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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 5h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 6h

Operation Warp Speed is one of the best things Trump ever did (an unqualified good) but putting RFKjr in charge of HHS will undo that good a hundred fold.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 9h

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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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 9h

You need a lot more than *just* street raves in goofy costumes to stop fascism, but it should be a go to strategy whenever fascists are trying to portray some place as a terrifying war zone.

Fun, effective counter-propaganda.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 10h

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

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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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 10h

Agree.

I just know some charismatic prophecy preacher will point to this as fulfilling the scriptures lol

Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 13h

[Hyperventilating because the internet is being deceived into thinking the trans antifa frogs are not dangerous]

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 13h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 14h

In the first century we called this the "Johannine community"

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

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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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 15h

She’s such a strange woman…

One of my favorites takes of her involves her posting about how Martin Luther never drove over anyone with a car:

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · Jan 4

“Martin Luther might have been antisemitic but he didn’t drive a car over anyone trying to have fun” is a “well, actually” take that only a writer at The Atlantic could come up with.

Amazing.

Caitlin Flanagan: You never hear of a radicalized Lutheran causing any trouble.

@mwelch62: Well, the first one — Martin — was a handful.

Caitlin Flanagan: True but he didn't drive over people trying to have some fun

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 15h

I, for one, do not want to be “like a daughter” to, of all people, Woody Allen…

@CaitlinPacific

I've missed hearing Woody Allen's voice - l'd been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.
@bariweiss is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 16h

In this recent short story from Nobel Prize winner, László Krasznahorkai, one wounded Ukrainian preaches the gospel of a brave new digital world to another wounded Ukrainian, as Russian rockets fly overhead (Benjamin’s ‘Angel of History’ lingers in the subtext): yalereview.org/article/kras...

László Krasznahorkai: “An Angel Passed Above Us”

A short story by László Krasznahorkai: “I’m open to anything, he said, pushing the AK-74 a bit farther away and reaching under his bulletproof vest to…

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 1d

Hatewatched the PhiLOLies and it couldn’t have ended any better

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 1d

I know some Never Trumpers who for some reason still admire Rubio and think he would make a good President, when he has shown himself to be just as morally depraved.

It makes one wonder if their problem with Trump is merely his style…

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

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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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 2d

Trump in his RNC speech said “Inflation is a country buster. You can go back to Germany from a hundred years ago.”

He cast himself as that which comes after Weimar.

Yes, everything cannot be mapped onto 1920/30s Germany but when they choose to frame it that way themselves…

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 2d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 2d

You can really tell these people are serious about crime because the guy to Sortor’s right committed voter fraud in Pennsylvania

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 2d

Live look of everyone who made free speech their pet issue over the last decade:

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 2d

You can take the reporter out of the Daily Caller but you can’t take the Daily Caller out of the reporter

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 3d

‘Trump Embraced the Media!’ CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Marvels Over ‘Accessible’ President’s Eagerness to Take Questions

CNN star Kaitlan Collins said President Trump is remarkably "accessible" and has "always understood the value of a camera and a microphone," on Tuesday The post ‘Trump Embraced the Media!’ CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Marvels Over ‘Accessible’ President’s Eagerness to Take Questions first appeared on Mediaite.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

Garfield as Barron: "Huh. I wonder who that's for."

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 2d

But at least they had a good 24 hours of copium, thinking the Pope would take it easy on MAGA:

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Eric Sammons
This is what we need in a pope, particularly after Francis: prudence and reserve. More of this, please!

Michael Knowles:

Papa-panicans, so quick to freak out over an innocuous blessing of ice, are uncharacteristically silent when the Pope rebuffs a journalist's plea to criticize President Trump.

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 2d

It’s genuinely mind-numbing that people thought they shamed Leo into being quiet about this. He’s the Pope and Tradition is on his side when it comes to the humane treatment of migrants

CatholicSat
Asked about President Trump's decision to send 400 National Guard troops to Chicago, Pope Leo XIV says: "I prefer not to comment about political choices [made] within the United States. Thank you very much."

@emzanotti
HE LEARNED QUICK

Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark
Man learned his lesson lol

@thestinkeye
Every leader I've ever met learns this lesson the hard way. We do not get to say the things we got away with saying as underlings when we assume the responsibility of command and leadership.

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 3d

People have a hard time seeing Trump as a fascist because of his bumbling idiocy (as if you have to be good at it to truly have fascistic ambitions) but I don’t see how you can hear the things this guy says and does and come away thinking he isn’t a fascist

Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 3d

Miller oopsie doodled and said the quiet part out loud, talking about DT aka himself having “plenary authority”:

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 3d

People have a hard time seeing Trump as a fascist because of his bumbling idiocy (as if you have to be good at it to truly have fascistic ambitions) but I don’t see how you can hear the things this guy says and does and come away thinking he isn’t a fascist

Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 3d

Miller oopsie doodled and said the quiet part out loud, talking about DT aka himself having “plenary authority”:

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re curious how MAGA will react if evidence comes out proving Trump raped minors, here’s a preview:

Mark Bertuzzi
I know a jail house and all people in it fixing to get blessed

Edgar Butare
43 years ago when he was an adolescent!
Surely people should carry grace. I guess the victim was interested in some money.

Rose Ngure
All have ran short of glory!! With repentance all are saved through Jesus Christ Grace!! Praying for pastor Robert and family strength at this difficult time. Also I pray for healing for the girl and her family. Almighty blessings

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Thank you for sharing such a gracious and compassionate message with us, Rose Ngure. We have all fallen short of the glory of God, yet His grace through Jesus Christ offers redemption and hope. Let's keep praying for Robert Morris, his family, and especially for the victim and her loved ones, that God's healing, justice, and mercy will cover them all. May His grace bring restoration where there is pain and light where there is darkness.

Raymond Freer
I pray for forgiveness and repentance. You are a blessed man and you will return to God's glory.

Ola Jones
The woman could have said no, that this is her fought has much has it was her's.
When God forgive,s ,you are a new creature in Christ. You have to forgive if you want forgiven. The women need,s to check and see where she stands with God.

Peggy Trevathan
How old was he when he become a pastor?

Pam Ullo
I still will listen to him! He's still a man of God

Shannon Liddle
AND HIS MINISTRY WILL BE BIGGER THAN EVER !!

Carla Barrow
We all make mistakes. We must repent and god forgives. She waited to long

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 4d

Having Blake Treinen balances out the good/evil scale though lol

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