{"id":31224,"date":"2025-01-22T12:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T12:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/bishop-asks-trump-to-have-mercy-on-migrants-and-lgbtq-people-first-thing\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T12:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T12:21:46","slug":"bishop-asks-trump-to-have-mercy-on-migrants-and-lgbtq-people-first-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/bishop-asks-trump-to-have-mercy-on-migrants-and-lgbtq-people-first-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop asks Trump to \u2018have mercy\u2019 on migrants and LGBTQ+ people | First Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right Rev Mariann Budde\u2019s appeal followed executive orders preparing US for mass deportations and targeting of transgender people<\/p>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Episcopal bishop of Washington <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/21\/trump-bishop-mercy\">implored Donald Trump to \u201chave mercy upon\u201d immigrants and LGBTQ+ people<\/a> across the country after he unleashed a slate of executive orders targeting communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What executive orders<\/strong> <strong>does it follow? <\/strong>Trump has already signed directives undoing Biden-era protections for transgender Americans and paving the way for mass deportations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who supports the Patriotic Millionaires\u2019 campaign?<\/strong> The group has sent a letter calling on world leaders to implement a wealth tax, which is signed by more than 370 millionaires and billionaires from 22 countries. This includes the film producer and philanthropist Abigail Disney, the musician Brian Eno and the director Richard Curtis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/22\/first-thing-bishop-asks-trump-to-have-mercy-on-migrants-and-lgbtq-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right Rev Mariann Budde\u2019s appeal followed executive orders preparing US for mass deportations and targeting of transgender people Good morning. The Episcopal bishop of Washington implored Donald Trump to \u201chave mercy upon\u201d immigrants and LGBTQ+ people across the country after he unleashed a slate of executive orders targeting communities. What executive orders does it follow? &#8230; <a title=\"Bishop asks Trump to \u2018have mercy\u2019 on migrants and LGBTQ+ people | First Thing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/bishop-asks-trump-to-have-mercy-on-migrants-and-lgbtq-people-first-thing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bishop asks Trump to \u2018have mercy\u2019 on migrants and LGBTQ+ people | First Thing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}