A good overview of the incompetent and nonsensical (but not unexpected) way DOGE ripped apart the NEH last spring, leading to hundreds of cancelled grants for petty reasons. I'm grateful to @historians.org and co-plantiffs for challenging these actions in federal court.
Truth, Consequences, and the Hopes of My Father: Daniel Ellsberg www.commondreams.org/opinion/dani...
How is this not war?
Starting my lent a little early. I will be away from this account for a few weeks <3
The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.
PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏
The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...
A doodled face in coming out of text in a manuscript.
A doodled face in coming out of text in a manuscript.
How is Tuesday going for you? These folk found in MS. B.2.25 have been waiting for a tea break since the 14th century. mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
The Epstein angle adds color to what we already knew: opposition to Francis was craven and opportunistic, and almost universally cashed out to support for Trump.
religionnews.com/2026/02/11/e...
Somewhat amazing levels of incompetence.
The Right is always talking about saving the beauty of Western Culture and all they can offer up is Kid Rock.
Contemplating Grendel and Dante today!
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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
![I would like to march in protests too, but I can’t because I have arthritis in my knees. So I want my words to do my marching for me.
Like everybody else, I am an inhabitant of this planet; and I am a member of many other smaller communities too. I am an American citizen, for example. I was made a citizen from birth retroactively by the US government after World War II when babies born to US servicemen and German women were declared citizens from birth. My German mother came with me to the US as an immigrant without English when I was four years old and had no English either. Now I am a philosopher and a Christian -- a Catholic, actually. I identify as a woman. And so on.
I grieve the overwhelming evil that is impossible to ignore in every one of these communities. The sight of the suffering of desperate people trying to be immigrants to the US is unbearable. The inhumanity of separating their children from them, the viciousness of incarcerating small children alone, is unspeakable. And the cruelty we see on the daily news obscures but cannot hide the accelerating harm we are doing to the earth.
The people who should take the lead in governing us are vile, and so many of those who vote relish the vileness. That group includes some prominent Christians. Christians are meant to be salt and light for the world; their lives are meant to help other people taste and see the goodness of God. These people make the God they worship seem so hateful.
And so, like many other people, I mourn. But my mourning is without despondency, without the inward collapse of despair.
The baseness of injustice highlights the majesty of justice, whose power to call to people cannot be defeated by evil. The cruelty of those who rule, their indifference to the cry of the poor, illuminates by contrast the splendor of goodness and love. The growing dread at the increasing destruction of the planet testifies to its beauty. There would be less distress over [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36n7wd7gg4tapamnog4zyyc6/bafkreidvwdsfwtac2b4gftp3oxwgfvwfeaxob6gmngpvu76rilfomtt7nm@jpeg)
I would like to march in protests too, but I can’t because I have arthritis in my knees. So I want my words to do my marching for me. Like everybody else, I am an inhabitant of this planet; and I am a member of many other smaller communities too. I am an American citizen, for example. I was made a citizen from birth retroactively by the US government after World War II when babies born to US servicemen and German women were declared citizens from birth. My German mother came with me to the US as an immigrant without English when I was four years old and had no English either. Now I am a philosopher and a Christian -- a Catholic, actually. I identify as a woman. And so on. I grieve the overwhelming evil that is impossible to ignore in every one of these communities. The sight of the suffering of desperate people trying to be immigrants to the US is unbearable. The inhumanity of separating their children from them, the viciousness of incarcerating small children alone, is unspeakable. And the cruelty we see on the daily news obscures but cannot hide the accelerating harm we are doing to the earth. The people who should take the lead in governing us are vile, and so many of those who vote relish the vileness. That group includes some prominent Christians. Christians are meant to be salt and light for the world; their lives are meant to help other people taste and see the goodness of God. These people make the God they worship seem so hateful. And so, like many other people, I mourn. But my mourning is without despondency, without the inward collapse of despair. The baseness of injustice highlights the majesty of justice, whose power to call to people cannot be defeated by evil. The cruelty of those who rule, their indifference to the cry of the poor, illuminates by contrast the splendor of goodness and love. The growing dread at the increasing destruction of the planet testifies to its beauty. There would be less distress over [...]
From the prominent Catholic philosopher Eleonore Stump.
www.facebook.com/eleonore.stu...
A video showing a crying elderly man approaching the altar during Mass — prompting the priest to interrupt the consecration and give him a hug — went viral in Brazil and moved millions of people.
The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.
wapo.st/49Zqv1L
I’ve been thinking a lot about MLK JR’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech a lot lately, especially today.
And, Lord, please, somehow, turn their guns into plough shares. And turn their hearts into flesh. Please.
Kyrie Eleison.
Top US Catholic cardinals question morality of American foreign policy reut.rs/460U3KS
Mothers, daughters, Girl Scouts traveled to Richmond to watch the first woman become governor of Virginia
Catholic Bishops are giving their flock dispensation from Sunday Mass because of fear that the Government’s secret police may kidnap the faithful. The Regime’s favorite bishop wants you to know that this is a religious freedom like we’ve never had before.
Congrats!
This picks up and expands a great argument from Luke Munn made in his book Countering the Cloud as well.
Chattahoochee and Indian River.
No Man is my Enemy, but Every Man is my Neighbor.
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
Nice gyre, bro, real shame if it were to widen
small hours big time that strange house at the end of the road a light goes off - a light goes on every 12 minutes - there - look a shadow beyond glass
26/12/25 - nocturn
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God reut.rs/4pbeags
