Why is the breakdown of the American republic so much more frightening than the democratic deterioration of any other place in the world ? Because this system was designed by the founding fathers for one foremost purpose: to safeguard self-governance against tyranny. VC

A strange aspect of our times is that I continue to believe that the Church in the US is a model for us Germans.

A note on 21st century sources: While Twitter itself was completely lost in 2030, large portions of it can be reconstructed based on references and screenshots in later works

Sehr gut. Ich finde es super, dass da bei Youtube noch Vernunft herrscht und die sich nicht selber ins Knie schießen wollen. Jetzt fehlt noch eine starke Einschränkung der Shorts und man kann Hoffnung haben.

there are so many gutting stories, but this one is hitting me extra hard. just imagining wael tarabishi slowly dying without his dad there to care for him because he was jailed by ICE makes me…i don’t have words. this country is disgusting.

A common thread with the image above, and the images of the arrest of the Hmong man, is to create images of degradation and dominance by one means of another. These are the sort of images that the Clicktatorship demands. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

I didn't say it. The Germans did.

German soldiers coming home from Afghanistan after keeping away from the front lines. #unvergessen

ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement. "I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish. Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature. Minneapolis, MN

nine years old

Okay, let us be clear, the best option you have is to resist. Look into history of the bishops who had to deal with authoritarians. Look ate the bishops and the Church in Germany during the Third Reich.

Cruelty is the only thing that is left

🪴 Saint Teresa of the Andes compares beginning prayer to tending a dry garden that must be watered daily. She writes honestly about effort, fear of judgment, and choosing prayer anyway. 🔗 https://twp.ai/Imv1FB #Prayer #Spiritual Growth

In a message to the 2026 European Conference organized by the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation in Luxembourg, Pope Leo XIV upholds the Church’s Social Teaching as showing societies a path to authentic respect and peaceful coexistence. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Becoming an absolute Mark Carney fan boy...

The TACO cycle: Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank. So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.

Thinking about using FIDO2 in future.

Gute Gelegenheit daran zu erinnern, dass der Anteil an Straftätern unter #AfD MdBs und MdLs deutlich höher ist als in der Durchschnittsbevölkerung (und übrigens auch als in jeder Asylbewerbergruppe...)

There’s nothing new in #Germany and its politics. As soon as they got the vote, people in the east (having a colonial mindset) voted for ethno-authoritarians. Max Weber coined the term East Elbia for this very different Germany. It still is. 1887, 1932, now.

Yes, please

Wow, ganz nebenbei gibt es einem super Bericht über digitale Souveränität der EU!!! 👍❤️ BERICHT über die technologische Souveränität Europas und die digitale Infrastruktur "in der Erwägung, dass einige wenige Technologieunternehmen [GAFAM]..." www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

Common thing for the right radicals. It is similar how the AfD wants to eliminate teaching about the Holocaust. It doesn't fit in their propaganda

The graphic of these guys. (Sorry to all Lutheran friends, but this picture is really concise.)

That is my stuff: Rahner and Thomas Aquinas

Also Spengler

I think that Caesarism explains the situation in the US (and in Europe) the best: The first one are the economic reasons for Caesarism and the second one are the characterisitcs

If only there were a Catholic leader in the state of Minnesota, perhaps a cleric, with both a national audience and the ability to speak directly with politicians who hold the reins of power, who could say something about this in an unequivocal way

Lots of heartbreaking, enraging, cortisol-dump-inducing images coming out of Minneapolis, but I'm stuck on this one, of a five-year-old in his preschool backpack just before being bundled into an ICE van and disappeared from his mother and brother and community. www.startribune.com/preschooler-...

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

Ice used 5 year old as bait. So are you looking for a millstone already, dear bishop.

NEW: Proof once again that the only route for Europe is to stand up to the bully. Military use off the table. Now tariffs are off the table. Appeasement only emboldens the aggressor. Opposition, however, reveals the TACO. Now, back to the Epstein files…

Same energy as Balthasar telling us that we naturally desire to be with God — which is very cool — and then, two pages later, that Hitler and (Nietzsche’s) Zarathustra destroy the world out of despair that it cannot satisfy them:

Imho, the public broadcasting service in Germany should be financed by a addition on the VAT.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence: "Einen Anhaltspunkt für eine Unterscheidung bot lediglich der Sachverhalt, daß (sic!) wiederholt auf die ausgeprägt erzählenden Gleichnisse der synoptischen Tradition angespielt und damit implizit eine Abgrenzung gegenüber ...

Gut, aber die Frage ist, ob die überhaupt so viele Soldaten gewinnen können.

Interesting stuff. Especially re:Germany. I'm somewhat doubtful

Es steht sehr schlecht um den Pinguin Temperaturveränderungen in der Antarktis sind so schnell, dass 2 der 3 Pinguin-Arten dann brüten, wenn keine Beute verfügbar ist - Die Küken verhungern Ohne diese Pinguin-Arten droht der Kollaps des antarktischen Ökosystems #Klimakatastrophe #Klimakollaps

Good News! Parlament in den Niederlanden: Rechtspopulistische Wilders-Fraktion zerbricht

When people say "Boys will be boys" THIS HERE is what they should mean. Who wants to have a Frog Race? (sound ON) #Wholesome #Fun #MenBehavingWell

Fascinating how tone deaf US political elites have been towards European anger. From Newsom among Dems who failed to beat Trump berating Euro diplomacy, Schumer rattling out domestic guff to Graham and Bessent telling Euros to stop being hysterical. Just speeds up European rejection of America

Don't back down, Europe: youtu.be/SS5Ep3LTqnE

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

Guess me shocked

Yeah, the new normal.

Seelsorgstunden were the last remaining place for children or youth work that was not gleichgeschaltet

The wildest one is a report by the SD about the sex education of the Churches during the so called Seelsorgstunden.

Reading documents by the German bishops during the Third Reich. Fascinating stuff. Especially combined with the reports by the SD about the Catholic Church. Reading the reaction of the Catholics through the lenses of their enemies is really enlightening

Germany did sink a aircraft carrier during an exercise. www.abendblatt.de/politik/ausl...

Gedenkstätten, Museen und Archive haben einen offenen Brief veröffentlicht, den das #HAIT mitunterzeichnet hat: „Konsequentes Vorgehen gegen KI-generierte Holocaust-Verfälschungen auf Social Media-Plattformen“ Hier geht es zum ganzen Text: www.gedenkstaetten-hamburg.de/de/aktuelles...