Both countries have increased their influence with Trump by investing billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

That article was about John Hague, the founder of Christian United for Israel, and one of the most consistent proponents of a US war against Iran, which he believes will culminate in the Second Coming. Here's Christian Broadcasting Network on Saturday: cbn.com/news/world/t...