The line between church and state is collapsing at the hands of hypocrites and fanatics who use religion to seize power —and history shows the cost... Our alcoholic, serial adulterer, wife-abusing “Secretary of War” just led a prayer service in the Pentagon calling on the brutal, demonic force he calls his god to help our US military strike down Iranians with “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.” Presumably this includes the hundreds of Iranian schoolchildren he’s already criminally murdered. It was so morally and spiritually obscene that Pope Leo XIV felt it important to repudiate, saying: “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, ​whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.’”

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Is the Supreme Court preparing to take a knife to mail-in voting just in time for the midterms? — Trump’s war against Iran to help Putin, MBS, Kushner, and Netanyahu rolls on, and the risks to America and world peace get worse every day. — Trump’s war on Iran is the best gift he’s given Putin in years, even better than when he hung Putin’s picture in the White House with the former American presidents. — Donald Trump, according to his alcoholic, woman-abusing “Secretary of War,” doesn’t “want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events.” — In his best imitation of one of Stalin’s or Putin’s toadies, FCC Chairman and Trump brown-noser Brendan Carr bragged about his role, and rightwing billionaire’s help, in censoring major American media. — Our grifter billionaire president offered “anything you want” to morbidly rich fossil fuel executives if they’d just give him piles of campaign money and backdoor dark funds for his own use, and is now following through by blocking the Endangered Species Act.

It's a sign of an industry that knows it’s above the law and has been doing so with absolute arrogance — making billions every year — for 30 years... On Monday, a New Mexico jury delivered what the coalition ParentsSOS called “a watershed moment,” finding that Meta (Facebook, Instagram) and Google (YouTube) knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what its executives knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms.

Bannon just pulled back the curtain on a strategy that ties together recent events in a way that’s getting harder and harder to dismiss… Steve Bannon, an enthusiastic advocate of authoritarianism, dropped the mask this week. On his War Room podcast, while interviewing far-right lawyer Mike Davis, Bannon said plainly what the Trump administration has been dancing and weaving around for months: “We can use this as a test run, as a test case, to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterm elections.” There it is. Not a conspiracy theory. And definitely not liberal hand-wringing. The man himself, in his own words, explaining exactly what’s going on at airports across the country right now.