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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3h

people on here apparently need to learn a lesson most of us learn in elementary school, which is that it’s fucking rude to correct people on zero stakes things and doing so leads rightfully to social ostracism

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aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 2h

Their head of Gov Affairs worked for John Thune, so it's hard not to see this as just one hand washing the other.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 5h

People who live in big cities and have MAGA relatives in rural and suburban areas are getting deja vu, that's for sure.

We've all had conversations with relatives who insist they know better than us what our cities are like. That we must be deluded not to see the constant riots and muggings.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 4h

Prosperity Gospel, and its attendant implications about who "deserves" wealth, and who wealth belongs to, have been a rot on our society.

So many of the wealthiest among us are the weakest and most craven. It's not a coincidence.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5h

So many normal people being brave and then all these wealthy and powerful people being cowards. History will not be kind to the people like shari Redstone who enabled Trump.

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aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 11h

If Roberts were a true institutionalist, he would have publicly called on Mitch McConnell to allow Obama to have his nomination considered.

He allowed that crack in SCOTUS' foundation, and he has only let it grow deeper and wider ever since.

aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 11h

Respect Patrick's perspective, but since Scalia's passing every 5-4 ruling has been substantively illegitimate. And with the sweeping adoption of unsigned shadow docket rulings, they've tipped over the ledge to becoming procedurally illegitimate as well.

This era will be one of counter-precedent.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23h

keep calling and telling them to stand strong

the difference between last time (when they got yelled at incessantly for caving) and this time needs to be a chasm in terms of the feedback they're getting from constituents

we can get them to hold

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 23h

Tina Smith says Democrats are digging in: “If anything, we’re feeling more strong.”

“I think we've tapped into something that's really important to Americans.”

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response.

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Morgan @mport25.bsky.social · 1d

REPTAR IS ANTIFA. SUPPORT OUR ANTI FASCIST RUGRATS KING.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 1d

“Either this machine will be powerful enough to take your job or it’ll blow up and you’ll lose your job in a recession” is a tough outlook for white collar workers over the next few years.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

USAID was both morally correct and a huge part of our foreign policy, and that duality is hard for people to grapple with in a sincere way. But if we're going to reconstitute USAID after this shitshow is over, we should think about the pressures that creates and how to mitigate them

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 1d

Finance, Program, Development

Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 1d

Nature, Ecology, Environment

Three guys at a table, dressed "interestingly"

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aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 1d

It's short for Women, Infants, & Children, a nutrition program run through the USDA.

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aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 1d

This is King Trump directly taxing all of us and then choosing which pet groups get the spoils, solely for his own political benefit.

Like, yes, fund WIC. But do it because we the people say so, not so Trump can avoid the political blowback of his disastrous shutdown.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 2d

People are usually lying when they say "I am protecting you from the monster and if you don't do exactly as I say then the monster will destroy the village."

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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 2d

The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.

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aust.in.tifa @abw56.bsky.social · 2d

Focusing on paperwork crimes instead of real ones.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. Thousands of federal agents once tasked with investigating drug smuggling, sexual exploitation and organized crime have been redirected to immigration enforcement ..”

@wsj.com
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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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