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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 2h

Luckily for the faithful saints of the Archdiocese of Washington, Cardinal McElroy is a solid dude

TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 2h

The ball is is in the Archbishop of Washington’s court or his priest’s court. I think his full participation in the sacramental life of the church is a deadly serious manner and an active threat to his fellow parishioners and ecumenical brethren, not to mention God’s non-Christian children.

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 2h

showing this heightened and proud level of disregard, contempt and hatred for any member of the Body that is not white. That’s not only an egregious state of internal sin, it has real and disastrous external consequences. It’s an active and present threat to the faithful.

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 2h

Now practically, we are all human and we will have terrible thoughts that race through our minds, some of which may even stem from righteous rage at injustice. Of course.

But that’s materially different from being the Vice President of the United States, a member of a worldwide church, and…

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 2h

If you are in wrong relationship with your neighbor, harbor ill judgements toward them, or are actively seeking their demise, you are just not in the spiritual state to receive the Eucharist. That’s why we have both confession of sins and the passing of the peace before we celebrate it.

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 2h

We laugh and joke about interdicts and excommunication and what not, and that’s fine. But this is deadly serious stuff for those of us who are apart of Christian traditions where the sacraments are vital to our common life as worshippers and followers of Jesus.

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 2h

Not my circus, not my monkeys, but there is legit theological as well as pastoral reasons why Vance should be, at the very least, restricted from receiving communion for the time being

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 21h

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 22h

In September, Reverend David Black was injured after ICE shot him in the head with a pepper ball while he was protesting in Chicago.

Reverend Black will join @mehdirhasan.bsky.social LIVE on Zeteo.com and YouTube at 5:00pm ET / 2:00pm PT. Join the conversation and ask your questions in chat.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing.

Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 21h

We lost Miss Major and D’Angelo in the same week… Lord Jesus this is too much

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Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 22h

Via @phillewis.bsky.social GET CHECKED BLACK MEN & WOMEN EVERY YEAR FOR LIFE!

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah no. We need to jump on board to Graham's campaign

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: Maine Democrat Dan Kleban suspends his Senate campaign & endorses Janet Mills the same day she launches her campaign.

Also comes as the DSCC files a joint fundraising committee with Mills.

Consolidation happening around Mills, who would be 79 if elected to the 6-year-term.

Dan Kleban Suspends Senate Campaign,
Endorses Gov. Mills for Senate

“I Got Into This Race for the Same Reason I Started Maine Beer Company—to ‘Do What’s Right’”

“Governor Mills is the Right Leader for this Moment and is in the Best Position to Win”
Cumberland, ME — Dan Kleban, founder of Maine Beer Company and U.S. Senate candidate, released the following statement today:

“Today, I am suspending my campaign for U.S. Senate and enthusiastically endorsing Governor Janet Mills.

“Right now, our country is at a crossroads. Susan Collins is not doing what’s right for the state of Maine, and hardworking Mainers are literally paying the price—housing, health care, groceries, and electric bills are all too high and getting worse. I believe Governor Mills will win next year and put Mainers first by addressing these pressing issues.

“I got into this race for the same reason I started Maine Beer Company—to ‘Do What’s Right.’ That motto has guided me in business and is why we paid a living wage from Day One, cover 100% of health care costs and provide retirement benefits for our full-time employees, and share our success with the community. We’ve taken action on climate and environmental sustainability, giving 1% of our sales to nonprofits addressing climate change, promoting conservation, and integrating clean energy practices into our business. People thought we were crazy, but we proved we could build a company that’s a force for good.

“These core values also guided me in this campaign. I entered this race because I believe Washington needs more leaders who put people before politics and who will fight every day to make life better for Maine families. While our message was right, the timing isn’t. Governor Mills is the right leader for this moment and is in the best position to win.

“I’m not a politician. I’m a guy who loves his family and was blessed to start a business in the state that gave me so much. This isn’t the end of my fight. Maine has given me so much, an…

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 22h

and they're just antisemites so there's that

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 22h

They are addicted to being miserable and hate winning. Losing is the only thing that gives them the appearance of relevance

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22h

Zohran told a synagogue than he would not discriminate against Zionist Jews, something that would be illegal as well as insanely provocative, and a bunch of high follower, brain poisoned accounts took that and NYT wish-casting about his alleged moderate turn as evidence he's a sellout.

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 22h

It’s getting impossible for me. I can clearly see how someone I strongly disagree with could still be a Christian and a small c conservative. But a member of the GOP? Nah fam

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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 1d

Was told I was slandering my fellow americans for calling ICE wanna-be gestapo and cowards who hide their faces and brutalize people.

Its not slander, its truth. and Im not sorry. ✌️

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 22h

The "revelation" that explicit Nazism is part of the mental framework of so much of the mainstream Republican apparatus really does strain the capacity to keep trying, as a Christian leader, to distinguish partisanship and politics.

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 22h

Like there was no universe where you could call Kristi Noem the B-word or imply that a right wing politician should be hurt in any way. You’d get called out and told to either delete what you said or leave the chat

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 22h

What’s crazy is I was in a university young democrats discord char for two years in undergrad and if we even swore too much we had to delete our posts

TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve been around young conservatives a lot. Some were normal people but wrong on policy. Others were def as batshit insane and genocidal as this

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 22h

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 22h

That’s def true. But since when do they care about being seen as publicly racist? Racism is not that unpopular in large swaths of the country, least of all Kansas and Arizona

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 22h

I’m also shocked there has been any pushback to this from higher ups. They must be seeing some disastrous polling among non white voters

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