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MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber has a message for New Yorkers: Congestion pricing is working, and it’s making New York a better place.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

I want a leader who runs the government like a business. Specifically like the worst family-owned business imaginable. A pet store where the tropical fish have all somehow contracted gonorrhea. A failing adult bookstore run by two feuding brothers who keep trying to blow up each others' cars.

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

Phish at Forest Hills Stadium is going to be amazing. The venue is the original US Open tennis championships stadium and is not that big at all. It has to be one of the smaller venues they’ve played recently. It also has a 10PM curfew so expect a showtime of about 7PM sharp!

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Phish has been nominated for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame for the first time this year. Full list of nominees:

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

Here’s a good Bible study guide that the LCMS produced in 2018, based on the 2012 Report: Immigrants Among Us. reporter.lcms.org/2018/ctcr-bi...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This is going to be super awkward since Elon Musk is currently being anti-Christian.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

You know when you walk by a Golden Retriever and it looks at you with an expression that's like "hell yeah man we're on the sidewalk, how sick is that." I feel like that is broadly Pete Alonso's approach to being a Met, and that is the biggest part of why I'm glad he's back with the team.

submitted 23 days ago • 24 comments

I guess all those warnings about the government coming for the church were right after all.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Instead of funding research and supportive resources for autism we will get measles, mumps, and rubella.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

“My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and reading the psalms.” — Dorothy Day

submitted 104 days ago • 12 comments

I’ve heard conservative Lutherans complain about and condemn these organizations for years and it comes down to two things: 1) LSS has served a few gay families before 2) LIRS (global refuge) serves refugees who come from other countries.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: A statement from Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, President and CEO of Global Refuge, formerly known as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service: “Global Refuge condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the false accusations being lodged against our humanitarian work.”

submitted 26 days ago • 28 comments

These are amazing organizations that local LCMS districts still work with even though the national church body separated itself from them years ago.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Luke 6:36

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

“online trolling and other such actions are incompatible with a priestly vocation…” This would wipe out a significant portion of LCMS clergy.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I quibble with the spelling but I cannot deny that he’s a dawg.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

We’re starting up Sunday School this Sunday for the first time in a really long time. We’re excited and a little nervous—but mostly excited. We’re using this for our curriculum: storymakersnyc.org

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Looking forward to the LCMS filing an amicus brief!

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

1. A quick thread about what you're seeing here from Charlie Kirk and Vice President Vance (note: multiple falsehoods in these screenshots): Conservative ire directed at religious orgs that aid migrants and resettle refugees has been years in the making, and can trace its origins to the far-right.

submitted 33 days ago • 14 comments

Max capacity passengers per hour: * Boring Co’s Vegas Loop: 4,500 * NYC subway 6 train: 105,000

submitted 33 days ago • 150 comments

when humanity invented roomba we were at a fork in the road. it was a step towards a future where robots did our labor, giving time back to us to enrich our lives. then roomba mapped our houses and wifi networks and sold that data. the dark pathway. robert frost would never

submitted 33 days ago • 22 comments

Again, I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so I can focus on things I care about. This entire industry is weird.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I remember hoping in the old days back in 2017 that we’d see a revival of the legislative branch. I understand all the reasons why we didn’t—and shouldn’t expect it now—but there is an opportunity for an opposition to build legislative majorities that can actually check the executive branch.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

It is amazing how well this has worked out so far, by the numbers and also just in terms of what you see at the river crossings and in midtown. No greater proof of how cowed/dorky/incompetent New York Democrats are that none of them can even find it in themselves to take any credit for it.

submitted 36 days ago • 47 comments

The church in the news action I’m worked up about this morning is the EO directing ICE agents to make arrests inside churches. This feels like something right in the wheelhouse of The Lutheran Center for Religious Liberty in D.C.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I think it’s good to have the mayor of the country’s largest city not be unnecessarily and openly combative with the president. My issue is the practical begging for a pardon. My other issue is having a mayor who’s been indicted, but one thing at a time.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

A gentle reminder that your attention is a form of currency. Spend it wisely.

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

Cartoon character villains thrive on you giving them attention. The challenge for us is to do good work that matters, like caring and advocating for the vulnerable, without obsessing over their cartoon villainous behavior. This will not be easy and many are already stumbling out of the gate.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Broad pardons for family members while doing nothing to protect the rest of the country and publicly welcoming Trump back to the White House is not coherent.

submitted 39 days ago • 81 comments

“Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter From A Birmingham Jail

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Lol

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

submitted 41 days ago • 2670 comments

This case reads like a carbon copy of the battle between The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) and one of its schools, Concordia University Texas. And the way the Texas SC appears to be leaning would bode well for the LCMS.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Ezra Klein had a recent episode on “personalism” in politics. I think it really makes sense of what we’re seeing in term 2.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

I stopped hanging out at Starbucks (even as a patron) a long time ago because the company made their shops un-hangable. Whatever that’s fine and it’s the company’s prerogative. What strikes me is the continued loss of third spaces in society. Where do people just hang out for a while anymore?

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submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

At 37 I dream of being out of sight and out of mind and there are people—even presidents of these United States—who just can’t quit being in sight and mind. WILD.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment