St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.
Ukraine has been leading the global antifascist fight. They know it’s not just about them, but for everyone. May they blow up more data centers to save humanity. 🌻
Jooooohhhh No!@josefoshea.bsky.social · 16h agoWhat a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival. Octavio Paz,
Only the radio works in my car, so I've been listening to WRTI and have found some new (to me) music. I've been enjoying Mario Gangi and the 3 part of Suite Spagnola is great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW4i...
Suite Spagnola: I. Andalusa
YouTube video by Andrea Pace - Topic
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I want the humanities to rise again so I can get a degree in Latin
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
I want open borders. I want every single person deported to be located and returned to the US and I want them fast tracked for citizenship.
USCCB President Condemns Plans for Livestream of Fort Hood Shooter's Execution as ‘a Barbaric Promotion of a Culture of Death’ Read the full release at: https://ow.ly/8pBo50ZWhiV
Defund and abolish ICE. Melt down their weapons and shift its budget to social services and affordable housing. Ban everyone who led or worked for ICE from any government job. Corporate death penalty for the companies that aided them. Citizenship to all of its victims, should they want it.
Pope: “The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences.”
I don’t know what that means, I don’t speak psychotic zoomer.
3 years since Oct. 7. Count me among those who were appalled by the atrocity and appalled knowing atrocity would follow. Made things worse for just about everyone, except a few awful people who exploited it, and has left so many innocent people dead or suffering. I wish none of this had happened.
This might be the winter I get into Dwarf Fortress.
the speed at which human beings move from "this terrible thing exists" to "everyone just has to learn to live with it" is truly alarming and illuminating. Immediately moving to compliance. Watching this in real time is incredible.
it takes a high degree of emotional literacy to go "wow, I had a very intense reaction to something I'm now learning isn't based in fact, I need to interrogate that so I can flag it if it comes up again", and in our 24/7 disinformation economy many people simply choose never to accept correction
As a very bad Catholic I can't help but feel there is something sacred and holy and maybe even a bit miraculous about a human surviving and speaking after an attempted murder by the state allegedly carried out in the name of justice
Keri Blakinger@keribla.bsky.social · 5d agoBREAKING: Christa Pike is now awake and talking, per her attorneys:
I would love to tell the man who wrote this that I enjoyed it & that I subscribed to Harper's because of it. It seems he is only on the other site & Substack, two spaces I don't use. If any of you know Jack Hanson of Columbia U, tell him I said this was thrilling to read. harpers.org/archive/2026...
Radical Reformation, by Jack Hanson
The Catholic Church’s progressive revival
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Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d #ShareGoodNewsToo
Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species
The insects covered its largest area since 2018, despite threats from habitat loss, climate crisis and pesticides
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Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) El Capitan, 1925. Coloured Woodblock.
You gotta go out in the world and just have conversations with strangers, now and again. It can really help stop you from spiraling out into madness.
