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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ
@padresj.bsky.social
Catholic Priest
Passionate about Tech and Science
Jesuit in Rome

Bots, edgelords & those who can't have a civil conversation are blocked.

All opinions are my own
This kitty is casting a spell that will make you share your Thanksgiving feast with your fur baby! 😇
November 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Do you ever have that dream in which you are incredibly late for work/class and the world seems to be going very slowly as the panic and anxiety rises within you because you know that the consequences for your lateness rise exponentially with each passing minute?

Also... You're a cat. 😝
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
In normal times, $220m being squandered on a no-bid ad campaign for a presidential appointee, which went into pockets connected to that appointee, would be enough to trigger an investigation.

But in the house of grift that is the Trump admin, that's just a typical payment for loyalty.
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
much scam

so fail

wow
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
How did we get to the point, where a POTUS would be the inspiration for people like this to say these things and believe they are being pro-American and pro-Christian?
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
As Trump sells advanced warplanes to Saudi Arabia & deflects questions about Khashoggi, claiming that the killers had no connection to MBS or his government, here's what OUR intelligence agencies know about what happened to a US resident INSIDE the secure area of a Saudi consulate.
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is downtown Seoul, South Korea after 1 million people had an all-day protest.

Imagine if our protests were this orderly and neat.

What would MAGA and the police complain about?
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
November 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The food over here is REALLY good.

... But I fear I may be drinking too much coffee. ☺️
November 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Add the high profile MAGA who have committed sex crimes against children, and you might start to see a pattern among their demagogues.

Yet, the MAGA faithful STILL think they are fighting against an evil sex-trafficking/blood-sacrifice cabal run by the Democrats and liberals around the world.
November 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This is Megyn Kelly.

She was a Fox News host in the 2000'-2010s and a mainstay of the MAGA movement.

Yesterday she drew a line between sexual relationships between REALLY young sex-trafficked girls (8) and just "youngish" (15) sex-trafficked girls, saying the latter wasn't REALLY all that bad.
November 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This is Milo Yiannopoulos (Milo Hanrahan).

He was an editor of Breitbart News, ultra right-wing, and a mainstay of MAGA in mid 2010s.

In 2017, he drew a line between sexual relationships between REALLY young boys, and just "youngish" (13) boys, saying the latter could be positive.
November 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Trump reps right now:
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"Writers? Editors?

Pfffft....! We don't need any of those!"

-- Owner of this paper (probably)
November 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Woof.
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This is Joshua Kindred.

In 2020, Trump gifted him a lifetime federal judgeship in Alaska.

Earlier this year he resigned rather than face allegations that he turned his office into a hellscape of verbal & sexual abuse.

Today he was disbarred for basic ethics violations.

...

"The Best People"
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The injustice is the point.

To make decent people fall into despair.

To make us believe that their way is the only way.

To make everybody as ugly and vindictive as themselves.

...

We need to rise.
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I'm pretty sure that this was the photo that made him approach me!
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Remember when ultraMAGA folk, wanting to show their trust in Trump, bought his NFTs, which then promptly lost 98% of their value

... THEN they thought, "yeah... this is the guy we want running the US economy"
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Now that Guiliani has been pardoned, he's working on his credentials to be Trump's next choice for NYC Mayor.
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Either he doesn't understand how insurance works or he thinks his supporters are too ignorant to figure it out for themselves.

...

Insurance risk pools only work because most of the participants don't make claims in any given time period.

It's NOT an investment, it's a hedge against disaster.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I found a dumpling place!

WITH ASIANS! 🥰

Here's hoping that it's good. I would really like a place for noodles and dumplings.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Uh oh... somebody just reminded him that he really ISN'T a king.
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Remember WAY back in Feb 2025 when the Trump administration ramped up their "War on Woke" by firing hundreds of FAA workers?

You know... back when MAGA claimed that REAL Americans were ready to become ATCs & Elon would fix the FAA?

...

Good thing that never came back to bite us, right?
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Remember when this guy made it absolutely clear that the President was responsible for the US government being shut down by the GOP-majority congress?
November 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM