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By @andrewfordnews.bsky.social
(Published June 2020)
Pope Leo XIV to address youth by video at June 14 Chicago event
Pope actively counterprogramming Donald Trump's birthday parade on the same day. Some real WCW Nitro shit, I love it.
This’ll be just like when the trump
Admin 1.0 publicly broke up with Sidney Powell but they kept working together anyhow.
stop writing that he’s leaving DOGE without mentioning that just a few days ago the solicitor general told the United States Supreme Court that he is not part of DOGE
I get asked about this a lot re. DEI language in federal grants, and @erinbiba.bsky.social talked about it the other day re. vaccine access, but to me it is always morally justifiable to work around their hate-based keyword searches (even to lie) in order to ensure the vulnerable are still protected
Just read through it (with help from Google Translate 🥲) and it does seem to line up with other accounts of the Conclave! From what the SEAsian cardinals have been saying on FB, it was pretty chill for them. Not a lot of bad blood from Tagle. He did say he didn’t want the job anyway
Thanks!!
I’d be curious to hear which Spanish & Portuguese journalists are saying that! Especially interesting if the switch in Asia from Tagle to Prevost was prompted by Tagle…
So I’m not back in the Church [...] But I’m open to being guided by its wisdom, if only from the outside.
Putting into words exactly how I feel about Pope Leo!
🚨 In addition to banning gender affirming medical treatment through Medicaid, Trump's reconciliation bill PROHIBITS health insurance purchased through Obamacare exchanges from offering transition care.
Detransition care, though, is specifically protected. CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS!
Nearly a week after the Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the world is still adjusting to the fact that he has an American family that does typically American things. The Borgias, for all their many sins, never posted crude or spicy memes to the socials. And indeed, for Louis Prevost, 73, it is the Facebook posts, which he shared online before his brother was made pope, that have earned him the most attention in the last few days.
“The Borgias, for all their many sins, never posted crude or spicy memes to the socials.”
The same people who say Adriana Smith should stay hooked up to machines so a fetus can gestate inside her dead body for 7 months because “it’s a sacrifice a mother would make” can’t fathom a mother crossing the border with her children in hopes of providing a better life for them.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
As lovely as the sentiment is, Pope Leo has never said this.
Right before he’s executed, Florida serial killer gives a shout-out to Trump.
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Just because we’ve thought of it before (and IIRC a variant of it IS in the Bible) doesn’t mean we should be attributing it to Pope Leo. The Vatican keeps records of stuff the Pope says. We should not be putting words in his mouth.
Screenshot of a segment of Pope Leo XIV’s address to the representatives of the media on May 12th: Today, one of the most important challenges is to promote communication that can bring us out of the “Tower of Babel” in which we sometimes find ourselves, out of the confusion of loveless languages that are often ideological or partisan. Therefore, your service, with the words you use and the style you adopt, is crucial. As you know, communication is not only the transmission of information, but it is also the creation of a culture, of human and digital environments that become spaces for dialogue and discussion.
Anyway I know people are desperate to make it seem like the new Pope is on their team. I feel like putting words in his mouth to paint him partisan is going against what he’s actually saying about responsible journalism & communication: www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Italian press is saying he’s moving back into the Apostolic Palace: international.la-croix.com/opinions/pop...
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Quick Google search doesn’t draw up any official transcripts of his speeches that say he said this, either: bsky.app/profile/seag...
Snopes has already debunked this one: bsky.app/profile/artb...
Seriously why is half of the search results on Bluesky about Pope Leo misattributions and misinformation? Isn’t lying supposed to be a sin or something?
I’ve got a question about recommended vaccines for adults who are coming back to the US from abroad. What should we get topped up on before we head back?
You accept the far right’s entirely false premise that immigrants increase crime, that the housing crisis is due to migrants rather than your own bad policies, or that foreigners are swamping the health service, rather than holding it up with their bare hands in the face of your own drastic underfunding of the system. And you become less popular. You, the sensible moderate, continue to slide in the polls against the very parties whose policies you were trying to steal. A sizeable number of your own base are appalled, and you have failed to impress a single racist. Because everywhere, from France to Germany to the Netherlands to the UK, as with Fanta and its supermarket imitators, it turns out people prefer the original to the copy.
3 months ago, I wrote this about centrist parties aping the far right, and how it's not just immoral, but suicidal. This is not secret knowledge. It's the most reliable effect in world politics. It's watching 40 guys getting killed by the same gorilla, one by one, and stepping up to take your turn.
when we remind everything they’re weird little freaks it works!!!!
DOGE staffers attempted to assign a team and take control of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), but CPB leaders resisted citing federal law that protects the nonprofit’s independence from government interference.
The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone.
So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment.
It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/
expertvoicestogether.org
Screenshot of a section of the Wikipedia page for Holy See-Taiwan relations, stating that no pope has ever visited the areas controlled by the ROC, and that President Tsai Ing-wen has unsuccessfully invited Pppe Francis to visit several times before.
someone has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever
