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“…government of the People, by the People, for the People…” We shall not let it Perish.

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 01/05/2026
These remarks were a really good thing to hear. Cardinal Cupich: Peace is not absence of war but work of justice - Vatican News share.google/Jz08niLQYzZd...
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Cardinal Cupich: Peace is not absence of war but work of justice - Vatican News
As he accepts the ‘Blessed are the Peacemakers’ award from the Catholic Theological Union, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago warns that “conflicts ...
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 16/04/2026
Gosh, whose supporters would do such a thing?
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 13/04/2026
"I’m sorry to hear that but I will continue on what I believe is the mission of the church in the world today.” Trump can't touch the Pope. A pope from Chicago won't be bullied, and any successor of Peter is on a mission Donald Trump can't possibly comprehend. Poor Don. Sad.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 13/04/2026
Will Cardinal Dolan and Bishop Barron resign from President Trump's religious freedom commission over the President's attacks on Pope Leo—attacks which seem a lot like attacks on Catholic faith?
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 13/04/2026
The effort to paint Leo as a political hack made by Catholics clinging to Trump after last night will work for some, but it's actually very weak tea that exposes a lot of vulnerability. The AI apotheosis and attacks on the Pope will gnaw quietly even at MAGA Catholics. Trump's grip has slipped.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 09/04/2026
The Trump Admin has all the cleverness and toughness of a bad guy on Police Squad! What I can't understand is why more institutions aren't at least as smart as Frank Drebin.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 09/04/2026
I don't take the Avignon-Pentagon story all that seriously. I don't think it tells us much we didn't know. Street thugs in govt were probing for weakness, trying to find out if the Holy See can be muscled as in a protection racket. You can see how far that got them with Pierre.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 07/04/2026
I've had to say this in class. There is only one person in the US with executive power, and the American ppl have the solemn duty to determine who will be the person who has that vast power. Blame the voters. Trump is only doing what we (as a group) told him he could do. That's how it works.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 07/04/2026
It's impossible to exaggerate how broken our constitutional system is. Actually, the system is fine. Everything we need is there and can work. We lack ppl in Congress & Cabinet to use those mechanisms. Most important, we lack voters who see past party ID and grasp their own civic duty.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 07/04/2026
So. Tacos for dinner?
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 07/04/2026
The military need not obey an order to end a civilization by striking civilian infrastructure at mass scale. The order would be illegal (18 USC 2441). If the order is obeyed the last bulwark is gone. If the order is not obeyed we will be in an unprecedented crisis anyway. TACO is the best hope.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 05/04/2026
Buying a billboard in Tehran that says "You're winning, I'm desperate" would be more subtle.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 04/04/2026
Simply luminous. Caesar’s Time and Wonder | Commonweal Magazine share.google/Owt8Ffo85Gb4...
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Caesar’s Time and Wonder
Patti Smith on contemplation, family life, and protecting a sense of wonder.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 22/03/2026
Deploying ICE to airports to harrass travelers hardly diminishes my resolve to oppose DHS funding until ICE is reformed, restructured, restored to a law enforcement agency. This is what a thwarted, desperate tyrant does. So keep the pressure on Trump, it is working.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 20/03/2026
Idiocy. The assumption that I've spent my working years spending freely, not saving for retirement because I had a choice, simply is indefensibly false. Don't take my word for it. Look at real personal income since the 80's. Madness. Lies heaped on lies. share.google/yc8JizFgruA0...
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Social Security has 6 years left. The fix that sounds cruelest may be the smartest | Fortune
A new Penn Wharton study finds that slashing benefits—not raising taxes—produces the biggest economic gains. Here's the counterintuitive math.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 17/03/2026
We are stuck in a dumb war of choice. Gas is up 23% in 3 weeks. The TSA is broken and soon air travel will be. The economy is headed for recession. Healthcare costs are way up. ICE menaces people in our streets. All this propped up by the partisan delusions of a committed 30% of us. It's amazing.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 17/03/2026
2yrs ago several good friends and I entered through an East Wing entrance that's gone, sat with an undiminished Pres Biden, and had an extraordinary St Patrick's gathering of Catholics in the White House that celebrated immigrants. It seems like 20yrs ago.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 15/03/2026
Some of the best Irish music you can hear this wknd isnt cheerful, its abt the senselessness of WWI—a war an older generation blundered into not comprehending how technology had changed war. In the process they lost a rising generation. What are they marching for? music.youtube.com/watch?v=o3NW...
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The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 25/02/2026
"...of a heart that doesn’t close itself in the dark, doesn’t stop in the past, doesn’t scrape along in the present, but can clearly see tomorrow. Restless and joyous, this is how we Christians must be." Pope Francis Hope (2025)
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 25/02/2026
"...and that woman can be you. Then there is another 'you,' and yet another 'you,' and then we become a 'we.' For we Christians, the future has a name and this name is hope. To have hope doesn’t mean being naïve optimists who ignore the tragedy of human evil. Hope is the virtue...
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 25/02/2026
🧵"Fear is the origin…of every form of dictatorship, because it is on the exploitation of popular fears that indifference and violence grow. It is a cage that excludes us from happiness and snatches away the future. But one single man, one single woman, is enough for hope to exist, and that man...
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 19/02/2026
This was a great event, it was a privilege to be there. And do yourself a favor, find Cardinal Cupich's homily and listen to it. 🔥 religionnews.com/2026/02/19/a...
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An Ash Wednesday 'mobilization' showed us a way out of our country's mess
Led by Cardinal Blase Cupich, the crowd prayed and marched with love and without chaos.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 16/02/2026
Teaching the guts of Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration tomorrow where he tells us abt the Magistrate's duty in the business of toleration. The state's duty is to let us be different. That is the "common culture" we got from the English, Irish, and Scots. And I'm just gonna go for it tomorrow.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 16/02/2026
A great essay about something else. But this is a breathtaking sentence. lareviewofbooks.org/article/as-h...
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
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A short note to Kristi Noem
To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 12/02/2026
Some thoughts on the political importance of empathy and the strange road empathy has traveled in these recent years. religionnews.com/2026/02/12/4...
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How MAGA's anti-empathy campaign upends Christian morality
(RNS) — Throughout history, Christianity has been bent into strange shapes to suit someone’s need for power.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 12/02/2026
If you're paying any attention to governing, you don't need a poll to tell you Biden was better today any more than you did on Nov 5, 2024. Biden had the most successful presidency of my lifetime. The better question is—What the hell's wrong with voters? www.axios.com/2026/02/12/t...
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A year into Trump's term, voters say Biden was better
Trump has squandered virtually every advantage that won him the presidency.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 12/02/2026
Polling has been quite destructive to representative self-government. This is a positive development. We need more like this. thehill.com/homenews/med...
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 12/02/2026
I don't know Susan Ostermann or her work. I have nothing at stake with @notredame.bsky.social, no ties there at all. But isn't it dispiriting in 2026 to find there's a gaggle of noisy Catholic bishops who still want trampling academic freedom to be part of the Catholic brand?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does. Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision. We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore. This is something significantly bigger and scarier.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 10/02/2026
Call-ins to CSPAN open forum on D and R lines are preoccupied by Epstein acctability. Something is shifting. But also. The Epstein stuff is intersecting 50yrs of antigovt rhetoric, paranoia, conspiracism. Institutions already are suffering. I wonder what mere anarchy awaits us after Epstein.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 09/02/2026
That consuming a Superbowl halftime show can seem like an act of effective resistance is powerful evidence of how much distorted by entertainment and consumerism our political sense has become.
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Dr. DioxiNation @djzaber.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🧪 I AM SO PROUD OF MY BLUE STATE! Governor @govpritzker.illinois.gov is a lifesaving HERO! Thank you. Illinois Joins WHO’s Global Disease Network ground.news/article/illi...
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Illinois Joins WHO’s Global Disease Network
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) announced Tuesday that his state is joining the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, becoming the second state to do so since the...
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 03/02/2026
I'm delighted now to be a regular contributor to @flashesinsight.bsky.social. flashesinsight.com/2026/02/03/t...
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The world needs more than just common sense – Flashes of Insight
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @handle.invalid · 01/02/2026
all these conservative men who bleated on about their "legacy" will watch their children grow up and change their names when they realize the true horror of what their fathers supported
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 31/01/2026
@nytimes.com @nytimesoped.bsky.social If you're looking to fill a slot -- I have over 100 bylines, can turn copy around fast, as secretary of the Edmund Burke Society I am a conservative and also a Catholic, but not with Douthat's voice and never for Trump. I could be your guy. DM if interested.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 30/01/2026
I'm never with the pile-on-the-natl-Dems crowd that prevails here. But the Don Lemon arrest is as much a confirmation that there's no "pivot" as the ongoing, unchanged ICE operation in MN. We have no signal an investigation into Alex Pretti's murder is active. Dems really need to hold out here.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 29/01/2026
The death of Joe Ely snuck past me last month. A huge loss to American music. With the Flatlanders and on his own, he gave us melodies that rose up from the landscape like they were stolen from the soundtrack of a... Joe Ely, Influential Texas Songwriter, Dead at 78 share.google/5U6ixcVFAp77...
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Joe Ely, Progressive Texas Country Legend Who Toured With the Clash, Dead at 78
Joe Ely, the Texas singer, songwriter, and member of the Flatlanders, who influenced the Clash and Bruce Springsteen, has died at 78.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 28/01/2026
Has any superpower ever become so irrelevant so quickly? www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 28/01/2026
“The world has changed, Washington has changed. There is almost nothing normal in the U.S. now and that’s the truth." Mark Carney
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 28/01/2026
If you are in or near Chicago and want to show solidarity with Minnesota, pray for our nation, consider this event Fri night. Tony Pizzo, OSA (provincial of the Augustinian Chicago province) will preside. Everyone welcome, its not just for Catholics. Please share.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 27/01/2026
This can't be repeated enough. Trump killed the Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2024. He needed his issue so he could be elected and send goons to MN. Now he is POTUS, 2 citizens are dead. And we still have a broken immigration system.
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 27/01/2026
...tick...tick...tick...tick... www.newsweek.com/chart-showin...
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Chart Showing US Dollar Crashing Takes Off Online
The chart shows the U.S. dollar’s value from January 20 to January 25, with the index falling from around 99.10 to 97.14.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Two former presidents felt compelled to comment publicly
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Will🇺🇸📎✌️☮️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026
Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 25/01/2026
A federal district court judge (appointed by Trump) has ordered the Trump Administration not to destroy evidence in the Alex Pretti investigation. This is subtle but think about it. No other US president has ever achieved this. His Administration had to be stopped from covering up a killing.
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