It’s Mother Cabrini’s birthday! Omnia possum in eo qui me confortat.

I wonder if Trump begins his prayers “Congratulations, Heavenly Father, for your greatness,” and ends them “Thank you, Lord, for your attention to this matter.”

This is not law enforcement. This is regime enforcement.

Normie boomer libs (complimentary) against fascism #NoKings

No Kings Day, Federal Courthouse, Springfield, MA #NoKingsDay

I sat next to Philip Seymour Hoffman at Eisenberg’s Sandwich Shop on 5th Ave. while we both ate corned beef sandwiches.

One of my great-great grandmothers was born the year the American Civil War ended and a couple years after Italian unification, and died the year *after* I was born. History is not so very long ago!

I’m trying to imagine what it would mean for an *idea* to cross the border illegally and how exactly ICE would stop that from happening. Perhaps it’s my lack of imagination, but I’m not coming up with anything that doesn’t look like fascism.

Bari at night

Countryside southeast of Altamura en route to Turi, Province of Bari, Italy

Strada degli Orefici, late night in the rain, from the Piazza Mercantile, Bari, Italy

Molo San Nicola, Bari, Italy

Faro Molo Sant'Antonio, Bari, Italy

Above the entrance to the Cathedral in Conversano, Bari, Italy.

I deleted my Twitter account before a cycling trip around Bari in Puglia and never got to share church pics with my Catholic Twitter mutuals. This is from the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in Conversano. Santa Maria, Madre di Dio, per noi peccatori.

Gee, Boston’s skyline sure has changed since I lived there.

The man who unleashed this mayhem is about to return to the scene of his violent crime spree, to the cheers of his spineless, gutless, sycophantic party. This is a broken country.

“If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.” - JD Vance, Munich, February 2024.

It remains to be seen whether this is the tyranny all the 2A militias have been arming themselves against. Or not.

I grew up thinking Dr. Doom would have to steal a hydrogen bomb and threaten to detonate it in Times Square to gain access to the U.S. treasury.

The party of small government and Individual Liberty.

A former inspector general for the DoT is on CNN valiantly assuring viewers that the NTSB is not political and I really want to believe her.

Should I change my profile to “Advancing Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies”?

Either it took less than 24 hours to root out all the programs using zillions of federal dollars “to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies,” or else they were forced to admit what a ham-fisted blunder this was to begin with.

It's remarkable how this fascist admin's "gender ideology" discourse resembles early communist propaganda. Trans people's personal experience of their gender identity is false consciousness that must be subordinated to the collective definition gender as binary, fixed & hierarchical. Crazy stuff.

I’m no economist but I would have guessed lowering the price of consumer goods would be easier than dismantling the entire administrative state in less than one week. I guess “nobody knew [inflation] could be so complicated!”

I think he’s selling Trump short. After all, it took the Almighty 4,000 years to pardon as many violent criminals as Trump did in his first week.

How long before Trump holds a press conference to announce bird flu will be over before Easter and we’ll all have plenty of big, beautiful eggs to dye at $1.99 a dozen?