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Pope Francis

I am posting this photo of a REAL POPE to cleanse my visual palette.
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#RealPope

When he died on Monday, Pope Francis had been on the cusp of signing into canon law a huge reform of Opus Dei, an abusive cult at the heart of the Church

Those reforms may now never happen

A THREAD 🧵

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

Opinion: The SAVE Act Will Disenfranchise Entire Swaths of Voters Tracking down documentary proof of citizenship is hard enough, but what do you do if the name on your birth certificate doesn’t match your current name?

The SAVE Act would make voting incredibly difficult for Americans—especially for rural voters, tribal citizens, people of color, disabled people, unhoused people, people living below the poverty line, and transgender people, writes @queenmab.bsky.social

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This out-of-touch billionaire doesn’t seem to understand that Social Security is a lifeline for America’s retirees and for people who can no longer work. 

We will always fight to make sure workers can retire with financial security and dignity.

So, wait, the plan is for Trump to crash the markets, destroy people's savings, push up prices with tariffs, crush economic growth, and then gut Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security? While firing tens of thousands of federal workers? The concept of a plan is a depression?

Elon Musk is Dismantling Social Security (Washington, DC) — The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works: “Elon Musk slandered Social Security over the weekend by calling the vital and beloved program a ...

Elon Musk slandered Social Security over the weekend by calling the vital and beloved program a criminal Ponzi scheme, the same lie Donald Trump used before he decided to run for president.

Musk has recently begun the wholesale dismantling of our Social Security system.

Despite what Elon Musk says—Social Security is NOT a Ponzi Scheme.

Social Security is a PROMISE that the American people should be able to count on after paying into it their entire lives. Repost if you agree.

TEXT: My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

On Praying the News in Times of Danger and Darkness - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox The purpose of our daily meditations have been, from the beginning, to assist one another to pray the news.  Not just watch the news.  Or avoid the news—which is certainly a temptation at this moment ...

The #News brings #pain, #wounds, & #suffering—the #ViaNegativa on steroids–and sometimes overwhelming #despair. So we should admit how #vulnerable we are & encircle ourselves in a robe of #light as we “witness the wounds of the world.” And know that we are #notalone. bit.ly/4aW465c
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IT IS A COUP This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.

It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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1. Unreal that they caved, paid the bribes, and still got burned by Trump. Absolutely shocking.

2. Corporate media is just different shades of the same thing—bought and controlled.

Seek out independent journalists (not influencers) if you want real, unfiltered news.

That's how I've celebrated for the past 50 years! ❤️

JUST IN: The Pentagon is making changes to the resident Press Corps (journalists who have physical workspaces in the building), per BNO:

OUT: New York Times, NBC News, NPR, Politico

IN: New York Post, OANN, Breitbart, HuffPost

Yay! You're here! Now I can leave Meta forever! Love you forever, darling Mary! Xoxo

’tis true that we are in great danger,
The greater therefore should our courage be.

Read.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.

Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.

Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.

Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

You're my hero! Thank you, and may God bless and be with you. Always!

This is written by the bishop who stood up to Orange Voldemort. Everyone should be buying this. It's available on Amazon for $14. I'm an atheist and I'm buying it. #booksky

Good Morning Watershed!
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Is this one of those "Mandela effects?!"

Quality advise

A list of sorely missed Victorian-era slang…

Got the morbs = temporary sadness
Gigglemug = always smiling
Scandal water = tea
Bitch the pot = pour the tea
Sauce-box = mouth
Cupid’s kettle drums = breasts
Dash my wig = OMG
Tight as a boiled owl = drunk
Poked up = embarrassed
Not up to dick = unwell

I feel the same about tiktok. I'm grateful Bluesky is here, and you're here, along with some other faves. I'm hoping something will happen to keep it going over there. Isn't that a coincidence that it's s
supposed to "disappear" the day before the inauguration?

Oohhh, love this!.