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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

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Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 7h

...You see it too, right?

(Ht: Keith Edwards)

The light behind Trump makes it look like he has a pair of horns.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 9h

Earlier today, prosecutors dismissed the felony charges against Paul Ivery, the man being arrested in this video.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 12d

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 12h

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 11h

"In hearing the cry of the poor, we are asked to enter into the heart of God, who is always concerned for the needs of his children [..] If we remain unresponsive to that cry, the poor might well cry out to the Lord against us, and we would incur guilt and turn away from the very heart of God" - Leo

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 11h

A lot of the injunction is basically "don't do cop violence without justification" but this popped out at me

2. It is further ORDERED that all Federal Agents, excepting those who do not wear a
uniform or other distinguishing clothing or equipment in the regular performance of their official
Case: 1:25-cv-12173 Document #: 42 Filed: 10/09/25 Page 4 of 6 PageID #:838
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duties or are engaged in undercover operations in the regular performance of their official duties,
must have visible identification (for which a unique recognizable alphanumeric identifier sequence
will suffice) affixed to their uniforms or helmets and prominently displayed, including when
wearing riot gear

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 14h

It's fine. I don't care. My bones don't ache from boiling envy. I'm normal.

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 14h

I can't do this anymore. It's over.

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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 18h

Dilexi te!

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 17h

New Apostolic Exhortation just dropped. Get exhorted.

www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te of the Holy Father Leo XIV on Love for the Poor (4 October 2025)

APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION DILEXI TE OF THE HOLY FATHER LEO XIV TO ALL CHRISTIANS ON LOVE FOR THE POOR [ Multimedia ] _____________________

www.vatican.va

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 1d

So there really is some amount of uncertainty as to their actual threat level.

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 1d

Well actually no country has ever tested a nuclear-armed ICBM.

They've tested the missiles, and they've tested the warheads, but they've never tested them both together.

So nobody is completely sure that they will actually work together correctly.

Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I also try to pretend that nuclear weapons are actually made up to intimidate everyone but aren't real.

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland frog will receive a presidential medal of freedom within 20 years

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 1d

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

To sustain his rage against "Antifa," Trump summons a team of proven fabulists and conspiracy theorists including the notorious inventor of the Pizzagate conspiracy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Oh: @clairegiangrave.bsky.social with an exclusive:

Pope Leo, in addition to urging U.S. bishops to speak out about mistreatment of immigrants, also told a group of U.S. Latino Catholics who work w/immigrants their job is important — "perhaps especially" in the U.S. religionnews.com/2025/10/08/i...

In private audience Pope Leo XIV encourages Latino Catholics serving fearful U.S. immigrants

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — ‘He treated us like dignitaries. He sent a message by having us there. He lifted us,’ said Elizabeth Román, president of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.

religionnews.com

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

pope leo please write a migration encyclical

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Oh: @clairegiangrave.bsky.social with an exclusive:

Pope Leo, in addition to urging U.S. bishops to speak out about mistreatment of immigrants, also told a group of U.S. Latino Catholics who work w/immigrants their job is important — "perhaps especially" in the U.S. religionnews.com/2025/10/08/i...

In private audience Pope Leo XIV encourages Latino Catholics serving fearful U.S. immigrants

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — ‘He treated us like dignitaries. He sent a message by having us there. He lifted us,’ said Elizabeth Román, president of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.

religionnews.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

i find it hilarious that Barron never really thought through the implications of this

"Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope." Bishop Robert Barron, who serves
on Trump's Commission on Religious Liberty, said to CBS a few days ago.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

Me, in 1522:

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

given how bad this admin are at optics they're going to get into a fight with the catholics at some point i fear

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

I just want to be super explicit: the leader of the Democrats in the Senate is lying to the American people.

If he honestly believes the biggest problem with the budget right now is these subsidies than he should resign and possibly face criminal charges for gross negligence.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 1d

ICE and DHS officials are terrorizing Chicago. Pulling children from their beds in the middle of the night, naked. Shooting people in broad daylight and throwing tear gas on busy streets. Johnson and Pritzker are protecting their constituents.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump Calls for Jailing of Chicago Mayor and Illinois Governor

The president in a social-media post says Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker have failed to protect ICE.

www.wsj.com

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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