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This is a powderkeg that the Trump Administration recklessly, unpatriotically seems to be escalating rather than de-escalating.
Newt Gingrich is making comparisons to the nullification crisis and Civil War.
He's not wrong. But it's not the states who are rushing us headlong toward this crisis.
Newt Gingrich is making comparisons to the nullification crisis and Civil War.
He's not wrong. But it's not the states who are rushing us headlong toward this crisis.
January 8, 2026 at 2:21 PM
This is a powderkeg that the Trump Administration recklessly, unpatriotically seems to be escalating rather than de-escalating.
Newt Gingrich is making comparisons to the nullification crisis and Civil War.
He's not wrong. But it's not the states who are rushing us headlong toward this crisis.
Newt Gingrich is making comparisons to the nullification crisis and Civil War.
He's not wrong. But it's not the states who are rushing us headlong toward this crisis.
My first take was WTF is this.
My second was gratitude for how he has visually separated his presidencies from all the others, asserting this is not how things are supposed to be.
My second was gratitude for how he has visually separated his presidencies from all the others, asserting this is not how things are supposed to be.
January 8, 2026 at 1:35 AM
My first take was WTF is this.
My second was gratitude for how he has visually separated his presidencies from all the others, asserting this is not how things are supposed to be.
My second was gratitude for how he has visually separated his presidencies from all the others, asserting this is not how things are supposed to be.
Quiet part out loud.
And you're dreaming in Düsseldorf if you think we're a NATO partner by 2028.
And you're dreaming in Düsseldorf if you think we're a NATO partner by 2028.
January 8, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Quiet part out loud.
And you're dreaming in Düsseldorf if you think we're a NATO partner by 2028.
And you're dreaming in Düsseldorf if you think we're a NATO partner by 2028.
"Common sense is common, has no imagination, and only works by precedent. It leaves the man who follows it poorer, if not in pocket, then in heart."
December 31, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"Common sense is common, has no imagination, and only works by precedent. It leaves the man who follows it poorer, if not in pocket, then in heart."
Returning to Metropolitan on @tcmtv.bsky.social this Christmas I am left wondering how @whitstillman.bsky.social understood the privileged, forlorn nostalgia of Trad culture and MAGA so well in 1990.
Metropolitan movie review & film summary (1990) | Roger Ebert share.google/pXazQDzQAXqZ...
Metropolitan movie review & film summary (1990) | Roger Ebert share.google/pXazQDzQAXqZ...
December 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Returning to Metropolitan on @tcmtv.bsky.social this Christmas I am left wondering how @whitstillman.bsky.social understood the privileged, forlorn nostalgia of Trad culture and MAGA so well in 1990.
Metropolitan movie review & film summary (1990) | Roger Ebert share.google/pXazQDzQAXqZ...
Metropolitan movie review & film summary (1990) | Roger Ebert share.google/pXazQDzQAXqZ...
Born today in 1854—Karl Heinrich Friedrich Millies, pictured here a few years before his 1932 death.
At 17, alone with his younger brother, he sailed from Hanover in 1871 to reach his cousin's home in Chicago 6wks before the Fire.
He opened a business that succeded for 70yrs.
He was an immigrant.
At 17, alone with his younger brother, he sailed from Hanover in 1871 to reach his cousin's home in Chicago 6wks before the Fire.
He opened a business that succeded for 70yrs.
He was an immigrant.
December 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Born today in 1854—Karl Heinrich Friedrich Millies, pictured here a few years before his 1932 death.
At 17, alone with his younger brother, he sailed from Hanover in 1871 to reach his cousin's home in Chicago 6wks before the Fire.
He opened a business that succeded for 70yrs.
He was an immigrant.
At 17, alone with his younger brother, he sailed from Hanover in 1871 to reach his cousin's home in Chicago 6wks before the Fire.
He opened a business that succeded for 70yrs.
He was an immigrant.
cf. Rothko's Seagram murals
December 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
cf. Rothko's Seagram murals
Things are happening over on X this Christmas season.
December 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Things are happening over on X this Christmas season.
December 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Father James Altman, a MAGA Catholic priest who has lost some of his canonical faculties because he cannot be obedient or prudent, is more bloodthirsty than a presbyter ought to be.
Also, he is a moron.
Also, he is a moron.
December 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Father James Altman, a MAGA Catholic priest who has lost some of his canonical faculties because he cannot be obedient or prudent, is more bloodthirsty than a presbyter ought to be.
Also, he is a moron.
Also, he is a moron.
One day Donald Trump will die.
I think I will write about him here in his own style every day for a year to memorialize the event.
It will be the period of mourning he deserves.
I think I will write about him here in his own style every day for a year to memorialize the event.
It will be the period of mourning he deserves.
December 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
One day Donald Trump will die.
I think I will write about him here in his own style every day for a year to memorialize the event.
It will be the period of mourning he deserves.
I think I will write about him here in his own style every day for a year to memorialize the event.
It will be the period of mourning he deserves.
That's not the presidency.
The problem is us.
The problem is us.
December 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
That's not the presidency.
The problem is us.
The problem is us.
Have you ever seen these two people in the same place at the same time?
December 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Have you ever seen these two people in the same place at the same time?
Last month I led some CTU students through the Basilica of the Natl Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in DC, a place I've known well for >30yrs.
We ended with The Holy Family Resting by Anna Hyatt Huntington, a piece I love so much for its realism I have a replica here at home.
The students...
We ended with The Holy Family Resting by Anna Hyatt Huntington, a piece I love so much for its realism I have a replica here at home.
The students...
December 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Last month I led some CTU students through the Basilica of the Natl Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in DC, a place I've known well for >30yrs.
We ended with The Holy Family Resting by Anna Hyatt Huntington, a piece I love so much for its realism I have a replica here at home.
The students...
We ended with The Holy Family Resting by Anna Hyatt Huntington, a piece I love so much for its realism I have a replica here at home.
The students...
How much will it cost?
Oh. $100/year.
Oh. $100/year.
December 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
How much will it cost?
Oh. $100/year.
Oh. $100/year.
If a "stable government" is the measure, no one should let an American in anyplace.
apnews.com/article/trav...
apnews.com/article/trav...
December 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
If a "stable government" is the measure, no one should let an American in anyplace.
apnews.com/article/trav...
apnews.com/article/trav...
Good example of an apples-oranges problem. Cars don't take spots with them, I could run 3 errands in an hour when other cars don't move, need 3 spots.
I know a lot of ppl are agnst cars. Deceptive uses of data are a bad way to tilt at that windmill.
www.npr.org/2025/11/28/n...
I know a lot of ppl are agnst cars. Deceptive uses of data are a bad way to tilt at that windmill.
www.npr.org/2025/11/28/n...
November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Good example of an apples-oranges problem. Cars don't take spots with them, I could run 3 errands in an hour when other cars don't move, need 3 spots.
I know a lot of ppl are agnst cars. Deceptive uses of data are a bad way to tilt at that windmill.
www.npr.org/2025/11/28/n...
I know a lot of ppl are agnst cars. Deceptive uses of data are a bad way to tilt at that windmill.
www.npr.org/2025/11/28/n...
Say what you want about classicist design and the architecture God likes but southsiders know the Chateau Busche' when we see it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
November 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Say what you want about classicist design and the architecture God likes but southsiders know the Chateau Busche' when we see it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Catholics for Catholics are pretty cheerful about public sinner RFK, Jr. whose intrinsically evil adultery should scandalize them.
"Don't spill a drop," they seem instead to say, as though they were the canyon for his river.
"Don't spill a drop," they seem instead to say, as though they were the canyon for his river.
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Catholics for Catholics are pretty cheerful about public sinner RFK, Jr. whose intrinsically evil adultery should scandalize them.
"Don't spill a drop," they seem instead to say, as though they were the canyon for his river.
"Don't spill a drop," they seem instead to say, as though they were the canyon for his river.
A solemnity with its own liturgical color.
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A solemnity with its own liturgical color.
Check out the thinning hair
Check out the aftershave
Check out America
You're looking at it, babe
Check out the aftershave
Check out America
You're looking at it, babe
November 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Check out the thinning hair
Check out the aftershave
Check out America
You're looking at it, babe
Check out the aftershave
Check out America
You're looking at it, babe
7 faith leaders were arrested violently Friday for protesting peacefully outside a detention center near Chicago.
ICE dscended on a NC church yesterday forcing members to flee.
Is the Trump Admin "the Left" now?
ICE dscended on a NC church yesterday forcing members to flee.
Is the Trump Admin "the Left" now?
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
7 faith leaders were arrested violently Friday for protesting peacefully outside a detention center near Chicago.
ICE dscended on a NC church yesterday forcing members to flee.
Is the Trump Admin "the Left" now?
ICE dscended on a NC church yesterday forcing members to flee.
Is the Trump Admin "the Left" now?