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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 1h

My day started with the shower diverter not working and then my wife accidentally took my work laptop with her to work. However, if this is the worst thing this week it should be okay from here on out.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22h

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 12h

“What about all the illegal immigrants?”

“What about em? Cmon man, you actin like everybody wanna pick their own strawberries, they ain’t goin anywhere”

(Dave Chappelle, Election Night 2016, SNL)

Well, that joke aged like fine milk

👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 12h

When we talk about stove touching it’s just not tariffs but this article below
Some examples:
-there is ample data showing immediate dangers to the American food supply
-Immigrants with worker visas refusing to show up because of fear of ICE
-A loss of over 150,000 agricultural workers in six months

Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 18h

The Trump administration’s immigration policies have made it much harder to find agricultural labor in the state—but that’s just the latest blow in a deepening, industry-wide crisis. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/is-this-the-end-of-texas-farming/

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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 12h

Just 180 years give or take a few decades

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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 12h

When we talk about stove touching it’s just not tariffs but this article below
Some examples:
-there is ample data showing immediate dangers to the American food supply
-Immigrants with worker visas refusing to show up because of fear of ICE
-A loss of over 150,000 agricultural workers in six months

Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 18h

The Trump administration’s immigration policies have made it much harder to find agricultural labor in the state—but that’s just the latest blow in a deepening, industry-wide crisis. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/is-this-the-end-of-texas-farming/

Are We Living Through the End of Texas Farming?

The Trump administration’s immigration policies have made it much harder to find agricultural labor in the state—but that’s just the latest blow in a deepening, industry-wide crisis.

www.texasmonthly.com

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 21h

The entirety of Scripture goes out of its way to make the point that Israel came from unsettled nomads and that Christians are always resident aliens in the world; there is no group we should have more affinity with than those without citizenship in a particular polity.

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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 14h

Okay, so this is the second group we have determined that we need in the Church from Bluesky. The Quaker Catholic Rite and now the Knights of Mother Cabrini

Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 17h

After the necessary Great Awokening of American Catholicism, Knights of Columbus WILL be renamed the Knights of Cabrini

👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 17h

Still stand by that if KoC and Italian-American Catholics wanted to show someone who came from Italy to the US and showed true Catholic and American spirit, Mother Cabrini is the obvious candidate.

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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 14h

Parish Organization of Mother Cabrini? Yeah, I’d probably join that.

Columbus? Please stay away.

Virgin KoC: Bring back the old Fourth Degree regalia!
Chad KoMC: Bring back the corporal works of mercy.

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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 15h

You know Bluesky folks, we really can point out the hypocrisy and irony of Trump’s and Hegseth’s Armed Forces physical fitness standards without resorting to fat shaming. It really isn’t hard to do.

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mave @mave.bsky.social · Feb 21

Overheard someone hiss into their phone, “I realize that, but I cannot miss Theodore’s bassoon recital,” and now I have a new catch-all excuse

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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 1d

Also, we probably do not want a president with authoritarian tendencies figuring he is hell bound so what does he have to loose.

👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 1d

As a Christian who believes in Heaven and Hell, good and evil, I sincerely mean it when I say that this quote is Trump allowing the Evil One to speak through him

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

your tactic of protesting in an inflatable frog suit which gets normal people on your side is far inferior to my tactic of posting about laser blinding helicopter pilots which is both wildly illegal and, were it to succeed, would put basically *everyone* against me

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

as a person who lives directly under the flight path of these helicopters, i would prefer you did not try to bring them down

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 17h

After the necessary Great Awokening of American Catholicism, Knights of Columbus WILL be renamed the Knights of Cabrini

👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 17h

Still stand by that if KoC and Italian-American Catholics wanted to show someone who came from Italy to the US and showed true Catholic and American spirit, Mother Cabrini is the obvious candidate.

👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 2d

It is quite a deliberate choice to allow an editorial in a church bulletin that defends Christopher Columbus (if transparency it wasn’t the pastor himself).

It’s even more of an interesting choice when that editorial does so by paraphrasing Tony Soprano.

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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 17h

Still stand by that if KoC and Italian-American Catholics wanted to show someone who came from Italy to the US and showed true Catholic and American spirit, Mother Cabrini is the obvious candidate.

👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 2d

It is quite a deliberate choice to allow an editorial in a church bulletin that defends Christopher Columbus (if transparency it wasn’t the pastor himself).

It’s even more of an interesting choice when that editorial does so by paraphrasing Tony Soprano.

Brethren,
When we lead with our faith, we can accomplish wondrous things. Monday reminds us of this truth. Why Monday? Because it is the day our nation sets aside to honor the bravery and exceptional skill of Christopher Columbus, who navigated the Atlantic from Spain to the
"New World."

In this council (and I hope this parish) Christopher Columbus is a hero. He discovered "America", It's what he did. Because of his bravery in service to Christ we have this beautiful nation to call home.
Tomorrow, please take a few moments and remember the bravery of this Catholic hero, and how many good works still stem from his inspiration.

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 1d

Not a huge Rahm fan but he’s right that Midwest farmers are staring at a huge market that’s just gone, maybe forever

I see the farmers out there harvesting beans & I wonder if this is just the end of that enormous industry

Local ag reports complain about “trade policy” but don’t blame Trump 🥴😬🙄

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Emanuel: China's basically found leverage; they're applying pressure, and they're doing it to soybean farmers. Our farmers have lost that market, are out a huge amount of money, and could see a lot of bankruptcies in the rural parts of the Midwest.

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 1d

Someone I know well who grew up in the Eastern Bloc told me that the last time he felt like he did when entering U.S. customs and passport control earlier this year (he is a tourist visa holder), was entering Ceausescu’s Romania. Very sullen, no one speaking or smiling, everyone looking very wary

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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 18h

So apparently the latest right wing online response to the procession to the ICE facility is that it was a stunt misusing the Eucharist as a political prop and rejecting the laws, which is rich all things considered.

👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 22d

On Twitter you’d always get a trad posting something on a Eucharist procession or a neo-baroque service or a politician saying “Christ is King,” followed by a comment similar to above.

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Kevin the Pikachu @kap3692.bsky.social · 1d

my guy. you're still alive. you can still get in. just repent and believe in the gospel. all you have to do is admit you've done wrong, believe in Christ, and change your ways in the time you have left

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 19h

Turn off LED and then switch to CX and extemp, but I never enjoyed it as much

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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 20h

When I was in HS CX Debate, it was the start of the GWOT and our team as a senior prank held a debate as the Bush Cabinet threatening to carpet bomb the cities to expand the war on drugs. Part of it was to highlight the absurdity of CX and absurd possibilities of the GWOT.

Well …22 years later…

The Independent @the-independent.com · 22h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

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same photo as the quote posted cat but I very poorly added a clip art hat monocle fake evil mustache and pipe coming from the cat's mouth. original alt text is as follows: A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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