Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

“A bailout is like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. Government bailouts do not make up for our loss of income... We want markets for our crops.” —Soybean farmer John Bartman www.thebulwark.com/p/heiress-so...

NEW: The Trump administration has been accusing political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence. Records show President Trump himself did the same thing. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Via @fiona-ndre.bsky.social and @ulaakuzi.bsky.social: In Minneapolis, clergy mobilize to manage expected ICE raids targeting Somali immigrants —> religionnews.com/2025/12/04/i...

As I have been lamenting for years, the clear erroneous standard for District Court findings of fact has been rendered null & void by this Court. Justice Kagan in dissent: “We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision.”

This is extraordinary. Prasad's memo was something else, but to have 12 former FDA commissioners get together so quickly and say what a threat it is...just wow. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... #medsky #vaccine #fda

The Department of Health and Human Services is a disinformation op today.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

In Idaho's Clarkia fossil beds, ~15-million-yr-old leaves are sandwiched between rock. When exposed, the leaves momentarily retain their original colors—red, copper, sometimes even a chlorophyllic hue—before oxidizing and fading. A sedimentary scrapbook. Reverse polaroids from Earth's deep past.

Chicago Presbytery issues call to action in face of ICE raids The presbytery seeks "creative action and stubborn hope" and vows to follow the lead of those bearing the brunt of the violence.

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...

First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Indiana, abolishes $1.78 million in medical debt for Hoosier families Congregation’s bicentennial celebration helps free more than 1,450 residents three counties from burdensome debt. @pcusa.bsky.social

And right on schedule, I just received my first text asking for a donation from Jack Schlossberg. He only just announced he was running. Institutional Democrats really don’t understand what a huge turnoff that is.

Republicans have destroyed health care in our country. Millions will go without care, and people will die. Yet again, Republicans have shown their priorities begin and end with helping billionaires. Americans won't forget it the next time they go to the polls.

A good time to remember that the closest thing in the US to fully funded single payer healthcare is the healthcare that members of Congress receive.

Rise up against this violation of First Amendment. If we can have prayer in public schools, we can have it on public streets.

Religion note: The first plaintiff in this case pushing the Trump admin to fully fund SNAP benefits is the Rhode Island State Council of Churches. By my count, that makes 62 religious organizations (including denominations!) that have been part of lawsuits against the Trump admin this year.

Please, please can we have an SNL skit? Writes itself.

After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

Jamaica still needs help www.bbc.com/news/article...

Case in point: staff of Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, #CDC's critical information tool. Most MMWR staff were informed Friday they'd been RIF'd, leaving it unclear what the future of the publication would be. It appears these firings have been rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

Absolutely agree.

More than 5,000 federal employees have received layoff notices. We’re working to ensure that the administration isn’t using state voter rolls to target registered Democrats for termination. More details soon.

Food pantry visits by military families are up over 30% since the #TrumpShutdown began. Our troops defend our country. They shouldn't have to worry about feeding their families because of Trump's political games. Fund our government. Pay our troops.

I cannot overstate what a huge loss this is to everyone in the country. State health officials are going to have to scramble to replace this on their own, and fast.

Again, unclear how/if this interacts with the TRO handed down by a federal judge yesterday, which had a lot to say about how DHS agents were to treat journalists in the region: religionnews.com/2025/10/09/f...

“I extended my arms, palms outstretched toward the ICE officers, in a traditional Christian posture of prayer and blessing,” says the Rev. David Black (PCUSA). “Without any warning, and without any order or request that I and others disperse, I was suddenly fired upon by ICE officers.”

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year. The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump: SD - Up 235%
LA - Up 150%
WV - Up 387%
WY - Up 382%
TN - Up 320%
MS - Up 314%
AK - Up 346% Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.

Medicare beneficiaries in the ERs of hospitals acquired by private equity firms had 7 more deaths per 10,000 visits compared with similar facilities not owned by private equity. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

I'll never forget my first time in a NICU and asking some fellow parents why they were there. It was for RSV. Someone with a simple cold had infected their newborn. A big nothing for a healthy adult; a life threatening infection for an infant.

So Kimmel is back but the President can still fire anyone he wants?

One of the largest measles outbreaks in the U.S. is now centered in bordering areas of southwestern Utah and Arizona.

I’m glad Jimmy’s back. But Brendan Carr still needs to resign. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

Listen to Pete.

CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance. Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna. See how this works?

Can’t believe this has to be said: But we can never deny the cruelty and violence that kept slavery in place for so long in the US.

ICYMI: our data analysis on the rise in sepsis rates in Texas after the abortion ban won an ONA award 🏆 @andreasuozzo.com

Former surgeon general Jerome Adams pulls no punches in his assessment of health secretary Kennedy and the risk he poses to vaccine policy. www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/j...

Ten months after back-to-back hurricanes, Florida church’s recovery continues Sarasota’s Siesta Key Chapel is cleaned up and back in operation, but far from whole. @pcusa.bsky.social

A huge mistake in the making. kffhealthnews-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/kffhealt...

Rollout of #Ebola vaccine has begun in DRC in response to the country’s most recent zairevirus outbreak. It is still thrilling to know a vaccine for this scourge has been licensed and can be rapidly deployed. Vaccines save lives. www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

NEW: In which I discuss how Charlie Kirk, by promoting a uncompromising form of evangelical faith that aspired to influence every facet of society, managed to create one of the country's most politically influential religious networks in a shockingly short span. religionnews.com/2025/09/12/i...

Daily reminder, Vaccines DO NOT CAUSE Autism. This is a scientific consensus backed by decades of worldwide research. Autism IS A DISORDER, NOT A DISEASE. Genetics play a key role in its development.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Breaking News: Representative Jerry Nadler will not seek re-election, ending a 34-year career as one of Congress’s leading liberal voices.

BREAKING: Indiana Gov. Mike Braun said Loving v. Virginia—legalizing interracial marriage—should have been left to individual states. That’s not misunderstanding, it’s blatant racism. Now he’s “walking it back.” We see your game, Gov. Watch this space, don’t let anyone forget.

A badge of honor for Letitia James and her team. A new level of degradation from the Bondi DOJ. Any lawyer remaining is suspect at this point. Complicit and corrupt lawyers are reminiscent of Nazi justice.