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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
What could go wrong?
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15/06/2026
NOOOOOO! Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv‑Pechersk Lavra — a UNESCO World Heritage site and priceless cultural landmark — has been struck and is burning.
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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Rainbow as Trump’s name is removed. Rain during his press conference. No notes, God.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Here we are, more than 4 years after Putin launched his 3-day war to conquer Ukraine, and the Russian dictator can only risk standing outside in Red Square after being given permission by Volodymyr Zelensky.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Apparently the Vicar of Christ is "Weak on Nuclear Weapons." Who knew?
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 13/04/2026
Dear maga “Christian’s” Trump is now violating the first commandment
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Burke, vt, To kill w/out marks & selling body for med dissection @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Kinda wish that John of Patmos was alive to see *gestures broadly*. No. I *REALLY* wish John of Patmos was alive to see *gestures broadly*.
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
There is now a massive street party with huge crowds dancing in Budapest. Hugs, tears and bottles opening. Orban is gone, Peter Magyar took power
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🚨 Euphoria in Budapest! Tens of thousands of people are flooding the streets to celebrate the opposition’s stunning victory. The scenes in the metro are absolutely incredible. What a night! 🇭🇺✨
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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This heartbreaking footage of Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk preparing for tournaments amid air raid sirens and missile attacks is a stark reminder that russians shouldn't be allowed to participate in international sporting events until they stop their genocidal war and are brought to justice
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This is what I immediately thought of. This was like one of his Covid speeches, but if he was the one who created Covid.
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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The president s brokenness, a Christian Century editorial | The Christian Century
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The president’s brokenness
The war in Iran underscores what was already evident: Trump goes on instinct, and his instinct is to dominate...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, and Tom Morello perform on stage
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
2/2. His weakness is something negative, gravitational, so deep that it can draw in a whole country. But only if we fail to see it. Only if we let it.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.
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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I've covered big wars and little wars. Ones that have been well organised (thought some ultimately not very successful) and shit shows. My jaw is still on the floor that a military as powerful and professional as the US is in such utterly chaotic territory. This isn't mission creep ...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11/03/2026
DOGE said it was cutting government waste. So they gutted USAID — the agency that feeds starving people around the world. Meanwhile the Pentagon spent millions on lobster, ribeye, and even a $98,000 piano. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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We Stopped Feeding the World to Buy Lobster
The administration gutted global aid in the name of fighting government waste. At the same time, the Pentagon spent millions on steak, crab, furniture, and even a $98,000 piano.
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Book Jawns @bookjawns.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The USA Hockey team visited Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada & he showed WAY more respect for these champion Olympians than Trump did. That says everything.
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 24/02/2026
🎶U2 , Ed Sheeran and Taras Topolia released the music video for Yours Eternally, featuring soldiers of the Khartiia Brigade💙💛 U2 unveiled their new EP Days Of Ash as a response to people’s fight for freedom. Yours Eternally is directly connected to Ukraine and the war against russian aggression.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/02/2026
This is immoral. Trump officials gutted USAID and cut off food aid to refugees. Clinics closed. Warnings poured in and were ignored. Rations collapsed. Children starved to death. 👉🏾Agency staffers even celebrated the cuts with a sheet cake while lifesaving programs were being shut down.👈🏾
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Epic. A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 takes out a Russian-Iranian Shahed-136 at a close distance. The witnesses are extremely happy and supportive 😀
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
How did early readers think about the relationship between the gospels? Repost to enter a drawing to win a free book.
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Today, the world honors Martin Luther King Jr,,, and every day Public Enemy honors him. We was touring with U2 and they respected our desire to boycott playing in Arizona since they wouldnt recognize MLK Day. We just walked off stage. By the Time I Get to Arizona youtu.be/zrFOb_f7ubw?...
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Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/01/2026
And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/01/2026
"They are thugs. And, I'll add to that, cowards. You give me any one of those guys, without a weapon and without a badge and without an association to the federal forces, and they would be a nobody." @markhertling.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
🇺🇦😅 LOL… “Russian warship, go f*ck yourself”: This is how the broadcast of the press conference on the official channel of the Presidential Office ended.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
What would Jesus do if he visited the United States Senate?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?
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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Help me understand. The government that is demanding Venezuela give back “oil and land” to the US warning the EU to not use seize Russian funds to rebuild a society the Russians attempted to destroy?
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Scripture says you can’t love God and hate other people. You can’t love God and abuse the immigrant. You can’t love God and bully the outcast. You can’t love God and oppress the poor. In the face of a neighbor, we glimpse the face of God.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Just sent out my free weekend update. Though the reporting this week made it crystal clear that the Trump administration is with Putin, that was not a bad thing for Ukraine. Accepting the truth is the first step to recovery-and the truth cannot now be denied. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Weekend Update #161: Not A Bad Week For Ukraine
Truth, Democracy and Corruption, Possible High Command Changes, Are European Gloves Coming Off?
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Andrew Rillera @andrewrillera.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
My book, Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus’s Death, is 50% off throughout Nov with code CONFSHIP from the publisher’s site. Tell your friends! wipfandstock.com/978166670304...
Cover of Andrew Rillera’s book, Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus’s Death.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
And let's name names. #ElonMusk #MarcoRubio #RussellVought and #DonaldTrump (with help from #JohnRoberts). This is premeditated murder--of children. You can spin it anyway you like but you cannot escape this fact.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 08/10/2025
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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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The Ukrainian military—the toughest, most experienced, most adaptable, most successful on the modern battlefield—is beardy old men, women, artists, gamers who can’t deadlift sh*t but can fly a drone into a Russian helicopter rotor Focusing on capabilities, not “looks,” is how you achieve victory
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
4 months ago today we bombed an Easter church service in Sumy with cluster munitions. What you tolerate, you permit.
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Andrew Rillera @andrewrillera.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Questions for Christian supporters of MAGA: Which nation did the prophets condemn for doing too much for the poor and the foreigner? Which nation did the prophets condemn for having too large of a social safety net? Why does Ezekiel say that Sodom and Gomorrah went up in smoke?
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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
USAID saved lives. It made people’s lives better. It presented the best face of this country to friends and adversaries alike. We will be atoning for this for years.
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Parker Butler @parkerbutler.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Just incredible
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Joe Smith @therealjoesmith.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is what happens when Christianity is co-opted by empire. A government that boasts about chains is a government that has lost its soul. And a church that remains silent has lost its witness.
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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.” —The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. #MLKDay
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Zach W. Lambert @zachwlambert.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Jimmy Carter didn’t sell Bibles with his name on them, claim to be God’s appointed leader, or promise to make Christianity great again. He lived out his faith through love and service by pursuing peace worldwide, teaching Sunday school, and building 4,447 homes with Habitat for Humanity.
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