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Doesn’t scan quite as well as the original: “Give me your tired and your poor—as long as they speak English, have private insurance, excellent references, good credit scores, preferably from Norway or Slovenia.”
1/ "Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet," @USCIS head Ken Cuccinelli tells @rachelnpr.
A new Trump administration rule would penalize immigrants likely to need public benefits like nutrition or housing aid.
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Happy 60th birthday to Fr John Dear—a courageous peacemaker, a friend of Jesus (and a friend of mine).
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August 12 2017 Heather Heyer was killed by a white supremacist in Charlottesville. Her mother: “You need to find in your heart that small spark of accountability. What is there that I can do to make the world a better place? What injustice do I see and want to turn away?”
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Here are some creatures that no longer exist. But $$$! (Barbary lion; Caspian tiger; Pyrenean ibex; Tasmanian tiger... ) Many more on the list. Soon to be many more.
Breaking News: The Trump administration announced plans to significantly weaken the Endangered Species Act, the nation’s bedrock conservation law nyti.ms/31xQXdS
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This is dedicated to all Christians reconsidering their support for Trump because of his use of the word “goddam” in his rallies. Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam piped.video/LJ25-U3jNWM via @YouTube
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Profane language is dimming his reputation as a man of God.
'Some evangelicals are growing fatigued with the irreverent language that often seeps into Trump’s rallies and official events' politico.com/story/2019/08/1…
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Eunice Shriver, founder of the @SpecialOlympics, died Aug 11 2009. The effects of her life, rooted in deep faith, were incalculable. "She was a living prayer, a living advocate, a living center of power. She set out to change world around us, and she did that and more."
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William Blake d Aug 12 1827. He lived in a world that prized reason, order, moderation—values he disdained. Instead he prized Imagination—not simply creative fancy but Insight: a capacity to see reality in its full spiritual dimension.
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His art and poetry were the expression of his spiritual vision—a kind of protest against everything acceptable in religion and art in his day: the moralism that passed for virtue; the hypocrisy and dogmatism of organized religion; the ugliness and cruelty of industrialism.
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Obsessed by the figure of Christ, he felt that the churches had emptied Christianity of its revolutionary content; they had transformed the gospel into a religion offering little alternative to the spirit-numbing values of the world.
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Grateful to Jonathan Daniels for his witness and to @RubyNSales for the way she has used the last 54 years in the cause of justice and peace. Love is stronger than hate.
It is August again fifty four years after a White supremacist named Tom Coleman assassinated Jonathan Daniels who pushed me aside and took the bullet that saved my life. As he continued his murderous frenzy,... facebook.com/100000733639877…
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Looking forward to selling this st #LCWR assembly this week. google.com/amp/s/www.latimes…
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Feast of St Clare of Assisi. It is said that of all the followers of St Francis she was the most faithful.
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