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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A lot of Dems could take a lesson from this and openly acknowledge that their opponents are bigots. The resistance (mostly from establishment centrists) to stating plainly what's happening instead of using weasel words for the sake of civility is what makes voters think we're spineless.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Amid the AI investment craze, the bond market sending tough signals, and more...this news about labor's lowest share since 1947 in the value created by the US economy needs to be broadly recognized. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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Commentary: Why are workers feeling so stressed? Maybe because labor's share of the economy is at a record low

While corporate profits are soaring, labor's share of the gains is shrinking.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The press whiffed big time on Trump's outrageous falsehood about what happened to him on 9/11: Not just one more crazy Trump thing but a real tell about his utterly destructive contempt and self-absorption. Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for laying out the real consequences of all this.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Jon Ossoff on the internal Dem center v. left conflict: “No Georgia voter has yet asked me about elections that were 800 miles away,” he tells me. “I don’t know why we do this to ourselves.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Can Senator Jon Ossoff Hold On to His Seat?

He’s the most vulnerable incumbent in the Senate race, and his state is ground zero for the new Jim Crow attacks on voting rights.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The US Supreme Court majority's excessive deference to executive authority/the unitary executive will of course end the moment a Democratic president begins to take actions similar to Trump's. Shut down ICE the way Trump has shut down USAID: The feckless court majority will find a partisan spine.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Here is a piece written with Jesuit Bill O'Neill that turns to Catholic moral thought and the founding ideals of the United States to criticize the "heritage American" claims that play an outsized role in the justification of mass deportation. www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...

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What’s wrong with the right-wing ‘heritage American’ story

Many arguments against migration suggest that only certain groups of people (the “blood”) are suitable to live on this land (the “soil”) and that only those belonging to those groups are true American...

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Archbishop Luis Argüello, president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, is exactly right: “Biopolitics is key to current global power. Life is toyed with, and people — their dreams, hunger, sexuality, and data — are exploited for the sake of profit and power.” www.ncronline.org/news/spanish...

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Spanish bishops, church officials condemn politicization of Ceuta migrant crisis

Tens of thousands of migrants recently crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, leaving scores dead and overwhelming the small Spanish territory in North Africa.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Abe Lincoln vs. the "heritage American" crowd, 1858: It doesn't matter where your ancestors were in 1776. Americans who read the Declaration and affirm its creed "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote [it] ...and so they are."

We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Watch it till the end. This is moral clarity -- TMZ understands the moment, and what that Rand Paul kangaroo court was, better than any coverage I've seen so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zaO...

David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

How unfair: no World Cup games on television today! What do people expect us to do instead?!

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Belgium is a next-level up competition: so good with the ball and with their formation and with winning almost all of the close balls. USMNT can do it but this is a tough one.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Props to the English: They were tough all the way through. From the start, they didn't seem bothered by playing at the Azteca.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Trump ruins everything. By cheating, browbeating, stealing…but never because he thinks that he has to follow rules followed by everyone else and then, within the framework of those rules, be the best in order to win. Textbook case for why he and MAGA are losers. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...

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Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player’s Suspension. Now He’s Eligible to Play.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Great piece by @millervincent.bsky.social on Pope Leo's encyclical on AI: "Leo gives voice to what is widely felt but too rarely spoken: our dreams of flourishing and wellness are being twisted into straitjackets of optimization and everything-maxxing." www.commonwealmagazine.org/flourishing-...

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Flourishing Through Limits

Pope Leo reminds us to consider not just what AI can do, but also who designs it, who it serves, and who gets left out.

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Michael Ray Surber of Killer Antz with a zed + Church Rat @surber.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

My fav cut of Country Roads youtu.be/lQFKMar4x-w?...

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Toots and the Maytals - Take Me Home Country Roads

YouTube video by Lisa Sixties

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A red card on Balogun but not on the Bosnian player who picked...er ran over...Tyler Adams while NOT playing the ball? Please!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Ossify is very good: he connects Trump's corrupt actions to the costs that American people are bearing.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I have no idea what it takes to get elected. My first vote was for Bill Clinton and I didn't think he would win and I voted for Obama and didn't think he'd win and those guys won. I voted for Gore and thought he'd win, but. This guy has the right message and energy but I don't know if he can win

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Loved hearing all the support for Iran in LA at the Iran-Belgium game...no one has to like the mullahs ruining their country but we can still stand up like Americans for our brothers and sisters there...love the LA Iranian diaspora representing!

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I wish the World Cup announcers would explain more some of the tactics and foul calls in the games. Take the red card against Belgium: for a viewer like me, the foul isn't that much different from others. More context please!

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"For Plato, the source of inequality was a disease of the soul that the Greeks called pleonexia — a kind of insatiable greed. In Plato’s 'Gorgias,' Socrates likened this condition to a leaky jug: No matter how much water one pours into it, it will demand more..." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/o...

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Opinion | Elon Musk Confirms Ancient Concerns About the Superrich

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

God bless the Iranian team and Iran and it is a judgement on me and all Americans that we do not welcome these people with respect and grace and warmth.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

love the beautiful game and the intense Paraguay Turkey match but can't stand all the gamesmanship/complaining to the ref...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I deeply appreciate Steve Schneck's work on religious freedom and I agree very much with his appeal here to the Catholic left to take a new look at the importance of religious freedom in the US and around the world.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I support the Catholic turn to nonviolence and see the risk that AI poses for war and still don't get what precisely good men like Pope Leo mean when they say that just war theory is "outdated": It's that theory that allows us to see the problems with AI and war. www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...

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Editorial: Pope Leo XIV says just war theory is outdated. Catholics should take heed.

In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV has spoken about war, peace, technology and human dignity with the clarity this moment demands. Catholics should now ask what it means to say that just war theory ...

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

#PopeLeo nails it: "It is not possible to provide a single, comprehensive definition of AI. What can be stated, however, is that we must avoid the misconception of equating this type of 'intelligence' with that of human beings. These systems merely imitate certain functions of human intelligence.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I fear the point of this whole thing is to overthrow elections. First, invite political violence and/or throw out votes. Second, pardon anyone who is convicted of such crimes. Third, use this fund to pay for their lawyers. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...

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Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund in the Cross Hairs

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

No one should be surprised by this latest Trump scam. He's been doing this all of his life. This is the spirit of the "energetic executive" that the US Supreme Court majority with monumental stupidity protected with its presidential immunity decision. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

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Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund Tests Constitutional Limits

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The good news is Elon Musk lost. The bad news is Sam Altman won.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I support Ukraine but feel for every one of these dead Russian soldiers and their families: what a waste of life. "What limited gains Russia has made have come with heavy casualties. An estimated 352,000 Russian soldiers had died in the war by the end of last year..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/w...

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Putin’s Forces Are Barely Inching Along on the Battlefield

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Props to @brockm.bsky.social: This is the best philosophical and moral diagnosis I have read of what is happening and why with the sterile, destructive clash of cancel cultures on the left and right in the U.S.

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Amish Super Model @amishsupermodel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

-Do you like me? -Do you think I’m cool? -Do you think I’m fun to party with? —Kash Patel polygraphing his FBI security detail

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is who Trump and his DHS people are: "The judge was then publicly attacked by D.H.S. as an 'activist Biden judge' for releasing someone facing an arrest warrant for homicide — the information that the department had instructed Mr. Bolan not to disclose to her." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/u...

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Special Counsel to Investigate Trump Administration Lawyer for Possible Misconduct

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Pope Leo has appointed Father Michael T. Castori, SJ, as Bishop of Honolulu. Father Castori currently serves as rector of the Arrupe Jesuit Residence at Seattle University in Seattle.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Excellent piece by @christineemba.bsky.social on the spiritual and political American context into which Pope Leo/Catholicism now speak. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/o...

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Opinion | What a Catholic Church Unafraid of Donald Trump Means to the World

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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