Travelers cite presidential rhetoric & policies manifesting in highly public #wars — both figurative & literal — as reasons for staying away.
Four million fewer foreign visitors came to the US in 2025 compared to 2024, with total spending decreasing by more than $8 billion.
#economy #recession #Trump #trumpcession #immigration #WhiteChristianNationalism #HateSpeech #StochasticTerrorism
Staggering dip in #US #tourism is a troubling sign for the future
There’s no sugarcoating it. The complete 2025 data is in, & the message is clear: International visitors stayed away from the US in the first real year-over-year decline since the COVID19 pandemic. The drop in visitors was larger than during the global #recession of 2008.
This time, it wasn’t a pandemic or a collapse of the market—it was #Trump.
#economy #immigration #WhiteChristianNationalism #HateSpeech
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"Those who cheer his coming are not generally the rich and powerful, or the religious leaders and government officials, but the ones who have to remove their cloaks to create a makeshift royal path, because they don’t just have spare cloth sitting around. On this morning, Jesus enters Jerusalem and begins to usher in an entirely new way of being human in the world."
~ Lutheran pastor Angela Denker
#PalmSunday #billionaires #WhiteChristianNationalism
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Start off your week with a grounded take on Bible, prayer, the world, and your life ...Rev. Angela Denker (I'm Listening)
"His Christianity is not the Christianity of soup kitchens or social justice. It is the Christianity of governing classes who feel they have lost their place in the social order. ...
He is very much a behind-the-scenes operator. ...
Marshall – who has made vast sums speculating on the financial markets – is now investing so heavily in media, education, and the church. The goal is not so much piecemeal reform as civilisational renewal."
James Bloodworth offers a valuable report on the rise of elite evangelical nationalism in the UK with ample support from billionaire Sir Paul Marshall:
"He believes that liberalism has 'lost its moorings', that the Enlightenment has corrupted society, and that only a revival of Christian values – as interpreted by a narrow and authoritarian strain of elite evangelicalism – can save Britain from moral collapse."
#UK #WhiteChristianNationalism #billionaires
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He funds newsrooms, churches, and schools – but what is driving ‘Britain’s newest media mogul’? James Bloodworth reportsByline Times
— and to face what the facts tell us about those who have most institutional and economic power in the Catholic church in the US and their role in bringing the nightmare of MAGA to us.
#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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White Catholics wield enormous disproportionate influence in the Trump regime and on the Supreme Court.
There are those who claim that adverting to these facts is racist.
It's precisely the opposite of racist to do so —
#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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White Catholics do not represent the entire US Catholic church by any means. Catholics of color do not dance to the white Catholic tune.
However: institutional and economic power in the US Catholic church is solidly in the hands of white Catholics. A majority of the US Catholic bishops are white Catholics.
#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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So why do some commentators (I'm included) focus on the fact that white Catholics have voted three times in a majority for Trump, and along with white evangelicals, are the only religious group continuing to support the cruelty of the ethnic cleansing agenda of the Trump regime?
#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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PRRI reported this week that white evangelicals and white Catholics stand out from all other religious groups in their support for Trump and Stephen Miller's cruel ethnic cleansing program with mass deportation of immigrants and mass incarceration of immigrants in holding camps.
#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The survey of over 5,000 adults provides a comprehensive assessment of Americans’ views on the immigration enforcement policies of President Donald Trump’s second administrationPRRI
"If American religion were 100 people:
23 Evangelicals
19 Catholics
11 Mainline Protestants
5 Black Prot.
3 Other Christians
2 LDS
2 Jews
2 Other Religion
1 Buddhist
1 Hindu
1 Muslim
19 Nothing in particular
6 Agnostics
5 Atheists"
~ Ryan Burge
#Trump #Iran #war #Christianity #religion #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteCatholics
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"Embracing the idea that there is a perfect past currently being destroyed, Trump echoes twentieth-century fascists who promised to return their country to divinely inspired rules that, if ignored, would create disaster."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #PeteHegseth #Iran #war #violence #Christianity #WhiteChristianNationalism
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Almost exactly a year ago, on March 27, 2025, President Donald J.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
These words (in /2) are a direct rebuke to those like the US Secretary of War Hegseth, who distort and pervert Christian faith to justify the unjustifiable, praying repeatedly, as Hegseth did again publicly this week asking for God to bless "overwhelming violence" in Trump's illegal war of choice against Iran.
#PopeLeo #Trump #PeteHegseth #Iran #war #violence #Christianity #WhiteChristianNationalism
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In his Palm Sunday homily today, Pope Leo said:
"This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. (Jesus) 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.'"
#PopeLeo #Trump #PeteHegseth #Iran #war #violence #Christianity #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The Pope said God rejects the prayers of leaders who initiate wars and possess ‘hands full of blood’Joshua McElwee (The Independent)
As Arwa Mahdawi reports, Mr. Hegseth, the Secretary of War, who belongs to Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship near Nashville (part of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches), prayed this past week at the Pentagon for "overwhelming violence" in the Iranian war.
#Trump #PeteHegseth #Iran #war #violence #Christianity #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The defense secretary prayed for ‘overwhelming violence’ against enemies in Iran. He seems to delight in itArwa Mahdawi (the Guardian)
"Living in America today is like being in a permanent state of whiplash."
~ Alexandra Hall Hall
#Trump #ICE #StephenMiller #MaskedThugs #fascism #RussellVought #Project2025 #WhiteChristianNationalism
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After the recent bewildering slew of Trump administration outrages, Alexandra Hall Hall questions conservative commentator and fierce Trump critic Bill Kristolalexandra hall hall 🇺🇦🌻 (Byline Supplement)
Isabela Dias interviewed neighbors of Russell Vought outside DC. One neighbor, who asked not to be named, "said many in the neighborhood find Vought’s policies and actions 'abhorrent.'
'He takes food and health care from the neediest and tries to, in his words, traumatize people—then he calls himself a Christian,' the neighbor said. 'Pretty despicable.'"
#Trump #ICE #StephenMiller #MaskedThugs #fascism #RussellVought #Project2025 #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.Mother Jones
"USAID, gone. Department of Education, basically done. Medicaid, $1 trillion worth of cuts. Last month, Vaught said he didn't believe the Government Accountability Office, Congress's watchdog, should exist. He's also an open white Christian nationalist."
#Trump #ICE #StephenMiller #Chicago #violence #MaskedThugs #fascism #RussellVought #Project2025 #WhiteChristianNationalism
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