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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

As it happens, the Catholic Church has explicitly rejected Johnson's idea that governments do not need to worry about details like treating people humanely regardless of their status. But Pope Leo made a broader appeal to the Christian obligation to see Jesus in the poor and vulnerable. 3/

It's a part of the Gospel that makes every Christian squirm, because you can't wiggle out of the obligation to love by pretending not to know it applies. "Lord, we didn't realize that was YOU!" is irrelevant. Did you treat others badly or with love when you had the power is all that matters. /4

Gambit was perfect for the 90s when superheroes stood around in dramatic poses that did nothing to advance the plot except for looking cool.

Smithsonian’s National Zoo in DC welcomes newborn Asian elephant - WTOP News The Smithsonian’s National Zoo in D.C. is welcoming its first Asian elephant calf in nearly 25 years.

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So we must pray for a good will, infused with charity, as we decide what it is just and good to do. Charity prevents goodness and justice from being place-holder words for the decisions of the powerful. Justice is a reality in itself sought in practice for the human good of all.

Can regular Catholics still go to SSPX priests for confession? I know Francis allowed this as an olive branch but not sure if it's still in effect. I once thought of going to a SSPX church for confession just to see what it's like, but the closest one is too far of a drive to bother.

Anyway, ironically, SSPX "negotiations" are basically the same kind of thing as the Lutherans sending a delegation to Trent. It wasn't to hammer out a good-faith agreement; it was to stand up and make a statement about how they don't recognize the council and its authority, and Rome is wrong, period

Trump's cosplaying Baron Haussman for DC. Wants to build a triumphal arch in front of Arlington Cemetery that would dwarf the Lincoln Memorial just across the river.

I'm guilty of doomscrolling.

Kwannon came after Claremont left. Things were choppy in the X titles post-Claremont before settling down with a regular stable of writers. I don't know what he had in mind for Betsy, but he's also notorious for leaving storylines dangling and never really wrapping them up.

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

The largest infrastructure projects currently being built in the US appear to be data centers and detention centers. The AI boom has coincided with ICE becoming the most heavily funded government agency. It's hard not to see a connection: This is the architectures of digital fascism

We cannot oppress the powerless and vulnerable people in our midst and also pray the "Our Father."
We simply cannot do both.

This comparison just sent a chill down my spine.

For Liam.

I understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.

"The real criticism [of the prophets] begins in the capacity to grieve because that is the most visceral announcement that things are not right. Only in the empire are we pressed and urged and invited to pretend that things are all right."

W. Brueggemann

This right here is the beginnings of the result of what DOGE was really up to. Not *really* slashing stuff, but getting access to as many government citizen databases and joining them to be able to target people quickly and comprehensively across all their exposure to the federal government.

Who are the criminals? Listen to Hind Rajab By Kathy KellyPax Christi USA 1998 Teacher of Peace Today, January 29, 2026, marks the second year since the Israeli military, using US provisioned weapons, murdered Hind Rajab. Had she lived, this little Palestinian girl who liked to dress up as a princess would now be 7 ½ years old. An Israeli Defense Force unit fired a barrage of missiles at the car in which she and her relatives were fleeing from an Israeli military invasion of their neighborhood.

Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace Kathy Kelly reminds us that this is the second anniversary of the death of five-year old Hind Rajab who was murdered when an Israeli Defense Force unit shot missiles at the car Hind and her family were traveling in. Those who tried to rescue Hind were killed, too.

I have this terrible image of the psycho killer from No Country for Old Men doing the coin toss.

The moral universe these people inhabit is... something. Yikes.

Tell Your Senators: Stop Harmful ICE and CBP Funding Increases In neighborhoods across the country, from California to Maine, our families and communities have faced devastating upheaval. As arrests, detentions, and deportations rise, we witness the consequences ...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Your Senators: Stop Harmful ICE and CBP Funding Increases. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

Pope on Holocaust Remembrance Day: Church rejects every form of antisemitism - Vatican News Eighty-one years after the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp was liberated, we remember the millions of lives lost to the Holocaust and ...

On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope Leo reminds us "the Church rejects any discrimination or harassment based on ethnicity, language, nationality, or religion.” Never forget.

www.vaticannews.va/en/world/new...

A good summary of the second Trump administration in one photo.

There's a weird inverse of Murc's Law where the corporate leaders, academia, media, etc. conceptualize conservatives as a powerful bloc that needs to be catered to but no one seems to have a theory of mind for liberals.

That would actually make a cool story. Trying to finish brunch with Mystique before she kills you. Like the movie with the knight playing a game of chess with Death.

The Trump administration said, flatly, that people shouldn't have guns at protests. Every anti-gun group has all those statements saved to their hard drives now. They made life much more difficult for the 2A folks. And they know it.

Cardinal Tobin calls on Catholics to pressure Congress against further funding of ICE. We need more bishops to speak up.

So that's why they didn't film the regeneration scene when he became the Third Doctor.