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Joseph P-M
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Gay priest, gay married, gay dad. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him. Seattle. Late 30s. Lots of reposts.
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not one dark speck that could be confused for pepper or even an aromatic in the whole picture

the potatoes (top left, that’s a guess, it could be cauliflower) could be fine but you just know from context that there’s nothing to the taste
November 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.

Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.

They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”

It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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the diaeresis really takes this from bad post to art in its own right
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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speaking of war crimes, look at that macaroni
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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OMG. This is the "good-faith, very passionate" debate Bari Weiss pointed when talking about the people and discussions she wants "in the room" at CBS News.

Dana Loesch, unchallenged, absurdly claimed that 52% of all murders in the U.S. are in Cook County and L.A. County. VID: x.com/WallStreetAp...
Wall Street Apes on X: "This is actually insane 52% of all murders in the United States come from only 2 counties 1) Cook County, Illinois (Chicago and surrounding area) 2) Los Angeles County, California Repeat offenders in Chicago, the same 1400 people commit over 86% of the crimes. The same repeat https://t.co/QJe3KdBllC" / X
This is actually insane 52% of all murders in the United States come from only 2 counties 1) Cook County, Illinois (Chicago and surrounding area) 2) Los Angeles County, California Repeat offenders in Chicago, the same 1400 people commit over 86% of the crimes. The same repeat https://t.co/QJe3KdBllC
x.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Right. This is normally a prelude to imminent war. But no one knows if the us president is serious or had a bad breakfast or is making an insane joke or had a stroke or whatever.
This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
Might be kicking off.
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.

Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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how many times has the Seattle Times run a "compassion is great, but" editorial arguing for a lack of compassion at this point? we get it, you think homelessness should be illegal, find literally anything else to talk about. (Also, no Seattle neighborhood has been "destroyed," good god.)
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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None of these words are in the Bible.
November 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Transgender for everybody!!
Queer-coded transit news: the M train is taking over some of the F train’s service and the F train is taking some of the M train’s service. So, put simply, F to M and M to F.
November 29, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Dear Journalists on Bluesky: I have a question.

Would you interview notorious liar George Santos, let him accuse female journalists reporting on him of being literal and not metaphorical prostitutes, refrain from any pushback, then publish and promote the interview for clicks?
/1
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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what absolute piss baby coward shit to give into this administration right as they’re getting caught doing murders and using outright slurs in public
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I've heard this is going to be the band's special music at @rywigs.bsky.social's churches on Sunday www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AzN...
dc Talk - I Wish We'd All Been Ready (Live) [with Larry Norman] - 1994
YouTube video by dc Talk
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
AVOIDANCE! at my laptop
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I can buy the argument that we shouldn’t blame the Trump administration for letting in the guy who committed the shootings. I have a harder time with the argument that the Biden administration is to blame for the Trump administration letting in the guy who committed the shootings.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Granny's Library
Oakman, AL
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Today in the Free Press: What YOU Can Do To Help Enforce The Trump Administration’s New Limits On “Third World” Migration. Bonus Article: How “Land Acknowledgements” Before Comp Lit Lectures At Bard College Are Ripping America Apart
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Trumpism and Trumpists are incompatible with American culture and traditions and should be purged.
November 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Black Friday/AAR sale! You can get The Fullness of Time for the low, low price of $11.50 with the code CONFSHIP. Help me order a pizza next October with my massive royalty check.

(Seriously, it will help you understand our current political moment)

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The Fullness of Time- Wipf and Stock Publishers
While human existence in time is determined by the time of Jesus Christ, by the logic of the incarnation, passion, resurrection, and ascension, the predomina...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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If you use AI in a presentation or product marketing, I'm going to assume you've put the same lack of care and attention into the rest of the content.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Seeking Apollo and Finding Mammon: A Spiritual Memoir
November 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Not to be conspiratorial but the ring that knows everywhere you go, when & where you sleep, & what causes you physiological stress also has contracts to share data with Palantir & the Dept of Defense (allegedly no personally identifying data bc that would be illegal 🙄) so do what you will with that.
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM