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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 10m

It's fine. I don't care. My bones don't ache from boiling envy. I'm normal.

Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 15m

I can't do this anymore. It's over.

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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 3h

Dilexi te!

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 2h

New Apostolic Exhortation just dropped. Get exhorted.

www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te of the Holy Father Leo XIV on Love for the Poor (4 October 2025)

APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION DILEXI TE OF THE HOLY FATHER LEO XIV TO ALL CHRISTIANS ON LOVE FOR THE POOR [ Multimedia ] _____________________

www.vatican.va

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 10h

So there really is some amount of uncertainty as to their actual threat level.

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 10h

Well actually no country has ever tested a nuclear-armed ICBM.

They've tested the missiles, and they've tested the warheads, but they've never tested them both together.

So nobody is completely sure that they will actually work together correctly.

Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes I also try to pretend that nuclear weapons are actually made up to intimidate everyone but aren't real.

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 14h

The Portland frog will receive a presidential medal of freedom within 20 years

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 16h

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h

To sustain his rage against "Antifa," Trump summons a team of proven fabulists and conspiracy theorists including the notorious inventor of the Pizzagate conspiracy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21h

Oh: @clairegiangrave.bsky.social with an exclusive:

Pope Leo, in addition to urging U.S. bishops to speak out about mistreatment of immigrants, also told a group of U.S. Latino Catholics who work w/immigrants their job is important — "perhaps especially" in the U.S. religionnews.com/2025/10/08/i...

In private audience Pope Leo XIV encourages Latino Catholics serving fearful U.S. immigrants

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — ‘He treated us like dignitaries. He sent a message by having us there. He lifted us,’ said Elizabeth Román, president of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21h

pope leo please write a migration encyclical

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21h

Oh: @clairegiangrave.bsky.social with an exclusive:

Pope Leo, in addition to urging U.S. bishops to speak out about mistreatment of immigrants, also told a group of U.S. Latino Catholics who work w/immigrants their job is important — "perhaps especially" in the U.S. religionnews.com/2025/10/08/i...

In private audience Pope Leo XIV encourages Latino Catholics serving fearful U.S. immigrants

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — ‘He treated us like dignitaries. He sent a message by having us there. He lifted us,’ said Elizabeth Román, president of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.

religionnews.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21h

i find it hilarious that Barron never really thought through the implications of this

"Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope." Bishop Robert Barron, who serves
on Trump's Commission on Religious Liberty, said to CBS a few days ago.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 21h

Me, in 1522:

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21h

given how bad this admin are at optics they're going to get into a fight with the catholics at some point i fear

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

I just want to be super explicit: the leader of the Democrats in the Senate is lying to the American people.

If he honestly believes the biggest problem with the budget right now is these subsidies than he should resign and possibly face criminal charges for gross negligence.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 1d

ICE and DHS officials are terrorizing Chicago. Pulling children from their beds in the middle of the night, naked. Shooting people in broad daylight and throwing tear gas on busy streets. Johnson and Pritzker are protecting their constituents.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump Calls for Jailing of Chicago Mayor and Illinois Governor

The president in a social-media post says Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker have failed to protect ICE.

www.wsj.com

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 1d

Congress could end this before noon.

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump has personally starved and murdered hundreds of thousands of people. How long will we allow this madness and slaughter to go on? How many more children will we permit him to kill?

Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 1d

Continuing stories of the mass murder unleashed by Trump cutting off USAID food and medicine around the world.

Trump will go down in history as one of the leading genocidal murderers in global history- on par with Hitler, Stalin, King Leopold and Churchhill

apnews.com/article/myan...

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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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 1d

Continuing stories of the mass murder unleashed by Trump cutting off USAID food and medicine around the world.

Trump will go down in history as one of the leading genocidal murderers in global history- on par with Hitler, Stalin, King Leopold and Churchhill

apnews.com/article/myan...

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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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

When you read this about people being *afraid to go to. church* lest they be snatched by ICE, remember that Cardinal Timothy Dolan serves on Trump's Religious Liberty Commission (www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...) and was honored by the Becket Fund this year (becketfund.org/media/cardin...)

The letters and video he brought to Leo detail the fear that even legal migrants are facing every day. U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters by federal agents. In Leo’s hometown of Chicago, agents have stormed apartment complexes by helicopter as families slept, deployed chemical agents near a public school and arrested a city councilman in the hospital.

“They can’t go out. They are afraid to shop, to go to church and so they stay home,” wrote Maria in one of the letters delivered to Leo. Originally from Guatemala, she has lived in San Francisco for a quarter-century and qualified for asylum years ago, but has relatives in the U.S. who are not legal.

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