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Being a parent of a teenager in the modern digital environment means begging your kid to play Minecraft or do *something* even slightly less brain-rotting than watching short video content from Spotify, which is what they're started doing because you've blocked all YouTube content from the XBox devices at the router level and turned off the WiFi and limited the carrier data throughput after 9PM for their smart phones, which they legitimately need because that is how their coaches communicate with them about cheer routines or band practice
And if you dare to complain about how annoying it is to have this second job as an IT admin just to keep your kids from guzzling down the worlds shittiest content, half the internet calls you a bad parent for not locking them down more and the other half calls you a bad parent for being a content Nazi
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Feel like we don’t really talk enough about there having been a few years where people were buying and selling digital pictures of monkeys and claiming that they were a legitimate investment instrument
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⚔️🕊️ THE ELEVENTH MONTH, ELEVENTH DAY, ELEVENTH HOUR 🕊️⚔️
A Roman soldier. A divided cloak. A Benedictine monastery. And the day the guns fell silent.
November 11 is Veterans Day in America. Armistice Day in much of the world.
But long before the trenches of France, November 11 was already the feast of a soldier.
Saint Martin of Tours.
In the fourth century, Martin was serving in the Roman army when he encountered a freezing beggar outside the gates of Amiens.
He drew his sword.
Not to fight.
He cut his military cloak in two and gave half to the stranger.
That night, Martin dreamed of Christ wearing the very cloak he had given away.
"I was naked and you clothed me." (Matthew 25:36)
Martin eventually refused to take up arms again, declaring himself a soldier of Christ. According to his early biographer, he offered to stand unarmed before the enemy rather than fight. But the opposing forces sought peace before the battle began.
Martin went on to become a monk and bishop.
And here's a connection especially dear to the Benedictine tradition.
When Saint Benedict established Monte Cassino in the sixth century, he replaced a pagan shrine with a chapel dedicated to Saint Martin.
A Roman soldier's act of mercy had become part of the spiritual foundation of Western monasticism.
Then came November 11, 1918.
The eleventh month.
The eleventh day.
The eleventh hour.
After four years of catastrophic war, the guns of the Western Front fell silent.
On the feast of Saint Martin.
We don't know that the date was chosen because of the saint. But the coincidence is extraordinary.
And the symbolism is difficult to miss.
A soldier who used his sword to clothe the poor.
A soldier who laid down his weapons.
A soldier whose feast would one day coincide with the end of the Great War.
This isn't a condemnation of soldiers. The Church has always recognized the legitimacy of defending the innocent and the sacrifice of those who serve.
But it is a reminder of what peace is ultimately for.
Not merely the absence of gunfire.
The presence of charity.
🎶 "The Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour (Saint Martin of Tours)"
To our veterans: thank you for your service.
To the fallen: may God grant you eternal rest.
Saint Martin of Tours, patron of soldiers, pray for us.
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Kind Scribe retweeted
I was too old to get caught up in the Charlie Kirk movement and it doesn't seem like TPUSA is making the greatest choices since his assassination.
Regardless, I have never seen more grotesque behavior over a man's political assassination than the last two days. Those two dumb twat ghouls and dumbass Chapelle are despicable.
There's really only one thing to assume..... Kirk was over the target on all their dumb asses.
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🚨🚨 THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 16: HOW THE MIDTERMS WERE PULLED OFF 🚨
Among today's talk of voter fraud, a critical role is overlooked: the importance of NGOs in early voting.
Below, I show the receipts where NGOs directly take a role in making the midterms happen.
It's been a long week, and I'm too tired to type up a summary.
Just know the two main points:
Republicans have an institutional blindness. They believe getting voters is all about branding and messaging. They pay enormous sums to consultants and TV ads and have endless conferences on what the right "message" is.
Democrats, meanwhile, have built an entire and expensive institutional machinery around getting people physically to the polls. And they were more motivated in 2026 than any other year.
I do NOT deny the existence of voter fraud. Saying the data doesn't show that others claim to show, is not equivalent to saying there is no fraud.
As I've said in several posts today, the election system in the United States is structurally set up such that citizenship verification is an honor system. The biggest swings in 2026 were among young people and Hispanics.
And 2026 was a concerted effort by NGOs like none other. Watch them in their own words how they pulled it off:
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I'm seeing an increasing groundswell on the Right saying the entire election was stolen.
I'm also seeing analysts I respect saying that the voting shift was consistently demographic-based across the board, a trend which would not be possible in some sort of electronically manipulated election.
I'm not saying voter fraud does not exist. It does. Alaska is an easy example.
I only ask that you remember that the Color Revolution plotters expected to win the midterms, and expected to use Trump and the MAGA movement contesting the results as a "redline" that could be used to declare Trump "illegitimate" and overthrow him.
That "redline" could occur anytime between now and January 3rd (the date the new Congress is seated).
I'm not telling you not to look for voter fraud.
I AM telling you to use good judgment and discernment and to realize that there are bad actors who may be stirring up some of these arguments as false flag ops.
Please be discerning.
Kind Scribe retweeted
This is the kind of obvious problem a real Republican party would solve.
Americans waste $544.6 BILLION a year just complying with the tax code.
That’s more than every dollar of corporate income tax the government collects ($452B) and 28x what the IRS itself spends.
They built a code so Byzantine it requires the full time labor of 3.3 million people, plus $157 billion out of pocket, just to figure out what you owe.
Not producing anything, just feeding the beast.
Kind Scribe retweeted
Chappelle didn't have anything to say about Charlie Kirk before he died. Chappelle didn't know anything about him, nor did he care.
That means he's happy, in an abstract way, about the murder of *anyone* on the "other team".
I know Chapelle is just a comedian & I sure there were some funny pieces in this bit. But it is part of the larger cultural realignment to viewing politics as war. If we cheer for death, we should expect to get more death.
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“I’m going to send you a Teams message that just says ‘Hi’ and wait for you to respond before telling you what I want. Fuck you.”
-Your coworker
Kind Scribe retweeted
One of my favorite things to do is have conversations with political insiders on the right and hear about the needs that they have & see a need that I could maybe help with and then ask "that sounds great, is there any funding for that" and then we all have a good laugh
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US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028 reut.rs/4zsSsu2
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I just walked through the Raleigh bus station and holy shit that place is a nightmare
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Friends, the laity are meant to practice obedience in a manner distinctive to the lay state. This means a willingness to follow the higher voice of God rather than the voice of one’s own ego. It is to listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
I’ve often spoken about Hans Urs von Balthasar’s distinction between the ego-drama (the story written, produced, directed by, and starring oneself) and the theo-drama (the one written, produced, and directed by God).
We might say that the entire point of the spiritual life is to break free of the former—a preoccupation with our own wealth, success, career plans, or personal pleasure—so as to embrace the latter.
And this requires obedience to God—an attentiveness to his voice and a willingness to follow it.
Picture what our country would look like if, right now, every Catholic decided to live in obedience to the voice of God. How much of the suffering caused by our own ego-dramas would be diminished!
