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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 13h

Joseph Smith lmao

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 14h

Says to me Fr. Dowling needs to do this every day until they crack.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 17h

Denying entrance to a Eucharistic Procession is to Catholicism kinda like what desecrating the flag is to the American civic religion, except with even more weight of history and tradition behind it!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 17h

But in case you missed it, Fr Dowling's statement takes the time to make it explicit: "Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing. Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing."

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 17h

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 17h

What Fr Dowling is doing here was not just "offering communion to detainees". A full on Eucharistic Procession is a really fucking big deal. In Catholic theological framing, those folks were the honor guard with the very great privilege of escorting Jesus himself to the detention center.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 14h

Posting It Again

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 20h

I'm willing to say a lot of radical things, but if you think "someone making money" or "the existence of corporations" is the main reason things suck, you are not playing in the intellectual league I'm interested in being in

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22h

this is fucking obscene

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 20h

Everything that could be said to refute this Cult of Joe Steel conspiratorial materialist nonsense has been said at this point so instead I’ll just say it’s cool to see this guy getting uniformly jumped on instead of pretending we still have to take this dumb shit seriously

Teles Santos @telesjr.bsky.social · 21h

The US never fought to end fascism anywhere. They joined the war because Japan forced their hand, and they saw a great way to make money. After the USSR pretty much had pushed Germany out of eastern Europe and they knew the nazis were going to lose, they jumped in.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20h

I love guys who are just blithely confident in their ignorance, they read like one statement on a tankie forum four years ago and now they think they know everything about one of the most involved conflicts in human history.

Teles Santos @telesjr.bsky.social · 21h

The US never fought to end fascism anywhere. They joined the war because Japan forced their hand, and they saw a great way to make money. After the USSR pretty much had pushed Germany out of eastern Europe and they knew the nazis were going to lose, they jumped in.

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 1d

We need to drop the Neo-Pelagian garbage that says people are naturally compassionate people who will make compassionate decisions. We are not and we will not. Virtue must be cultivated and tended to in every part of our public and private lives are we will lose our heart for it and kill each other

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22h

Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

www.reddit.com

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J.J. @thetellurian.bsky.social · 23h

Being an actual Christian is an affront to everything mike Johnson believes.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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Dave (@6502_ftw from Tweets) @cursed.monster · 22h

Not redeemable.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 22h

Beneath contempt

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 22h

At some point in his papacy, Pope Bob is going to acknowledge that Evangelicals don’t think Catholics are real

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 23h

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 22h

They are persecuting the Church.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 23h

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 23h

The Trump-Vance administration blocking Catholics from receiving the Eucharist. The Trump-Vance war on Catholics and Catholicism.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23h

As the procession reaches Broadview, priests have been denied access to ICE detention facility in order to bring the Eucharist to detainees.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23h

As the procession reaches Broadview, priests have been denied access to ICE detention facility in order to bring the Eucharist to detainees.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2d

CNN deserves to fail

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Following MTG's lengthy CNN sitdown interview, Wolf Blitzer tells her:

"You‘re a courageous politician, but more important, a loving mother. Thanks very much for coming in. We hope you‘ll come back here in the Situation Room."

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Christopher Culpepper @paranoia2k.bsky.social · 1d

"My dearest Rebecca,

The Inflatable Brigades continue to stymie us. Countless hordes of frogs, unicorns, foxes, dogs, raccoons.

We knew we were done for when the Pikachu arrived. Pure weaponized hilarity.

We cannot get out. We cannot get out......"

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23h

ICE is an armed gang, and they’re only going to get worse. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | The Chicago raids send a worrying signal about the ideal ICE agents in Trump's America

The agency is on a hiring spree. But we know what that kind of breakneck expansion of the workforce can result in because we’ve seen it before.

www.msnbc.com

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Cinjaa @cinjaa.bsky.social · 1d

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