The irony is, had Texas legislators put their gerrymander before the voters last year, they probably could have got it approved. This year, not so much.

Hey on va en aller 'sus Grand Mamou Tout les soirs et tout les nuits Mais moi j'connais oui ma chérie Hey, hey-hey, oh, ah-ah Hey on va en aller 'sus Grand Mamou

Ah yes, me grandpappy on both sides of the family tree

@jfruh.bsky.social I feel seen by your commentary on Herb and Jamaal today. Seen, I tell you!

This may be an opportune time to offer up Wisconsin's recent history again: Corrupted court -> enables Republican overreach -> leads to backlash -> leads to changes in court -> enables course correction

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100% on Hegseth's use of "the Pharisee press," less so on liberal Christians. There are some who haven't gotten the message, but mainline seminaries have been warning preachers about attacks on Pharisees for at least 30 years.

This is not a given.

My wife keeps saying Dems need to have A Plan, and this actually sounds like a pretty good start.

I was going to say "Aw, nah, we'll make it because we're tough and resilient" but then I remembered who has the nuclear codes and yeah, he's got a point.

Same

[EXTREMELY SERIOUS ANNOUNCER VOICE] The only thing you should blame on your cat are those gaseous emanations which are a result of her new kibble and totally not the fault of the Taco Bell you had for lunch.

This is forbidden (by the dress code at work, not bluesky).

As someone raised on the KJV I'm going to lose it if he adds another "woe" in the future. And if he goes for three...

The most devout members of the founding generation advocated for the separation of church and state primarily because they feared that their *churches* would become corrupted by politics, and Hegseth and his ilk are doing a fine job of proving that those concerns were well-founded.

Kind of surprised he didn't just break out into "The Ballad of John and Yoko," honestly

She's in for 2028.

Have I mentioned that I kind of love that just war theory is *the* hot topic of conversation these days?

Because I'm seeing some people — including a religious studies person(!) — seemingly confused about this, Just War doctrine or theory isn't a set of rules for Catholics to follow. It's a set of principles to use in determining the ethical course of action in a given situation. 1/2

IANAC, but this seems about as close to saying "the Pope was speaking ex cathedra" as you can get without saying directly "the Pope was speaking ex cathedra"

I dunno, seems pretty applicable to me

FML I preached at one church the Sunday after they went into Venezuela, came back the Sunday after they started with Iran, those Presbyterians aren't going to let me come back in May

Friendly reminder that Catholics are only obliged to assent to papal infallibility when the pope speaks ex cathedra. Other declarations are to be given "due respect," meaning that objections must begin with "Due respect, Pope Shithead is wrong."

Pope Leo says Christians should feed the poor and not do war. But have we lost something now that Benedict XVI's red Prada shoes and ermine-lined caps have fallen out of ecclesial fashion?

SOL (Snort Out Loud)

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I'll add some thoughts below, but want to say this conversation between @gregsargent.bsky.social and @robertpjones.bsky.social is insightful and excellent.

I'm sorry, but this is simply incorrect. Prosperity gospel is a pretty small slice of the pie. For many more people, Christianity is about providing community, a moral code, and emotional uplift, all in a way that carefully brackets "politics," i.e., the social ramifications of faith.

I have a headache.

I have to admit feeling ambivalent about the reaction to Trump's verbal diarrhea toward the Pope, and his Jesus picture. On the one hand, they are both abhorrent and offensive. On the other hand, are Christians only relevant in needing to be propitiated after some offense?

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Desperate McDesperateface out here trying to keep the Dutch Calvinist vote

In the sober light of morning, it occurs to me that politicians who are good at their job don't need to beef with the pope.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH THE VATICAN

I think it's terribly unfair of the President to throw out a line like "Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime," I mean how are you supposed to riff off that, there's nothing you can say that's funnier

Leo furiously tweeting "2 Corinthians 12:9 checkmate b*tch" rn

I for one look forward to much goulash-related discourse

Oh ffs we are not. THROW HIM INTO THE BIN

Starmer appears to be displaying an opinion and/or emotion. Truly, is there nothing Trump can't do?

The three most remarkable papal tweets — ever?

Between this conversation and the inflation news, I realized just how much of my life has been spent living through various crises either created by Republicans or that could have been avoided or ameliorated by them, and how tired I am.

Stupid Dana thinking of this before I could

Today is the day of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the brilliant theologian and pastor who went naked to the gallows rather than abandon Germany to the Third Reich. Be like Dietrich.

So this map tells me two things: 1. Republicans are this -> <- close to losing their base in Washington and Waukesha 2. "Unfu** the System" is a pretty motivational message, at least in Wisconsin

I have to say the only people less reliable in a news story than anonymous Democratic strategists are anonymous Vatican insiders.

Like Greg says, the constitutional remedy of defenestration seems unrealistic. But I have a feeling that anti-Trump politics will long outlast the man himself, whatever his fate.

FWIW, only 89 of the GOP's 219 seats in the House have a Cook PVI of better than +13. Only *12* have a PVI higher than +23.

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