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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 14h

I'm currently sick, with a big 3-week meeting coming up, but if you're coming back towards the Vatican LMK and I'll have you up on the roof for a view of Rome! :)

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 17h

Eternal reset grant unto Xbox, O pwnerer,
and let your perpetual license authenticate him.

May its source code, and the source code of all departed consoles RST on github.

Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · 2d

Target and Walmart seemingly pulling Xbox stock from store shelves

➡️ www.thegamer.com/target-walma...

#Xbox

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 17h

NB

This was not a judgement b/c AJ 'hurt some feelings' or that he 'just repeated what other people were saying.'

His emails - which he tried to hide - showed not only that he KNEW the claims were false, but also that he kept making them b/c it was PROFITABLE to do so.

apnews.com/article/supr...

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shoot...

apnews.com

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 1d

tl:dr

The DOJ is desperate for evidence to support their case.

The evidence they should have had BEFORE indicting.

... but as we know from Trump's DMs to Bondi that he sent TO THE ENTIRE WORLD on Truth Social, HE wanted Comey indicted no matter what.

www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-...

Trump admin suffers blow in James Comey case

The Trump administration lost a bid to delay evidence sharing in the DOJ’s case against ex-FBI Director James Comey.

www.newsweek.com

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 1d

I was chastised for my lack of #Vaticats, so here's a little VatiZen. 😇

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 1d

It is good to note that he essentially made the same claims during his last term... and those numbers turned out to be equally fictitious.

edition.cnn.com/2025/10/11/p...

Fact check: Trump’s ‘$17 trillion’ investment figure is fiction | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump keeps claiming he has secured “$17 trillion” in investment this year – or even more than that.

edition.cnn.com

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 1d

It's ok to not be ok.

There's a lot happening. Most of it is pretty awful.

Be kind.

Be patient.

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 2d

That's it folks, he cracked it!

Biden's FBI placed 274 agents into the crowd on 1/6!

We knew that Joe was a mastermind, but imagine him being able to spin up his own FBI and give them orders while TRUMP WAS STILL PRESIDENT!

...

Truly, Trump has been playing 4d chess!

/s😂

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 2d

Correct. I saw the art and though that maybe you were Len's alt.

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 2d

Len?

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 2d

"It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

- RFK Jr. On his (& Trump's) claim that Tylenol causes autism

...

Even a high school student knows it's bad science to "make" the proof" to support a claim rather than making claims based on the evidence.

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 2d

"Inflation is defeated!

... but if it isn't, it WILL be once China pays all your taxes!

... and if they don't, just wait till all factories move to the US!

... and if that doesn't happen, it's Biden's fault."

apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump says inflation is 'defeated' and the Fed has cut rates, yet prices remain too high for many

Inflation has risen in three of the last four months and is slightly higher than it was a year ago. Yet you wouldn’t know it from listening to President Donald Trump or even some of the inflation figh...

apnews.com

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 2d

TACO Sunday! 😂

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 2d

Any yet, they'll believe that this is somehow Biden's fault - even though the lowest price for soybeans have come during BOTH of Trump's terms and Biden's policies created a historical high.

eu.clarionledger.com/story/busine...

Mississippi farmers drowning in tariff debt as China buys soybeans from Brazil. 'A blood bath'

While soybeans are the second largest row crop in America, in Mississippi, it is the largest and soybeans compose about 60% of all row crops.

eu.clarionledger.com

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 2d

This is not a lucky break.

This is how Trump sycophants get rewarded for their loyalty to a completely corrupt administration.

Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 3d

Man what a lucky guess.........

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 3d

Does it bother anyone else when people refer to the legislative branch of the US Government as "The Senate" and "Congress", when in reality "Congress" is comprised of upper and lower bodies known as "The Senate" and "The House"?

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 3d

I don't often recommend that people buy something they don't NEED, but "Calvin and Hobbes" holds a special place in my heart and right now you can get the eBook of "Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons" from Kindle for $1.99

www.amazon.com/Attack-Deran...

Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection - Kindle edition by Watterson, Bill. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection.

www.amazon.com

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 4d

Sure... she used her office to enrich herself, confident in the belief that she could just absolve herself of any crimes.

But don't worry.

I'm SURE she's NOT doing the same now that she's in charge of the largest, unaccountable law enforcement slush fund in the history of the United States.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 4d

From the people who helped put the LEAST Christian POTUS into office.

𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 5d

Oh look.

Now they've targeted the Southern Poverty Law Center. And right on schedule.

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 4d

Ooof... there's going to be an awful lot of ketchup splattered on the White House walls.

www.cbsnews.com/news/nobel-p...

2025 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Maria Corina Machado, Venezuela opposition leader, for promoting democracy

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for democracy in her country.

www.cbsnews.com

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 5d

Some of my fondest memories from my years at @loyolachicago.bsky.social are from my time with the BVM sisters.

Rest well, Sister Jean. May perpetual light shine upon you.

sports.yahoo.com/mens-college...

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola University Chicago icon, dies at 106

Jean Dolores Bertha Schmidt, best known to college basketball fans as Sister Jean of Loyola University Chicago, has died, according to ESPN's Shams Charania. She was 106 years old.

sports.yahoo.com

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 5d

Best of luck!

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 5d

Long after this cruelty is over, we will remember those who welcomed it with open arms.

History will judge them in the same breath as those who tacitly approved of the leaders who encouraged the worst in humanity through history.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 5d

Pope Leo sent a handwritten note to bishops accompanying Dilexit Te, a document that issues a strong critique of “self-centeredness” and economic systems. Through the socument, Leo argues that the poor challenge our societies, political & economic systems, and, not least, the Church.

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