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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 7h

If one of your pearls says "Hitler was bad" it's actually okay and even cool to clutch it

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 7h

Guys is that good

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 10h

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

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Mickey Djuric @mickeydjuric.bsky.social · 22h

Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt:

“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 21h

I agree it would be nice to get him on the record speaking to that point directly and only that point, without being able to hide behind another question. But mostly as a gotcha. The way he answered this question already answers the other, sadly. He had the opportunity to get it right.

Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 22h

(Pardon the typos here but I think the point is clear enough.)

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 22h

What if we had an opposition party capable of maintaining news coverage by insisting they would try people involved in what is obviously murder for murder?

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 22h

Fair enough, so let's say he doesn't think shooting clergy in the head with pepper balls doesn't cross a line that warrants congressional oversight.

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 22h

I think he told us in the answer. He doesn't think that crosses the line. We should be saying Johnson thinks it's okay to shoot a pastor in the head with pepper balls because that's what he said. If he feels differently he can say that instead, but there's no reason to give him a benefit of doubt.

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 1d

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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 1d

During a private audience with Pope Leo XIV, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva invited the pope to the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference, being held for the first time in the heart of the Amazon region.

Brazilian leader praises papal document on poverty, invites pope to COP30

During a private audience with Pope Leo XIV, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva invited the pope to the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference, being held for the first time in the heart o...

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

Celebrate @jortsthecat.bsky.social's birthday 11 days late with R E A D I N G

Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 1d

Do you need a new book to read specifically on May 12, 2026?

Yes? Oh cool, then you should pre-order the book @deandettloff.bsky.social and I wrote.

Here’s the link: tinyurl.com/MagnificastP...

Enough is enough: degrowth, capitalism, and liberation theology by matt bernico and dean Dettloff

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 1d

Do you need a new book to read specifically on May 12, 2026?

Yes? Oh cool, then you should pre-order the book @deandettloff.bsky.social and I wrote.

Here’s the link: tinyurl.com/MagnificastP...

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 1d

Though I really wouldn't mind liberals holding onto a grievance instead of all too often drifting rightward.

Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 1d

"We're saving God" but it's actually this one

1885 oil painting entitled "Mammon" by English artist George Frederic Watts, currently in Tate Britain.

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 3d

Progressive evangelicals have also formed important voting blocs for Chavismo, Lula, and other lefty politics across Latin America, opposing right wing evangelicals. That's a unique wrinkle that's not really present in US evangelicalism, and gets lost by universalizing it.

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 3d

In fact they do! Though minoritarian and located primarily in the Global South (like Catholic liberation theology). Juan Stam is one interesting bridge figure, a Wheaton/Fuller grad who taught in Costa Rica. His 2003 column on George W. Bush:
www.thenation.com/article/arch...

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 3d

Have to agree, the man is a testament to the dangers of doing philosophy unsupervised. Don't handle this hazardous material without proper safety equipment (a learning community, other readers who aren't sycophants, the arduous task of building a knowledge base, basic literacy, etc.).

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

most normies are mad at thiel for being incomprensible

we are mad at thiel for not understanding philosophy and theology

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 3d

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 3d

Yes there have been big changes in the US too. Catholics were historically a reliable Democrat bloc, and the only two Catholic presidents have been Catholic. But times have changed. Imo the racial divide across the Church via immigration in particular is an essential piece, sadly.

Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 3d

For what it's worth @heidischlumpf.bsky.social did a good job exploring some of the weird discourse about the Catholic vote a while back: www.ncronline.org/news/there-a...

Is there anything Catholic about the so-called Catholic vote?

Election results indicate shifts among Catholics overall, especially white Catholics, as well as with Latino voters – and point to abortion's growing insignificance as a political issue.

www.ncronline.org

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 3d

Polling agencies like Pew do studies to determine voter demographics. There is also a racial factor here in the US, though there's been a lot of discourse about "the Latino vote," which is an even more dubious category in my opinion, but it's a talking point.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

White Protestants and Catholics support Trump, but voters in other U.S. religious groups prefer Harris

Among White evangelicals, support for Trump is higher among those who attend church regularly than among those who don’t.

www.pewresearch.org

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 3d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 3d

A majority of Catholic voters chose this outcome. The Church in the US will need much bolder leadership to meet this moment. This is an encouraging sign that that's possible.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Pope Leo: “Lay down your sword is a message addressed to the powerful of this world, to those who guide the fate of peoples: have the courage to disarm! We must first disarm our hearts because unless we have peace within ourselves, we cannot give it to others.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 4d

@deandettloff.bsky.social and I (mostly Dean) made a new zine

The Magnificast @themagnificast.bsky.social · 4d

We’ve got a new zine featuring Gerard Winstanley!

themagnificast.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Gerrard winstanley - the true levelers standard advance

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Coalition for Spirituality & Public Life host a Eucharistic Procession from St. Eulalia in Maywood to the ICE Detention Center in Broadview where there will be prayer & Communion. The Coalition will also try to bring Holy Communion to those detained in the facility, which is a right by Illinois law.

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