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A good overview of the curious case of the @nytimes articles on my father and the Pentagon Papers. “How the New York Times deceived Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg” motherjones.com/media/2021/0… via @MotherJones
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Ok. My default is to give @springsteen the benefit of a doubt. Jeep, maybe not so much.
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No doubt the ad speaks to the anxieties and sufferings of people on those Main streets in Kansas and Nebraska. But what does it mean to meet "in the middle" by implying that those are the only or the critical anxieties facing our country?
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With all respect to @springsteen, this is a bizarre and frankly disturbing ad that suggests that the path to "common ground" is entirely on white space and the assuaging of white anxiety. Really?
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St Josephine Bakhita, patron of victims of trafficking. “Seeing the sun, the moon, and the stars, I said to myself: Who could be the Master of these beautiful things? And I felt a great desire to see him, to know him, and pay him homage.”
FD of St Josephine Bakhita who died as a nun in Italy on Feb 8 1947, a long distance from the day at 9 when she was kidnapped from her village in Sudan and sold into slavery. After a succession of brutal masters she was bought by an Italian family who took her back to Italy.
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“In a land rent by divisions..., the inauguration offered hope that healing was possible, both for our country and for our Church. It raised the promise ...that a People of God is also a multitude defined by the common objects of their love.” bit.ly/3ru0LSZ
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Birthday of Servant of God Dom Helder Camara (1909-1999). “We who are charged with announcing the message of Christ need to learn the incomparable lesson that he taught us by his own example. He taught first of all with his life, and only then did he preach.”(@OrbisBooks)
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Very real. From my original reading I thought she was just a nutter, but when I read more I was very moved by her story.
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