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Say what you want about classicist design and the architecture God likes but southsiders know the Chateau Busche' when we see it.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Say what you want about classicist design and the architecture God likes but southsiders know the Chateau Busche' when we see it.
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I enjoy a laugh like anybody else. But the demise of the Republic isn't funny and something of its cause is described by how we prefer The Onion (or SNL, or The Daily Show, or...) over the news (which I'll be first to agree The WaPo no longer offers reliably, but also...).
This is how decay looks.
This is how decay looks.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I enjoy a laugh like anybody else. But the demise of the Republic isn't funny and something of its cause is described by how we prefer The Onion (or SNL, or The Daily Show, or...) over the news (which I'll be first to agree The WaPo no longer offers reliably, but also...).
This is how decay looks.
This is how decay looks.
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Putin says he's interested in a peace where Ukrainian troops withdraw from Ukrainian territory.
Well, it's probably one of the most honest things he's said in a while.
Well, it's probably one of the most honest things he's said in a while.
Putin: “When Ukrainians troops withdraw from the territories they hold, then we will cease hostilities; If they don’t leave, we will achieve this by military means “
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Putin says he's interested in a peace where Ukrainian troops withdraw from Ukrainian territory.
Well, it's probably one of the most honest things he's said in a while.
Well, it's probably one of the most honest things he's said in a while.
I hope all 3 pull through, gun violence is grotesque evil.
Also, I guess the Guard hasn't cleaned up DC crime after 3mos? I guess ICE hasn't gotten all the criminals off our streets? Maybe this doesn't work and guns are actually the problem...?
Nah. Who'd buy it?
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Also, I guess the Guard hasn't cleaned up DC crime after 3mos? I guess ICE hasn't gotten all the criminals off our streets? Maybe this doesn't work and guns are actually the problem...?
Nah. Who'd buy it?
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Live updates: Two National Guard members shot near White House in critical condition, AP source says
Two National Guard members were shot Wednesday near the White House and are in critical condition. President Donald Trump said the shooter would "pay a very steep price."
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November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I hope all 3 pull through, gun violence is grotesque evil.
Also, I guess the Guard hasn't cleaned up DC crime after 3mos? I guess ICE hasn't gotten all the criminals off our streets? Maybe this doesn't work and guns are actually the problem...?
Nah. Who'd buy it?
apnews.com/live/trump-n...
Also, I guess the Guard hasn't cleaned up DC crime after 3mos? I guess ICE hasn't gotten all the criminals off our streets? Maybe this doesn't work and guns are actually the problem...?
Nah. Who'd buy it?
apnews.com/live/trump-n...
Like reading a confession—brainwashed by monetized techne, we have no need for sophia.
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Universities | The Guardian share.google/m4lvluONHWK6...
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Universities | The Guardian share.google/m4lvluONHWK6...
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
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November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Like reading a confession—brainwashed by monetized techne, we have no need for sophia.
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Catholics for Catholics are pretty cheerful about public sinner RFK, Jr. whose intrinsically evil adultery should scandalize them.
"Don't spill a drop," they seem instead to say, as though they were the canyon for his river.
"Don't spill a drop," they seem instead to say, as though they were the canyon for his river.
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Catholics for Catholics are pretty cheerful about public sinner RFK, Jr. whose intrinsically evil adultery should scandalize them.
"Don't spill a drop," they seem instead to say, as though they were the canyon for his river.
"Don't spill a drop," they seem instead to say, as though they were the canyon for his river.
Healthcare facilities in the U.S. are sweatshops where patients are the workers.
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Healthcare facilities in the U.S. are sweatshops where patients are the workers.
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The End of the Longest Peace?
One of history’s greatest achievements is under threat.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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I heard someone say recently that synodality can't change that the church is hierarchical. I wanted to laugh.
Read LG. The church is both hierarchical and synodal. It cannot un-be either.
But we've overemphasized hierarchy so much for 1500yrs that every time someone says lets tend to this other...
Read LG. The church is both hierarchical and synodal. It cannot un-be either.
But we've overemphasized hierarchy so much for 1500yrs that every time someone says lets tend to this other...
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I heard someone say recently that synodality can't change that the church is hierarchical. I wanted to laugh.
Read LG. The church is both hierarchical and synodal. It cannot un-be either.
But we've overemphasized hierarchy so much for 1500yrs that every time someone says lets tend to this other...
Read LG. The church is both hierarchical and synodal. It cannot un-be either.
But we've overemphasized hierarchy so much for 1500yrs that every time someone says lets tend to this other...
A solemnity with its own liturgical color.
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A solemnity with its own liturgical color.
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Whether it's Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Donald Trump calling for the execution of Democrats, both presidents engaged in norm-busting behavior.
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Whether it's Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Donald Trump calling for the execution of Democrats, both presidents engaged in norm-busting behavior.
I have been hoping someone would do this. Hear, hear for @csplaction.bsky.social. The GOP gave us a perverse caselaw on religious liberty. Let's at least use it to minister to vulnerable people.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I have been hoping someone would do this. Hear, hear for @csplaction.bsky.social. The GOP gave us a perverse caselaw on religious liberty. Let's at least use it to minister to vulnerable people.
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Check out the thinning hair
Check out the aftershave
Check out America
You're looking at it, babe
Check out the aftershave
Check out America
You're looking at it, babe
November 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Check out the thinning hair
Check out the aftershave
Check out America
You're looking at it, babe
Check out the aftershave
Check out America
You're looking at it, babe
It burns so quick and it must be America
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
It burns so quick and it must be America
I know what I'm calling him from now on.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I know what I'm calling him from now on.
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If and when Trump leaves the scene, the country will still face a dauting task: Who can channel the disruptive political energies of a society in which the established institutions have lost the people’s trust into a (small-d) democratic direction?
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
If and when Trump leaves the scene, the country will still face a dauting task: Who can channel the disruptive political energies of a society in which the established institutions have lost the people’s trust into a (small-d) democratic direction?
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
As I thought all along— they're not tough enough to handle our winter. Farewell, snowbird soldiers.
Texas National Guard troops expected to leave Chicago and return home, source says | CNN share.google/IxzLX0qc0PH8...
Texas National Guard troops expected to leave Chicago and return home, source says | CNN share.google/IxzLX0qc0PH8...
Texas National Guard troops expected to leave Chicago and return home, source says | CNN
Texas National Guard troops are expected to leave Chicago and return to their home state very soon, a source familiar with the planning told CNN, after weeks in limbo as a court battle played out over...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
As I thought all along— they're not tough enough to handle our winter. Farewell, snowbird soldiers.
Texas National Guard troops expected to leave Chicago and return home, source says | CNN share.google/IxzLX0qc0PH8...
Texas National Guard troops expected to leave Chicago and return home, source says | CNN share.google/IxzLX0qc0PH8...
7 faith leaders were arrested violently Friday for protesting peacefully outside a detention center near Chicago.
ICE dscended on a NC church yesterday forcing members to flee.
Is the Trump Admin "the Left" now?
ICE dscended on a NC church yesterday forcing members to flee.
Is the Trump Admin "the Left" now?
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
7 faith leaders were arrested violently Friday for protesting peacefully outside a detention center near Chicago.
ICE dscended on a NC church yesterday forcing members to flee.
Is the Trump Admin "the Left" now?
ICE dscended on a NC church yesterday forcing members to flee.
Is the Trump Admin "the Left" now?
Maybe the message about this would be clearer and get through if we told it in German or Russian.
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At least seven faith leaders arrested at Broadview ICE facility protest
(RNS) — 'I've got bruises all over my body,' the Rev. Michael Woolf, who was thrown to the ground and arrested by police, told RNS.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Maybe the message about this would be clearer and get through if we told it in German or Russian.
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There's another, older, less inflammatory way to say this—
Never cross a picket line
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Never cross a picket line
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Zohran Mamdani wants you to boycott Starbucks
Mamdani's call to boycott Starbucks amid the strike represents an early indication of how he may use the bully pulpit as NYC mayor.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
There's another, older, less inflammatory way to say this—
Never cross a picket line
Source: Business Insider
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Never cross a picket line
Source: Business Insider
search.app/My66W