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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 10h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 7h

New incentive to re-up my Syriac (hypothetical philologist children)

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 7h

I for one am indeed bold enough to argue with the author of the New Testament

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 8h

Noticing they've moved to the Diocese of Lexington whose bishop is one of the only ones actively fighting chudification in the Church was heartening

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 8h

(Anna's Archive/libgen will help you if this link doesn't work)

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 8h

It's in here

God still matters : McCabe, Herbert, 1926-2001 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xiv, 250 p. ; 20 cm

archive.org

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 8h

Read it...

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 9h

Reading Herbert McCabe on original sin; my heart is singing

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 10h

...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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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 10h

really sucks we have to just suck up and tank a wombo combo of national immiseration and nation humiliation because of this guy

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 10h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 11h

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

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 11h

Methinks forced charity isn't charity...

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 13h

I'm not TAing at some low-income community college. This is an Elite Institution between the admission rate and more importantly the median income of students' families. Come on.

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 13h

I know it's uncouth to blame students for having been stultified by a system of schooling meant to effect such a result, but it's still deeply upsetting reading papers by students who have an astoundingly weaker grasp on English prose and syntax as young adults than I had as a middle schooler.

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Jake @jakeall.bsky.social · 13h

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globe moment @pacifismenjoyer.bsky.social · 14h

dudes* rock**
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*jesuits
*conduct a eucharistic procession to the Broadview ICE staging facility

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 15h

“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 · 1d

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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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 16h

The guys who elected John XXIII and Paul VI actually just felt abrupt buyer's remorse for electing John Paul I when he expressed center-left opinions in the public square

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 16h

The papal election just did that

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 16h

Wow. An actual Xtian serving as Pope? That’s a problem. The Vatican will have to do something about that, tout suite. Poison is usually the deemed the preferred expedient. It’s been used a lot.

Shafawn @shafawn.bsky.social · 17h

Wow. An actual Xtian serving as Pope? That’s a problem. The Vatican will have to do something about that, tout suite. Poison is usually the deemed the preferred expedient. It’s been used a lot.

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 16h

"Faith without works is dead" really is the vibe and while this is just one example I found it a particularly striking rebuke of the idea that you can be Spiritually supportive of the poor or whatever while doing fuck-all

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 16h

"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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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 16h

I thought it was a fantastic use of papal irony

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 16h

Dilexi Te kicks ass

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 17h

"Wanting to inaugurate a kingdom of justice, fraternity and solidarity, God has a special place in his heart for those who are discriminated against and oppressed, and he asks us, his Church, to make a decisive and radical choice in favor of the weakest."

(Pope Leo XIV)

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