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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

A resident of Iowa City's Catholic Worker House and employee of the downtown Bread Garden Market was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed by the ICE Gestapo in Iowa City, IA.

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Finch 🇵🇸🇵🇪🇧🇷 @finchowar.bsky.social · 8h

>op is a self described "lefty Zionist lib"

a man in a black suit and tie is smiling .

Alt: Miles Teller stunned

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Finch 🇵🇸🇵🇪🇧🇷 @finchowar.bsky.social · 12h

"Oughgh but we were raised by boomers." I WAS RAISED BY BOOMERS AND I DONT ACT LIKE THIS

Finch 🇵🇸🇵🇪🇧🇷 @finchowar.bsky.social · 6d

It has occurred to me that the lead poisoning victim brigade is really the "My parents didn't love me and I'm going to make it your problem" Generation

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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 12h

"I think it's cool the president of the United States is committing acts of terrorism against my countrymen" absolutely insane

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 15h

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 13h

Tensions between Venezuela and America soared following the attack, but Machado insisted to The Sunday Times that Trump was right to bomb the boat.

“I totally support his strategy,” Machado said. “And I’ve said on behalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It’s courageous. It’s visionary.”

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 14h

"I pray and counsel you...to live always a most holy and simple life. Be careful to avoid anyone who would teach or guide you in any other way." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel

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Finch 🇵🇸🇵🇪🇧🇷 @finchowar.bsky.social · 1d

A Tweet that eternally lives in my head came from a Peruvian user a few minutes after Leo's election who said "If he's a good pope, we can say it's because he's Peruvian. If he's a bad pope, we can say it's because he's American. Either way it's a win-win for us."

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

LMAO

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo XIV: "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."

"Dilexi te"

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globe moment @pacifismenjoyer.bsky.social · 2d

the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

Mary, Mother of God crushing the snake from the Gadsden Flag under her feet.

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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 2d

Children in Gaza jumping for joy as dad chants “Hudna! Hudna! Hudna!” (Arabic for long-term truce or ceasefire). Dear God, grant them relief, grant them continued joy, please

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Finch 🇵🇸🇵🇪🇧🇷 @finchowar.bsky.social · 2d

Privating this since Lead Poisoning Victims found it

Finch 🇵🇸🇵🇪🇧🇷 @finchowar.bsky.social · 2d

Mormons are not Christians I'm not even saying that as a "no true Scotsman" thing I'm saying they literally aren't Christians they explicitly reject the Trinity

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Finch 🇵🇸🇵🇪🇧🇷 @finchowar.bsky.social · 2d

Every day I thank God I am alive

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Oswiu☦️ @oswiu.bsky.social · 2d

Christian Nationalists will happily shoot every Christian who will not accept the mark of the beast

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 2d

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo’s eyes grew misty Wednesday as an El Paso delegation led by Bishop Seitz presented him letters and a video that captured the fears and anxieties of people facing mass deportation in the United States. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

In Vatican meeting with El Pasoans, Pope Leo XIV offers support to migrants facing deportation - El Paso Matters

During a Vatican meeting, Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with migrants after hearing firsthand accounts gathered by El Paso’s Hope Border Institute and La Mujer Obrera about the human toll of U.S. ...

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 2d

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 2d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 2d

Like I was saying (yesterday?), one of the many things going on here is a war of American "evangelicalism" against mainline Protestants, ordinary Catholics, and everyone else. It's hard to overstate how morally...alien...the messaging here is.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

American taxpayers are paying people to post Bible verses on a US government account.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Today, with Bishop Seitz and members of the immigrant community, Hope Border met Pope Leo and gave him messages and a video from those fearing Trump’s mass deportations. ‘The church cannot stay silent before injustice. You stand with me. And I stand with you’, the pope said.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Rev. Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day pilgrimage Monday from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York to bring attention to the cause of immigrant children. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/c...

Chicago Heights priest begins walk for immigrant children from Pope Leo’s childhood home in Dolton

Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York.

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Finch 🇵🇸🇵🇪🇧🇷 @finchowar.bsky.social · 2d

I'm going insane. "Oh but they believe Jesus is the Messiah and he's very important."

The majority of Abrahamic faiths that exist today believe Jesus is the Messiah and an important figure, all of which have far more coherent theology than Mormonism. Are we going to call them all Christians??

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Finch 🇵🇸🇵🇪🇧🇷 @finchowar.bsky.social · 2d

Mormons are not Christians I'm not even saying that as a "no true Scotsman" thing I'm saying they literally aren't Christians they explicitly reject the Trinity

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

Continuing stories of the mass murder unleashed by Trump cutting off USAID food and medicine around the world.

Trump will go down in history as one of the leading genocidal murderers in global history- on par with Hitler, Stalin, King Leopold and Churchhill

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Pete Dominick @petedominick.bsky.social · 3d

FYI If you send your kids to “conversion therapy”, the government should take your kids away from you because you are a shitty parent who is torturing their child

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 3d

President Trump says that he would consider invoking the Insurrection Act “if it was necessary.”

The 1807 law, which allows the military to conduct civilian law enforcement activities under certain circumstances, hasn’t been used since the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

Trump floats invoking the Insurrection Act

The 1807 law, which allows the military to conduct civilian law enforcement activities under certain circumstances, hasn’t been used since the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

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