For your Sunday reflection: Catholics around the world heard on Sunday, Aug. 23, about Jesus selecting the apostle Peter to build the kingdom of God on earth. It's a story of redemption for flawed humans. Stand up for your immigrant neighbors, if you haven't already. God's love knows no borders. 🚫🧊
Trumpism has brought us: - out of control spending - seizure of private industry - destruction of capitalism - weaponized government - forced compliance with the regime’s social agenda - attacks on the courts - suppression of free speech These are all components of communism.
Several impactful speakers -- clergy members, elected officials, and even a social worker -- addressed a crowd of 400+ participants in a rally on Saturday, July 25 aimed at ending 287(g) agreements with ICE in Lancaster County, PA. I'll be posting here several key moments from the morning/afternoon.
“Trump became a character test. … When people watch you support someone who … mocks cruelty, threatens revenge, excuses corruption, attacks democratic institutions, dehumanizes immigrants, praises dictators, and treats decency like weakness, they are not simply hearing your ‘policy preference.’”
Why Some People Are Cutting Trump Supporters Out of Their Lives
A lot of Trump voters seem genuinely confused about why friends, siblings, children, parents, coworkers, and longtime acquaintances are distancing themselves.
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Listen carefully: I don’t condone violence. As for hate speech, calling the president a rapist is not hate speech. It’s a fact. He was found in court to have raped E. Jean Carroll.
When in US history has the governor of any state ever suspended any election, either primary or general? I think the answer is not since the Civil War, but I just would like to be sure.
All this time I’ve been saying “no kings,” and then a king shows up to address Congress and I can’t agree with him more. Can he rule us, please? Maybe it’s not kings I have a problem with but tyrants.
If any other president had pardoned - pardoned! - a man like this, they would have probably been impeached by now. Trump gets away with this kind of gross shit, day after day: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
The prolonged refusal to commemorate the bravery of our Capitol Police on January 6th was nothing short of shameful. We must continue fighting attempts to erase or rewrite the history of that dark day.
Jan. 6 plaque installed at U.S. Capitol following yearslong delay
The Senate voted to install the plaque after the House GOP refused to display it.
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SNL's Colin Jost on Iran: "This attack might be a bad idea, I don't know. I'm not really an expert on Iran. So let's hear from someone who can explain why we might have done it."
This Black History Month, I watched 33 different titles in 28 days: documentaries, dramas, that type of thing. Part 1: substack.com/@grandstande... Part 2: substack.com/@grandstande... Part 3: substack.com/@grandstande... Part 4, final installment: open.substack.com/pub/grandsta...
Educating my white ass, part 4
The final installment in my Black History Month 2026 series
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Israel is bombing Iran right now. Forgive me, but isn't that one of the wars Trump is supposed to have ended last year?
BAD NEWS: US citizen Bad Bunny’s performance at the Super Bowl halftime show has been canceled. WORSE NEWS: The NFL has seen replaced him with a reunion of a bad of foreigners, Led Zeppelin. I’m furious! I haven’t been this outraged since Coldplay in 2016! Great American patriots, you with me?
Educating my white ass this Black History Month open.substack.com/pub/grandsta... #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #MichelleObama #HarrietTubman #BlackPanthers #BobbyRush #HueyPNewton #FredHampton #antiracism
Educating my white ass this Black History Month
How many Black history movies can I watch these 28 days, and what might I glean from them?
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I just deleted the Starbucks app in solidarity with baristas fighting for a fair union contract and an end to union busting. Join me and #DeleteTheApp!
After hearing George Lee Jr. speak here, I no longer want to compare ICE to Germany's Gestapo but to America's own history of slave catchers after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. substack.com/home/post/p-... #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #ICEout
ICE, Slavery, and the American Blueprint: Rethinking Domestic State Terror
Why ICE Isn’t a Foreign Import: The Homegrown Legacy of State-sanctioned Violence
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They wanted to move on not for the good of the country but for their careers. Move on meant not “let’s heal” but: Let’s not talk about who lit the match. Don’t make us choose between oath and party. Don’t make us say Trump was the engine of 1/6, & that the people who enabled him own a piece of it.
They Told Us to “Move On.” Now They’re Obsessed With January 6. (Article and Video)
They condemned the mob in 2021. Now they’re helping Trump rewrite the day that will define him.
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If Jim Jordan actually believed Trump won the 2020 election, then Jordan would have said in his opening statement the American people voted to elect Trump THREE times. Jordan said, twice in his opening statement, that the American people voted to elect Trump TWICE. Even Jordan disavows the big lie.
Steroid use among ICE agents!? Who’d have thought it!? Gift link included for a New York Times Article by Thomas B. Edsall: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...
Opinion | ‘This Is Trump’s Goon Squad, for Christ’s Sake’
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Feel like I wanna see with my own eyes the transcripts of grand jury testimony in Georgia. NY Times gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u... Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina found President Trump’s claims of election fraud in 2020 “unnerving.”
In Secret Testimony, Republicans Derided Trump’s Stolen Election Claims
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Who else wants to know: 1. If the United States indeed wrote the Ukraine “peace plan” (as Marco Rubio insists after having previously claimed it was a Russian plan that leaked to the press), then why did the U.S. write it in the Russian language? 2. Which specific portions did Ukraine influence?
This Thanksgiving, I guess we should be thankful the 28-point Ukraine “peace plan” doesn’t include these two rejected points: 1. “A requirement for the U.S. and Western investors to bail out Russia’s economy after the war.” 2. “A proposed U.S.–Russia ‘Christian union’ alliance aimed against China.”
EXPOSED: The 28-Point ‘Peace Plan’ Was a Russian Play — Laundered Through Trump’s Inner Circle
How a Kremlin-written dossier was translated, sanitized, and pushed into U.S. policy channels —The October handoff, and the backchannel that’s turning American foreign policy into an oligarch pipeline
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“The long con was that they would ever do anything meaningful to hurt Putin and help Ukraine, that somehow they were honest brokers in this war. They never were. They have always wanted Putin to get the best deal possible and they have always wanted to severely weaken Ukraine.”
The Long Con Comes To An End
The Trump Administration Takes Off The Mask (Again)
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Have you seen the 28-point peace plan the US president is pressuring Ukraine to sign by Thanksgiving Day? In case you aren’t aware, the peace plan is very beneficial to Russia, detrimental to Ukraine, and it separates the U.S. from NATO. substack.com/redirect/35e...
'One of the most difficult moments' — Zelensky addresses Ukraine amid controversial US peace plan
President Volodymyr Zelensky was responding to growing concerns over a new peace proposal that reportedly reflects Russia's longstanding demands.
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Yeah, I haven’t heard any rebuke from either Senator Dave McCormick or Congressman Lloyd Smucker. I wrote both of them this morning, and not a peep in response! What’s up with that? Has anybody’s GOP representatives or senators said anything about this call to violence? I’d seriously like to know.
MAGA Raged Over Rhetoric After Kirk’s Murder—Now Quiet on Trump Threatening Democrats
Turns out, “rhetoric” only matters when it’s politically convenient.
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You know the authoritarianism is taking hold when the NYT starts referring to Him with a capital H.
Creo que UNO y Tetris son el juego del que más versiones y plataformas distintas tengo.
