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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 7h

The Boats are coming home! Chicago River Bridge Lifts begin today. Each Wednesday and Saturday thru the middle of November, starting at 9am.

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 11h

The colder autumn nights in Germany coaxes this magnificent eagle, Oropherion, to spend his nights in his heated indoor winter aviary. This is an African Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus), the largest eagle species native to Africa. (Cr @birdsofprey_nathalie_denolf) #birds #eagle

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 15h

Little Loneliness In this corner of the courtyard, in the soapy water, some roses hunchbacked from the burden of their fragrance. Nobody smelled these roses. No loneliness is small. -Yannis Ritsos (tr. Spring Ulmer)

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 9h

"You cannot manufacture concern indefinitely for people who refuse to pay attention. At some point, citizens have to care enough about democracy to learn how it works and participate in it."

jemartisby.substack.com

How to Get Your Neighbors to Vote

What the Union Leagues teach us about voting rights and political power

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"In the autumn of 2015, the production of paper cards for library catalogs ceased."

maryanncorbett.substack.com

Of Objects and Elegy

Because so many things just disappear

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Geof Huth @geofhuth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stoen 844: ſuch perſon is by law liable / to be impriſoned

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"In Thérèse’s time, there was a heresy called Jansenism that led to perfectionism and severe legalism, which did untold damage to the spirituality of the French church. Thérèse came along and broadsides it without even trying to. She was just being guided by love."

cac.org

An Influential Teacher

On the CAC’s Turning to the Mystics podcast, Father Richard Rohr reflects on his first encounter with the writings of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–1897)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pope Leo at Paris Mass: “When we think that our work is finished at last and our efforts have been rewarded, that inner emptiness often returns, deeper than before…. none of us is merely a number or an entry in a register, but a unique and irreplaceable person.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The billionaires seem to think that the machines have replaced the problem of their dependence on the existence of human beings. The often-repeated line is that the machines allow wealth to access skill without allowing skill to access wealth. And maybe so!"

the-reframe.com

Thank You For Your Support

The increasing need for independent writing in the age of billionaire slop.

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"With proof of concept in hand, I asked Wendell if he might have a poem he would let me print. In March of 1996 Wendell sent me a poem titled “Amish Economy,” which was something new he had been working on."

open.substack.com

30 Years Ago I Published Wendell Berry—by Hand

A Look Inside the Printing Process of a Small-Press Edition of the Late Poet’s Work

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 25/09/2026

Went there.

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Right Book at the Right Time ... for Catholics of the USA.

The cover of the book The Right Pope at the Right Time: An American Catholic Response to Pope Leo XIV by Monsignor Arthur Holquin S. T. L. retired rector, Mission Basillica San Juan Capistrano, Diocese of Orange, California.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some late breaking reporting this evening on the MSI carbuncle: "But the park district must now review final construction drawings — a step that could represent a potential firewall in the museum’s path toward constructing the arch-backed, 458-foot wide limestone and glass structure."

chicago.suntimes.com

Is the planned Griffin MSI 'carbuncle' a done deal? Not yet, says Chicago Park District

The agency, which owns the museum, said it has "not given final construction approval" for the project.

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The 1% have figured out how to turn the rest of us into a disposable underclass. Our rights and lives do not have to be seriously considered."

stevebrodner.substack.com

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Is Not a “Thing” in Your Way

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The world's richest men are crushing the world's poorest children." Nicholas Kristof, NYT, 9 May 2026

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"That single word, annihilate, deserves to be held up to the light. To annihilate is to reduce to nothing. It is not the vocabulary of defense, or deterrence, or even of victory. It is the vocabulary of extermination."

liturgyandtruth.substack.com

Annihilate

On Tuesday, September 22, the President of the United States stood at the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly, a body founded “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” and s...

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"This is Jesus’s simple message: Holiness is no longer to be found through separation or exclusion, but through the radical inclusion and forgiveness of the supposedly contaminating element. Any exclusionary system only lays the solid foundation for violence in thought, word, and deed."

cac.org

The Myth of Redemptive Violence

Father Richard Rohr explains that so-called “redemptive violence” usually only perpetuates the cycles of violence Jesus came to stop: Jesus has no part in

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The Vatican rejects a geopolitical theology that unfolds under the sign of the apocalypse and upholds a vision of the Church with a universal vocation that stands in opposition to nationalism."

commonwealmagazine.org

Vatican Diplomacy & Vance’s End Times

How will the Vatican engage with an American political theology that unfolds under the sign of the apocalypse?

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"El Niño comes and goes, but as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels, it occurs on an increasingly hotter baseline, making it much more difficult for communities to deal with the consequences.”

theguardian.com

Huge El Niño projected to cause more than 450,000 deaths by February

New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Trump usually does not swing straight at the First Amendment. He and his backers erode it like termites: buying out news stations, rigging algorithms, threatening excessive litigation, and deploying threats of violence at individuals — until there is nothing left to protect."

sarahkendzior.substack.com

Gutting the Fourth Estate

The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That the electorate could even contemplate such a man rather than reject him outright shames us all. That our founding laws could permit him to get in a position where the electorate could choose him shames our laws. That our institutions have not bodily removed him shames our institutions.

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"In Berlin, the gauntlet was picked up and, a few days later, the German newspaper Federicus responded with an article filled with insults for the Dutch Carmelite, depicted as 'A Crafty Professor.'"

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He Could Not Remain Silent

Saint Titus Brandsma’s 1935 protest against Nazi persecution of Jews

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"For Berry, the small farmer’s predicament is not merely a crisis of agriculture, but also of culture and character."

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The Challenge of Wendell Berry: A Personal Assessment

Brian Volck on a friend.

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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ravens in the mist from a beautiful misty morning. I love these Autumn mornings hopefully lots more of them to come in the next few weeks 😊

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The word 'resilience' is meant kindly, but I think it misses something. Human beings are not rubber bands that snap back."

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A Meditation on Train Stations

On Total War and Individual Responsibility, 2/2

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)

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