Nute Year, Nute You

this is like when you learn for the first time that one of George Lucas' single greatest desires for new post-PT Star Wars content was to do a Han Solo origin

look it's going to be very funny when Democrats win crushing landslides under Jeffries and Schumer and "congressional leadership doesn't matter very much to electoral outcomes" is a free square to move onto right now so you're not flailing later! (but does mean adjusting some rhetoric)

oh my god during the Fellowship of the Ring commentary, Peter Jackson actually goes on a brief tangent about how cool it is that Gandalf and Aragorn go on a hunt for Gollum and how he wishes they had been able to shoot it for the movie but they couldn't

I foolishly assumed that this Trump post tonight made no sense to me because there is some medical situation in Greenland of which I am uninformed. But so far all the news reports I’ve seen are saying that it is unclear what he is talking about.

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Wow the Dodgers winning everywhere today

Now this certainly doesn’t mean there was a *consensus* around this in early Christianity! It came to be heavily associated with certain schools of thought (eg Alexandria) and rejected by others. But it’s an incredibly old debate lol

There is a modern perception among both fundamentalist religious people and some atheists that “non-literal readings of biblical texts” are some postmodernist nonsense when they are literally older than some of the books of the Bible

it's so funny how many fundamentalists want to act like "hey maybe the Bible isn't meant to be literal historical truth" is some crazy new fangled liberal notion when you literally had Jews saying this before there was a Christianity

(But topping it is nice because it means you may actually vaguely recall how the team did in ST one year in the future which god knows I currently can’t for any Mets season)

Half the league taking off for the WBC in a few weeks means it will impressively become even less relevant than its normal baseline of ‘zero’

He knows you have a spring training crown to protect (IIRC?)

Tbf they lost their opener yesterday but it’s always funny to see some comical ST wallopings

Birdsong isn’t in your rotation, right?

That’s definitely how I used to understand it but now I see it used for every political view imaginable

Confession: I have completely lost track of how “the group chats” is meant to point as a political signifier because literally everybody seems to use it and exclusively in relationship to whoever they currently dislike

Have you planned how you’re going to celebrate the PL btw? Or just the UCL?

So so back

"If you read your history, Christians had to do some fighting," says a mid-season form Keith Hernandez during the Mets SNY telecast

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

“Oh so you’re closing ranks to block this unpopular policy your party opposes, eh? Well would you still do it if you, a US senator, had to deliver a long winded speech to cameras reiterating your party spin for hours on end???” - this is not the challenge they seem to believe!

But Dems have this issue because they literally can’t avoid having to vote on budget stuff and have a restive base; the GOP have it because the president is an ignoramus who is actually choosing it

I sort of think the GOP has a problem on this which is the exact inverse of the problem Dems have had on some of these big votes - they know they don’t have the votes to win but feel under pressure to escalate into a showdown so they can say they fought even though it will inevitably fail

The Talking Filibuster is good for the *minority*. This is the whole reason leaders never do it even when random backbenchers demand it!

Cancel the season

And then yes a central thesis of City of God most notably is that Christian nationalism is a fantasy, which is funny since these people claim to love Augustine

I wouldn’t say *purely* spiritual (‘on Earth as in Heaven’) - but it is going to come upon the whole world, not just one corner of it

Gary, Keith and Ron! I've made it through another winter!