Ryan Ellis

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@NelwynToes @FrancisXRocca @holysmoke Correct. He won’t have to. It will be read into the Tradition, and forever forgotten about. Like a chicken pox scar in a place you never look.

@RyanLEllis @FrancisXRocca @holysmoke Leo is not going to kill it.

Noteworthy that this will be a gathering of bishops and not, as far as we can tell, a mix of clerics and laity, even though the topic will be marriage and the family ewtnnews.com/vatican/pope-l…

@charlescwcooke @noe1le You also need to buy pants to vote. Are pants a poll tax, too?

@noe1le That wasn’t your standard. Your standard was a constitutional right.

The Constitution does not guarantee a right to work. It doesn't guarantee a right to a beer at 21. The Constitution doesn't guarantee a right to board a plane.

@Politicsworld @IAPolls2022 So you’d support the Fetterman amendment?

@IAPolls2022 The save america act IS NOT photo id

CBS News Poll: Do you favor or oppose requiring people to show valid photo ID before they are permitted to vote? 🟢 Favor: 80% 🟤 Oppose: 20% —— • Dem: 65-35 (+30) • GOP: 95-5 (+90) • Indie: 79-21 (+58) • White: 80-20 (+60) • Black: 80-20 (+60) • Hispanic: 77-23 (+55) YouGov | 3/16-19 | 2,496 A

@NelwynToes @FrancisXRocca @holysmoke There are none. It’s a predicate to kill it without saying so.

@RyanLEllis @FrancisXRocca @holysmoke What “newer events”?

@branwynne @charlescwcooke “Homosexuality” can be defined as same sex attraction. That can’t be helped and isn’t morally wrong. A better question would be “homosexual sexual relations.” Also no question about straight fornication, oddly.

@charlescwcooke Surprised by the responses to homosexuality. Much lower approval than I would have guessed

Pour one out for Bernie Sanders.

@hf_222222 Maybe I’m too optimistic, but I view this as killing Amoris using the weapon of synodality. “Oh, we love Amoris so much we need a synod to update it…into traditional teaching.” Can do the same with Traditiones Custodes. Diplomatic homicide of a bad idea.

Not something I predicted, & how Leo might be planning to recast Amoris remain to be seen, but there were perhaps signs he has one more one quibble with it as currently presented.

@ChristopherHale @JLLiedl @DictatorPope @remindmetweets My source is pretty good. We shall see.

@RyanLEllis @JLLiedl @DictatorPope @remindmetweets on August 1, 2026.

Cardinal Cupich turns 77 today. The Chicago shepherd is the oldest active diocesan archbishop in the US. A happy birthday to his eminence.

@SteveSkojec This is pure rage bait.

If you're serving as a priest or missionary in a foreign country, and they're doing a thing, and they tell you it's a local custom or whatever, are you necessarily going to know what you're participating in? I've done foreign missionary work. I can easily see how that could happen. And the fact that it COULD happen means the photo only tells you he was there, not what he knew before it was taken. I know why you're suspicious of the guy. I get it. I am too. He says some stuff I really don't like. But the Rash Judgment industry will destroy you if you let it. It's OK to not assume the worst, to not give in to the outrage, to just let it go and have a nice afternoon. I got out of this business for several reasons, one of which is that it does something very similar to you to what the One Ring did to Gollum. Not all at once, but definitely over time.

@Gen_Cathelineau No, it’s about tariffs which are direct price increases which are making everything less affordable.

@RyanLEllis Short memories and unreasonable expectations.

What is this if not tariffs?

This was neat: Researchers traced a tariff on $5 European wines into the U.S. to see who paid it. The tariff itself was $1.19, producers paid $0.26 and importers took a $0.44 cut, but retailers used the tariff as an excuse to add a $1.10 margin. The price went up $1.59 (~32%):

2 things @USTradeRep and @RealPNavarro are terrified Americans will discover. ONE: As a % of GDP, the US trade deficit has not been increasing. TWO: Doubling tariffs under Trump1-Biden and then more than tripling them again under Trump 2 had ZERO significant impact on the trade deficit as a % of GDP.

Permanent full expensing worked for business assets. Now it is time to apply that same logic to multifamily housing and other business structures. A better tax code can lower the penalty on construction, help more projects pencil out, and unlock more housing supply.

New CFE video on how the Working Families Tax Cuts gives family farms and small businesses permanent death tax relief in the form of an inflation indexed $15 million “standard deduction,” double for surviving spouses. youtu.be/OCM4trIfIeo?si…

@crousselle And a mere 3000 calories apiece.

one thing I really miss about Providence College was that there'd just...be zeppole distributed for St. Joseph's Day

@MichaelRStrain @greg_ip @NickTimiraos M2 has been growing too fast since the end of 2023. We need austerity from the Fed both in rates and in the balance sheet. The original sin of inflation is always money growth exceeding output demand for that money.

@greg_ip @NickTimiraos My theory: The labor market is strong. The economy is strong. Inflationary pressure is broad based due to strong demand. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac…

. @NickTimiraos stumps Powell. Why hasn't non-housing services inflation moved down, esp without tight labor market? "Good question...frustrating ... bunch of idiosyncratic things...One of the things we should be seeing ... it's a good question ... "

"Some big chunk of [3% core inflation], between 0.5 and 0.75%, is actually tariffs." - @federalreserve Chair Powell