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The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a federal lawsuit over a no-contact policy that prohibits priests from distributing holy Communion and hearing confessions in the Ste. Genevieve County Detention Center. www.stlouisreview.com/story/archdi...

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

Please give this the reach it deserves.Cory Booker's incredible speech yesterday needs to be heard.

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Arizona has some of the highest numbers of people detained in solitary confinement in the country, with Eloy having ~1,000 people in isolation since April 2024. Mental health professionals warn that this can worsen trauma and mental health and actually increase the risk of self-harm.

He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.

41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours. Betrayed and murdered by the United States government. 42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.

This evening's concert for MLK Jr on PBS is a much needed remainder of the importance of endurance and faith in the face of oppression. A testament to the importance of the "woke" faith which arguably is central to the original Christian faith. So moving.

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.

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It's time that a journalist should ask Trump what drug is being administered to him intravenously in his right hand, and why.

I'm watching FOX and seeing commercials for "Fear Factor." It reminds me of the movie, "They Shoot Horses." People are paid to debase themselves. Incredibly gauche on a day of mass shootings and ICE arrests

#nokingsday Shelbyville KY, a bright red town east of Louisville.

A great Tom Wilson play.

Imam Qari Asim has made this statement from the British Muslim Network about the Manchester synagogue attack. [He is also a British Future trustee].

We filed a lawsuit on behalf of 53 children including a 12-year-old girl with chronic kidney disease who needs dialysis to survive. Another is 17 and pregnant. A 10-year-old boy begged not to be sent back, telling us he has no family in Guatemala.

Classical radio is playing patriotic music and I'm weeping. This President and his minions are betraying our founding values. However imperfectly they have been implemented, there was movement toward good ideals. What is happening and its brutality is un-American, so I weep.

“I was hungry” and you cut SNAP. “I was thirsty” and you cut funding to ensure clean water. “I was sick” and you cut medicaid. “I was a stranger” and you deported me. “I was in prison” and you just left me there to rot. “Whatever you do to the least of these, you do unto me.”-Jesus

Ekblad after what is arguably an assault is cheered for a goal, which is fortunately called off.

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Oklahoma man says Social Security benefits terminated without warning or explanation www.wkrn.com/news/nationa...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex condemned ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, calling it a “tyrannical” move. “If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."

BREAKING: Judge blocks Columbia pro-Palestinian protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil's removal from US pending further action on habeas petition. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Until last night, the ICE detainee locator stated Khalil was at Elizabeth, NJ—even though his wife had been unable to find him there yesterday. This morning, his location has been updated to Jena — a very remote, GEO group-run facility in the middle of rural Louisiana.

A second German tourist is being held in a detention centre after having her Visa revoked by the U.S. It’s the same detention centre holding Jessica Brösche, the German tattoo artist who spent 8 days in solitary. She’s been held for 6 weeks. The U.S. is not a safe place to travel anymore

This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...

They will use ICE and DOJ to go after people they decide are enemies of the state and disappear them into a labyrinth system where you will drain your bank accounts fighting for justice and may never see it. Welcome to America in 2025. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

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What Bishop Budde preached at the Washington Cathedral was firmly in the tradition of the Old Testament prophets and the Sermon on the Mount. I'll be interested to see how learned evangelicals with an interest in moral issues like Russell Moore react.

Deaths in the War on Terror in Afghanistan, where NATO allies responded to a call from the USA, included 43 Danes and 158 Canadians, according to the US DOD.

Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/o...