Bren Allynn Buras-Elsen

"Relativity applies to physics, not ethics” ~ Albert Einstein #ethics

Trump: "Every single American in every income level has more money in their pocket this week because of the Republican tax policies"

Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, tells us that Pete Hegseth’s language is ‘diabolical’ and says ‘there is something demonic’ about American political culture at the moment …

WATCH — @SenatorWarnock: “I want to speak directly to Christian leaders who carry water for Trump: why do you sit silently while he makes a mockery of the faith? He represents the opposite of everything Jesus stood for... When does your silence become complicity?"

Pope Leo XIV delivered a forceful appeal for peace and condemned what he described as “a handful of tyrants” who are ravaging the world, in a speech during his tour of Africa. The speech came days after President Trump sharply criticized the first U.S.-born pontiff online. wapo.st/4vyNnit

@BrentScher Hi Brent. It’s not trash. The US government has for 70 YEARS funded Miami Catholic Charities specifically to provide human services to migrant children who enter the US alone.

This is trash, and has nothing to do with religion. Catholic Charities main mission is to support illegal immigration. Trump has been yanking money the government was sending it since he took office.

@ProjectLincoln @CongressmanKean The 70-year relationship/funding was specifically for Catholic Charities to care for migrant children who entered the US alone. His act of retribution hurts children.

Trump has canceled funding for Catholic charities in an effort to anger the Pope. It is a direct attack on not only Catholics, but the very concept of religious liberty. @CongressmanKean will you speak up?

@OccupyDemocrats This ends a 70 year relationship between the US government and Catholic Charities in Miami to assist children who enter the US alone. Ultimately he is punishing the children.

BREAKING: Trump punishes Pope Leo for criticizing his Iran War by stripping $11 million from Catholic Charities in Florida that was supposed to help shelter and care for children who enter the country alone. Trump is terrorizing kids in America while killing them overseas... “The U.S. government has abruptly decided to end more than 60 years of relationship with Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Miami,” said Archbishop Thomas Wenski. “The Archdiocese of Miami’s services for unaccompanied minors have been recognized for their excellence and have served as a model for other agencies throughout the country.” "Our track record in serving this vulnerable population is unmatched. Yet, the Archdiocese of Miami’s Catholic Charities’ services for unaccompanied minors has been stripped of funding and will be forced to shut down within three months," he added. The Department of Homeland Security, through its Office of Refugee Resettlement, has paid Catholic Charities in Miami for years to help house children who enter the country without accompanying adults. The Miami Herald describes the program as essentially a "federally funded foster care system." Bishop Wenski said that despite there being a recent decrease in unaccompanied minors “it is baffling that the U.S. government would shut down a program that it would be hard-pressed to replicate at the level of competence." Robert Latham, associate director of the University of Miami Law School’s Children and Youth Law Clinic, said that the gutting of funding and possible need to move the children elsewhere could inflict serious damage on their developing psyches. "It’s incredibly psychologically harmful to be moved,” he said. “For little kids, moving repeatedly creates bonding issues and destroys the sense of both self and community. They don’t know who they are and where they will be." “This should only be done with a lot of emotional support that you normally would find within a family. Unfortunately, that is not there in a group home setting,” Latham added. Of course, Donald Trump couldn't care less about the suffering of children. This man was friends with Jeffrey Epstein for years and been accused of sexual abuse himself. He started his Iran War by blowing up a school full of little girls and his administration has worked around the clock to strip funding from programs that feed, educate, and house children. While the administration has not admitted that these funding cuts are payback against Pope Leo, the point A to point B is apparent. Trump is the most vindictive man to ever hold the presidency. He has been relentlessly attacking Leo for criticizing his Iran War. This is him using financial leverage in an effort to beat the Pope into submission. It will not work. Please ❤️ and share to demand that the funding be doubled when Democrats take back control!

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

Pope Leo XIV: Jesus told us, blessed are the peacemakers. But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. Yes, my dear sisters and brothers, you who hunger and thirst for justice, who are poor, merciful, meek, and pure of heart—you who have wept. You are the light of the world.

#Peace is not something we must invent: it is something we must embrace by accepting our neighbor as a brother or sister. We do not choose our brothers and sisters: we must simply accept one another! We are one family, inhabiting the same home: this wonderful planet that ancient cultures have cared for over millennia. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon.

@Kickassconserva Laura, it’s not about the amount of money. For 70 *years* Catholic Charities has been supported/contracted by the US government to care for unaccompanied immigrant children. It’s about human services not money.

Stop clutching your pearls about Trump canceling 13 million in Catholic Charities. It's peanuts. And I'm Catholic.

@Kickassconserva Hi Laura. Catholicism is all The Gospel and the Eucharist. In we abandoning mass and celebrating the Eucharist when we disagree with the pope/clergy we punish/deprive ourselves. The liturgy remains the same. Give yourself the gift of your sustained Catholic Eucharistic faith.

@brenisphere Don't pretend you ever gave a shit about Catholicism until now, when you think you can use it as a weapon. You can't. I just left the church from after 50 years because of this terrorist loving pope. Read his account. We're TRASHING him and think the church deserves it.

Trump’s cruelty. Retribution. Predictable.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Parking lots over a certain size have three to five years to cover at least half their surface area with solar canopies or face fines. The projected output: up to 11 gigawatts of capacity, the equivalent of 10 nuclear reactors. The panels shade the cars. They can charge EVs directly underneath them. They generate electricity for the grid. The parking lot goes from dead infrastructure to power plant without using a single additional acre of land. France plans to increase solar tenfold and double wind capacity by 2033. The US has approximately 800 million parking spaces. Eight hundred million. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

More than 40 percent of older Americans depend on Social Security alone for all of their retirement income. mol.im/a/15736009

Foreclosure surge sweeps America: 118,000 homes at risk as families buckle under financial strain mol.im/a/15735843

a very confused Trump: "Look at Justice Ginsburg. She was not exactly a young woman. The election was taken. They had a Democrat who could've appointed a liberal justice. About two minutes after the election, she went out." (Ginsburg died in September 2020, when Trump was president.)

Trump: "Powell is a bad chairman, and I was surprised when Biden extended him" (Trump appointed Powell)

. @MikeJohnson @SpeakerJohnson Mike, read our Catholic catechism for the definition of “just war doctrine.” Trump’s war of choice launched during peace negotiations circumvented congressional approval and violates both the spiritual “just war doctrine” and international law.