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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ

@kenhomansj.bsky.social

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Catholic, son, brother, Brother, Jesuit, weightlifter, woodworker, radical for Christ. Proudly putting the SJ into SJW. My tweets≠orgs I am part of. (he/him)

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · Aug 9

For my course day on music history, I'm going to let students pick a genre to explore music as a primary source. I'll have some songs they have to listen to, then they'll pick some of their own.

What are some "must know" songs or artists in punk, hip-hop, jazz, country, classical, blues, or folk?

bart simpson is wearing headphones and pointing at something

Alt: bart simpson is wearing headphones

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 27m

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 33m

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 17m

This #BannedBooksWeek, I'm reminded of one of the librarians at my high school.

She would assemble a HUGE display of banned books and information about the history of banning literature.

She also moderated the Young Republicans club.

I wonder what she thinks of the present Republican Party.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

They’re actively working to resegregate housing, and our “allies” refuse to name racism while they’re doing so...

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 1h

Not to make this religious but it’s what I do.

The sustained assault on public empathy is bigger than genuine skepticism of performative empathy.

It’s a country where people’s anger for each other has become so intense that they gravitate toward that which will communicate hatred

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 17h

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 22h

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3h

There must be some mistake, I read 50 Atlantic articles about how RFK Jr just wants to help Americans eat more vegetables

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 5h

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 17h

Did you hear about the church's new vehicle?
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It's a conversion van!

a cartoon of spongebob and patrick saying i 'm a..

Alt: a cartoon of spongebob and patrick saying "I'm a bad person"

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 1d

The #ceasefire in #Gaza “is an important first step, but it has to be sustainable,” our Jonathan Fowler tells TRT World.

There must be an unimpeded flow of aid, including the lifesaving supplies waiting in UNRWA warehouses.

People in Gaza need everything.

Lift the siege.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1d

“The truth is that antifa groups have been responsible for some of the most prescient & impactful organizing countering the far-right during the last decade”

Amazing corrective to liberal punditry abt antifa from Matthew Whitley (& basically the thesis of my book) theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Buried lede, almost last sentence:

"He had planned to fly to Spain on Wednesday night but said that shortly before takeoff, he was notified by the airline that his family’s reservations had been canceled."

Bray + wife & kids mysteriously blocked after getting boarding passes & going thru security.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 1d

Gym lifting buddy: I didn't recognize you!

Me: Is it because I'm wearing the uniform? (Clerics(

Gym: That and the lack of sawdust, glue, and paint stains.

a man with a beard is saying you made me feel seen

Alt: a man with a beard is saying you made me feel seen

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a military uniform is asking are we the baddies .

ALT: a man in a military uniform is asking are we the baddies .

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

I might end up talking about this graph all day.

I think one thing Dems need to realize is that "Americans" are not buying into the "cities on fire" lies of this admin.

It's JUST Republicans. So if you're a governor of a solidly blue state, or a blue-city mayor, the national story is NOT YOURS.

Gallup poll showing a wild divergence in "is crime rising" over the past two years, w GOP at 90, independents at 68, Dems at 29.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 2d

NEW An EPA report found that PFNA, a chemical in the drinking water of some 26M people, interferes with development and likely causes liver problems & male reproductive harms. The report was done in April, scientists told me. But the agency hasn't released it

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Leo punctuates Francis’ pontificate and builds on his own themes regarding the poor. The document serves as a sign of continuity between Francis and Leo, and is a clear mandate to those who would treat the poor as if they don’t exist. You cannot call yourself self a Christian and cast away the poor.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Decimating the alert system for critical infrastructure so as to provide for more raids of Home Depot parking lots

Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 2d

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible. The @nytimes.com wants to be the newspaper of record in America. But in the middle of a constitutional crisis, the movement of federal troops into American cities, a genocide, & a massive war, their top-of-page headlines are about a former president's son & Harvard kids skipping class.

Harvard finds skipping class part of culture

Biden's son pursued land deal near embassy

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 2d

Just to be absolutely clear:

The President of the United States has absolutely no power to “take away” any right enumerated in the Constitution from any person.

And that is how every single article, blog post, and social media commentary should start when discussing this ludicrous statement.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 2d

One is an Aquinas scholar and honestly the other is just so well-versed that I don't know what his actual research is on 😂

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 2d

I was sitting at lunch with two philosophers when I talked about historians and the question of objective knowledge.

And let me tell you--that was objectively a mistake.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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