www.tiktok.com/@marklyda/vi... One more about hope during and through oppression and loss. Politics never delivers on righteousness. But it does provide the highest tests for our faith.

www.tiktok.com/@lucasthejon... Beautiful. The start of hope is always a sacred but hard hard time.

"If we want security, let us give security. If we want life, let us give life. If we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities." #PopeFrancis

"Without love, our faith would be deprived of its essence, our good works would be reduced to mere moralism, and our hope would be in vain. Dear friends, we cannot truly love God unless this love overflows into love for our brothers and sisters.” #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove

"Jesus weeps all across our nation for the children who have been arrested, detained, transported to far-off centers with terrible living conditions, and cut off from their families." #CardinalMcElroy #PrayForAmerica

"Do not be afraid to insist on your rights. Refuse a life based on lies and double thinking. Do not be afraid to suffer with Christ." #SaintJohnPaulII

"I'm trying to deliver Jesus from identity theft. Folks who claim to share the faith that I share support these mean-spirited policies that kick people off of their healthcare & take food out of the mouths of hungry children. I don't understand that kind of faith." ~ Sen. Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock

"What endures? What has value in life? What riches do not disappear? Surely, these two: our God and our neighbor. These two riches do not disappear. These are the greatest goods. These are to be loved." #PopeFrancis

If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink (Proverbs 25:31). #PrayForPeace #PrayForUkraine www.ncronline.org/news/pope-le...

Pope Leo calls Putin from hospital urging ceasefire, aid to starving Ukrainians

The Russian leader, who wished the pope a speedy recovery, "thanked the pope for his willingness" to assist in "resolving the conflict" and "for his humanitarian efforts," said the Kremlin.

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“All tell similar stories of relentless physical and verbal abuse by guards; of going days or weeks without seeing the sun; of filthy, crowded living conditions with repeated outbreaks of measles, tuberculosis and other diseases." #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Unsafe’ conditions at Texas ICE facility put immigrants at risk of injury or death, lawsuit says

Court filing alleges ‘physical abuse by guards’, ‘filthy living conditions’ and disease outbreaks at Camp East Montana

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peterturchin.com

Peter Turchin | Cliodynamics, Research, Books, and Public Writing

The official site for Peter Turchin’s research, publications, books, public writing, and media appearances.

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무궁화@curiouscow314.bsky.social · 4w ago

People should read Peter Turchin, and take him seriously. What we are experiencing is an elite conflict, and DOGE is a great example of a counter-elite. Also explains the punitive nature of what DOGE did.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. The beauty of nonviolence is that in its own way and in its own time it seeks to break the chain reaction of evil.” -King, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, pp. 62-63.

A *proscriptive* idea for IR: follow God's goals for His church. "The findings underscore that peace cannot be reduced to the absence of violence but must instead be envisioned as an ongoing process of justice, reconciliation, and emancipation." ijsrm.net/index.php/ij....

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it (1967)." #MLK #PrayForAmerica

www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/... Evil purposes desire literal darkness. (Not my normal content). Off-radio command to turn body cameras *off* during a lawful protest.

From the EyesOnIce community on Reddit: NYPD officers being instructed to turn body cameras off during the protest against ICE for shooting Oscar Belgal

Explore this post and more from the EyesOnIce community

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The young rarely get support, and families break. A good place to grow should be ready.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · last mo.

Rest in power.

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · last mo.

I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.

Worship of wealth always leads to corruption and collapse. Idols always enslave everyone.

Scott Galloway@profgalloway.com · last mo.

11-3-26: Stain Removal

www.osvnews.com/traveling-im... We repay mindless cruelty to these peaceful neighbors and citizens. Each in His image. God tells all to resist this spreading sin.

Traveling ‘Immigrant Crosses’ memorial of ICE-involved deaths launches in Illinois - OSV News

The traveling exhibit called "Immigrant Crosses" launches from the Chicago area and will be replicated in several major cities across the country including Seattle and Baltimore into 2027.

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It's as if we are called to be quick to listen. Serving God can be as simple as that.

Layman Nemo Nihilo@skaquinas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The true Reverend (Billy) Graham

Believe the science. It is literally written in stone. Vaccinate.

Pope Francis invited Anthony Fauci to the Vatican. Donald Trump gave him a presidential commendation. Now MAGA wants to throw him in jail. Catholics have seen this McCarthy nonsense before, and we must stand up to it again.

Pope Francis Invited Anthony Fauci to the Vatican. MAGA Wants to Throw Him in Jail.

Fauci opened the Vatican’s 2021 “Unite to Prevent and Unite to Cure” summit, and Francis delivered its closing address. A contempt vote lands next week — and seventeen state attorneys general are hunt...

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"The truth will set you free", and then you will be free indeed.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“I did believe the election was stolen and the rioters were patriots - until I turned off Fox News.”

Shameless. DOGE "cleansed" the taxpayer's money for growing hatred for us. For our bloodsport game-playing. The USA needed that instead of USAID saving lives? Sprouting wars and hatred far in the future?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Trump is backing away from getting Iran's enriched material: "You could make the case, why even bother? It's not very valuable stuff."

"When there is something wrong with the community around you or far away: Do not stand idly by. You must intervene. You must interfere. And that is actually the motto of human rights." #ElieWiesel