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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 10h

This isn’t fearmongering — it’s reality. Hospital-acquired COVID can delay care or cost you your health — even your life.

Infection control measures — masks, ventilation, testing, and staff/patient protections — should be standard care in every healthcare setting.

Source: x.com/PrognosticCh...

Prognostic Chats @PrognosticChats

Some day you’ll be in hospital for surgery or chemotherapy or with another illness & a nurse, or doctor or visitor at the next bed, or the patient opposite you will give you a Covid infection & your treatment will get delayed & your life will be put at unnecessary risk.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

this is more than just marching in full regalia to Broadview and praying outside of it

this is very deftly trapping ICE into the position of having to literally - LITERALLY, to them - turn Christ away from the door

any Catholic ICE officer was probably shook, I’m really not exaggerating

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 18h

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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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 17h

Italy: New COVID cases show signs of stabilising.

From 2 October to 8 October:

🔸Positivity rate: 11.1% (-1.7%)

🔹Reported cases: 4,272 (Stable)
🔹Reported deaths: 18 (-51.3%)
🔹Hospitalisations: 959 (+14.3%)
🔹ICU: 30 (Stable)

www.adnkronos.com/cronaca/la-c...

La curva del Covid si stabilizza, Pregliasco: "Possibile coda e nuova risalita"

'Ma a questo punto speriamo che torni a crescere dopo l'inverno', auspica il virologo. 'Il mancato mix di Sars-CoV-2 con i virus respiratori stagionali sarebbe un elemento positivo'

www.adnkronos.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16h

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 17h

love it!

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 18h

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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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 17h

Seems to me that peace makers are people who make peace. Everywhere.

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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 19h

In the Boston area? Check out Jessica's talk. She is one of the leading experts on Jews and archaeology in Rome. Her new book "A Jewish Archaeology: The Christian Discovery of Jewish Catacombs in Rome" (Brill, 2025) is out now!

International Catacomb Society @catacombsociety.bsky.social · 19h

We have partnered with Lehrhaus in Somerville, MA to bring you an exciting class taught by Dr. Jessica Dello Russo on 10/30 at 6pm: "Whispers from the #Catacombs: Discovering Jewish Culture Under Ancient #Rome"

Registration required: t.co/4tlXs5o1mH

photo of Dr. Dello Russo in an underground excavation.
"Whispers from the Catacombs...etc."
Thursday, October 20, 6pm
In this class, we’ll examine a range of catacomb artifacts that reveal Jewish identity—from inscriptions and symbols to intricate artwork.

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 22h

On his election in 1655, Pope Alexander VII commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to sculpt a skull in marble, which he kept on his desk as a reminder of death's omnipresence. The sculpture was rediscovered in 2021 at Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden

Guido Ubaldo Abbatini, Pope Alexander VII with Bernini's skull (1655-56), Art Collection of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Rome. Pope Alexander VII sits in an elaborately carved chair, carved with the Chigi coat of arms, and rests his hands on a carved skull on the desk in front of him and looks out at the viewer

A realistic, life-size marble skull with teeth missing, carved out of marble by Gian Lorenzo Bernini(1655)

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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 19h

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Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social · 3d

I ran a similar exercise, but with this card "game" - phariseesgame.com. The video lays bare how the Pharisees are cast as the eternal Christian other, the Christian antithesis. But the game’s playful tone highlights how deeply embedded these assumptions still are.

Pharisees Party Group Game

Pharisees Game

phariseesgame.com

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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 19h

yes! I've used this before too, but have a harder time stomaching it -- the background music makes it even more sinister.

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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks to all who responded to this thread! Happy to see the interest it generated.

Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 19h

I do wonder if I had showed them this at the start of the semester if they would have even seen anything wrong.

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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 19h

After the conversations we had in class the past week or so, I was glad to see that students were really attuned to the level of caricature in this video and saw how off base it was. I think they're beginning to see what the broader effects of this type of caricature are, but not quite there yet.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 21h

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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Providence College Jewish-Catholic Theological Exchange @jewscatholicspc.bsky.social · 8d

Join us as we mark the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate on 10/28 with the annual Fay Rozovsky Lecture in Jewish-Catholic Dialogue, featuring Thomas Bolin, Scholar-in-Residence in Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations. In person and on zoom.

REGISTER: events.blackthorn.io/en/3iofXW6/f...

Event flyer.
Title: To Everything A Season: Nostra Aetate Sixty Years On
Description: The promulgation of Vatican II's Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate) sixty years ago inaugurated a new era of Jewish-Catholic relations. This lecture commemorates this milestone, highlights the unseen work that helped to bring it about, and explores how to address the ongoing challenges to the process of dialogue and solidarity.

October 28 | 6:30pm, Ruane Center for the Humanities 105
Providence College, Reception with kosher options to follow

Image of Thomas Bolin standing in front of the Arch of Titus with his arms crossed.

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Providence College Jewish-Catholic Theological Exchange @jewscatholicspc.bsky.social · 20h

What could ‘a new direction’ in Catholic-Jewish relations look like?

www.pillarcatholic.com/p/what-could...

What could ‘a new direction’ in Catholic-Jewish relations look like?

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa told the AP Monday that the Catholic Church is seeking “a new direction” in Catholic-Jewish relations.

www.pillarcatholic.com

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 20h

At Broadview detention center, organizers say ICE detainees “have been snatched away from their dining room tables, and now they have been taken away from the Eucharistic table.” The crowd shouts: “Shame!”

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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to what disabled people have been saying for years.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

They want to kill us

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 1d

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

Grim Reaper plays heavy metal guitar next to a display of Christmas trees

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

England is now experiencing a significant COVID wave, after 10 months of relative quiet.

"If someone says they are in bed with flu, it’s almost certainly COVID, given that the number of people admitted to hospital for COVID last week was 50 times higher than the number admitted for flu!"

The chart shows weekly hospital COVID admissions per 100,000 population in the UK from May 2023 to September 29, 2025, based on UKHSA data.

Autumn 2023 peak reached around 6 per 100k.

Winter JN.1 peak followed early 2024 (~5 per 100k).

Several 2024 peaks occurred mid-year before dropping.

A 10-month stretch of low, stable levels lasted through late 2024 to mid-2025.

A new Sept 2025 wave shows a sharp upward climb approaching prior peak levels.

Source: UKHSA weekly surveillance report
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Chart by @chrischirp.bsky.social.

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