Unsurprisingly, Trump's sinking to another new low

Looks like Trump has tasked the CIA and other elements of the intel community to spy on the Vatican after their criticism of the Iran War. They're looking for kompromat on the pope in the best Soviet tradition. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/us-spies-o...

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— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) April 24, 2026 at 8:08 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

A final good deed

"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) April 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Will the Catholic Church actually fight fascism this time?

WOW: Pope Francis slams the Republicans in the United States for their troubling and regressive behavior, as well as their support for Donald Trump's MAGA movement, which continues to negatively influence millions of Americans. However, the situation is further complicated. The… pic.twitter.com/VFrAaVOEPs

— Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 (@PopularLiberal) August 29, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Actions speak louder than words

It's unfortunate that it didn't receive the attention it deserved, but the Catholic Church announced this week that it had opened a homeless shelter in the Vatican.  While the number of homeless folks it will service is small, the impact it has is huge.  And it proves that when Pope Francis said, "How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?" that it was not only a statement about our priorities, but a mission to change them.

And it's nice to once in a while have something good to report about this crazy world of ours, and not just bitch, bitch, bitch about it.

Peace,
emaycee

St. Peter don't you call me

While the Catholic church has always leaned left on economic issues, this statement from the Vatican today calling for economic equality and stricter financial regulation was a welcome reminder--especially with social issue only Catholics like John Boehner and Paul Ryan leading the republican party these days.  Still...

You have to wonder just how much more effective the church's stance would be if it (and its members) hadn't spent so much time (and political capital) kowtowing to the right over the years for their stances on a woman's womb and who individuals choose to sleep with.  Sometimes when you make a deal with the devil it comes back to bite you in the ass, and the growing poverty rate and the widening income equality worldwide are pretty powerful nips in the fanny.

I just don't think "...give us this day our daily bread..." means the same to greed is good republicans as it does to the rest of us.

Peace,
emaycee