gregorian rants

Cumulative U.S. measles cases, 2022-2026 As of Jan. 13, 2026 2025 2,000 1,500 1,000 500 2026 2024 2022 2023 0 January April Data: CDC; Chart: Axios Visuals July October It's a graph that shows the rocketing number of cases of measles in the United States

Trump did this.

Measles is deadly.

ICE agents are kidnapping, brutalizing, shooting, and killing people, using fraudulent intimidation tactics, violating our laws and the Constitution, exploiting children, taking trophy photos of their victims, and leaving death cards on people's cars. ICE is the Trump Gestapo and must be abolished.

ICE should have been abolished by now.

A Message from Your Federal Overlords “Even as videos emerged that contradicted the government’s account, the Trump administration was in a race to control the narrative around the kill...

"While it may have looked like a shooting, it was actually a 'rapid de-escalation outcome.' We recognize that phrases like that may sound invented, which is why we ask you to repeat them anyway."

casual reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated seven months ago, and Senator Hoffman and his wife were seriously injured that day as well, and both of those things were outcomes that the current administration wants to happen again

Still unknown

Yeah that was a big disadvantage

Did you know? Nuremberg was chosen (over Berlin) for the war criminal trials because 1) the Nazis had held multiple rallies there from 1927 to 1938, 2) Hitler convened the Reichstag there to strip Jews of citizenship, and 3) it already had a large Palace of Justice with an adjoining prison.

The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution. Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene. “That day, he thought he was going to die,” said the source.

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.

He thought he was going to die.

Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.

And a mob of agents killed him.

Until the actual killers face justice, every single person who works for DHS can be presumed to be a murderer. If they want anonymity, they get collective responsibility.

its almost as if,,, the republicans aren’t *actually* pro-life 😮

If abortion can’t be reasonably outlawed, it can most certainly be regulated.

Aquinas famously said (I’m paraphrasing) that prostitution should be decriminalized because the alternative is much worse. Wonder if he’d say the same of abortion in the 21st century.

RIGHT???

It’s also a pun, because a cantor is a person who cants 🤯

What’s mine is yours

The easiest way to win my vote in the Democratic primaries is to promise to prosecute every Trump administration figure who broke the law.

Internal memo did say they don’t need a warrant!

I had a student asked me if it’s true that you can’t be Catholic and Democrat, to which I replied, “There’s nothing stopping a good Catholic from being a ‘bad’ Democrat.”

ME: got a fantastic idea for a movie about a priest who loves capitalism
EXECUTIVE: sounds intriguing. this guy got a name
ME: uh. bishop. robber… baron. bishop robert barron

I’m seeing that now!

I guess that’s more what I mean. The average Catholic in the US, even one who pays attention to Catholic news, does not know the name of the bishop of Little Rock

My ignorance is showing 😅

We need so much more of this.

To me, this is bigger than the Cupich/McElroy/Tobin statement. American Catholics have come to expect these kinds of statements from Cupich & co.

But when a random bishop from a random diocese issues a statement saying the US is starting to look like Nazi Germany, pay attention.

Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders WASHINGTON—Urging locals to “fully cooperate” with federal agents, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called on Minneapolis residents Monday to stop obstructing murders. “The brave ...

“The brave men and women of ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol are doing their best to carry out these executions in a safe and professional manner,” said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

Look, if you had a party scheduled at your house, and the pipes broke and the floor was covered in raw sewage, you’d tell your friends not to come over.

In that spirit: world, skip the World Cup until we get this sewage worked out. And don’t be too sure about the Olympics.

Suspicions confirmed!