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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 13h

"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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Mary @maryhruth.bsky.social · 7h

...because really learning is hard, and most humans resist it mightily. We'd rather remain in our cocoons, ignorant and uncaring.

Being human is hard.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 7h

Reading—really reading—is and ought to be and always will be hard.

There are things you can read quickly and enjoy. But the texts that truly reward reading take time, and there‘s no shortcut.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Mary @maryhruth.bsky.social · 7h

When I ask, why are Americans so dumb? do you assume I must not make such a query if I am also American?

Have you ever heard of majority rule?

Mary @maryhruth.bsky.social · 7h

Yes, she answered proudly. Why do you ask?

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Sue in Rockville 💙🦋💙🦋💙🦋 @sueinrockville.bsky.social · 7h

Hello!
Anyone remember this!

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago never disappoints 💪🏽😂

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

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Mary @maryhruth.bsky.social · 7h

So true. I earned a BA without accumulating any debt.

GOP hates any benefit that uplifts people.

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Mary @maryhruth.bsky.social · 7h

I'm sorry you were so mislead and abused. But it's far more about our inability to reconcile population growth and democracy and capitalism than it is about "boomers." I suggest you expand your viewpoint. Blaming a group of people instead of rejecting false policies has to be ineffective.

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 7h

Who needs a billion dollars? Much less hundreds of billions…?

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Mary @maryhruth.bsky.social · 9h

Exactly.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13h

Respect to those who got here first.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 14h

I think the counter argument to “Ellison and Weiss will turn CBS News into an unstoppable propaganda machine” is Bezos’s WaPo which lost basically all the talent and also is in a subscription death spiral

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

In case you got lost in the steaming pile of bullshit Speaker Johnson’s been shoveling, the shutdown fight Democrats are holding the line on is about healthcare for hard-working Americans.

Leader Jeffries isn’t flinching, isn’t wobbling; he’s been consistent and hasn’t wavered on this issue.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 13h

"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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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 17h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Mary @maryhruth.bsky.social · 9h

Oh my goodness that is 100% crazy. I'm a boomer! And it purely kills me that my son has a MUCH harder time than I did.
Sure, work ethic evolves with every generation, but no parent wants their child to have less than they do. That is not a rational argument. I am 72 yrs old. Are you 16 or something?

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Mary @maryhruth.bsky.social · 9h

"Democracy is a spiritual practice."

THAT IS HOW WE WIN!

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 17h

Huge crowd for James Talarico in deep red San Angelo, TX!

This county hasn’t voted for a Democrat since LBJ, but they showed up for Talarico.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20h

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 10h

Republicans worked around the clock to cut taxes for billionaires.

But they won’t even show up to work to stop your health insurance premiums from doubling.

Unacceptable.

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Mr.Eddie8976 @mreddie8976.bsky.social · 16h

And those reasons resonate today, as the wannabe "King" thinks he should have "plenary power" as his criminal stooge claims

As De Niro said in his recent video, "Fuck that!"

Find a location near you, and be there

www.nokings.org

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