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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 11h

One small not-quite quibble here.

According to Catholic teachings, Christ is just as present in the Eucharist whether it’s being carried to detainees in a monstrance or a simple vessel.

But the monstrance is a particularly solemn and traditional way of dramatizing that presence.

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 14h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 18h

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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azlobo.bsky.social @azlobo.bsky.social · 10h

Wow. They brought a Monstrance.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 21h

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

azlobo.bsky.social @azlobo.bsky.social · 10h

The inflatable Portland protesters are awesome.

Also … the clergy in Chicago are making their point.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 18h

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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azlobo.bsky.social @azlobo.bsky.social · 11h

Don't get me started … sometimes I wish I was still in contact with them just so I could rub their noses in this shit.

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 23h

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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azlobo.bsky.social @azlobo.bsky.social · 14h

It took me a while to see current events through the lens of continuing manifest destiny. But this administration is very open about it.

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azlobo.bsky.social @azlobo.bsky.social · 14h

This country set out on a deliberate genocide of its indigenous population in the 18th/19th century under the guise of Manifest Destiny.

Brown skin is a visible sign that there's still work to be done in that regard.

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azlobo.bsky.social @azlobo.bsky.social · 14h

"The Indian Wars never ended."

That's what I've taken to saying.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 21h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21h

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21h

The Meritocracy!

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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azlobo.bsky.social @azlobo.bsky.social · 1d

Its exasperating.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 1d

The utter inability of legacy news media to be able to deal with being straight-up lied to is one of the primary drivers of this mess.

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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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, you’d think that the fact checking process for this would be simple. “Go to Portland. Look around. Is it burned to the ground? Y/N”

But instead they can’t say that the person they’re interviewing on live TV is either a liar or batshit cray-cray, so they just do nothing.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 2d

Protect the Portland frog at all costs 💪

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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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azlobo.bsky.social @azlobo.bsky.social · 2d

Horseshoe theory is a hell of a thing.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 3d

This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM

Person in a frog costume faces down ICE agents

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 3d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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azlobo.bsky.social @azlobo.bsky.social · 3d

Also Jimmy Kimmel.

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azlobo.bsky.social @azlobo.bsky.social · 3d

💯.

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azlobo.bsky.social @azlobo.bsky.social · 3d

Southpark still brings the sizzle.

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azlobo.bsky.social @azlobo.bsky.social · 3d

The future is stupid, but I'll give the frog props for taking the pepper spray like a champ.

Sea_side Sea_witch @seasideseawitch.bsky.social · 4d

#portlandfrog

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azlobo.bsky.social @azlobo.bsky.social · 3d

🧵😂

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.