Melinda Henneberger

KC man tackled, handcuffed at church after unauthorized but straight-from-Jesus prayer | Opinion “I wasn’t preaching hate or using profanity,” says Jimbo Gillcrist. But four parishioners threw him to the ground. From Melinda Henneberger:

He didn't even get to the part about care for the stranger before being thrown off the altar. They grabbed his phone but failed to stop it from recording, so the 38-minute audio captures the whole incident, and shows cops were a lot more chill than the church folk

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Vance called professors the enemy. On campus, the right wants to replicate what it hates | Opinion This is an authoritarian takeover, and appeasement won’t make it stop. From Melinda Henneberger:

In 2021, JD Vance called progressive politics “a language used by our new oligarchy to do 2 things: rob people blind and to tell them to shut the hell up about it if they dare complain.” I couldn’t have described what’s going on right now any better.

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If Amy Coney Barrett is ‘evil,’ then only those who’ve given up thinking are safe | Opinion The capacity for independent thought now makes Trump’s own Supreme Court pick a “DEI hire.” From Melinda Henneberger:

I’ve seen Melania give him worse side-eye & that was just at his 1st inauguration. Given that he'd just justified his favorite dictator, lied that many dead people get Social Security & pretended that tariffs will require only a “little bit of an adjustment," she actually showed heroic restraint.

Autopsy: KCK detective had ‘history of suicidal ideation’ yet was left on house arrest | Opinion Michelle Houcks, who was going to testify that Roger Golubski raped her, said the system “failed us and they failed him.” From Melinda Henneberger:

Should someone with that history have been allowed to stay on home detention for more than 2 yrs. after being charged with sex trafficking, rape and kidnapping? As two of the women he caused so much pain told me, the system failed him, too.

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Endless emails and hustles: Is this the White House or the home shopping network? | Opinion There is no unsubscribing from the constant incoming ads to buy tchotchkes and claim prizes from the current President of the United States. From Melinda Henneberger:

Buy my cup! Buy my cap! Buy my coin! Buy my country!

Despite my many attempts to unsubscribe, I can’t opt out of the constant incoming hustles to buy tchotchkes and claim prizes from the current President of the United States.

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This Super Bowl showed Donald Trump and Elon Musk won’t easily undo America’s strength | Opinion Everything that MAGA loathes about America was center stage and shimmering. From Melinda Henneberger:

You can appoint yourself arbiter of culture, and go after all "who do not share our Vision." You can even chair the @kennedycenter.bsky.social, and feature nothing but Wagner and Kid Rock. But that halftime show is still going to be what a lot of America loves.
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This Super Bowl showed Donald Trump and Elon Musk won’t easily undo America’s strength | Opinion Everything that MAGA loathes about America was center stage and shimmering. From Melinda Henneberger:

Everything that MAGA loathes about America — especially that we are not threatened, but instead are powered by our diversity — was center stage and shimmering at the Super Bowl.

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Thank you!

For those of us who stiffened at Elon Musk’s stiff-armed salute, who saw the billionaires seated in First Class and felt sorry for the true believers in steerage, who took in Melania Trump’s hat and thought, “Well I would hide my face, too,” Monday did not scream “golden age” but “golden calf.”

Thank you!

My new column breaks some news: Roger Golubski is dead, but KCK’s Golubski problem is very much alive. And as of Monday, another of the former KCKPD detective’s many victims, a man convicted of a double homicide in 2010, is entitled to a new trial. www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

‘Y’all never monitored him and we were never safe’: Golubski plays God one last time

If he did shoot himself, it’s criminal that someone charged with terrorizing so many for so long managed to have a gun and the chance to use it.

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Antiabortion groups plan new crackdowns, emboldened after election Distressed by rising use of abortion pills, activists devise aggressive new action now that Republicans will be in charge.

"The largest antiabortion group in Texas is planning a new wave of legal action in early 2025, looking for men interested in suing people who helped their female partners get abortions" through use of pills. Tearing couples apart, so pro-family.

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Thank God, but he'll be back, either next session or in some job that doesn't require confirmation. Is being under investigation for sex crimes a requirement for these posts? That was the case last time Trump was in office, too, in case we've forgotten.

What Jimbo Gillcrist said in class was in no way neutral. But then, neither are the Gospels.

And unless we just go ahead and admit that what Matthew 25 says about care for the stranger is no longer operative, I don't know how you’d teach Catholic ethics now without talking about mass deportation.

Thank you, Joel!

I know the press is hated, but Joe & Mika are not the press. Of course he praises those who come to praise him.

Musk appears to pressure Trump on Cabinet and tariffs, raising eyebrows Elon Musk, the billionaire who has become Donald Trump’s “first buddy,” appeared to publicly pressure the president-elect on economic policy and a key Cabinet pick.

President-elect Musk has "started to grate on transition officials who feel he is radically unfamiliar with the ways of Washington." Ha, I thought being unfamiliar with how to get anything done was a plus. He bought this presidency and now he can break it.

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Lawyer of alleged Gaetz victim: Release House ethics report ‘immediately' Mr. Gaetz's likely nomination as Attorney General is a perverse development in a truly dark series of events,” wrote attorney John Clune.

My colleague and friend John Clune has been tirelessly representing this teen victim. Join with him to demand the release the House Ethics Report regarding his sexual assault of an underage girl.

#releasethegaetzreport