Bishop Robert Barron—"I was moved to hear often the name of Jesus on the lips of our govt officials" A Govt Official—"I hate my opponents and I don’t want the best for them" What Gospel did Bishop Barron read? It's charlatanry to say Jesus's name while opposing Matthew 5. A scandal. A disgrace.

Sure. People are cancelling their Disney+ subscriptions. Let me know when the amusement parks are empty and shuttered.

Twin Peaks: The Return is a sublime achievement. At its center is the idea we can never go back. What's past is gone. Lynch made our own passage of 25yrs part of the story and so, daringly, I think you can't quite appreciate it if you didn't pass 25yrs btwn s2 and s3. I'm still dumbstruck by it.

I've long wondered if Cardinal Dolan was just a naive unskilled do-gooder who did more bad than good, or if he was a snake oil salesman After he today called Charlie Kirk (who called for the execution of President Biden a "modern day St Paul") I finally see. I know Dolan is a danger to this country

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"There's an enormous budget shortfall, can we raise taxes?" "No!!" shout the homeowners and businesses. "What if we just make the poor and vulnerable pay, take advantage of addictions and desperation?" "That's leadership," say the homeowners and businesses." share.google/P8erAqBw3RqN...

“Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed.” -Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

He’s not ‘nothing’ President Trump said today that JBPritzker was ‘nothing.’ Governor Pritzker is something. Something forceful. ”If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks your people, you are complicit.” He’s not nothing He’s JB Pritzker

Only the left are held accountable for nothing while the right is accountable for everything bad and get nothing for their actions.

...who called for "the death penalty" for Joe Biden stood in the tradition of Plato or the Talmud, "engag[ing] his interlocutors respectfully" with "grace and a smile." Bring Kirk's murderer to justice. And, be truthful.

...of totalitarianism," did Charlie Kirk ever change his mind? The bishop gives sophistry too much credit. It's an understandable error in this too-online time where all the sins of rhetoric gain clicks, attention, and money. But I can't agree that Charlie Kirk... share.google/z0U7Zp0wWAl3...

Another school Plato knew well, one we might mention, was the Sophists. Did Charlie Kirk entertain his audience? Was he more effective with a more learned or a less learned audience? In all the Prove Me Wrong challenges hosted on the campuses he called "islands... firstthings.com/he-died-with...

UPDATE A complaint made to Kroger and the Cook Co. Health Dept. Frontline staff & mngmnt have little power here. It's little use doing more then telling them. But nothing happens. This is a corp that turned $34B *profit* last year stealing from unsuspecting ppl. It's good citizenship to report.

We need to keep this much empathy. These are kids trying to keep a paycheck, access to medical or eduation benefits. And these are confusing times. Like most of us probably most them are hoping this will be over soon. The villain is in the White House—elsewhere in the same city.

5 days later there is no shortage of opinions about why Charlie Kirk was murdered. One person who hasn't yet weighed in, though? Tyler Robinson. The rush to judgment corrodes our system of government no matter who is rushing or why. It's a fair trial that airs and settles all this.

It's fair to be upset at Brian Kilmeade and FoxNews for a lot of things. An apology isn't one of them. We'd do quite well if Fox and the GOP apologized more. I sat & wrote something agnst Kilmeade yesterday as a Christian. How can I not let him apologize? None of this ends without letting it end.

"...a culture which denies solidarity and in many cases takes the form of a veritable 'culture of death'. This culture is actively fostered by powerful cultural, economic and political currents which encourage an idea of society excessively concerned with efficiency."

The Un-American President

I get the concern over being targeted by Trump. But any other "residual anger" actually proves how childish this is because, even if Biden was not 100%, his Admin governed quite well and targeted no one. Democrats like these are a reason why we can't have nice things. share.google/SZjoNfRQKQ5f...

Our radicals are better than their radicals

Remember this when the American media claims both sides are equally violent. Facts still matter.

...predictable questions like 'Who am I?' and 'Where do I fit in?' those perceived needs center on insecurities that pertain to social development. Here I would want to highlight an important difference with old media, which certainly provided news while selling Clearasil and Jordache. But those...

...inscribes news. They are an ecosystem filled with other things. Those other things are curated by a user and then by an algorithm, and they address the user's perceived needs. All of this is for someone's profit of course. Especially when we are talking about young people who have...

...worrying stuff. The way digital natives get their information in social media spaces has some dark and somewhat hidden features laid bare by the (to me, bewildering) outpouring surrounding Kirk's death. Social media spaces are not the blank page, either paper or html, on which a reporter...

...older leaders who always are hungry connect with "young people." This is a story as old as Rock the Vote, and probably older. Beneath that, this creaky old man is trying to understand what gave him so much purchase on young voters. What made him an object of co-optation? And this is...

I am thinking a lot about how little I understand why Charlie Kirk was a big deal. Some parts are easy enough to understand. Despite his organic appeal to digital natives and his mastery of the influencer business model, he succeeded for ordinary reasons: he was co-opted by institutions and...

Good reply!! The xan bendcto Trump and lose customers or they can lusten to their customers and stop their financial slide and prevent going the way of Mervyn's, Zodys, White Front, ToysR,Us, K-Mart, Sears, Radio Shack, GEMCO, Big Lots, Boston Markets, Farrells...No company is bigger than customers.

Don’t let them both sides this. Keep screaming from the roof tops.

So, we got a letter from Target… “Did you know it’s been six months since you last used your Target Circle Card?” Umm…yeah… Because it’s been six months since you bowed down to Trump. Now our money goes to businesses that value Democracy.

Opponents of cancel culture on our campuses honor Charlie Kirk's memory. apnews.com/article/dowd...

Charlie Kirk's murder is a grievous crime. But forgive me—I won't listen to those who describe someone who encouraged my students to police my classroom speech as a "free speech activist." And I won't hear critics of one who called campuses "islands of totalitarianism" described as "radical."

Why does every Sept 11 have such a perfect blue sky to remind me of *that* Sept 11?

Good reminder today. "Faced by cases of need, one cannot ignore them in favor of superfluous church ornaments and costly furnishings for divine worship; on the contrary it could be obligatory to sell these goods in order to provide food, drink, clothing and shelter for those who lack these things."

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

Brief, investigative stops to check immigration status that terrorize and brutalize lawful permanent residents and citizens as much as any undocumented person. THIS is not what our constitutional founders had in mind. THIS is not our constitutional tradition.

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Looks like I picked the right week to replace the Stars and Stripes with an Illinois state flag here at the house. Old Glory, once a universal sign of aspiring to govt of, by, & for the people now is becoming something quite different. Illinois is my country.

I think we do not think enough about how practically close this brings us to an actual civil war, how near we are to losing everything generations of Americans built and fought and died for. This one won't be like the last one, a 19th century squabble in a global backwater. This is a nuclear...

Yes, please stop.

"This is the whole thing in one place, a crowdpleasing jumbotron graphic to get the fans on their feet for civil war." open.substack.com/pub/millies/...

Calculate the capital Up the republic my skinny ass TV tells a million lies The paper's terrified to report Anything that isn't handed on a presidential spoon I'm just profoundly frustrated by all this So, **** you, man (**** 'em)

I mean, what are they gonna say when he's gone? 'Cause he dies when it dies, when it dies, he dies! What are they gonna say about him? He was a kind man? He was a wise man? He had plans? He had wisdom?

Perhaps it's obvious I've been thinking a lot abt Robt E Lee's commiting himself to VA. Yes, the slave economy and an un-American aristocracy were what he defended. What he *said* was that the POTUS raised an army agnst his state and that was intolerable. It is. And Illinois is my country.

Illinois is my country, her i will follow however lamentable the fate to which it may lead me.

A touch of color on the trees on Garfield Blvd today. youtu.be/hph8xZTq2ZY?...

Never heard this put any better.