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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 24m

this seems like the dream of an American tourist: 🙃

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 30m

ICE agents led his parents away as his father wore a red shirt and white hat that both said “Proud dad of a U.S. Marine," an outfit he picked out with intention for the check-in. Green card Marine parents:

Eric Badofsky @ebadofsky.bsky.social · 15h

Tax-paying military parents. No criminal records. Both with work visas and valid green card apps.

No 𝘸𝘢𝘺 this happened without Pendleton command signing off on it. And if the generals are willing to sit by and allow ICE to abduct Marine families, just 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦 what they’ll allow ICE to do to yours.

ICE detains parents of U.S. Marine in San Diego

The couple's children told NBC 7 their parents were taken into custody by ICE while trying to visit their pregnant daughter on Camp Pendleton.

www.nbcsandiego.com

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 41m

now, even the episcopalians are at it...🤭

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 9h

FWIW, healthy frogs will hop out of water when it grows too warm.😉

The Truth Behind the Myth of Boiling Frogs

Sometimes we’ll put up with anything. Sometimes it takes brain damage.

medium.com

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Jon Amadeus Markley @xjamarkleyx.bsky.social · 1d

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 1d

With a msg from the leader of the Frog Resistance:😘

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Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder.

From 'Meister Eckhart’s Book of Secrets'

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 1d

« De plus, lorsqu'il s'agit de questions de surveillance, je préfère être observé et enregistré par des professionnels du gouvernement car je n'ai pas à écouter leurs commentaires. »

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 1d

« Quand il s’agit de questions de sagesse, je préfère demander conseil à des personnes qui ne font pas étalage de leurs protocoles de violence. »

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 1d

😎

Libération @liberation.fr · 1d

🖼️ Au musée d’Orsay, «le Désespéré», chef-d’œuvre de Courbet, exposé pour la première fois en France depuis près de 20 ans

La toile de l’artiste est exposée à Paris pour une durée de cinq ans, après plusieurs années passées dans les collections nationales émiraties

Au musée d’Orsay, «le Désespéré», chef-d’œuvre de Courbet, exposé pour la première fois en France depuis près de 20 ans

La toile de l’artiste est exposée à Paris à partir de mardi 14 octobre pour une durée de cinq ans, après plusieurs années passées dans les collections nationales émiraties.

www.liberation.fr

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 1d

The bishop of El Paso commented on the 'politics' by saying that following Christ's teachings can have "political consequences" but is NOT inherently political.

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Joel Fan Music @joelfanmusic.bsky.social · 1d

ICE has dropped its deportation of John Shin, the South Korean violinist working in Utah.

After his wrists and ankles were shackled at his arrest and tens of thousands in legal fees, he won. His ordeal is over.

He’s expecting his green card. “This is my home”.

#usa #mondays

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 2d

#PBS, home of the free press,🤔 interview with the director of Orwell: 2+2=5.

'The decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer.'

-- George Orwell

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBfH...

The decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer.

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 11d

About last night's 'revelations' ✨️ imputing intent when there is none hides the truth that inspiration and participation by fellow bodhisattvas are of the moment, not symbolic of this or that, and the luminosity of their collective joy in rendering the dharma visible is beyond vast.
#brickelllights

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 2d

The Falls at Paterson:

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 2d

FWIW, watching Jim Jarmusch's fabulous portrait of a bus driver/poet in Paterson (2016) was tremendously enhanced coincidentally by our having just seen the PBS doc, American River, which highlights the impact of the Passaic River on New Jersey. 😎
Trailer:

Paterson – Official US Trailer | Amazon Studios

YouTube video by Prime Movies

www.youtube.com

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 2d

Enough of this performative brutalism: peace! 😇

James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 2d

From Kevin Clarke at America: "Eucharistic procession turned back by feds at Broadview ICE detention facility"
www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2...

Eucharistic procession turned back by feds at Broadview ICE detention facility

Jesuits and other Catholic and Christian clergy were turned back by ICE when they tried to bring the Eucharist to detained immigrants in Broadview, Ill.

www.americamagazine.org

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 3d

to think, after a lifetime, ~70 years of positive real activism and abuse, that i'd be stuck underneath stalker abuse, unable to move away or defend myself, unable to understand why, is embarassing.😐

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 3d

Catholics showed up today.

More of this.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility

Meanwhile, two days after a judge ordered the removal of a fence erected by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, barricades were being put up in front of the fence on Saturday.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 4d

Politics in the second Trump era can be mostly defined as people Posting adversarially in public. The politics that get covered in the media are mostly aura farmers fighting other aura farmers — people posturing at each other in an accelerating arms race that inevitably justifies violence.

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 4d

'The Frog is meaningless. If the Frog showed up at a grocery store in another era, the reaction he would elicit would be puzzled looks...

But most politics is now split between two internet-poisoned types of behavior: aura farming and shitposting.'