Helena Claire
@helenaclaire.bsky.social
Progressive Catholic, Ignatian/Franciscan who believes women’s health decisions are between them, their doctors and their God. The Holy Family was once a refugee family.
Pinned
Something to remember on Inauguration Day.
We Christians believe in resurrection. We are Easter people.
We Christians believe in resurrection. We are Easter people.
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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
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Seeing a few comments about “dead rapists bringing down living rapists”.
Let’s be clear.
It’s not Epstein that has Trump and MAGA on the defensive. It’s not Epstein that had a former Prince stripped of his title.
It’s the survivors of Epstein’s abuse. It’s the women who refused to be silent.
Let’s be clear.
It’s not Epstein that has Trump and MAGA on the defensive. It’s not Epstein that had a former Prince stripped of his title.
It’s the survivors of Epstein’s abuse. It’s the women who refused to be silent.
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Seeing a few comments about “dead rapists bringing down living rapists”.
Let’s be clear.
It’s not Epstein that has Trump and MAGA on the defensive. It’s not Epstein that had a former Prince stripped of his title.
It’s the survivors of Epstein’s abuse. It’s the women who refused to be silent.
Let’s be clear.
It’s not Epstein that has Trump and MAGA on the defensive. It’s not Epstein that had a former Prince stripped of his title.
It’s the survivors of Epstein’s abuse. It’s the women who refused to be silent.
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every woman acutely understands this face.
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
every woman acutely understands this face.
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#USDemocracy #MomSky #feminism
Women factory workers ensured that the Allied forces won World War 2 by building everything from the bullets to the warplanes that the soldiers used.
Antifa in Indiana, 1943:
Women factory workers ensured that the Allied forces won World War 2 by building everything from the bullets to the warplanes that the soldiers used.
Antifa in Indiana, 1943:
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM
#USDemocracy #MomSky #feminism
Women factory workers ensured that the Allied forces won World War 2 by building everything from the bullets to the warplanes that the soldiers used.
Antifa in Indiana, 1943:
Women factory workers ensured that the Allied forces won World War 2 by building everything from the bullets to the warplanes that the soldiers used.
Antifa in Indiana, 1943:
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
There will be a name for this era in American history. It will not be a flattering one.
They can't even call it the Second Gilded Age because all those gold gewgaws are probably spray-painted.
The Krylon Gold Foil age?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
They can't even call it the Second Gilded Age because all those gold gewgaws are probably spray-painted.
The Krylon Gold Foil age?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
There will be a name for this era in American history. It will not be a flattering one.
They can't even call it the Second Gilded Age because all those gold gewgaws are probably spray-painted.
The Krylon Gold Foil age?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
They can't even call it the Second Gilded Age because all those gold gewgaws are probably spray-painted.
The Krylon Gold Foil age?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Gov. Pritzker: “All I can say is that whether it was the loss in the elections a week ago that's led to Donald Trump deciding to pull CBP out or the fact that Greg Bovino is a snowflake…Whatever it is, the people of Chicago have deserved better than having CBP and Greg Bovino in this city.”
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Gov. Pritzker: “All I can say is that whether it was the loss in the elections a week ago that's led to Donald Trump deciding to pull CBP out or the fact that Greg Bovino is a snowflake…Whatever it is, the people of Chicago have deserved better than having CBP and Greg Bovino in this city.”
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There are STILL good people in the world.🙏🏾
#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory
👇🏾 was posted inside a door of a bathroom stall in the ladies room
#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory
👇🏾 was posted inside a door of a bathroom stall in the ladies room
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
There are STILL good people in the world.🙏🏾
#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory
👇🏾 was posted inside a door of a bathroom stall in the ladies room
#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory
👇🏾 was posted inside a door of a bathroom stall in the ladies room
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Glad this story is finally public but also incredible that it is taking media so long to dig up what is essentially open knowledge in these communities rn.
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Glad this story is finally public but also incredible that it is taking media so long to dig up what is essentially open knowledge in these communities rn.
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The best thing to have is enough.
I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
May 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The best thing to have is enough.
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The more war crimes the US commits, the less cooperation the US will get from allies.
NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The more war crimes the US commits, the less cooperation the US will get from allies.
Yeah but he just doesn't have the "it" factor that Trump has, and he has a family that Nazis would've gassed.
So I don't think he's going to be able to rally the MAGA troops around himself.
So I don't think he's going to be able to rally the MAGA troops around himself.
Vance shares a strange immunity with Trump.
The press cannot or will not pierce through his rhetoric to see the what-should-be-obvious danger of the man.
This includes:
1. Vance follows lots of neo-Nazis on X
2. His championing of Germany's far right
3. HE'S WELCOMING HITLER LOVERS INTO THE GOP
The press cannot or will not pierce through his rhetoric to see the what-should-be-obvious danger of the man.
This includes:
1. Vance follows lots of neo-Nazis on X
2. His championing of Germany's far right
3. HE'S WELCOMING HITLER LOVERS INTO THE GOP
JD Vance now leads the GOP. And he wants the party to welcome Hitler lovers.
And the press refuses to reckon with what this means.
www.thefarce.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Yeah but he just doesn't have the "it" factor that Trump has, and he has a family that Nazis would've gassed.
So I don't think he's going to be able to rally the MAGA troops around himself.
So I don't think he's going to be able to rally the MAGA troops around himself.
Hopefully they used 3M Command Strips so that these gaudy gewgaws can be removed as soon as Trump is out, which may not be too long from now.
Look at what this garish, classless, tasteless fool has done to the People’s House.
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Hopefully they used 3M Command Strips so that these gaudy gewgaws can be removed as soon as Trump is out, which may not be too long from now.
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Over Signal, these National Guard members question Trump's deployments www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
In an encrypted group chat, National Guard members question Trump deployments
As President Trump's call for National Guard deployments rings out across the U.S., a small contingent of Ohio guard members is quietly expressing concern in an encrypted group chat.
www.npr.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Over Signal, these National Guard members question Trump's deployments www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
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Mayor calls for Black Liberators to be commemorated at Margraten www.dutchnews.nl?p=259802
Mayor calls for Black Liberators to be commemorated at Margraten
www.dutchnews.nl
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Mayor calls for Black Liberators to be commemorated at Margraten www.dutchnews.nl?p=259802
@support.bsky.team Seriously?
If your AI model allows any random person to suspend an author like her, it clearly needs more training to weed out the bad actors who use systems like this to silence people.
You can do better. Bring her back now.
If your AI model allows any random person to suspend an author like her, it clearly needs more training to weed out the bad actors who use systems like this to silence people.
You can do better. Bring her back now.
Probably somebody reported an old post and the AI autosuspended her.
@support.bsky.team bring back Sarah Kendzior's account. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
@support.bsky.team bring back Sarah Kendzior's account. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
They didn't even tell her why 😩
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
@support.bsky.team Seriously?
If your AI model allows any random person to suspend an author like her, it clearly needs more training to weed out the bad actors who use systems like this to silence people.
You can do better. Bring her back now.
If your AI model allows any random person to suspend an author like her, it clearly needs more training to weed out the bad actors who use systems like this to silence people.
You can do better. Bring her back now.
Facial recognition technology has come a long way. A mask and hat is not enough to obscure a person's identity from the algorithms.
We will be able to find this person and charge him for the crime he is committing in this photograph.
We will be able to find this person and charge him for the crime he is committing in this photograph.
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Facial recognition technology has come a long way. A mask and hat is not enough to obscure a person's identity from the algorithms.
We will be able to find this person and charge him for the crime he is committing in this photograph.
We will be able to find this person and charge him for the crime he is committing in this photograph.
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This is what it's like for *everyone* in Canada.
In the US, the three levels of government spend more taxpayer money ($US 7,350/person) to provide healthcare to less than half the population than Canada does ($6,700) to cover everyone in the country. And Canada gets better results.
⸤1109d⸥
In the US, the three levels of government spend more taxpayer money ($US 7,350/person) to provide healthcare to less than half the population than Canada does ($6,700) to cover everyone in the country. And Canada gets better results.
⸤1109d⸥
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This is what it's like for *everyone* in Canada.
In the US, the three levels of government spend more taxpayer money ($US 7,350/person) to provide healthcare to less than half the population than Canada does ($6,700) to cover everyone in the country. And Canada gets better results.
⸤1109d⸥
In the US, the three levels of government spend more taxpayer money ($US 7,350/person) to provide healthcare to less than half the population than Canada does ($6,700) to cover everyone in the country. And Canada gets better results.
⸤1109d⸥
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Don’t Cave for a Promise.
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Don’t Cave for a Promise.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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I'd like for someone in the dem caucus to tell us which senators were real no votes and which ones voted no because they were allowed to.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I'd like for someone in the dem caucus to tell us which senators were real no votes and which ones voted no because they were allowed to.
About the only good that can come of this is for the US healthcare system to actually collapse so that we can finally replace it with something better.
But for that to happen, the GOP has to collapse. Caving into them isn’t the way to make that happen.
This was an Own Goal. Schumer needs to go.
But for that to happen, the GOP has to collapse. Caving into them isn’t the way to make that happen.
This was an Own Goal. Schumer needs to go.
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
About the only good that can come of this is for the US healthcare system to actually collapse so that we can finally replace it with something better.
But for that to happen, the GOP has to collapse. Caving into them isn’t the way to make that happen.
This was an Own Goal. Schumer needs to go.
But for that to happen, the GOP has to collapse. Caving into them isn’t the way to make that happen.
This was an Own Goal. Schumer needs to go.
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The answer Sen, Shaheen is that since America elected the Black man to be president, the official position of the Republican Party is “not to work together with Democrats to address the problems that are facing this country.”
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The answer Sen, Shaheen is that since America elected the Black man to be president, the official position of the Republican Party is “not to work together with Democrats to address the problems that are facing this country.”
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People were donating to food banks in communities across the country. Many SNAP recipients who were struggling felt the momentum. They too need healthcare & many didn't want us to cave. 7M of us didn't march to cave. We didn't win every election last week to cave. Shame on the cavers. Vote them out.
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
People were donating to food banks in communities across the country. Many SNAP recipients who were struggling felt the momentum. They too need healthcare & many didn't want us to cave. 7M of us didn't march to cave. We didn't win every election last week to cave. Shame on the cavers. Vote them out.
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Governor Gavin Newsom on Twitter a few moments ago
Regarding Democrat Senators who caved
Agree with you Governor 💯
Regarding Democrat Senators who caved
Agree with you Governor 💯
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Governor Gavin Newsom on Twitter a few moments ago
Regarding Democrat Senators who caved
Agree with you Governor 💯
Regarding Democrat Senators who caved
Agree with you Governor 💯