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RNS @rns.org · 27m

Faith communities are quietly meeting civic challenges with creativity and courage. This year, RNS launches Love Thy Neighbor, a yearlong series highlighting how people of faith are helping their neighbors and bridging divides.

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 1h

She’s apparently never heard of a “battery”! Yes, this is really someone we want leading a complex state of 9 million people; we really are in an age of idiocy.

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 2h

The fact that Winsome Earle-Sears was ranting at the debate the other night, 100% falsely, about solar power (and wind power) supposedly not being reliable, in a sane world would be disqualifying. bluevirginia.us/2025/10/satu... h/t @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social

Nicolas Fulghum: "NEW | EU solar generation has already exceeded its 2024 total as of September ☀️🇪🇺 Solar is by far the fastest growing source of electricity in the EU, up 20% year-on-year."

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 16h

A real leader. Maybe we can get one of those one of these days…

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Leader of country’s opposition receives award after intense public and private campaign by Donald Trump

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo XIV's first apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te ("I have loved you"), was promulgated Oct. 9, the feast day of St. John Henry Newman. Here are nine things to know about the document.

9 things to know about 'Dilexi Te,' Pope Leo's first apostolic exhortation

Pope Leo XIV's first apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te ("I have loved you"), was promulgated Oct. 9, the feast day of St. John Henry Newman. Here are nine things to know about the document.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

It’s hard to overstate how grotesque is the prosecution of Letitia James. I hope John Roberts—who unleashed this malignant, vengeful career criminal on our beloved country—is enjoying Trump’s utter abuse of power and trashing of justice and the rule of law.

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 1d

Another stunning MAGA victory!

NPR @npr.org · 2d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 2d

The pinnacle of the “pro-life” movement, folks: 1 million people on the brink of grisly death by starvation to save 1% of US spending on USAID #wagesofMAGA:

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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.

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 2d

“John Calhoun, America’s free speech defender”
-by Ezra Klein

Rep. Steven Woodrow @woodrowforco.bsky.social · 3d

“Slavery is not great, but abolitionists are condescending and refuse to listen.”

-Committed Centrists, 1850s

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 2d

As someone with intermittent centrist impulses, this one burns! Nicely done.

Rep. Steven Woodrow @woodrowforco.bsky.social · 3d

“Slavery is not great, but abolitionists are condescending and refuse to listen.”

-Committed Centrists, 1850s

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 4d

Every day I’ve been getting angrier when I think about how maga, the so called alpha male bros, always punch down at people who are less fortunate or struggling.

This isn’t manliness. It’s cowardly, it’s shameful, and it makes you look like a tiny little douche face

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 4d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 5d

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 7d

#UVA faculty senate calls on Board of Visitors and Interim President to repudiate the utterly draconian, authoritarian, anti-intellectual, anti-freedom so-called “compact” concocted by the department of injustice: facultysenate.virginia.edu/resolution-o...

Resolution Opposing the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" | Faculty Senate, U.Va.

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Prof Penny Endersby @pennyend.bsky.social · 7d

Every blessing to the wonderful Dame Sarah Mullally as she takes up this special responsibility. We are lucky to have her www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sarah Mullally named as new Archbishop of Canterbury

She becomes the first female leader of the Church of England, replacing Justin Welby who resigned over his handling of a safeguarding scandal.

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Russell Contreras @russcontreras.bsky.social · 8d

The U.S. could see an unprecedented 15,000 churches shut their doors this year, far more than the few thousand expected to open, according to denominational reports and church consultants www.axios.com/2025/10/03/u...

15,000 churches could close this year amid religious shift in U.S.

Megachurches spread influence but fewer Americans going to church

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 7d

Our Founders rebelled against what happened in that apartment complex 2 nights ago in Chicago. Their rebellion led to our founding. Our Founders would be reaching for their muskets right now.

But most Americans today? Bored, distracted, can’t be bothered, big weekend coming up.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7d

This is simple. Congress should not willingly pay the bills to fund the most serious assault on political freedom in our lifetime - an assault that may collapse democracy as we know it if we don't fight back.

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you @governor.ca.gov for standing up against this utterly authoritarian, anti-intellectual gmabit. Any other leaders out there…?!

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 8d

IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.

CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.

New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."

The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

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Shawn Harris @shawnforcongress.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you, General (Retired) Mark Hertling, for saying what all of us who have served know we serve the Constitution and will not execute any order that goes against our oath.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 8d

My latest on The Climate Brink:

Is this the most embarrassing error in the DOE Climate Working Group Report?

The DOE CWG authors confuse detection and attribution with emergence.

Is this the most embarrassing error in the DOE Climate Working Group Report?

mistaking detection for emergence

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 9d

All across the country, as faculty rights and freedoms are under attack, @aaup.org is really stepping into the breach. If you teach in higher ed and aren't a member, please consider joining.

North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 9d

UNC CH Chapter & NC AAUP statement re Prof. Dwayne Dixon: @aaup.org

AAUP NC and UNC-Chapel Hill AAUP condemn the egregious violation of Professor Dwayne Dixon's First Amendment rights to free speech and free association, his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, and his academic freedom. 1/

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 9d

It’s useful to think of Christian Nationalism as a subculture like any other, with one important difference. THIS subculture thinks of itself as the default “normal” culture of “real Americans,” but which is also under siege by “the dominant culture.”

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 10d

That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America.

On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.

www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...

MAGA can't expand its base — and Christian music tells us why

The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem

www.salon.com

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