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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 56m

I'm watching this debate and I like Sliwa more than Cuomo

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 2h

We had a Prince of Egypt movie night at church tonight, ordered pizza, it was wonderful

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 2h

Folks, it's 2025. We should already know by now that ACAB includes the HOA board.

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 11h

This is why I don’t get tattoos. This exact thing would happen to me

Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 12h

I am going to Bring Back Bangs

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 23h

X now has fewer daily users than Threads... yet so many reporters remain there as their main platform. I just don't get it.

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 1d

I taught first grade today and a boy said to his friend “I think I figured out how to do 6,7” and then said it in the voice with the hand motion. So yeah it’s just now reaching their age group

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

The move, which would allow access to radioactive material from cold war-era warheads, is the Trump administration’s latest attempt to boost the nuclear industry on.ft.com/4odP94g

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 1d

Yes www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2024/3/...

Paul the Apostle and Sanders the Critic — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

Matthew Novenson remembers the impact of E.P. Sanders on Pauline Studies.

www.ancientjewreview.com

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps the average Terminally Online millennial man

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

like the trump administration is staffed by literally the worst people on earth. i don't even know how many standard deviations this is away from normal human behavior
www.wired.com/story/764-co...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

this is basically my theory as well. a large constituency of the elites wants a like 15-25% shift rightward. the american right are fucking lunatics who want 300%.

Ghost of Glass @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 2d

The elite class has been itching for a right wing vibe shift to put black people, trans people, etc back in its place. The right wing we have doesn’t have the finesse to pull it off. Their behavior guarantees thermostatic backlash

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 1d

Guys who got Covid 5 or 6 times and barely have lung capacity

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think he will in any lasting way

Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a regional pronunciation difference between Diocese and Diosis? If not, I think Diosis should be when there’s a woman bishop

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I mean not deep in the sense that he understands its depths, but in the sense that he primarily interacts with people who are in that space

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 2d

This is also extremely far removed from Roko’s Basilisk, and the reaching reference implies he is deep in that subculture

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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 2d

I mean look, these guys are all just Nazis. Sorry. Done pretending there's anything else going on here.

Politico @politico.com · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 2d

Maria Greeley is a U.S. citizen who was detained by ICE and told her passport “isn’t real” and that she “doesn’t look like” her last name.

What do they think an American should look like?

This racial profiling happens every day under Trump’s lawless regime. It’s un-American.

US citizen says ICE detained her, said her passport "isn't real"

Maria Greeley was reportedly detained by agents, despite carrying documentation proving her citizenship.

www.newsweek.com

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 2d

"Current New Testament Scholarship, like N.T. Wright..." 👎

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 2d

#MosaicMonday - Kibyra's captivating Medusa Mosaic. Made in opus sectile, a technique using thin marble slabs, the mosaic adorned the entire orchestra floor of the Roman Odeon in Kibyra, an ancient Greek city in southwestern Türkiye. Unearthed in 2009, the mosaic dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD.

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of people like the idea of Israel

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 3d

"test of ceasefire"

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.

Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire

Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 3d

This is just straight-up treason by rubio, he's wrecking our ability to fight organized crime in order to help bukele cover up his apparently cozy relationship with MS-13 leadership and possible theft of us foreign aid, all so trump et al can get photos of us sending hairdressers to torture prison

Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 3d

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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