Kevin McCloskey

One shining moment! #OnwardLU twitter.com/marchmadness/s…

American Catholics, in particular, cannot shrug this off or hide in our pews. We are no longer a powerless minority in this country; we are a community tens of millions strong, with resources, institutions, media platforms, and yes — even a pope from our homeland. We have a voice, and a moral duty to use it. If we decide collectively that Trump and Vance should no longer lead this country, rest assured, they will no longer be in charge. If we won’t stand up now against blatant injustice and state violence, who will? If we won’t call a lie a lie, who are we serving? God certainly doesn’t need our complicity with evil. We’re called to be disciples of truth and just. We must not be handmaidens of this dictatorship of lies. thelettersfromleo.com/p/american-cat…

This killing of Alex Pretti reveals a dark truth about the administration's view of gun rights: they are not universal. They are reserved for the "right" kind of people. If you are a MAGA supporter, your gun is a symbol of freedom. If you are a protester in Minneapolis, your gun is proof of terrorism. The "right to bear arms" has been replaced by the "privilege to bear arms," contingent on political alignment. This is the hallmark of a militia state, not a constitutional republic.

“Donald Trump’s masked marauders murdered another U.S. citizen in Minneapolis on Saturday, a senseless killing in a senseless war playing out in broad daylight on America’s streets," writes The Inquirer Editorial Board. 🔗 inquirer.com/opinion/editor…

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says. apnews.com/article/ice-ar…

Top U.S. Catholic clerics said that the U.S.'s “moral role in confronting evil around the world” is in question for the first time in decades. nyti.ms/4jQRLE2

Today, many leaders will rightly condemn President Donald Trump’s unlawful and unjust actions in Venezuela, and I join them. But just as glaring, and far more damning, is Congress’ ongoing abdication of its constitutional duty. For almost a year now, the legislative branch has failed to check a president who repeatedly violates his oath, disregards the law, and endangers American interests at home and abroad. Time and again, Congress, now led by Republicans, has chosen spineless complicity over its sworn responsibilities. From the reckless leaking of classified information that put American troops at risk, to the illegal use of military force destroying vessels and killing people in the Caribbean and the Pacific without congressional authorization, there has been a stunning absence of accountability. No hearings. No serious investigations. No enforcement of checks and balances. No accountability. Again and again, the president has exceeded his authority, defied congressional intent, trampled the separation of powers, and broken the law - while Congress looked away in cowardice and submission. Republicans in Congress own this corrosive collapse of our constitutional order. With only a handful of honorable exceptions, they have bent themselves to the will of Donald Trump, afraid to state in public the feelings they often communicate privately. That submission, this abandonment of independent judgment and constitutional courage, now stands as one of the greatest dangers to our nation and to the global order America claims to defend. Nicolás Maduro is a brutal dictator who has committed grave abuses. The United States military remains the most capable fighting force on Earth, and our praiseworthy service members carry out their orders with professionalism and excellence. But none of that suspends the Constitution. The Constitution is unambiguous: Congress has the power and responsibility to authorize the use of military force and declare war. Congress has a duty of oversight. Congress must serve as a check, not a rubber stamp, to the President. On this count, Congress has failed. We face an authoritarian-minded president who acts with dangerous growing impunity. He has shown a willingness to defy court orders, violate the law, ignore congressional intent, and shred basic norms of decency and democracy. This pattern will continue unless the Article I branch of government, especially Republican congressional leadership, finds the courage to act. They must stop behaving as partisan puppets and start acting as patriotic constitutional stewards. What happened today is wrong. Congressional Republicans would say so immediately if a Democratic president had done the same. Their silence is surrender. And in that surrender lie the seeds of our democratic unraveling. There are still three years left in this administration. From the pardoning of individuals who violently attacked police officers while attempting to overturn our election to this latest extrajudicial assault on another nation’s sovereignty, the damage will continue unless it is confronted. Enough is enough.

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @Reuters reuters.com/world/pope-leo…

I refuse to believe that this stuff doesn't matter to a lot of voters

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants, saying, "What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/aft…

Philadelphia!!!!

This morning, every single Republican member of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation voted to cut healthcare and food assistance from hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians and speed up the closure of dozens of rural hospitals across our Commonwealth – all while increasing our national deficit by $2.3 trillion. I know there is usually a lot of noise and rhetoric coming out of DC, but what they did this morning has a very real impact on Pennsylvania. Let me explain: This bill shifts $1 billion in food assistance costs from the federal government onto our state budget. We cannot make up those dollars and as a result, at least 140,000 Pennsylvanians could lose access to assistance they need to put food on the table. Over 300,000 Pennsylvanians could lose Medicaid coverage – meaning that after a decade of our hard work to reduce the number of uninsured Pennsylvanians by nearly 50%, we will go backwards and 10% of our Medicaid population will lose coverage and become uninsured. This will raise health care costs for all Pennsylvanians – including those with private insurance. We have 25 rural hospitals operating on a deficit, struggling to survive and relying significantly on Medicaid – this bill would put more strain on them and threaten the closure of hospitals in our rural communities. This is a bad bill and it will have negative and lasting impacts on our Commonwealth. Any lawmaker in DC who thinks the Commonwealth can backfill this massive hole they’ve created is wrong – and these cuts will have real life consequences for Pennsylvanians. As this heads to the Senate for a vote, I hope common sense and a concern for the people of Pennsylvania will prevail.

We are headed into a global financial crisis of Trump's own making with Stephen Miller and Peter Navarro at the wheel - people who have absolutely no idea what they're doing and yet Republicans handed them the keys and Fox treats them like experts.

Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.

If anyone was curious WHY there were long lines at early voting in Bucks or around the state, it’s because a Republican-led PA Senate refuses to pass early voting. “In-person mail in voting” is more time consuming to process. Harrisburg could fix this and make it easier to vote.

The Inquirer Editorial Board has made its endorsement in the 2024 presidential race: Vice President Kamala Harris. Read the full endorsement here: inquirer.com/opinion/editor…

John Kelly, Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, said Trump met the definition of a fascist and would try to govern like a dictator if elected. nyti.ms/40fAZGH

@PhillyTrivia Defense kept them in it after the first two turnovers.

Sure would like to see the Packers’ punter