stewing in my Wilco-coded Ken Burns-ass patriotism

I swear I see now that every thing has an eternal soul!

nooooooooo, they don't fucken smoke it while yah sat in restaurant, bob.

I cant believe people are actually openly rooting for the croatian national team. don’t they know thats where graham platner got his tattoo?

“This journey comes at a moment when the United States has made the closing of its doors to migrants a banner,” said the Rev. Antonio Spadaro, undersecretary of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education, “and an American pope knows this all too well.”

people tend to forget the construction of Old Churches had a lot to do with their role as resonating chambers for organs, the loudest instruments people alive at the time were likely to experience. Before sunn O))) we had Organ and/or Choirs

Re: “don’t cheer for your national team” discourse.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

this is a good one thecatholicherald.com/article/at-e...

I'm not superstitious but I'm a little-stitious and this is definitely a cause for somestition.

People grossly underestimate how many Republican Catholics are theological illiterate sentimentalist suburbanites who think the bells and smells are gay and are vaguely in favor of women's ordination

honestly, I’d be a mentally ill trad rather than the half sane hapless libcath I am were it not for the 12step program, which I theorize is the healthy conclusion of Protestantism. Again, not taking questions.

As a Catholic, I wholeheartedly agree. I’m not taking questions.

@jamellebouie.net’s latest is a gem www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

so glad we’re upholding western civ

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

to mark the 250th i wrote about the ways that black americans did vital work to invest the declaration of independence with the universalism and egalitarianism that we now see as its core promise. (gift link)

just thought of a great story when my friend went to see shellac at primavera sound almost 15 years ago or something and after the set Steve albini asked the crowd if they had any questions.

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

retiring Alito barely attempts to hide his contempt for immigrants in his opinion

"The Amendment caused a paradigm shift in the trajectory of our Nation; the teacher who scolds a student for bullying a classmate hopes the student learns the broader lesson of treating everyone with kindness, not just that one kid."

FMLA for all would be nice.

I do not think that a bunch of extremely online weirdos on a niche microblogging website are the right people to ask if social media is harmful for children. Oh, you were online as a kid and you were fine? Are you sure about that? Because you’re here now and look at all of us.

when I’m sad I look up what Sr Norma Pimentel is up to and I always feel better

(fine by me ) *ducks*

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

I can't believe it has taken me this long to get to Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop. Sometimes you read a book that feels written exactly to fit your literary preferences and existential or spiritual concerns. This is such a book.

I would be honored if Robbie Hoffman made ruthless fun of me and my community one day.

Pendant ce temps dans ce pays de cons, la seule question qui intéresse les médias c'est de savoir qui sera élu le roi des cons.

LEAVE HER ALONE

for a minute there, I forgot I had not slept well, so I did not whine about it.

Eye on the ball.

Senate Action Needed on Haiti TPS. Call today! mailchi.mp/ab1005005cd1...

men really are too emotional to be in politics

I realize that what most pains me about my father's politics is not the ignorance, but that the politics he's staked his identity on in his later years is so unworthy of the man I know.

Kagan points out in the dissent here that Alito is too much of a coward to even put Trump’s supposedly non-racist statements in his opinion.

Chevalier might have been a huge mistake

I really don’t get Usha Vance

The Prairieland defendants are political prisoners being held captive by a fascist regime There are raids, subpoenas, indictments targeting anarchists, abolitionists, & anti ICE activists all over the country right now Take this moment seriously. Understand how the state will continue to escalate.

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Stay the Execution of Dennis Sochor. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

"If a baby were screaming, you wouldn’t be the one to go pick it up.’" @tricialockwood.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

what is wrong with cutting the DoD budget? Honest question.

Big props to Brad Lander on winning his primary. Dude has done the moral thing many times and put his body on the line against ICE. He even came to Minnesota during the ICE Occupation to see the injustice firsthand. It’s nice to see moral courage rewarded by voters.

Gawker, bless it, tried to warn us. www.gawkerarchives.com/gawker-was-m...

And now mom says ice cream isn’t dinner. What’s going on? What does this mean? Dinner is food and last time I checked, ice cream is food. So what’s this really all about? The answer is simple: power

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can the entire French soccer team beat the one Argentine? let me know when it's time to find out.

Main character syndrome is the perception that your life is where you’re the central character. You might undervalue everyone around you, too. You consider these people secondary characters at best. This means you intentionally draw attention to yourself, even in situations that aren’t about you.