Cardinal McElroy at Mass for World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “We are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our nation…this assault is intended to make life miserable for undocumented migrants…our government is engaged in a comprehensive campaign of fear at its core.”

The lessons, written by award-winning teacher @mrhonner.com.web.brid.gy, are all free. So are the links to my earlier series. You don't need to have a @nytimes.com subscription to read them.

#Humberto is now a Cat 5! It’s the first time in nearly a century with back to back seasons with Cat 5’s in the Atlantic. We are seeing our warmer future unfold in real-time, IMO. 1/

Really enjoyed A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles #booksky m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Z...

Friday night update: Double hurricanes off the East Coast next week with #Humberto and #Imelda. #Hurricane Humberto may reach 150 mph! And #Imelda may dump feet of rain if it stalls. Here’s more…

Tough to measure the price of corporate free speech since Citizens United, and yet they all are so quiet when you need them to stand up for the right thing. Exhibit A, Washington Post. Exhibit B CBS, ABC… Lord have mercy on us. www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/m...

Would you like a free personal law firm? I think it would be nice to have my neighbors pay for any legal needs I may have. You? #welfare #corporatewelfare #billionairewelfare www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Because I have plans to read the Epstein files, I will continue to take Tylenol as directed.

Do I have his right? Corporations‘ campaign donations are free speech under #CitizensUnited. The govt agency FCC has authority to scare corporations for airing individual free speech, so that corporations have free speech but individuals’ speech is subject to corporate mergers? @maddow.msnbc.com

This GOP seems more Big Government than your grandmother’s FCC. Watch Dave Letterman lay it out on FCC Censorship: youtu.be/YGk134jkXDU?...

Maya Angelou This is a Master Class on Dignity Compassion and Self Respect in a world that finds too many lobbing ridicule and darkness in every direction. Looking for a transcript… #peace #unity youtu.be/nHB-nz2ijT4?...

“Assassination of Conservative Activist may be the tipping point. -Rep Mike Johnson, R, @repmikejohnson.bsky.social School shootings Virginia Tech Sandy Hook Elementary Robb Elementary Marjorie Stoneman Douglas HS

On the reaction to the Charlie Kirk assassination Rep Mike Johnson says This May Be a Turning Point. Context: Annunciation Catholic, Winder GA, Forest Park IL, Lewiston ME, Uvalde TX, El Paso TX, Santa Fe TX, Parkland FL, Nashville TN, Las Vegas NV, Orlando, FL, Newtown CT… A turning point‘s good.

#Frases 1️⃣ C. S. Lewis: A vida com Deus não é estar imune às dificuldades, mas é Paz nas dificuldades. 2️⃣ Elisabeth Elliot: Deus nunca prometeu resolver nossos problemas, nem responder as nossas interrogações. Deus prometeu estar conosco.

For our Middle School Friends, young and old

Wordsworth “Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life.. Whose high endeavours are an inward light.. Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim.. #poetry www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45512/...

Congratulations to Michael Barfield on his first place Sunshine State Award for reporting on the Zieglers! Read the winning series: floridatrident.org?s=Ziegler #DefendDemocracy #TeamTrident

Thank you for sharing... Wow.

#GuidedReading A curated reading for small groups, aged 13 and up Dickinson, “I’m nobody. Are you nobody too?” James 2:1-4, “Show no partiality…” Quindlen, “Homeless” youtu.be/6tSD1dZWXNo?...

Pope Leo to inter-religious meeting in Bangladesh: “We know from painful moments in history that when the culture of harmony is neglected, weeds can choke out peace. Suspicions take root; stereotypes harden; extremists exploit fears to sow division.” press.vatican.va/content/sala...

Partitions Letter of St James Have you not made distinctions among yourselves… Become judges with evil designs?… … But you dishonored the poor person. Are not the rich oppressing you? And do they themselves not haul you off to court? #poetry #letters #unity

John Muir: “Into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”

It is not the critic who counts… Theodore Roosevelt

A Minor Bird By Robert Frost #poetry I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. …1/2

Nixon worried that inflation and negative economic cycles would coincide with his re-election campaign, prompting wage and price controls in 1971. This after running under the “Government Interferes Too Much Standard.” Sound familiar?

Silence By Rudy Francisco I’m learning that I don’t always have to make noise to be seen, that even my silence has a spine, a rumble and says, I’m here in its native tongue. #poetry

#pray It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak. Mary Oliver

To Know the Dark To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings. -Wendell Berry #poetry #poem #nature

BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons. Who’s with him?

Stop gun violence. Call your congressional representatives and tell them children should not be dying to keep recreational gun owners happy. More here. youtube.com/shorts/wVu9U...

The shooter at Annunciation Catholic School used an assault weapon to fire dozens of rounds through the stained glass windows of the school’s church—killing two children and wounding 17 others, including 14 children.

Catholic school educator. #NeverAgain #AnnunciationCS

Got to see these little guys making their way into the ocean this morning! 🐢 #seaturtles #conservation #beach #nature #miamibeach

This strikes me as an antidote to loneliness: from Susan Sarandon in the #movie Shall We Dance? "Why is it you think we get married? It's because we need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet. I mean what does one life really mean? But in a marriage you're promising ...1/2

Rain heading east across St Johns River in Jacksonville. #nature #photography

“Everybody is crazy at Homeboy Industries.. Thank God we are not all crazy on the same day… Nobody’s well until everybody’s well.” -Fr Greg Boyle, SJ youtu.be/JjrJAP0tQbY?...

“You go to the margins so that the people at the margins make You different.” Fr Greg Boyle youtu.be/JjrJAP0tQbY?...

The Kingdom of God really starts here, right where you are. With the neighbor next to you. Right now. Kinship.. No Us. No Them. Just us. youtu.be/62tJNPEbOHE?...

Diocese of St Augustine Bishop Erik Pohlmeier statement on immigration: dosafl.com/wp-content/u...

🤭 www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/...

This is terrific @wileymiller.bsky.social www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/...

Making a list of environmental organizations to support that fight this kind of overreach, starting with @foreverglades.bsky.social . Cannot take them for granted. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

Students seeking a declaratory judgment so they can exercise their right to free speech, write, and disseminate their journalism. Bill of Rights extends and protect ALL, everyone, citizen and non citizens.

Jasmine’s added post info.

Repost if You would raise holy mess if his happened to your family in a foreign country.

PBS carried this story with Fr Strassburger SJ who watched an immigration hearing, saw the legal case collapse with the assistance of the judge, and a law abiding immigrant was taken into custody of ICE following the hearing. No wrong doing. No pet diet. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

The situation at the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has gotten so bad that detainees have been on a hunger strike for over ten straight days.

The expression, “There’s No Us, and No Them, Just Us” applies to the responsibility we all have to make a better life for children like the ones quoted in this report from UNICEF. #immigration #migration www.unicef.org/innocenti/re...

Growing support for a Palestinian State, if any are able to survive the “deliberate starvation.” apnews.com/article/isra...