Perfect summary of TradCath.

I truly don't know where to start, but I think *maybe* USAmericans should be fairly worried that SecDef is spitballing deploying the 82nd Airborne to Portland.

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the Church and for society, if we can only set ourselves free of our self-centeredness and open our ears to their cry." Pope Leo, Dilexi Te

I promise you that you do not need to use ChatGPT, or any other LLM.

What if needing each other is a good thing? And what if we should avoid technologies that make us need each other less? Clip from a stellar conversation with the ever wise @joncoutts.bsky.social. More at: open.substack.com/pub/personal...

The boyfriend of one of the founders if antifa.

And we're now officially curtailing freedom of association and speech, so just a quick fyi, the USA is no longer a liberal democracy.

Job Openings! Columbia Theological Seminary invites applications for *two* full-time tenure-track faculty appointments in Old Testament. More info here: www.ctsnet.edu/careers/

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

Good to know Mike Johnson is a member of the Christmas Adventurer's Club.

Getting pretty close to doing a civil war here guys.

I basically agree with Michael on this one, while having deep concerns and reservations about certain specific examples of private (esp religious) k-12 schools in Alberta.

When Caesar can easily co-opt the language of faith ... it is only because Faith has sat in Caesar's lap for so long. The fruit of Christian Nationalism, in all its forms, is rotten.

Come be my colleague! Loyola University Maryland is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: loyola.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Which is to say, we can fully expect the Insurrection Act to be invoked in the near future.

Orson Scott Card is the most prescient sci-fi writer, for daring to ask: "what if teenage assholes were put in charge of society for being good at posting and video games?"

Saw One Battle After Another last night. Absolutely destroys. 10/10 masterpiece, PTA's best film so far. You must see it in theatres on the biggest screen possible. Fully anticipate a cinematography Oscar for Bauman, as well as all of the Oscars for PTA.

May dad grew up in Dearborn Michigan when it was run by a corrupt segregationist who literally sent the police to harass and drive out Black and Jewish families if they tried to move in. He was in change as late as the mid 1970s. Guessing Walsh would’ve had no problem with that.

Brilliant as always from @janebarter.bsky.social theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...

Naheed Nenshi, leader of the Alberta NDP, is set to have a live discussion with Evan Li tonight on YouTube at 8pm. Li was the high school student whom Bruce McAllister, ED for the Premier's Office said should have been assaulted for his views at Alberta Next. www.youtube.com/@naheednensh...

This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG

Come on!! How do people tolerate this government?!

One source of hope that this current iteration of quasi/proto-fascism in the USA will ultimately fail is how extraordinarily inept these folks are at actual leadership.

Mentioning Loblaws around regular Canadians of basically any political inclination, has the effect of turning us, briefly, into vicious communists calling for grocery store struggle sessions and firing squads behind the loading docks.

"If persons in government are Christian, then they must know that Christian proclamation occurs not by the sword but by the word." - Bonhoeffer, "State and Church"

Boston College's Clough School of Theology & Ministry invites applications for a TT position in New Testament! @bostoncollege.bsky.social www.higheredjobs.com/state/detail...

Dutch late night TV has its take

Not gonna lie, I think stuff like this presages the breakup of the USAmerican republic.

This is especially important because it names the event for what it is. This isn't a corporation making a free decision about its assets, it's political censorship. The *government* is forcing a private company to do something *outside of the rule of law.*

What a shock.

"New relationships of interdependence between individuals and peoples, which are de facto forms of solidarity, have to be transformed into relationships tending towards genuine ethical-social solidarity. This is a moral requirement inherent within all human relationships" (Compendium, 193). Cont'd:

The most amazing part of this is that the far right didn't target her because she celebrated Kirk's death or even threw his own words back at them. She merely expressed a well-founded worry that his murder might inspire the far right to greater violence and they apparently took that as a challenge.

Time to take this out for another spin. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

Bad, but probably true (top ten most important at least).

This is obviously correct, but I have some sympathy toward my American neighbours because the time to do this was decades ago, and trying to do this right now isn't just a massive political problem, it is an almost insurmountable practical problem. There are just so many effing guns in that country.

I gotta say, I don't really enjoy living in a post-satire world.

Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton????? A:

Do They Know? Do They Care? karenswallowprior.substack.com/p/do-they-kn...

His brain is so badly broken that he really thinks rebranding the Department of Defense would've led to outright victories in Korea and Vietnam. He's hawking the Pentagon like it's Trump Steaks. Probably going to place a glossy ad in Sharper Image next.

The US military establishment, woke since 1949. (also, the President can't actually change this name without an act of Congress, so it's still DoD officially)

the new running man movie is, uh, arriving at the right moment

It is ridiculous that the Democrats cannot a) get behind, or b) learn from a guy who is this incredibly good at politics.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Margaret Atwood is 🔥 #abpoli #Alberta

I feel much too aware that there are the suuuper fake culture war conservative colleges (PragerU, Liberty, etc), other ones that don't give great degrees (Moody, looking at you), and the ones that give perfectly fine degrees. Hillsdale has a pretty low acceptance rate and such.

Oh yeah, the worst sin you can commit in these circles is to point out the wolves. You'll be gaslit, called woke or "ideologically motivated" and there is no evidence that can you appeal to that will vindicate you.

ngl politics makes sense when you realize normie's view of reality is just the sum of all anecdotes they've experienced. I mention to my grandma that I regret not becoming a nurse because the population isn't getting any younger, and she tells me deadass "but I saw so many babies at the hospital"

This is hilarious, because I'd bet my bottom dollar that the vast majority of that 39% is like, dude my opinion about Air Canada literally could not get lower.

history doesn't repeat, but it does have a german loanword. bsky.app/profile/waho...

tired: in the future your therapist will be your superior at your corporate employer wired: in the future your therapist will be a computer program that extrudes therapy-shaped responses after being illegally trained on real therapists’ notes. you have no employer