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Energy Chris @energychris.bsky.social · 1d

Read this whole thread. This is what a true Christianity with Jesus at its center looks like. Not whatever the hell the perverse shit MAGA cultists are spewing. I’ve long ago given up on the Catholicism of my youth because so few had the courage to follow what Jesus actually called for.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

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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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Energy Chris @energychris.bsky.social · 3d

With everything happening in the world, Hill and Lake Press is worried we aren’t being kind enough to rich people. I’m not sure if I should laugh or cry.

Picture of Hill and Lake Lress opinion column arguing we are being to mean to rich people.

Energy Chris @energychris.bsky.social · 4d

This really resonated.

False Economy of Automation
-Manual data cleaning: 3 days
-AI prompt-driven transformation: 30 minutes and six weeks of fixing AI mistakes

Energy Chris @energychris.bsky.social · 4d

This local newspaper is so grossly one sided. We deserve better.

Heather Silsbee @hsilsbee.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone who receives or reads the Hill & Lake Press!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Please sign & circulate this community letter to the editors in response to several recent instances of demonstrating clear bias for Elizabeth Shaffer's campaign, in violation of basic tenets of journalistic ethics.

Sign on to a Community Letter to the Hill and Lake Press

Dear Hill and Lake editorial board, As neighbors who receive your community newspaper, we are disappointed by your disregard for journalistic ethics. When you become a reporter, you choose to let go ...

docs.google.com

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 4d

ICE was on the roof. He had just been praying.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 5d

ICE released a statement after an agent aimed a pepper ball at a priest’s head after he prayed and laughed when he was hit:

“If you are obstructing law enforcement, you can expect to be met with force.”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7d

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 7d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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Energy Chris @energychris.bsky.social · 12d

“Anti-woke” is pro-racist.
Woke is just the idea that we should not be racist, sexist, transphobic, etc.

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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 12d

today, chughtai supported us at the launch of our tenants union and cashman strongly advocated for the stop slumlords ordinance. fitterer wants these two city council members gone so badly he intervened from his mansion in california.

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 13d

IPG owner brian fitterer, whose tenants describe unsafe conditions and unresponsive managements, also maxed out to elizabeth shaffer in ward 7 in addition to donating half a million dollars to donald trump

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 13d

IPG owner brian fitterer, whose tenants have formed a union in hopes of getting him to take care of their properties and make them safe and habitable, donates both to donald trump and lydia millard! he donated half a million to trump & maxed out to millard

www.lydiamillard.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12d

We need to hold Republicans accountable for the government shutdown and encourage Democrats to keep protecting our healthcare: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

Use our social toolkit to make sure your friends and relatives know who’s responsible for the Trump Shutdown: app.sosha.ai/toolkit/trum...

(next to an image of the Capitol and a hand holding a megaphone) STOP
THE
TRUMP
SHUT
DOWN

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Energy Chris @energychris.bsky.social · 12d

Contemplating switching to “what’s your favorite color?”

Energy Chris @energychris.bsky.social · 12d

I really need to stop greeting my federally employed fiance with “how are you?”
Instant regret, every time.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12d

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Energy Chris @energychris.bsky.social · 14d

My only hesitation is I don’t think it’s the progressive candidates that have the money, and I don’t want the money backed candidates to know they’ve got to work harder.

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Energy Chris @energychris.bsky.social · 14d

I just got a poll asking who I’m going to vote for in the park board seat. Bizarre that a campaign has enough money to pay for polling for this.
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Mercury Opinion Poll: in the upcoming parks board election, who is your first choice?
1 Andrew Gebo
2 Jason Garcia
3 Jeannette Colby
4 unsure
5 not planning on voting

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 15d

How hard is it to say “invading an American city with the US military is treason and the second we have power we will prosecute anyone who gave or obeyed an illegal order”

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27d

It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.

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Energy Chris @energychris.bsky.social · Sep 13

He’s one of maybe 5 musicians that I always buy tickets for. He hasn’t been this far west since 2019 when I was supposed to go to him and then my marriage collapsed and I skipped the concert. So I might have some feels there.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Sep 12

It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”

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Energy Chris @energychris.bsky.social · Sep 12

New album?
I’ve got tickets for him in November.

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Lizzy For Democracy @lizzy2016.bsky.social · Sep 11

My final though on this topic...

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Energy Chris @energychris.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hill and Press decided that an article about a woman recovering her wallet from 5 years ago ranks more important than the state DFL revoking the mayoral endorsement. 🤦‍♂️

Local Newspaper with bottom 1/4 about a wallet lost five years ago and DFL revoking endorsement on page 9 and school shooting on page 24.

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · Aug 31

The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.

29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · Aug 30

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

Tweet from Stuart Stevens:

When Democrats take the House, they must understand they are not a governing party.
They are a dissident movement.
Act like it.
First day:
- cut off all funding of Exec. Branch
-vote to nationalize Starlink and SpaceX
-defund ICE
That's the first day.
On the second, get more aggressive.
There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos.

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Energy Chris @energychris.bsky.social · Aug 21

This is so infuriating.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Aug 19

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

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