“When a country with less than five percent of the world's population has nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and makes up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings, it's time to stop saying guns make us safer.” ..(DaShanne Stokes) .. (cartoon David Horsey)

The MAGA way

"Families we know by name are now afraid to come to the sacraments. Like the Good Samaritan who drew near to the wounded, we cannot walk past them." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/news/citing-...

Citing economic and moral tolls, bishops in Texas and Michigan demand immigration reform

The bishops' remarks are the latest in a series of statements that Catholic prelates across the country have released over the past year expressing solidarity with beleaguered immigrant communities.

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RIP writer Toni Morrison, died this day 2019. "Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all." “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

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False equivalence from an equivocating but unequivocal coward.

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Tillis: "Everybody has this view that they are as pure as the driven snow and it's the other side that has a problem. I think we both have a problem, folks. If you want to talk about weaponization, take a look at Biden, take a look at Obama, take a look at Crossfire Hurricane ... "

moon eye

Congress: “We’ve tried nothing and we’re fresh out of ideas.”

TY Seattle

Head Start helps over a half a million children nationwide. The continued gutting of this program by the Administration only hurts hardworking families. Education is the foundation of economic opportunity & the American Dream, I will always fight to protect Head Start!

Trump needs to keep his hands off Head Start. Democrats have stopped him from dismantling it before. And we’ll do it again.

Why do we bother obeying the law and paying our taxes when the President does neither? He is playing us all for fools!

happy bday poet Hayden Carruth, b.1921, Waterbury, CT. “For your love given ask no return, none. To love you must love to love.” “Beauty was worth Its every sorrow, mind's fading or World's ending, As darkness covered the garden that is the earth.”

happy bday Chilean writer Isabel Allende, b. 1942. “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.” “We only have what we give.” “Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.”

My unvaccinated brother died of COVID in 2021. I was about a year and a half into my epidemiology career. Healthcare staff did absolutely everything they could but they cannot cure ignorance. They cannot cure an anti-science belief and culture. Thats YOUR responsibility. Not Dr. Fauci’s.

For the enlightenment of the 💩🤡s going after Fauci:

Today is the feast day of Spanish priest Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, died this day 1556. "Love is shown more in deeds than in words.” “Laugh and grow strong”. “He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.”

It's darkly depressing that the entire GOP -- from the White House to Congress to the Supreme Court -- insists that the president and his aides cannot be held accountable for all the very clear crimes that they clearly committed, but they think Dr. Fauci should hang for alleged mishandling of COVID.

America Reports host Sandra Smith asked Pete Buttigieg his advice to Trump on the Iran War: "You know, when I was in uniform & was deployed, I knew that my life depended on the credibility of the people running our government & American lives depend on telling the truth." #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

happy bday poet Stanley Kunitz, b.1905, Worcester, MA "In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: “Live in the layers, not on the litter.”

RIP writer Gertrude Stein, died this day 1946. “One must dare to be happy." “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” “A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”

happy bday English writer Aldous Huxley, b.1894. "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." "One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them." “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”