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CHRIST this was a bitch to alt text (my phone camera is allergic to this font) but it was worth it so we could enjoy this scorching hot Catholic tea together

they just flat out said the SCOTUS Catholics are going to hell. which we knew, but maybe they’ll hear it from the bishops!

the confidence of men who have contributed absolutely nothing to society in passing judgment about the intelligence of entire groups of people will never stop amazing me. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Now *this* 🧵is my kind of timeline cleanse! the photos alone would be great enough but be sure to read the Alt text!

but it sure explained all the articles i'd been reading about people ending up in A&E after attempting to peel avocados. I couldn't begin to imagine what you would have to do to an avocado to cut yourself that badly. Then GBBO showed me.

Grey Shetland pony with snow around and the sea behind

After weeks of gales the islands are enjoying snow, sunshine and stillness #Shetland

Where Jesus Lives It was the most anxious of days. There is so much to be anxious about. If you are fortunate enough not to be American right now, I can't describe the

When we couldn’t stand to garden in the cold anymore, we went in for hot chocolate.

“Do you like Jesus too?” asked the girl, pointing to the Vernicle in my icon corner.

“I love Jesus!”

www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

In April, Sarah Krieger received an e-mail about a trafficking victim, who had recently been arrested by ICE. The woman, who’d been a witness for the prosecution in an ongoing case, had applied for a temporary benefit known as a T visa, which confers legal protection to trafficking victims who coöperate with federal law enforcement. She had waited more than six months, but hadn’t received a notice from U.S.C.I.S. acknowledging receipt of her application. “There are thousands of applications that are sitting unopened in regional offices because so many staff have left the agency,” Krieger told me. “Literally boxes in mailrooms.” Krieger managed to find the woman’s application and sent an agency receipt to ICE. She was deported anyway.

The Trump administration's handling of the legal immigration system is so malignant and incompetent that ICE ended up deporting a human trafficking victim seemingly because so many people have quit that her application for relief was sitting in a mailroom in a box unopened.

dammit.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Said 'Um' A Couple Times In Munich, And The New York Times Is ON IT That former bartender sure does threaten powerful old billionaires.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Said 'Um' A Couple Times In Munich, And The New York Times Is ON IT

That former bartender sure does threaten powerful old billionaires.

By @marciej.bsky.social

www.wonkette.com/p/alexandria...

yeah, I see Krishnamoorthi's ads on TV every freaking day and I only watch Colbert and some streaming. Most normies will know his name and not Stratton or Kelly.

"reverse panopticon"

"The ghost story, in other words, will always, on some level, fail to capture the haunting, just as the algorithm will always fail to capture the life—both are anathema to the very existence of the unpredictable and the messy. "

This essay from @colindickey.com is today's must-read:

we sang "mouth" but you saying "teeth" unearthed for me a memory that my dad would often follow this song with a cry of "yee-haw SaniFlush / Cleans your teeth without a brush."

because that was the tune! i cant every hear that music without singing "Comet, it makes your mouth turn green," etc.

My peers said "bow-legged women" which confused me for years.

Not all are called to be martyrs like Alex Pretti. But we can be witnesses. (RNS) — People of faith are being called to view politics through the lens of faith, not the other way around.

"I thank God for witnesses. It can be dangerous to shine a light on that which the powerful would hide. ... The tragic deaths of witnesses like Alex Pretti and Renee Good reveal the darkness around them."

— Catholic Diocese of Yakima Bishop Joseph Tyson religionnews.com/2026/02/04/n...

Love this! One “correction”: the character Lola Heatherton was a combination of Joey Heatherton and Lola Falana. I was fascinated by how sometimes she was made to look very Joey and others more Lola, incl darker makeup.

please note this in no way excuses the damage they do. In my experience, I have found that it helps me recognize how scared, sad, sick, or desperate they are, whether they know it themselves, and then can deal with their behavior from that perspective.

imho, it's possible to pity someone like this at the same time as being angry at the pain and damage they are causing others. I truly think those feelings can help us to oppose and work against their damaging actions better than just hating and dismissing them as bad.

love of money is the root of all evil

wow! a year ago our priest asked us to pray for the people being hurt by the destruction of USAID and fears of mass deportation. I was so stunned that I made a point of thanking him after Mass. He's never said another such prayer since.

@blackcatholicmessenger.org @natemup.com Black Catholic Messenger amplifies Black Catholic voices. IMHO, essential reading for all Catholics and of much value to non-Catholics as well.

one reason i love The House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones is that I sooo relate to the mysteriously multiplying laundry and dishes. No treasure but iirc at least the protagonist is not shamed for preferring to read books

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what’s astounding about this is not only the incredible cruelty but the complete lack of even the most basic public relations instincts

they kidnap a five year old and generate national outrage and rather than do some basic window dressing to treat him nice while abusing everyone else they do this

Per body cam footage of the shooting, a second Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy offered to go get a medical kit for Massey after Sean Grayson shot her in the head.

Grayson discouraged him from doing so.

“She’s done,” he told the other officer. “You can go get it, but that’s a head shot.”

Sonya Massey called for help, and instead she was killed.

We owe Sonya and her family more than a verdict. We owe her a country where safety is the norm, accountability is non-negotiable, and no one has to fear the people who are supposed to protect them.

How much in assets do they need and how can we do that then.

Amanda Gorman's "For Alex Jeffrey Pretti" laments the Saturday killing of a 37-year-old Minnesota ICU nurse by Border Patrol.

The Catholic-raised poet is among many calling for national introspection as the Trump White House doubles down on violence. www.blackcatholicmes...

One Lent years and years ago, our parish had for its token "Peace" Stations of the Cross one in which the readings each related contemporary situations involving torture, rendition, unjust incarceration, etc. I have thought this moment would be a good one to do something similar.