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Alex Padilla lays it plain.
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Alex Padilla lays it plain.
Another Marty Haugen, Michael Joncas, John Foley special at my FIL's small-town Catholic parish. This time with ---gasp--- a single cantor singing and playing guitar. And I'll tell you, it was earnest and beautiful and I could sing every song by heart. Trads in shambles.
November 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Another Marty Haugen, Michael Joncas, John Foley special at my FIL's small-town Catholic parish. This time with ---gasp--- a single cantor singing and playing guitar. And I'll tell you, it was earnest and beautiful and I could sing every song by heart. Trads in shambles.
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JD Vance is very consistent… in saying or doing whatever it takes to get ahead politically.
November 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
JD Vance is very consistent… in saying or doing whatever it takes to get ahead politically.
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Christmas Elf Hank Hill be like
"that toy ain't right"
"that toy ain't right"
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Christmas Elf Hank Hill be like
"that toy ain't right"
"that toy ain't right"
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I present nearly a decade of unique reporting, condensed into one newsletter. READ AND SHARE AND ADMIRE: daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/a-masculin...
A Masculinity in Politics Primer
Everything you need to know about the biggest force in politics you're ignoring
daniellekurtzleben.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I present nearly a decade of unique reporting, condensed into one newsletter. READ AND SHARE AND ADMIRE: daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/a-masculin...
“The government doesn’t need to get involved in feeding hungry kids,” ... “That’s the business of churches. Neighbors. People like me who pay for the Starbucks order of the Range Rover in line behind me. We just need to let people be good to one another, heart hands emoji.”
Go read the whole thing!
Go read the whole thing!
I wrote something about why handing out Ramen and Easy Mac on Halloween is performative at best and insidiously anti-welfare at worst. amycolleen.medium.com/no-kid-wants...
No Kid Wants Ramen For Halloween
Please put your money where hungry mouths are.
amycolleen.medium.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“The government doesn’t need to get involved in feeding hungry kids,” ... “That’s the business of churches. Neighbors. People like me who pay for the Starbucks order of the Range Rover in line behind me. We just need to let people be good to one another, heart hands emoji.”
Go read the whole thing!
Go read the whole thing!
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If the survey is of congressional Republicans? All of it, clearly
Thought experiment, how much of the White House could the president tear down before anyone in power did anything meaningful to stop it? Like if he just kept going?
October 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
If the survey is of congressional Republicans? All of it, clearly
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No no no, you're a Cafeteria Catholic if you use birth control and have gay friends. You're a *Traditional* Catholic if you ignore the poor, persecute immigrants, and support the death penalty. Am I understanding this right?
October 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
No no no, you're a Cafeteria Catholic if you use birth control and have gay friends. You're a *Traditional* Catholic if you ignore the poor, persecute immigrants, and support the death penalty. Am I understanding this right?
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I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.
October 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.
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Christ’s resurrection teaches us that no story is ever so marked by disappointment or sin that it cannot be visited by hope. No fall is definitive, no night is eternal, no wound is destined to bleed forever. 1/
October 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Christ’s resurrection teaches us that no story is ever so marked by disappointment or sin that it cannot be visited by hope. No fall is definitive, no night is eternal, no wound is destined to bleed forever. 1/
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Sorry your religion isn’t working out for you.
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Sorry your religion isn’t working out for you.
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“Someone who says I am against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life (9-30-25)." #PopeLeoXIV #RespectLife
October 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“Someone who says I am against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life (9-30-25)." #PopeLeoXIV #RespectLife
Okay, the jukebox in my head has moved on to "O Spirit All Embracing". Still don't know why, other than the assumption that I need to focus my energy on this part of the Trinity. Just Catholic things I guess.
September 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Okay, the jukebox in my head has moved on to "O Spirit All Embracing". Still don't know why, other than the assumption that I need to focus my energy on this part of the Trinity. Just Catholic things I guess.
Taxpayer-funded exclusion of students with disabilities. That's what charter schools are.
An Indiana charter school network has won praise for its strong academics. But some students with disabilities struggle to follow the school system's discipline policies.
Strict rules can foster calm classrooms. But some students pay the price
An Indiana charter school network has won praise for its strong academics. But some students with disabilities struggle to follow the school system's discipline policies.
n.pr
September 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Taxpayer-funded exclusion of students with disabilities. That's what charter schools are.
The hymn "Come Holy Ghost" has been intractably stuck in my head for days. Okay Holy Spirit, I'm listening... What??
September 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The hymn "Come Holy Ghost" has been intractably stuck in my head for days. Okay Holy Spirit, I'm listening... What??
Marty Haugen's greatest hits at my father-in-law's small town parish tonight.
September 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Marty Haugen's greatest hits at my father-in-law's small town parish tonight.
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I don’t want to see a video or TikTok over your thing. I want to read the article or a text
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I don’t want to see a video or TikTok over your thing. I want to read the article or a text
Dessert mode ACTIVATE:
Best pie: key lime
Best ice cream: Talenti Roman raspberry
Best donut: yeast donut with chocolate icing
Best bar: cheesecake swirl brownies
Best cake: KAF chocolate mousse cake
Best other: NY style cheesecake with raspberries
Best pie: key lime
Best ice cream: Talenti Roman raspberry
Best donut: yeast donut with chocolate icing
Best bar: cheesecake swirl brownies
Best cake: KAF chocolate mousse cake
Best other: NY style cheesecake with raspberries
September 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Dessert mode ACTIVATE:
Best pie: key lime
Best ice cream: Talenti Roman raspberry
Best donut: yeast donut with chocolate icing
Best bar: cheesecake swirl brownies
Best cake: KAF chocolate mousse cake
Best other: NY style cheesecake with raspberries
Best pie: key lime
Best ice cream: Talenti Roman raspberry
Best donut: yeast donut with chocolate icing
Best bar: cheesecake swirl brownies
Best cake: KAF chocolate mousse cake
Best other: NY style cheesecake with raspberries
Curious how many parishes are singing "Lift High the Cross" this weekend. Catholic mutuals, what's your status?
September 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Curious how many parishes are singing "Lift High the Cross" this weekend. Catholic mutuals, what's your status?
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Super weird that the guy who was Practicing Politics The Right Way somehow magically seems to have a following so racist against Black people that him getting shot by a white person in the whitest state in USA results in 7 Black universities receiving terror threats.
What's this got to do with us?!
What's this got to do with us?!
At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org
Southern University, other HBCUs close due to ‘potential threat’
Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge will be closed through the weekend after officials called a lockdown Thursday morning due to a “potential threat.”
www.wwno.org
September 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Super weird that the guy who was Practicing Politics The Right Way somehow magically seems to have a following so racist against Black people that him getting shot by a white person in the whitest state in USA results in 7 Black universities receiving terror threats.
What's this got to do with us?!
What's this got to do with us?!
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Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools.
She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.
The past isn’t past.
She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.
The past isn’t past.
September 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools.
She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.
The past isn’t past.
She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.
The past isn’t past.
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About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
September 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
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Factually institutions like CDC, DoD and FEMA form a wall of security around Americans and their children, lessening incredibly dangerous threats from deadly forces (climate, storms, disease, foreign enemies, etc). Many top nonpartisan experts now believe that wall is being torn down.
September 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Factually institutions like CDC, DoD and FEMA form a wall of security around Americans and their children, lessening incredibly dangerous threats from deadly forces (climate, storms, disease, foreign enemies, etc). Many top nonpartisan experts now believe that wall is being torn down.
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President Trump says he want to enter heaven. As a Catholic priest, I take that seriously.
www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus...
www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus...
President Trump says he want to enter heaven. As a Catholic priest, I take that seriously.
“I want to try and get to heaven, if possible,” President Trump told Fox News. Here’s Father James Martin on how any of us get there.
www.americamagazine.org
August 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
President Trump says he want to enter heaven. As a Catholic priest, I take that seriously.
www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus...
www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus...