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nikolajbill.bsky.social
Catholic without a home, Recovering ex-Trad, Social Democrat, Linguist, and Hockey Fan. I mistype a lot.
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You get: to remove nonprofit status from one clearly nonprofit university We get: to remove nonprofit status from one enormous religious denomination that’s abusing its status to rake in dough

Trump admin is a very strong argument against universalism

America will never be great again as long as it costs $40 to attend a baseball game.

Well, today broke a tooth, got a temp crown on it, get to it for it out of pocket, my mother who has early onset Alzheimer’s got lost last night before they found her, and some local Republican yokel is threatening to sue us because we support DEI, but I guess it could be worse…it could be raining

How incredibly fitting if the thing that finally turns this whole mess around is called “contempt.”

Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges. Good luck! 🫡

For those who are fortunate enough to not know what Rubio’s talking about, the current NatCon claim is that in the UK (and some European countries) people are being jailed for not using preferred pronouns and/or insulting Muslims and/or speech (hate speech) and Europe is moments away from Civil War.

FWIW, not only is this true, but every Jewish group that is working with these people is going to find themselves out of favor the instant Drumpf doesn’t need them anymore. Every Republican under 40 fucking despises American Jews.

The Dow crossed 40,000 FOUR TIMES under Trump! Only ONCE under Sleepy Joe! Yes, it’s dipping, and then it’s going up again. It’s like Space Mountain but it’s my rocket. It’s still riding the momentum of Liberation Day. I built it. Biden could never build this—he got lucky once.

Just think. It’s been: 30 days since DOGE started to break Social Security, 18 days since Signal Gate 11 days since Trump crashed the global economy 2 days since Trump said he can send anyone to an overseas gulag without due process. It’s been 86 days since Inauguration Day

I'm sure a clear denonciation of fascism in the name of catholic principles is somewhere inside these long ass e-mails the Pillar keeps sending me.

we have had multiple messages saying The Last of Us is a zombie show. that's true. it's a zombie show crying out for a rural history museum

Well crap. Didn’t pop out a filling, broke the tooth. Getting a SECOND crown. Going back in time to slap my teenage self to take better care of his teeth. Unfortunately, slap to hard damaging those same teeth where they need crowns. The time loop is complete.

You say this thing is bad. I say, how dare you. How. Dare. You. While you claim this thing is bad, this other thing, which I just made up and is not real, is worse. I cannot believe your callousness in disregarding my made up thing. —every J.D. Vance response

I wouldn’t really describe it this way. What’s happening is that one segment of the right has gone utterly insane and as a result the entire spectrum of rational political thought is being recreated within the institutions (such as they are) of the liberal left. This is a good thing, not a bad one.

At the dentist and watching NCIS: New Orleans in the waiting room. Are the accents always this bad?

Francis: “Love is a commitment, there is always something that we must lose in order to go towards the other…many adults in relationships delude themselves that they will find themselves and instead they lose themselves, because only when we live for someone do we truly live.”

One, what a horrifying and ominous thing for a Vice President to tweet. Alarm bells should go off. Two, I hate being right.

Once again begging Christian Nationalists to look at Ireland, Spain, and Portugal’s current church attendance, marriage and divorce rate. For that matter just look at current Russia and Hungary.

Everyone and a while I want to write my former priest a letter asking him to reconsider his stance on immigrants with Ábrego Garcia and due process, not to mention the teachings of Christ and the Church. But then I realize at best it would be ignored and possible even further entrench him or worse.

sometimes this site is like POSTER: i wish when u ordered Taco Bell they had to ring an actual taco bell REPLY: wow pretty telling that you aren’t choosing to use your wishes on world peace and ending childhood hunger

Our old office flooded so we’re now in a new building all working in a single rented conference room. Since the room can’t take individual landlines, a technician came and installed Bluetooth headsets that connect to our numbers. But let me tell you, five minutes after, when we all 1/2

They're stealing our good American prison guard jobs!

Declaring protracted people's war on influencers until they learn to communicate like normal human beings

Alright Fordham. Keep it up and I may even send you a small donation this year (in addition to that to the OCS program).

do it coward techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/m...

My 12 yo son a few months ago, talked about how weird he found girls putting on makeup and nail polish. So I talked to him about it. Turns out, for him, he associated it with girls who were interested in fashion more than outdoor hobbies (like he liked). 1/4

another bad day for JD Vance

Not embarrassed to say I’ve been shedding tears this morning over the men unjustly imprisoned in El Salvador. And also over the silence from so many people. This is an easy test and too many are failing it. I can never un-know how many people do not care.

Why is the President watching C-Span at 3 in the morning?

The only thing JD loves more than couches and the sound of his own voice are straw men