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@mcprando.bsky.social
House-husband of @marypezzulo.bsky.social (who has more interesting things to say than I do.)
Not quite an academic.
Latin Catholic/internal critic of that tradition.
Congenital Tee-totaler.
Possibly (?) a Skeksis.
Hatred of neighbor is hatred of Christ
Not quite an academic.
Latin Catholic/internal critic of that tradition.
Congenital Tee-totaler.
Possibly (?) a Skeksis.
Hatred of neighbor is hatred of Christ
Pinned
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@mcprando.bsky.social
· Dec 5
What @katelynburns.com said but since I do so much of my work with Christian folx I would love to hear from cis Christians.
Why do you support trans people and what are you willing to do to support us if the government comes for us?
Why do you support trans people and what are you willing to do to support us if the government comes for us?
I support because it is right (secular) & because hatred of neighbor is hatred of Christ (theological convergence w above).
I actually adopted that 2nd slogan *specifically* in reaction to Christian trans hate, although it applies more broadly.
Anything I can do.
I actually adopted that 2nd slogan *specifically* in reaction to Christian trans hate, although it applies more broadly.
Anything I can do.
New minimum standard of human decency just dropped.
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
November 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
New minimum standard of human decency just dropped.
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The fact that Megyn Kelly minimized raping 15 year olds and wasn't immediately canceled from every platform, including @siriusxmprog.bsky.social and YouTube, tells you EVERYTHING that is wrong with right wing media and this country in general.
November 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The fact that Megyn Kelly minimized raping 15 year olds and wasn't immediately canceled from every platform, including @siriusxmprog.bsky.social and YouTube, tells you EVERYTHING that is wrong with right wing media and this country in general.
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Our old friend Bill Donohue, the head of the Catholic league, who does not know how AIDS is spread and whom I once compared to a boiled ham with glasses, also insisted that Epstein is not a pedophile...
www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
Megyn Kelly, The Catholic League, And The Epstein Files
I've been watching the reactions of public Catholics who support Trump, to the Epstein case. The podcaster and former Fox News host Megyn Kelly is a Catholic, of course.
www.patheos.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Our old friend Bill Donohue, the head of the Catholic league, who does not know how AIDS is spread and whom I once compared to a boiled ham with glasses, also insisted that Epstein is not a pedophile...
www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
"A long time ago, I used to think their agenda had something to do with old-fashioned family values.
Now, I see that their agenda is just to elevate and protect powerful men."
Now, I see that their agenda is just to elevate and protect powerful men."
Our old friend Bill Donohue, the head of the Catholic league, who does not know how AIDS is spread and whom I once compared to a boiled ham with glasses, also insisted that Epstein is not a pedophile...
www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
Megyn Kelly, The Catholic League, And The Epstein Files
I've been watching the reactions of public Catholics who support Trump, to the Epstein case. The podcaster and former Fox News host Megyn Kelly is a Catholic, of course.
www.patheos.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"A long time ago, I used to think their agenda had something to do with old-fashioned family values.
Now, I see that their agenda is just to elevate and protect powerful men."
Now, I see that their agenda is just to elevate and protect powerful men."
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No. It's the fact that Mike Johnson just reconvened the House for the first time in 2 months, finally swore in Grijalva, and we just got the 218th signature to move it forward. Duh. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Margaret Brennan to Tom Suozzi: "Can you explain the focus this past week in the House by Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein files? Is this a tactic to distract from the failure to extract healthcare changes?"
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
No. It's the fact that Mike Johnson just reconvened the House for the first time in 2 months, finally swore in Grijalva, and we just got the 218th signature to move it forward. Duh. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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You do not, in any way, have to hand it to Maduro, but he's on the money here right up until the last sentence.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro: “The US wants to rule the world but ignores its own millions without housing, food, education, or battling addiction.
“They want to "save" others with weapons. First save yourselves. We know what to do with Venezuela.”
“They want to "save" others with weapons. First save yourselves. We know what to do with Venezuela.”
November 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
You do not, in any way, have to hand it to Maduro, but he's on the money here right up until the last sentence.
*killing people & saying it's okay because they are, post-mortem, evidencelessly accused of selling recreational drugs
Not that I believe really anything Nuzzi writes, given her record, but the far bigger scandal here is her claim that RFK Jr. was still actively using psychedelics last year, then became HHS secretary in an admin that is killing people for smuggling recreational drugs.
oh…my god
November 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
*killing people & saying it's okay because they are, post-mortem, evidencelessly accused of selling recreational drugs
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Beyond all this, Monica Lewinski has turned the shitstorm that comes with being a public relations punching bag for the world's most powerful man into a platform from which she has supported and uplifted countless other women.
Monica Lewinski is a hero, and everyone needs to get off her lawn.
Monica Lewinski is a hero, and everyone needs to get off her lawn.
Monica Lewinski went through Hell because of Bill Clinton and she was 21 when she started working for him.
Please leave that poor woman be in all the funning. She was destroyed by the public and he kept on keeping on as the president.
Please leave that poor woman be in all the funning. She was destroyed by the public and he kept on keeping on as the president.
November 16, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Beyond all this, Monica Lewinski has turned the shitstorm that comes with being a public relations punching bag for the world's most powerful man into a platform from which she has supported and uplifted countless other women.
Monica Lewinski is a hero, and everyone needs to get off her lawn.
Monica Lewinski is a hero, and everyone needs to get off her lawn.
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Hopefully more to come home after this— my nieces were among the Indigenous people privately shown some of the Vatican’s collection of Native items over 3 years ago at the Papal apology for residential schools and there were lots more than objects.
Vatican returns Indigenous cultural items to Canadian delegation of Catholic bishops | CBC News
A century-old Inuvialuit kayak once used for beluga and whale hunts, and 61 other cultural objects from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities have long been held in Vatican Museums vaults. But th...
www.cbc.ca
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Hopefully more to come home after this— my nieces were among the Indigenous people privately shown some of the Vatican’s collection of Native items over 3 years ago at the Papal apology for residential schools and there were lots more than objects.
Which implies, perhaps, more difference than is merited.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
—FDR, 1936
—FDR, 1936
November 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Which implies, perhaps, more difference than is merited.
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The problem is you can’t fund a news organization on digital ads.
The nonprofit model works OK. But how many nonprofit news outlets can the average reader support? Look at how NPR stations are struggling.
And we can’t *all* be funded by the Knight Foundation.
So … ?
The nonprofit model works OK. But how many nonprofit news outlets can the average reader support? Look at how NPR stations are struggling.
And we can’t *all* be funded by the Knight Foundation.
So … ?
The data is pretty clear: paywalls are useless. They put needless barriers between readers and news sources. People either try to find the information available elsewhere for free, or give up and remain uninformed. Either way, the results aren’t great
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls
Among adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free.
www.pewresearch.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The problem is you can’t fund a news organization on digital ads.
The nonprofit model works OK. But how many nonprofit news outlets can the average reader support? Look at how NPR stations are struggling.
And we can’t *all* be funded by the Knight Foundation.
So … ?
The nonprofit model works OK. But how many nonprofit news outlets can the average reader support? Look at how NPR stations are struggling.
And we can’t *all* be funded by the Knight Foundation.
So … ?
I'll take "Things I didn't need to know existed" for $500.
November 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I'll take "Things I didn't need to know existed" for $500.
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NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
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The State Department is required to publish “a thorough, accurate, and reliable” history of U.S. foreign policy within 30 years of the events.
But it deleted documents about the risk of inadvertent nuclear war. https://wapo.st/49TiRY4
But it deleted documents about the risk of inadvertent nuclear war. https://wapo.st/49TiRY4
November 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The State Department is required to publish “a thorough, accurate, and reliable” history of U.S. foreign policy within 30 years of the events.
But it deleted documents about the risk of inadvertent nuclear war. https://wapo.st/49TiRY4
But it deleted documents about the risk of inadvertent nuclear war. https://wapo.st/49TiRY4
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For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: ‘I felt like a piece of trash’
The Tribune spoke to U.S. citizens and green card holders who have either been questioned or detained during Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
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Had 4 years of outrage media coverage of Hunter Biden having a board seat but not quite as much energy directed to what is basically legalized bribery. Need your tariffs cut? Just hand Trump a <checks notes> $130,000 solid gold bar and a bespoke Rolex desk clock. Media shrugs.
November 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Had 4 years of outrage media coverage of Hunter Biden having a board seat but not quite as much energy directed to what is basically legalized bribery. Need your tariffs cut? Just hand Trump a <checks notes> $130,000 solid gold bar and a bespoke Rolex desk clock. Media shrugs.
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Missourians are fighting to veto the state’s new GOP gerrymander at the ballot box, but Republicans are in a “bare-knuckle brawl” to stop them. Their recent tactic? Creating legal delays that could sabotage voters’ efforts ahead of a critical deadline.
Republicans in ‘Bare-Knuckle Brawl’ to Stop Missourians From Voting on Gerrymander
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Missourians are fighting to veto the state’s new GOP gerrymander at the ballot box, but Republicans are in a “bare-knuckle brawl” to stop them. Their recent tactic? Creating legal delays that could sabotage voters’ efforts ahead of a critical deadline.
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Great backgrounder from the Advocate on how a small group of more or less professional detransitioners and rare stories of regret are being weaponized by Reps to drive policy and drown out local voices. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Detransition is rare, but it’s driving anti-trans policy anyway
Political rhetoric doesn’t capture the complexity of detransitioning — or what taking away health care means.
www.advocate.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Great backgrounder from the Advocate on how a small group of more or less professional detransitioners and rare stories of regret are being weaponized by Reps to drive policy and drown out local voices. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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I.C.E. is a government-run domestic terror organization.
Here they are, kidnapping a father while his children plead for his life.
Here they are, kidnapping a father while his children plead for his life.
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I.C.E. is a government-run domestic terror organization.
Here they are, kidnapping a father while his children plead for his life.
Here they are, kidnapping a father while his children plead for his life.
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When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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I hated Bill Clinton when I was a deeply conservative Charismatic Catholic child. I hated Bill Clinton when I was a relatively conservative adult. Now that I'm a radical left lunatic, I still hate that philandering cad Bill Clinton and if he's in the files, he needs to go to jail.
Buuuuuuut, Bill Clinton…
Seriously, if so, IDGAF.
Jail them all.
Seriously, if so, IDGAF.
Jail them all.
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I hated Bill Clinton when I was a deeply conservative Charismatic Catholic child. I hated Bill Clinton when I was a relatively conservative adult. Now that I'm a radical left lunatic, I still hate that philandering cad Bill Clinton and if he's in the files, he needs to go to jail.
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Genuinely, the “for want of a nail the kingdom was lost” moment for the US over the last 50 years was the Nixon pardon. The impunity and lack of accountability during the Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, and Trump years all stems from this grave mistake. This will all be swept under the rug too (probably).
November 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Genuinely, the “for want of a nail the kingdom was lost” moment for the US over the last 50 years was the Nixon pardon. The impunity and lack of accountability during the Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, and Trump years all stems from this grave mistake. This will all be swept under the rug too (probably).
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The Gospel meditation for my paid subscribers!
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Gospel Meditation for the Feast of John Lateran
...in which we find out there's NO SUCH PERSON as John Lateran, and hear the end of the saga of Mary's car repair, and meditate on the Gospel as well.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The Gospel meditation for my paid subscribers!
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