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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 11h

It's 5:58pm & OU SUCKS! 🤘🏻🏈🤘🏻🏈🤘🏻🏈

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 13h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 12h

Where has THIS Arch Manning been all season?!? #TexasFight #Longhorns #HookEm

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 12h

FIGHT!!! 🤘🏻

Hunter🔪 @holybible.bsky.social · 12h

Texas!!!!!!!

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Texas Longhorns - The University of Texas at Austin @utlonghorns.bsky.social · 21h

GAMEDAY IN DALLAS 🤘

#HookEm | #CocaCola

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 15h

It's 2:30 pm on a gorgeous Texas day at the state fair. AND OU SUCKS! #HookEm 🤘🏻

Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 19h

Good morning, fellow Texas Longhorns! Does anyone know what time it is?

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 17h

This is one program Trump thinks is a "Democrat" program because it demonstrates care for others.

But the benefits cross-cut partisan lines.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17h

⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:

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NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being
"decimated," as one person described.
"They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding," said another.
"I'm not sure how these programs exist moving forward."
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 19h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h

Florida’s surgeon general’s anti-vax beliefs are only the tip of a very deeply weird iceberg.

Joseph Ladapo’s guiding voice? His wife, who believes she can talk to “Archangel Michael, Mary Magdalene, and many other beings of light.”

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 19h

Good morning, fellow Texas Longhorns! Does anyone know what time it is?

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 4d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 1d

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

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

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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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 1d

No, seems weak.

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

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

It’s an insane world where militarizing your own civilian streets and ordering extrajudicial murders on the high seas doesn’t get you a prize.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 1d

Uh...

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 1d

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist.”👇

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 1d

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World’s oldest leader readies for another shot at power

Cameroon’s Paul Biya, aiming to stay in office until nearly 100, has attended only one rally and spent part of the presidential campaign in Switzerland

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Sister Jean.

Sister Jean, beloved Loyola-Chicago chaplain, dies

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the longtime chaplain of the Loyola-Chicago men's basketball team, died Thursday at the age of 106. "[She] was an invaluable source of wisdom and grace for generations of ...

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 2d

Missouri is preparing to execute someone who has strong innocence claim, whose jury didn't vote to sentence him to death, & who is an inspiring leader ministering to his fellow prisoners:
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/the-impend...

The Impending Execution of a Prison Pastor

Imagine that through a series of harrowing life events, you find yourself sent to a maximum security prison.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 2d

World Central Kitchen.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo in Dilexi te: “The Church has always recognized in migrants a living presence of the Lord who, on the day of judgment, will say to those on his right: ‘I was a stranger and you welcomed me’”(Mt 25:35).

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

the church is being torn from their loved ones by masked thugs, driven off in unmarked vans and never heard from again. pope leo could not be more focused on the church.

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