Anyone tut-tutting about “Church teaching on the right of nations to defend their borders” is going to be remembered in the end as morally equivalent to the anti-abolitionist Catholic bishops who obsessed over “Church teaching on slavery” completely apathetic to the reality of slavery

We all knew a JD Vance in school. And even those of us who were dorks knew to exclude that kid.

My kingdom for a consistent and logical explanation of Starfleet’s ranking system for officers and enlisted.

There’s one enlisted man in Starfleet and that’s Miles O’Brien and that’s because they would never let an Irishman be an officer.

It’s January 2026 in the United States of America. I wake up early to get some cases of water and propane due to the aging and failing power grid, hoping my family or I won’t be picked up be the illegitimate president’s secret police. Truly I live in the freest and richest country in the world.

three hares (holy trinity) germany, 16th century

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

Kept my Facebook for one reason only: yelling vengeful Old Testament verses at former church goers praising this shit

Skimming this on the feed I accidentally read Tate as Nate Silver and thought to myself…yeah, I could see that coming

Is this really who we think should be publishing the new liturgy of the hours

The reason you gotta film them Bob is because they will shoot you and lie about it

Another element is that even Jews who scraped together the cash and documents to flee were often refused entry by ‘safe’ nations, including the USA and U.K. A lot of Americans are not eligible for foreign long term visas.

Good news: we got beer Bad news: they didn’t have any water.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

They clearly believed that Minneapolis would riot after they killed one of us. We didn’t, we organized. We followed them, we monitored them. We alerted our neighbors. We fought them in the courts. And now they’re desperate, so they’re brutalizing us, without a hint of legitimate government purpose.

Hmm found something else that is running low. Need to run to the store before this ice storm

Ontological evil is all around you

only thing blue line i recognize 🫡

Looking good, sir

Bishop Barron thinks that the school should hand over their 5-year-olds so that ICE can use them as live bait

Counterpoint: the apostolic churches have infinitely more authority to speak on this than the barely sentient, warped bastard child of the münster anabaptists and john knox

@bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social nice one

But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days.

Madison: I dont understand this, you don’t use a warrant? JD: Using bureaucracy magic we use an administrative warrant Madison: This violates the fourth amendment JD: Technically yes but we call it administrative so its fine” Madison: Is it signed by a judge? JD: Something like that…

“I love Hispanic. They are unbelievable entrepreneurial” Donald Trump and probably also Gob Bluth

Welcome to the clicktatorship, where everything is content

It'd be nice if "Trump Says Sometimes You Need a Dictator" was the headline that the US news organizations were running with right now, instead of "Trump won't use force in Greenland." Yet here we are.

You know, maybe if JD starts getting blocked from his European right wing group chats, it might be the thing to bring us back from the brink

Applying the words "morally heinous" to people protesting the violent and indiscriminate persecution of minorities in his state, while characterizing that very violence as simple law enforcement...that is a CHOICE. This is really so much worse than continuing to ignore the situation entirely.

go ahead and text me, see where it gets you

I was today years old when I found out that the Defiant CD player is a thing that exists

But the point is for about 2 hours these 5-6 cars did nothing except drive around Roseville, constantly observed by the Roseville Liberation Front made up of retirees and librarians. They can't do shit. They are outnumbered. Their operation is shit & ground to a halt. never got my fucking coffee tho

I’ve been thinking about this more, and it seems to me that the ecclesial-political stance Barron takes here and elsewhere is very similar to that of conservative Latin American bishops in the 1980s and 1990s.

Don’t worry folks. DHS has just tweeted that the fourth amendment doesn’t apply to them!

Don’t worry folks. DHS has just tweeted that the fourth amendment doesn’t apply to them!

Pretty wild how Trump has exposed that, aside from non-SCOTUS courts, there are no real guardrails at all.

of course misery loves company. that’s why we’re all here

🧵: I’ve thought about this post a lot and am about to get spiritual, so if that’s not your thing please just move on. But, honestly do agree with Robin here. Much of this is in Buber’s work which influences me, but speaking personally when I have improved most in spirituality is when I think of 1/4

The cross is laid on every Christian. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. “This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

All this consternation from Europeans is going to look really funny when they all elect far-right parties over the next decade, and by "funny", I mean "incredibly depressing"

I'm glad social media exists, because watching this without other people posting would be a real "Which one of us is having a stroke?" moment.

Nobody’s in the office. Going to take off my shoes and start dancing to ELO’s “Mr Blue Sky”.

Going back in time to tell 1980s Bill Kristol that he’s in a political coalition with socialists against American aggression but not to worry because a Franco-Swedish NATO task force will deter Washington.

[Karate club] instructor: always expect the unexpected me: but if I expect the unexpected, it won’t be unexpected when it happens instructor: *stabs me* me: hmm, I wasn’t expecting that

The two big tells in Barron's piece: 1) CST is applied here to public corruption (which is fair); CST is not referenced at all with respect to immigration 2) Agrees w/ USCCB on border and immigration law; no reference to other 7 paragraphs in the USCCB's statement (www.usccb.org/news/2025/us...)

I remember when the fact-checkers wagged their fingers at Democrats and assured us that Trump had disavowed “Project 2025.”