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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿

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trans guy in minneapolis. prayerbook catholic in the episcopal church. anti-fascist. he/they. matthew 7:21-29.

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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 6d

"We believe, that this body of ours, wherein we live, although it die and come to dust, yet at the last day it shall return to life again, by Christ's Spirit which dwelleth in us: and that then verily, whatsoever we suffer here in the meanwhile for His sake,

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.bsky.social · 37m

Quite literally losing the war on woke.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 48m

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25m

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

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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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 6h

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 4h

I will 100% support any politician who takes transit, bikes, or walks regularly to get around. Be out in community! Don’t just drive through it.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

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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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 3h

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

pope leo please write a migration encyclical

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3h

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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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 4h

Then he goes on to say even the heavens exist without corrupting because of the grace of God!

All is grace! God is good!

Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 4h

Nope, I work for a very small company as the sole warehouse packing/shipping/logistics guy haha

Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 4h

Also I did talk to my boss a while back when tarriffs started about my concerns. He told me he wasnt super concerned, but also promised that he would tell me as soon as possible if they were going to have to maybe lay me off, and I trust him so I'm ignoring my anxiety as best I can haha

Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 4h

Ive been blessed with the ability to read so much the last couple weeks because work has been very slow and I have a great boss who lets me read during downtime.

Part of me worries that I work for a boardgame company that isnt super busy leading up to Christmas. But Im trying to stay positive!

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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 5h

Started reading book two of An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by St John of Damascus, and I love that he points out that all the power angels have and their immortality is all rooted in God's grace & not purely natural to them.

Makes me think more expansively about what grace is. ⚓️

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 5h

Got news this morning that someone spraypainted "Watch out, Zionists" and "Al-Aqsa Flood" on Temple Israel last night.

We're in the middle of the high holy days of the Jewish calendar, with Sukkot having just started this week. This isn't activism. This is antisemitism.

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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 7h

and until fairly recently in LDS history they didnt wish to be called Christians, either.

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 7h

that we, surely trusting in thy defense, may not fear the power of any adversaries;

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7h

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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Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 7h

While Mayor Frey and Chief O’Hara have attempted to claim that MPD only showed up at the ICE action on June 3rd to assist with crowd control, ICE agents certainly saw MPD’s actions differently.

In fact, the ICE Special Agent in Charge emailed O’Hara to say thank you that same day.

Title text: "ICE Thanks O'Hara & MPD" with the following quote below: "I cannot tell you how impressed my staff were as you stepped up and personally escorted that tactical vehicle through the crowd." Below that is a screenshot of an email sent from Jamie Holt, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Securities Investigations to Chief O'Hara.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 7h

There are many people who criticize and even attack the Israeli government who aren’t criticizing or attacking Jews.

Candace Owens is not one of those people.

When she says “Israel,” she means “Jews.”

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 21h

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.” ⚓️

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21h

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 3d

If I were JD Vance I would simply fear God and repent and become a desert hermit

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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 16h

I strongly advocate for christians to not use our faith as a pretense to not do anything, but rather to be strengthened by our faith in our resolve to take action.

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 19h

Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 21h

Here’s video of the incident

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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 18h

God does not support ICE, nor the violence happening to the oppressed.

Justice will be done.

Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 18h

And Peter said to them, 'Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.'"
Acts 2:36-38 RSV
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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 18h

"'Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.' Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, 'Brethren, what shall we do?'

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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 18h

Our Lord is a mom being stuffed into a tiny metal cage in the back of a government SUV, while her child, like Mary for her Son, can only scream and sob in terror.

Will we be like Peter, full of courageous talk, only to deny Jesus in fear?

I pray we be like Peter after pentecost, instead. 🕯

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