@Plough Thanks for this! This reminds me that I need to add "The Dignity of Dependence" to my to-read pile. a.co/d/04weHpUL
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Ryan Jackson
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“A culture that embraces the idea that some lives are no longer dignified or worth living is not necessarily one that lacks virtue, but it is one that has become post-Christian.” —Matthew Burdette
plough.com/en/topics/just…
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@crousselle @emzanotti Which is downright silly! Of all the days that should be HDoO!
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@davidlitt @TheStefanSmith So what you're saying is next time less Lovett and more Leave It.
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@TheStefanSmith Community note from my one-person community: I didn’t write those jokes! Jon Lovett did. (Which is I say with mild envy because they were great jokes.)
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You bolt awake at the White House. It’s April 30, 2011 and you are David Litt, Obama’s joke writer, and you’ve changed your mind. You won’t include any Trump jokes at that night’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner.
Devin Duke@sirDukeDevin
This entire timeline traces back to one moment: Trump’s ego couldn’t survive being mocked by Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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@ryanmcj I don’t know! She has church shoes. And rain boots, and sneakers…and snow boots. Aren’t church shoes for princesses?
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“Mom. How many princesses do you know without princess shoes?”
I don’t even know how to answer that. It’s a trick question right?
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@TheHappyPriest Salud! I hope formation teams everywhere are actively ensuring that they are developing new Catholics rather than new groypers.
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I can’t speak for everyone, but this is literally what has happened in our parish over the last couple years
Jonathan Liedl@JLLiedl
“I go to Mass every day, and I see there are more people in the pews. I also look at the numbers as a scientist, and I see that the numbers are not yet there." @mckeownjonah on why the data on religious revival doesn't match what people are seeing--yet. ncregister.com/news/gen-z-rev…
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If one's Catholicism is not more important to them than America then they need to re-examine their Catholicism.
🦅 AlaskaBird (anti-woke)🪶 🇺🇸@AlaskaBird__
If your Catholicism is more important to you than America, go to Italy. We should start accusing Temu Catholics of having duel loyalty.
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@LeahLibresco How old does my youngest need to be to start reading them Narnia?
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I've been alternately reading two septologies to my kids: Edward Eager's books + The Chronicles of Narnia.
We're in Dawn Treader, and we just finished Knight's Castle, which made me realize... I could read Ivanhoe and know these characters better.
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My entire new personality is telling people to read Ivanhoe.
(I’m a third of the way through Ivanhoe)
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@USConcubine @FrankLuntz I'm not disagreeing with your overall premise but I think in this particular case, the ability to suspend its provisions is built into the law. The Jones Act is somewhat regularly suspended for natural disasters, for example.
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@FrankLuntz I love how the president just ignores laws and does what he wants because we have a congress too weak to hold him accountable to the law.
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President Trump has issued a 60-day waiver of the Jones Act, a 1920 law requiring that cargo transported between U.S. ports be shipped solely aboard ships that are U.S.-built and primarily crewed by Americans.
The waivers will make it easier to move fuel from the Gulf Coast to areas on the East Coast.
axios.com/2026/03/18/tru…
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@emzanotti My son made a leprechaun trap recently! No pot of gold this year though...
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Hot tip: every Saturday, Home Depot does a little kid craft for free, and if you don’t make it at their scheduled time, they usually store the leftover kits in the paint department, and you can get one for free anytime (may vary by location, availability, etc)
New York Post@nypost
Moms of toddlers are beating burnout at an unlikely spot - Home Depot: 'It's the world's biggest busy board' trib.al/0AycUjT
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Ryan Jackson retweetledi
Asked about the words of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who during a briefing went so far as to quote Psalm 144 to invoke a divine blessing on the ongoing attack, Cardinal Pizzaballa replied that “as believers we must do everything possible not to leave the discourse to them. We need to say that no, there are no new crusades. If God is present in this war, He is among those who are dying, who are suffering, who are in pain, who are oppressed in various ways”—
Amen!!
asianews.it/news-en/Cardin…
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@RachelBitecofer I'm not arguing he's a better candidate just the original point that neither is good. Nothing personal against her, but the U.S. life expectancy for women is 81. It's not unreasonable or cruel to think she might not finish a single term. I think that makes her a weak candidate.
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@ryanmcj Are you voting for her, or trying to fuck her? And no, it doesn’t matter to me. In fact, it means that she can’t stay in the seat long. Then we can run in an open race and with someone younger who never had a Nazi tattoo
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Mills was the fucking governor!!!
She has won statewide twice.
JFC
James🗳@_fat_ugly_rat_
It’s still so irritating to me that Maine Dems couldn’t come up with anybody better to run for Senate than Mills and Platner.
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Like Don Quixote but substantially less sane and motivated by epic levels of narcissism and malevolence rather than tales of chivalry.
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: I'm proudly telling you that we're going to try and have no windmills built in the United States. They're very bad environmentally. They killed the birds. They're unsightly. They make a lot of noise.
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@FrCharles @NY_Arch @StPatsNYC @AbpNewYork I hope you mentioned the real solemnities this week and next week too!
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Fun email from someone in OCIA, asking if St. Patrick's Day is a break from Lent just for Irish people, which gave me a chance to reply re: the General Roman Calendar and how in some places memorials can turn into solemnities (for everyone). Tags: @NY_Arch @StPatsNYC @AbpNewYork
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@MrsRuvi My also 5 year old John was *delighted* to learn yesterday that his favorite color blue is often associated with the Blessed Mother.
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“Mommy what was Jesus’s father’s middle name? What do his colors look like?”
-theology (?) with five year old Mary
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Ryan Jackson retweetledi
This is wicked.
"The State Department is considering withholding lifesaving assistance to people with H.I.V. in Zambia as a negotiating tactic to force the government of the southern African country to sign a deal giving the United States more access to its critical minerals."
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@fr_faulkner Bio doesn't even list a law degree. I was expecting him to be a former prosecutor.
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“This would be considered a fraudulent conveyance…”
Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅@1zzyzyx1
Here is @RepCasten asking Bessent questions about what is happening with the money from Venezuela’s oil. This questioning began in the House Finance Committee in February. Senator Van Hollen is also looking into where the money is.
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@mattswaim Ya know I would consider it except that would make Mary so mad...
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Fortunately in my 20 years as a Catholic I've never met a Catholic who worships Mary
But you can bet if I do I'll give em the talk for ya
Oliver Burdick@oliverburdick
We’re supposed to worship Jesus, Not his mom.
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