A Guy Named Brian (he/him)
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Introverted environmental planner in the Mile-High City | Lay Anglican of the TEC variety | Cathedral verger, one mile up | Mainly just trying to be a decent husband & father | All views are mine! Mine I say! 😀
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🕯️ Almighty God, who raised up your servant Herman to be a light in the world, and to preach the Gospel to the people of Alaska: Illuminate our hearts, that we also in our own generation may show forth your praise, …
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Herman of Alaska
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November 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Happy Feast day to one of my favorite North American Saints, St. Herman of Alaska! ⚓
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Happy Feast day to one of my favorite North American Saints, St. Herman of Alaska! ⚓
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If unions were bad for workers, corporations wouldn’t pour millions into union-busting consultants.
Funny how they fight so hard to “protect” workers from better wages, safer conditions, and a voice on the job.
They’re terrified of one thing: workers having real power.
Funny how they fight so hard to “protect” workers from better wages, safer conditions, and a voice on the job.
They’re terrified of one thing: workers having real power.
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If unions were bad for workers, corporations wouldn’t pour millions into union-busting consultants.
Funny how they fight so hard to “protect” workers from better wages, safer conditions, and a voice on the job.
They’re terrified of one thing: workers having real power.
Funny how they fight so hard to “protect” workers from better wages, safer conditions, and a voice on the job.
They’re terrified of one thing: workers having real power.
🕯️ A question for The Narthex about Bishop Seabury: Everything I’ve read about him indicates he was loyal to the Crown during the Revolution, but then he ends up becoming the first Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the new USA. How is it that he landed in that place? …
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November 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🕯️ A question for The Narthex about Bishop Seabury: Everything I’ve read about him indicates he was loyal to the Crown during the Revolution, but then he ends up becoming the first Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the new USA. How is it that he landed in that place? …
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The Historic Episcopate, locally adapted in the methods of its administration to the varying needs of the nations and peoples called of God into the unity of His Church.
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The Historic Episcopate, locally adapted in the methods of its administration to the varying needs of the nations and peoples called of God into the unity of His Church.
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Geez,Are We Like The ONLY
Country in The World Without Healthcare, RepubliKKKans ?......
Country in The World Without Healthcare, RepubliKKKans ?......
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Geez,Are We Like The ONLY
Country in The World Without Healthcare, RepubliKKKans ?......
Country in The World Without Healthcare, RepubliKKKans ?......
🕯️ We give you thanks, O Lord our God, for your goodness in bestowing upon this church the gift of the episcopate; and we pray that, joined together in unity with our bishops and nourished by your holy sacraments, …
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Consecration of Samuel Seabury
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November 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Why is this so hard? Do better pundits, politicians and journalists. Do better.
Quick point of clarification for pundits, politicians, journalists, & any others commenting on the Epstein Trump files:
The victims were NOT "young women". They were CHILDREN.
As such, they were not capable of giving legal consent. Sex without consent is rape.
Words matter. Get them right.
The victims were NOT "young women". They were CHILDREN.
As such, they were not capable of giving legal consent. Sex without consent is rape.
Words matter. Get them right.
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Why is this so hard? Do better pundits, politicians and journalists. Do better.
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First snowflakes on the 7-day of the season for Denver. Timing still TBD, but likely mid/late next week.
Doesn't look like much snow, but finally, a big pattern flip is on the horizon.
#COwx
Doesn't look like much snow, but finally, a big pattern flip is on the horizon.
#COwx
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
First snowflakes on the 7-day of the season for Denver. Timing still TBD, but likely mid/late next week.
Doesn't look like much snow, but finally, a big pattern flip is on the horizon.
#COwx
Doesn't look like much snow, but finally, a big pattern flip is on the horizon.
#COwx
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probably something an innocent man would do
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
probably something an innocent man would do
🕯️ Lord God of hosts, who clothed your servant Martin the soldier with the spirit of sacrifice and set him as a bishop in your Church to be a defender of the catholic faith: …
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Martin of Tours
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November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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On the occasion of Elon Musk pretending that he reads books, I thought I’d reshare my “100 Best Books On City-Making Ever Written” article in @planetizen.bsky.social. It’s 12 years old and needs updating, and got plently of debate back then, but I’d still recommend most of these. #UrbanismBookClub
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
On the occasion of Elon Musk pretending that he reads books, I thought I’d reshare my “100 Best Books On City-Making Ever Written” article in @planetizen.bsky.social. It’s 12 years old and needs updating, and got plently of debate back then, but I’d still recommend most of these. #UrbanismBookClub
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Many Americans are hurting right now because of the shutdown, but caving to Republicans won’t end the hurt.
Trump and his lapdogs continue to assert that they alone have the power to slash whatever programs they don’t like.
Deals with this regime are meaningless.
Trump and his lapdogs continue to assert that they alone have the power to slash whatever programs they don’t like.
Deals with this regime are meaningless.
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Many Americans are hurting right now because of the shutdown, but caving to Republicans won’t end the hurt.
Trump and his lapdogs continue to assert that they alone have the power to slash whatever programs they don’t like.
Deals with this regime are meaningless.
Trump and his lapdogs continue to assert that they alone have the power to slash whatever programs they don’t like.
Deals with this regime are meaningless.
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Absolutely correct
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Absolutely correct
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Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
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This.
This.
This.
This.
This.
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This.
This.
This.
This.
This.
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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If the left actually had any kind of media environment equivalent to the right those 8 senators would be absolutely torn to shreds right now.
Every engaged Democrat would be invoking their names as swear words and they’d be reticent to ever travel home to their own states.
Every engaged Democrat would be invoking their names as swear words and they’d be reticent to ever travel home to their own states.
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
If the left actually had any kind of media environment equivalent to the right those 8 senators would be absolutely torn to shreds right now.
Every engaged Democrat would be invoking their names as swear words and they’d be reticent to ever travel home to their own states.
Every engaged Democrat would be invoking their names as swear words and they’d be reticent to ever travel home to their own states.
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Some people will never turn away from Trump, and it's not our job to convince them.
It is our job to mobilize and empower the people who see what he's doing and want him gone.
He is historically unpopular and weak. Impeachment is more popular than he is.
It is our job to mobilize and empower the people who see what he's doing and want him gone.
He is historically unpopular and weak. Impeachment is more popular than he is.
Ipsos finds Trump’s approval rating is decreasing almost entirely because of anti-incumbent economic anxiety. Approval rating among people who say the economy is the # 1 issue is -24pts since Jan. It’s stable for people who index on all other issues www.ipsos.com/en-us/lesson...
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Some people will never turn away from Trump, and it's not our job to convince them.
It is our job to mobilize and empower the people who see what he's doing and want him gone.
He is historically unpopular and weak. Impeachment is more popular than he is.
It is our job to mobilize and empower the people who see what he's doing and want him gone.
He is historically unpopular and weak. Impeachment is more popular than he is.
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This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.
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Humans: capable of building entire skyscrapers but still afraid to put the scary number on one of the floors
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Humans: capable of building entire skyscrapers but still afraid to put the scary number on one of the floors
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.