Debra
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Debra
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. I block Maga. Vote Blue 🦅




BREAKING: A leaked video shows Bishop Robert Barron skipped part of Holy Week in his home diocese to co-host a partisan White House prayer vigil. At the event, President Trump compared himself to Jesus Christ. Trump’s top evangelical advisor, Paula White, told him, “No one has paid the price like you have paid the price.” Bishop Barron clapped after both remarks. thelettersfromleo.com/p/you-rose-up-…

Over the past couple of months, US Catholics have witnessed an extremely prominent and popular bishop publicly sell out his reputation to become a political puppet. This has unfolded in real time. Many are defending it. I can't find words, except to say it is deeply evil.




🇺🇸 Bishop Robert Barron participated in an Easter Lunch for Faith Leaders at the White House today

Unbelievable. Paula White is in charge. She says because of Jesus’s resurrection, Trump rose up too. She asks people to stretch their hands towards the President. She says to Trump: “You were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused. It’s a familiar pattern that our Lord and Savior showed us. You will be victorious in all you put your hand to because God is using you!”




NEW: Bishop Barron went on Ben Shapiro's show during Holy Week and told millions of listeners that Pope Leo’s Palm Sunday anti-war message was about unjust war in the abstract — not the Iran bombing campaign the pope has spent weeks condemning. Shapiro was one of three stops. Barron also appeared on the Will Cain Show and the Hugh Hewitt Show — a whirlwind tour of exclusively right-wing media the day before the Triduum began in his diocese. The pope quoted Isaiah to those whose hands are full of blood. Barron’s response, delivered across a right-wing program to millions of conservative listeners, was to assure them that Leo probably meant something else. substack.com/home/post/p-19…

Judge Jeanine rising? nymag.com/intelligencer/…


.@StevenCheung47: "@POTUS has total confidence in @DNIGabbard, and any insinuation otherwise is totally fake news. The President has assembled the most talented and impactful Cabinet ever, and they have collectively delivered historic victories on behalf of the American people."

White House proposes a $1.5 trillion defense budget for 2027, offset by $73 billion in cuts to domestic programs including climate, housing, and education, while boosting border and law enforcement funding.



President Trump said this week that Medicare and day care were too expensive for the federal government to cover, reversing himself on campaign promises to protect the seniors’ health insurance program and address child care costs. wapo.st/417m2WG

Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it. The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link. General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.” Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon. Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to. The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone. Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…




