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News & Current Events Apr 16, 2026 at 3:12 PM

Police investigate bomb threat at suburban home of Pope Leo's brother

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Police investigate bomb threat at suburban home of Pope Leo's brother
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Police investigate bomb threat at suburban home of Pope Leo's brother
Police in suburban New Lenox were investigating after a bomb threat at the home of Pope Leo’s brother.
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Thrallsbuttplug Apr 16, 2026 +1978
Totally normal behavior by America's right by the way.
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Universe_Nut Apr 16, 2026 +772
Reminder that the FBI consistently warned about, investigated, stopped, and arrested violent or violently intentioned domestic right wing terrorists before Trump started purging staff.
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ailish Apr 16, 2026 +147
Trump thinks right wing terrorists are patriots!
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Spire_Citron Apr 16, 2026 +46
He has basically said as much. He agrees with their motives so he doesn't care.
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Sorry-Climate-7982 Apr 17, 2026 +20
He doesn't agree with their motives. He agrees with them offering personal support to him. If they were to disagree with him, they'd all be back in jail immediately.
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Spire_Citron Apr 17, 2026 +3
True. He agrees with their motives insofar as they happen to align with his own interests.
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captainedwinkrieger Apr 17, 2026 +17
He pardoned like 1500 of them on day 1. Turns out if you do something incredibly stupid, treasonous and illegal, he'll just pardon you if he likes what you did.
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lethargy86 Apr 17, 2026 +4
Or if you pay him
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HYDROMORPHONE_ZONE Apr 17, 2026 +4
He’s trying to to have their convictions vacated now too with the DOJ
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techauditor Apr 17, 2026 +2
At cpac they literally said we are all domestic terrorists lol
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resiste-et-mords Apr 16, 2026 -1
Fun fact: The Obama administration scaled back it's efforts into tracking violent right wing extremism after DHS released a report saying that these groups were attempting to recruit more military veterans! So called liberals have always been spineless when it comes to cracking down on right wing extremism while conservatives love ramping it up. Hell the Greensboro massacre, where Klansmen and Neonazis shot and killed 5 communist demonstrators while an FBI agent was embedded in the the Neonazis ranks, happened under Jimmy Carter! And next to nothing was done to counter these people. Just look at the rise of the militia movement and the rise of the Bundy Clan, the growth of right wing street fighting movements, the growth of white supremacist gangs within police departments, and a host of other disgusting things. The US government has rarely thought it useful to go after right wing elements within the US (and abroad) but you bet your ass they'll repress, kill, slander, and surveil any left wing groups that may pop up.
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RainSurname Apr 17, 2026 +40
Just STFU with this bullshit. It was the Republicans lost their shit when that report came out, and it was the Republicans that fired that guy and nuked his entire department once they had a majority in Congress again. Republicans have been slashing funding for any and all investigations into right wing extremism ever since our intelligence agencies started saying right wing extremism was our greatest domestic threat, about 25 years ago.
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Wizchine Apr 17, 2026 +15
Right. The bombing by Right-wing terrorists of the Oklahoma City Federal Building was 1995. Just seven years later In 2002, the FBI said the number one domestic terrorist threat in the US was from "Eco-terrorism." The GOP has always considered right-wing terrorists as their own, and at the very least has been hands-off and at the worst has quietly supported them. And now, here we are.
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RainSurname Apr 17, 2026 +12
Of course they did. An oil tycoon had just stolen the election from an environmentalist. Weird how reports about how right wing extremism was actually our greatest terror threat finally started surfacing under a Democratic president, only for Republicans to step up their efforts to discredit and defund them.
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timewraith303 Apr 16, 2026 +5
I mean yeah pretty much, we had 4 years to convict trump but biden chose not to for reasons of decorum.
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sarduchi Apr 16, 2026 +187
No, no... I'm SURE Dear Leader will explain that it was antifa.
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itungdabung Apr 16, 2026 +58
No, it was planned by Hillary’s FBI, while Hillary was wearing Obamas tan suit, at the local comet ping pong pizzeria with muellers ghost.
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Ne02126 Apr 16, 2026 +26
I frickin' knew it.
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pleschga Apr 16, 2026 +16
In Hunter's laptop, via her private email server.
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IvankaPegsDaddy Apr 16, 2026 +8
While saluting holding a latte in one hand and a hamberder in the other hand with some fancy mustard on it.
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MoistMolloy Apr 16, 2026 +3
Fake news, it was Avocado Toast!
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IvankaPegsDaddy Apr 16, 2026 +3
Avocado toast!? In this economy!?
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allothernamestaken Apr 16, 2026 +3
He absolutely will. He likes the brother because he's MAGA. Edit: someone in another comment says that this is a different brother 🤷
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aneomon Apr 16, 2026 +20
Remember the multiple bomb threats called into urban voting locations on Election Day 2024?
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mrnotoriousman Apr 16, 2026 +9
Remember the bomb threats sent to a children's hospital in Boston?
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Junkstar Apr 16, 2026 +51
Sheep, every last one of them.
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Sandbox_Hero Apr 16, 2026 +5
Sacrificial too.
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I_am_the_BEEF Apr 16, 2026 +18
Can we stop calling conservatives “the right?” They *never* are.
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GoWest1223 Apr 16, 2026 +19
Yea, but most things I call them get me suspended for 7 days.
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Thrallsbuttplug Apr 16, 2026 +2
They should also not be called conservative though if we're going there, prefer extremists or little piggies.
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El-Sueco Apr 16, 2026 +15
They’re going into their usual tantrums and patterns. I would increase security at all churches , the rights Christian values involve violence.
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bwoah07_gp2 Apr 16, 2026 +7
What are the odds that the threat was made by a member of the presidents voter base?
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GrapefruitDue9103 Apr 16, 2026 +3
I'd say 99.9999% to 100%
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Status_Tiger_6210 Apr 16, 2026 +6
"We are all domestic terrorists"
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Penguin-Pete Apr 16, 2026 +5
Even taking modern day American sentiments into account, I'm still taking crazy pills looking at this headline. For pity's sake, all the guy said was "less war, war sucks." He didn't point fingers, he didn't name names. For this, we're going to war on the Vatican now?
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RealSchlemiel Apr 16, 2026 +2
Ahhh The Christian party. Family values
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[deleted] Apr 16, 2026 +1
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LionsRoar313 Apr 16, 2026 +363
WWJD? Surely send bomb threats to family members of those of opposing opinions
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Raven_Photography Apr 16, 2026 +108
That’s what JDVance would do.
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theantig Apr 16, 2026 +23
Add getting a couch pregnant after too and I’ll call it a w
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Kaffe-Mumriken Apr 16, 2026 +25
It’s fascinating because i am listening to a book series about the rise of communism in China and how it rhymes SO well with MAGA,Trumpism. regional players would just wipe out whole families of dissenters, in this case
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SilkySifaka Apr 16, 2026 +9
Like Israel
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Charlie_Mouse Apr 17, 2026 +2
Except cross it with a level of data on everyone that would make the East German Stasi jealous and used to generate targeting queues based on social graphs drawn up by some tech bro’s AI model. Paramilitary Massacre as a Service. There’ll be an app I bet you.
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tarion_914 Apr 17, 2026 +1
Just ask him on Truth
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Cara-Is-A-Puppy Apr 16, 2026 +334
You know the GOP has gone too far right when the Catholic Church is considered "woke"
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NetZeroSun Apr 16, 2026 +173
Which is kinda inevitable. Considering if they actually listened to Jesus, they would consider him “woke”.
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cynognathus Apr 16, 2026 +122
The former editor of Christianity Today [has related stories of congregants complaining to their pastors that the Sermon on the Mount was too woke:](https://www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1192374014/russell-moore-on-altar-call-for-evangelical-america) > pastors [told] me essentially the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount parenthetically in their preaching - turn the other cheek - to have someone come up after and to say, where did you get those liberal talking points? And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ, the response would not be, I apologize. The response would be, yes, but that doesn't work anymore. That's weak. And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we're in a crisis.
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starspangledcats Apr 16, 2026 +38
So... If they don't think Jesus's teachings are correct anymore, are they even Christian? It's one thing to misunderstand the teachings, but to deny them outright how could they call themselves Christian??
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Regi0 Apr 16, 2026 +24
They aren't, it's just an arbitrary title. It's a cultural rot more than anything.
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jakreth Apr 17, 2026 +9
If they don't believe in Jesus teachings they have 2 options, to consider themselves as Jews and ignore the New Testament, or consider Jesus as just a prophet and, thus, convert to Islam. But the reality is that they are doing the same than a lot of Germans in the 1930s and 40s, replace Jesus with their political leader
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NetZeroSun Apr 16, 2026 +24
That’s pretty scary that they don’t even understand what they are saying about Jesus’s own word.
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Wizchine Apr 17, 2026 +6
Right - a lot of us think the pastors are leading their flock astray, but the dynamic more often is that the flock puts pressure on the pastor regarding what they want to hear and how they want to be preached to else the congregation walks and takes their tithes to a more politically palatable alternate. The tail wags the dog.
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the_blackfish Apr 16, 2026 +7
Fox News and the like has rotted their brains to the point where it's just a terrified and angry lizard brain left.
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Particular_Main_5726 Apr 16, 2026 +37
So it is with all authoritarian belief systems; the MAGA of tomorrow will believe the MAGA of yesterday was too soft, and that invariably manifests as ever-worsening extremism and a ever-downward spiral into hate and dehumanization of whatever flavor of "other" is on the menu that week. 
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AaronTheElite007 Apr 16, 2026 +31
That’s how fascism works. It’s a self-eating ideal. Read about the Night of the Long Knives to learn more.
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LV-42whatnow Apr 16, 2026 +6
It's chilling to see the parallel to our own Supreme Court: "It also provided a legal grounding for the Nazis, as the **German courts and cabinet quickly swept aside centuries of legal prohibition against extrajudicial killings to demonstrate their loyalty to the regime.** The Night of the Long Knives marked Hitler's absolute consolidation of judicial power and was a turning point in the establishment of Nazi Germany."
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KimJongFunk Apr 16, 2026 +30
The KKK historically hated Catholics.
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Niceromancer Apr 16, 2026 +42
Brother they said Jesus was too woke.
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jetsetninjacat Apr 16, 2026 +7
The catholic church was always considered woke. One of the pushes against catholic immigration from places like germany, Ireland, Italy, and part of eastern Europe(that weren't orhthodox) was because they considered the catholic church too liberal back then.
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AdeonWriter Apr 17, 2026 +6
Jesus was insanely progressive for his time. Love your neighbor? (which meant country neighbors, aka people who do not look like you?) that was u unheard of at the time. Feed the poor? A lower class than you? Why?
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SVALTACT Apr 16, 2026 +8
For years, MAGA just preclaimed to be Catholic while completely ignoring any of the teachings of the religion. Anytime people would question them, they would hand wave some reason why its okay. Now the actual Pope is following those teachings and not allowing them to hand wave their way out of it, they go on the offensive.
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OtakuAttacku Apr 17, 2026 +3
Just another flavor of "If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy." They would proudly declaim their religion but if their religion doesn't actually align with their hate, they'd sooner create a schism than abandon their hate.
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fastolfe00 Apr 16, 2026 +638
The US has become a state sponsor of stochastic terrorism.
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Furrowed_Brow710 Apr 16, 2026 +201
They are all domestic terrorists…by self admission.
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murder_train88 Apr 16, 2026 +81
Did a CPAC Banner Say, 'We Are All Domestic Terrorists'? | Snopes.com https://share.google/fxnsE9bHO7KAcr3pi
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EmergencyCucumber905 Apr 16, 2026 +19
Doubling down is MAGA's signature move.
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Ragnarawr Apr 16, 2026 +27
Has become? Continues to be.
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Blackstone01 Apr 16, 2026 +5
Pretty literally a case of "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
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dismayhurta Apr 16, 2026 +18
I mean that’s part of the Republican platform.
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johnnybiggles Apr 16, 2026 +5
"Part of"? It's *the* platform.
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dismayhurta Apr 16, 2026 +2
Technically only helping billionaires is part of their platform, too.
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jcooli09 Apr 17, 2026 +3
Not just stochastic terrorism, ICE is an actual terrorist organization.
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RoswellRedux Apr 16, 2026 +202
MAGA's stochastic terrorism is a predictable play on their part.
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Decent-Ganache7647 Apr 17, 2026 +5
I’m confused. Did they miss the part about the pope’s brother being a Trump supporter? 
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myislanduniverse Apr 16, 2026 +81
If your response to somebody criticizing your idea is to threaten to bomb their family, then your idea was shit and you know it.
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-Zero00 Apr 16, 2026 +12
They want to scare anybody who disgrees into omission. A la "Might makes right". In other words: "You can either agree with me or you can keep your mouth shut... or I'll shut it for you."
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AudibleNod Apr 16, 2026 +123
"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest? -King Henry II, 1170 (attributed)
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Savebagels Apr 16, 2026 +72
If it’s the followers or if it’s the administration sending threats to the freaking Pope, they just are f****** brain dead beyond belief at this point
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Niceromancer Apr 16, 2026 +24
They will receive no repercussions so why wouldn't they do things like this?
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jigokubi Apr 16, 2026 +2
Especially considering that, in some sense, thinking of themselves as Christian led them toward all this.
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HeatWaveToTheCrowd Apr 16, 2026 +63
If they want to find the perp, have Palantir track MAGA phones.
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Carrera_996 Apr 16, 2026 +21
Oh they already do so they know who to recruit.
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Hopalong_Manboobs Apr 16, 2026 +20
More MAGA domestic terrorism
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Chuckychinster Apr 16, 2026 +24
Why is the right so violent?
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Wizchine Apr 17, 2026 +6
Because the essence of conservatism is fear and dislike of change, even though it is often inevitable and often undirected. So they are constantly angry and at war mentally with all change - even if the past they long for was an idealized myth that never really existed.
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Osoroshii Apr 16, 2026 +22
MAGA gets its marching orders from the top and takes action.
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r21174 Apr 16, 2026 +17
Just shows you how inbreeding does to the mindset of MAGA base.
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ram_fl_beach Apr 16, 2026 +13
Maga threats again, they are all violent, and likely pedophiles.
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elephant35e Apr 16, 2026 +10
MAGA: "The left is so violent and unhinged!" Everything said by MAGA is a projection.
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nutationsf Apr 16, 2026 +3
It’s literally the personification of the stop punching yourself bully
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HeavyRaisin8696 Apr 16, 2026 +19
It's giving "will nobody rid me of this meddling bishop?" energy. Or whatever the quote from Murder in the Cathedral is.
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Niceromancer Apr 16, 2026 +23
Remember people it's the left that is violent.  Even though every time anyone publicly disagrees with trump they or their families get death threats.  But it's tye left that is violent.
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kmoon89x Apr 16, 2026 +16
How Christ-like of MAGA.
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chinchila5 Apr 16, 2026 +8
The violent right strikes again
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Significant-Self5907 Apr 16, 2026 +8
Pope Leo's brother is MAGA. What in the actual f***?
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dontsellmeadog Apr 16, 2026 +11
Different brother.
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Significant-Self5907 Apr 16, 2026 +10
Maybe the MAGA brother did it..?
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VegetableYesterday63 Apr 16, 2026 +7
Wrong brother, he has 2
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BloodFartz69 Apr 16, 2026 +7
We're at the stage where the cult given power by evangelical Christians is now attacking Christianity?
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Wizchine Apr 17, 2026 +2
Attacking the “wrong type” of Christianity. I’m sure Mormons are on the list after Catholics. Fascists always circle inwards and consume the heretics and apostates almost more lustily than the “nonbelievers and enemies” on the outside.
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txkwatch Apr 16, 2026 +9
Here comes another pardon
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pontiacfirebird92 Apr 16, 2026 +13
Where's the governors and the congressmen tweeting out about how this is the work of the "radical left"? They were so f****** quick to blame liberals and "the left" when Charlie Kirk was shot. So where are they now? Why aren't they blasting that this is because of the work of their "enemy"??
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ImpulseAfterthought Apr 16, 2026 +7
Give them a minute. He'll be on Fox News in a couple of hours.
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GiraffePolka Apr 16, 2026 +7
That's absolutely insane, wtf is wrong with the maga cult?
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statslady23 Apr 16, 2026 +8
Did the call come from Hegseth's home by any chance? 
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Particular-Way-3805 Apr 16, 2026 +6
The magasexuals had something to do with this
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Spirited_Childhood34 Apr 16, 2026 +6
MAGA responds in their usual fashion.
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bacon-squared Apr 16, 2026 +8
What’s wrong with these people, really?! There seems to be no low they’re not willing to go to. This is the brother of a man preaching peace. This brother did nothing to warrant this, nothing. If this is a MAGA person that sent in this threat I hope they catch and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
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Inferior_Jeans Apr 16, 2026 +5
MAGA would call bomb threats to the barn that Jesus was born in
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supercali45 Apr 16, 2026 +6
This is a death cult they created
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_Rainer_ Apr 16, 2026 +5
It's wild that most Trump supporters have zero awareness that they are one of the bad guys. Right-wingers will puzzle me to my dying day.
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oldteen Apr 16, 2026 +3
Self-righteousness is one hell-of-a drug..
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nutationsf Apr 16, 2026 +2
Who knew you just had to tell the Empire they were the persecuted Rebels and they wouldn’t question it
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wodthing Apr 16, 2026 +13
"We are all domestic terrorists"
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Greyboxer Apr 16, 2026 +5
Let me guess, the magys are behind this
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PigFarmer1 Apr 16, 2026 +5
I wonder what cult the suspect belongs to???
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One-Arachnid-2119 Apr 16, 2026 +4
Stephen Miller didn't waste any time.
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PigletCatapult Apr 16, 2026 +6
Now why would an illegal immigrant trans Muslim who works for George Soros who votes Deomcrat do such a thing? I am sure FoxNews creative reporting will have the full scoop in no time. /s
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IvanNemoy Apr 16, 2026 +9
Ain't no hate like "Christian" love.
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Express-Citron-6387 Apr 16, 2026 +3
WTH? Is anyone not a target in the US these days?
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Webecomemonsters Apr 16, 2026 +3
Their orange god of crapulence was displeased, made it known, his followers have no choice but to act.
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UbiSububi8 Apr 16, 2026 +4
You know, people who don’t like Trump are Americans, too.
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AsteroidMike Apr 16, 2026 +3
Betting all the money I have that it was a MAGA supporter or someone in their cabinet
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Combdepot Apr 16, 2026 +4
The call came from the oval office.
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TwoPoundzaSausage Apr 16, 2026 +4
Alright, place your bets, folks. How long until we hear the phrase "religion is the opiate of the masses" in one of Trump's speeches?
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MentalDisintegrat1on Apr 16, 2026 +7
Absolutely brilliant the Pope has better security than the president of the United States and better security than the secret service by stats they also have some of the best investigators in the world. Whoever did this and I would bet they are maga is so fked the Vatican doesn't play around with stuff like this.
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ducktwo Apr 16, 2026 +3
Wow who could have expected this?!
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Dark_Mak__r Apr 16, 2026 +3
Well pete hegseth said that war on iran is a holy war….
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steveycip Apr 16, 2026 +3
Over/under that it was a maga?
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NewButOld85 Apr 16, 2026 +3
For those who might have missed it: Pope Leo has two brothers. The one Trump said he prefers because he's a MAGA supporter is Louis, who lives in Florida. The one who received the bomb threat is John, living in Chicago.
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DeMiko Apr 16, 2026 +3
I’m sure if it was someone liberal or not white it will be domestic terrorism. If it was a maga it will be correctly clarified as a poor mistake of someone mentally unwell whom Trump will pardon if offered enough money.
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Wayofchinchilla Apr 16, 2026 +3
And conservatives always complain that liberals are demon worshipers.
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Imperium_Dragon Apr 16, 2026 +3
Welcome back anti-Catholicism
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Wizchine Apr 17, 2026 +3
The marriage of convenience has been annulled. Get into the pit with the rest of them…
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B-Glasses Apr 17, 2026 +3
I’d be willing to bet money on who the perpetrators voted for
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iconmotocbr Apr 16, 2026 +5
Karma is going to be the biggest b**** for these die-hard maga folks.
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ram_fl_beach Apr 16, 2026 +2
Karma requires an invisible beast tracking everything in the universe. Seems impossible, so there is no such thing.
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Peabody_Tiddlecut Apr 16, 2026 +5
Republicans: tHe LefT wAnTs uS AlL dEAd! Also Republicans:
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tlacuachetamagotchi Apr 16, 2026 +2
Isn’t this same brother super maga? This is what he voted for.
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VegetableYesterday63 Apr 16, 2026 +2
No. It’s the other brother who lives in FL who is MAGA
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heathers1 Apr 16, 2026 +2
is that the maga brother?
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Soulman682 Apr 16, 2026 +2
MAGAs aren’t making threats anymore. I wonder if the regime faked a threat to show that they still have supporters that can be radical to keep others in line.
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derekYeeter2go Apr 16, 2026 +2
If enough Nationalist Evangelicals join the Catholic Church, they can take over the leadership, and guide the American Bishops and Cardinals to break away from Rome, and create a unified voice and voting block that aligns with the Oil-connected global oligarchs.
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zombiereign Apr 16, 2026 +2
Right on the heels of Vance "warns the pope should 'be careful' when talking about theology" [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/vance-warns-pope-careful-talking-theology-rcna331881](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/vance-warns-pope-careful-talking-theology-rcna331881)
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Brave_Mess_3155 Apr 17, 2026 +2
I hate Illinois nazis.
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NoPain4551 Apr 17, 2026 +2
Here we go…the fanatical right enacting the perceived threats of their Kings and Queens once again. How predictable
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Immediate-Machine370 Apr 17, 2026 +2
Now is maga a cult? Crazy Trump worshipers want to physically harm the Pope. The freakin Pope.
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thepianoman456 Apr 16, 2026 +5
I BET you this was MAGA terrorism. And I mean that in the classic playful sense, not the civilization-rot sense of Kalshi and Polymarket.
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Zumsh Apr 16, 2026 +2
Why would Obama do such a thing ????
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dunnkw Apr 16, 2026 +1
Antifa is at it again, I’ll bet they are in the room with us right now!
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Just-Pea-4968 Apr 16, 2026 +1
Wow that’s beyond insane!
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redvoxfox Apr 16, 2026 +1
Man!  That has got to be the toughest gig:  The Pope's brother!   In a Catholic family!  Are you kidding?!   "Well, your brother..." just forever.  Ugh!  Rough ride!   "Oh, you got a threat?  Your brother - you know, *The Pope* - gets those every day.  And does he complain?  No.  You never even hear about it."   sauce:  Older siblings =  Valedictorians x2, star athletes, straight A's, rockstar careers ... then I come along and try to just live a normal mid-bell-curve life.  Ugh.  
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kingofhearts778 Apr 16, 2026 +1
From a red hat no doubt.
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nochinzilch Apr 16, 2026 +1
Ironically, his name is Pope Kenny.
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euclid316 Apr 17, 2026 +1
Don't say the kid's name, John!
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CishetmaleLesbian Apr 17, 2026 +1
It will be a good day when this terrorist administration is out of office.
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