Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That's forcing families across the country to make tough choices.

NEW: During a Vatican audience, a prominent same-sex couple told Pope Leo XIV they were married. The pope responded with overwhelming kindness — and a conversation about the day’s Wordle. This quiet moment may signal something bigger: the kind of Church Pope Leo intends to build.

Immigration enforcement operations are underway in Charlotte, North Carolina's largest city, a Homeland Security official confirms.

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

"Woolf stands alongside fellow protesters.... A moment later, one officer can be seen grabbing Woolf by the wrist and yanking. "Demonstrators attempted to hold onto Woolf, but 4 officers wrenched him from the crowd and tossed him to the ground" Via @jackjenkins.me religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

“The position of the Catholic Church is clear: Human dignity and national security are not in conflict. Both are possible if people of good will work together. We invite all Catholics and people of good will to reflect on the Special Pastoral Message.”

US Bishops have responded to attacks by Border Czar Tom Homan: “The bishops of the United States have spoken together and in unity with Pope Leo XIV.”

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

The Great Climate Insurance Collapse is coming. Fossil fuel corruption blocks Congress from responding to it, or in some cases even from seeing it. www.npr.org/2025/11/13/n...

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

New York state assemblyman Charles Lavine (D-NY) about his legislation to mandate K-12 school students learn the history of Jan 6 and its aftermath "We can't sweep history under the rug" More ====>

Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."

NEW: So, the courtroom at the "Broadview 6" arraignment in Chicago yesterday featured lotsa Methodist pastors. Why? They were supporters of defendant/fellow Methodist Brian Straw. "If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us,” one pastor said. religionnews.com/2025/11/13/m...

"The statement doesn't mention ICE, nor its masked and heavily armed unidentified thugs who are invading communities in ways violative not only of the basic tenets of civil, democratic society, but also of essential human dignity." #RebuildMyChurch #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

You love to see it! (Ok maybe everyone except @schumer.senate.gov) We ❤️ @bqevisibility.bsky.social letting commuters on the BQE know the burning question on everyone’s mind. #WtfChuck @indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social

In a rare statement, the bishops framed the immigration crisis in starkly moral terms. “We feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity,” they said.

NYT: Catholic Bishops Issue Rare Statement Objecting to U.S. Immigration Tactics By Elizabeth Dias “We feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity,” they said in the statement. Gift link!

Catholic Bishops Issue Rare Statement Objecting to U.S. Immigration Tactics www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog added a rare and powerful voice to what has been muted criticism by top Israeli officials of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. n.pr/442E4Lt

Exactly. He should resign.

Extreme weather can happen everywhere. And many extremes (not all!) are demonstrably getting worse with climate change. This is not just a problem for a few places!

Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That's forcing families across the country to make tough choices. n.pr/47QGKwH

Dozens of Israeli settlers launched an arson attack on an agricultural area in the occupied West Bank Tuesday evening, according to Palestinian activists in the area, marking the latest such attack in what has been a surge of settler violence.

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

In September, the Trump administration conducted a historic deportation flight to Iran. We tracked down people deported on the plane. Some are in hiding, others have fled the country. Their story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...

Mamdani spent Veterans Day in a veterans’ center in the Bronx with a message: it's time to stop thanking veterans and start addressing their struggles. He met with veterans to hear directly about the disproportionate challenges they face with housing and support. That’s leadership😀

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

PRAYER VIGIL for the Disappeared Thursday, Nov. 13 6 pm Evergreen Presbyterian Church 1567 Overton Park

For three Guatemalan roofers, there has only been one place they have found community in the six years since the first one arrived here — Catholic Mass.

“Many of us are afraid to go to work, to go to a restaurant, to go to church because everyone, everybody is afraid of encountering ICE and perhaps being deported to another country." #PrayForAmerica religionnews.com/2025/11/10/f...

The Palestinian tradition of olive picking and dates harvest in the occupied West Bank is under threat from Israeli settlers who have increased their attacks on farmers this season.

The Senate’s CR fails to meet the needs of America’s working families. I join the House Democrats opposing this legislation which allows the ACA tax credits to expire – driving up premiums and costs for tens of millions of Americans already struggling to make ends meet.

Actually wild the number of people on bere calling for Schumer to step down. @schumer.senate.gov you have no idea what you’ve just unleashed. @democrats.org you better be paying attention.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Any Dem Senator decrying this deal - you better be making a motion to remove @schumer.senate.gov at the next available opportunity. Otherwise, it’s all just performative bullshit.

What do you call a leader with no followers? Just a guy taking a walk. He's not just a senator. He's the *leader*. His job isn't his personal vote. His job is to unify and lead his caucus against the regime.

A leader would not have lost eight colleagues tonight. This happened because you let it happen or because you’ve totally lost control of the caucus in one of the most important moments since you’ve been Democratic leader. Either way, it’s on you. You need to step down. We need someone who can lead.

So @schumer.senate.gov really thinks we don’t understand that he orchestrated this by getting senators not up for re-election to vote yes?

"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

On half an hour's notice, @bkindivisible.bsky.social showed up across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment to tell him NOT to CAVE. The final chant: "WE'LL BE BACK."

"HEY CHUCK! FIGHT DON'T FOLD!" @bkindivisible.bsky.social turning out across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment in brooklyn

I am so furious right now. AGs across the country fought to get SNAP benefits. Federal workers suffered with weeks of no pay. Millions of people showed up to protest Trump. Democrats showed up in record numbers at the polls to say 'we've got your back!' And you caved for literally nothing.

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

Call a Senator that voted no tonight and demand that they vote to remove Chuck Schumer as Senate Minority Leader. He has weaponized his incompetence against the American people by allowing 8 Dem Senators to cave to an authoritarian regime. We need real leadership, not the oligarchy’s lapdog

“This was a very very bad vote”

The fact that none of the 8 Dems are up for re-election in 2026 is a pretty good sign @schumer.senate.gov engineered the surrender