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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13h

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 14h

Animal costume makers need to crank up production for that eventuality.

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Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 15h

No Tylenol to be given

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Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 15h

Great idea. Sort of like an urban version of those live cams on eagles' nests.

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 18h

Top tier Old Testament joke. No notes.

mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 18h

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 16h

Are there toad costumes out there? Frog is lonely without his friend.

Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 16h

I studied Piaget's theory of the development of object permanence in infants for my long-time-ago MA in Early Childhood Education. Never expected to have the opportunity to observe the opposite process as it diminishes in an old and ailing 79-year-old US president. 😬

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 18h

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings protests, and anti-regime protests in general, serve two main positive functions:

1) Reminding participants and observers that they’re very far from alone, countering regime efforts to divide and isolate

2) Showing the absurdity of regime lies about the peaceful, pro-democracy opposition

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

Funny they can't say the name of protests because saying "No Kings" makes it soooo clear it's the opposite of a "hate America rally"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 1d

💗 Pope Leo this week has advocated for immigrants & met with & lifted up Americans who work to support them. He also criticized the gap between elites & the poor as well as promoting journalists combatting lies & spoke of importance of participatory democracy. 1/n
elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

In Vatican meeting with El Pasoans, Pope Leo XIV offers support to migrants facing deportation - El Paso Matters

During a Vatican meeting, Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with migrants after hearing firsthand accounts gathered by El Paso’s Hope Border Institute and La Mujer Obrera about the human toll of U.S. ...

elpasomatters.org

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Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 1d

This also from above article. 9/9

Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 1d

This quote from above article. Totally shading Trump.
- More recently, he insisted that journalism was “not only an act of justice, but a duty of all those who long for a solid and participatory democracy.” Leo affirmed the freedom of the press was an “inalienable common good.” 8/n

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Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 1d

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
apnews.com/article/pope... 7/n

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Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document
www.ncronline.org/pope-leo-bla... 6/n

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Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo says faith and love for migrants are connected
In his first major document as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo urges nations and believers to care for the poorest in society.
www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n... 5/n

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Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 1d

In private audience Pope Leo XIV encourages Latino Catholics serving fearful US immigrants
religionnews.com/2025/10/08/i... 4/n

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Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops
www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-ram... 3/n

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Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 1d

Pope meets with Chicago union leaders, urges migrant welcome as crackdown underway in hometown
apnews.com/article/vati... 2/n

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Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 1d

💗 Pope Leo this week has advocated for immigrants & met with & lifted up Americans who work to support them. He also criticized the gap between elites & the poor as well as promoting journalists combatting lies & spoke of importance of participatory democracy. 1/n
elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

In Vatican meeting with El Pasoans, Pope Leo XIV offers support to migrants facing deportation - El Paso Matters

During a Vatican meeting, Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with migrants after hearing firsthand accounts gathered by El Paso’s Hope Border Institute and La Mujer Obrera about the human toll of U.S. ...

elpasomatters.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption.

My full statement:

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 2d

"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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shawkin.bsky.social @shawkin.bsky.social · 2d

Portland's downtown Pioneer Square at 4pm. It's a living hell. Most lunchtime food carts closed. Starbucks out of breakfast croissants. Musician playing ambient techno won't take requests.

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