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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 1h

This is extremely alarming. Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social won the federal election promising to make us *less* depending on the US. Now we are hearing reports that he is offering up a CLOSER energy and military partnership in exchange for a trade deal... 🧵

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 17h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15h

The government is shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. I feel like this is a kitchen table issue.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s video of the incident

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 15h

*putting away the ceremonial dimpler* oh

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 15h

Yes that's exactly it.

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 15h

All my books are disappearing into boxes as we get ready to move and it's awful. I have to read on my phone like a 10 year old.

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 1d

My cat, begging for an unprecedented double dinner

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

What is the great globe itself but a Loose-Fish?

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 1d

Elbows what

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 2d

"It is ... clear that the international community is, unfortunately, powerless and that the countries truly capable of exerting influence have so far failed to act to stop the ongoing massacre," Parolin told the Vatican's media outlet.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 2d

The Vatican's top diplomat sharply criticised Israel's "ongoing massacre" in Gaza in comments published on Monday - one of the Catholic Church's strongest condemnations of Israel's war against the militant group Hamas. For @reuters.com

Top Vatican cardinal says Israel carrying out massacre in Gaza

The Vatican's top diplomat sharply criticised Israel's "ongoing massacre" in Gaza in comments published on Monday - one of the Catholic Church's strongest condemnations of Israel's war against the militant group Hamas.

www.reuters.com

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 2d

"It is one thing to live under an unlawful occupation, overwhelmed with fear, frustration, and anxiety, but it is another, deeper wound to know that much of the world, and many of our fellow Christians, are allowing this to happen."

blog.cristianismeijusticia.net/en/2025/10/0...

Reflection for Cristianisme i Justícia - Blog CJ

My name is Mays Nassar, a Palestinian Christian woman from the town of Bethlehem, in Palestine. I write to you as a witness from a land valued for its holiness, yet burdened with immense sorrow, pain,...

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 2d

Finally got around to finishing this. Surprisingly for Fitzpatrick I found the Stalin material the least interesting and thought she could have done more on the revolution and Lenin, but the Brezhnev, Gorbachev, and Putin chapters were all good reads.

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 2d

An interesting note where Felix Guattari compares Donald Trump as real estate mogul to algae (from The Three Ecologies, originally published in 1989).

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 2d

I mean I think reporting on the leadership of the World Evangelical Alliance earns the use of the term.

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 2d

Or at least, it's about tracing the influence of Middle Eastern evangelicals on the global evangelical movement, which seems pretty relevant right now specifically.

Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 2d

But it's not about US evangelical Christianity per se, it's about evangelicalism in the Middle East. Kuttab is a longtime Palestinian Christian journalist who knows his region well. Reducing "evangelicalism" to its US expressions is unhelpful, unless I'm misunderstanding you here.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 4d

Lately I've been doing sequence edits of pelicans diving, but for the marine life feed hitting 2k likes, how about a NEARLY FULL BODY HUMPBACK BREACH sequence? 🦑

a humpback whale jumping out of the water, 6 images stacked as it goes from nearly straight up, through to the right where you can see the bottom of the whale, until it slaps down onto the water with a great splash

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely but Italy also has like three times the union density, which is to say if you want to build a movement that no government can ignore you should lean into building the labor movement.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 4d

The Canadian government wants you to think postal workers and services are a waste of money and therefore tons of good jobs and access to mail ought to get the axe but the murder industry is a good investment for all Canadians. It's an insult to public intelligence.

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 4d

Our Canadian Armed Forces keep Canada strong. We’re making sure they have the equipment they need, when they need it.

Screenshot of a Globe and Mail headline that reads: Ottawa launches Defence Investment Agency to streamline procurement

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 4d

🙌🙌🙌

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 4d

I'm unfortunately sick but if I *wasn't* sick I would definitely go to this fun spooky event in Toronto this weekend.

Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Take a peek at all the NEW THINGS we’re dropping this weekend at LITTLE GHOSTS FESTIVAL at the Tranzac Club in Toronto!

New longsleeves, toques, NO GODS NO BILLIONAIRES pink totes, free festival buttons and…

HOW IT FEEDS @elijahbwilder.bsky.social is launching at the festival from
our press!

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The sun shines in on a spread of new things from Little Ghosts Books!
We have…
A black long sleeve shirt with ghosts and books printed in white along the sleeves and a grim reaper reading a book on the front that says “A Good Story Will Haunt You.”
A black Toque with a white ghost and the text “future ghost”
A pink tote with black heavy metal print that says “NO GODS NO BILLIONAIRES”
How It Feeds by Elijah B. Wilder, a new eco-horror novella from Little Ghosts Books.

Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 5d

Are you planning to pay us for the labor you're asking users to do to not see content that goes against your own guidelines?

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 5d

You know the thing about evolution is that it can also end up causing an organism to be so specifically adapted to a particular set of conditions that it eventually goes extinct.

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Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social · 6d

Happy birthday to my favorite agnostic Catholic, novelist Graham Greene, born in 1904.

He wrote: “You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 6d

To be fair, so does Augustine! (Albeit not so enthusiastically.)

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 6d

There's an essay to be written about how this is actually an inter-Augustinian conflict.

A screenshot of user @AustDR's full reply to @Pontifex. It reads:

I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can understand it?
What you said sounds catchy and “profound”, but we don’t return to the heart. We command our heart to be in full submission to the Word of God and to be obedient to the will of God. Only then do we experience true freedom and a faith not based on feelings, as you suggest.

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