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"Here applies by analogy the advice Einstein gave to philosophers of science. He told them to pay no attention to what scientists say but watch carefully what they do. Similarly, in judging people morally, do not ask them what they think about morality, but watch what they do."
Bernard Lonergan
Bernard Lonergan
December 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"Here applies by analogy the advice Einstein gave to philosophers of science. He told them to pay no attention to what scientists say but watch carefully what they do. Similarly, in judging people morally, do not ask them what they think about morality, but watch what they do."
Bernard Lonergan
Bernard Lonergan
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I guess it’s clear why the lawmakers needed to make that video
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I guess it’s clear why the lawmakers needed to make that video
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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A fiery excerpt from St. Basil the Great's homily on today's Gospel reading, Luke 16:12-21 (the rich man who tears down his barns so as to build new ones):
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
A fiery excerpt from St. Basil the Great's homily on today's Gospel reading, Luke 16:12-21 (the rich man who tears down his barns so as to build new ones):
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"A man… with no means of filling up time, is as miserable out of work as a dog on the chain."
—GEORGE ORWELL
—GEORGE ORWELL
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"A man… with no means of filling up time, is as miserable out of work as a dog on the chain."
—GEORGE ORWELL
—GEORGE ORWELL
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quantitative data makes certain people so stupid, istg. they lose track of the fact that they are representations.
November 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
quantitative data makes certain people so stupid, istg. they lose track of the fact that they are representations.
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you don't have to embarrass our guest by asking if he had someone killed and hacked to pieces
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
you don't have to embarrass our guest by asking if he had someone killed and hacked to pieces
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Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
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I can kill seafarers but can’t even tax my own subjects?!?!
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I can kill seafarers but can’t even tax my own subjects?!?!
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the condescending smugness of NYT opinion, like— Hey Zohran, so yeah, we did our best to slime you, son & to keep you out & the shittiest & corrupts in control, but ok, you get one shot now, so listen close boy, here’s how & how not to do your thing y'hear
seriously
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
seriously
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
Opinion | How Mayor Mamdani Can Write New York’s Next Chapter
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
the condescending smugness of NYT opinion, like— Hey Zohran, so yeah, we did our best to slime you, son & to keep you out & the shittiest & corrupts in control, but ok, you get one shot now, so listen close boy, here’s how & how not to do your thing y'hear
seriously
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
seriously
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
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I do think it’s fine for JD Vance to hope his wife becomes a Catholic. Heck, I hope they both do!
October 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I do think it’s fine for JD Vance to hope his wife becomes a Catholic. Heck, I hope they both do!
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
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So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
October 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
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by the time they land in Venezuela there will be infantry divisions with corporate sponsors
October 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
by the time they land in Venezuela there will be infantry divisions with corporate sponsors
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So who’s the hater and who’s the waiter?
October 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
So who’s the hater and who’s the waiter?
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Pope today: “With the abuse of vulnerable migrants, we are witnessing not the legitimate exercise of national sovereignty but grave crimes committed and tolerated by the state. Ever more inhuman measures are being adopted, even celebrated politically, that treat these 'undesirables' like garbage.”
October 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Pope today: “With the abuse of vulnerable migrants, we are witnessing not the legitimate exercise of national sovereignty but grave crimes committed and tolerated by the state. Ever more inhuman measures are being adopted, even celebrated politically, that treat these 'undesirables' like garbage.”
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the Democrats could not learn this lesson from the evidence of their own senses, so providence has sent a marine with questionable taste to educate them
I believe in moderate, middle-of-the-road ideas like simplifying and providing healthcare for all Americans, raising taxes on the rich, and imposing sanctions on Israel.
October 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
the Democrats could not learn this lesson from the evidence of their own senses, so providence has sent a marine with questionable taste to educate them
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Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.
October 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.
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heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
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Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations
Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries
Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries
October 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations
Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries
Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries
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Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
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That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.
Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.
Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.
Shame.
Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.
Shame.
October 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.
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Vance and co. like to insist it’s not “regime change” because there’s no plan to shore up a successor government — the aim is to leave a vacuum that we periodically bomb into submission
“The new authority would allow the C.I.A. to carry out lethal operations in Venezuela…The agency would be able to take covert action against Mr. Maduro or his government either unilaterally or in conjunction with a larger military operation.”
Regime change is back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Regime change is back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Vance and co. like to insist it’s not “regime change” because there’s no plan to shore up a successor government — the aim is to leave a vacuum that we periodically bomb into submission
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Pope to journalists: “…it is worth remembering Hannah Arendt’s warning that ‘the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.’”
October 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Pope to journalists: “…it is worth remembering Hannah Arendt’s warning that ‘the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.’”