I got no love for the Iranian regime. There have been multiple uprisings against its repressive policies. Instead of dropping bombs that have united the Iranian people against us, maybe U.S. or Israeli leaders should've reached out to opposition leaders. The Iranian government belongs to its people.

Wishing America a very happy #Juneteenth. Let's take every opportunity to celebrate increasing liberation, justice, and human rights, and to remind ourselves how precious these are.

Every American should be deeply troubled by this massive escalation, and @democrats-judiciary.house.gov are standing strong for judicial independence. This is an unmistakable descent further into authoritarian chaos.

NEW: Democratic Reps. Robert Garcia, Maxwell Frost, Yassamin Ansari, and Maxine Dexter have arrived in El Salvador "to pressure the Trump Administration to abide by a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia." "This trip is not being financed by taxpayer dollars."

Orobator will be here in Pittsburgh Monday! If you are local, join us in person! Use the QR code to access the livestream.

Cory Booker going on 21 hours.

I have heard of Lesotho.

Protest is legal in the U.S. If it gets criminalized and becomes a form of civil disobedience then we are at a whole 'nuther level. Just sayin' #Resist #Freedom #Protest #BeReady

China has announced its tariff retaliation—15% tariffs on US chicken, wheat, corn & cotton, plus a 10% tariff on soybeans, pork, beef, fruits, vegetables, & dairy products. Blue or red state, your grocery bill just raised. Wonder who Trump will blame this trade war on?

If SCOTUS rules for the government in the USAID case Roberts took on its emergency petition, I think we will have finally found the death panel.

I am excited to be giving the 2025 Nostra Aetate Lecture at St. Edwards in Austin, TX this Wednesday. If you are local come listen to me talk about #hate, #forgiveness, and #reconciliation.

On behalf of many Americans, don’t thank us we THANK YOU Ukraine for your work.

Y'all, when Elon starts launching the paid protestors line at @indivisible.org, you know that what you're doing is working. Keep it up. And in case you needed a reminder, the next congressional recess is March 15th-23rd. And it's going to be loud. Let me be clear: we will not back down.

POTUS & VPOTUS set up #Zelenskyy so they could berate him on camera in the Oval & act like it was his fault. I want you to envision a future we are allies w/ Russia and Iran and we are at war with Great Britain, Germany, Canada, and France. #Ukraine #Republicans www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Made my calls today. No to "balancing the budget" by giving tax breaks to the wealthy by cutting to healthcare for kids and people with disabilities. Hard no.

Hey everybody, remember to get your necessities bought today or tomorrow, because we're not buying anything on Friday!

Seen at a London bus stop.

Changed my default search engine to duckduckgo.com. Easiest thing ever and now Google isn't tracking my every online move and don't have to put -AI at the end of every search. Highly recommend.

So yeah, the new Deputy Director of the FBI is a straight up fascist.

Tempting to roll our eyes at this crap or say he's demented, but what he is really doing is using straight up fascist tactics: blame a vulnerable minority for the country's economic problems.

How many speakers at #CPAC have given the #Hitler #Nazi salute now? I lost count. #Republicans

This is grotesque gaslighting and mind games. #Republican Administration implying (lying) that #Zelenskyy is responsible for "demolishing" buildings in #Ukraine & says "all those people are killed never to come back" without ever mentioning the person really responsible: #Putin.

Steve Bannon, after calling for Trump to be President for life, did a Nazi salute on stage at CPAC. Nazism has officially taken over the GOP. The few remaining conservatives have a choice: either leave the party and obstruct it—or choose to be complicit.

Find ways to change your buying habits to support your values & oppose the #Republican Administration and its corporate sponsors. It can be hard. You don't have to do it all at once: start making small changes. Here are a few widespread do-able actions you can commit to. #Boycott #Resist #Economy

In the 1950s, St. Louis U. (& other Jesuit schools) began putting a Credo at the beginning of each course catalog. The Credo stated that to be a Catholic university was to oppose racism & totalitarianism. Just a reminder, in case #Catholic schools are considering removing their #DEI statements.

Truly never ceases to amaze that the first (!) Trump impeachment has fallen down a memory hole so deep that we can watch a bigger shakedown of *the same Ukrainian president* in real time without it coming up (guilty of this as I didn't mention in my own post yesterday).

Vance spouting straight up white nationalism.

Well, I personally know folks negatively impacted by the #Republican Administration's slash & burn tactics. #DepartmentofEducation 1/

What the Republican Administration is doing with Putin to Ukraine makes me want to vomit. #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #Democracy

Pressure every influential sector: 🐘 Political: Have you called your elected reps? 💸 Financial: Called and emailed your bank? ☮️ Religious: Called your bishops/rabbis/pastors/imams? 💰 Economic: Where's your $? What complicit companies can you stop buying from? #MuskTakeover #USAID #MakeYourCalls

This morning I emailed our bank and asked how they are protecting my data that is now in the hands of Elon Musk. I also asked them how I could go about changing my bank account numbers. 1/ #MuskTakeover #Resist

I just called my Senators to ask what the plan to do about the new NIH freezes/cuts. I told them I'm worried about how it will effect jobs & the economy, as well as access to medical treatments, clinics, & hospitals. #NIH #MakeYourCalls @fetterman.senate.gov @davemccormick.bsky.social

"The U.S. was never a nation of angels...we have aspired to noble ideals no matter how imperfectly lived over our history. We are now in danger of abandoning...those ideals. Never before has intentional cruelty and...destruction...been wedded as national policy". www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...

TODAY: We’re rallying at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with Sen. Warren and Rep. Waters to fight back against Elon Musk. Musk is trying to kill the CFPB, which Americans rely on to protect against corporate exploitation and bank fraud. Join us if you're in DC: www.mobilize.us/indi...

Something the Post doesn't mentioned is that NIH funding is an enormous part of the operating budget of every university. Lawyers will be in court Monday morning to get an injunction. Yours truly might not have a job by the end of the semester if it doesn't.

Instead of cutting costs for working families, Donald Trump is slashing the federal investments that fund their lifesaving care, fuel their local economy, and lower their health care costs. It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.

Musk's & Trump's NIH cuts will decimate jobs & the economies of Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania. Call or write McCormick & Fetterman.

I ❤ this. "Imago Dei" is Latin for "Image of God" -- in Christianity it refers to the doctrine that all people are made in God's own image and likeness, and therefore, possess inherent worth and dignity that should never be violated. DEI is the image of God. You can't take DEI out of Imago Dei.

Two questions you wanna ask everyone who represents you: 1) Why does Elon Musk, an unelected private citizen, have access to payment systems for Social Security, Medicare, Head Start, & the IRS, as well as to our personal financial info in those systems? And, 2) what are they doing about it?

DC folks: please show up!

Just called my senators to urge them to oppose RFKj for Health and Human Services Sec. Please make your calls!

There is, but it is us. "We are the one's we've been waiting for" (June Jordan - one of my favs).

Please make calls to your senators and congressional rep. about Musk's overreach. You can find an excellent script at the top of www.5calls.org. Let me know when you make your calls. #MuskTakeover #UnelectedBillionaire #Resist

As wrong as Vance is about a correct Christian interpretation of ordering one's loves, it also misframes the issue, which isn't a dilemma of who to prioritize in one's love: it's about whether to be complicit in terrorizing millions of strangers for no coherent reason except for bigoted lies.

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

I am very much in favor of merit-based hiring and high standards for jobs with life and death implications. Which is why I oppose confirming Pete Hegseth, RFK JR, Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel.

#J.D.Vance: Neither a biblical scholar nor a theologian. Shocker. #OrderofLove

One of my mantras for the Trump era: No normalization of this racist administration. Because immigrants & refugees are not criminals. Hegseth & RFKj are nowhere close to our best and brightest. And DEI did not cause the DC plane crash. #DEI #TrumpPresser

Looking forward to the NYT front-page headline about how Trump muscularly backed down from the OMB power grab, in a show of determination