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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 12h

www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-i...

Pope Leo Implores Chicago Union Leaders to Defend Migrants Amid ICE Crackdown

As Trump’s ICE crackdown hits his hometown, the Pope implores union officials to defend the dignity of every worker and immigrant.

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 12h

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/noem...

Noem’s South Dakota neighbors hit with an immigration audit that decimates their workforce

LAKE NORDEN — The names on the list included some of Dorothy Elliott’s best employees: hardworking, reliable, honest. Most had been working at Drumgoon Dairy for years. Some worked there for nearly tw...

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 12h

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Trump’s House of Cards Is Crumbling—Even Republicans Are Whispering “It’s Over”

Speaker Mike Johnson blocks a vote on the Trump–Epstein files, the FBI won’t deny the existence of lewd Trump photos, and MAGA melts down on live TV.

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 14h

www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...

Trump's Terminally Online DOJ Could Be Killing Its Cases Just to Own the Libs

Read more here.

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 14h

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Weekend Video: October 10, 2025

Weekend video is here!

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 14h

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Office Hours: Why won't Trump and the Republicans swear in the winner of Arizona's special election?

Friends,

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 16h

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 16h

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October 9, 2025

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 16h

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: 19 Missing After Blast Tears Through Tennessee Munitions Plant

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 16h

www.epi.org/holding-the-...

Holding the line: State solutions to the U.S. worker rights crisis

Federal worker protections are under attack Long-standing U.S. worker rights and protections are under acute threat. These include attempts to roll back standards that set a national floor for minimum...

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 17h

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Cheaper Teslas, OpenAI’s Cash Burn, and Apple’s CEO Succession Plans

Podcast Episode · Pivot · 10/10/2025 · 1h 11m

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 18h

God of mercy, temper our unsettled minds and connect us to our bodies so that we may reflect all that we are capable of being.

- @sojo.net

Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 18h

I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, on the basis of God’s mercy, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable act of worship.

- Romans 12:1

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 18h

I think about all the things we could be if we were never told our bodies were not built for them.

- Xiomara Batista, in Elizabeth Acevedo’s “The Poet X” (2018)

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