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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3h

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 4h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 1d

This week Historians At The Movies talks about space travel. Join us on Netflix this Sunday, October 12 at 8pm eastern for THE MARTIAN.

Keep #HATM hiring by sharing and we’ll see you soon.

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Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 1h

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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Chief White House Chuck Taylor Correspondent 🐝⚜️ @ntdubb.blacksky.app · 1h

As someone who did undergrad in Chicago and consider it my second hometown, I have faith in you! Bring that fucker to his knees!

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago may be the city that breaks Donald Trump. We’re at least trying our best.

I saw this on FB. Maybe not Carl Sandburg, but beautiful in its own way & for its own time.

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Beyond Meat @beyondmeatofficial.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank goodness we’re going back to the good old times before… *checks notes* medicine

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 1h

Every other town in Massachusetts.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 1h

Seems bad!

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 7h

Idk who needs to see this.

But the quicker we can get the House to come back in DC. The better.

Don't let up!!

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#SheShed

A screenshot of a Eric Swalwell tweet from Twitter.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4h

Merrick Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago. It happened in August 2022 three months before Jack Smith was appointed. Jack Smith was in the Netherlands at the Hauge prosecuting Kosovo war crimes when Mar-a-Lago was searched. Eric should have listened to my podcast.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 5h

JUST IN: Feds say they are incapable of moving Kilmar Abrego Garcia from PA to TN for court session Friday in his criminal case. A week lead time isn't enough, prosecutors say, plus there's a hearing on one of his civil suits Friday in Maryland. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Michael D. Baker @mikebakerlaw.bsky.social · 3h

A federal court settlement agreement establishes strict, court-supervised rules for how ICE can carry out warrantless immigration arrests and vehicle stops in Illinois and five surrounding Midwest states, which have been extended by the judge through 2026. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

Adobe Acrobat

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Michael D. Baker @mikebakerlaw.bsky.social · 3h

It requires ICE to follow the Constitution, document every warrantless arrest, train its officers, and immediately release anyone held in violation of these new standards.

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Michael D. Baker @mikebakerlaw.bsky.social · 2h

Mark Fleming of the National Immigrant Justice Center described ICE’s conduct as “reckless and unlawful enforcement,” and hailed the ruling: “This decision gives us tools to hold DHS and ICE accountable,” ensuring the Constitution and law must be followed.

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Michael D. Baker @mikebakerlaw.bsky.social · 2h

Cummings extended the decree through February 2, 2026, ordered ICE to reissue national compliance notices, reimbursed bonds, and required monthly reports on warrantless arrests.

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Michael D. Baker @mikebakerlaw.bsky.social · 2h

Federal Judge Jeffrey Cummings ruled that ICE violated the Castañon Nava consent decree by arresting at least 22 people without a warrant in Chicago and Missouri earlier this year, following President Trump’s inauguration.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3h

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 8h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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World Peace Cookies @worldpeacecookies.bsky.social · 2h

Do we know why the fire department didn't completely extinguish the fire he set on New Year's Eve? If they had fully contained it, the second fire, the one that devastated the Palisades wouldn't have started? A tragedy in so many ways.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d

Lindsey Halligan, the attorney selected by Donald Trump to bring criminal charges against James Comey, has never prosecuted a case.

But, like Trump, she did get her start in reality TV — with a brief cameo on South Beach Tow.

Here is Halligan’s newly resurfaced TV moment:

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d

Lindsey Halligan, the attorney selected by Donald Trump to bring criminal charges against James Comey, has never prosecuted a case.

But, like Trump, she did get her start in reality TV — with a brief cameo on South Beach Tow.

Here is Halligan’s newly resurfaced TV moment:

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Lyndsor 🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🎸🐱🇬🇱🏊🫘 @skinnypool.bsky.social · 8h

I am hoping for a little schadenfreude this week. If all goes the way it SHOULD, Comey's case will be dismissed as selective or vindictive prosecution.
Then Friday when the Nobel Peace Prize is announced NOT hearing Dump's name will be the icing on the cake. 😄 👍

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