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I drive Uber on the night shift. At 2 AM, I picked up a guy from a hospital. He got in the back, looking shell-shocked. Didn't say a word. We drove in silence for ten minutes. Then I heard a sniffle. I glanced in the rearview. He was staring out the window, tears streaming down his face. "Rough night?" I asked quietly. "My wife," he choked out. "She just... the cancer. She's gone." My heart stopped. I turned off the meter. "I'm not taking you home yet," I said. He looked up, confused. "What?" "You can't go to an empty house right now. Not yet." I pulled into an all-night diner. "Come on. Coffee and pie. On me." He hesitated, then nodded. We sat in that booth for three hours. He told me about her laugh. How they met. How she hated peas. I just listened. When I finally dropped him off at 6 AM, the sun was coming up. He shook my hand. "Thank you," he said. "For not making me be alone in the dark." I didn't make a dime that night. But it was the most important drive of my life. Anonymous

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Laura Loomer is Israel first, America second, sleep paralysis demon third

You can’t script this… Me: Who is the biggest disinformation spreader on X? Grok: Elon Musk x.com/i/grok/share/1…

@MuellerSheWrote @lrozen This is exactly the kind of civil servant we want. And that is why it is crucial that managers, manage and workers work. Not remotely. This level of detail is missed

BREAKING: Pope Francis unleashes a historic attack on the Trump administration over its cruel treatment of migrants — and takes specific aim at remarks made by J.D. Vance, a Catholic convert. So-called Christians in the MAGA movement are melting down over this... The Pope, head of the Catholic Church, issued a rebuke of Donald Trump's mass deportation plan, stating that it removes the migrants of their inherent dignity as people and "will end badly." Usually one to abstain from commenting directly on the internal politics of individual countries, Francis made his new remarks in a letter addressing U.S. bishops. In it, he invoked the Bible's Book of Exodus and said that God is "always close, incarnate, migrant and refugee" and pointed out that Jesus Christ was "expelled from his own land" when his family fled to Egypt and had to "take refuge in a society and a culture foreign to his own." Putting fake Christians to shame, Pope Francis went on to state that Jesus loved "everyone with a universal love" and taught us to see the"dignity of every human being, without exception." "Thus, all the Christian faithful and people of good will are called upon to consider the legitimacy of norms and public policies in the light of the dignity of the person and his or her fundamental rights, not vice versa," the pope wrote. He then turned his pen towards addressing the United States directly. "I have followed closely the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of a program of mass deportations," wrote Pope Francis. "The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality," he continued. "At the same time, one must recognize the right of a nation to defend itself and keep communities safe from those who have committed violent or serious crimes while in the country or prior to arrival." "That said, the act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness," wrote the pope. It was the next part of the letter that has really infuriated MAGA supporters. Recently, Vice President J.D. Vance — who was baptized and confirmed into the Catholic Church in 2019 — attacked the Church's compassionate teachings on immigration. Proving that he either doesn't understand Catholic theology or would prefer to cherrypick what he likes and doesn't, Vance butchered a medieval concept known as "ordo amoris" or the "order of love." "As an American leader, but also just as an American citizen, your compassion belongs first to your fellow citizens," Vance told Fox News. "That doesn’t mean you hate people from outside of your own borders, but there’s this old-school [concept] — and I think it’s a very Christian concept, by the way — that you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then, after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world." Of course, the idea that one should love those closest to you doesn't mean that you shouldn't love people from other countries. Vance shamelessly twisted the meaning to suit his party's xenophobic views. St. Augustine, who pioneered the concept that Vance was referencing, certainly didn't advocate for an authoritarian mass migration program. In his letter, Pope Francis wrote that "Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups," a direct and blunt rebuke of Vance's claims. "In other words: the human person is not a mere individual, relatively expansive, with some philanthropic feelings!" the pope continued. "The human person is a subject with dignity who, through the constitutive relationship with all, especially with the poorest, can gradually mature in his identity and vocation. The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the 'Good Samaritan', that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception." Francis warned against deploying "an ideological criterion that distorts social life and imposes the will of the strongest as the criterion of truth." He went on to urge the bishops in the United States to continue working "closely with migrants and refugees, proclaiming Jesus Christ" and "promoting fundamental human rights." "God will richly reward all that you do for the protection and defense of those who are considered less valuable, less important or less human!" he added. Pope Francis then turned his attention to the entire Catholic Church, urging its followers "not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters." He concluded by calling for all of us to work towards a "a society that is more fraternal, inclusive and respectful of the dignity of all." In other words, we need to build a world where MAGA is not the law of the land. Please retweet and ❤️ to thank Pope Francis for standing up to MAGA hatred — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: tribel.app.link/okwPIHYCIqb

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BREAKING NEWS: Judge John Coughenour came out with the following statement after issuing a preliminary injunction on Trumps executive order for ending birthright citizenship. "It has become ever more apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain… There are moments in the world's history where people look back and ask, ‘Where were the lawyers, where were the judges?" Coughenour said. "In these moments, the rule of law becomes especially vulnerable. I refuse to let that beacon go dark today." Thank you, Judge Coughenour! RT if you agree with him! 💙

DOGE is a trojan horse to gut labor, consumer, and environmental protections. If DOGE actually wanted to cut waste, it would address the massive tax loopholes, government contracts, and subsidies that benefit the wealthy and large corporations.

BREAKING -- Trump says he's kicking undocumented immigrants out of Social Security. One small problem, though -- undocumented immigrants are ALREADY ineligible for Social Security benefits. You know, because they don't have Social Security numbers. Because they're undocumented.

What happened to creating a platform that promoted free speech?

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Authoritarianism is intimidating media, curtailing dissent & undermining our 1st Amendment. Trump has sued ABC, CBS, Meta and the Des Moines Register for comments that offended him. His FCC is now "investigating" PBS and NPR. Democracy is not negotiable. We WILL fight back.

ONCE AGAIN FOR THE FOLKS IN THE BACK.. DOGE IS NOT A OFFICAL GOV ENTITY. CONGRESS HASNT CREATED THIS DEPT OR EVEN SEEN A PRELIMB BUDGET REPORT! THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO YOUR PRIVATE INFO.

New: Lawyers for Department of Justice prosecutors and FBI agents called the dismissal of employees who worked investigations related to President Donald Trump a "violation of the due process rights" and threatened legal action should their dismissals be upheld, according to a Sunday letter obtained by CNN.

In two weeks Trump has: -Released the J6 prisoners who violently assaulted cops to overturn an election. -Started a trade war with allies, but gave China a light touch. -Turned over the entire government to the unelected billionaire who ruined this platform—including the Treasury payment system. -Nominated the most unqualified cabinet in modern history, several of whom are actual national security risks. -Blamed a horrific crash on DEI without any evidence. -Added billions to his personal wealth by launching a scam crypto meme. -Purged the FBI of anyone who worked on the J6 investigations. -Randomly wasted a bunch of water in CA and nearly flooded out farmers just so he could act like he was turning on water for the state. What’d I miss?

🚨 VERY CONCERNING: Elon Musk and his DOGE team have been granted full access to the federal payment system, a highly sensitive infrastructure that processes over $6 trillion annually in Social Security and Medicare payments, federal salaries, government contracts, and tax refunds. On Friday, The Washington Post reported that David Lebryk, the highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department, is stepping down after he refused to grant Musk access to this critical payment system. Can you imagine the uproar from MAGA Republicans and the media if President Biden had allowed George Soros or any other Democratic billionaire to gain access to this system?

This is legitimately the most pointless trade war in history. Economics 101 for the MAGA crowd who doesn’t seem to get it. We are a net importer. That means we BUY more shit than we sell. Import tariffs mean that US COMPANIES PAY MORE TO BUY GOODS. The money goes to US customs. When US companies pay more to buy goods, they sell them to US consumers (that’s you, reading this post) for more money in order to maintain their profit margins. Guess which countries we buy the most shit from? Canada, Mexico, and China — the countries he just tariffed for absolutely no reason.