On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

He's currently sending me photos of the reinstallation, which happened today. Here's the British ambassador helping carry Parvati's palanquin; here's happy celebrants; here's a dignitary who's going to need to go to the drycleaner; here's Parvati back in worship and ok I'm tearing up again.

Sanjay Adhikari, a repatriation activist, started wandering around Kathmandu until he located the exact shrine, where a replacement now stood. Turns out that the community had no idea that their goddess was a few miles away in the museum.

...in presentations to explain how she had to clean "dirty" art to photograph it. In reality, she's removing offerings placed by worshippers who regard the sculpture as a living deity.
I started writing a caption for a forthcoming publication and realized I didn't know where the photo was taken.

At the request of Nepali colleagues, I've spent years visiting the archive of photos and documents the art historian Mary Slusser left to the Smithsonian on her death. I was fascinated by this one of her scrubbing a sculpture of a deity with household cleaner, which she used to show...

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

What’s funny is there’s a Catholic tradition of discernment of the conscience, which allows for disagreement with Pope and doctrine. But they’re not doing that. Instead they’re going down an incredibly Protestant route lol.

State bars are among the few institutions to consistently impose accountability on Trump associates. For as much as SCOTUS denigrates the idea of the rule of law, state bars uphold it.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

The storylines will merge when Dreher flees Hungary and Trump installs him as an antipope in Florida.

Genuinely curious if they’ll start making noises about stripping Leo of his American citizenship.

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Teenjus is the only thing I can think of that matches the absurdity of Trump’s post here. Once again, reality has lapped satire.

Dreher is gonna need to leave Hungary, maybe they'll install him.

The reporting I’ve seen also goes to great lengths to explain how the allegations have been corroborated. The due diligence is in the reporting and afaik nothing has been rebutted.

This is probably fake but I took a derivatives class in law school and they described a situation like this that actually happened. I think it was oranges?

The search results for “yoga” on /r/catholicism

Searching /r/catholicism for “yoga” is a real time sink.

It’s somewhat surprising that the Vatican, an absolute monarchy that in many ways is still a medieval institution has been so resistant to this wave of nationalist authoritarianism.

This explains why the Pentagon held Protestant only Easter services in its chapel lol.

Really asking the important questions here

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference in the U.S. Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted.

To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal.

Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big.

And here we are.

This is genocidal rhetoric.

The denial of communion to pro-choice Catholic politicians has Springfield roots Springfield's Sen. Dick Durbin was one of the earliest pro-choice Catholic politicians to be denied communion.

Yeah, to add to this, it’s usually the local bishop who denies communion to a politician. See this article for a brief explanation of how it’s played out for Durbin and Pelosi. The U.S. bishops are very conservative.
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La Grange runner completes Tokyo Marathon months after breaking femur at Chicago Marathon

Linda Poggensee of La Grange broke her femur during the Chicago Marathon in October, but wasn’t going to miss her chance to run in the Tokyo Marathon in March.

This is in some ways Trump’s biggest political innovation. He got a lot of people to sign onto a white supremacist movement who are actually targets of that movement.

Cherry blossoms in Japan.

America: where you can come, go to a school that is falling apart and never get properly medicated, work your way up to signing up for our armed services so Donald Trump can send you to kill and die in the Middle East if he feels like it, and also he’ll kidnap your parents

I just asked cocounsel if using it will get me sanctioned in court. It gave me some guidelines I can follow to “minimize the risk of sanctions”.

I absolutely hate co-counsel for the simple fact that it is obnoxiously displayed on Westlaw’s homepage like a 2001 internet explorer pop up ad. Very annoyed there’s a giant “commit malpractice” button in my face while I’m trying to do legal research.