BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

old typewriter font is what took me out

like when we talk about "Adult Convert Energy" it's not gonna reflect most of the people at your neighborhood church who got baptized last weekend at the Easter Vigil Mass it's the kind of guys who are like "hello, I'm here to join your 2000-year-old institution and improve it with my genius"

I hope this mid-thread excerpt makes everyone want to read this whole entire thread on the Pentagon-Pope beef

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I mean. I'm not *personally* humiliated.

I am fully aware that JD Vance *also* sucks, but when Trump is gone *as someday he will inevitably be*, I do not think that days like today will happen again. Or think of it this way: there are a series of obstacles between us and normalcy, and every one gone will be one less to deal with.

“If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things — praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts —

As recently as 2023, the play “English” by Iranian-American playwright Sanaz Toossi won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. I saw it at the Guthrie in the 2023-24 season. A lovely meditation on language and identity, set in a classroom in Iran, with some dialogue in Farsi. How we got here is madness.

Servant of God Takashi Nagai, pray for us.

Pope Leo XIV rebukes Trump' psychotic rhetoric: “Today as we all know there was this threat against all the people of Iran. This is truly unacceptable,” the Pope said, warning that attacks on civilian infrastructure violate international law.

game theory is not my forte but, like, do you think, if we called amy and told her if she keeps this up we won’t even vote for her against the pillow guy, she would believe us

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Hey, it's already a Constitutional crisis if the Constitutionally prescribed political mechanisms for dealing with an insane POTUS have become politically impossible. Which is to say that the crisis began a LONG time ago.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

TIRED: the Earth is flat WIRED: the Moon is a beer mat

I would agree, but I have heroes in my house and my town and my state.

/2 Elements of civilization and modernity like ”there should be rules of war” or “there should be legal and moral limits on what you do to perceived enemies” have always been a tough sell with limited buy-in.

Remember when DHS agents had no choice but to shoot two Venezuelan men because the men had attacked them with a snow shovel and a broomstick? New video shows they were lying about that one, too. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

I move that “Copy moon joy” be the phrase of the year for 2026

(1) “Military age males” = civilians (2) This is not a denial of having killed kids, women, and old folks as wely

Wherever we fall, whether hurters or healers, caring or complacent, awake or ignorant, or (like most of us) some combination of these… We are one Church. We are all called to conversion. We are all wanted in love. We all have a role to play in the history of salvation. Christ is risen.

Gift link from me to you www.startribune.com/reckoning-re...

Thread packed with fascinating books to check out.

Back from the Vigil. A very happy Easter to those who celebrate the risen Prince of Peace.

Nope, not how this works www.wsj.com/world/middle...

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

Listen. If this site goes away, those of us here in Minnesota will just use our extensive lists of Signal chats to stay in touch. Once we figure out who each other is (are?) again through all the aliases we use.

This weird thing is happening to my MSP feed where one specific person’s most recent post is always at the top? Even though she posted it at least an hour ago? After that it seems normal? Anyone else seeing this? I have nothing against this poster so blocking seems overkill

Joke’s on them, even the Catholics are hosting (No Catholic Mass) services today

When people ask why Minneapolis changed the name of our lake in the middle of our amazing park system:

petition to search and replace every instance of [spoken or sung] “God bless America” with “may God have mercy on the United States of America”

I’m going to keep siding with Stancil on this. Trump is a product of a hell of an outlier of a malignant-narcissistic personality. *Any* system is vulnerable to being broken by such a person, as few founders have the capacity to brace against such a rare event.

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Someone sent me this.

In all my years of food writing, I might have just written my best lede. For the May issue! And this is your periodic pledge drive: Did you know your $10 a year keeps a roof over the head of 40-some of your Twin Cities neighbors, including me? Please, please subscribe! xx mspmag.com/dara

Please forward this to everybody who doesn’t love here and thinks Jacob Frey is nifty

Brief thread. I suspect he’s right especially in comments about being “frozen in place,” “breaking everything,” and “efforts to maneuver …giving him more power.” It’s the pattern of a family controlled by a malignant narcissist, writ large.

Nixon could tell him how to get out. Resign!

I resign the presidency of the United States There’s the out

Manifesting www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...

Just in case you're on the MPLS/St Paul feed and you're not actually here for the awoooo, I give you this offer of vicariously living through me.

happy Wednesday! whoo!

I feel like they’ve been listening in on our local school ICE patrol, where our favorite middle-aged conversation has been how we can’t remember who everybody is really

Our office was made aware of an incident involving two bounty hunters pointing weapons at civilians who were chanting at them from alongside and in front of the bounty hunters’ van. Both have been charged with felony threats of violence and displaying a replica of a firearm.