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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 2h

"They can play technicalities" is so funny. Like OK so *technically* Trump is a world-historical threat to the safety of everyone on the planet who spends his days bragging about the unaccountable violence he has done and would like to do, but come on, he really wants this

Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 2h

I learned when I started paying attention that squirrels can also sound like scolding birds! Clearly I don't spend enough time with chipmunks.

Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 3h

I guess I never really wondered why a high, squeaky voice is associated with chipmunks. You can learn so much from being in nature! Here is a still of my handsome little friend.

Same chipmunk, peeking out from his perch, behind a fence.

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 3h

I heard a chirping sound when I was at the @nybg.bsky.social yesterday. What kind of bird is that? I wondered. Wrong question, as it turned out!

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3h

On heels of Pope’s comments that US bishops need to speak out forcefully against ICE raids, Leo received full USCCB leadership in private audience today; at November meeting, the conference will elect its new president.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12h

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 12h

The PDF download function is broken, but baby steps! We'll get there!

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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 17h

Future generations are gonna be really confused about the etymology of “trumped-up charges”

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 17h

I KNEW IT I KNEW IT

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18h

Just 'cause it has to be said every now and then.

GOP Senators and Representatives are obviously okay with...everything...that's happening.

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 18h

Gonna go out on a limb and predict dead silence from all the centrist pundits who told us that charging Trump with crimes would be the end of the Republic.

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 19h

ME TOO POPE LEO

Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 23h

"I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor."

(Pope Leo XIV)

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 19h

It’s so fucking degrading to do reference comedy with your boss’s nonsensical racist joke like it’s a Spider-Man callback in Shrek

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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

Catholic influencers logging on to vatican dot va this morning

Kombucha woman meme, but reversed. In the first box, above the "intrigued" face, is "Apostolic Exhortation 'Dilexi Te' of the Holy Father Leo XIV to All Christians..." And in the second box, above the "disgusted" face, is the rest of the title of the new document: "...on Love for the Poor"

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 21h

I cannot fucking believe this man’s cognitive abilities get no coverage

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 21h

Trump: These massive vaccines that are twice the size of a jar like that. A glass of water like that into a baby's body.

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

Catholic influencers logging on to vatican dot va this morning

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

President Just Resting My Eyes

Trump fighting sleep demons and ANTIFA with his eyes closed

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

Just realized what this reminds me of, and it's the sequence on The Office where Michael wants them to tell personal stories of grief, so they start describing movie plots, and then Kevin gets too obvious with the joke and ruins it

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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

Just riffing on Pam Bondi having claimed that the DOJ arrested "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa." Clearly a fictional character, but which one?? (I am fully obsessed with "Hadestown"! It's so great.)

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

"And there were 94 years to go!" 🎶

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

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

(This is a joke for three of you)

Photo from Hadestown on Broadway, specifically from the number "Any Way the Wind Blows," with Eva Noblezada as Eurydice seated at a table clutching a tall votive candle and surrounded by the three Fates, who are singing aggressively at her. Eva/Eurydice has a fantastic "Can you believe this shit" expression on her face, and she hasn't even met tragic lover and anti-fascism rabblerouser Orpheus yet.

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

I just hope they didn't nab this one, because you *know* she'd cut a deal

Eleanor Parker as the Baroness in The Sound of Music, sipping champagne and scheming

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

as one party has become more and more untethered from the truth, the news media has become more and more circumspect in never admitting that truth exists.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

Wish Johnson cared enough about pregnant people to worry about the hospitals that will turn them away for fear they’ll be prosecuted for performing basic medical procedures.

www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Bishop Seitz on meeting with Pope this morning: “Our Holy Father is very personally concerned about these matters. He expressed his desire that the U.S. Bishops' Conference would speak strongly on this issue. It means a lot to all of us to know of his personal desire that we continue to speak out.”

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