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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 4h

Tsk tsk, don't you know this is the kind of talk that leads to violence

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 11h

Immigration is good and we need to say so. It is in our best interest when people want to come to this country to make a better life for themselves. My family story is the shtelt to the American dream in three generations. Other people should have this opportunity, too.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump on immigrants: "They send up their worst people. They send up people that are criminals. They send up people from jails. And the best ones they send are people that don't work very hard and that are on a social form of welfare."

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 13h

"The heartfelt beliefs and concerns of a traumatized nation, as spoken by ordinary citizens? That would be a good story, but I’m not seeing it in Big Journalism." by @sulliview.bsky.social margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-media-...

The media is largely ignoring the trauma of millions. Here's why.

Plus: Watch George Stephanopolous pushes JD Vance with follow-up questions, cringe at Bari Weiss's pep talk to CBS journalists; and more

margaretsullivan.substack.com

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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 10h

Something, something …Hunter Biden

Trump tweet: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump • 1h
Don't forget to get a copy of my son Eric's book, "UNDER SIEGE," which is breaking records everywhere. It's a phenomenal book, that's a must read for everyone— Congratulations Eric, you deserve it!!!

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 14h

In MAGA Trumpistan, *you* save Jesus.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 17h

Good discussion with @gregsargent.bsky.social on No Kings and the right to protest: "They’re trying to turn it into something really evil. But that’s because they’re scared of it, and they know it turns public opinion... I think they should be worried, because nothing they’re doing is popular."

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Note that Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are doing _exactly_ what Trump falsely accuses George Soros of doing. They fund and finance the operations of terrorist groups in the UK and Germany among other countries. Soros is strictly involved in bona fide philanthropy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 1d

This is fantastic!

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Kira “Memento Mori” Austin-Young @kmaustinyoung.bsky.social · 4d

My spiritual life is like this where I’m the dog and God is the human.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 5d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 1d

See now THIS I would respect!

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Dominic Preziosi @dominicpreziosi.bsky.social · 1d

Fellow New Yorkers and honorary NYers alike: please join me @commonweal.bsky.social at KGB Bar for a talk w author @paulelie.bsky.social about the confluence of religion, politics & art in '80s NYC - Tues 10/21!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/crypto-relig...

Crypto-Religion & The City

It's often remarked that America has become less religious. But what if that religiosity hasn't disappeared, but just taken less visible forms?

www.commonwealmagazine.org

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans who are somehow unaware that the administration is gutting programs for special needs kids are totally up to speed on the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty good gag on my Yale Record calendar for today

Closeup on a calendar grid, showing a box with today's date, 13, and the label "Indigenous Peoples vs. Columbus Day"

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Tom Watson @guitarwatson.bsky.social · 3d

Great work by my friend @kenjenkinsny.bsky.social. More public officials should stand up the way Ken has in Westchester.

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 2d

I see this dynamic in the forums for Scouting leaders—people grousing when Scouting paraphernalia isn't made in the U.S.; people complaining about how expensive the uniforms are; people boasting about the deals they scored on cheap supplies at Amazon/Walmart/Temu; total failure to connect the dots.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 2d

A pending asylum case. They've done what they're supposed to do. And we still kidnap and jail their child

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 2d

Time for this again

Over a picture of a statue of St. Catherine of Siena's wimpled and veiled face looking at something with grim mouth and narrowed eyes, the quotation "Don't make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified."

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 2d

Constantly astonished by how bad at this Cuomo truly is.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 2d

It is so sad that this kind of thing isn't universal, but yeah, not everyone wants to be led by Rome I guess

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 2d

(I am on the board of this fine organization, and I am always gratified by the association.)

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 2d

The Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale has added these (and more) quotations from various papal teachings about care and concern for immigrants to the windows outside its main meeting room. This is the kind of catechesis we need more of in the U.S. church.

A window pane with this text: "...No one would exchange his country for a foreign land if his own afforded him the means of living a decent and happy life." —Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (1891), no. 47

"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, living in exile in Egypt to escape the fury of an evil king, are, for all times and all places, the models and protectors of every migrant, alien, and refugee of whatever kind, who, whether compelled by fear of persecution or by want, is forced to leave his native land, his beloved friends and relatives, his close friends, and to seek a foreign soil." —Pope Pius XII, Exsul Familia Nazarethana (1962), Apostolic Constitution

"The poverty and misfortune with which immigrants are stricken are yet another reason for coming generously to their aid... It is necessary to guard against the rise of new forms of racism or xenophobic behavior, which attempt to make these brothers and sisters of ours scapegoats for what may be difficult local situations..." John Paul II, World Migration Day (1996)

"Migrants present a particular challenge for me, since I am the pastor of a church without frontiers, a Church which considers herself a mother to all. For this reason, I exhort all countries to a generous openness which, rather than fearing the loss of local identity, will prove capable of creating new forms of cultural synthesis." Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (2013)

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 3d

Doug showing Kamala something on his phone; he looks pleased, while she is giving him a disgusted sidelong look

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

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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