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Administrator. Episcopalian, old-line Virginian variety. Calvinist. Democrat. Traditional liberal. Latin Americanist &c. &c.
Florida hill country & Chesapeake roots, Mexico by marriage.
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Florida hill country & Chesapeake roots, Mexico by marriage.
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I really do believe in God and that God has a purpose for the American story. I still have hope for the city on a hill, that somehow reconciliation and brotherhood will someday emerge from the original sin of racial enslavement. That we will be a righteous people and live in harmony.
I have procured an audiobook about genetic history for $2, published in 2006. Hoping I don’t misinform myself.
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I have procured an audiobook about genetic history for $2, published in 2006. Hoping I don’t misinform myself.
British politics saddens me. I’m not sophisticated as to the inner workings of the causes of its troubles but I wish to see the people thrive. In America 99.99% of everything bad is literally just republicans’ fault
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
British politics saddens me. I’m not sophisticated as to the inner workings of the causes of its troubles but I wish to see the people thrive. In America 99.99% of everything bad is literally just republicans’ fault
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Thank we need public executions at the end of this
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Thank we need public executions at the end of this
Today saw a claw machine for vapes lol
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Today saw a claw machine for vapes lol
Realistic for whom? Rancid black hearted execs for whom work is a power trip, and so ceaseless for want of all other fulfillment?
Realistic for what? Doing your pointless half-wit schemes?
No, noo…. Y’all go ‘head, serve pride and mammon to the grave.
The rest of us are called to higher things.
Realistic for what? Doing your pointless half-wit schemes?
No, noo…. Y’all go ‘head, serve pride and mammon to the grave.
The rest of us are called to higher things.
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Realistic for whom? Rancid black hearted execs for whom work is a power trip, and so ceaseless for want of all other fulfillment?
Realistic for what? Doing your pointless half-wit schemes?
No, noo…. Y’all go ‘head, serve pride and mammon to the grave.
The rest of us are called to higher things.
Realistic for what? Doing your pointless half-wit schemes?
No, noo…. Y’all go ‘head, serve pride and mammon to the grave.
The rest of us are called to higher things.
I’ve got time so I’ll go for it.
1. Celebrate the Pilgrim-Wampanoag story if you want. What’s the phrase mainliners love? ‘Inbreaking of the kingdom’? THIS WAS THAT
2. Colonial conflict was two-sided. For sackcloth/ashes you need look to 19th c: false treaties, fed removal, scientific racism &c.
1. Celebrate the Pilgrim-Wampanoag story if you want. What’s the phrase mainliners love? ‘Inbreaking of the kingdom’? THIS WAS THAT
2. Colonial conflict was two-sided. For sackcloth/ashes you need look to 19th c: false treaties, fed removal, scientific racism &c.
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I’ve got time so I’ll go for it.
1. Celebrate the Pilgrim-Wampanoag story if you want. What’s the phrase mainliners love? ‘Inbreaking of the kingdom’? THIS WAS THAT
2. Colonial conflict was two-sided. For sackcloth/ashes you need look to 19th c: false treaties, fed removal, scientific racism &c.
1. Celebrate the Pilgrim-Wampanoag story if you want. What’s the phrase mainliners love? ‘Inbreaking of the kingdom’? THIS WAS THAT
2. Colonial conflict was two-sided. For sackcloth/ashes you need look to 19th c: false treaties, fed removal, scientific racism &c.
Happy thanksgiving! In Mexico rn so here’s last year pics.
This day reflects both the general idea of harvest thankfulness unto God, AND!, the Puritan half of our nat’l founding.
THEREFORE, w no gringos here to stop me, tonight I will read excerpts of City on a Hill to my Mexican fam at dinner.
This day reflects both the general idea of harvest thankfulness unto God, AND!, the Puritan half of our nat’l founding.
THEREFORE, w no gringos here to stop me, tonight I will read excerpts of City on a Hill to my Mexican fam at dinner.
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Happy thanksgiving! In Mexico rn so here’s last year pics.
This day reflects both the general idea of harvest thankfulness unto God, AND!, the Puritan half of our nat’l founding.
THEREFORE, w no gringos here to stop me, tonight I will read excerpts of City on a Hill to my Mexican fam at dinner.
This day reflects both the general idea of harvest thankfulness unto God, AND!, the Puritan half of our nat’l founding.
THEREFORE, w no gringos here to stop me, tonight I will read excerpts of City on a Hill to my Mexican fam at dinner.
An important thing to know about me is I tripped and fell right on my face in the Sistine chapel
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
An important thing to know about me is I tripped and fell right on my face in the Sistine chapel
Now WAIT a minute.
Annual harvest time thanksgiving was a well established tradition in Yankee New England expressly traced to English Puritan ancestors.
Sarah Hale persuaded Lincoln to nationalize it. Obviously he didn’t emphasize its sectional origin. But with time, its mythos spread nationwide.
Annual harvest time thanksgiving was a well established tradition in Yankee New England expressly traced to English Puritan ancestors.
Sarah Hale persuaded Lincoln to nationalize it. Obviously he didn’t emphasize its sectional origin. But with time, its mythos spread nationwide.
My annual reminder that the point of Thanksgiving is not to celebrate the pilgrims or any of that crap; Lincoln never mentioned them once in his proclamation. Thanksgiving is about being grateful for Union victories.
(Well, in Chicago, it was mostly about getting sloshed as of 1870).
(Well, in Chicago, it was mostly about getting sloshed as of 1870).
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Now WAIT a minute.
Annual harvest time thanksgiving was a well established tradition in Yankee New England expressly traced to English Puritan ancestors.
Sarah Hale persuaded Lincoln to nationalize it. Obviously he didn’t emphasize its sectional origin. But with time, its mythos spread nationwide.
Annual harvest time thanksgiving was a well established tradition in Yankee New England expressly traced to English Puritan ancestors.
Sarah Hale persuaded Lincoln to nationalize it. Obviously he didn’t emphasize its sectional origin. But with time, its mythos spread nationwide.
Oh yes. I try to use them sparingly but they come so very naturally to poasting voice
A goofy quirk of this cultural moment is how rolling Trumpisms into your everyday speech is way more common among the left than the right
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Oh yes. I try to use them sparingly but they come so very naturally to poasting voice
A tidy summary of events which made me giggle, and also recoil
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A tidy summary of events which made me giggle, and also recoil
Brazilians really are built different. Proudly, as they should be.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Brazilians really are built different. Proudly, as they should be.
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"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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We know precisely how this story goes because GPS already turned off entire sections of our brains!
Don’t! use. the machines!
Don’t! use. the machines!
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
We know precisely how this story goes because GPS already turned off entire sections of our brains!
Don’t! use. the machines!
Don’t! use. the machines!
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you want quaint Bethlehem stories and little babies, NO, I’m going to talk about the POWER OF DEATH RULING THE COSMOS, and GOD’S INFILTRATION OF ENEMY TERRITORY
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
you want quaint Bethlehem stories and little babies, NO, I’m going to talk about the POWER OF DEATH RULING THE COSMOS, and GOD’S INFILTRATION OF ENEMY TERRITORY
I mean even if I were to revisit this it sure as hell wouldn’t be for this guy. Has he by any authority been anointed? No. He is from Queens.
For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.
November 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I mean even if I were to revisit this it sure as hell wouldn’t be for this guy. Has he by any authority been anointed? No. He is from Queens.
Perhaps he won’t, but in the absence of a democratic president, Jeffries and Schumer are the face of the party, and the press is salivating over any kind of Mamdani conflict narrative they can get their hands on. As they were when AOC was elected, too. And she too made nice with Pelosi immediately.
I get avoiding a fight when it's crucial to show you can govern. I get going to the fascist if you're honest about it. I'm not sure I get having any faith Hakeem Jeffries will reciprocate your support.
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Perhaps he won’t, but in the absence of a democratic president, Jeffries and Schumer are the face of the party, and the press is salivating over any kind of Mamdani conflict narrative they can get their hands on. As they were when AOC was elected, too. And she too made nice with Pelosi immediately.
The first lesson to children in the building of social trust is to ride a rollercoaster. The ricketier and more terrifying the better.
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The first lesson to children in the building of social trust is to ride a rollercoaster. The ricketier and more terrifying the better.
MY VANILLA CONCHA HAS BEEN DISPLACED BY MATCHA CONCHAS AND RESTAURANTS HAVE SECONDARY UNSPICY MENUS I’m so serious this is a crisis
Oh my good lord there are too many gringos in Mexico City. I have seen with mine eye that they are come to this place and run amok. This is not allowed because only I am allowed
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
MY VANILLA CONCHA HAS BEEN DISPLACED BY MATCHA CONCHAS AND RESTAURANTS HAVE SECONDARY UNSPICY MENUS I’m so serious this is a crisis
K im glad it’s not just me
I will say this one thing. All this time? I thought that guy was gay.
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
K im glad it’s not just me
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Today’s collect, if TEC still used the 1928 prayerbook ⚓️
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Today’s collect, if TEC still used the 1928 prayerbook ⚓️
Nice
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Nice
Oh my good lord there are too many gringos in Mexico City. I have seen with mine eye that they are come to this place and run amok. This is not allowed because only I am allowed
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Oh my good lord there are too many gringos in Mexico City. I have seen with mine eye that they are come to this place and run amok. This is not allowed because only I am allowed
And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee …
[T]hy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
[T]hy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
DHS uses American Standard Version translation when quoting scripture. In case you were wondering.
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee …
[T]hy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
[T]hy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.