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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7h

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 7h

The PDF download function is broken, but baby steps! We'll get there!

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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 12h

Future generations are gonna be really confused about the etymology of “trumped-up charges”

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 11h

I KNEW IT I KNEW IT

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12h

Just 'cause it has to be said every now and then.

GOP Senators and Representatives are obviously okay with...everything...that's happening.

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 12h

Gonna go out on a limb and predict dead silence from all the centrist pundits who told us that charging Trump with crimes would be the end of the Republic.

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 13h

ME TOO POPE LEO

Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 17h

"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."

(Pope Leo XIV)

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 13h

It’s so fucking degrading to do reference comedy with your boss’s nonsensical racist joke like it’s a Spider-Man callback in Shrek

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 20h

Catholic influencers logging on to vatican dot va this morning

Kombucha woman meme, but reversed. In the first box, above the "intrigued" face, is "Apostolic Exhortation 'Dilexi Te' of the Holy Father Leo XIV to All Christians..." And in the second box, above the "disgusted" face, is the rest of the title of the new document: "...on Love for the Poor"

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 16h

I cannot fucking believe this man’s cognitive abilities get no coverage

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 16h

Trump: These massive vaccines that are twice the size of a jar like that. A glass of water like that into a baby's body.

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 20h

Catholic influencers logging on to vatican dot va this morning

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

President Just Resting My Eyes

Trump fighting sleep demons and ANTIFA with his eyes closed

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 22h

Just realized what this reminds me of, and it's the sequence on The Office where Michael wants them to tell personal stories of grief, so they start describing movie plots, and then Kevin gets too obvious with the joke and ruins it

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 22h

Just riffing on Pam Bondi having claimed that the DOJ arrested "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa." Clearly a fictional character, but which one?? (I am fully obsessed with "Hadestown"! It's so great.)

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 22h

"And there were 94 years to go!" 🎶

Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

(This is a joke for three of you)

Photo from Hadestown on Broadway, specifically from the number "Any Way the Wind Blows," with Eva Noblezada as Eurydice seated at a table clutching a tall votive candle and surrounded by the three Fates, who are singing aggressively at her. Eva/Eurydice has a fantastic "Can you believe this shit" expression on her face, and she hasn't even met tragic lover and anti-fascism rabblerouser Orpheus yet.

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 1d

I just hope they didn't nab this one, because you *know* she'd cut a deal

Eleanor Parker as the Baroness in The Sound of Music, sipping champagne and scheming

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

as one party has become more and more untethered from the truth, the news media has become more and more circumspect in never admitting that truth exists.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

Wish Johnson cared enough about pregnant people to worry about the hospitals that will turn them away for fear they’ll be prosecuted for performing basic medical procedures.

www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Bishop Seitz on meeting with Pope this morning: “Our Holy Father is very personally concerned about these matters. He expressed his desire that the U.S. Bishops' Conference would speak strongly on this issue. It means a lot to all of us to know of his personal desire that we continue to speak out.”

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

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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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 1d

Reading your breviary like "You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself" and saying, "Huh, I wonder who that's about"

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being a U.S. bishop—a cardinal, even—and simply disregarding the increasingly overt directives from the Holy See that you need to speak the F up for your persecuted immigrant brothers and sisters, loudly and clearly, like it matters to you. You would think it's unlikely. And yet!

CxMxFx @chrispps.bsky.social · 1d

"'Our Holy Father … is very personally concerned about these matters,' El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who took part in the meeting, told Reuters. 'He expressed his desire that the U.S. Bishops' Conference would speak strongly on this issue.'"

www.reuters.com

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

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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