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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

hey this is fun

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 8h

And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA

The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12h

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 1d

The festering and putrid rot of MAGA culture goes deep. It will be a long road to restore any semblance of decency to our society:

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if all the people braying about the "war on Christianity" might raise some objections if it were a *Democratic* administration who had its armed thugs shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and waiting outside Catholic Churches to disappear parishioners?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"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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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 2d

Since 2015, the mainstream press corps has failed to ask a single penetrating follow-up question. This all part of our epistemic morass.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 4d

It’s the culmination of decades of collectively narcissistic, hyperbolic, obscene, apocalyptic, petrified, manichaean, dualistic, slanderous, condemnatory rhetoric of the Religious Right against perceived outsiders. They are primed for this.

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Brian Zahnd @brianzahnd.bsky.social · 5d

True Christianity advances without coercion. We persuade by love, witness, reason, rhetoric, Spirit, and, if need be, by martyrdom; but never by force, never by the sword, never by the coercive apparatus of this state.

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RNS @rns.org · 4d

Faith communities are quietly meeting civic challenges with creativity and courage. This year, RNS launches Love Thy Neighbor, a yearlong series highlighting how people of faith are helping their neighbors and bridging divides.

Take our 3-minute survey before it begins: bit.ly/4mX6OvV

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Share Your Perspective","confirmationMessage":"Thank you for sharing your thoughts.We look forward to bringing you the first Love Thy Neighbor story this fall. Until then, watch for updates from…

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 4d

She’s apparently never heard of a “battery”! Yes, this is really someone we want leading a complex state of 9 million people; we really are in an age of idiocy.

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 4d

The fact that Winsome Earle-Sears was ranting at the debate the other night, 100% falsely, about solar power (and wind power) supposedly not being reliable, in a sane world would be disqualifying. bluevirginia.us/2025/10/satu... h/t @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social

Nicolas Fulghum: "NEW | EU solar generation has already exceeded its 2024 total as of September ☀️🇪🇺 Solar is by far the fastest growing source of electricity in the EU, up 20% year-on-year."

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 5d

A real leader. Maybe we can get one of those one of these days…

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Leader of country’s opposition receives award after intense public and private campaign by Donald Trump

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo XIV's first apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te ("I have loved you"), was promulgated Oct. 9, the feast day of St. John Henry Newman. Here are nine things to know about the document.

9 things to know about 'Dilexi Te,' Pope Leo's first apostolic exhortation

Pope Leo XIV's first apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te ("I have loved you"), was promulgated Oct. 9, the feast day of St. John Henry Newman. Here are nine things to know about the document.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 6d

It’s hard to overstate how grotesque is the prosecution of Letitia James. I hope John Roberts—who unleashed this malignant, vengeful career criminal on our beloved country—is enjoying Trump’s utter abuse of power and trashing of justice and the rule of law.

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 6d

Another stunning MAGA victory!

NPR @npr.org · 6d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 7d

The pinnacle of the “pro-life” movement, folks: 1 million people on the brink of grisly death by starvation to save 1% of US spending on USAID #wagesofMAGA:

apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 7d

“John Calhoun, America’s free speech defender”
-by Ezra Klein

Rep. Steven Woodrow @woodrowforco.bsky.social · 8d

“Slavery is not great, but abolitionists are condescending and refuse to listen.”

-Committed Centrists, 1850s

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 7d

As someone with intermittent centrist impulses, this one burns! Nicely done.

Rep. Steven Woodrow @woodrowforco.bsky.social · 8d

“Slavery is not great, but abolitionists are condescending and refuse to listen.”

-Committed Centrists, 1850s

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 8d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 9d

Every day I’ve been getting angrier when I think about how maga, the so called alpha male bros, always punch down at people who are less fortunate or struggling.

This isn’t manliness. It’s cowardly, it’s shameful, and it makes you look like a tiny little douche face

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 9d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9d

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10d

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