It's incredible intellectual gymnastics to accuse the anti-gun Left of causing gun violence. The self-delusion is staggering.

A declaration of war against Americans by an American is treason.

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.

“Don’t just say thoughts and prayers. These kids were literally praying when they got shot.” When will enough be enough? When will this nation find its conscience?

Republicans have time to pettily paint over a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting because they can’t hate gay people enough, but they can’t be bothered to stop school shootings because they don’t love children enough. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

When any Christian movement becomes convinced that it is the only authority on truth, that anyone who opposes it is evil, and that things will only get better if it is in charge of all positions of power, that is when we know it is no longer worshiping God. It is worshiping itself.

Illinois has officially ended the fiscal year with nearly $54 billion in revenue — the most the state has ever collected in a single year. We've exceeded initial projections thanks to responsible fiscal management that prioritizes Illinoisans.

Today, the negative impact on my life caused by immigrants is still the same as it was before Trump took office for the second time: None at all.

While some states are taking away the rights of our LGBTQ+ community, we're protecting them here in our state. Illinois will always be a beacon of equality and hope for all. There's still work to do, but we have your back.

It is such a declaration of pathetic insecurity to be at all concerned with another person's sexuality.

“Unquestioned loyalty to a powerful figure no matter how much damage they cause is the characteristic of a cult. Faithful loyalty to the poor, the powerless, the abused, and the vulnerable, advocating on their behalf to the powerful is the characteristic of the gospel of Jesus.” - Ben Cremer

"Trump, the self-styled alpha male, is in reality the weakest kind of leader – a man for whom every slight is a mortal wound, every criticism an unforgivable sin.” He's a snowflake. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-worlds...

If Christians in America were truly honest with ourselves, we would admit that far too many churches have become places where people are made to be disciples of the Religious Right rather than followers of Jesus and then we would collectively repent from this harmful allegiance.

Cardinal Robert Prevost has requested everyone use the name Pope Leo XIV when addressing him. No one seems to have a problem with using the name he’s chosen despite it not being his birth name. Seems like a courtesy we might extend to everyone if they request it.

Trump’s America where we jail people protesting evil, but elect people who embody it.

Crockett: I cannot wait until voters have an opportunity to say: You took food out of my mouth. You took a roof from over my head. You are responsible for making sure that I do not have health care. I'm going to make sure you don't have a job.

Socialism is what they called public power.  Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption. Breathtaking. Heartbreaking. We cannot let this stand.

America is not a Christian nation. America is a nation where the rich and powerful have reduced Christianity to just another tool to exploit for their own interests at the expense of the very people Jesus called us to serve: the poor, the hungry, the sick, the stranger, and the oppressed.

We fought for our independence. We fought to end slavery. We fought against the rise of fascism in Europe. We fought for civil rights. I refuse to believe we have lost the will to fight for what is right and just.

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

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I didn’t want this to happen. I voted for the smart black lady.

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

I defy anyone to try and claim that a Kamala Harris administration today would have caused even 1/1000th of the level of chaos and disarray that is our current national nightmare.

Schiff: This is not who we are. We don’t bully an ally. We don’t take the side of a dictator. We’re just not what we saw displayed by the President of the United States today. I would say to our allies around the world that what they witnessed today might be Donald Trump, but it is not America.

History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

All of the Republicans who for years railed about "unelected bureaucrats" destroying the government are awfully quiet as an unelected bureaucrat destroys the government.

Growing up, I was told that the demise of Christianity would be caused by our country rejecting God. Now I believe it is actually caused by Christians blatantly rejecting the teachings of Jesus for the sake of political power.

This is not just a coup and a Constitutional crisis. It is a national security catastrophe for the United States from which there is no assurance we will ever fully recover. Not hyperbole. If foreign enemies had landed troops on our shores it’s unlikely they would’ve done as much damage as fast.

I know these are challenging times — and the Trump administration is trying to confuse the American people. That’s why it’s so important we speak plainly: Donald Trump is incompetent.

We have a reality tv game show host for a “president” and reality tv star for a “transportation secretary” and a morning tv “news” anchor for a “defense secretary”. So things are going about as well as expected.

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

House Republicans are celebrating pardons issued to a bloodthirsty mob that violently assaulted police officers on January 6, 2021. What happened to backing the Blue? Far right extremists have become the party of lawlessness and disorder. Don’t ever lecture America again. About anything.

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

Biden preemptively pardoned J6 police officers who were beaten and injured, to protect them against retribution from the insurrection leader because they dared to testify truthfully before Congress. Trump pardoned the thugs who beat them.

You will remember that all of the promises Donald Trump made in 2016….are the same ones he made today. Which begs the question; why weren’t those thing accomplished in his first term…like he promised?

Sometimes I ask fellow Christians what in the Bible would back up Trump… his hate and division. They bring up when Jesus showed anger and flipped the money changer tables. They miss the point, he was angry they were perverting the temple, which is what Christian MAGA is doing to the church

Here is my response to Donald Trump’s latest malicious lies:

The dummies who support right wing movements the loudest are always convinced that it’s going to put them on top, but then they learn too late that right wing movements only serve to make the rich richer at their expense.

Indeed, this is where we are.

Lots of people are about to be really mad that price of eggs goes up but they can’t get a 2nd job because they can’t afford childcare and when they do finally get the eggs they get E Coli because there’s no FDA but can’t go to the doctor because they got kicked off their health plan. #FAFO