I can’t believe I’m saying this but it’s a pretty good letter by Bishop Olson against Trump’s latest actions. Miles better than Bishop Bob of the *Cesar Flickerman voice* Word on Fire!

Pinned down by cats. This is a good death.

I may as well reshare it myself 😇

I dont know whats sillier: treating contemporary life in the US or the vast majority of ppl who shoplift as analogous to the conditions & ppl of early 19th cenutry Paris or not understanding that one of the main themes of the book is "romanticizing playing at revolution will get you killed"

The Trump family turned the right's "Biden Crime Family" bullshit into a business plan. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Also, how many times I have heard from a wealthy man in a wealthy exurb with two kids, a 4000 sq foot home, and leased car just talk about how happy everyone was when he went with his fellows Knights of Columbus to Honduras or the Philippines. What a blessing poverty is ….for them, not for me

“Material things won’t make you happy” I wealthily say while talking to a person whose child died from the lack of $5 of medicine

There’s a dissonance on the right in between simultaneously believing we should encourage more births and take away reproductive rights while also you shouldn’t have any more kids than you can afford. And the overlap in this Venn diagram is much bigger than many people think.

i caught you on trail cam eating all of my bird seed

Reminder that Hannah Arendt called statelessness the forced removal by the state of "the right to have rights," leaving only "people who had indeed lost all other qualities and specific relationships except that they were still human."

Between Republicans judges demanding a Protestant version of the Ten Commandments in schools and the Republican President insulting the Pope, I can only conclude that the Republican Party is anti Catholic and no Catholic in good conscience could support it.

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

Frankly I don't know enough about Vance to know whether this is the case. A hilarious side-story IS how many Claremont Institute people flew to Rome to wine and dine some cardinals, hoping to curry a vote for the next pope, only to learn cardinals love free things AND doing whatever they want.

Man, seems like a big deal if the Texas Supreme Court is getting involved and is using a UK country code. Better give them all my money.

They’re talking about how they can’t believe how bad the Mets are.

Bill Kristol to the left of like 85% of Dems sitting in Congress right now lol

noise canceling headphones should be a standard workplace necessity because overhearing how coworkers problem solve can be as damaging as having a pallet jack come down on your foot

We use knives instead of blades attached directly to our fingertips because a knife gives us a significant mechanical advantage via leverage. Any fingerblade system has to make up for that somehow, like Wolverine’s going deep into the arm, or Freddy Krueger’s being a rigid metal glove, your honor

Driving to pick up my teenage son in my Subaru Outback, windows down, blaring “Endamane” while wearing my aviator shades. Man I look cool.

That the KGB had their assets in the west promote corporate meetings and “collaboration” to make US businesses, industry, and bureaucracy less productive and more inefficient

Please conduct yourself appropriately around my seventeenth century kazoo, it's priceless.

due to inflation, pennywise will now be known as nickelwise

This is exactly the same as if the NYT published a review of THE TURNER DIARIES, calling it essential reading. The far-right press involved here is essentially an English-language propaganda mill centered on Renaud Camus, who originated the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory.

Few things will surprise you as biting into the pit of pitiless olive.

my delusion keeps me sane

Barron is going to have the unique ability to tick off the Farima conspiracy theorists, trads, and progressive Catholics all at once.

Saw some discourse about Sherlock and House yesterday that made me realize that some people don’t see Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous character as always most deeply unpleasant, as he clearly is —almost as much as Christie’s most famous detectives.

The U.S. government should add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation the DOJ said on Friday in a report that noted difficulties in getting drugs for lethal injections. This is not the "pro-life" administration you've been looking for. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/d...

I really need to stop telling lies to try and impress people. Now my date wants to see photos of me as a newborn with a full set of teeth.

There is too much information. I should not have to know the king’s evil vizier who starved eleventy gazillion Africans to avenge Apartheid also cheats at Diablo.

For undergrad, in History “French Emigres Influence on the Oxford Movement” and for Classics: “John Cassian’s Conferences: The Latin East and West”

you just know some guy named geoff decided to spell it "pigeon"

Tfw someone says David and Bathsheba “had an affair”

This is not wrong.

I’m sorry, but bluesky is THRIVING…

There’s a joke here, I just don’t know what it is.

i wish my body worked like an iPhone and told me exactly how long i need to charge until im at 80%

should i buzz him in?

Bishop Barron reinventing Caesaropapism.

A Fire Chief in Japan has been suspended, and nine other firefighters issued reprimands and written warnings, for playing homemade boardgames during working hours, and forcing subordinates to particpate. www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/hobby/f...

When we had two GSD, they took turns for who went for their walk first. And if we forgot, the one who went second twice in a row would throw a tantrum and refuse to look at us. Likewise, our GSD now if we stay up too late she comes in the room, sighs loudly and walks slowly to the bedroom

You guys go on and keep reaching for the stars. I’ll just stay here and have an egg.

everything I say is an artfully veiled sarcasm, a joke of such sophistication that anyone who falls into my meticulous trap of belief immediately reveals themselves a boorish rube of the highest caliber. whereas everything you say is an honest admission, a disgusting truth borne of an ugly soul

Source: the FBI investigated NYT reporter Elizabeth Williamson after she wrote about Kash Patel's use of FBI staff for his girlfriend's security (Michael S. Schmidt/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

One of the most frequent causes of Charlie Kirk related cancellation was accurately representing his views, or even quoting them verbatim. She expressed grief about Kirk's murder, and the only hateful thing in the comments came from Kirk himself.

I both dislike DBH Tao Te Ching and like Hieromonk’s Damascene Christ the Eternal Tao. I’m a complicated person.

Nothing humbles you faster than a video of yourself.

The only thing worse than the political posts on Nextdoor are the Facebook joke style posts

I would argue that YouTube and even tiktok are not really social media, at least not the way most people use them. They're much more like watching cable TV than organizing your MySpace top 8