Mared Gwyn Jones casts cold water on the claim made by right-wing Republican influencers like Charlie Kirk that Leo is a registered Republican:

"Speculation has been rife about the political affiliations of Pope Leo XIV, but there is no evidence that he is a 'registered Republican' as some commentators claim."

#PopeLeo #Trump #Republican
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https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/26/fact-checking-claims-pope-leo-xiv-is-affiliated-to-the-us-republican-party

And #Trump has called on #Congress to eliminate ALL CURRENT & FUTURE #funding for #PublicMedia & the Corporation for Public Broadcasting [#CPB], though he has not sent a formal request for the current funding to be clawed back.

Earlier this spring, the #Republican-led Congress passed a stop-gap budget measure that fully funds CPB through the end of September 2027.

When #Trump said he was ordering the Corporation for Public Broadcasting not to fund #NPR or #PBS any longer, the corporation's chief exec said he had no ability to do so.

"#CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President's authority," CPB chief Patricia Harrison, a fmr #Republican National Cmte co-chair, said. "#Congress directly authorized & funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly #independent of the #FederalGovernment."

@heyokyay
There is a preliminary step to "Get rich by sleeping":

Get elected as a #Republican (easy in a Red State. Anyone with an "R" after their name starts with a 10-point lead.)

[Saying the quiet part out loud] … Representative #JasonSmith, a #Missouri #Republican who leads the Ways and Means Committee, framed the #tax increase not as a matter of fiscal prudence but as a way to “end insane woke ideology.”

The bill now heads to the #Republican-controlled #Senate, where it will likely be changed further in weeks of debate.

The 1,000-page #legislation would extend #TaxCuts for #corporations & #wealthy individuals that passed in 2017 during #Trump's first term, cancel many #GreenEnergy incentives passed by Democratic President Joe #Biden & further restrict eligibility for #health & #food programs for the #poor.

@GottaLaff Yeah. #musk is not gone. He will never be gone.

He has just finally learned to be quieter and attempt to avoid headlines while he helps #trump and the #republican party shred the federal government.

Rep Buddy Carter, a #Republican from Georgia, introduced a resolution seeking to strip the lawmakers of their cmte assignments in the #House this week. Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, also a GA Republican, called for Rep. #LaMonicaMcIver to be expelled from #Congress.

For weeks, Democratic ofcls in #NJ have protested the opening of #DelaneyHall, which is expected to significantly expand the federal govt’s detention capacity as it ramps up #immigration arrests across the country.

The Secy of State said the voting system follows #Georgia #law, which requires federal certification at the time the system is bought. Nevertheless, the #Republican-controlled legislature has voted to ban the use of QR codes but did not allocate any money to make the change—a cost estimated at $66M.

@shoq People didn’t show up when they needed to, in November. #trump was the wrong choice.

Now we have to endure #republican batshittery for several years minimum. I hope enough people are smart enough to vote #democratic next time around.

@shoq Biden is only re-entering the news cycle because smearing him (unfortunately) worked the last time around.

The #republican party has instructed their loyal propaganda networks to resume the Biden slop, as a way to distract from what a shit job #trump is doing.

We need to ignore Biden news and focus on building a united coalition.

@GottaLaff

"After expanding state Medicaid programs to cover people in the country without legal status, Democrats are considering changes that would reduce immigrant access."

Once again the #Democrats rush to the #Centrist position, not wanting to offend any #Republican voters -- who are a lost cause anyway

Have the Democrats not learned one damn thing from the last twenty years?

No need for anyone to answer; no, the Democrats have not learned a thing

@samlitzinger

To quote:

"The hard-right lawmakers are insisting on steeper spending cuts to Medicaid and the Biden-era green energy tax breaks, among other changes..."

So this is *not* a good thing

#FarRight #Republican conservatives want *more* blood, not less

OK: a "setback" for baby-face #MikeJohnson but who cares about him?

@Nonilex

What? You don't think President Trump should have his very own Private Army? But he is the Top Oligarch and that Title comes with many benefits, right? It must be true because the entire #Republican Party seems to agree with Trump. And Trump is a Christian who would never lie.