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Fair Warning

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A nontrivial percentage of Roman emperors were killed by the Praetorian Guard. Apropos of nothing .

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I heard the Pope dissed the shit out of JD Vance. Fuck yeah. Get his ass, Francis.

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Trump also got outraged that an Episcopal bishop cited basic Christian values in a church service, while Musk slashed funds for a Lutheran social services program.

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During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.

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Jesuit Priest 👇🏽

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

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I can’t find any archival evidence that that the Langston Hughes poem circulating here today is authentic so here is a sourced Hughes poem, Beaumont to Detroit, 1943, published that year in the magazine Common Ground, in which he compares Hitler and Mussolini to American Jim Crow and the KKK

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Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire, Threaten the threat’ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror; so shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.

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"Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day today, haven't we?" "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow though." - Grant and Sherman after the disaster of the first day of Shiloh, April 1862. They won the next. Today is one of the bad days in American history. Better days will come.

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Pablo Medina, and yes I’m reading that (pretty glorious) novel.

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Sunday reminder. 🤍 #smallpoemsunday & @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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I don’t know who did this, but thank you 🤣

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