Ableism--the belief that some bodies are inherently worth more than others, with worth often hinging on your capacity to be independent and productive for the economy--is a key organizing principle of the current administration. They do not see the inherent value of all citizens.

this article is brilliant, and i am sold: ubi for everyone, let's have some more angine de poitrine www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

and, just to be clear, the "danger" that the author cites is all a bunch of hypothetical stuff that she has not in fact looked into, including medication that does not exist and possible experimentation with lifestyle adjustments and/or therapies to see if they improve her child's life.

happy earth day everyone it is hard to believe that the earth was born ten thousand years ago today

Priceless post from the official White House social media

the penne opticon

well now i kind of want to make a "baptized babies don't know ANYTHING" tee shirt

gargoyles are way less serious when you realize that their name is onomatopoeia

The last time the US Government and the Vatican had this much beef between them was Hudson Hawk.

my hottest lectionary take is that we should read (portions of) acts as the gospel reading in year c

listen, the torment nexus is here to stay. do you want to be rendered obsolete by being the last person on earth who doesn't know how to obtain the minimum amount of torment from the nexus?

new Dudes Rock just dropped

only seeing this today and for a second i thought it was an april fool's joke

hwat

It’s big ball chunky time

Just remembering the best moment of Old Twitter

They cured my doomscrolling youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

never sympathized more with the iconoclasts tbh

Nothing wrong with finding God in the forests and the mountains. But that’s Easy Mode. God’s presence there is supposed to sustain and strengthen us for the hard part (seeing the face of God in another person)

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from being in proximity to some very wealthy tech people, it’s that the more money you have, the less rational you become, because there is nothing you must worry about feeding except your ego, and it only gets hungrier the more it devours.

sincere thanks to st. joseph for revealing the holiness of being a wife guy

the merch bearing the word "integrity" as part of the motto printed upon it that i am selling in an attempt to monetize my public office is raising a lot of questions already answered by the merch

Sinners deserves Best Cinematographer simply for the fact that it's a modern movie where you can tell what's going on during all the night scenes

WHO GAWRSHES THE GAWRSHMEN

a canticle for leibowitz (1959)

make augury great again

wow folks looks like we sprang a bit more forward than intended

I need people to understand that Paralympians are just as elite as Olympians.

and if it is particularly awesome and still a juvenile it is a bangarangutan

They should invent a way out that isn't through

this is what comes of rebranding the department of defense into the department of wario

my friends and i played touch football with jimmy eat world in the parking lot after a show at cats cradle in carrboro

every etiquette expert ever:

John Swinton is giving the Giffords later this month. These represent a really interesting and exciting turn in his work.

just incomprehensible to me that a corporation can fumble the bag so badly and yet so obviously, and still steadfastly refuse to actually address the root cause of the problem. an all-timer on the cowardice index.

Something else I noticed. Videogames create stronger feelings of nostalgia than almost anything else, because they are the only places you can visit that are still exactly the same as they were at the time.

That it may please thee to make wars to cease in all the world; to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord; and to bestow freedom upon all peoples, We beesech thee to hear us, good Lord. 🕯️

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Religion extended to its logical conclusion: at the end of Time (and also way sooner) the Son of God, enthroned in glory, looks down at these people, scowling in divine fury, and (with canonical support) growls: "You. Took. My. CRAYONS."

if you are a lent madness enjoyer (the bracket-style matchup of saints where winners are determined by popular vote), i hope you will enjoy the writeup for anthony the great today: www.lentmadness.org/2026/02/anth... ⚓

Happy 'entering the town of Twin Peaks' day to those that celebrate 🥳

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

yes again having to turn off the uncontrollable screaming in my brain about how during the height of the pandemic we literally halved child poverty and hunger in the us and then we just up and decided that it was not worth continuing to do that

"paint with your thinking brush" is only okay when a kindergarten teacher says it

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.