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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 3h

Very Annoying Anglican Voice: erm actually there can be Protestant priests…

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 14h

I did an instagram live of the whole thing if you want to see what it was like

Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 14h

Okay that was awesome, it was a Fuera ICE protest and march, I stayed for like an hour, there were signs, chants, later a pop-mariachi band played, kids doing bike wheelies in the street wearing the Mexican flag like a cape, etc

Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 16h

Lots of noise outside, I think there's a protest. I'm going to venture out and use my ears to try to find it and report back 🫡

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 16h

Lots of noise outside, I think there's a protest. I'm going to venture out and use my ears to try to find it and report back 🫡

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 22h

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

RNS @rns.org · 2d

The pastors’ efforts are part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration as the president seeks to implement plans for mass deportation of immigrants.
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who…

religionnews.com

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 17h

Earlier this year the House GOP voted that no day can count as “a day.”

Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 19h

He is also on Duolingo

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah this has gotten so much worse

Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 19h

Me at the dentist's office today biting into the bite thing

BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 20h

although they do carnally and visibly press with their teeth

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h

You must defer to the president’s determination that there is an armed rebellion in Chicago, argues the govt’s lawyer.

That’s the Trump admin’s stance on everything. When the law doesn’t allow it, lie about the facts until it’s something that would be legal, then insist others live inside the lie.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 22h

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 1d

Going to the dentist must feel so good if you’re a tooth

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Unironically, you can see how these guys’ Twitter brainrot has progressed to this stage where they have trouble remembering that you’re supposed to talk about the Nazis as the bad guys. It’s not a winking nod to neo-Nazis so much as them genuinely forgetting which way is supposed to be up

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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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 1d

Here's another section that was quite bad. We did not need that highlight 4x, or another header to distinguish the spoken vs sung elements for the two services. Also fits in half a page less. I would change more but this is just a test copy to show the committee so the substance is the same.

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 1d

I designed a new Service Bulletin template for our parish today. Here's the old one / new one

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 2d

Just ate Jesus Christ

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly need

Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 2d

Craving dried poblano peppers

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2d

“Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar”

Never forget or forgive that Trump, Rubio, & Musk *chose* to inflict this monumental level of death and suffering on the poorest & most vulnerable people.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 2d

Bluesky Spaces when

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 2d

y’all this goes so hard

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 2d

It was so bad back then you could barely use the platform

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 2d

I spent today working 1:1 with a third grader in the Structured Learning classroom (think one step above full special ed class) which was fun but very tiring. He likes to do headstands which are not allowed so it was a lot of "Okay, we are going to put our feet on the ground now" all day lol

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 2d

"most of us never thought to counter that argument because it’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense"

is basically the entirety of the present situation on every front

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I think something we have to do more of is talk about how kickass a lot of American cities are because right now some people think they’re run by Sharia Law nudists and most of us never thought to counter that argument because it’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 2d

Off topic but I cannot imagine being a Bishop and typing in a sans-serif font

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