The City of Pittsburgh just passed legislation banning cooperation with ICE. The vote was unanimous. 🎉🎉🎉

Trump didn't become like this. He was always like this; he was simply less addled in his delivery. The message was the same.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV used his first Easter Vigil to proclaim that despots can kill bodies, but they’ll never extinguish God’s love. Man can kill the body,” Leo declared, “but the life of the God of love is eternal life, which transcends death and which no tomb can imprison.”

An opposition party would not be on vacation right now. They would have coordinated message to the public about the fact that a President in cognitive decline is threatening more war crimes. They would be BLASTING the message on all available platforms.

Trump described to me on Air Force One on January 10, 2019 a way to casually crucify migrants on the border wall. He’s not Christian. He’s inhuman. His threat today on Easter to bomb Iranian civilians is consistent with his character.

Pope Leo's Way of the Cross says leaders 'will have to answer to God' for starting war. Leo carried the cross himself throughout the procession. #PopeLeo #GoodFriday #IranWar www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...

Both Bishop Robert Barron and Father Mike Schmitz need a reassignment from the Vatican to a monastery up in some mountain where there is no Internet service. #catholic

NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

Pope Leo lies prostrate before the cross on Good Friday. The pope said Jesus overcame the “imperialist occupation of the world by disrupting the regime from within.” “The poor, imprisoned, rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing he brings a new creation to light.”

Seems like Hegseth is taking out more generals in the US than Iran.

You can’t vote out Trump in the midterms, but you can vote out the people who enable him.

Please don't forget this story. They deliberately dropped off Nurul Amin Shah, a blind refugee, in freezing weather miles away from home. Less than a week later, he was dead. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Immigrants weren’t just filling existing jobs; they were helping create them. That’s Econ 101: jobs are not a fixed pie. More people means more customers, more demand, more businesses expanding, and yes, more hiring.

Must-read via @katarmas21.bsky.social in NCR - Beyond Chavez: Dolores Huerta and the hidden histories of women's labor #CesarChavez #DoloresHuerta #UFW #women www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Pope Francis said it well: “Gossiping kills. It kills, because the tongue kills, like a knife.” He went further: “The gossip is a terrorist because he or she throws a bomb and leaves.” Francis understood what the readings today make plain — that gossip is not harmless chatter.

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.

The first American pope just called healthcare a "moral imperative." Back home, 4 million people are about to lose their coverage because Congress let ACA subsidies expire. The contrast could not be sharper. www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-x...

No Christian can defend this godless man.

When I ran for Congress, I knew I had a steep hill to climb in a district Trump won by 40 points. It meant I had to run to the middle on every issue. I made one exception — I told the truth about racism in rural Tennessee. There are a lot of things I regret. As a Catholic, I don’t regret that.

This is amazing news! The people of Minneapolis and St. Paul are being recognized with one of the most prestigious civic honors in America. The JFK Library Foundation announced today that the people of the Twin Cities will receive a 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for their resistance!

NEW: Pope Leo XIV just called for universal healthcare, saying health shouldn't be “a luxury for the few.” This comes as four million Americans lost their ACA subsidies after congressional Republicans refused to extend them at the urging of the Trump-Vance White House.

MUST-READ via @jeromiahtaylor.bsky.social in NCR - Allegations against César Chavez show we need each other — not heroes. Movements are not built on the back of heroes but on the backs of people united in motion. #CesarChavez #UFW #Catholic #labor #workers www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...

If St. Patrick were alive today and tried to enter the United States from a country ravaged by poverty and violence, he would be exactly the kind of person this administration targets for deportation. The saint would be sleeping on the floor of a detention center in south Texas.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV just held a rare private audience with Gareth Gore, the journalist whose book exposed decades of alleged abuse inside Opus Dei. While Leo is reportedly prepared to break up the organization, Gore asked him to launch a formal inquiry and consider shutting it down entirely.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Tennessee folks: Call your state legislators & tell them to vote NO on SB 1868 - don't lock up kids just for being in the foster care system! The bill "would allow the Department of Children’s Services to place some foster kids in jail-like facilities that are usually 1/2 wpln.org/post/tenness...

www.sfgate.com/la/article/t... hahahahaha

Signs of hope: As measles spread, New Mexico vaccinations surged 55% arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Via NCR - Pope Leo XIV more favorable than Trump in new NBC News poll. The only other person viewed favorably overall? Stephen Colbert! #PopeLeo #Colbert #Trump www.ncronline.org/news/pope-le...

“Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment … But, in the end, we lose our humanity when we are thrilled by the destructive power of our military. … The longer we remain blind to the terrible consequences of war ...

Their guy said he'd pardon the J6 insurrectionists--and then shockingly did it. I haven't heard any potential Democratic candidate promise to pardon everybody arrested for protesting ICE. That'd go a long way toward showing me they're opposition and not just controlled.

San Antonio archbishop: Profit, politics play roles in inhumane migrant treatment. “We need to recall that these detention centers that the federal government uses are for profit.They cannot have empty beds, because otherwise they don't make money.” www.ncronline.org/news/san-ant...

Trump is burning through taxpayer dollars on wars just like he burned through his father’s money in the 80s.

Vatican theological commission warns of replacing God with 'a world governed by machines.' Warns the human family is faced with "questions so radical that they threaten its very existence as we have known it." #AI #BigTech #technology #Vatican #LLMs www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...

Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

Gregory Kent Bovino is now under criminal investigation by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office for his conduct during Operation Metro Surge.

Pope Leo XIV speaks against Trump’s new war in Iran and calls for peace in the Middle East. “War again! We must be heralds of Jesus’ peace, which God desires for everyone! We must pray much for peace, live in unity, and reject the temptation to harm others; violence is never the right choice.”

Great week for the military industrial complex- their executives, principal investors, and stockholders. Lots of people about to make many billions from US taxpayers on Trump’s Iran bombings, which are costing us a fortune every single day.

I am hopeful that the war in Iran will bring needed democratic change to … the United States of America.

Happy 90th birthday to my ❣️mom❣️!!🎂 She had a hear tattack and stroke about a year and a half ago and she's still going strong. God bless you ma! 🤗😗

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops standing up strongly for Birthright Citizenship.

What a rare breath of deliciously fresh air. Congratulations Hannah, Zack, everyone involved in defeating Reform's naked xenophobic authoritarianism with authentic humanist hope, not with Starmer's authoritarianism-lite. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...