Trump's Four Freedoms:
Freedom from shame. Freedom from accountability. Freedom from responsibility. Freedom from empathy.
This whole stupid, destructive mess is about being freed from the obligations of reasonable, kind, responsible adulthood.
The whole obsession Trnmp has over the peace prize is that Obama won it in 2009.
That's it. He refuses to be denied a prize that the black president won.
Had lunch with a lawyer/lobbyist who says companies are a lot more alarmed by the 10% Intel shakedown than they’re letting on.
Visiting my parents in a deeply red state this week, and it appears that only people who are paying attention feel this way
A hill I’ll keep dying on: Whatever your politics, the fact that so many U.S. leaders do not understand basic constitutional law—or willfully distort it—reflects extremely poorly on our country.
NB: Pope Leo XIII (the last Pope Leo) wrote Rerum novarum, widely thought of as the beginning of modern Catholic Social Teaching. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rerum_n...
Proof this guy is full of SITH.
Narrator: "It did not make them rich."
DOGE is effectively the new political compliance department. A DOGE representative in every department of government in charge of hiring and firing on behalf of an executive whose most prized trait is loyalty? They’re going to be the “political officers.”
Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
BREAKING: The Department of Veterans Affairs has CANCELLED SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING because it includes considerations for the LGBTQ+ community.
Veterans suicide.
If you are in the armed forces and believe that you are being given unlawful orders, the GI Rights Hotline can advise you about your rights.
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if they want to go back to the 1950s, we’re bringing the cuisine back to the 1950s too. you put me in the kitchen, I will spend 100% of my time in there finding how much horseradish and shrimp I can put in Jello before God personally comes down here to stop me.
and it’s so funny when our govt enables an enormous, catastrophic foreign actor hack recently due to their backdoors in the telecom system
which everybody warned them would be the inevitable result
It is worth noting again that the climate change deniers are running economic, energy and environmental policy, but the imperial conquest agenda is built off the reality of climate change
Elon’s estranged daughter has re-entered the chat
Wisconsin Ave and Garfield St NW, by the National Cathedral and Alban Towers. #DCsnow
I'm not sure who the "we" is in this. Popular understandings of Advent? The Second Advent is a major theme of the lectionary readings, prayers, and hymnography for the Sundays of Advent but almost entirely absent from Byzantine rite preparation for Christmas; the First Advent itself barely appears.
“Botched story imploded” is a very weird way to gloss “West Point itself provided incorrect information, but reporters did proper journalism, realized it was a mistake, and got them to correct it.”
I know power accruing to awful people is hardly a historical novelty, but did they used to be such embarassingly adolescent man-children?
It’s also just an absolute logistical nightmare. Most people have some way of proving where they were born. How many people have readily available documentary proof of their parents’ citizenship status?
Picture of Fr. Alexander Schmemann saying "Everyone capable of thanksgiving is capable of salvation and eternal joy."
Snow in Cathedral Heights
#NationalCathedral #AlbanTowers
Blocking bots, people dumber than bots and escaped mental patients isn't creating an echo chamber.
It's protecting your peace.
I’m sympathetic because it allows me to feel useful. Also: definite, easy answers. No dithering over differences in custom or style (or whether we actually benefit from science and technology).
