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This account stans space, science, Scalia, and Taylor Swift. (And rugby, writing, and other cool things. You’ll catch on.) Of no tribe/clique: Not voting for your candidate, don’t care about your issue. My sole obligation is to speak truth as I—to the best of my ability—see it.

@rumpfshaker @AdamKinzinger See also the Department of Defense, currently (and illegally) sailing under the flag “Department of War.”

@AdamKinzinger It’s still legally named the Kennedy Center :) You mean when the sign is corrected to say the real name again.

Until Jan 21st, 2029 when it’s renamed the Kennedy center

@SteveSkojec Parses straightforwardly for me. He’s telling the self-styled Catholics in our government to repent, resign, and go the fuck to confession. He wouldn’t have said it more clearly if he’d said it my way and tagged Rubio by name.

What the actual hell is this nonsense?

@Aaronaeus @javierperd2604 Absolutely nothing, but armchair apologists gon’ armchair. Ignore them.

@javierperd2604 What exactly did he get wrong?

It's genuinely embarrassing for someone to be this confidently uninformed

@ContraPoints Anyone stupid enough to write that tweet needs a lot more for his safety than that. Magical thinking on steroids.

You need to be aware for your own safety that Protestants think this is Satanic

This needs nipped in the bud. Talarico should sue them into the ground. Don’t complain, don’t protest, litigate. cnn.com/2026/03/13/pol…

@timothyjphelan To be fair, that’s also true everywhere else.

I literally have no one here in my part of Japan that I can have a deep, theological conversation about Catholicism with in English or Japanese. That’s the reality of Catholic Christianity in Japan. For me, Catholic Twitter/X fills a real need. God bless you all.

@hanaamurakami Now, Band-Maid. Before, probably Mount Fuji.

As a Japanese person, I’m curious what’s the first thing that pops into your head when you think of Japan? 🧐 Like how people think of “nukes” when they think of America or “carpets” when they think of Iran.

@james_riney Japan should have adequate forces to defeat China, because America cannot be depended on while this President rules.

@annbauerwriter @MitchBerg_Radio Better that they find out early in a safe, controlled space than go through life thinking they’re a big deal only to learn the hard way at a critical moment.

@MitchBerg_Radio This happens to A TON of small-town high school athletes when they go to college. I taught those kids and they were crushed by the reality.

I once had a friend who thought her brother was a great guitarist. Couldn't fathom why he wasn't a star. Then she started dating a sound guy. One night he played her a song & said, That's your brother. Then he played another & said, That's Eric Clapton I think about this a lot.

@shen_shiwei @RLHeinrichs

@RLHeinrichs Very simple, the U.S. shall support China's peaceful reunification with the island.

We could… build more.

@Namisai_mikane I have a similar reaction when they’re described as a “Japanese rock band”— technically correct but it can be taken to say that they’re a band playing Japanese rock, versus a Japanese band playing rock. Achieving world domination means breaking out of the “j-rock ghetto.”

ちなみにBAND-MAIDはガールズバンドではない。ハードロックバンドだ… #bandmaid

We used to have “chickenhawks”; people who are hawkish unless there was any consequences, especially to themselves. Now we have “war bros”; men—and it is almost entirely men—who are against “war”but for “strikes” so long as the strike has a bombastic, testosterish codename.

@BBCAfrica It was inevitable by 1990. Just because it’s happening in slow motion doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened; cf. TNG, “Timescape” (S6).

Is a permanent split in the global Anglican Church inevitable? Conservative clerics are meeting in Nigeria to elect a rival to the first female Archbishop of Canterbury. bbc.in/46DVCyW

@MsMelChen This is a strong argument that should’ve been made on the floors of the US Congress when the president came to Congress for a declaration of war. But that didn’t happen. So this may be a good war and it may be a necessary war, but it is now irreparably tainted as an illegal war.

Seeing a plethora of low IQ “Israel FORCED the US into war” takes. Xi thanks you for helping to unwittingly launder CCP propaganda btw. The US strikes come down to Iran and China having engineered a mathematically unwinnable war of attrition for any purely defensive strategy. In other words, they can replace missiles faster than the US can replace the interceptors needed to stop them. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated this week that Iran is now producing over 100 ballistic missiles per month, while the US can manufacture only 6–7 relevant ballistic-missile interceptors per month (the high-end systems actually capable of reliably knocking down Iran’s advanced threats). Even the broader Patriot PAC-3 MSE line is only at ~45 per month today and THAAD/SM-3 production is even tighter at under 10 per month before emergency surges. Surely you can see how this is a giant problem. And what is China doing? China is deliberately supercharging this imbalance. Beijing has been caught shipping dual-use propellant ingredients, planetary mixers, and components that let Iran rebuild its munitions factories at breakneck speed. Reuters released a report on Feb 24 revealing that Iran was days from sealing a deal with China for CM-302 supersonic anti-ship missiles capable of evading defenses, sinking US carriers / destroyers from a distance of 290 km, which turns the Strait of Hormuz into a lethal kill zone. If this doesn't strike you as a red line that should galvanize action now rather than later, then you are unable to handle the reality of geopolitical survival. Why is China doing this? Because a cheap, endless Iranian missile barrage that forces the US to expend $4-million interceptors against $20K Shaheds (or $200K ballistic missiles) is Beijing’s perfect trap - keep America’s navy, aircraft and industrial base tied down in the Middle East burning through stockpiles. Basically, keep America busy and out of the West Pacific. The imminent arrival of a Chinese-backed “gamechanger” would have rendered America’s naval supremacy obsolete and provide an anti-access shield over the Gulf, Iranian nuclear sites, and every proxy from Hezbollah to the Houthis. This is why the Gulf States are also aligned with US action. The US needed to restore deterrence against a regime racing toward nukes, and send an unmistakable message that the United States will never cede the Gulf to a Sino-Iranian nightmare. I highly recommend listening to the latest episode of @triggerpod and @havivrettiggur. These guys provide the best analysis of the situation.

@whignewtons My hero, Justice Scalia, thought the whole thing beneath him. He was only wrong insofar as to say it was beneath him was to imply the existence of someone worthwhile whom it wasn’t beneath. At that is categorically false. Kavanaugh is a sniveling worm but it’s beneath even him.

4 Justices attending tonight's SOTU (same 4 that attended last year's). And no coincidence that they are the 4 institutionalists--Chief, Kagan, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. Like I've said, if all you're following is the ideological x-axis...you're don't get the Court.

@MsMelChen @grok please provide context and sources.

Japan 🇯🇵 is seriously in its own league Nothing pleases me more than seeing commies purged from public life

Who is going to explain to him the meaning of Catholic Social Teaching.

@repealnowak @Stop_RCV

🤥 I cannot tell a lie. Ranked choice voting complicates elections and hides the true winner. This Presidents' Day, let's axe it🪓and return to 1 person-1 vote. Vote YES to repeal RCV!

@emzanotti Why would literally anyone attend this grift? Who is it for?

“Catholic.” Can we please have, like, literally any standards

@whignewtons As a rule of thumb, if MJS says it, it’s tendentious, hysterical nonsense.

A good thread from one of the shrinking number of people—from both sides— who sees the difference between disagreeing and delegitimizing.