Kevin

debating whether to stay up to go to the midnight Guadalupe ceremonies at our parish

Something very funny about the idea that a extremely limited and obvious moral claim is supported by three US bishops

It will be a weird kind of Orbánism when the White House controls CBS, CNN, 60 Minutes, and the Washington Post, but not the Indiana GOP.

these people don’t go to the doctor when they’re feeling sick; they assume everything is being screened for already at their life-extension clinics

and this comes from the ideological commitment that Israel is *not* “ככל עם ועם” but rather a unique entity with which any moral comparison is impossible

I think the real equivocation here isn’t on “occupation” but on “peace” — “peace” is simply understood as the state in which there is no opposition to Israel.

In late November, during an IDF raid on the town of Beit Jinn to arrest two Syrian terrorists, a firefight broke out, leaving 13 Syrians dead and six IDF soldiers injured. In a celebration of a year since Assad's fall, the Syrian Army paraded through the streets of Damascus, chanting "Gaza, Gaza, our rallying cry ... From your blood I forge my ammunition." Israel's bellicose Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli shared the video with the message: "War is inevitable." Zehavi quipped about the a jebrations: "I'm not sleeping any better at night. The message is we will save Syria from the Zionist occupation. A regime that wants peace doesn't do these things, nor does a regime that is disconnecting itself from Islamism."

al-Zabadani Madaya al-Qutayfah Ar-Ruhaybah Dumayr Douma Damascus Qatana Mt. Hermon Kanaker . Khan Arnabah Ghabaghib uneitra Sanamayn الصنم، Inkhil al-Harra jasim Nawa Tasil Tafas Muzayrib Izra Busra al-Ha Shaykh Miskin Dael Daraa al-Hirak al-Musayfra Israeli Invasion of Syria 2024 - present 8 DECEMBER 2024 - present SYRIAN TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT Syrian Government forces ISRAELI-OCCUPIED Israeli Defense Forces control 5 kilometers 0 miles 45 28 Sayda

Now I may be wrong, but I am inclined to think the reason Syrians are talking about being free of Zionist occupation is because Syrians are in fact currently living under Zionist occupation.

I think it’s money at one remove — most of these people don’t mind cashing checks, but even the ones with their own money are terrified of not getting invited to the really rich people’s parties

You’re hearing it more and more!

The continuing revelation that literally -everyone- in this administration is some form of swinger is really something I didn't need.

You know you want to see Buzz Lightyear in Andor.

the real commonality between Mormonism and Gnosticism isn’t that they believe in a wicked demiurge but that they believe God the Father (and his spouse Heavenly Mother) are part of a larger “family tree” of paired divinities, to whose ranks the Mormon adept may be eventually promoted

Pope Leo XIV & @Pontifex Every human being and every religion is called to promote #Fraternity. In our time marked by growing conflict and division, we need authentic testimonies of human kindness and charity to remind us that we are all brothers and sisters. Words are not enough. Our love and deepest convictions need to be continually cultivated, and we do so through concrete actions. #ZayedAward 07:45 • 12/11/25 • 59K Views

Leo is continuing a theme introduced by Francis — that fraternity is grounded in our shared humanity, even without a shared confession of faith.

It’s an important intervention in debates on the political valence of Catholicism.

that’s why the Republicans at the Register are upset about it, but it’s a distinction that matters for purely theological reasons too

Like many of you, I eagerly await the many future long-form articles in the Times, Atlantic, etc, that will solemnly “reveal” these facts to us, knowingly inform us they were an “open secret” amongst “insiders”, and chin-strokingly reflect on the “challenges” of “grasping” various “contradictions”.

Update: The “National Catholic Register,” usually a reliable MAGA Catholic publication, has condemned the White House’s theological error.

you can’t walk into a discussion of Christian heresies and be surprised that it gets pedantic

“God became man” has to be located at the annunciation, and not at Christmas “nine months later”

it’s not arian; it’s adoptionist

Saying "it's good that this is happening" isn't the same as saying "the people who are doing this are good."

Scumbag politicians figuring out what the progressive base wants and giving it to them is an essential part of making the country better. Always has been, always will be.

the same trick works on the iPhone

this race is going to be even more Normal than the mayoral primary

rotelle represent the futility of samsara, but rotini show us the helical motion described in the fourth chapter of the Divine Names, by which the soul, returning to itself, makes progress along another dimension towards God.

people are straining to find a “geopolitical strategy” when it’s just about juicing the price of NVDA

that’s a generous assumption; I’d say they’re yukking it up about this in their group chats

this man autographed israeli bombs

it’s a funny thing to say because Lamont vetoed an earlier version of this bill and was forced to reverse course by massive opposition

“Immigrant” is one of those words, like “antisemitism” or “communist” that in certain contexts, only constitutes an enemy of the state, rather than a subject or even a meaningful definition. The irony that Musk is also an immigrant therefore doesn’t even register as irony for him, bc it isn’t

it was so kind of the Napa Institute to host him 🥰