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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 19h

It’s genuinely mind-numbing that people thought they shamed Leo into being quiet about this. He’s the Pope and Tradition is on his side when it comes to the humane treatment of migrants

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Asked about President Trump's decision to send 400 National Guard troops to Chicago, Pope Leo XIV says: "I prefer not to comment about political choices [made] within the United States. Thank you very much."

@emzanotti
HE LEARNED QUICK

Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark
Man learned his lesson lol

@thestinkeye
Every leader I've ever met learns this lesson the hard way. We do not get to say the things we got away with saying as underlings when we assume the responsibility of command and leadership.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Texas bishop had brought Pope Leo a packet of letters from terrorized immigrant families

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El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown has met with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican.

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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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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 13h

Ooof!

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 14h

She is a Zionist, anti-transgender, and self-described anti-woke.

Everything else is just details.

www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...

Who is Bari Weiss? CBS News' new editor-in-chief is a vocal critic of legacy media

Provocative columnist Bari Weiss publicly quit the New York Times in 2020, then cofounded The Free Press as an alternative to legacy media. Here's what to know as she takes the helm of CBS News.

www.npr.org

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

How many Americans know that Taylor Swift put out a new album

vs.

know that the president just told the military that he was going to unleash it on "the enemy within" shortly after his SecDef told it that it was going to become more brutal & lethal, with fewer restraints?

What's the ratio? 10/1?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

Corporate media takes to a fainting couch any time any Democrat - or even any plausibly left-leaning poster on social media - says anything untoward about Republicans' character, but this kind of genocidal language toward Dems has been bog standard on right-wing media for decades now.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yes, I talk about this ALL THE TIME on my pages.

The all-too-common liberal habit of fact-checking and hypocrisy-dunking is a sign that the person doing those things doesn't understand fascists at all, and, if you don't understand them, you can't defeat them.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 15h

yes

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · Aug 27

The linking of vaccines and autism is a case of one plus one equaling far more than two for eugenicists, because it's an anti-autistic and anti-"weakness" sentiment rolled into one.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 15h

I guess so; I just don't think that most of these antics from Newsom accomplish that.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 27d

The pull of Pickmeism is very, very, very strong, it naturally gravitates toward conservatism, and it takes plenty of self-awareness to realize that one is being pulled thus.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 15h

Well, you employed a disgusting, harmful, and dishonest fascist trope ostensibly in a criticism of fascists.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 25d

Right, and, though what I am about to say isn't the only thing that was wrong with what Kirk and his defenders passed off as "debate", something cannot be debate when one of the debaters is also the referee, as was the case in the overwhelming majority of Kirk's "debates".

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Not Dead yet @rainbowbody.bsky.social · 18d

It is continual adolescent behavior.
No one wants to be the last one picked in dodgeball gym class as they are the first targeted.

When I retired from therapy I went back to coaching, youth and adult. The behavior of adults is worse than kids.

The ill feelings of being excluded trips old wires

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 15d

From the Tax-To-Spend mythology and moral-and-political framework comes "taxpayer" identity and thinking, which has a racist history in the United States.

"Taxpayer" is a fascist trope.

It is, by its nature, a term of exclusion.

jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/why-taxpay...

Why 'Taxpayer' Identity And Thinking Is Morally Bankrupt In Every Context

'Taxpayer' identity and thinking is not appropriate even when discussing measures at the state and local levels.

jamesarobichaux.substack.com

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Fight like Michael Collins @praying4peace.bsky.social · 7d

Some brilliant insights that are likely spot-on.

This article helped me calm down and regain a scintilla of empathy for these people who worship Don Pedo… OR at least this gives a reason beyond those fools merely being selfish monsters. I needed that - it helps my sanity.

What do you think?

James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 7d

This is a very good essay, y'all know what I think about how characterizing non-rich people who vote for Trump as stupid is a dead end, and, I think that Valdes-Rodriguez is on to something here.

alisav.substack.com/p/are-americ...

Are Americans Just Stupid...

Or is it something else?

alisav.substack.com

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 2d

People can instinctively tell when someone is speaking from a grounding in their morals and values. And people can instinctively tell when someone is speaking from what they have calculated to be what they think other people want to hear.

Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 2d

Last big program I helped run, we targeted AND MOVED a much higher proportion of former Trump voters than much larger, mainstream programs. The same goes for flipping folks in other countries. It's not about left vs mod, it's about whether you're ready to run on values, build a choir, & persuade. /1

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Brooke @bkuhnhaus.bsky.social · 2d

May everyone fighting for our democracy, tap into capable insightful people like @anatosaurus.bsky.social who knows how to talk to people at a gut level- and helps others do the same.

Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 2d

Last big program I helped run, we targeted AND MOVED a much higher proportion of former Trump voters than much larger, mainstream programs. The same goes for flipping folks in other countries. It's not about left vs mod, it's about whether you're ready to run on values, build a choir, & persuade. /1

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, it's a complete strawman of our criticisms of Weiss and Jones.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 19h

"so we can give a tax cut to the rich"???

What does that mean? How does rejecting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA enable a tax cut?

Any why doesn't she consider that maybe Republicans are simply OPPOSED TO these programs?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 19h

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Very Soon, ICE Will Know Exactly Where You Are All the Time

ICE is planning on buying a tool that will let it see hundreds of millions of phones’ location data.

newrepublic.com

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 19h

You habitually validate the dishonest fascist "taxpayer" mythology that is the primary justification for these harmful cuts that you rightly describe as a moral atrocity.