Joel
@snufkinlib.bsky.social
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Cosmopolitan, liberal | Catholic | 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇮🇪🇬🇧🇦🇹🔶 | Mark 8:36 | he/him The views I express here are mine alone and do not necessarily express the views of my employer
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Immigration is the central issue of our century and progressives must defend it or lose absolutely everything to fascism
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Giveaway detail of how progressive the host is that she’s using metric
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It's called being a flâneur. If you don't like it go back to your fields (or introduce Universal Basic Walking-around-money)
More people walking around in town, but they're not buying anything? S'going on?
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“I object to seeing brown people on my street but I will give up this view if graduate requirements are shortened from two years to 18 months” give me a fucking break.
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Most normal headline from Eswatini
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Corruption? In *my* absolute monarchy?
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There’s Lawrence of Arabia everywhere for those with eyes to see
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I like to imagine they’re all saying ‘go white boy go’ as he’s walking round in this
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Gonna stroll through Little Ethiopia in Mumbai in the 2060s and eat the best food ever made
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China won’t truly be a superpower until there’s an Uzbek-Chinese member of the Standing Committee
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Any excuse to post Neal Rijkenberg, the Finance Minister of Eswatini
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The Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale has added these (and more) quotations from various papal teachings about care and concern for immigrants to the windows outside its main meeting room. This is the kind of catechesis we need more of in the U.S. church.
A window pane with this text: "...No one would exchange his country for a foreign land if his own afforded him the means of living a decent and happy life." —Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (1891), no. 47 "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, living in exile in Egypt to escape the fury of an evil king, are, for all times and all places, the models and protectors of every migrant, alien, and refugee of whatever kind, who, whether compelled by fear of persecution or by want, is forced to leave his native land, his beloved friends and relatives, his close friends, and to seek a foreign soil." —Pope Pius XII, Exsul Familia Nazarethana (1962), Apostolic Constitution "The poverty and misfortune with which immigrants are stricken are yet another reason for coming generously to their aid... It is necessary to guard against the rise of new forms of racism or xenophobic behavior, which attempt to make these brothers and sisters of ours scapegoats for what may be difficult local situations..." John Paul II, World Migration Day (1996) "Migrants present a particular challenge for me, since I am the pastor of a church without frontiers, a Church which considers herself a mother to all. For this reason, I exhort all countries to a generous openness which, rather than fearing the loss of local identity, will prove capable of creating new forms of cultural synthesis." Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (2013)
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The best image of the Resurrection I’ve seen in our times was an old man coming out of Sednaya Prison in Damascus. He asked what had happened, and was told the regime had fallen and the prisoners were released. He began to run and shout for joy
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Can’t lose control of the House if it’s permanently dissolved
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This might be the actual worst thing I have ever seen
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“Home Secretary for six brutal years”

brutal for who?
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the hustle pages are posting theresa may inspo content now
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I do not believe the Dropkick Murphys share his views on the Middle East
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Somehow, Marcus Licinius Crassus returned
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Blorbo from my Commonwealth
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Thinking of going Dracula Mode (taking a trip to Yorkshire)
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Last month I visited Yeovil and heard about the difficulties faced by parents because of the closure of the local maternity unit.

Thanks to the tireless work of @AdamJamesDance.bsky.social and campaigners, it's reopening.
Adam Dance and Ed Davey attend a baby and toddler group in Yeovil.
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More islands I guess
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What would they have expected to find?