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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This kind of elegantly illustrates exactly why genAI is garbage

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

OMG 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Hayden Black @haydenb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The new live-action movie of Shrek and Donkey is a swing and a miss.

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Sharon 🩺🦋🫶🏻💙🍿🐸🚫👑 @sharonsf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Mitch McConnell is dead.. prove me wrong.. 🥴

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

They could have made this map any color.

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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A nation of immigrants. This interactive map lets you zoom in by census track on which countries of origin are most prominent where. Super cool. Happy 4th. Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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An American Mosaic (Gift Article)

This map shows how people in the United States identify their ancestry or family origin. Explore the many ways we describe our heritage and ourselves.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We wanted to understand why a Jewish candidate defeated another Jewish candidate in one of America's most Jewish congressional districts. So we talked to three Evangelical Christians at a gun show in northern Idaho.

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handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 18/06/2026

MAGA - Make Algae Grow Again!

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I have come to love this subgenre of video, and boy oh boy this might be one of the best ones to date lol

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 15/04/2026

A pretty comprehensive takedown of JD Vance by a Catholic priest, Msgr. Arthur Holquin open.substack.com/pub/liturgya...

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When the Neophyte Corrects the Vicar of Christ
On JD Vance, Theological Hubris, and the Gospel He Has Yet to Learn
There is a particular arrogance that takes root in the newly converted - the zeal of the autodidact who, having just discovered the tradition, mistakes enthusiasm for mastery. JD Vance, who received baptism into the Catholic Church in 2019 at the age of thirty-five, has now committed the singular error of instructing the Bishop of Rome to
"be careful when he talks about matters of theology!"
We should sit with the full weight of that sentence.
The Vice President of the United States - seven years a Catholic, formerly an evangelical, before that a self-described atheist - stood before a Turning Point USA audience in Georgia and publicly admonished Pope Leo XIV about theological precision. "If you're going to opine on matters of theology," Vance informed the successor of Peter, "you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth."
The audacity is breathtaking. The irony is almost comic.

While Vance was dispensing theological warnings from a stage in Georgia, Pope Leo XIV was standing at the archaeological site of Hippo in Algeria - the episcopal see where St. Augustine served as bishop until his death in 430 A.D.
Vance, who claims Augustine as his patron saint and frequently invokes him in speeches, was lecturing on Augustinian just war theology to a political rally audience. The pope he was lecturing
- who served as Prior General of the Order of St.
Augustine for more than a decade and holds a doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas - was planting an olive tree at the very ground where Augustine lived, prayed, wrote, and died. If God governs history with a sense of irony, this moment surely pleased Him.
The occasion for Vance's correction was Pope Leo's statement that "God is never on the side of those who wield the sword." Vance responded by invoking the thousand-year tradition of Just War theory as if the pope were unaware of it. But Leo did not say war is never permissible. He said God is not simply enlisted as a combatant on any nation's side. That is not a negation of Just War doctrine. That is its foundation. The Catechism at
§2309 is unambiguous about the conditions that must all be simultaneously met for a war to be just. Archbishop Broglio stated plainly on Easter Sunday that the war against Iran does not meet those criteria. Cardinals Cupich, Mcelroy, and Tobin, along with Archbishop Coakley, have spoken with notable unanimity. Cardinal Tobin put it plainly: Pope Leo "will continue to speak clearly against war and other offenses against human dignity and to call for authentic dialogue, because the Church's witness is grounded in the peace of Christ, not in partisan interests." That is episcopal fidelity. What Vance offered was its precise opposite.

The deeper problem is not merely that Vance is wrong about just war. It is the ecclesiological framework he is importing from American Christian nationalism into a tradition that explicitly rejects it. Vance told Fox News that "in some cases it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what's going on in the Catholic Church, and let the president of the United States stick to dictating public policy." Let that formulation stand naked for a moment. The pope — who holds a universal pastoral office precisely because the Gospel speaks to every dimension of human life — is being instructed to confine himself to the sacristy, while the president is assigned the role of
"dictating" the political world. This is not a Catholic understanding of faith and public life.
Catholic Social Teaching from Rerum Novarum onward has always insisted that the Gospel is not a private spiritual comfort but a public moral claim. When Vance tells the pope to stay in his lane, he is not defending Catholic doctrine. He is betraying it.

JD Vance's forthcoming book on his Catholic faith is titled Communion. Its cover features a United Methodist church. I do not say this merely to mock. Symbolism matters in Catholic theology, and the symbolism here is telling. A book about Catholic unity, bearing Protestant ecclesial architecture on its cover, written by a man who publicly contradicts the pope on Just War doctrine - this is not communion. This is confusion dressed in piety. Archbishop Coakley said it plainly: "The Pope is not Trump's rival, nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls." Communion, in Catholic theology, is not a feeling of spiritual warmth. It is a participation in the Body of Christ that carries radical obligations — to the poor, the stranger, the enemy, to peace. It is a table the powerful do not preside over. They are guests at it, like everyone else.
A seven-year Catholic who tells the pope to watch his theology, while defending an administration that posted an Al image of the president as Jesus Christ and refused to apologize, is not in communion with the tradition he claims to be writing about. He is in communion with power.
And that, as Augustine himself understood deeply, is a very different thing.

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 21/01/2026

The tactical formation is mostly there to prevent him from being vacuumed into a Roomba.

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Doodle @doodleblues.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I don't know who this is originally from but it encapsulates an artist's job better than whatever MAGA thinks that is

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Abe El-Raheb / Editor & Writer @eldashraheb.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE

Dersh fantasizing about the Budd Dwyer special

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Run Democrats who will campaign on a promise to impeach, remove, and prosecute as many of the motherfuckers as they can. Primary every Democrat from an even vaguely purple area who doesn't enthusiastically endorse impeaching all the motherfuckers.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

sorry i never replied to your email. i didn’t want to and then i forgot.

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Kim Sherrell @web.kim · 19/06/2025

JD Vance is among the first to rock a Bluesky verified badge and will no doubt grab 1st Place in the Most Blocked category

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Vincent Gaffney @gaffneyfilm.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

How about we stop calling right-wing religious extremists conservatives?

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Imagine how long it took to put them all on airplane mode

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

"Did you get your unlimited breadsticks like in Dachau?"

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Vincent Gaffney @gaffneyfilm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

@durbin.senate.gov do not vote for this CR. The government is already shut down. DO NOT HELP THEM!!!!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

They look like they accidentally wore each others’ suits

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Vincent Gaffney @gaffneyfilm.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

About 16 films into award season screeners. This year's take away: 2nd acts are hard but when they're right, they are fucking great.

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Vincent Gaffney @gaffneyfilm.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Oh, you didn't like a movie that came out ten years ago? And now promote your podcast here by reviving it to deride it? I can block that.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

We wanted to understand what’s going on in South Korea. So we talked to three Joe Rogan listeners at an Arby’s in Harrisburg

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Vincent Gaffney @gaffneyfilm.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Just saw the Indie Spirit Award nominee list and Keith Kupferer is included for best lead. I made my first feature with him and he is a phenomenal actor. Adding "#Ghostlight" to the must see films this awards season. #indiefilm

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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Happy birthday, Billy Idol

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/intermission

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Final thought on Rufo: whatever he proposes will almost certainly tie federal higher education spending to restricting the what ideas are discussed on campus. Universities should not comply in advance with likely first amendment violations.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Feels like all of the dipshits I’ve been writing about for the last four years are about to implement the vision of destroying American institutions. So here is a bit about Rufo. 🧵

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Microplastics Sommelier @eephus.biz · 22/11/2024

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

lady of sophistication @janky_jane
Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario
Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty
Replying to @janky_jane
I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.

Matthew @MrWeir
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I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'.
Replying to @janky _jane
My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her
15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App

was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said,
"Where are we off to now. Columbo?"

Eoin O Neill
@eoinjoneill
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Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"

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@dufflest
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I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it.

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@L20_MTN
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I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.

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Vincent Gaffney @gaffneyfilm.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Bluesy only. No X. No Threads. This place is exactly right and getting better.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

WHO DID THIS ?!? 💀💀💀

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If this is your rep 🗣️ call their office! hr 9495 would allow trump to categorize nonprofits as "terrorist organizations" at will and mess with their funding. your calls make a big difference. really. 1 call is worth more than 100 post

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Just got off the phone with my House Rep office. Our calls make a difference. Find your Rep and call today-- opposing HR 9495 is crucial to protecting the right to dissent, free speech and freedom to organize in our country ziplook.house.gov

ziplook.house.gov

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

tip for newbies: subscribe to this MAGA block list to preemptively block MAGAts on here :) (sorry I forgot to include the link before)

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IbuMichele @ibumichele.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

@joshuajfriedman.com Can I get your help getting out the word that it's time to "cure" ballots? We're already hearing about rejected votes. Go to www.voteamerica.org/ballot-curing/ to find out how to check your ballot. Ballots are often rejected because of signature issues. You only have a few days!