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What I have to tell you… is that I may have changed my mind… about the Latin Mass.
I feel now… like maybe… hearing the Gospel in a language I actually speak… isn't a concession to modernity.
I’m realizing… I don’t get what’s problem with the priest facing the people. Eye contact is actually nice.
I feel now… like maybe… hearing the Gospel in a language I actually speak… isn't a concession to modernity.
I’m realizing… I don’t get what’s problem with the priest facing the people. Eye contact is actually nice.
February 6, 2026 at 2:21 PM
What I have to tell you… is that I may have changed my mind… about the Latin Mass.
I feel now… like maybe… hearing the Gospel in a language I actually speak… isn't a concession to modernity.
I’m realizing… I don’t get what’s problem with the priest facing the people. Eye contact is actually nice.
I feel now… like maybe… hearing the Gospel in a language I actually speak… isn't a concession to modernity.
I’m realizing… I don’t get what’s problem with the priest facing the people. Eye contact is actually nice.
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Looking forward to the wave of heterodox pundits straining to come up with non-racist explanations for this.
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Looking forward to the wave of heterodox pundits straining to come up with non-racist explanations for this.
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I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 6, 2026 at 1:13 AM
I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.
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They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 2:51 AM
They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
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What’s with all these ex-Anglican Catholic priests and laypeople who have “found the one true church and faith” and yet spend most of their time talking about how STUPID and UGLY their EX is whom they TOTALLY don’t even CARE or THINK about anymore? Extremely divorced midlife crisis guy energy
February 5, 2026 at 2:18 PM
What’s with all these ex-Anglican Catholic priests and laypeople who have “found the one true church and faith” and yet spend most of their time talking about how STUPID and UGLY their EX is whom they TOTALLY don’t even CARE or THINK about anymore? Extremely divorced midlife crisis guy energy
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“OPM is … rebranding career public servants as ‘policy’ employees, silencing whistleblowers, and replacing competent professionals with political flunkies without any neutral, independent protections against politicization and arbitrary use of power.”
Bad news today.
The administration finalized a plan to remove civil service protections from about 50,000 federal workers, with no exemption for statistical or scientific agency personnel. This erodes protection of those agencies from political influence.
www.govexec.com/workforce/20... #econsky
The administration finalized a plan to remove civil service protections from about 50,000 federal workers, with no exemption for statistical or scientific agency personnel. This erodes protection of those agencies from political influence.
www.govexec.com/workforce/20... #econsky
Trump admin moves to finalize return of Schedule F
Officials estimate that around 50,000 federal workers will be stripped of their civil service protections beginning in around a month, as unions, employee associations and good government groups decry...
www.govexec.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:43 AM
“OPM is … rebranding career public servants as ‘policy’ employees, silencing whistleblowers, and replacing competent professionals with political flunkies without any neutral, independent protections against politicization and arbitrary use of power.”
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How it feels to be Orthodox and never have to spend time defending Penal Substitution Atonement
February 6, 2026 at 1:15 AM
How it feels to be Orthodox and never have to spend time defending Penal Substitution Atonement
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"YouTube theology" kill me now
Graphic design and trying to make Calvinism look Catholic are my passions 🤪
February 5, 2026 at 11:12 PM
"YouTube theology" kill me now
"Nice polling locations you got there. I can't guarantee that some friends of ours aren't gonna be hangin' around, and it'd be a real shame if something happened to 'em... Tu mi capisci?"
February 5, 2026 at 11:11 PM
"Nice polling locations you got there. I can't guarantee that some friends of ours aren't gonna be hangin' around, and it'd be a real shame if something happened to 'em... Tu mi capisci?"
Graphic design and trying to make Calvinism look Catholic are my passions 🤪
February 5, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Graphic design and trying to make Calvinism look Catholic are my passions 🤪
"Priceless crown" -- priceless my rear. The price was the loss of the first French Republic, and years of pointless bloodshed across all of Europe from the English Channel to Moscow, on the whims of a power-hungry megalomaniac
The crown of Empress Eugénie was one of nine invaluable royal ornaments snatched by burglars during the Louvre heist in October, but the thieves dropped it on the sidewalk before making their escape. The Louvre announced it will soon invite restorers to submit proposals for the crown’s repair.
The Louvre Thieves Dropped This Priceless Crown. Now It Looks Like This.
Empress Eugénie’s crown was left lying on the sidewalk after the Louvre Museum heist in October. The museum has now released pictures of the damage.
nyti.ms
February 5, 2026 at 11:01 PM
"Priceless crown" -- priceless my rear. The price was the loss of the first French Republic, and years of pointless bloodshed across all of Europe from the English Channel to Moscow, on the whims of a power-hungry megalomaniac
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What better memorial to an upstart dictator and his wife?
The crown of Empress Eugénie was one of nine invaluable royal ornaments snatched by burglars during the Louvre heist in October, but the thieves dropped it on the sidewalk before making their escape. The Louvre announced it will soon invite restorers to submit proposals for the crown’s repair.
The Louvre Thieves Dropped This Priceless Crown. Now It Looks Like This.
Empress Eugénie’s crown was left lying on the sidewalk after the Louvre Museum heist in October. The museum has now released pictures of the damage.
nyti.ms
February 5, 2026 at 10:58 PM
What better memorial to an upstart dictator and his wife?
One of my favorite nitpicky complaints was trashing her frequent line of "looking forward to what can be, unburdened by what has been" and pretending like it was a meaningless or confusing phrase, when in reality it clearly expresses how most of us feel right now, more than ever
All the complaints about her campaign are basically stupid nitpicks and the people convinced they’d have changed EVERYTHING by adjusting the words in her ads or whatever are out of their minds. Trump’s support was built out of years of irresponsible false nostalgia for his hellish first presidency
February 5, 2026 at 10:57 PM
One of my favorite nitpicky complaints was trashing her frequent line of "looking forward to what can be, unburdened by what has been" and pretending like it was a meaningless or confusing phrase, when in reality it clearly expresses how most of us feel right now, more than ever
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Have you seen this yet?
Mark Kermode reviews Melania
YouTube video by Kermode and Mayo's Take
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Have you seen this yet?
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I think "rich dipshit owner doesn't understand [things]" has been a centuries-long problem, as people's pent-up rage throughout the history of revolutions attests
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
February 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
I think "rich dipshit owner doesn't understand [things]" has been a centuries-long problem, as people's pent-up rage throughout the history of revolutions attests
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They won't stop doing this until they are forced to stop. You can't negotiate or restrain ethnic cleansers. They need to be made to stop.
EXCLUSIVE: on Jan 22 we rolled up on a raid happening in South Minneapolis. we had no idea who they were taking. turns out it was a *two year old girl* and her dad on the way back from buying fruit. he had no criminal record. this is their story. youtu.be/yaeXlxJOAXU?...
A Toddler Detained: A 2-Year-Old Girl and Trump’s New Immigration Era
YouTube video by MS NOW
youtu.be
February 5, 2026 at 8:47 PM
They won't stop doing this until they are forced to stop. You can't negotiate or restrain ethnic cleansers. They need to be made to stop.
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It's fucking nauseating the way these people pretend like it was a bunch of 16 year old girls just lining up to have sex with this man and not a coordinated effort to pay, blackmail, and/or threaten vulnerable teenagers into being sex trafficked by a man with infinite resources and protections
This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
February 5, 2026 at 9:52 PM
It's fucking nauseating the way these people pretend like it was a bunch of 16 year old girls just lining up to have sex with this man and not a coordinated effort to pay, blackmail, and/or threaten vulnerable teenagers into being sex trafficked by a man with infinite resources and protections
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YOU - “Our lives are very different from each other.”
JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”
JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”
February 5, 2026 at 2:31 PM
YOU - “Our lives are very different from each other.”
JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”
JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”
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“What, you've never seen a man getting a panic attack before?” (Try to keep breathing.)
February 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM
“What, you've never seen a man getting a panic attack before?” (Try to keep breathing.)
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Moments of crisis allows the public to see the failures of institutions and drives them to alternative sources of authority, usually ones that support what they already believe, which includes believing institutions are dysfunctional or corrupt, further hardening those beliefs.
can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice
February 5, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Moments of crisis allows the public to see the failures of institutions and drives them to alternative sources of authority, usually ones that support what they already believe, which includes believing institutions are dysfunctional or corrupt, further hardening those beliefs.
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there is an infamous 'joke' lecture they invited him to do about groping. they didn't just think it was acceptable, they thought it was hilarious.
www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empi...
www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empi...
February 5, 2026 at 10:00 PM
there is an infamous 'joke' lecture they invited him to do about groping. they didn't just think it was acceptable, they thought it was hilarious.
www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empi...
www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empi...
1 Samuel 8 comes to mind (monarchy-touting trads hardest hit):
![10 So Samuel reported all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots, 12 and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his courtiers. 15 He will take one-tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and his courtiers. 16 He will take your male and female slaves and the best of your cattle[b] and donkeys and put them to his work. 17 He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. 18 And on that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you on that day.”
Israel’s Request for a King Granted
19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; they said, “No! We are determined to have a king over us, 20 so that we also may be like other nations and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.” 21 When Samuel heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord. 22 The Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice and set a king over them.” Samuel then said to the Israelites, “Each of you return home.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uvoenafwplcmnwjvub373eyq/bafkreiaw5szbx63fio4nxkotppcqm5ficaod3jxyw6vp5mh5keft4dlore@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM
1 Samuel 8 comes to mind (monarchy-touting trads hardest hit):
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So we take down public displays that make the US look bad... but it's important to keep statues of people who literally committed treason and sought to tear the US apart.
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A Philadelphia panel celebrating the first Black Episcopal priest was removed as part of a Trump administration plan to downplay aspects of American history some see as negative.
#TheLivingChurch #Episcopal #priest
#TheLivingChurch #Episcopal #priest
Absalom Jones Erased from Park Service Display - The Living Church
A Philadelphia panel celebrating the first Black Episcopal priest was removed as part of a Trump administration plan to downplay aspects of American history some see as negative.
ow.ly
February 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
So we take down public displays that make the US look bad... but it's important to keep statues of people who literally committed treason and sought to tear the US apart.
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