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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2h

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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Contra Tenore @cntrtnr.bsky.social · 5h

Large adult sons are back

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Contra Tenore @cntrtnr.bsky.social · 15h

Antifa is out of control

FDR in a wheelchair petting his dog with his daughter.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Contra Tenore @cntrtnr.bsky.social · 1d

John Maus isn't exactly obscure and he has some problematic personal associations but his music feels like it was made for my brain.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

What’s a good band you’ve discovered recently that not enough people know about? And don’t be like The Beatles you piece of shit, you ornery fuck

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Contra Tenore @cntrtnr.bsky.social · 1d

It's me, the dumbass piece of shit centrist who wasn't going to vote for Gavin Newsom in some theoretical future gubernatorial/presidential election but now will because a bunch of trans people are going to be harmed for literally no reason.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

every time you read a story about how no-strings-attached direct payments to vulnerable, marginalized or otherwise needy people are a big net profit to the society disbursing them, and you ask "why doesn't america do that?", please know that this is the answer why

mac from always sunny saying "but who versus? who are we doing it versus?" because he cannot understand a plan that does not have a victim

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Will Bunnett @willbunnett.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed, if you're not confronting the out of control corruption of SCOTUS, then what even are you rebuilding?

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 1d

Any Project 2029-style rebuilding project that tables confrontation with the Supreme Court will doom itself. www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory

If Democrats can't avoid the trap Republican justices are setting, we'll never recover from the Trump fiasco.

www.offmessage.net

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Contra Tenore @cntrtnr.bsky.social · 1d

Noticing "left wing" Canadian journalists are going back to X.

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S(cary)W(rath) 👻 @toasterposey.art · 2d

Shohei Ohtani smiles and shakes Donald Trump’s hand at the Oval Office in front of a World Series trophy.

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Contra Tenore @cntrtnr.bsky.social · 2d

The right wing opinion industry selects specifically for people who loudly and repeatedly share awful takes. No one with impostor syndrome would ever.

haunted dog @zandywithaz.bsky.social · 2d

It’s nice people like Bari Weiss are failing upward. Why is it that the people who most deserve Imposter Syndrome never have it?

Contra Tenore @cntrtnr.bsky.social · 2d

Don't do it

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 6d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 3d

The political battleground for Canada will increasingly be BC, without the rest of Canada, esp Ontario, more than peripherally aware that BC exists. This is an astonishing statement of domestic aggression! So why is this not being adequately covered by the "national" media?! #cdnpoli

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal

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Contra Tenore @cntrtnr.bsky.social · 3d

This is why people like Ezra Klein will get weepy eyed about Kirk. It's kayfabe to them, a dog and pony show, a performance. Their privileged whiteness blinds them to how politics can mean for some people the difference between freedom and unfreedom, life and death.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 3d

Megyn Kelly has now made multiple denigrating posts about me across X, YouTube, her podcast so I’m sharing this. Unlike her, I don't perform dislike and disdain in public,then become my real self when the cameras are off. That's the definition of the grift she accuses me of;I find it profoundly sad.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

this will only continue to escalate, they want a civil war

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Contra Tenore @cntrtnr.bsky.social · 3d

Normal america hours

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Evan McLaren @evanmclaren.bsky.social · 4d

Hard to exaggerate how wild this is. Nazis appropriated Mac Tonight, a McDonald's character from the 1980s, and create content where he raps and jokes about how great the Holocaust was and how we should kill all minorities. Knowing about this in any context other than oppo research is incriminating.

Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 4d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 4d

absolutely brutal

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Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 4d

Nova Scotia - a province known for endless rainy days & many bountiful rivers & lakes - is into its 4th month of extreme drought. This is the French River, that provides Tatamagouche with water (or not). Climate crisis kicking in. But: let’s frack and clearcut anyway, says NS Premier Tim Houston.

A rocky and pebbly riverbed with almost no water in it, and in the middle of the gravelly empty middle, grass is growing. Some reddish and green shrubs are visible on the left of the photo.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

ICE reportedly opened fire on rapid responders on the southwest side this afternoon.

There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified.

This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:

Shooting involving federal agents in Brighton Park under investigation

According to the Department of Homeland Security, a woman allegedly "boxed in" federal authorities, who opened fire.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

This is an outright lie.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people’s ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights.

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