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Tens of thousands of protesters descended on DC Saturday as part of nationwide “Hands Off!” rallies against spending cuts from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and President Trump’s new “Liberation Day” tariffs — with one speaker calling on the crowd to make the two men “afraid.” The huge crowd assembled with homemade — and in many cases vulgar — anti-Republican signs near the Washington Monument while similar events unfolded in New York City, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. “Trump and Musk, who want to be dictators and want to be kings and lords, they are afraid of the power of...

. . .We have to link these fights in a new and deeper way than ever before,” said Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, which represents over 2 million workers in the U.S. and Canada. . .The service workers union has partnered with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the American Federation of Teachers, United Farm Workers and the Fight for $15 and a Union, which was launched in 2012 by American fast food workers to push for a higher minimum wage. . .

[Barf Alert] Moral March on Washington Fr. James Martin endorses pro-gay march "This movement is not about saving the Democratic Party or criticizing the Republican Party; this movement is about saving the soul of this nation." Endorsed by pro-gay Jesuit, James Martin, "the Mass Poor People's Assembly and Moral March on Washington" took place on Saturday — digitally.  Father James Martin remarked of the event, "Now, why would a Catholic go to something like that and participate digitally? Well, first of all, as Christians, we know that Jesus stood with the poor. In His ministry, He was consistently taking the side of...