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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 10h

Know the difference, it could save your life

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 11h

Creatio ex nihilo and apophasis are so important. It's that or DnD Catholicism.

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 13h

Fr. Larry Dowling was the pastor of St. Agatha, a Black parish in North Lawndale (a Black neighborhood MLK lived in to protest housing discrimination.) Fr. Dowling retired in June 2024. After a 6-month sabbatical, inc travel to West Africa, he has been active in prayerful protest for immigrants.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 15h

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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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 13h

Need one of these in Boston

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 13h

The Coalition for Spiritual & Public Leadership, who organized this Eucharistic procession, also organized a People’s Mass for Justice + Peace at Broadview in September. They form Christians to act for social justice for using the spirituality of liberation theology. www.csplaction.org

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 13h

OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT WITH FLESH AND BLOOD BUT WITH THE ARCHONS AND THE EXOUSIAS AND THE KOSMOCRATORS OF THIS DARKNESS AND AGAINST THE PNEUMATIKAS IN THE HEAVENS

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 13h

Oh wow only the most important headlines from them

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 14h

What more can you expect from a dog pfp

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 14h

The archons are in shambles

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 16h

Just got back from Normal, IL for a lecture at Illinois State University. Established in 1857 after this small town lawyer named Abe secured the funding. Was reminded once again that US public universities are the triumph of civilization

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah man peacefully protesting kidnapping and torture in the name of the God the criminals pretend to believe in while processing a preeminent sign of God's presence in the tradition shared by the protestors and the prisoners is exactly the same as kidnapping and torturing brown people

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 14h

Woke 2: The Third Great Awakening.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 15h

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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dido, lamenting 🥀🔥💀🪦💔 @ksbarkley.bsky.social · 14h

If you would have told me in 2012 that it would one day be boomer lib Catholicism keeping me in the Church, I wouldn't have believed you.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

Request denied/unanswered.

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 14h

I never so abruptly became pro-homeschooling as I did while spending all day grading

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 15h

graduates of private high schools that cost their parents a hundred thousand dollars to send them to when it's time to write a coherent sentence in the English language

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Finch 🇵🇸🇵🇪🇧🇷 @finchowar.bsky.social · 15h

This is a flagrant violation of the right to Freedom of Religion and actual anti-Catholicism. The State does not have any jurisdiction to deny Communion to anyone

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 18h

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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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 15h

The situation is terrible of course but it's nice to see an actually prophetic and apocalyptic Catholicism rather than a soothing ritual for the middle class

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

Request denied/unanswered.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 18h

As the procession reaches Broadview, priests have been denied access to ICE detention facility in order to bring the Eucharist to detainees.

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 18h

at last Vatican 2 is real 🫡

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 18h

Crowd gathered outside facility continues to sing “Pan de Vida.”

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

I know Trump and his minions all have sneering contempt for kids with special needs, but trust me when I say that their parents will absolutely fucking destroy anyone who messes with the special education supports to which they are entitled by law.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 19h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 19h

It's a perfectly appropriate accompaniment to coffee

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 20h

ate too many cookies yesterday and then had cookies for breakfast today and now I have a hangover despite not touching alcohol

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 23h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 21h

It's never stopped me before

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