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I'm not a lawyer, but the gist of what I'm reading is that rights for poor people DO NOT EXIST because they cannot AFFORD them, according to the supreme court. Did I get that right?

Via Fiona André at @religionnewssvc: For years, persecuted Christians abroad — including Iranian Christians — has been a cause célèbre on the right, including Trump.

But this week, CBP arrested Iranian Christian asylum-seekers as their pastor looked on, his voice cracking as he begged to know why they were being detained. religionnews.com/2025/06/27/pa

#Via Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@ReichlinMelnick
June 27, 2025, 1:37 PM

"The economic impacts of terminating TPS for Haiti is dramatic, and will be heavily felt by red states too; Ohio, Florida, Kansas... lots of those states have tens of thousands of Haitians living and working there legally right now.

We're talking hundreds of thousands of jobs lost in a single day."

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@TonyStark @Tengrain there’s plenty of blame to go around as to why we didn’t have two brilliant eminently qualified women as president but there’s one reason they supercedes the rest. They’re women and this country is hella misogynistic. Thanks to the misogyny we’re now living under fascism.

"The detentions add to a growing number of church members and Christians seeking religious protection who get picked up by ICE. Often they have no apparent criminal history. In many instances, they were in the United States lawfully, complying with orders from immigration courts. ICE has traditionally not deported individuals with pending asylum petitions, who are allowed to work while their cases proceed."

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #LosAngeles #MaskedThugs
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“You know what would help? Some elite disapproval—publicly and boldly expressed. While a successful democracy depends on some degree of reasonableness from voters, a successful liberal democracy also depends on responsibility and courage from elites.”

thebulwark.com/p/the-public-is

re: 47 rages against Canada 

@jdeisenberg He, himself, still doesn't know how tariffs work. @JonChevreau

@BrianJopek
Emile Bove is just 44 years old. His internal evil is apparent in his wrecked face.

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