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

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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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 14h

Is Jordon going to hang notes in everyone's locker or is it going to be a group text/email situation?

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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 19h

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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 18h

She ain't suckin' that old man's dick for an early-bird special. He's got to be high profile.

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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 20h

Finally I, a Cowboys fan, can feel morally superior for about 30 seconds.

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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 22h

I recently made this same argument about Newt Gingrich! 🤣 Perhaps we both need to give a little more credit to the guys that actually pulled it off instead of saying it would have happened eventually anyway. But it is hard to give a shitty person credit for anything!

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 1d

Jimmy Kimmel put together an amazing compilation of Donald Trump saying all the words from the birthday letter he wrote to his best friend Jeffrey Epstein

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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 23h

Should have locked the doors with everyoneinside & only let them out to be taken directly to jail.

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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 23h

His most well known song also sucks & is vastly overplayed. It's only popular among Teaxas dads whose kids no longer speak to them.

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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 1d

Can we get a joint one with Pamela Paul because I've been wanting to drive an ice pick through both my ears lately.

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"soft wood" bitch mahogany™ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 1d

9/11 was kind of the "9/11" of country music

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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 1d

Religion is sacrosanct and must be protected above all other rights until they don't need it to be.

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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 1d

Don't dig too deeply on that. One of those guys had some issues as I recall.

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chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 2d

abolishing ICE is the moderate position

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

They tried to kill this woman because she annoyed them and they are charging because she lived. Her being alive is an assault on them.

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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 1d

The related "fuckwad" has, more sadly, fallen out of fashion as well.

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Christian Lane is my name not a preachy road @chrstianlane.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man. Do I have to light this?

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 1d

additional weird overlap: benjamin "bugsy" siegel, kingpin of Murder Inc and effective founder of modern vegas, had to be talked out of killing Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering at a party in Italy in 1939

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 1d

How about just extending it a bit after a massive donger. Let that shit breath.

3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 1d

Those two certainly knew how ding a ding dang my dang along ling long.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 1d

He was pissed that the movement had passed him by. Happens a lot. Insane ideologs are never gonna be satisfied. The fact remains that he deeply wounded the USA, perhaps fatally - we shall see.

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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 1d

I agree - Trump is worse. McCain was an average, shitty conservative politician who occasionally (not always or even mostly) did the right thing. Let's not pretend the man was honorable.

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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 1d

I guess what conservatives really wanted was for Obama to personally kick the shit out of Amon Bundy and his whole family on live TV.

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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 1d

I do not believe he was a "genuine statesman." I believe he was a political hack that got burned in the Keating 5 scandal and tried to reinvent himself as a man of honor and that base nature was revealed by the Palin pick.

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