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Honestly, I think we'd be better if the WH Press Corps handed in their credentials too.

Starve Trump of oxygen, go out in the streets to report what this Administration is *doing*.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 11h

“With no reporters able to ask questions, it seems the Pentagon leadership will continue to rely on slick social media posts, carefully orchestrated short videos and interviews with partisan commentators and podcasters.

No one should think that's good enough.”

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 13d

A government shutdown that does not abate lawless federal overreach into US states and cities brings the idea of a shutdown into a high relief of implausibility.

I won't be surprised if this shutdown becomes the sort of permanent emergency Madison decried in Fed 20, the kind that ends a republic.

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 23h

The prudential questions that distinguish abortion from migration are very different, which is why comparisons are false and fail.

But look who's discovered nuance and prudential judgment.

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 23h

I had a professor in a history class who showed us Laibach videos. I don't remember why. There was no irony. He was a fan.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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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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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 3d

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 3d

it’s nicholas van orton’s birthday today…fingers crossed it’s just cake this time🎁

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 4d

'And we'll keep lighting this house on fire until you give us what we want' has a name.

apnews.com/live/donald-...

Live updates: Budget office says ‘substantial’ firings of federal workers have started

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

apnews.com

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 4d

Biden's Final Numbers - FactCheck.org share.google/ty4oMYvpiETi...

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 4d

Oh look.

Now they've targeted the Southern Poverty Law Center. And right on schedule.

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 4d

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

www.washingtonpost.com

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 4d

I was invited to give some remarks tonight for the 5th anniversary of Fratelli Tutti. I'm grateful to Assumption Church, the Servite community, and the Archdiocese of Chicago's immigration ministry for the chance to think out loud about this.

Source: YouTube share.google/7Ut416Ik2G4B...

Immigration Ministry - BEING BRIDGES FRIENDSHIP AMID GRIEF AND ANGUISH, JOY AND HOPE

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 4d

The nice folks at @npr.org gave me a minute of their air to talk about Dilexi Te.

Listen to: Pope Leo XIV is drawing the world's attention to poverty - one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5563...

🔊 Listen Now: Pope Leo XIV is drawing the world's attention to poverty

All Things Considered on NPR One | 4:19

one.npr.org

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 5d

Hell of an insurrection we're having.

Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely gorgeous morning in Chicago.

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 5d

millies.substack.com/p/first-impr...

First Impressions of Dilexi Te

Pope Leo XIV Has Given Us His First Teaching. The Honeymoon Is Over.

millies.substack.com

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 5d

Pope Leo has given us his first teaching document today. It gives no comfort to the Napa Institute, billionaires, or anybody who wants a powerful or integralist church.

This below is the takeaway.

We go on in Francis's direction.

share.google/jLb2vAGT1c57...

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 5d

Oh no!

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 6d

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 6d

"...to be affixed to any creation, more or less arbitrary, of human speculation."

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 6d

"The believer in God is not he who utters the name in his speech, but he for whom this sacred word stands for a true and worthy concept of the Divinity....Beware, Venerable Brethren, of that growing abuse, in speech and writing, of the name of God as though it were a meaningless label...

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 6d

The Federal Occupation of Chicago Day 4

A man cannot go about in midwinter in Chicago with no overcoat and not pay for it,

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 7d

Greetings from the "insurrection."

Families are out in Chicago's Park Manor and Englewood neighborhoods. Crossing guards are helping children get home. It is a gorgeous fall afternoon.

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