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Tell me, have you found the Yellow Sign? Catholic Hobbit, husband, (grand)father, author, writer, editor, amateur monk, pilgrim, liturgy geek, medievalist, gamer. Immigrant. Not necessarily in that order. I like pie. https://linktr.ee/thomryng
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When individuals and publications labor to construct the intellectual and moral justifications for genocide, I think they should be treated like people doing that.

🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “The numbers don’t add up. $880 BILLION is a devastating cut to Medicaid, and an attack on Medicare. Anyone who votes for this budget is voting to cut Medicaid and gut health care for Medicare recipients in 🇺🇸.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGg7cr0...

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - popping my head into the parish garden. #Camino #ViaPodiensis #CaminodeSantiago www.thomryng.com/camino/camin...

What a great time to have a science-denying conspiracy theorist who can't be trusted to tell us the truth in charge of the nation's health. apnews.com/article/cong...

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - Inside this 19th-century Gothic church. #Camino #ViaPodiensis #CaminodeSantiago www.thomryng.com/camino/camin...

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Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.

In case it wasn’t clear before, the U.S. is officially aligned with Russia

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - coffee and pastries at the church. Of course! #Camino #ViaPodiensis #CaminodeSantiago www.thomryng.com/camino/camin...

Our latest: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Please consider reading and sharing. No paywall.

It is becoming increasingly clear that their goal is the destruction of the Republic. #resist

From United Humanists on FB

Members of the military are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not the president. Changing that seems to have been the point of the Friday Night Massacre. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Practical Pilgrimage – Now Available! My new book, Practical Pilgrimage, is now available for purchase. Subtitled "Useful Rules for Walking the Camino de Santiago", it's a deeper exploration … #camino #caminodesantiago #pilgrimage www.thomryng.com/camino/pract...

It's no coincidence that Musk's companies are soaring in value as the regulatory agencies that were investigating or suing them are being gutted. The DOGE agenda isn't about "efficiency" — it's about Musk freeing himself from any accountability so he can line his pockets.

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - how old is this building? A century? Four?. #Camino #ViaPodiensis #CaminodeSantiago www.thomryng.com/camino/camin...

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - a very useful sign indeed. #Camino #ViaPodiensis #CaminodeSantiago www.thomryng.com/camino/camin...

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Oremus pro Pontifice nostro Francisco As we continue to receive reports from the Vatican that Pope Francis is suffering from double pneumonia, please join me in praying this ancient prayer for the Pope. It has been frequently set to music, including in the venerable Liber Usualis. V. Let us pray…

The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA — the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program. Read more on our stance. ⬇️

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - once the border of three ecclesiastical provinces, now the border of three départements. #Camino #ViaPodiensis #CaminodeSantiago www.thomryng.com/camino/camin...

This is a coup. #coup #resist "The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Accidentally fired the guys running the nuclear program. Accidentally fired experienced air traffic controllers. Accidentlly fired the people trying to contain the bird flu.... Accidentally fired...

BREAKING — USDA says it accidentally fired officials working to combat bird flu and says it’s trying to rehire them www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... by @allansmith.bsky.social

If you've purchased a copy of my book, _Practical Pilgrimage_ and you enjoyed it, may I ask you to please leave a positive review on Amazon? www.amazon.com/Practical-Pi...

It’s fitting that DOGE is just one big ‘rug pull.’ Elon, DOGE, Trump, and the MAGA media announce they've found an instance of massive fraud—one so absurd it on its face. Within hours, it collapses under the weight of its own lies. Then, without hesitation, they move right onto the next scam.

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - a reminder of days passed. #Camino #ViaPodiensis #CaminodeSantiago www.thomryng.com/camino/camin...

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Cleveland, seen on Reddit (seems to have been posted and then deleted by their Facebook page)

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - in the countryside. #Camino #ViaPodiensis #CaminodeSantiago www.thomryng.com/camino/camin...

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They won’t ever learn will they

They are just swinging sledgehammers in the dark.

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

ICE's Latest Detention Data Shows Growth of Immigrants Targeted With No Criminal Histories – Exactly as Predicted (from @austinkocher.com) austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-lates...

This is not a good combination of trending topics 😬

So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2D8eMLR/ What could possibly go wrong?

If you support any of this, you’re honestly just a terrible person. People’s lives are being upended and destroyed. For every 1% increase in unemployment, 40,000 people die—yet some are celebrating.

Clearly the Imperial government has never heard of the Bonus Army of 1932. #resist

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Saints Valentine, Cyril, and Methodius The memorial of Saint Valentine was removed from the Roman calendar during the calendar reform of 1970. It seems a shame, since this is one of a vanishingly small number of saint's feasts that have remained in the secular culture. It seems to me that it could…

Today's #CaminoPhotooftheDay - back into the countryside. #Camino #ViaPodiensis #CaminodeSantiago www.thomryng.com/camino/camin...

After an office reorganization, I thought it might be fun to take some "shelfies". I limited myself to four photos, but rest assured that there are many more bookcases in the home library. #shelfie #booksky