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CK DexterHaven 🍂🍁🍂 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Bishops doubling down

United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Just War Doctrine
All citizens and all governments are obliged to work for the avoidance of war.
However, "as long as the danger of war persists and there is no international authority with the necessary competence and power, governments cannot be denied the right of lawful self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed." (CCC, no. no.2308)
The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration.
The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy.
At one and the same time:
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The damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;
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There must be serious prospects of success;
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All other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;
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The use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modern means of destruction
These are the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the
weighs very heavily in evaluating
"just war" doctrine. The evaluation of
this condition.
these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.
(CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, NO. 2309)
The Church and human reason both assert the permanent validity of the moral law during armed conflict. "The mere fact that war has regrettably broken out does not mean that everything becomes licit between the warring parties." (CCC, no. 2312)
PRAY FOR PEACE.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

young pope leo looks like a ska scene regular who goes by Upbeat but no one knows his real name

Young pope Leo, undated but he appears to be in his teens or early 20’s

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Dolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If the hardcore bands guitarist looks like this, you’re gonna die in that pit

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

the oil shocks of the 1970s predate social media, the internet, cable television, media conglomeration, deregulation, and wealth distribution was much healthier. historical comparison and analogy can only go so far. the American consumer and economy of today are fundamentally different 50 years on.

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

this bit is officially retired. it’s been a good run.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Pope Leo: "The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.”

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

the good news is the only ppl who’d claim this about Thomas are ppl you’d never trust anyway

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

this is normal for Seatt-… hold on I’m being handed a meteorology textbook and……………. oh….. oh dear

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

not a ton of things I can think of that would kill AAPL and MSFT but this is up there

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The irony of this initiative is that Harvard’s Department of Government was the academic hub of the first generation of neoconservatives and Harvey Mansfield alone has probably produced more conservative undergrad and grad students than all Marxist faculty at Harvard combined.

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Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two peop...

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

this is partly a reflection of our inability to tax billionaires. sovereign debt is an important aspect of international finance that predates capitalism but the inability to control deficits, the unwillingness to raise revenue, and 15 years of free money has created a very precarious position

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

seriously did Matt Damon and Gerard Butler have a kid?

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I for one appreciate Hungarian President Matt Damon for bringing this to light

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14/04/2026

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

two of my most problematic woulds are fighting

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

WCW was pulling bigger crowds in 1992 older wrestling fans of old wrestling know how sick of a burn this is

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Kirk refused to go out to a tiny crowd but they made JD do it lmao

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Reason number 6,826,772 you should Stand Up for Science: the people who benefit from privatization and destruction of science are the Thiels of the world. And they are the only ones who benefit. @standupforscience.net www.thenation.com/article/soci...

thenation.com

How Silicon Valley Is Turning Scientists Into Exploited Gig Workers

Tech elites are enriching themselves by plundering STEM institutions—and offering researchers scraps.

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

WE KINDLE these lights in memory of the six million Jews [and the millions of innocent and righteous gentiles] murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. May the memory of the righteous be for a blessing. Zichronam livracha. Auschwitz Lodz Ponar Babi Yar Maidanek Birkenau Kovno Janowska

WE KINDLE these lights in memory of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.
May the memory of the righteous be for a blessing.
Zichronam livracha.
The candles are lit.

shenisraf v'hitzit 'havot.
Ashrei halehavah shebaarah b'sitrei l'vavor.
Ashrei hal'vavor sheyad'u lachadol b'chavod.
Ashrei hagafrur shenisraf v hitzit l'havor.

Written in Pencil in the Sealed Freight Car
HERE, IN THIS CARLOAD, 1, Eve with my son Abel.
If you see my older boy, Cain, the son of Adam, tell him that I...
Dan Pagis
IF THE PROPHETS broke in through the doors of night
and sought an ear like a homeland -
Ear of mankind, overgrown with nettles, would you hear?
If the voice of the prophets blew
on flutes made of murdered children's bones and exhaled airs burnt with martyrs cries —
if they build a bridge of old men's dying groans -
Ear of mankind occupied with small sounds,
would you hear?
Nellie Sachs

HaShoah
IN THE PRESENCE of eyes which witnessed the slaughter, which saw the oppression the heart could not bear, and as witness the heart that once taught compassion until the days came to pass that crushed human feeling,
I have taken an oath: To remember it all, to remember - not once to forget!
Forget not one thing to the last generation when degradation shall cease, to the last, to its ending, when the rod of instruction shall have come to conclusion.
An oath: Not in vain passed over the night of terror.
An oath: No morning shall see me at flesh-pots again.
An oath: Lest from this we learned nothing
Abraham Shlonsky
Yom HaShoah
YOU who live secure in your warm houses,
who return at evening to find hot food and friendly faces:
Consider whether this is a man, who labors in the mud who knows no peace
who fights for a crust of bread who dies at a yes or a no.
Consider whether this is a woman, without hair or name
with no more strength to remember eyes empty and womb cold as a frog in winter
Consider that this has been:
I commend these words to you.
Engrave them on your hearts
when you are in your house, when you walk on your way, when you go to bed, when you rise.
Repeat them to your children, or may your house crumble, disease render you powerless,
your offspring avert their faces from you.
Primo Levi

MY FATHER, Heinrich (Chaim) Blitzer, owned a huge men's clothing store in Berlin, and he had worked all his life to build up this store — and he told me how his store was looted and utterly destroyed on Kristallnacht. The police hunted for him, my mother and two sisters, to deport them to a concentration camp, but a Righteous Gentile risked his life to hide them in his attic, until my father and mother and sisters were able to emigrate to America in February, 1939. On Kristallnacht, my uncle, Yosef Wassermann, was rounded up with other Jews and deported to a concentration camp, where he was murdered. My grandparents, five aunts and uncles in Berlin, were later deported to concentration camps where they were murdered. My mother was the sole survivor of her family. Shattered like the glass of Kristallnacht was my family.
Chaya Blitzer
OUR GRANDFATHER is a survivor of the Holocaust. Our mom taught us about that terrible time in history. We ask our grandpa abour how he felt living in the Lodz ghetto and working in the concentration camp. How did he have the will to survive?
He doesn't talk about the Holocaust very much but we know he thinks about it often.
We leam about the Holocaust in school and we tell our grandpa about what we leam.
We are proud of our grandfather and have learned a lot from him. We will always remember NEVER to FORGET. We will always remember all who perished in the Holocaust and hope that teaching others will help prevent this terrible thing from happening again.
Alec and Austin
WE WOULD ASSEMBLE in the darkness. To light a candle there, or even a march, would have brought immediate disaster upon us. We spoke about matters of the spine and eternal questions, abour God, abour Jews in the world, about the eternity of Israel. In the midst of the darkness, I sensed light in the unlit room, the light of Torah.

I BELIEVE in the sun even when it is not shining.
I believe in love even when feeling it not.
I believe in God even when God is silent.
— Found on a cellar wall in Cologne, Germany:
Written by a person hiding from the Nazis.
IF WORRY and despondency seek our undoing, then we should think about Yizkor in such a way that we ... carry on the work of our ancestors from Sinai; in that we today are truly their children, and in that we are parents of the future generations.
Then the chain does not break and we gain the strength to carry out nobly these historical responsibilities, and to thank God sincerely that Yizkor has become the celebration of our soul.
Regina Jonas

IT WAS the cold winter of 1944, and although we had nothing like calendars, my Ether who was my fellow prisoner there, took me and some of our friends to a corner in our barrack. He announced that it was the eve of Chanukah, produced a curious-shaped clay bowl, and began to light a wick immersed in his precious, but now melted, margarine ration. Before he could recite the first blessing, I protested at the waste of food. He looked at me — then at the lamp — and finally said: "You and I have seen that it is possible to live up to three weeks without food. We once lived almost three days without water; but you cannot live properly for three minutes without hope."
Hugo Gryn
ONE EVENING when we were already resting on the floor of our hur, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and asked us to run out to the assembly grounds and see the wonderful sunset. Standing outside we saw sinister clouds in the west and the whole sky alive with clouds of ever-changing shapes and colors, from steel-blue to blood red. The desolate grey mud huts provided a sharp contrast, while the puddles on the muddy ground reflected the glowing sky: Then, after minutes of moving silence, one prisoner said to another, "How beauriful the world could be."
Viktor E. Frankl

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

this gets said a lot but we owe the 30-50 feral hogs lady an apology

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

dear poaster, I clicked the heart to like your skeet. I then accidentally clicked it again, thus unliking it. please accept my apology. I have clicked it thricely as I did enjoy the random misfiring of your TV-pilled, anti-anxiety meds-addled brain. sincerely, ricky cilantro (dictated not read)

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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 14/04/2026

She's 22 by the way. Everybody tell her she's doing a very good job being alive

A photo of a long haired calico cat sitting on a window sill, looking outside

An overhead photo of me laying down on a green velvet couch. A long hair calico cat is upside down in sort of an exposed belly shrimp pose fully asleep on my shoulder.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

it's hard to get retractions to stick because you can't un-have an emotion. a lot of people developed angry feelings for Chappell Roan over this, and now that they know she didn't actually do it they're even MORE angry at her because they resent being told they repeated wrong information

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Re: vibecession one factor for me is feeling cheated paying federal taxes. I'm paying a higher rate than every billionaire to fund a gov't that does far less good, and far more harm, than it used to—while running a bigger deficit. I'll pay for USAID, make the billionaires pay for their fascist shit.

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 13/04/2026

Reminder: Gou Tanabe's next H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, The Dunwich Horror Deluxe Edition, releases in September! Pre-order your copy: bit.ly/4bpfRlk This release spans over 600 pages, featuring a gold-foil cover, gilded page edges, and more. By @goutanabe2045.bsky.social #DHManga

3D render of the H.P. Lovecraft Dunwich Horror Deluxe Edition

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

we were men and women of legend unseen since the days of the watchers

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I know that on any given day it doesn’t feel like it but we’re winning.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Someone Has to Be Happy. Why Not Lauren Sánchez Bezos?
As half of an unfathomably powerful couple, Mrs. Sánchez Bezos seems to have influenced the uber-rich to stop apologizing, and start enjoying themselves.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13/04/2026

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Average GOP policy outcome

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

pour one out for Phil the pachycephalosaurus (one of my favorite birbs)

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 13/04/2026

Painting I did of a T. rex absolutely obliterating a Pachycephalosaurus. 2022

painting of a big scary T. rex crunching the thorny head of an idiot pachycephalosaurus while his two buddies look on in horror but will probably joke about it years later to soften the shared emotional pain

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 13/04/2026

A Texas Tech University law student is suing university leaders and faculty, arguing they violated her free speech rights by disciplining her over comments about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

texastribune.org

Texas Tech student sues over discipline for Charlie Kirk reaction

The Honor Council recommended a written reprimand for “celebratory” comments. The lawsuit argued that would violate her free speech rights.

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Kytri @kytri.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Damn, I love risotto.

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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“I do worry about our vulnerability here to hurricanes, and not just Beryl-type storms—much bigger storms,” Matt Lanza explained. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

texasmonthly.com

Houston’s Favorite Meteorologist Has Seen Enough

Matt Lanza is moving to Connecticut. Should Houstonians be worried?

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

who is Jorginho Frello guy looks softer than a fkn cupcake

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

this is why Al Gore invented the internet. I remember. I was there.

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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

as a progressive Jew, I accept the historicity of Jesus, although I reject his divine nature etc. He was a pretty boilerplate apocalyptic preacher for the late 2nd Temple period. so I’m not typically offended by, let’s say non-canonical depictions of Jesus however this is idolatry straight up

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Hungary under Orbán was not a classic fascist or monarchical regime. It was a species of what political scientists call "competitive authoritarianism" — where elections are generally free, meaning not formally rigged, but held under extremely unfair conditions.

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