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"She joins other high-profile LGBTQ Americans whose faith has been reawakened by the Church’s newfound tone of inclusion. ...
Now Rachel Maddow, a married gay woman who once felt alienated, says she too feels the Church has room for her. This is an astonishing shift. It’s hard to imagine such stories even a few years ago, when many LGBTQ Catholics felt they had no place under the Vatican’s roof."
#RachelMaddow #PopeLeo #Catholic #LGBTQ #immigrants
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"The timing was so perfect, she quipped, it was 'like it was just grown in a lab to radicalize American Catholics' against cruelty to immigrants.
In Maddow’s view, it’s divine intervention that after Francis’s death the cardinals chose a pope so outspoken on these issues.
Maddow’s public return to Catholicism is part of a larger trend in Pope Leo’s America."
#RachelMaddow #PopeLeo #Catholic #LGBTQ #immigrants
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"Maddow praised both Pope Francis and Pope Leo, framing the moment as almost providential.
The Church had 'just said goodbye to Pope Francis and his message of not just empathy but solidarity with immigrants the world over,' Maddow noted, and then along came Pope Leo — a Chicago-born successor who shares Francis’s passion for migrant justice."
#RachelMaddow #PopeLeo #Catholic #LGBTQ #immigrants
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"Last night in Chicago, MS NOW anchor Rachel Maddow — one of America’s most prominent progressive voices — revealed to a live audience that, after years away, she has returned to the Catholic Church.
It was an remarkable admission from a public figure who is openly gay and often seen as a secular icon."
~ Christopher Hale
#RachelMaddow #PopeLeo #Catholic #LGBTQ #immigrants
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thelettersfromleo.com/p/rachel…
Rachel Maddow, Openly Gay MSNBC Anchor, Returns to the Catholic Church
After years away, Maddow says she considers herself Catholic again. She believes Pope Leo can both “soften hearts and sharpen minds” during his pontificate.Christopher Hale (Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics)
"52% of white evangelicals favor the U.S. government deporting undocumented immigrants to foreign prisons in El Salvador, Rwanda, or Libya without allowing them to challenge their deportation in court, compared to 33% of the public."
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #MaskedThugs
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"57% of white evangelicals agree that the federal government should detain immigrants who are in the country illegally in internment camps until they can be deported, compared to 33% of the public.
Favor sending undocumented immigrants to foreign prisons without due process."
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #MaskedThugs
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"Favor arresting undocumented immigrants with no criminal record. 57% of white evangelicals favor arresting and detaining undocumented immigrants who have resided in the United States with no criminal record, compared to 33% of the public.
Favor placing undocumented immigrants in internment camps."
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #MaskedThugs
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"Approve of masked ICE agents. 62% of white evangelicals agree that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers should be allowed to conceal their identity with masks or use unmarked vehicles when arresting people, compared to 38% of the public."
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #MaskedThugs
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"Under the sway of Trump’s dehumanizing, racist rhetoric about immigrants, here’s a sampling of the lows to which white evangelical attitudes about undocumented immigrants have sunk today:
Confident in ICE. 62% of white evangelicals say they have a great deal or some confidence in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement known as ICE, compared to 42% of the public."
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #MaskedThugs
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"Despite the good news, I continue to be deeply alarmed by the attitudes of white Christians generally and white evangelical Protestants in particular. I continue to be struck, as a social scientists, that it has become virtually impossible to write a survey question about immigration policy that is too harsh for white evangelicals to support."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #MaskedThugs
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whitetoolong.net/p/ice-and-emp…
ICE and Empty Mangers: New Polling Shows Americans Reject Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda
PLUS, an announcement about my next book.Robert P. Jones (White Too Long by Robert P. Jones)
"For a person who has tied their identity to their ability and right to abuse others (which is in the end what a supremacist must become) the only story that matters is their own. The abuse they are doing is not to be talked about, and if it is talked about then it wasn't that bad, and if it was that bad, then it was deserved…."
#supremacy #cruelty #hierarchy #Trump #MAGA #EconomicElites #economy #affordability #HealthInsurance #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs
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"Donald Trump is the narrative.
And the narrative is a hot mess....
Every time you hope he’ll sell a positive, reality-based economic story, he chooses the dopamine hit of grievance and racism."
#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom #racism #immigrants
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"Tuesday night at Mount Airy Casino in Pennsylvania, America got a fresh reminder of one of the iron laws of politics in the Year of Our Lord 2025. The signs said, 'Lower Prices Bigger Paychecks,” but the message was, 'You poors don’t know how good you’ve got it.'
Donald Trump can’t reset the narrative."
~ Rick Wilson
#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom #racism #immigrants
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"So as Trump tries to woo Latino voters by wrapping himself in Our Lady of Guadalupe's mantel:
"That’s why, as we end a terrible year and Trump vows to escalate his cruel anti-immigrant campaign in the next one, Catholics and non-Catholics alike need to remember who Our Lady of Guadalupe is like never before. She’s more than just an iconic image; this dark-skinned María stands against everything Trump and his brand of Catholicism preaches."
#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #Catholics
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"Now that Catholics are at the top, they’re the ones pushing policies that persecute the new generation of immigrants, Catholic and not. They mock the exhortations of church leaders to follow the Bible’s many commands to protect the stranger, the meek, the least and the poor by arguing that deporting the undocumented is somehow righteous."
"That’s the sad irony of seeing Catholicism have such a prominent role in Trump’s second term. The main defamers of Catholics in the United States have been Protestants since the days of the founding fathers. They cast successive waves of immigrants — Irish, Italians, Poles, Mexicans, Vietnamese — as evil, stupid immigrants beholden to Rome. They wrongly predicted each group would ruin the American way of life."
"A study released earlier this year by a coalition of evangelical and Catholic groups found that 61% of immigrants at risk of deportation in this country identify as Catholic, while nearly one-fifth of U.S. Catholics 'would be impacted' by someone being deported. The latter figure is nearly three times the rate that evangelicals face and four times the rate of other Christian denominations."
As a result:
"Members of my faith are in positions of power in this country like never before. Vice President JD Vance is a convert. A majority of the Supreme Court are practicing Catholics. Names of past Catholic diasporas like Kennedy, Bondi, Loeffler and Rubio dot Trump’s Cabinet."
But on the other hand:
#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #Catholics #evangelicals #JDVance #SupremeCourt #PamBondi #MarcoRubio #RFKJr #KarolineLeavitt
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On the eve of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Gustavo Arellano writes about the "sad irony" of the role Catholics are playing in the Trump administration and American society under Trump: as he notes, "2025 will go down as one of the best and worst years ever to be a Catholic in the United States."
On the one hand:
#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #Catholics #evangelicals
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latimes.com/california/story/2…
In Trump's regime, Catholics are among the most powerful — and deported
Her brown face, green mantle and forgiving gaze is a mainstay of Southern California: In front yards.Gustavo Arellano (Los Angeles Times)
"An official government webpage promises US residency 'in record time' with the new 'Trump Gold Card' – once applicants have paid a $15,000 processing fee to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), passed a background check and paid up $1m."
#Trump #immigrants #visas
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"Donald Trump launched a new program that will allow wealthy foreign individuals to buy a US 'golden visa' for $1m, and trailed a 'platinum' version for $5m.
'A direct path to Citizenship for all qualified and vetted people. SO EXCITING! Our Great American Companies can finally keep their invaluable Talent,' Trump wrote on Wednesday on social media."
~ Marina Dunbar
#Trump #immigrants #visas
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theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d…
Trump launches $1m ‘gold card’ visa scheme amid immigration crackdown
Wealthy immigrants will be able to buy residency, and $5m ‘platinum card’ will exempt holders from some US taxesMarina Dunbar (The Guardian)
"Per a draft for an action memo outlining options for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the administration is weighing a move to revoke the visas of Former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, CEO and founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate."
#Trump #immigrants #visas #Europe #NSS #ElonMusk #FreeSpeech
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"Donald Trump’s administration is in high-level talks to revoke the visas of two European green card holders, according to documentation seen by Zeteo. Both are prominent critics of Twitter (also known as 'X'), the social media site owned by on-again-off-again Trump pal, Elon Musk."
~ Prem Thakker and Asawin Suebsaeng
#Trump #immigrants #visas #Europe #NSS #ElonMusk #FreeSpeech
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zeteo.com/p/trump-revoke-visas…
Trump May Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter
Donald Trump may try to revoke the visas of former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.Prem Thakker (Zeteo)
"You are locking up and deporting children with cancer, mothers with babies in the NICU. There are many problems with your leadership, but the biggest problem is this you don’t seem to know how to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys.”
Then Noem ran out of the hearing claiming she had somewhere else to be.
#Trump #KristiNoem #DHS #immigrants
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Representative Rep. Seth Magaziner told Trump's Department of Homeland Security person Kristi Noem today:
“You promised America that you would go after the worst of the worst. But these people are not the worst of the worst. A Purple Heart recipient, a military spouse, the father of three Marines. And it’s not just veterans and military families."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #KristiNoem #DHS #immigrants
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meidasplus.com/p/today-in-poli…
Today in Politics, Bulletin 268. 12/11/25
… A contentious exchange took place today between Kristi Noem and Rep.Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"Meanwhile, millions of average, harmless travelers — fans coming for the World Cup, families planning a California road trip, Canadians who used to drive across the border to buy gas and discount Oreos — are instead being greeted with a digital strip-search and a bill for extra fees, background checks, and biometrics more suited to a dystopian sci-fi reboot."
#Trump #immigrants #visas #PaytoPlay #grift #Russia #drugs #crypto #corruption #travel #tourism
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"Human rights violators who make the TSA look like the Girl Scouts. People who do not care what nonsense the CBP (Customs and Border Protection) asks for, because their 'online activity' doesn’t exist or is conveniently curated by a PR team large enough to staff a minor embassy."
#Trump #immigrants #visas #PaytoPlay #grift #Russia #drugs #crypto #corruption #travel #tourism
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"What kind of person has both $5 million in liquid assets and a pressing need for American residency without scrutiny?
I’ll tell you who.
Money launderers. Drug traffickers. Russian oligarchs whose yachts have been seized more times than Trump has contradicted himself in a single sentence."
~ Michael Cohen
#Trump #immigrants #visas #PaytoPlay #grift #Russia #drugs #crypto #corruption
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meidasplus.com/p/your-profile-…
Your Profile Pic Better Be Patriotic
A surveillance circus with Trump selling backstage passes, America now demands your DMs, biometrics, and dignity; unless you’ve got a million dollars to buy your innocence.Michael Cohen (Meidas+)
"More than 20 members of Congress are demanding answers from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and homeland security officials after the Guardian revealed the VA is compiling a report on all non-US citizens 'employed by or affiliated with' the government agency that will then be shared with other federal agencies, including immigration authorities."
~ José Olivares and Aaron Glantz
"This document basically ... is fundamentally hostile to the European Union because A, it sees it as a potential bulwark against an illiberal United States aligning with autocracies, and B, it really does not want to see an integrated liberal organization succeed."
#Trump #NSS #immigrants #Europe #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"It's a very interesting statement to just say the era of mass migration is over as a basis of American foreign policy. The era of mass migration is not over because the problems driving migration are not going away and in many cases they're getting worse."
~ Joe Stieb
#Trump #NSS #immigrants #Europe #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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youtube.com/watch?v=IZUamURosu…
The Culture War Eats Foreign Policy
Join Samantha and guest Joe Stieb, assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill, as they talk about Donald Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy. This strange do...YouTube
"Support for Trump’s immigration policies have dropped across nearly every demographic over the first year of Trump’s second term. Today, only 43% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing handling immigration, a decrease of 5 percentage points since March 2025. Notably, the steepest decline in approval over the past year—11 points—comes from political independents. ...
The data shows that Americans overwhelmingly reject Trump’s mass deportation policies."
#Trump #immigrants #ICE
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"While the Catholic bishops may be showing signs of ambivalence, there are signs that Americans overall are sympathetic to these churches who are taking a stand. This week, PRRI released new analysis of American attitudes on immigration reform that show Americans are rejecting Trump’s dehumanizing, racist rhetoric and harsh immigration policies."
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #CatholicBishops
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Robert P. Jones notes that though the US Catholic bishops have issued a rare statement condemning Trump's attacks on Immigrants, the archdiocese of Boston has leaned on a Catholic parish in Dedham, Massachusetts, to take down its Christmas creche, which indicts ICE for cruelty to immigrants.
He writes,
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #CatholicBishops
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whitetoolong.net/p/ice-and-emp…
ICE and Empty Mangers: New Polling Shows Americans Reject Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda
PLUS, an announcement about my next book.Robert P. Jones (White Too Long by Robert P. Jones)
"One key difference between 1930s Germany and 2020s USA is that 1930s Germany didn't have 90 years of books, movies, and documentaries warning it about 1930s Germany."
~ Tom Lennon
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Nazis
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"It tends to pit the kind of middle class white upper middle class white person is the victim you know, the culture is changing and it's, it's toxic and it's terrible. And we have to fight against this, you know, horrible, evil culture. And it, it, it just, it's like a, it's kind of like a, I call it the rollercoaster paranoia."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants #FoxNews
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"Fox news is kind of a paranoia fear rollercoaster for folks who a lot of them are near the end of their life. They're seniors. They've been retired for years and years and they sit down, they turn it on. And it's this, kind of constant they're coming for you and we'll save you and don't worry."
~ Juliet Jeske
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants #FoxNews
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lincolnsquare.media/p/how-righ…
How Right-Wing Media Keeps Us Outraged | It's the Democracy, Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath & Juliet Jeske
Juliet watches Fox News so you don't have to. She breaks down why it's not really a news outlet — it's a fear-conditioning system.Edwin Eisendrath (Lincoln Square)
"No rejection, no detention, no zip ties or shackles. Jesus, Joseph and Mary immigrated to Egypt. Jesus was an immigrant."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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"In this Christmas season, all of us who say we are Christian have to remember that in our faith story, a tyrant King seeks to kill all the babies in his empire out of spite and threat. Jesus’ parents take him to Egypt to keep him alive. They seek refuge and safety and are welcomed their."
~ Jacqui Lewis
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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jacquilewis.substack.com/p/jes…
Jesus was an immigrant
The church MUST respond to the current crisis with love.Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis (Fierce Love)
"White Christians, who are America’s most conservative citizens, hold the most radically right wing views on immigration, per the lates information from the Public Religion Research Institute. ... They would definitely deport baby Jesus."
~ Joy-Ann Reid and Kahlil Greene
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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joyannreid.com/p/foxs-jingle-b…
Fox's Jingle Bells crash-out, Kahlil, and me
The Foxies launch their annual "war on Christmas" charade by attacking me for boosting a young historian's postJoy-Ann Reid (Welcome to Joy's House!)