Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ
@kenhomansj.bsky.social
Catholic, son, brother, Brother, Jesuit, weightlifter, woodworker, radical for Christ. Proudly putting the SJ into SJW. My tweets≠orgs I am part of. (he/him)
Pinned
Laying down lines
like Peter and Paul,
I rap real fine
Cause I got the Call.
Wearing my cappa magna
so you're gonna have to cope.
I bring spiritual manna,
I got words of faith and hope.
I spit Godly effects
Cause I'm the pontifex!
like Peter and Paul,
I rap real fine
Cause I got the Call.
Wearing my cappa magna
so you're gonna have to cope.
I bring spiritual manna,
I got words of faith and hope.
I spit Godly effects
Cause I'm the pontifex!
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Doing your best to literally destroy life-sustaining ecosystems while also sanctioning the torture of people is hard on the spirit, wow who knew
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Doing your best to literally destroy life-sustaining ecosystems while also sanctioning the torture of people is hard on the spirit, wow who knew
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Media need to stop selling this false dichotomy too
Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Media need to stop selling this false dichotomy too
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Leeches everywhere
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Leeches everywhere
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Considering I catch a lot of AI use by students accidentally citing they use AI or leaving jarring tell-tale signs in the text, I think it is suicidal that universities are teaching any sort of "proper use".
I hate to use the old example but I do not want a doctor who was too lazy to read and edit.
I hate to use the old example but I do not want a doctor who was too lazy to read and edit.
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Considering I catch a lot of AI use by students accidentally citing they use AI or leaving jarring tell-tale signs in the text, I think it is suicidal that universities are teaching any sort of "proper use".
I hate to use the old example but I do not want a doctor who was too lazy to read and edit.
I hate to use the old example but I do not want a doctor who was too lazy to read and edit.
I'm in the quiet car on the train and the gentleman next to me is attending family therapy on Zoom without his headphones on.
I tend not to be super strict about "this is the right way to behave and so you have to for the sake of society," but SIR!
This is neither the time nor the place...
I tend not to be super strict about "this is the right way to behave and so you have to for the sake of society," but SIR!
This is neither the time nor the place...
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I'm in the quiet car on the train and the gentleman next to me is attending family therapy on Zoom without his headphones on.
I tend not to be super strict about "this is the right way to behave and so you have to for the sake of society," but SIR!
This is neither the time nor the place...
I tend not to be super strict about "this is the right way to behave and so you have to for the sake of society," but SIR!
This is neither the time nor the place...
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There's a guy at my gym who angrily grunts with every rep of every exercise.
Sometimes I silently stare at him while shoulder pressing what he squats.
Some of the other lifters make dolphin, dog, cow, and eagle noises on every rep in response to his grunts.
Gyms are a funny place.
Sometimes I silently stare at him while shoulder pressing what he squats.
Some of the other lifters make dolphin, dog, cow, and eagle noises on every rep in response to his grunts.
Gyms are a funny place.
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
There's a guy at my gym who angrily grunts with every rep of every exercise.
Sometimes I silently stare at him while shoulder pressing what he squats.
Some of the other lifters make dolphin, dog, cow, and eagle noises on every rep in response to his grunts.
Gyms are a funny place.
Sometimes I silently stare at him while shoulder pressing what he squats.
Some of the other lifters make dolphin, dog, cow, and eagle noises on every rep in response to his grunts.
Gyms are a funny place.
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This seems like a play to cut NPS profitability to make it easier to open these lands up to extraction. 35% of NPS visitors are from overseas
US triples national park fee for non-residents, amid ‘new’ fee for Americans
Interior department, which has defunded conservation organizations, claims fee hike is for conservation
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This seems like a play to cut NPS profitability to make it easier to open these lands up to extraction. 35% of NPS visitors are from overseas
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Apple is anti-union.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Apple is anti-union.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
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Scouting was where I learned that there are forms of authority that don't rely solely on assertion of will. That there is a masculinity that doesn't involve dominance. But I'm also the kind of man Hegseth would probably find "weak."
Then again, I'm an Eagle Scout and he never held any rank, so.
Then again, I'm an Eagle Scout and he never held any rank, so.
This is the Scout Law (say it with me!): "A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent." Scouting America hasn't changed its values at all. It has simply recognized that they aren't exclusively male.
Is it a 'masculine value' to melt down about some new fake shit every week?
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Scouting was where I learned that there are forms of authority that don't rely solely on assertion of will. That there is a masculinity that doesn't involve dominance. But I'm also the kind of man Hegseth would probably find "weak."
Then again, I'm an Eagle Scout and he never held any rank, so.
Then again, I'm an Eagle Scout and he never held any rank, so.
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In 1855 Elizabeth Jennings Graham brought a suit that initiated the desegregation of NYC transit. Raised by politically active parents (her was mother formerly enslaved, her entrepreneur father was awarded a patent in 1821) Ms. Graham was a teacher, organist, & kindergarten founder.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In 1855 Elizabeth Jennings Graham brought a suit that initiated the desegregation of NYC transit. Raised by politically active parents (her was mother formerly enslaved, her entrepreneur father was awarded a patent in 1821) Ms. Graham was a teacher, organist, & kindergarten founder.
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An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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“…the “Orthodoxy as Masculinity” narrative is consistently rejected by Church leaders and scholars because it is so blatantly misaligned with the Church’s theology and history.”
Great piece on the recent NYT article at @publicorthodoxy.bsky.social
Great piece on the recent NYT article at @publicorthodoxy.bsky.social
The "Orthodoxy as Masculinity" Narrative
According to the New York Times, young, conservative men are flocking to the Orthodox Church because it provides an all-too-rare space that celebrates masculinity. This “Orthodoxy as Masculinity” narr...
publicorthodoxy.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“…the “Orthodoxy as Masculinity” narrative is consistently rejected by Church leaders and scholars because it is so blatantly misaligned with the Church’s theology and history.”
Great piece on the recent NYT article at @publicorthodoxy.bsky.social
Great piece on the recent NYT article at @publicorthodoxy.bsky.social
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Do more to preserve her generation’s legacy as immortal memories. #history
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Do more to preserve her generation’s legacy as immortal memories. #history
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12 Days Left! Meet with workers from the South, including nurses at the University Medical Center in New Orleans who've mounted five strikes so far in their fight for a first contract, and Starbucks baristas in the midst of their own nationwide escalation: labornotes.swoogo.com/notms2/9383808
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
12 Days Left! Meet with workers from the South, including nurses at the University Medical Center in New Orleans who've mounted five strikes so far in their fight for a first contract, and Starbucks baristas in the midst of their own nationwide escalation: labornotes.swoogo.com/notms2/9383808
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NEW: Judge Currie finds that Lindsay Halligan was UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED and dismisses the James Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
NEW: Judge Currie finds that Lindsay Halligan was UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED and dismisses the James Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Historical research is fun because sometimes you have to download a 200+ MB dataset from the Census Bureau to get a single citation...
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Historical research is fun because sometimes you have to download a 200+ MB dataset from the Census Bureau to get a single citation...
Laying down lines
like Peter and Paul,
I rap real fine
Cause I got the Call.
Wearing my cappa magna
so you're gonna have to cope.
I bring spiritual manna,
I got words of faith and hope.
I spit Godly effects
Cause I'm the pontifex!
like Peter and Paul,
I rap real fine
Cause I got the Call.
Wearing my cappa magna
so you're gonna have to cope.
I bring spiritual manna,
I got words of faith and hope.
I spit Godly effects
Cause I'm the pontifex!
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Laying down lines
like Peter and Paul,
I rap real fine
Cause I got the Call.
Wearing my cappa magna
so you're gonna have to cope.
I bring spiritual manna,
I got words of faith and hope.
I spit Godly effects
Cause I'm the pontifex!
like Peter and Paul,
I rap real fine
Cause I got the Call.
Wearing my cappa magna
so you're gonna have to cope.
I bring spiritual manna,
I got words of faith and hope.
I spit Godly effects
Cause I'm the pontifex!
Reposted by Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ
What RFK Jr. doesn’t want you to know is that in 2019, his anti-vax nonsense caused a measles outbreak in Samoa that infected 5700 and killed 83 people, most of them children.
RFK Jr. wants you to know that he’s personally responsible for the anti-vax misinformation on the CDC's website
RFK Jr. wants you to know he’s personally responsible for anti-vax misinformation on CDC website
He told the New York Times there’s no proof that vaccines don’t cause autism, which is a lie.
www.motherjones.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
What RFK Jr. doesn’t want you to know is that in 2019, his anti-vax nonsense caused a measles outbreak in Samoa that infected 5700 and killed 83 people, most of them children.
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
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A federal lawsuit accuses four consulting firms of offering thousands of dollars to signature gatherers to abandon their work, badmouth their employer and provide "intelligence" to opponents of the referendum campaign. #moleg #mogov
Lawsuit details alleged scheme to sabotage referendum on gerrymandered Missouri congressional map • Missouri Independent
A federal lawsuit accuses opponents of a referendum on Missouri's gerrymandered congressional map are poaching signature gatherers.
missouriindependent.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Dealing with some shoulder pain, which made me a bit more wobbly than this should have been, but glad to be back benching around 300.
Will be tough keeping this up over Christmas break travel.
Will be tough keeping this up over Christmas break travel.
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Dealing with some shoulder pain, which made me a bit more wobbly than this should have been, but glad to be back benching around 300.
Will be tough keeping this up over Christmas break travel.
Will be tough keeping this up over Christmas break travel.
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Educators and artists have noted that AI is useless or damaging in many important contexts but the useless/damaging character of AI will only become a fully settled matter of accepted fact after full AI saturation of those contexts or the AI bubble bursts.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Educators and artists have noted that AI is useless or damaging in many important contexts but the useless/damaging character of AI will only become a fully settled matter of accepted fact after full AI saturation of those contexts or the AI bubble bursts.
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Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.
Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. Stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.