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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1/ The Catholic Church in the United States is broken. “Can there be a Christian defense of such depredations? Pecknold is now in charge of offering one. The Church itself, meanwhile, is somewhere else entirely. Late last year, the U.S. Conference of www.theunpopulist.net/p/a-catholic...
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A Catholic Theologian Signs Up for Mass Cruelty
Yet another thinker puts his faith in the service of monstrous deportation policies
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 07/10/2026
A new report reveals how the DOJ’s civil rights division has replaced long-time staffers with the worst of the worst. trib.al/xXUKgXt
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Justice Department Hired Criminals as Veteran Employees Fled
A new report reveals how the DOJ’s civil rights division has replaced long-time staffers with the worst of the worst.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
1/ “For Rozanski, the urgency was local and painfully concrete.” “He pointed to Nixon Perez and Glendy Gonzalez de la Cruz, a Guatemalan couple who had lived in the St. Louis area before Perez was deported and Gonzalez followed him with their family. Rozanski said www.ncronline.org/news/across-...
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Across US, Catholics take to streets as momentum builds for immigrant solidarity
"I think we're going to go through a dark night of the soul as a country on this issue," said Dylan Corbett, executive director of the Hope Border Institute. "But I do have a lot of hope."
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
1/2 The religious right is the single biggest domestic threat we have in the United States. “In Jones’s diagnosis, white American Christianity has committed a profound act of apostasy by trading its spiritual core for political dominance. By endorsing www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
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When is the right time to compare US politics to the Nazi era? This expert on Christian nationalism says: now
Robert P Jones argues that declining white Christian influence has fuelled an alliance with Trump, and warns it is reshaping US democracy
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
1/2 “Backslide returns to the analogy in its epilogue. He writes: “Just as God asked Niemoller where he was between 1933 and 1937, God will ask us where we were between 2025 and 2028. Just as Germans who backed Hitler and the Nazi Party after 1933 were fully www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
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When is the right time to compare US politics to the Nazi era? This expert on Christian nationalism says: now
Robert P Jones argues that declining white Christian influence has fuelled an alliance with Trump, and warns it is reshaping US democracy
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“In the four years since Roe’s demise, the number of abortions rose by almost 20 percent.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Life after Roe
How the Dobbs decision gave rise to legions of pill smugglers and abortion abolitionists.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Karl Rove Says GOP Is Being Taken Over By 'Nazis,' Goes After Ken Paxton
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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What happened to Bishop Barron? Part 1
[LONGREAD: lament of a former fan]
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What inspired Rufo's podcast about "the Indian Question" was Bo French's outrageously racist tweet about Indian-American students celebrating at a UT football game. French is also the sort of racist who feels nostalgic for the white nationalist state of Rhodesia. bsky.app/profile/robe...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s some more information on Rufo’s white nationalist co-host. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
1/2 “Everything you’ve heard about Michigan’s U.S. Senate race is true: An extremist is asking voters to send him to Washington, masking an agenda far out of step with Michigan's mainstream under the pretense of normalcy. If elected, this man would urge America down a www.freep.com/story/opinio...
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Abdul El-Sayed or Mike Rogers? Freep's pick in U.S. Senate race | Endorsement
The Free Press endorsement in Michigan's U.S. Senate race.
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The Economist @economist.com · 25/09/2026
What happened at the latest meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping amounted to a derelection of duty, and leaves the rest of humanity as the losers. The 21st century is hurtling onwards without responsible leadership
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America and China’s leaders indulge in pageantry as crises mount
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping squandered a chance to tackle the world’s gravest threats
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1/ “Did you know that the U.S. government has an agency called the “Office of Remigration”? In case you’re unfamiliar with the term “remigration,” it’s typically used by white nationalists to describe the mass expulsion of nonwhite immigrants, done in the quest to newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/ “Now the promised “future deal” appears to be here. It builds on a Cold War agreement between the U.S. and Denmark and includes no transfer of territory to the United States. Instead, it envisions the kind of expanded U.S.-military access and www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
theatlantic.com
The Greenland Fiasco Stumbles to an End
President Trump announced an agreement that appeared to satisfy all parties but came at a great cost.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/2 MAGA is a cruel, violent, racist movement. “Two metro Detroit residents have been arraigned on terrorism charges for allegedly threatening public officials, including the mayor of Dearborn, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Supreme Court, according to www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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2 metro Detroiters charged with threatening to harm, kill officials
A Roseville woman allegedly threatened violence against Dearborn's mayor. Separately, a Lake Orion man allegedly threatened state officials.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/ God of grace, You are boundless goodness, mercy, and love. Yet we have erred and strayed from your ways like lost sheep. We have turned against you, and against each other. We have harmed one another. We have harmed ourselves. And so, we ask you to www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Northern Passage
Hunted by ICE, Haitians flee across the border to hide in Canada.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Ten years ago, Moreno de Armas arrived in the U.S. after fleeing Cuba. He was legally allowed into the country under a policy that permitted Cubans who reached U.S. soil to stay and pursue legal residency.” abcnews.com/US/feel-kidn...
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'I feel kidnapped': Latino immigrants say they're in legal limbo after being deported to country in Africa
Roughly 25,000 people have been deported to so-called third countries during the Trump administration's ongoing immigration crackdown, according to Human Rights First.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
1/ Before any politician or public figure responds to a question about what trans people can and can’t do—from a political opponent, from a credulous journalist, from a goading debate moderator—it is important that they stop and say: First of all, www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-have-t...
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You Have to Call Bigots What They Are
Stop treating trans people’s rights as a legitimate issue to debate.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There is zero reason for politicians to be talking about "trans issues" except as a result of a 100% bad faith campaign of bullying and bigotry and it is important to point that out whenever the topic is raised, or you grant bigots legitimacy they don't deserve. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-have-t...
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You Have to Call Bigots What They Are
Stop treating trans people’s rights as a legitimate issue to debate.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Obliterated😂 “Russia and Iran are advancing a $25 billion nuclear power program that would add several Russian-supported reactors to Iran’s electrical grid.” www.military.com/25-billion-n...
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$25 Billion Nuclear Power Plant Deal Between Russia, Iran Adds New Wrinkle to Middle East Conflict
The deal comes as Bushehr keeps operating and Moscow maintains contact with Washington.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
1/2 “Venezuelans have been critical of the deal as well.” “It’s an operation that’s absolutely unconstitutional because it’s an illegitimate government,” said Diego Arria, a former Venezuelan cabinet minister, speaking with the Journal. “They are www.rawstory.com/trump-venezu...
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Dark secret comes out on Trump’s big Venezuela oil deal: report
Buried within President Donald Trump’s unprecedented oil deal with Venezuela is a provision designed to exert a level of control over the South American company for 100 years, the Wall Street Journal ...
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/08/2026
Even in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Muslims were not treated the way they are today, Asma Khalid argues.
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Islamophobia Has Corroded American Values
Even in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Muslims weren’t treated like this.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Trump DHS Caught Red-Handed Spying on Americans During ICE Crackdown
Podcast Episode · Sidebar with Katie Phang · August 15 · 20m
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is what happens when an alcoholic with a compulsion to rub white powder up his nose takes over as secretary of defense.
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Aberdeen City Arts Board @adeencityartsboard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
COBRA: We'll need to nationalise the water, build reservoirs, curb big oil, end private jet use and stop landowners drying peat out and- Burnham: Shit?! Is that the time, I need to be on GB news to do a racist. Stick some shit out about teenagers and BBQs instead! #LabourStillDead
end climate change or world war 3 button descion
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/08/2026
More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. swept away. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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These Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.
More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
1/ “Actions have consequences. And one of those consequences is that a church that wraps its arms around arguably the most vulgar, most corrupt president in American history will repel good people, especially those people who’ve encountered www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/o...
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Opinion | The Problem With Political Christianity
Does Gen Z feel welcome at church?
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is the text book definition of socialism. Trump taking over some of the countries most important companies. Democrats need to shout this from the mountain tops nonstop. Write your house and senate reps. thehill.com/policy/techn...
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Commerce Department quietly announces 7 new equity stakes in private companies
The Department of Commerce quietly announced this week it will designate more than $870 million in federal incentives for semiconductor manufacturing in exchange for a minority equity stake in seve…
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
1/ “The report, which covers enforcement actions over a six-month period, highlights the obvious: Corporations — not small immigrant-oriented healthcare providers, or undocumented immigrants illegally taking benefits — are responsible for theintercept.com/2026/07/31/i...
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Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows
Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 31/07/2026
“For decades now, blue-collar men have watched women outperform them… Their ‘manosphere’ that provides them refuge has become central to GOP strategy.” @johnjharwood.bsky.social explains how MAGA got lost in the "manosphere.” Read the full piece: zeteo.com/p/the-ugly-m...
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
1/2 This is happening because 60% of Catholics including clergy gave all the power of their voices and their votes to elevate outright lies from Trump and Vance about Haitians in Springfield, OH. It’s shocking and sad how Trump was able to get Catholics to ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/30/w...
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Ohio Haitians lose jobs, face terror — and impossible choices • Ohio Capital Journal
As thousands of Haitian immigrants lose protected status in Ohio, they face terrifying conditions back at home, pastor says.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 29/07/2026
Americans are having to adapt to the biggest price jump on groceries in 50 years thanks to Donald Trump. And instead of helping you, he’s adding more tariffs, more gas price hikes, and more chaos at home.
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Americans rewire their grocery shopping routines while digesting the biggest price jump in 50 years
Living through the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century has many Americans changing their eating and food shopping habits.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
1/ MAGA is a cruel, violent, racist movement. This would never have happened if 60% of U.S. Catholics including clergy had not given all the power of their voices and their votes to a racist, anti immigrant hate campaign in the www.reuters.com/world/americ... www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Guatemalan man deported from US and wife found dead in sugarcane field, baby alive beside them
A Guatemalan man deported from the U.S. and his wife, ‌who recently self-deported to join him, were found dead in a sugarcane field in southwestern Guatemala, authorities said on Tuesday.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
1/ “There is a problem with the bishop’s new crusade against democratic socialism, and its name is Benedict XVI. Writing in First Things in January 2006, the late pope surveyed the political traditions of the West and rendered this www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/after-laws...
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After Lawsuit Threat, Bishop Barron Falls Deeper into MAGA Abyss
Bishop Barron’s lawyers sent me a threat of legal action this week, demanding a correction about his YouTube numbers. Their letter never asks me to retract the charge that he has gone full MAGA.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
1/2 “Here’s what the government’s own statistics tell us: Manufacturing investment has crashed during his watch, with construction spending in the manufacturing sector down 26.4% from Trump’s inauguration through May, to $174.8 billion. That’s the www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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Commentary: While Trump declares that U.S. is enjoying 'best economy ever,' manufacturing jobs have been disappearing
Trump promised a 'golden age' for U.S. manufacturing, but his own policies have hampered investment and job growth.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
1/ “the Religious Liberty Commission is better understood as a right-wing project. If its goal is to install Christian supremacy, it is only as a route to empower private actors to subvert the public good. It seeks to exempt certain people—Christians, yes, but newrepublic.com/article/2124...
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The Ultimate Goal of the Right’s “Religious Liberty” Crusade
A new report from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission makes clear that this issue is just a stalking horse for a much broader political project to transform America.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 07/07/2026
The era of “high separation” between church and state is over. trib.al/gTOnBgR
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The Ultimate Goal of the Right’s “Religious Liberty” Crusade
A new report from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission makes clear that this issue is just a stalking horse for a much broader political project to transform America.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
1/2 “I leave you with a reminder: MAGA doesn’t own our flag and never will, and definitely not on this anniversary of a nation currently in peril that was founded on the indelibly human right, duty, and endeavor to fight against tyranny and www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/tru...
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Trump’s Rocker Foe Goes Scorched Earth on MAGA
Jack White used the Fourth of July to condemn the radical right-wing movement. Again.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The legal analysis of the Opus Dei court, revealed.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
“The group, though mostly Catholic, is outside control of the church itself. The group has a website, but doesn’t let reporters visit its worship center. When Barrett was nominated for her federal judgeship in 2017, she didn’t disclose her involvement.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
politico.com
How Amy Coney Barrett’s Religious Group Helped Shape a City
The People of Praise isn’t well-understood by outsiders, but its influence — and social conservatism — run deeply through this Indiana city.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
1/ “An American pope—the first in history—who on July Fourth, the national holiday of the United States, chooses not to celebrate the birth of a nation and its borders but to stand on the wounded threshold of the Mediterranean,” Rev. Antonio Spadaro, www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-und...
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Pope Undercuts Trump's July 4 Bash With Veiled Message
The American pontiff will steer clear of Independence Day festivities.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
“There was never any real intention of negotiating with Rome by the SSPX in the sense of developing some space for a reception of Vatican II, because rejection of Vatican II is the reason for their existence.” www.globalcatholic.com/the-sspx-and...
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The SSPX and Catholic traditionalism, from 1988 to today - Global Catholic
The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) will trigger automatic excommunication on July 1, 2026, by ordaining four bishops without a papal mandate, solidifying a permanent schism and total rejection of Vati...
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
1/ “This broadening of the audience for Church teaching will be easier in Europe than in the USA. But the question for all Catholics in the West is what kind of populism they want: the one of JD Vance or the constitutional populism we saw on the www.globalcatholic.com/pope-leo-pop...
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Pope Leo, populism, and US Catholicism 2.0 - Global Catholic
Beyond the decisions of bishops and politicians, a new generation of Catholic intellectuals and public figures is transforming the landscape of US Catholicism, forcing fresh debates on populism, immig...
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
You couldn’t make up better stuff. Wyoming Republicans changed their state constitution in an effort to stop a health care safety net for people and harm the affordable care act. Now that change has protected abortion and women rights in the state. www.courthousenews.com/wyoming-supr...
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Wyoming Supreme Court overturns state abortion ban
The justices noted, however, that Wyoming voters could still ban abortion via a referendum.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
1/ We are no longer that shining city on a hill. This is on Catholics including clergy and evangelicals, the key voter constituency that elected Trump and made his lies about Haitians and other immigrants policy. The sad www.politico.com/news/2026/06... www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
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Supreme Court allows immigration officials to turn away asylum seekers at the border
The justices greenlit a “metering” policy devised under the Obama administration and expanded during Trump’s first term.
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
1/ This is on Catholics including clergy and evangelicals the key voter constituency that elected Trump and made his lies about immigrants policy. The sad Christian support of Donald Trump will be an indictment against US Christianity as a valid www.rawstory.com/supreme-cour...
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'Catastrophic' ruling shows Supreme Court aims to consolidate more power for Trump: expert
Appearing on MS NOW just as the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that allows Donald Trump to immediately deport immigrants from Haiti and Syria who have been granted temporary protected status (TPS)...
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frankbillotto.bsky.social @frankbillotto.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
1/2 “there were nearly twice as many abortions in the U.S. in 2025, compared to 2021, the year before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in its momentous Dobbs decision on www.npr.org/2026/06/22/n...
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Despite state bans, abortions have almost doubled. The reason? Pills via telehealth
States that have banned abortion are suing to stop mailing of abortion pills over state lines. But the telehealth providers say no matter the outcome, they can adapt, and so will their patients.
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