my dear dear dear boy... @catholicclod.bsky.social

Why even consider (some forms of) marriage a sacrament? The forming of couples and raising of children is all well and good, but it’s no more part of the divine life than any other human activity

“I'd howl like a dog, I'd sound like a real one/I'd burn like a candle and grin in your face”

"[Christ’s] created human nature is the indispensable and permanent gateway through which everything created must pass if it is to find the perfection of its eternal validity before God…"

peep the like

“A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe”

The time of whatever 🤩

cleaned up the ending—added what I think the conclusion to CDR should have been: something like Jameson’s reading of the Strugatsky Brother’s “Roadside Picnic” (1971), or the scandal not of scarcity but of obscene abundance

Give me one thousand dollar

Graham Platner having a totenkopf tattoo and claiming he didn't know it was a nazi symbol is so funny. Democratic Socialism, everybody

Frieren is so good it may well have rekindled my fondness for anime

You might think Ryan is exaggerating but I used to go to a regular dinner that gradually got taken over by young Republican staffers and I promise you he is not.

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm. DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas. Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

Possibly the most fire string of paragraphs throughout McCabe's repertoire

I know this website likes to go neurotically insane over “liberal” as some kind of dog whistle but @catholicclod.bsky.social shared this Lenin quote with me yesterday and I just sat there and stared at a wall for a few minutes

Sold out! To help fund a second printing, I’m putting together a standalone zine, A VISITOR’S GUIDE TO BUCEPHALUS published by the Chamber of Commerce in 2010 Cost for the second printing in total is $375 - everyone who gives will get the book, zine and a piece of orig art!

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

the richest man in the world buying a presidential election, getting run out of the administration for being a weird diva, then pivoting to jerking it to anime cartoons full time is somehow more Roman than anything that ever happened in Rome

historians were far too skeptical about Suetonius's stories of the emperors is what I'm getting from this era

I have nine *hours* straight of classes no breaks in between every Tuesday for my first semester of social work school

We’re also asking for participants of this session to donate to a fundraiser through the PCRF or other campaigns raising funds for life-saving aid in Gaza—info & updates through the sign-up link below: ctwgwebsite.github.io/news/announc...

CTWG Fall 25: Views from Palestine Saturdays @ noon EST, 8/23-9/27 Palestinian Critical Theory past & present: - Kanafani’s On Zionist Literature (1967) - Eghbariah’s Nakba as a Legal Concept (2024) - Resisting Erasure by Hanieh, Knox, & Ziadah (2025) schedule & sign up 🔗 ⬇️

Today at my Catholic parish in a Texas suburb a retired guest priest gave an explicitly anti-maga homily and was applauded (Start at 39:00) www.youtube.com/live/oYLA9A5...

This is just deeply depressing: women who spoke up during #MeToo often found their lives upended, as powerful men used defamation suits to target them, e.g. Roy Moore is still suing many of his accusers. What Happened to the Women of #MeToo? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

These doctors want to harvest more organs by declaring the “irreversibly comatose” dead. An obviously monstrous proposall—yet identical in logic to “brain death” Both see the undesirable as reservoirs of parts for the deserving Brain death, too, was a mistake www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Now up: partial reconstruction of Horkheimer’s lost Spring 1945 INTRO (lol) seminar for Columbia’s Socio Dept, “National Socialism & Philosophy”—transcripts of minutes from 4 lectures on “Authority of the Epoch,” “Natural History of Belief,” “Mimesis & Civ,” & “Idolatry” 🔗 ⬇️

BREAKING: Thanks to Tennessee GOP’s grotesque “Medical Ethics Defense Act,” a pregnant mom was just REFUSED prenatal care for the “sin” of being unmarried. Republicans wrote a law that lets doctors turn away patients like bouncers at a club — in a state with the nation’s worst maternal mortality.

Oh, that's gore. That's gore of my comfort character

Every day

Gonna watch Superman (2025) now 🤩

NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.

Chinese Batman effectively deploying soft power so criminals choose not to commit crimes at all

“Concentration camps and secret police to round up Latinos are preferable to a government shutdown” is @schumer.senate.gov ‘s actual policy conviction

"Okay sure now they have the funds to do a Klan Paramilitary Organization the likes of which the world has never seen but I'm sure it'll be very hard to get off the ground!!" is a level eight on the Coping Scale

The republican voter has been crystal clear in their demands of congress: “Show me a dead Mexican on TV. Make my children illiterate and deathly sick. Close the factory that just hired me. Do these things or I’ll kill you.”

We’re at the point now where any American Catholic media personality or group that doesn’t condemn what is happening here is tacitly condoning it. It’s pretty shamefully honestly

Hitler started with deportations and then quickly realized they were too expensive and moved to gas chambers. I want you all to keep that in the front of your minds.