incessantbark.bsky.social
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Editorial in UK's Telegraph: "Europe can defend itself, or leave its future to the capricious nature of Mr Trump. Such a choice is no choice at all." www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...
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Chilling last sentence: "With the White House’s betrayal of Ukraine capping a month of authoritarian chaos in America, Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us."
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Thanks for that link, saw it just after reading this -- looks like appeasement is just the beginning: "Vance meets with leader of far-right German party, exports MAGA message" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Thanks for the gift link. This jumped out: "The irony is hard to miss: The movement that for the past half century was loudest in warning about the dangers of cultural decadence is most responsible for electing a president who personifies cultural decadence."
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Good advice: "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you review, cover, and criticize a blitzkrieg of anti-American totalitarianism? One order, one law, one executive act at a time. Pace yourselves." bsky.app/profile/kenw...
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One can believe in the Christian God and still be sinful.
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Oops, thought I was on X for a moment. My bad.
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Didn't say they lived as Christians, just that they didn't think they were gods as Doris Kearns Goodwin surmised, comparing them to the guy who owns this platform.
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Sure, the three guys I mentioned weren't saints, but they had a basic belief in a God as someone other themselves. Easy to find basic biographies on them.
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She's wrong about the robber barons probably thinking they were God too. Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Rockefeller were true Christian believers, and that makes a huge difference in a person's overall outlook on life.
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This just popped into my timeline: bsky.app/profile/carm...
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Did you catch that "offering membership in a 'Greater United States' thing? More than a touch of the old dream of the "Greater Germanic Reich".
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A bona fide fool/idiot -- "Gibson said: 'I don't believe that there is anything that can afflict mankind that hasn't got a natural cure for it. It just makes sense to me. I couldn't prove that, but I just believe that. There's got to be something that cures things’."
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Beautiful.
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Unclear how many watch news on social media sites by established news organizations vs. news influencers like “Tisa Tells”. Another Pew study found that about 21% of US adults regularly get news from news influencers. www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2...
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Makes me think of Old Testament prophets and Jesus taking to the desert wilderness to pray, seeking solitude to hear that small, gentle whisper that is the Lord, as revealed to Elijah.
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“Surrounded by metaphysical and moral darkness, we Christians are to be light, not in the sense that we glimmer self-generatedly, but in as much as Christ shines in us.”--Erik Varden, monk and bishop in Norway coramfratribus.com/archive/life...
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Pope Benedict in “Images of Hope” notes that “the special human warmth we feel at Christmas” did not develop until the Middle Ages, all due to Francis and Greccio and "the new dimension [he gave] the Christian celebration of Christmas, namely, the discovery of God’s revelation in the child Jesus."
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Here's a link to the clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHKU...
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Wonder (not really) if this group has any second thoughts? www.foxnews.com/media/fox-ne...
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I like this little bit in the last lines of John Paul II's Marian Prayer -- to use as a short prayer to be repeated throughout the day:
O clement, O loving, O sweet Mother of God
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I'm trying too. Feels good so far.
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I've been thinking the very same thing. Depressing.
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"The main reason for the difference: Britain, France, the Netherlands and Germany are all home to large Muslim communities that identify with the Palestinian cause, while Hungary and the Czech Republic have largely closed their borders to Muslim immigrants."
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Howdy!