Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college Barbarian West Dutch Golden Age Historical Linguistics Language and Gender Spanish Dialectology

These are the same activists working hard to reunite the 5yo Liam, held in TX, with his Mom in MN, right? And who are protesting armed, masked thugs camping out at school bus stops snatching up parents before their kids are dropped off to detain them in concentration camps right? ...Right?

Rereading The Shining for the first time since high school for a book club I’m in and damn King makes you hate Jack Torrance right out the gate, huh?

Pretty sure a good rule of thumb is if you’re buying warehouses to store people you’re not the good guys.

Civilization vs. Barbarism indeed.

Can anyone explain why the RW anti-immigrant, anti-refugee types have latched onto the killing of Iryna Zarutska as some kind of example when she was a refugee murdered by an American? I “get” how they think it represents softness on crime, but wtf does it have to do with anti-immigration efforts?

remember what JD Vance said of the ICE agents that arrested this little boy: “what did you expect them to do?”

The next Democratic president/Congress should offer to fly back every person deported after having TPS revoked, generously compensate them, and offer them citizenship. Let MAGA whine about replacement theory all they want. What they’re doing is reprehensible. We should make it right.

Oh nice I’m starting to get stuff about how Ilhan Omar’s attacker last night was obviously an actor.

IDK why right-wingers keep bringing up Obama's record deportations, it just shows that if you wanted to have a conservative immigration policy without partisan militias occupying cities and gunning people down in the streets you could do it and a lot of americans would be fine with it

Listening to a podcast and they have this dude Tyler Cowen on … I’ve heard the name, but apparently he thinks AGI is gonna be great and also that Palantir and Anduril are just swell and wtf dude

Got some MAGA people sharing stuff about MN Medicaid undergoing full audit and Walz in trouble … are they really auditing Medicaid and how much money/effort would that take?

IF ITS SUCH A GOOD IDEA WHY NOT EXTEND THIS LOGIC TO YOUR ATHLETIC RECRUITMENT?

We need so much more of this.

The text I'm working on keeps citing a book by Henri de Lubac called "Aspects du Bouddhisme" and now I'll never be able to see De Lubac's name without thinking "soulful white boy". Thanks, @dragoman.bsky.social.

Rod erasure.

The fact that so much policy and rhetoric is aimed at refugees and asylum seekers specifically should tell Christians everything we need to know about where God stands on this.

Absolutely insanely evil. but I have to ask, is this something that happened under previous admins and Trump just increased the frequency and profile of it, or is this truly a qualitatively new development?

Can someone explain what a “sanctuary city“ actually is, and how it differs from the RW caricature?

How’s it’s going

Okay, I also need Ambrose's Commentaries on Luke, and Jerome's Letters.

It’s freezing, I’m off of work, and it’s Monday.

I also need to find his Commentaries on Luke, which I think were translated into Latin by St Jerome, especially Lk 10:42.

Any Origen-heads out there? I'm trying to figure out if there's an existing translation of the "Fragments" of his commentaries on John? Specifically Fragment 78 and Fragment 80.

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho... This is an excellent article by @vermontgmg.bsky.social — it explains what ICE is, how it’s changed (and what was always there).

lol at all this but the OP of the OP: WHERE are they getting the idea that these are “riots”? Where’s the evidence? I see people blowing whistles and yelling mean words? What agents have been harmed? What citizens have been harmed (except, well)? What random property has been destroyed?

We could have been the shining jewel of the gulf if we would only think slightly ahead at any point in our history, or even just had a baseline of self respect for ourselves and our communities. There was so much potential here.

Shorter NRA: Second amendment rights are only for Republicans.

Honestly not sure what video evidence “proves” it was justified even if you’re grasping. The *best* argument is that if a gun was present at all, they were so scared that … it sounds ludicrous even as a thought exercise.

So I’ve seen numerous videos by now where agents rapidly punch someone they’re engaging with, often on the ground … is this actually a valid police tactic or something they’re trained for?

Sometimes I can’t believe there is a successful political movement in my country built entirely on violence and retribution. How in the world can anyone support that? Where is their humanity?

Has JD endorsed it yet?

Possibly dumb q: If we are actually sending non-criminals to 3rd countries because they can’t go back to their home countries for whatever reason, doesn’t that clearly demonstrate a valid asylum claim?

Hm, it’s almost like we had a process to adjudicate these things and someone started criminalizing asylum seekers, revoking legal status, and racially profiling people.

Besides the fascism of MAGA, it's a very dangerous and insidious turn for the pro-life movement to get subsumed into natalism. I honestly see that as a bigger threat to what the movement is, because it's more subtle and more directly related to the issue at hand.

So, are Catholic clergy in Minnesota doing anything?

Theology people, especially @catholickungfu.bsky.social : Does anyone know if von Balthasar's book Augustinus: Das Antlitz der Kirche has ever been translated in English?

Really not a fan of the new MN flag, but this is just childish disrespect, so of course we shouldn’t expect anything else from VP Groyper.

Interesting metaphor. You absolutely could have turned the Titanic around in a lot less than a night, but also once it was sinking, it was sinking.

Everything said here stopped making sense in January of 2025. www.archspm.org/archbishop-h...

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

This is what this Successor of Judas and Simon Magus wants to run interference for:

Look, I do think we shouldn’t be treated *as* special as we think we should, but America abandoning its unique role and embracing multipolarity is precisely the problem right now.

So what is this “Golden Dome” thing and is anyone actually taking it seriously? Like ballistic missile defense would be great but has there been some tech advance I’m not aware of? Isn’t this just “Star Wars”?

Sometimes I take heart thinking how Germany and Japan were both able to become fully functioning members of the international community again within a generation of world war 2, but then I reflect that it took world war 2 to get there.

Pro-lifers against Trump have a great responsibility, and I don’t know that we’re up to the task. The pro-life movement has been a velvet glove for the GOP for a long time, and now the GOP has found its iron fist.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, and post the second sentence. “Around the throne, beside the four creatures and under the feet of the Seated One, as if seen through the transparent waters of the crystal sea, as if to fill the whole space of the vision, arranged according to the…

Marco Rubio should never escape this