Embroidery journal: Silver Company prep rally tonight.

I stitched a red ribbon because that’s the name of one of their dances for the competition this weekend.

The Moon Just Got a New Scar - Vatican Observatory Something big struck the Moon in 2024 and left a huge new crater!

Something big struck the Moon in 2024 and left a huge new crater!

Embroidery journal: Pom Team pep rally tonight for 13yo. Pleased with how my rushed poster turned out.

Excuse me, why did I just learn TODAY that Practical Magic is based on a SERIES of books? No one thought they should tell me that? In all these years? Anyway, gotta go to the library now.

Bishop Barron clarifies that the Church has no right to condemn specific wars and has to defer to Trump, he's just fully sold out

Embroidery journal: 5th & 6th grade pancake breakfast fundraiser.

I don’t think Vance is like… a fake convert, mostly because that’s just not a thing (I dare you to define “fake”). But he runs in a circle of people who think Catholicism is fun because it has authority-energy and not because it has actual *authorities* with strong opinions about refugees and war.

I get what you’re saying, and I don’t completely disagree, but Pope Leo very much has a family. Just this week he was seen buying a gift for his niece. Not being in a romantic relationship is not the same thing as not having a family.

Embroidery journal: 13yo was in the Bi-County Choir concert today.

A very funny thing that AI can’t seem to understand is how carrots grow. I keep getting AI generated videos of gardening content that look so believable until a carrot is growing on top of the soil or off a bush.

Embroidery journal: The daffodils are blooming! 🌼

I have been saying this for a while.

The tyranny, the corruption, the blatant religious censorship and bullying. This is exactly what right-wing theologians have wanted for decades: shooting pastoral rivals, jailing immigrants, encouraging ICE brutality.

Trump is giving them their deepest desire to remake Christianity in their image.

Badly photoshopped (done by me) pope Leo’s face is superimposed over Carly Simon’s face. The text pope Leo XIV is superimposed over Carly Simon’s name. You’re so vain is under that in red.

(I bet you think this sermon's about you,don't you? 😆)
(The pope- makes a sermon on his trip to Africa. To people who live there. About stuff that's relevant to their lives. All over my newsfeed "pope Leo's calling out trump!!" ... calling for peace … feud with trump... potato potato.)

Embroidery journal: Spring thunderstorm season

Bomb threat at home of Pope Leo’s brother: Police A bomb threat occurred at the home of the brother of Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday night, police in Illinois confirmed.

Every single alarm bell is going off about a rapidly forming American Imperial Cult under Trump and that members of this Cult are extremely willing to commit acts of violence against the established Church that dares question their God-King

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Ohhhhhh, stealing this for our 4th grade poetry unit next week.

This happens sometimes in my OCIA sessions and the Vance types are always shocked to discover that they are not met with resounding praise and applause. The Vance types are also the most likely to stop coming to OCIA.

IT IS BY DEFINITION NOT “DOMESTIC” POLITICS, YOU DUNCES

Done •1k • Opinion The Editorial Board America's income tax is progressive The rich already pay more than their fair share.

Opinion The Editorial Board Don't blame companies with no tax liability for following the law They're just using the tools Congress gave

If you didn’t think it was possible after yesterday’s house editorial (left) for Washpost Opinion to more obsequiously parrot their owner’s tax agenda, well, you probably haven’t seen today’s piece (right)

It is my fondest hope that President AOC someday appoints the first Supreme Court justice who kicks off their all their public appearances by calling originalism “a bunch of fraudulent clown shit”

Embroidery journal: The cats are so glad it’s spring because today they found an ant and delighted in hunting him.

"Those bishops should stick to moving diagonally" - Vance, probably.

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology.

This is a serious escalation.

The greatest thing about getting monthly infusions for lupus is that they give me a perfectly warmed up blanket. Yes, I have an iv in my arm, but also I am so cozy.

JD Vance Twice Tells Pope Leo XIV to Stay Out of American Politics A stunning reversal for a Republican Party that once raged at JFK for promising to keep his Catholicism out of the White House — eight weeks before Vance publishes a book on his Catholic conversion.

Vance’s book will be about finding God in the same Church he is now waging open war against.

The cover tells the same story. Vance chose to photograph a Methodist church for the front of a memoir about becoming Catholic.

Why? Because anti-Catholicism sits at the core of MAGA identity.

CNN The image looks like a slice of highly marbled flesh, reminiscent of a high-end steak with abundant fine-grained streaks of fat. But that's not dinner. It's an MRI scan of the thigh of a 62-year-old woman who obtained 87% of her annual calories from ultraprocessed food.

Paging @maintenancephase.bsky.social

Pope Leo has doctorate in canon law. A DOCTORATE, JD! From the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, JD! Pope Leo is an Augustinian! I assure you, he understands St Thomas Aquinas and St Augustine’s writings on Just War Theory better than you, JD!

Insufferable.

Every time I think JD Vance can’t possibly get more obnoxious, he finds a way. Just absolutely INSANE to think you can talk this way about THE POPE.

my musical hot take is alanis morissette’s usage of “ironic” is close enough