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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 9h

"Your new moons and your appointed festivals
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
When you stretch out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
your hands are full of blood."

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 12h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 14h

The Chicago Brown Line Western platform, looking West, at sunset

A large brick building to the left, with heavy white lines where support girders are. The building looms high, topped by grey cell tower equipment. Below it to the right, rails stretch away into a tree line. Stretching from the building is a close bunch of wires, touching a thin sliver of wooden platform, including the overhead lights, at the lower right corner. Above it all, mostly parallel to the wire, puffy clouds in thin lines, between which shows dusky blue twilight sky, tinged with weak yellow.

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Mike Chinander @mchinand.bsky.social · 13h

Another hellish Saturday in Chicago with (camp)fires and people wielding (golf) clubs and (croquet) mallets. #Chicago #JacksonPark #PromontoryPoint

A group of people gathered around a circular stone fire pit on a grassy shore next to a large body of water at dusk. The fire is glowing in the pit, and the scene is framed by several large trees under a cloudy sky.

A wide, green golf course fairway on a sunny day, with two golf carts visible on the grass. A line of dense trees stands in the background under a clear blue sky.

A view through the leafy branches of a large tree showing four people standing on a green behind a black metal fence on a sunny day playing croquet.

A group of people gathered around a small bonfire on a grassy bank at dusk. They are silhouetted against a purple and orange sunset sky, with the silhouette of a city skyline, including a large domed building, visible across a body of water in the background.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 15h

Chicago skyline

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Damon Holtz @hrderbyswing.bsky.social · 17h

Looks so serene and post-apocalyptic at the same time.

Chicago, IL

Taken from Indiana Dunes State Park

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Joel Reamer @pettyintrigues.bsky.social · 10h

The bar shuttle driving by is the 👨‍🍳 💋

RD Topp @rdtopp.bsky.social · 11h

Sound up

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 11h

Every once in a while I remember Trump changed vice presidents because he sent a violent mob to take care of his previous one and that’s not a thing anyone even talks about.

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Public Universehell Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 12h

I feel like elimination ideology is really getting out of control in the United States, like every strain of it. Anti-nature, anti-health, anti-unhoused, pro-poverty, pro-war, anti-foreign, pro-abduction, anti-poc, anti-queer, anti-cooperation. It is popular to view society as something to burn.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 17h

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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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 11h

At least this one

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 11h

Last call for mainline Protestants to reclaim some relevance in the U.S.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

it'd be funny if Trump II gave us the rebirth of the social gospel and a woke Great Awakening

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

I have friends (of christ) everywhere

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 11h

LMAO

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 11h

They do love an alkaline soil

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 11h

As a Lutheran I feel the sentiment holds either way

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 11h

Now hang on is that Clausewitz or Kierkegaard

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 15h

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 11h

Two of the four teams in the LCS. Sport of the Great Lakes, Baseball.

Snowden St. @snowden.st · Jul 21

The four best records in MLB at this point are in Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Toronto. The sport of the Great Lakes, baseball, we’ve always said this.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 15h

What Fr Dowling is doing here was not just "offering communion to detainees". A full on Eucharistic Procession is a really fucking big deal. In Catholic theological framing, those folks were the honor guard with the very great privilege of escorting Jesus himself to the detention center.

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jordie3000 @jordie3000.bsky.social · 11h

This is so cool.

Tangentially it’s kind of fun being humbled by realizing that there really are A LOT of people in the world and it’s not spread out the way you think.

Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 17h

Fun fact: despite the enormous land mass, the population-weighted density of Canada — basically the density experienced by the average person — is the same as Denmark and close to the Netherlands.

Canada and Denmark are 3,000 people per km², while the Netherlands is 3,400/km².

Mapping Population Density Across the Globe

Explore the detailed geography of population across the globe with interactive mapping and statistics. Identify global megacity regions and the growth and diversity of urban forms. Data is from the Gl...

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16h

Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 11h

Bald Cypress?

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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 13h

Let us remember that Christ served his last moments ministering to prisoners. One of Pope Francis' last public acts was offering mass to prisoners.

"Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured"

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 20h

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

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 13h

This is the thing about Canada I think a lot of people don’t get - that I didn’t get before moving here - is that it is a bunch of urban islands separated by land, not water. It does *not* take long driving to find yourself absolutely in wilderness.

Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 17h

Fun fact: despite the enormous land mass, the population-weighted density of Canada — basically the density experienced by the average person — is the same as Denmark and close to the Netherlands.

Canada and Denmark are 3,000 people per km², while the Netherlands is 3,400/km².

Mapping Population Density Across the Globe

Explore the detailed geography of population across the globe with interactive mapping and statistics. Identify global megacity regions and the growth and diversity of urban forms. Data is from the Gl...

luminocity3d.org

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 17h

Fun fact: despite the enormous land mass, the population-weighted density of Canada — basically the density experienced by the average person — is the same as Denmark and close to the Netherlands.

Canada and Denmark are 3,000 people per km², while the Netherlands is 3,400/km².

Mapping Population Density Across the Globe

Explore the detailed geography of population across the globe with interactive mapping and statistics. Identify global megacity regions and the growth and diversity of urban forms. Data is from the Gl...

luminocity3d.org

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