"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement

The People Who Believed that "Pro Worker Republicans" Were a Real Thing Were Massive Suckers, vol. 967: www.ft.com/content/19f8...

My actual reaction to this information

This is a pogrom

Nerve Pain! In The Bad Arm.

Thinking about Vessels. of wrath and otherwise

Drake Maye when he has to play a real football team

It’s so funny to make the most intergenerational and family oriented halftime show in years to highlight how genuinely delusional (and fundamentally racist) MAGA culture war derangement is

The American brutes are cut down by the elegant blade of the rising sun

I'm OUT on the American figure skater and have transferred my loyalties to the Japanese fella getting sturdy to Stevie Wonder

I converted to Catholicism a couple weeks ago. Here’s what I think Jesus got wrong.

I wish we would stop dignifying the "every state has a right to yadayada" but I will accept a bishop taking a swing at the evangelicals in the meantime

Santa Fe’s Archbishop Wester: “In recent days, we have witnessed Speaker of the House Mike Johnson publicly criticizing Pope Leo XIV’s position of welcoming the stranger”

Winter Olympics need like 4-5 more team sports. We can invent them for this purpose

Reporter: Will you apologize for that racist video? Trump: *walks away*

As an aside I'm posting these to own myself bc this is the place I am most able to just run my mouth and be an asshole. Ignore at will

“A brother said to a hermit, ‘If I see a monk about whom I have heard that he is guilty of a sin, I cannot make myself invite him into my cell. But if I see a good monk, I bring him in gladly.’

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

I had this conversation a few times as an R/OCIA director

This is what Augustine had in mind denouncing the Romans in City of God

“Sisois once said with confidence, ‘For thirty years I have not prayed to God without sin. When I pray, I say “Lord Jesus Christ, protect me from my tongue.” Even now, it causes me to fall every day.”

Almost two years into living in our apartment and we are still somehow constantly receiving mail sent to the prior tenants, largely addressed to their (many) similarly named businesses with lots of terrible yelp and google reviews

I'm hearing that the banks are out of bitcoins

Toni Morrison is correct that white people want to be in control of whether and how one can mention race at all. The same people who made race essential to society now don’t want it ever acknowledged even as they freely do otherwise.

I'd like to posit a carveout for the subtle distinction between "dooming" and "being a left-Augustinian"

“A brother asked a hermit, ‘Suppose there are two monks: one stays quietly in his cell, fasting for six days at a time, laying many hardships on himself: and the other ministers to the sick. Which of them is more pleasing to God?’ 1/2

I'll note I'm in a bit of a glass house here bc I live a less than two min walk from a Korean grocery so fresh veg access is unbelievably easy and requires no planning in a way that is not applicable generally

One thing I think re: cooking is that many, many people don't know or are unwilling to make freezable food in large batches. My wife and I usually get three "dinners" out of a given cook: tonight, tomorrow, and (at least) one for the freezer.

people chafe at "Happy Are You Poor", but have you seen the rich?

SSPX/Protestantism discourse another great time to point out for Catholics specifically that there is no single entity called "Protestantism" for you to "disprove" and anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something

Entering an oceanic period I think

My wife is crocheting us The Hats

Blessed Natalia Tułasiewicz pray for us She was a Polish teacher & Catholic lay apostle who aided those forced from their homes into Nazi labor. Active in the Underground she was imprisoned at Ravensbrück & killed in the gas chambers two days before the camp was liberated. She was beatified in 1999

a thousand thousand slimy things lived on; and so did I

Our mass killings won’t be the active exterminations of gas chambers but sins of omission, the halting of USAID, deaths in neglected overcrowded detention centers as we tell ourselves we don’t mean for them to die

Need the holy father to throw some weight behind Mother Cabrini

She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak

“Agatho said, ‘If an angry man were to raise the dead, God would still be displeased with his anger.'”