A Guy Named Brian (he/him)
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Introverted environmental planner in the Mile-High City | Lay Anglican of the TEC variety | Cathedral verger, one mile up | Mainly just trying to be a decent husband & father | All views are mine! Mine I say! 😀
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🕯️ “When we behold the Christ Child held, loved, fed, rocked to sleep by His Blessed Mother, we behold the redeeming grace of the Incarnation, bringing the sons and daughters of Adam [and Eve] back to the communion of life and love.”
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'She suckled him': Jeremy Taylor on the Motherhood of Mary
Our Advent series of Marian reflections from Jeremy Taylor's The Great Exemplar concludes with the Nativity. Taylor draws us to behold the...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🕯️ “When we behold the Christ Child held, loved, fed, rocked to sleep by His Blessed Mother, we behold the redeeming grace of the Incarnation, bringing the sons and daughters of Adam [and Eve] back to the communion of life and love.”
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Standing here at the end of Advent, St Thomas looks at the Child about to be born and points ahead to the Resurrection. "The same flesh lying in the manger is what I touched with my own hands after he rose from the dead." That's why he's here: because the Incarnation never ends. ⚓
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Standing here at the end of Advent, St Thomas looks at the Child about to be born and points ahead to the Resurrection. "The same flesh lying in the manger is what I touched with my own hands after he rose from the dead." That's why he's here: because the Incarnation never ends. ⚓
🕯️ Everliving God, who strengthened your apostle Thomas with firm and certain faith in your Son's resurrection: Grant us so perfectly and without doubt to believe in Jesus Christ, our Lord and our God, …
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St. Thomas, the Apostle
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December 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🕯️ Everliving God, who strengthened your apostle Thomas with firm and certain faith in your Son's resurrection: Grant us so perfectly and without doubt to believe in Jesus Christ, our Lord and our God, …
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Without an extension of ACA tax credits, insurance costs are set to skyrocket for millions of Americans. This is the sad reality for working people when Congress doesn’t act.
December 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Without an extension of ACA tax credits, insurance costs are set to skyrocket for millions of Americans. This is the sad reality for working people when Congress doesn’t act.
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Truly ⚓️
One of the philosophic questions that lives with me is Plato’s cave: when we are trying to understand who we are, what we are, why we are, do we see the world around us—and ourselves—as it/ we truly is/ are, or do we see the shadow and reflection of what we want to see?
#adventword2025
One of the philosophic questions that lives with me is Plato’s cave: when we are trying to understand who we are, what we are, why we are, do we see the world around us—and ourselves—as it/ we truly is/ are, or do we see the shadow and reflection of what we want to see?
#adventword2025
December 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Truly ⚓️
One of the philosophic questions that lives with me is Plato’s cave: when we are trying to understand who we are, what we are, why we are, do we see the world around us—and ourselves—as it/ we truly is/ are, or do we see the shadow and reflection of what we want to see?
#adventword2025
One of the philosophic questions that lives with me is Plato’s cave: when we are trying to understand who we are, what we are, why we are, do we see the world around us—and ourselves—as it/ we truly is/ are, or do we see the shadow and reflection of what we want to see?
#adventword2025
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I love the smell of Advent in the morning - smells like victory (over sin and death) ... #cofepeeps 🕯️⚓
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
December 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I love the smell of Advent in the morning - smells like victory (over sin and death) ... #cofepeeps 🕯️⚓
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Trump’s been itching to rename the Kennedy Center since day one. He waited—so they could drop something that disgusting right as the Epstein deadline hit.
These people are disgusting. The little creativity they have is never used to help anyone—only to distract you from their crimes and grift.
These people are disgusting. The little creativity they have is never used to help anyone—only to distract you from their crimes and grift.
December 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Trump’s been itching to rename the Kennedy Center since day one. He waited—so they could drop something that disgusting right as the Epstein deadline hit.
These people are disgusting. The little creativity they have is never used to help anyone—only to distract you from their crimes and grift.
These people are disgusting. The little creativity they have is never used to help anyone—only to distract you from their crimes and grift.
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The fonts don’t match, and they left the “memorial” in the name, implying that Trump is also dead. 2/10, would not recommend this signage firm to others.
This is literally one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen, anywhere.
December 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The fonts don’t match, and they left the “memorial” in the name, implying that Trump is also dead. 2/10, would not recommend this signage firm to others.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol - who commutes to Seattle from CA using a company-provided private jet - made $96 million for just 4 months of work.
Brian makes 6,666 times the average Starbucks worker. That's the largest CEO-to-worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500!
The visuals write themselves...
Brian makes 6,666 times the average Starbucks worker. That's the largest CEO-to-worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500!
The visuals write themselves...
December 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol - who commutes to Seattle from CA using a company-provided private jet - made $96 million for just 4 months of work.
Brian makes 6,666 times the average Starbucks worker. That's the largest CEO-to-worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500!
The visuals write themselves...
Brian makes 6,666 times the average Starbucks worker. That's the largest CEO-to-worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500!
The visuals write themselves...
This. This right here. Everywhere. 🚌👍✊
Zohran Mamdani explains that thousands and thousands of New Yorkers are already eligible for free and reduce public transportation, but because of the bureaucratic hurdles they never get enrolled in the program.
That's why he wants to just make the bus free.
That's why he wants to just make the bus free.
December 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This. This right here. Everywhere. 🚌👍✊
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And if we don’t know the norms being violated, his behavior gets normalized.
It’s important to reveal how abnormal this is—not to him or his administration, but to everyone else.
It’s important to reveal how abnormal this is—not to him or his administration, but to everyone else.
I get the same thing. “Trump doesn’t care about norms from the past!”
Cool. I’m still going to care, though?
Cool. I’m still going to care, though?
December 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
And if we don’t know the norms being violated, his behavior gets normalized.
It’s important to reveal how abnormal this is—not to him or his administration, but to everyone else.
It’s important to reveal how abnormal this is—not to him or his administration, but to everyone else.
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The Colorado Rapids have selected Mamadou Billo Diop at Pick 6 in the MLS SuperDraft. No surprise and the right call. Billo is a fan favorite and had an impressive 2025 season with 15G and 2A in 30 games. The Rapids lock up one of their brightest young stars. #Rapids96
December 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The Colorado Rapids have selected Mamadou Billo Diop at Pick 6 in the MLS SuperDraft. No surprise and the right call. Billo is a fan favorite and had an impressive 2025 season with 15G and 2A in 30 games. The Rapids lock up one of their brightest young stars. #Rapids96
🕯️ Please pray for my parish, Saint John’s Cathedral, Denver, as our amazing Dean stands as a candidate for bishop in his home diocese of Alabama. If elected, I’ll be sad to see him leave, even as I acknowledge that he’d be a fabulous bishop. …
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Diocese of Alabama announces slate of candidates for 13th bishop
[Diocese of Alabama] The Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama has announced a slate of two candidates to stand for election as the diocese’s 13th bishop: the Rev. Candice B. Fraze…
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December 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🕯️ Please pray for my parish, Saint John’s Cathedral, Denver, as our amazing Dean stands as a candidate for bishop in his home diocese of Alabama. If elected, I’ll be sad to see him leave, even as I acknowledge that he’d be a fabulous bishop. …
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“This is a five-alarm fire not just for NCAR, but for science in the United States” - Rep. Joe Neguse(CO-02) zooming into #AGU25 on the proposed decision to dismantle NCAR, located in his district in Boulder, Colorado. #SaveNCAR @agu.org @joeneguse.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“This is a five-alarm fire not just for NCAR, but for science in the United States” - Rep. Joe Neguse(CO-02) zooming into #AGU25 on the proposed decision to dismantle NCAR, located in his district in Boulder, Colorado. #SaveNCAR @agu.org @joeneguse.bsky.social
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What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.
NEW: Judge blocks Trump administration's attempt to limit lawmakers' access to immigration jails. Advance notice no longer required & detention facilities at field offices are open to Congress. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Judge lifts Trump administration limits on lawmaker visits to ICE jails
A federal judge ruled that ICE cannot enforce newly adopted policies that require lawmakers to provide seven days notice before visiting detention facilities.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.
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After that speech, I think it is more important than ever that we see a real medical report and learn what medications he is on
December 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
After that speech, I think it is more important than ever that we see a real medical report and learn what medications he is on
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What the absolute [expletive] was that?!?
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
What the absolute [expletive] was that?!?
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There’s only one story tonight - Trump is unwell and unfit. Everything else is just detail.
We are nearing the end of the Trump era.
OMG Trump is so gone. We are in a dangerous place.
December 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
There’s only one story tonight - Trump is unwell and unfit. Everything else is just detail.
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BREAKING: We won another court order blocking the Trump-Vance admin’s unlawful mass firings of civil servants.
We'll keep showing up in court to hold the Trump-Vance admin accountable to the people and the laws of the nation.
We'll keep showing up in court to hold the Trump-Vance admin accountable to the people and the laws of the nation.
December 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
BREAKING: We won another court order blocking the Trump-Vance admin’s unlawful mass firings of civil servants.
We'll keep showing up in court to hold the Trump-Vance admin accountable to the people and the laws of the nation.
We'll keep showing up in court to hold the Trump-Vance admin accountable to the people and the laws of the nation.
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Reminder: Congress could end this at any time.
December 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reminder: Congress could end this at any time.
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And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.
December 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.
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Yup.
He is incapable of seeing anything beyond himself.
He is incapable of seeing anything beyond himself.
December 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Yup.
He is incapable of seeing anything beyond himself.
He is incapable of seeing anything beyond himself.
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Okay, folks, the 25th Amendment is there for a reason.
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Okay, folks, the 25th Amendment is there for a reason.