Michael J. Meenan
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News, Journalism, Government & Education. Writer. Bronx native. Fordham Prep, Brown University
New York City
Joined September 2016
@davenewworld_2 Plenty of GOP gay-bashers have a "wide stance" when it comes to their private behavior.
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@RonFilipkowski This man was a physician and an admiral, now in Congress. One of the most disturbing campaign ads I've ever seen.
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@zettie_geez @mspamelaa @SaysHummingbird In the horror of that Parkland massacre, these young people have buoyed me more than any other TV person, politician or reporter.
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Catholic priest, who is HIV+, arrested in Paris for drugging, raping boy,15,in hotel. Boy's cellphone alerted his friends to his location. Firemen broke down door to rescue him. Monday, cardinal admitted raping girl, 14. France is outraged.
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@davenewworld_2 Congress passes landmark legislation today, that president will sign. Focus, America. Focus. House Passes Climate, Tax and Health Package
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@RonFilipkowski Australians fought with Americans in Africa and the Pacific to crush totalitarianism. Too much to Google, Madison?.
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@howroute If a school superintendent showed up and spoke this way, parents would demand an emergency school board meeting.
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@kyledcheney @Bill_Maxwell_ Some jackass steals sneakers during a BLM protest and it's the fall of Rome. A Nazi bashes a federal cop with a baseball bat and it's just another day.
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@Seanofthesouth Theobald Wolfe Tone, father of Irish Republicanism, was, like later nationalists Parnell and Casement, a Protestant. Irish independence is still about sovereignty, not religion.
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Mexican Catholic priest gets 21 years for rape of boy, 7, inside church. Victim's mother prevailed over nasty intimidation campaign church bosses mounted against her.
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Know him?. N.J. cops investigate notorious soccer coach, Frank Cairney, in Scottish prison for abusing boys. He has ties to Catholic church and used overseas trips to abuse players. UK survivors are looking for information about him.
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@nytmike @maggieNYT Any president with knowledge of Watergate precedent would never have hired these two in the first place.
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@NormEisen @christineNYT Try jumping a subway turnstile and see what happens and yet a cabinet member gets away like a bandit.
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@TristanSnell Make him show his birth certificate. Serious question if this guy's last name is Devolder or Santos? Is he even citizen? .
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@JoyceWhiteVance The litigation sandstorm that once shielded Trump's financial crimes will not work in America v Trump.
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@ErickFernandez Parkland student asks why her school had no printer paper for 2 weeks but state coughed up $400 M to arm teachers.
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French cardinal investigated for raping girl,13. Latest Catholic bombshell. Crisis not just lowly parish priests abusing kids. For years, bosses like Cardinal Keith O'Brien got away with sex crimes. 2015 article👇.
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@LeaBlackMiami All this GOP male rage and angst is about one thing: they are terrified and cannot deal with it.
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@antifaoperative Ohio attorney general won't investigate Catholic church, like in other states. This school rape is not an anomaly.
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50 years too late. “The catholic church is arguably more responsible for more child sex abuse than any institution in the world,” says Illinois attorney after church boss says there's new system for reporting clergy sex crimes.
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@antifaoperative @floodlitorg Local news site says he worked for US Senate and the White House. What senators and what president?.
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@funder Disgraceful that Americans have to protest for the government that's theirs to function.
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@spincity615 @Esqueer_ Ratzinger vilified gay people. Turns out his "intrinsically disordered" label really applied to so many clergy sex offenders left rampant.
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Ex-girlfriend of Spanish Catholic priest ratted on him to police after she found computer pics of priest drugging, raping 5 women. Now he sits in jail while church bosses give usual back and forth denials about doing nothing to stop him.
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@PeterTatchell Benedict knew where every abusive cardinal and bishop was hiding. He still sent them their paychecks.
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New Zealand Catholic cardinal loses court battle to suppress story that he sexually abused boy, 7.
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@lindyli Kushner on a Mideast jaunt while America was attacked. And didn't give a hoot. Got it.
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@MommadebiToo @ananavarro Not sure what's making you uncomfortable with my language, but I hope HRC attacks when facts are all out there.
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Catholic church in France reels from new sex abuse cases, a dozen bishops fired or sidelined
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Buffalo, NY, among the US' most criminally corrupt Catholic dioceses, has many predator priests spared prison time. Despite court rulings, diocese appeals again to block media from seeing its secret files. Millions spent on lawyers. Victims stiffed.
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Pope Benedict with "Uncle Ted" McCarrick, the former cardinal now prosecuted for child sex crimes (right) whose money making skills kept him in favor long after pope knew he was a sex offender.
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@McCormackJohn @nytimes I don't recall Senator Collins being so vexed when Garland nomination was dead-on-arrival.
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@CalltoActivism @AOC 14th Amendment. Passed to prevent former Confederates from continuing to rebel as officeholders.
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Meet the teacher who told disgraced EPA's Pruitt to resign days before he split.
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Australian Catholic church has so many sexual abuse complaints, its insurance company faces insolvency .
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@KenDilanianNBC @katie_honan @jonathan4ny @ryanjreilly Another J6 attacker whose blood is on Trump's hands.
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Oakland Catholic diocese owns shopping malls and stock trading company. But says it's bankrupt when sex abuse lawsuits hit.
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Victims of predator Catholic priests are in Geneva to push the United Nations to force the Vatican to honour its international obligations.
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@SuMoh7 Her speeches and attacks show that Boebert is unfit. Something's way off with this person.
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Attorney for Capitol rioter pushes for a Trump pardon. “They were betrayed by somebody in whom they’d placed their faith,” Mr. Watkins said. “They’re like the followers of Jim Jones. The only thing missing was the Kool-Aid.”.
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@JLG1017 @MichaelAvenatti @LeeGronberg @SenFeinstein @SenSusanCollins @lisamurkowski @SenJeffFlake Even if Trump drops Kavanaugh, Congress must impeach this judge if rape charges have merit.
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@Ire201261 @Colmogorman @IrishTimes Plastering shamrocks on myself on March 17th doesn't make me Brian Boru. Going after the men who sexually abused me makes me quite Christian.
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Opinion: Church's worst crisis in 500 years cannot be solved by clergy. They are the problem.
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Massachusetts Catholic priest avoids prosecution for child rape after adult male victim says the trauma is keeping him from testifying. This is why the church loves delay, in order to kill these cases.
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Headline says "trial of the century" for Catholic cardinal busted for stealing money. Really?. Because cardinals guilty of serial sex crimes don't even get put on trial.
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Australian Catholic bishop sexually assaulted multiple young men since his 1976 ordination, internal church report says. Bishop used private plane to transport victims, guns and booze around his remote, rural diocese while looting millions from church.
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@hlholeman @ProjectLincoln @BillStepien @VP Lecture of a high school principal over the intercom before midwinter break.
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400,000 Spanish children sexually abused by Catholic clergy and teachers, says new report. This shocking number is not an anomaly, but a central feature of growing up Catholic for tens of millions worldwide.
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@FrankFigliuzzi1 They've studied Nazi Weimar tactics. Chaos is the aim and cruelty is the means.
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Catholic priest on bishop's sex crime coverup:.“They try to dominate you and when they can’t dominate you,they try to humiliate you. It just seems like my name keeps coming up in ways to humiliate me. It tells other would-be whistleblowers to keep quiet.”.
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Spain's Catholic Church to compensate sexual abuse victims even if priest has died
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“Some victims have killed themselves. Some have overdosed. Families have been devastated by this,” he said. Pennsylvania state representative, Mark Rozzi, raped as a boy by a Catholic priest, who now fights church's political tactics.
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West of Ireland has fewer Catholics going to church. Sex abuse crisis has created societal changes once unthinkable.
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330,000 children in France were victims of church sex abuse: report
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Church bosses defrocked Irish priest in 1998 for sexually abusing boys. Cops nor parishioners never told. Now, 25 years later he's in prison. Thanks to survivors who did all the heavy lifting.
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Australia’s Most Senior Catholic Bishop Arrested at Home for Sexual Abuse.
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@irishrygirl Another peeve: He's Mr. Trump, not President Trump. Same for every other office holder who's now a private citizen. This isn't a monarchy with life titles.
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Nearly 1,400 sex abuse victims seek compensation from Catholic church in France. 1,400 is tip of the iceberg.
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@briantylercohen @RepHankJohnson The person who shames is attempting to disown their own shamefulness.
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@keithboykin @AlyssaMastro44 "Blame the black man for violence" worked in 1968, but won't in 2018.
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@SteveSchmidtSES America is still obsessed with African Americans and policing them. The GOP supports violence to express that obsession.
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@donwinslow The worst white man is always better then the best black men, thinks white suburban lady when pollster calls.
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@NoLieWithBTC @kris417 McConnell said nothing when Trump refused to visit European graves of US troops in an embarrassing international snub.
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Associated Press: Ohio priest who sex-trafficked boys he met in preschool given life sentence
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@jennmorson 1.This is a conspiracy, not religion protected by First Amendment. 2.This is organized crime. 3. When informed of it, clergy must report sexual abuse or face prosecution. Same as teachers and care givers.
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@SenDuckworth @DHSgov @SecNielsen @USArmy US veterans should not be deported. Bad policy, bad example.
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Vatican's child sex abuse panel is led by Boston's cardinal. But he can't clean up his own diocese. New case alleges Massachusetts clergyman was serial predator at Catholic high school. And church blocks justice.
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@robreiner Kavanaugh, now this. He is mocking us. He lives to torment. A nation can't stay silent.
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Cops finally arrest serial priest predator. Because media didn't let up. Links between Boston Catholic and New Orleans bosses, with shady "treatment" centers, Fordham University and complicit cops paint the picture: organized crime.
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Baptist church boss and GOP extremist Paul Pressler settles lawsuit alleging he raped, abused boy, 14. Seven other men have made similar claims. Cases are typical of anti-abortion, anti-gay zealots who abuse children.
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It’s Time to End Statute of Limitations Laws for Child Sex Abuse Victims. For Good.
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