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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 9h

Mookie Betts has won two playoff games in a row drawing bases loaded walks after the opposing team intentionally walked Shohei Ohtani.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 12h

In first remarks since ICE raids descended on Chicago, Cardinal Cupich “called the administration's aggressive immigration tactics unnecessary and intolerable. He says those tactics are intended to terrorize.” abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...

Cardinal Blase Cupich calls Trump administration's immigration tactics unnecessary, intolerable

The archbishop of Chicago expanded on what Pope Leo XIV said last week regarding immigrants in America.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18h

I used to think people just didn’t understand what Columbus did but now I think some are really attached to him (as opposed to other worthy italians to celebrate) because their whole thing is not only getting away with doing horrible things but forcing everyone to praise them for being horrible

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

Looks like the news is out. May her memory be a blessing. Miss Major, Presente!

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 12h

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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A. Rascal @rascality.bsky.social · 12h

spent the day entertaining oldest and his best friends from high school

ordered pizza for lunch while they spent the day laughing and catching up

made chicken piccata for dinner

oldest flies back to college tomorrow

savoring every moment

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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · 16h

Palestinians return to ruins and US expects hostages freed on Monday as Gaza ceasefire holds religionnews.com/2025/10/13/p...

Palestinians return to ruins and US expects hostages freed on Monday as Gaza ceasefire holds

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israelis applauded U.S. President Donald Trump, and some booed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner addresse...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 17h

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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A. Rascal @rascality.bsky.social · 15h

Catholic priest warns immigrant parishioners of ICE agents in the vicinity of the church

Sacerdote interrumpe misa en Rogers Park para alertar sobre presencia de agentes federales

YouTube video by Telemundo Chicago

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Mass50501 @mass50501.bsky.social · 22h

Boston No Kings! won't be your average protest.

Yes, we’ll have speakers-but also live music, theater & art, & more than 30 resistance groups ready to turn your outrage into action.

Peaceful? Yup. Passive? Never. Join us!

#NoKings #Boston #Unite #Resist

www.mobilize.us/commoncause/...

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Andes Castro @castroforgeorgia.com · 19h

I think a lot of the “change” in MTG’s messaging isn’t evolution, it’s positioning.

They know a power vacuum is coming after the Trump regime collapses.

The Epstein files will blow open, the economy’s collapsing, and the opportunists are getting ready to jump ship.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19h

The Trump Administration has framed its assault on higher education as a fight against élite, wealth-hoarding institutions. But it also has far-reaching consequences for public schools, where federal money funds critical research.

Inside the Trump Administration’s Assault on Higher Education

How conservatives learned to stop worrying and love federal power.

www.newyorker.com

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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 19h

Just remember the children that died there, almost 70,000 civilians died, and to this there is no solution," Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said.

Cardinal says joy over Israel-Hamas ceasefire overshadowed by 'pain' of loss in war

Just remember the children that died there, almost 70,000 civilians died, and to this there is no solution," Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said.

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Sojourners @sojo.net · 19h

“I am happy for our sons who are being freed, but we are still in pain for all the those who had been killed by the occupation, and all the destruction that happened to our Gaza,” one source told Reuters.
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Palestinians Cheer as Freed Prisoners Arrive Home Under Ceasefire Deal

“I am happy for our sons who are being freed, but we are still in pain for all the those who had been killed by the occupation, and all the destruction that happened to our Gaza,” one source told…

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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 22h

The exhibit "The Ancestry of Pope Leo XIV: An American Story" features a chart of the pope's lineage that spans 14 generations. The exhibit also aims to shed light on the pope's ancestral ties to other countries.

Boston exhibit highlights Pope Leo's family tree

The exhibit "The Ancestry of Pope Leo XIV: An American Story" features a chart of the pope's lineage that spans 14 generations. The exhibit also aims to shed light on the pope's ancestral ties to othe...

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 22h

From Kevin Clarke at America: "Eucharistic procession turned back by feds at Broadview ICE detention facility"
www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2...

Eucharistic procession turned back by feds at Broadview ICE detention facility

Jesuits and other Catholic and Christian clergy were turned back by ICE when they tried to bring the Eucharist to detained immigrants in Broadview, Ill.

www.americamagazine.org

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U.S. Catholic magazine @uscatholic.bsky.social · 22h

While the series on the life of Jesus has plenty of inspiring content, some of the details are theologically problematic.
https://uscatholic.org/articles/202510/the-chosen-may-be-inspiring-but-its-theology-isnt-inspired/

‘The Chosen’ may be inspiring—but its theology isn't inspired - U.S. Catholic

While the series on the life of Jesus has plenty of inspiring content, some of the details are theologically problematic.

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Nate Tinner-Williams @natemup.com · 21h

"Our pilgrims arrived safely home, forever changed by this experience. We [pray] for an end to all injustices in the world, for all priests who dedicate their lives to shepherding their people through the trials and tribulations of life, and for the canonization of Tolton."

Black Catholic Messenger @blackcatholicmessenger.org · 1d

A Missouri pilgrimage honoring Venerable Augustus Tolton featured visits to his birthplace, baptism site, and multiple churches honoring his legacy.

Linda Lysakowski recounts the trip as well as the life of the nation's first openly Black Catholic priest. buff.ly/LBxCeXw

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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 21h

Via NCR - Amid historic deal, Gaza pastor says little is left after 'tsunami' of destruction. ""There's fear that there will be other waves. The fear is there."
#Gaza #Israel #Trump
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Amid historic deal, Gaza pastor says little is left after 'tsunami' of destruction

Historic momentum is felt across the Middle East as thousands gathered Oct. 11 in Tel Aviv, Israel, for the last mass gathering before the hostage release expected to take place Oct. 13, and tens of t...

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 23h

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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 1d

Considering the Sunni tradition as representing Islamic “orthodoxy” has been only detrimental to the study of early Islamic history. It gets ever more complicated because Western scholars seem to be more insistent on it than Muslim ones themselves!! Who even came up with this “orthodox” language?

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 21h

Identity is important not because we are always the same - if we were, we would scarcely think about our identities…It is precisely because we can be so different in different contexts that we need to ask ourselves “who am I?”
- Paul Wachtel

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

see my hands clasped behind my back?
that means give me massive amounts of contemplative space

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