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

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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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 1h

Israel’s lost everyone to the left of center, moderates under 65, Republicans under 35, and 60-something % of American Jews. All they’ve got left are a diminishing core of Zionists and the Left Behinders.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4h

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mr Halloween @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · 4h

It is vitally important that we keep increasing the budget for these guys so that they can continue to perform at a high level.

NBC News
(Immigration)
Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23h

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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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 22h

My utter contempt for these people couldn’t be higher. There’s like five good bishops. The rest deserve the French Revolution treatment. (Which I am opposed to as a Catholic. But they deserve it.)

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 22h

No doubt the United States Kkkonference of Kkkatholic Bishops will be declaring a “Fortnight for Freedom” and launching a Jones Day-backed lawsuit any day now. After all, this is almost as bad as when Obama tried to make Catholics sign forms saying they oppose birth control.

Finch 🇵🇸🇵🇪🇧🇷 @finchowar.bsky.social · 23h

This is a flagrant violation of the right to Freedom of Religion and actual anti-Catholicism. The State does not have any jurisdiction to deny Communion to anyone

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Request denied/unanswered.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

This incident is a good demonstration of just how stupid and unable to read the room the Dem centrist crowd is. Congratulations goons, the law you championed to “protect American data” is being used to censor the news.

Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 1d

It was better when the Chinese owned the app

They just took our data but not our freedom

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing has moved me in a long, long time the way this did. God bless Chicago Catholics.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Crowd gathered outside facility continues to sing “Pan de Vida.”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 1d

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 4d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 1d

people online are constantly saying shit like "the average person is now post-literate and returning to medieval peasant mindset" while neglecting the corollary, namely that our elite aristos are once again scrying for angels, summoning demons, distilling elixirs of eternal life, etc.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

lying

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals on.ft.com/4q0tjCV

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

on.ft.com

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

I hate the antichrist

Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 1d

We have breaking news in Inside Medicine.

We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.

But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.

Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

nonfiction writing in english has been degenerating into a garbage fire since rhe early to mid 2010s. one of the recurrent signs of it is just an increasing emphasis on personal essays written by deranged people

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Chris Martin @mreschatologist.bsky.social · 2d

Jabba the Hutt with downward word balloon

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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 2d

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 2d

I dunno, man... I dunno. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not surprised by this. Liberal arts colleges like Harvard and Columbia merely teach you practical skills, like journalism and impressing rich people at parties by having the right opinions about television. STEM teaches you how to think. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

MIT Rejects Trump’s Sweeping ‘Compact’ Offering Colleges Funding Advantages

The school became the first university to reject the terms, saying they would undermine independence.

www.wsj.com

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

The answer is that a lot of people’s lives got worse or felt like they did under Biden and people have terrible memories. Nothing more to it.

Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone is having a hard time answering the question, "why on Earth did anyone vote for Trump is they literally hate everything he does? How do we stop them from doing this dumb shit again?" and one theory is clearly, "we have to make people realize the GOP is not an option."

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

This is a call for their followers to do something violent, just to be very clear. The reason republicans are all suddenly referring to no kings with absurd strings of “hateful hamas antifa” is because this is how they signal to their base that this is a political threat that requires a response.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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