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By the end of Trump’s term, it’ll be just enough to buy one gallon of gas and a carton of eggs.

God help us. This is disgraceful language coming from a Christian, or anyone with a soul. It was just as wrong to celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk as it is to celebrate that of Robert Mueller. May they rest in peace. And may we never forget that Jesus's message is about mercy.

A new video appears to show the moments leading up to a fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis, with the individual appearing to simply record on his phone as agents escalated the situation. 🎥 dangjessie / Threads

How President Trump reacted to the brutal murder of Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner vs How Rob Reiner reacted to the brutal murder of Charlie Kirk.

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I have a hard time believing that anyone would say, as @elonmusk did, "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." In fact, the fundamental weakness is a lack of empathy. Many years ago, a spiritual director told me that sympathy is understanding how you would feel suffering someone's misfortunates. Empathy is understanding how they feel. Compassion is being willing to suffer alongside them. A lack of empathy is at the heart of our mistreatment (and mockery and growing hatred) of the poor, of migrants and refugees, of LGBTQ people, and of all those on the margins. It is not only a lack of imagination; it is also a fundamental lack of mercy towards those whom some consider "other." One basis of contemporary Western civilization is capitalism. I'm a @Wharton grad and a capitalist. That means that I believe capitalism is the most efficient system of distributing goods and services to the most number of people. But it's not perfect. How do we know this? Just look at the millions of poor people around the world. What capitalism, the free-market system, laissez-faire economics and Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" lack is a sense of empathy for those who are suffering. (They used to be called at Wharton the "transitional poor," as if, at some point, everyone would soon share in greater prosperity.) Empathy led us to create safety nets for those that capitalism fails. But now those nets are being shredded. James F. Keenan, SJ, the moral theologian, once described compassion (which, from the Greek, means to suffer or experience with) as the willingness "to enter in the chaos of another person's life." This is what Jesus always did whenever he encountered someone who was seen as "other": a Roman centurion, a Samaritan woman, someone suffering from leprosy, anyone who was sick, the poor. Empathy, as well as compassion, were at the very heart of Jesus's public ministry. This is also how we are called to live. The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is a lack of empathy. As Jesus said, "Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice'" (Mt 9:13).

On March 5, 1940, a decision was made in Moscow to murder over 22 thousand Polish war prisoners. May the memory of the Russian lie and Katyń crime be a warning for the world. Let us always call it as it is: a crime is a crime, a victim - a victim, an aggressor - an aggressor.

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

Was it for this that the US spent 80 years building power and alliances? Not to be a force for good. But instead to impoverish neighbours, threaten those it protected, rob minerals from war-torn countries, and break its promises to 100s of millions of the poorest in the world? 🧵

Some have disappointed, some had bad policy, some made big mistakes. But I’ve never in my life been ashamed of American leaders. Until today.

Dear @ZelenskyyUa, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Admiration by so many Republicans for Putin--a brutal dictator with no respect for human life, individual liberties, or private property, who hates America -- is one of the most shocking developments of my life. Never saw that coming.

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