But I’m sure they have decent trains in a city of their size!

it's not immediately visible in the US unless you are in DC, where practically everybody is—at maximum—one degree of separation away from someone who got DOGEd

Thank you to the young generation for giving us abbreviations for such words as “charisma,” “middling,” and “avuncular.”

My number one piece of relationship advice for the youths is to get married in 2017 to somebody you met in 2006.

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

"There is, however, another reason why just war concerns never found fertile ground in Eastern Orthodoxy. Byzantine political theology carried an anarchistic theocratic dynamic that remained in tension with any effort to sanctify the Empire or its martyrs."

V cool that Trump started the redistricting fight and Iran war and in doing so ushered in a lock for dem house and a global pivot to solar. Please Mr Trump do healthcare next.

yep hello

Harry Truman freemasonry nukes

I need to start posting like Chuck Grassley does about the History Channel, except with the underwhelming choices made at Classical WETA-FM.

Just occurred to me that the Prophet Muhammad's injunction against destroying fruit-bearing trees during war (and the exceptions he ordered) takes on new meaning in this context Destroying an oasis' palm trees doesn't just take out the tree It destroys the ecology that allows the oasis to exist

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

Church closer to home

“¡Estás absolutamente correcto, Señor Tigre!” has instantly entered our vocabulary pbskids.org/videos/watch...

A bunch of things suddenly make way more sense.

In the Orthodox tradition even soldiers who fought in “just” wars were denied communion for years after they fought. People like Vance and the GOP who celebrate the death of others were denied communion for even longer.

One of my parishioners got picked up by immigration, pray for Miguel. Good man, big part of the community, got 4 kids. Oldest wants to be a priest. His court appearance is on the 21st.

who else on here (@leahsargeant.bsky.social, log back in!) is insatiably taking in the Dave Malloy Octet film news!!

An unspoken divide among practicing Christians is how to understand the requirement to "witness" to your faith: 1) being a public and sincere example of the faith, or 2) trying to convert other people I'm (1) and never (2), on principle. The difference between those two is huge.

In Feb. 2025 when a USAID worker asked if their “lifesaving care” for “two of the leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths” would be considered a number one priority for programs to save, a Trump official responded “I’d say that’s more of a number two.” www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

A Trump guy who was part of the team dismantling USAID didn't think political appointees could grasp the concept of drug-resistant tuberculosis so he asked workers to explain it as "Super TB" in "Barney-style" slides. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Cool fact: racism is also blasphemy

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I know that after the midnight marathon, most Orthodox parishes don’t have the resources for Divine Liturgy the morning of Pascha — but ours, which is intended for young families, the elderly, etc., was PACKED, I’m talking 10-15 minutes of Communion from four chalices. After an all-time busy night.

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. “All is vanity.” ALL.

When You descended to death, O Life Immortal, / You slayed hell with the splendor of Your Godhead, / and when from the depths You raised the dead, / all the Powers of Heaven cried out, / O Giver of Life, Christ our God, glory to You!

bravo to the brave women of Minneapolis for setting up a makeshift intelligence network complete with burn protocols

How do you guys get through the day without (1) a cheery baby or (2) a nun best friend whom you can text about your despair

Thinking, as I often do, about this missileer's dilemma as drawn by Emil Friis Ernst thenib.com/how-we-nuke/

@cmcharlesallen.bsky.social @mayorbowser.dc.gov Is there a list or map of publicly accessible bomb shelters in the District we should know about, in the event our government carries out its promises?

They sell probiotic Pepsi now. Why is it not called Poopsi

I found a style guide for writing from the air force academy officer training program while cleaning out some folders. It’s decades old, encourages simple language, like not using “fatuous numbskull” when “jerk” will do

Baby just did a poop so big it took us back down from 9m to 6m onesies

shrinking this wikipedia article down to the size of a business card and passing it out for the next week en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of...

I will never say that these people aren't Christians, not because of any scruples over disavowing them. It's because I firmly believe the religion of the antichrist is Christianity but a Christianity without love or mercy. Without the Cross, which is the iron law of Love by which all will be judged

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Different flavor of editing error, but: bsky.app/profile/ivan...

Pulling out and connecting weird lil details until they provide an interesting picture is more interesting than a top-level summary that's the average of what everyone has ever said

108 - Connected Buildings * Isolated buildings are symptoms of a disconnected sick society.

We're forced to conclude that the convent must have taught Maria how to do marionettes

holy smokes

DC’s Eric Adams era continues

Ugh, someone is wrong on the internet again.

Guy who has only ever seen a whale:

DC Streetcar service ends today. We failed the streetcar as much as the streetcar failed us.

adam says it much more succintly. the american right will happily impoverish the united states and make it an oversized backwater if it means they can dominate women and minorities and play act as a master class

On the contrary; I watch it for the podracing.

I am shocked—SHOCKED—that the driver on their phone not paying attention at the intersection has over $16,000 in unpaid traffic tickets.

In a just world, the editor who approved the punctuation in this headline would be immediately fired and their job given to me.