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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 2h

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 3h

God has no body but yours
No hands, no feet on earth but yours
No plague of frogs to condemn tyrannical rule but yours

- St. Teresa of Avila

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 3h

at the risk of sounding “natalist” I’ll admit that seeing newborn babies really does fill me with hope for the future

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 4h

it’s incredible to suggest Ms Rachel is doing this as a “substitute for a personality” — she’s been making wholesome and helpful videos for children long before Oct 2023.

(If she’d never said a word about Palestine, I’d still be grateful for how her potty-training songs helped my little girl)

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 6h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 4h

钱给触摸了

Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 5h

The Dow plunged almost 900 points and the S&P 500 lost 2.7% in the biggest drop since April after Trump threatened new tariffs on China.

Dow drops almost 900 points, S&P 500 declines the most since April after Trump's new China tariff threat

The Trump post sparked a rapid sell-off in stocks Friday.

www.cnbc.com

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 6h

This is an incredibly weak place for them to be. If they end up tear gassing a bunch of librarians and kids in strollers at the family picnic that is No Kings it could trigger the type of support that ends a regime.

I'll see you on the 18th.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 14h

Pope Leo: “The Catholic Church has always defended religious freedom for all people.”

Se non è vero, è ben trovato.
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Religious freedom, therefore, is not merely a legal right or a privilege granted to us by governments; it is a foundational condition that makes authentic reconciliation possible. When this freedom is denied, the human person is deprived of the capacity to respond freely to the call of truth. What follows is a slow disintegration of the ethical and spiritual bonds that sustain communities; trust gives way to fear, suspicion replaces dialogue, and oppression breeds violence. Indeed, as my venerable predecessor observed, “there can be no peace without freedom of religion, freedom of thought, freedom of expression and respect for the views of others” (Francis, Urbi Et Orbi, 20 April 2025).

For this reason, the Catholic Church has always defended religious freedom for all people. The Second Vatican Council, in Dignitatis Humanae, declared that this right must be recognized in the legal and institutional life of every nation (cf. 7 December 1965, 4). The defence of religious freedom, then, cannot remain abstract; it must be lived, protected and promoted in the daily lives of individuals and communities.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 10h

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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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 11h

The Republicans entered this trade war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to tariff everyone else, and nobody was going to tariff them.

Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 11h

Trump says he was blindsided by new Chinese trade restrictions. He is “calculating at this moment is a massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America.” Market not happy.

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 12h

that’s really inefficient — he should have the Blinkist app summarize it for him

Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 13h

it would be very funny if Trump changed his position on Maduro out of pure spite

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 13h

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 16h

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 14h

with prices like this, who can afford not to kneel?

“Kneeling pads” on sale at Home Depot for $14.88

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 14h

Pope Leo: “The Catholic Church has always defended religious freedom for all people.”

Se non è vero, è ben trovato.
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 1d

you can’t find it in the old mass or breviary, but perhaps it can be found at the Word On Fire Institute

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 1d

it probably won’t hurt to embed a little anti-Catholicism in the fundamental law of the Second Republic

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 1d

Checking out this guy’s other work

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 1d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

RNS @rns.org · 2d

The pastors’ efforts are part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration as the president seeks to implement plans for mass deportation of immigrants.
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who…

religionnews.com

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

wow she is bringing a new kind of energy and vision to the news business

a roundtable discussion with two older establishment Democrats and a conservative

could she get John McLaughlin to host or is that too far out there

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 1d

no way the statue on top isn’t something like the archangel Michael with Trump’s face

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d

what do you even say. what do you even say.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Okay amazing comedic stuff here

*TRUMP ON CHINA MINERAL EXPORT CONTROLS: JUST HEARD THIS
*TRUMP ON CHINA EXPORT CONTROLS: LUTNICK, BESSENT WILL SORT OUT

*TRUMP SUGGESTS MAYBE WILL NEED TO STOP SOME EXPORTS TO CHINA
*UNCLEAR WHAT EXPORTS TO CHINA TRUMP REFERS TO

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 1d

"Friends, I am just so grateful to live in a capitalist society where we can all afford both red and gold pens to use on these papal documents. And as Michael Novak reminded us, the true image of the poor, maligned, Suffering Servant today, is the modern American business corporation"

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