Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Live Laugh Lurk @sallllltywater.bsky.social · 23m

dead elf is the best elf

2 6 33

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2h

Pope Leo: Migrants in America are "living witnesses of hope" who "have an intrinsic human dignity and are invited to participate fully in community life"

To the Participants in the 115th Annual Meeting of the Catholic Charities USA Network
I was pleased to learn of the 115th Annual Meeting of the Catholic Charities USA Network taking place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and I offer cordial greetings and good wishes to all those participating.
You are gathered together as the Church celebrates the Jubilee Year focused on the virtue of hope, which my venerable predecessor defined as
"the desire and expectation of good things to come, despite our not knowing what the future may bring" (Bull of Indiction of the Ordinary Jubilee of the Year 2025, 1).
Through your 168 diocesan Catholic Charities agencies, you become
"agents of hope" for the millions of people who approach the Church in the United States of America seeking compassion and care. Many of those whom you serve are among the most vulnerable, including migrants and refugees.
As they are not able to rely on their own resources and have to depend on God and the goodness of others, in many ways your ministry makes the Lord's providence concrete for them. Through providing food, shelter, medical care, legal assistance, and many other gestures of kindness, Catholic Charities affiliates across the United States show what Pope Francis often referred to as God's "style" of closeness, compassion, and tenderness.
While those affected by poverty and forced migration face difficult challenges, let us not forget that they can also be witnesses to hope not only through their trust in divine assistance, but also by their resilience in often...

having to overcome many obstacles on their journeys. In a special way, Catholic migrants and refugees have become missionaries of hope in many nations, including your own, by bringing with them a vibrant faith and the popular devotions that often re-energize the parishes who welcome them (cf. Message for the 11]th World Day of Migrants and Refugees).
It might be said that through assisting displaced persons to find their new homes in your country, you also act as bridge builders between nations, cultures and peoples. I encourage you, then, to continue helping the communities who receive these newly arrived brothers and sisters to be living witnesses of hope, recognizing that they have an intrinsic human dignity and are invited to participate fully in community life (cf. ibid.).
Dear friends, I express my heartfelt gratitude for all that you and those who work with your networks do each day to put into practice the Lord's admonition to see and serve him in the poor, hungry, homeless, and people in any kind of need (cf. Mt 25:31-46). May Christ continue to accompany you and give you his joy and peace.
With these sentiments, I entrust the Annual Meeting to the intercession of Mary, Mother of the Church, and I willingly impart my Apostolic Blessing to all in the Catholic Charities USA Network as a pledge of abundant heavenly graces.
From the Vatican, 4 October 2025

Leo PP XIV

12 47

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 6h

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 6h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

22 470 1.3K

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Jordan Maison @jordanmaison.com · 2h

One of my all time favorite gags. Never fails to make me laugh

On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 4h

33 years ago today, Flanders saved Homer from a house fire. "Homer the Heretic," first aired October 8, 1992.

1 6 20

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Raphael Phaasiq @rize4eva.bsky.social · 2h

No idea. Not even oblivious. Outside of the very obvious married people I don't know who together or who just has casually met. Not my business tho big Garfield. I'm gonna listen to some Brazilian music

Clitasaurus Rex 🦖 @naiijah.bsky.social · 2h

yall think there’s a skyline curse? 🤔

Evil Shades (The Darth Twin) @damdonjulio.bsky.social · 3h

Skyline curse is so real. All but one relationship that has been posted has actually lasted. Even friend groups (excluding mine. We really FAMILY)

Stop posting these people 😂😂😂

1 2 4

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 2h

He had an "annual physical" like five months ago, BTW

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 4h

Time for an oil change

17 150 990

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 2h

We are all antifa's disgruntled bureaucracy

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

2 4

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

/10 I'm ALWAYS getting dragged into petty bullshit by leadership. One of the founders' girlfriends visits all the time. She is difficult. She has slapped FOUR. SEPARATE. PILATES. INSTRUCTORS. and every time I get sent to handle the arraignment instead of working on our 10-K WHICH HAS A DEADLINE GUYS

9 19 770

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

/9 And you think ANTIFA is a progressive employer? Please. The health insurance sucks. There's no dental. And when I asked for compassionate leave for a relative's funeral HR said "the family serves as a pillar for bourgeois ideology, half-day only"

9 63 1.1K

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

/8 And as any GC knows, sometimes the client gets these crazy legal theories and you can NOT move them off. Like the other day the COO was saying "what if we overthrow and destroy by force the United States but NOT put it down? Then it's not seditious conspiracy!" THE "OR" IS DISJUNCTIVE TYLER

9 25 870

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

/7 It's crucial as a GC to get buy-in from top leaders on important decisions but it is IMPOSSIBLE to get on George Soros' calendar. I tried to sneak past his executive assistant Madisyn and she pepper-sprayed me.

16 30 960

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

/6 I know that people think lawyers are pedants but there is a reason to have rules and policies and procedures. And you have to take them seriously. A SEXUALLY EXPLICIT CARRICATURE OF ANDY NGO DOES NOT BELONG IN THE BYLAWS. NO NOT EVEN IN THE APPENDIX.

16 35 1K

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

/5 I was also trying to get then to adopt an entity-wide document retention policy to make e-discovery easier and they were just not getting it. NO MAKAYLA THAT DOES NOT MEAN BURNING DOCUMENTS

10 27 1.1K

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

/4 I was trying to give a litigation update to the Board of Directors and three of them were wearing those big inflatable animal costumes. They kept squeaking against the leather chairs and I couldn't concentrate. Then the hippo sprung a leak and made this farting sound for five minutes.

13 57 1.4K

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

/3 I've been trying to get the Vice President of Procurement to sign a contract for three weeks and he keeps sending it back with CAPITALISM IS A DEATH CULT scrawled on it. I think it's in blood.

24 72 1.7K

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

/2 I will be taken into custody for treason shortly.

Honestly it's a bit of a relief. Let me tell you: being GC of Antifa is not a picnic. I had to do a sexual harassment prevention training the other day and it did NOT go well.

28 50 1.7K

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

290 800 6.7K

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 2h

Thread.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

3 9

Pablo D. Creole @saintpablo.bsky.social · 2h

14th, 9th and 16th lol

1 1

Pablo D. Creole @saintpablo.bsky.social · 2h

And then there’s this lmaooo

Lover of Letters @rudewetf.blacksky.app · 4h

Louisiana, St Louis and Louisville were all named after different King Louis's and that's ALL I'ma say about that

2

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

✨Moves like Michael Myers✨ @shannasince87.bsky.social · 2h

😩😂😩😂

Gotta love history

Lover of Letters @rudewetf.blacksky.app · 4h

Louisiana, St Louis and Louisville were all named after different King Louis's and that's ALL I'ma say about that

1 3

Reposted by Pablo D. Creole

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2h

i am not sure mike johnson’s plan of abandoning the capitol to a bunch of snarky house dems (of which there are many) with nothing to do was a smart strategic move

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 3h

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.