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Catholic and progressive clinging to my faith in these dark times. She/Her, Latinx, I still Mask 😷, I believe in vaccines - DMS ARE 🚫

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 7h
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A suggestion for the Bulwark Pope: If the Chicago White Sox make the World Series, how could His Holiness not go to their first home game on Monday, Oct. 26. And the day before, on Sunday, he could celebrate Mass in Springfield, OH, to show support for the persecuted Haitians.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Elwood R. Thompson, M.Ed. @erttex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Angie Nixon just confirmed that national Democratic leaders are now getting behind her campaign. In an interview on The Parnas Perspective, Nixon said she has spoken directly with Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and DSCC Chair Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and that the DSCC is supporting her campaign.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion,’ but says, ‘I’m in favor of the death penalty,’ is not really pro-life.”
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If the only difference between a historically bad '24 Sox squad and a '26 team that wins the World Series is the existence of a Sox fan as pope, I'd say that's airtight evidence that 1) God is real, 2) the Catholic Church is the one true church, and 3) Cubs fans need to repent NOW.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
$400,000! The Bulwark community stepping up. An honor to be a part of it.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington: We have failed to live up to the command in Deuteronomy, “you shall not violate the rights of the alien or the orphan,” and to the words on the Statue of Liberty. And so “we are losing our soul as a nation.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-los...
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‘We Are Losing Our Soul as a Nation’
What we saw in Springfield, Ohio.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Exactly.
State Rep. Angie Nixon: Folks. If we’re going to be a big tent, then damnit we need to be a big tent. We need all hands on deck right now. Trump isn’t going to willingly leave in 2028. We need to send more folks to DC with the political will and courage to stand up to his bullying.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEW #TXSEN poll from Marist: Talarico 50% Paxton 44% Hinojosa 49% Abbott 46% maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/u...
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I realize that many years ago voters determined that character and honesty were not that important to them in a president or members of Congress, but it seems that when you have a historically unprecedented level of lying about everything with rampant corruption they should care.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Happy Birthday, Pope Leo!
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My name is Peter Morley. I live on fixed income. I have Lupus & chronic illnesses & disabilities & have subsisted on Social Security Disability for 18 years. I've survived cancer 2x & had 11 surgeries. I DEPEND on Medicaid & SNAP. I will NEVER GIVE UP fighting for me & for you until my last breath.💜
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A Democrat should file a bill on Monday for everyone to get $5,000 checks right now to see if Mike Johnson, John Thune and congressional Republicans will advance and pass it. Call their bluff. Pass the bill.
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Candy @candiva.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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We love a class traitors!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚨 NEW MAINE SENATE POLL: Troy Jackson (D) 50% Susan Collins (R) 42% Jackson leads Collins by 8 points among likely voters. And it’s not an outlier in direction: Jackson has led Collins in nearly every recent poll. Donate. Volunteer. Organize. Vote. Help Troy Jackson flip this Senate seat BLUE. 🔵
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Joe "I'm a Zeppo Marxist" Bacon @josephebacon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Of course Krazy Ana ignores the impeachment resolutions offered by Al Green. Gee I wonder why she ignores that? Can't be because Al Green is a black man, right Krazy Ana????
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
NEW: Cardinal Domenico Battaglia of Naples wrote the foreword to a book on transgender people, writing that “no one is excluded from the heart of God.” Last month, Leo named fifteen consultors to the Vatican’s religious-life office, among them advocates for LGBT Catholics and women’s ordination.
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Pope Leo’s Cardinal in Naples Writes Foreword to Book About Transgender Catholics
Another step toward LGBT inclusion: the last cardinal Pope Francis ever made put his name on an Italian book, translated by Outreach this week. A year of Leo XIV’s choices says this was no accident.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How do you defeat a president who’s trying to sabotage the midterms? 1. Use drop boxes. 2. Vote EARLY in person. 3. If mailing in your ballot, put it in the mail AT LEAST two weeks before Election Day. 4. Vote in person on Election Day. 5. Share these instructions with everyone you know.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NEW: For the first time in U.S. history, bishops are suspending the Sunday Mass obligation because people are afraid of being arrested on the way to church. Across the nation, Catholics are pushing back against the White House. One sister’s sign said it well: “It’s so bad even the nuns are mad!”
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“Even the Nuns Are Mad” — Indianapolis Archbishop Excuses Catholics From Mass as ICE Surges Into Indiana
Archbishop Charles Thompson’s decree covers anyone who “reasonably fear[s] being detained,” legal status or not, through Sept. 30. From Bridgeport to Blue Ash, the Church is now organizing its life ar...
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
NEW: The Vatican has approved the first portion of Dorothy Day’s canonization file, moving the Catholic Worker founder a step closer to sainthood under the first American pope — a prospect that unsettles conservatives wary of her ardent opposition to every American war of her lifetime.
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Under Pope Leo XIV, Vatican Moves Dorothy Day Closer to Sainthood
Rome has accepted the first piece of Day’s canonization file; the full brief arrives by December. The radical whose kitchen helped birth the DSA may rise to sainthood under the first American pope.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Amazing words in tribute for Dolly Parton from Yusuf/Cat Stevens….had no idea she covered Peace Train….the song clip at the end is beautiful 🥺🙏
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
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Atlanta KnightHawks🦅 @knighthawk899.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Teddy Roosevelt talking to man in the crowd who was afraid of communism : "Your mom bakes a pie, you sell it at the fair for 10 cents. You only have give your mom 1 cent. Is that fair, sir?" Man : "No, she did all the work!" TR: "Exactly sir!"
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Theodore Roosevelt Delivers a Speech
ALT: Theodore Roosevelt Delivers a Speech
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/08/2026
Whatever else happens I am not forgetting that he went to El Salvador to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, putting the rest of them to shame
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Why anyone thinks he can be an effective leader in 2026 and beyond... www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
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Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly (Gift Article)
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Tim Miller: The only good reason I can imagine for a Jeffries meeting with Kushner is to personally deliver a subpoena for his testimony
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Tommy Vietor: Jared Kushner has no actual government job he just uses his family connections to get money from gulf autocrats and fund corrupt deals. The only way Rep. Jeffries should work with him is with demands for documents and subpoenas.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The only meeting Hakeem Jeffries should be having with Jared Kushner is to tell him he’ll be subpoenaed by the House for a corruption investigation on day one of Democratic control of the House. This is just pathetic stuff from the House Dem leader. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
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Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“People always come before borders, before definitions and institutions. “This realization stands at the center of Christianity. “Evil is not fought with evil. It is time to oppose the false realism that rearms minds, words, and nations with the realism of mercy.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Nearly all the extras in this iconic scene were French expatriates. Their tears during the stirring rendition of La Marseillaise were genuine— filmed at a time when the fate of France was still uncertain. CASABLANCA (1942) #MichaelCurtiz
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
All ICE funding should be transferred to MRNA research and development . www.wsj.com/health/pharm...
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Novel Cancer Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning in First for mRNA
Result in high-risk patients validates decades of research into mRNA-based therapeutic cancer vaccines.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Who doesn't love a snappy comeback? #November3rdWe8647
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A long-discussed meeting between Barack Obama and Pope Leo XIV — the White Sox’s two most famous fans — has seen fresh movement in recent days. “I want to meet the pope, and I hope I get an opportunity sometime in the future,” Obama said, predicting that “at some point it’ll probably happen.”
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In Ode to Pope Leo XIV, 40,000 White Sox Fans Exchange the Sign of Peace
Sister Mary Jo Sobieck threw the first pitch and every fan got a mitre. And I’m told a meeting between Pope Leo XIV and Barack Obama — the club’s two most famous fans — is moving closer.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The USAID thing will eventually be talked about like a genocide
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/08/2026
The ICE raids and cruelty we are seeing inflicted on children are unacceptable.

The federal government has stripped legal representation from hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children. Many will soon face an impossible choice: navigate our immigration system alone or risk detention and deportation.

Our city is stepping up. We've invested $16.9 million in immigration legal services for unaccompanied children, with another $32 million in this year's immigration legal services budget, including rapid-response legal advice and representation for people in detention.

If you need immigration legal support, we're here to help. Our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline is available in your preferred language, regardless of immigration status.
Call 1-800-354-0365
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“HUNGARY’S PARLIAMENT TODAY elected a new president, András Baka, a former head of the country’s highest court whom Viktor Orbán purged from office in 2011…’[The Orbán system] started with the firing of Baka; now it ends with his election as president.’” www.thebulwark.com/p/what-does-...
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What Does Hungary’s New President Mean for Its Post-Orbán Future?
Poetic justice: A judge once purged by Viktor Orbán will be the new head of state as the country works to dismantle the authoritarian system Orbán left behind.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
NEW: There has been no bigger institutional champion of vaccines in the world than the Catholic Church, which operates the largest nongovernmental network of health care on earth. The future Pope Leo XIV championed the COVID vaccine in Peru, the country with the world’s highest pandemic death rate.
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“A Suicidal Denialism” — Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church’s Defense of the COVID Vaccine
Trump rewrote the childhood vaccine schedule, Florida is threatening Catholic schools, and the Senate wants Fauci jailed. Before he was pope, Leo XIV fought for vaccines, oxygen, and to save lives.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“We cannot believe in Jesus and promote war. “We cannot believe in Jesus and kill the innocent. “We cannot believe in Jesus and abandon those who suffer, those who weep, those who flee from misery.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Trump cheated on his third wife with a porn star while she was at home nursing their newborn. Dr. El-Sayed married his college sweetheart at 22. Catholics choose Dr. El-Sayed’s America.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
NEW: The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America across the nation over the past few years has sparked renewed interest in the group’s origins. Its birthplace is the American Catholic Church — its founder, Michael Harrington, was a young follower of the future Catholic saint Dorothy Day.
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The DSA Was Born in the Catholic Church
Michael Harrington founded the DSA three decades after Dorothy Day put him to work on Chrystie Street. Bishop Barron has spent a year attacking a movement his own church helped raise.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/08/2026
Fantastic news! The FDA has approved the first mRNA flu vaccine. Using mRNA technology will make it easier to update each season’s flu vaccine to keep up with new variants.
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F.D.A. Approves Moderna’s mRNA Flu Vaccine (Gift Article)
The agency had initially refused to even review the application but reversed course after a public outcry.
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