Huzzah!!

I have to say goodbye to my Romulus Calvin #Iggyboo Skyverse

I has teh #coffee but I am not okay. This is not the way any Mama wants to spend her #Caturday 😭

I do count this as a blessing. I appreciate it so much I didn't realize I'm taking this for granted.

Today, the Church Fought Back Against Donald Trump A late-night letter from a day American Catholics will remember forever.

It’s past midnight, and I’m running on fumes, but I can’t close my laptop tonight without writing this down.

After yesterday’s sadness — watching the president of the United States go after the Bishop of Rome in public — the Church rose up today in a single voice to defend the U.S.-born Pope Leo.

y'all hangin' in?

Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."

Caught @benmckenzie.bsky.social’s new crypto doc (and Q&A!) at the IFC tonight. Recommended viewing for everyone who thinks they “don’t get” crypto (spoiler: you’re right and it’s as fraudulent as you think!) and mandatory viewing for my fellow Dem staffers getting sold a BS story by lobbyists.

*peeks*

Dropping like flies. Swalwell went earlier, now Texas Rep Tony Gonzales has resigned from Congress. He had an affair with a staffer who later took their own life.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%

Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

That is how we will pay for it.

More aligned with legacy connections, yes, pointing to the purchasing power of influence & other various things exchanged. Definitely not a direct contract thing.

by the exploitation of human beings subjected to the conditions of its "stars" who tend to be operating in a trauma-cycle as we watch them being traumatized in real time.

Voyeurism, I believe it's called.

So I wonder if that does a thing.

2/2

I wonder if we look at the ethos, the operating practice & system at work in reality television, we might recognize a power dynamic involving the exploitation of all classes of status involved except for the top billionaire CEOs.

Perhaps our problem is how we allow ourselves to be entertained /1

I remember finding out a current rock star got their "big break" on SNL thanks to being able to buy it for a $100K.

I guess the purchasing power of the super wealthy to achieve celebrity status has gone into hyperdrive. One doesn't even need to have a modicum of talent or positive impact, eh?

hollow extraction class pseudo-journalistic artifice helps distract the soggy plebs from the fact that corruption has hollowed this country out like a dollar store fake chocolate easter bunny

$47.38 for 12.151 gallons of gas. Picture taken 04/13/2026 at approx. 11:50 am EDT.

Last Stop gas station sign in Maryland featuring $3.89 per gallon

well, here's lookin' at you, kid.

for posterity (in case it's awhile before i can fill up a 14 gallon gas tank with 12 gallons & pay less than $50)

The Changing Church and the Challenge of Racial Justice. Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology. 79(4): 327-340. 2025 Research shows that church attendance increasingly correlates with conservative political views and racial attitudes, particularly among White Christians. Despite increasing diversity in American soci...

The Changing Church and the Challenge of Racial Justice
Gerardo Martí
Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology
doi.org/10.1177/0020...

Accessible copy 👇👇👇

on a scale of 1 - 10 (1 being awesome, 10 being gdmf awful) how are things going in your own family dynamic/system?

I'll go first: 8.5

Yup, went from a 4.5 to 8.5 real fast. Thank you to the toxic cesspool that is X & Truth Social & old, misogynistic, devastatingly stupid, white men.

I saw that post and thought, "Holy Shit, it's true! I LOVE this for us!" 😂

I do count this as a blessing. I appreciate it so much I didn't realize I'm taking this for granted.

Greetings Skyverse
I has teh #coffee

I will note: In my experience, it is exceedingly rare for the USCCB to put out a statement this soon after a spontaneous, unplanned thing occurs.

Hire religion reporters.

a poster for waffle house shows batman standing in front of a bat ALT: a poster for waffle house shows batman standing in front of a bat

951 miles to the closest Waffle House

that is super, evil, Satan.

( #AltText will be appreciated. I'm tapped out. my assurance to you it is definitely a demon monster.)

If I were someone who played as fast and loose with Christian imagery as Trump, I would not be wishing for a pope who is tough on crime. A pope who's tough on crime is how you get Inquisitions. Those don't work out well for guys who claim to be equal to Jesus.

Josephine Baker's remains were moved to the Panthéon in 2021 - effectively declaring her a hero of France. Do you know how few people have been granted that honour? It is Not A Lot Of People

It maybe looks like a Decepticon or one of the aliens from independence day with full body armor on; plus, two additional super-long arm-poles or wings on its back. Also there are three swords pointed outward from the head area...

this has a particular flavor of wrong...