A big difference between Catholicism and Evangelicalism which JD Vance doesn't seem to understand is the rapture isn't a "thing" in the former.
I remember when the Left Behind books came out, I had no idea what they were talking about.
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A big difference between Catholicism and Evangelicalism which JD Vance doesn't seem to understand is the rapture isn't a "thing" in the former.
I remember when the Left Behind books came out, I had no idea what they were talking about.
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been βinundatedβ with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesusβ¦
I know it's not the anti-war song most people go to (even though their early 2000s albums actually have a lot in this vein) but this moment is reminding me of "Fun & Games" by BNL. Back then it was satirical but now it feels like something you'd hear from a cabinet secretary.
03.03.2026 02:50 β π 16 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I suppose it barely matters that he's told each of them completely contradictory things.
03.03.2026 01:33 β π 18 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0The key to getting mainstream media on board with an illegal war is making them feel like an important part of it.
02.03.2026 16:44 β π 1598 π 515 π¬ 35 π 10"My dear brother, will you be good enough to send me this week an order for $200, since I find it impossible to get money without yr name." JMSI to WMI, 3/2/1846, SMP 2:2
02.03.2026 15:00 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0"When the field of history is left uncrowded by historians with full-time employment, historical actorsβwith self-serving intentionsβwho wish to exculpate and justify their actions will fill the vacuum."
03.03.2026 01:26 β π 25 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: βBREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TKβ
GWβs student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chefβs kiss for the state of American higher education rn
03.03.2026 01:03 β π 1154 π 444 π¬ 15 π 30That's my mayor! Congrats!
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The other weird thing about this is: the USCCB files amicus briefs all the time β and has for, like, decades.
Below is a whole list. Some spend most of their time on legal arguments, but a *lot* cite scripture, Catholic teaching, etc.
This isn't new. www.usccb.org/offices/gene...
roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes
whoops
24.02.2026 14:08 β π 3291 π 1080 π¬ 19 π 37Fun to think about the decisions weβre locking in now
02.03.2026 04:40 β π 384 π 50 π¬ 12 π 1quite the opposite--anyone who raised the most recent podcast appearance and saying "this seems like another red flag" was getting downvoted to oblivion
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I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this:
all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral.
BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.
The top portion of a wall calendar for February. It is a still image from the Empire strikes back of Luke Skywalker in a bacta tank in his skivvies.
Truly unfair to assign this photo to the shortest month of the year. Goodbye February 1981.
01.03.2026 19:29 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Sorry it was extra wild for a while on here, ao3 was down.
02.03.2026 01:14 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I love that we both found very niche reasons to hate this guy.
02.03.2026 01:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My high school had signs on the water fountains in the late 90s noting that you shouldn't drink the water if you were on a restricted sodium diet. No one had any idea why they were there but they made us wonder if we *should* be worried about our sodium levels. (No one worried too hard.)
02.03.2026 01:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is some unexpected #NutmegSky content.
02.03.2026 00:56 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0sorry that's the private school i grew up down the street from so this is a very niche reason i now have to hate him
02.03.2026 00:55 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As a townie, I now feel even more righteous in saying fuck that guy
02.03.2026 00:54 β π 32 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0HE WENT TO FUCKING HOTCHKISS ARE YOU KIDDING ME
02.03.2026 00:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Who was it who coined the term smol bean fascism? This seems like a different variety of smol bean, honestly.
02.03.2026 00:47 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I don't know that I'd ever seen something best described as "dickriding" before.
02.03.2026 00:33 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Either he doesn't know what's going on or he doesn't know what's going on (Mike Johnson version) and neither one is good.
02.03.2026 00:32 β π 32 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0It's reached the point where the excuses are making it seem like the antisemitism is a feature, not a bug, for some supporters.
02.03.2026 00:26 β π 27 π 2 π¬ 3 π 1I just popped into the Maine subreddit and, uh, yikes.
02.03.2026 00:21 β π 45 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0(An emeritus prof could be a spicy alternative to a NTT author)
01.03.2026 22:56 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just a reminder that @contingent-mag.bsky.social would absolutely love to run a mailbag on the dumbass arguments about "low enrollment majors" and other things contained in this nested thread if there's a NTT historian out there who wants to pitch it.
01.03.2026 22:55 β π 46 π 23 π¬ 3 π 1Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $
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