What is the point of appropriations if the White House can just cut off spending against its enemies?
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What is the point of appropriations if the White House can just cut off spending against its enemies?
Walz: "What Trump tweeted the other night put the Hortman children at risk. They have to look at security. Put my family at risk again. What he's doing the Somali community is unconscionable ... for God's sake, the kids of a murdered Speaker. And [Rs] can't speak up and say 'this is wrong. stop it'"
On the 5th Anniversary of the failed January 6th insurrection attempt, we’re reminded how fragile democracy can be. We must remember the darkness of that day so it’s never repeated. As history is rewritten by some, we choose to speak the truth of what happened.
This is lovely - before First Baptist in Mt Vernon, Illinois, died-- a third of the church budget was going to a program that provided meals for local school kids.
www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
There is no Charter School “million-student waitlist.”
There are empty classrooms, declining enrollment, and schools closing mid-year. #CharterMythBusted
Stop the waste. Start the reckoning.
Read our new report #CharterSchoolReckoning to learn more networkforpubliceduc...
Cutting off food aid while building a ballroom for dinners for billionaires is the 2025 equivalent of "Let them eat cake."
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/t...
"Both as Catholics and also as U.S. citizens, we have a responsibility to bear witness to injustices that we see," faith members outside outside ICE HQ: www.ncronline.org/news/migrati...
So, basically, Twitter is just middle school on steroids.
(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer. Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back. One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground. All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb. "I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.
NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.
"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, on Standing with Immigrants Oct. 21, 2025 My dear brothers and sisters, today I speak to you as your shepherd, but also as a fellow pilgrim who shares the pain of many of our immigrant communities. Families are being torn apart. Children are left in fear, and communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants. We stand with a mother who crosses borders to feed her children. We stand with the father who labors in silence to build a better future. We stand with the young person who dreams of safety and a better future. Our parishes and schools will not turn away those who seek comfort, and we will not be silent when dignity is denied in the enforcement of the law, it is essential that we respect the dignity of every human being. Now I want to say something directly to those immigrants without documents. Most of you have been here for years. You have worked hard. You have raised families. You have contributed to this nation. You have earned our respect. As the Archbishop of Chicago, I will insist that you be treated with dignity. Americans should not forget that we all come from immigrant families. You are our brothers and sisters. We stand with you. God bless you all.
NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."
At the Indiana Statehouse this afternoon, where people were constantly arriving. Every foot of space under the trees was also filled with people. View from the roof of the IRT/Claypool Court parking garage with the JW Marriott in the distance. So many people.
The programs will continue to receive grant funding, but only for one year.
“It is still a disruption to families,’’ Lisa McConachie of the Oregon DeafBlind Project said. “It creates this mistrust, that you are gone and back and gone and back.”
Our journalists will be covering the No Kings protests Saturday, on the ground across the country.
Live coverage starts at 10 a.m. ET Saturday.
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"It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings...[When] a king seeks to bestride the people of his own nation, it is the same tyrannical principle."
-- Abraham Lincoln
#NoKings
New: More than $50 billion (yes, with a b) for education is in jeopardy if the Education Department eventually proceeds with the layoffs it implemented last Friday. A federal judge put them on hold as of Wednesday.
Here's a list of the affected funding streams: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
“Kids”
Jersey Jazzman: Debunking David Brooks on Education jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/debu...
A Democratic effort to pass a bill paying active-duty military members during the shutdown was blocked on the House floor by the GOP.
Arizona Charter Board, for the 3rd time, votes to continue the process to close online giant Primavera after students continually posted poor grades www.12news.com/artic... #AnotherDayAnotherCharterScandal
THIS!!!
Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"
Stay-at-home motherhood is exhausting and isolating. Which makes these moms targets for conservative (often Evangelical Christian) moms' groups. Those groups offer support and valorization. But they couple it with pressure to adopt conservative views. 3/
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
ProPublica identified 155 counties in the Deep South with private schools that opened as likely segregation academies.
One in Amite County, Mississippi, has never — over nearly 30 years of surveys — reported enrolling more than one Black student.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Screenshot of article excerpt, with the last paragraph highlighted in blue. Text reads: The idea of Soliman as a secret militant has outraged residents who know him locally as “the interfaith imam” and the first Muslim on the pastoral care team at Cincinnati Children’s, a top-ranked pediatric hospital. Colleagues described a popular chaplain with nicknames for the tiny patients and soothing words for their bleary-eyed parents. Judy Ragsdale, the former pastoral care director who hired Soliman in 2021 shortly before retiring, said she wrote a letter to hospital leaders imploring them to speak out against the allegations that could return him to certain persecution in Egypt. He lost authorization to work in June, when his asylum was terminated. “This is a ‘Schindler’s List’ moment,” Ragsdale said she told hospital leaders. “And if you don’t stand up for Ayman, you’re complicit in what’s happening to him.”
The U.S. government is trying to deport Ohio children’s hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, alleging tenuous connections to terrorism. If DHS succeeds, experts say it could hand the Trump admin. a “sledgehammer” to use on mass deportations.
➡️ Read the full story: www.propublica.org/article/ayma...
I take no pleasure in this. Most Black people in the U.S. live in red states. But it’s important to be truthful about the caliber of governance. And so much of this is the bad decisionmaking that results from racism. Like refusing Medicaid expansion. Underfunding public education.
In Indiana, any reason real or imagined will do to justify the decision the supermajority wants to make anyway. We've seen that in education issues. Heads we win, tails you lose mentality.
I reported years ago on professors who received death threats thanks to Charlie Kirk's Watchlist. They feared for their families' safety. www.npr.org/sections/ed/...
Some claim "Christian nationalism" is just "loving Jesus" & "being patriotic."
Lots of social scientific evidence shows the "Christianity" of Christian nationalism is much more than that.
In fact, it brings with it 5 pieces of cultural baggage.
kettering.org/five-element...
@kettering.org
Well.
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
