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Trump seeks to punish Garcia for resisting, his attorney says

The Trump administration is using the U.S. immigration system to punish Kilmar Abrego Garcia for successfully challenging his deportation to El Salvador earlier this year, according to a member of his legal team. The undocumented immigrant and longtime Maryland resident…

‘Interfaith imam’ gets a hearing today as Trump admin lies about him

A coalition of Ohio justice advocates and interfaith religious leaders are pleading with Gov. Mike DeWine to prevent the deportation of Imam Ayman Soliman, the former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital chaplain currently detained by U.S. immigration authorities. Soliman’s supporters held a…

The ‘crackers’ are cracking up over Cracker Barrel rebrand

The uber-sensitive MAGA universe thinks Cracker Barrel, the country food chain restaurant dotting America’s interstates, has gone woke. According to my MAGA sources, the problem lies with the corporate executives changing the Cracker Barrel logo. I used the disparaging word…

Trump’s DC takeover and the question of juvenile crime

President Donald Trump, who was found guilty on 34 felony convictions in 2024 but faced no penalties, now wants to change the law in Washington, D.C., to charge minors as adults. Earlier this month in a post on Truth Social,…

Deliberately inciting rebellion: The GOP’s latest power play

Earlier this summer I wrote a piece titled “We Are in Dangerous, Uncharted Waters.” It addressed the Los Angeles ICE raids and the military deployment in response to the ensuing protests. I cautioned that the language used by the Trump…

This is what we should be doing, now

If you haven’t already done so, I encourage you to read Heather Cox Richardson’s Aug. 25 Substack. If you don’t already know it, what Richardson wrote about is that the United States has been taken over by a white supremacist…

9th circuit says Trump can rescind temporary protection for immigrants

The Trump administration can proceed with plans to rescind temporary deportation protections for more than 60,000 Honduran, Nepali and Nicaraguan immigrants, a federal appellate court in San Francisco ruled Aug. 20. The two-page decision by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court…

On way out the door, Mandrell airs grievances with Lifeway trustees

In January 2025, then Lifeway CEO Ben Mandrell called his trustees into an executive session to address ongoing conflicts he faced while seeking to lead the $300-million-a-year publishing enterprise. Those particular conflicts, which have not been previously reported, centered not…

Trump renews call to ‘free’ imprisoned Colorado election official Tina Peters

Tina Peters is serving nine years in prison for seven 2020 election-related crimes, but President Donald Trump is again demanding her release, calling her “a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by Crooked Colorado politicians” during a recent…

Stephen Miller, we know what you’re doing

Recently, I read that in 1988, a decision was made in Russia to stop giving their more than 50 million school children history examinations because they did not wish to continue to spread the “lies” the history was spreading. When…

In conversation with Joash Thomas

Joash Thomas is a descendant of the St. Thomas tradition of Christianity on the Indian subcontinent, a former Southern conservative political consultant and a theologian always pushing the church to listen to the voices of the marginalized, whether immigrants, indigenous…

What you’re not seeing: Tens of thousands of children separated from parents

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