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Joshua Eaton

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"I don't need an agenda — I just tell the truth. Let it off the leash and don't touch it. It knows what to do." Investigative reporter covering immigration + more at CT Insider. #nutmegsky Signal: jeaton.04 email: [email protected]

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 4d

EXCLUSIVE: Connecticut has become a destination for quick marriages between immigrants and U.S. citizens from out of state.

Federal immigration officials have taken notice.

My latest with @brigurciullo.bsky.social and @blockhartreporter.bsky.social. www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

Why couples traveling to Connecticut to wed are raising questions about sham marriages

A CT Insider investigation has found that Bridgeport has become a destination for quick marriages between immigrants and U.S. citizens, with couples traveling from out of state to wed.

www.ctinsider.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26m

Four out of Five

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

I am open to the idea that there are people who don't have and don't want to gain the skills to engage directly with their data but every single day that I do I learn the answer to a question you'd never even think to ask unless you were personally staring into the abyss of an uncleaned dataset.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3h

I was trying to get fancy with it. Lesson learned.

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 12d

☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜

The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces.

They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading.
#bookhistory 💙📚📜

Detail of a manicure and a little face gesturing towards the handwritten text of a manuscript in gothic script written on parchment. The man depicted seems angry. The manicure has a sleeve

A manicule with a stretched sleeve drawn in red in the margins pointing towards a text in Gothic script written on parchment

A manicule used to highlight a rubricated section title in a medieval manuscript written in gothic script on parchment

A very large vaguely drawn manicule pointing towards text in gothic script written on parchment

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 3h

Moist owlettes. 🪶

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3h

Hardest I’ve ever been dragged is when an editor read my lede and said, “I think something got cut off at the top.”

Reader: It had not.

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3h

“There’s good stuff here.”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3h

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3h

“There’s good stuff here.”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 4h

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 4h

Yes this was my flub!

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Yes this is a subtweet.

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 4h

broke: The Bible is univocal.

woke: The Bible and every graphic novel I read are univocal.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 15h

Ok, hear me out:

CAKE-Pop Demon Hunter

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 16h

That last line is something else. #foia @jasonleopold.bsky.social

Banner on foia.gov that says Democrats have shut down the government. Department of Justice websites are not currently regularly updated. Please refer to the Department of Justice’s contingency plan for more information.

Please note that FOIA requests that fail to submit to agencies will not be resubmitted until funding is re-established.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 16h

You chose to come here!

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 16h

With all due respect to you and your dad’s take on the sacrament, which I completely respect, that’s not the kindest way to describe it in the context of me talking about my mom’s death.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 16h

Side note: The priest handed me the host over mom’s hospital bed, and I’ve sometimes thought that while she was too sick to receive herself, that day she served as the altar rail — the gate between this life and the next.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 16h

Ack yes you’re right, sorry!!!

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 16h

When the Franciscan priest came to give my mom last rites, for example, he carried the Eucharist in a little circular metal box called a pix hung around his neck.

Christ was just as present in the Host inside that pix as in the most elaborate monstrance.

But again, the monstrance dramatizes it.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 16h

One small not-quite quibble here.

According to Catholic teachings, Christ is just as present in the Eucharist whether it’s being carried to detainees in a monstrance or a simple vessel.

But the monstrance is a particularly solemn and traditional way of dramatizing that presence.

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 23h

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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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 19h

“The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.”

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 16h

GLORY GLORY

a bulldog wearing a red uga jersey stands in a doghouse

ALT: a bulldog wearing a red uga jersey stands in a doghouse

media.tenor.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/w...

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 17h

Reposting for info, *not* commentary.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 18h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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