Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Thursday froze President Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in and around Chicago, saying the president lacked the authority to do so. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

Stephen Miller is a corrupt loser with a microphone and a Napoleon complex. He’s also basically running the government.

Bari Weiss "is a self-described 'Zionist fanatic.' The idea that a 'neutral media organization' is led by someone who has a long history as a pro-Israel ideologue...is really worrying. I think there will be a lot more censorship of Palestinian voices." - me to Piers Morgan about CBS News and Weiss:

If you come for my people, you come through me.

I hope this is true!

Peace in Gaza... Can it really be true? The critical elements are certainly in place to open the door to an agreement within the Arab world - the beginning of the end... we hope, we pray.

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

Thank you Chicago

"The Church cannot be silent." "Pope Leo XIV’s eyes grew misty Wednesday as an El Paso delegation led by Bishop Mark Seitz presented him letters and a video that captured the fears and anxieties of people facing mass deportation in the United States..."

Good lord. @apnews.com

Let me make this a bit more simple. We are in a civil war and it will not end well for anyone in the U.S.

Sometimes the hermit daily rule parallels our prayers for the world. May this glimmer of hope come to full light HERMIT RULE 9 Know that although you feel yourself in the mystery of exile, the Kingdom of Heaven is already within you and all is One sacred universe beloved of God

This Reuters headline. Oof. Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Wow

Veteran FBI agent Habeas “Habie” Corpus has been suspended

Trump’s tariffs and cutbacks are bankrupting farmers. He thinks they’ll keep supporting him no matter what, but his approval numbers say otherwise.

Trump: "CNN is dying like a dog."

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."

"Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown" Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are waging a war on leakers – but ‘this stuff only works if you let it get to you,’ one Pentagon official tells Zeteo. Absolute must-read from @swin24.bsky.social:

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Good fucking morning to everyone except House Speaker Mike Johnson, who’s refusing to swear in Rep-elect Grijalva to block the Epstein files discharge petition—because Grijalva would be the deciding vote. Shameful for him to cover up for pedophiles and sex traffickers.

The Atlantic is edited by a former Israeli prison camp guard and has a senior columnist/contributor who is accused of writing secret speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN. The state of the elite US media when it comes to Palestine. zeteo.com/subscribe

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

We can't compromise with people who want to take our liberties...exactly open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Whitehouse: "The supposed contribution made to me by some Epstein person is actually not true. It's false. So, weird when an AG of the US comes to the Judiciary Committee & makes false allegations about a senator - demonstrably false - rather than answer a simple Q: Is there a picture, or no?"

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

Durbin: "What has taken place since January 20, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy, AG Bondi."

Country singers now bashing ICE

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

282 Ex DOJ officials open letter: “We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

WATCH — @whitehouse.senate.gov : “What became of the $50,000 in cash in that Cava bag? Did the FBI get it back from Homan?” AG PAM BONDI: *LASHES OUT aggressively, avoids answering entirely* 🤷🏼‍♀️

What's happening in Chicago is not normal. The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

BONDI: The National Guard is on the way right now as we speak. You're sitting here grilling me and they're on their way to Chicago to keep your state safe. DURBIN: It's my job to grill you

Grassley to Bondi: "It's all pointing out the wrong of using the power of government to go after people -- political people you don't like. We're pointing this all out because we can't have this repeated in the United States." (He's somehow not talking about Trump ... )

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains

This is encouraging. Californians understood the assignment. We got loud and spread the word on Prop 50. This is a fight against Republican anti-democratic tactics, but we still have to vote. Get those ballots in, early voting has started. We’re going to pass Prop 50.

Trump says he will “have to take a look at” a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell after the Supreme Court rejected her appeal today. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons. Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

Let’s try this again it’s a new day. I’m bewildered that no one has answered. Dear MAGA: why would Donald consider pardoning Maxwell, a sex trafficker for Epstein? Again a reminder, Biden is not president and you guys called for the release of the files repeatedly. So… why?

Meiselas: Mike Johnson said that it would be theatrics to meet in public. Jeffries: It’s not theatrics—it’s what the American people deserve. If Mike Johnson and Republicans feel like they have the high ground, then defend your position publicly, bro.

China takeover of Taiwan would threaten US too, Taiwan president says reut.rs/3VUA9fn

ICYMI — A July 17th post from Miller’s cousin disavowing him is making the rounds again. www.rawstory.com/stephen-mill...