A. Rascal
sanctus nullus sine historia; peccator nullus sine futuris
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- Reposted by A. RascalTen countries have launched investigations related to the released Epstein files. Norway, UK, France, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Australia, North Macedinia, Turkey, Poland. Conspicuously absent is the United States, the epicenter of this scandal. We know why. …
- Reposted by A. RascalBreaking MS NOW: The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official. At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance. www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...
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- Reposted by A. RascalNEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
- this is why I always take a burner phone on second dates
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- Reposted by A. RascalTeam USA skier: Just because I wear the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the US.
- I can’t travel outside of my town or state as easily as I used to the younger generation is going to have to pick up the slack
- Reposted by A. RascalGM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
- gaudeamus igitur dum Bostonienses sumus
- imagine if you risked arrest, detention, and disappearance just by approaching your polling place during an election especially but not exclusively if you’re brown
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- Reposted by A. RascalFrance and Canada opened consulates in Greenland’s capital Nuuk, a show of support for their NATO ally Denmark amid renewed demands from President Trump to acquire the arctic territory. cnn.it/4ahj85P
- #LRP the words missionary and evangelical have long had imperialistic and coercive overtones to outsiders especially in religiously pluralistic societies there’s an important difference between wanting to share something and imposing it
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- I learned the third person present indicative in the 9th grade the singular imperative I had to look up plus the singular present indicative was almost phonetically identical to a famous English expletive I got to know and use in New Jersey facio (in Roman Latin, the c is hard, like a K)
- Reposted by A. Rascal1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
- Reposted by A. RascalNEW: A huge win for ICE in the 5th Circuit tonight clears the way for the agency to mass detain people facing (and fighting) deportation proceedings. District judges all over the country — including dozens of Trump appointees — had rejected this policy. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
- listening to my youngest chat audibly, laughingly, and quite candidly with her pals about college plans remembering play dates full of sparkly costumes, face painting, tree forts, and ice cream a lifetime ago for her a minute ago for me
- “I was raised in New York City as a Muslim kid with a Hindu mother. I celebrated Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha with my family, lit diyas in Riverside Park for Diwali, and like any New Yorker, encountered faiths different from my own.”
- Reposted by A. RascalMamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
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- Reposted by A. RascalMaybe it’s just me, but I suspect lots of women are not as shocked by the Epstein story as men because we’ve been dealing with and living in rape culture since we were children. A thing to think about if you are a man policing women’s responses to this story for appropriate levels of outrage
- Reposted by A. RascalMy story on how Epstein worked with a former leader of Putin’s youth movement, who promised him racy pictures and introduced him to an emigre who helped build out Russia’s quantum computing initiative. His security company was banned from U.S. intelligence deals last year. Giftish. wapo.st/4ccTtxy
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- Amélie
- “Hours before federal agents in Minneapolis killed a second US citizen, President Donald Trump addressed the 2026 March for Life via video on Friday, January 23 congratulating those who came to Washington ‘to defend the infinite worth and God-given dignity of every human life.’”
- may everyone who contributed to its conception, construction, and dissemination as well as all those taking pride in any of the above someday feel just the right amount of shame and guilt to turn whatever life or soul they have left right around
- Reposted by A. RascalTrump referring to the first Black President and First Lady in the history of the USA as apes is not a distraction. It is a major news story once again emphasizing how fundamental racism is to this administration and the Republican Party and conservative movement. And right now media is ignoring.
- got criticized by a fellow parishioner for ending too many sentences with deo volente so I started using gratia adiuvante instead
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- grateful for the privilege of being able to escape from world and domestic events just long enough to make dinner for myself and my youngest who will be away at college in just a few months
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- et David saltabat totis viribus ante Dominum
- Reposted by A. Rascal“A lot of very smart people pay attention to both the Signal Protocol and the Signal apps to ensure they are operating as intended,” EFF’s @thorinklosowski.com told @nytwirecutter.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/...
- Reposted by A. Rascaltbh, i WANT the people who don’t think it’s wrong to execute a helper (much less anyone else) in broad daylight this way to say it loudly & tell on themselves to hasten casting these ghouls from society please, say it with your fucking chests & tell on yourselves under your real identities
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- Reposted by A. RascalEvery American needs to watch this:
- Reposted by A. RascalFor the first time in decades, the U.S. and Russia have no limits on nuclear weapons - NPR Oh yay! We can create more nuclear weapons to annihilate each other now. Why do I feel like I’m in a dystopian movie? apple.news/AYXFEsSVoRne...
- Reposted by A. RascalIt's true that Mamdani is a skilled improviser but that's counterintuitively a result of his superior preparation — spending time and energy to hone your speaking style, memorize talking points etc frees up cognitive load to notice and react to what's around you instead of thinking about what to say
- Reposted by A. RascalOver 73,000 people are currently in ICE custody, the most ever... But that's not the only shocking number: - There has been a 2,450% increase in the number of people with no criminal record being held in ICE detention on any given day.
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- Reposted by A. RascalBREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
- Reposted by A. RascalWhy did ICE detain a 7 year old child from Oregon-and then ship her to Texas And why have they done this same thing to 3,800 other children It’s deplorable. And make no mistake. Donald Trump is to blame
- Reposted by A. RascalThe public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!
- Reposted by A. RascalNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- narrowly avoided clicking on yet another “hot phenomenonogists in your area want to perform the epochē with you” ad targeted advertising will be the death of me
- the way in which psychoanalysis and theology both share a curiosity about faith, its structure, and experience albeit with very different hermeneutical styles, purposes, and methods also the way in which the hermeneutics of suspicion and faith or assent are known to social psychology as attitudes
- the sense in which what we routinely disparage as wishful thinking takes on a very different character and elicits far more curiosity when we call it teleological or hopeful thinking instead as well as considerable value in psychoanalytic settings
- seeing an increasing number of posts about US politics that start with the word BREAKING: presumably to capture attention and then make all sorts of often breathtaking claims without any attribution or sourcing whatsoever seeing these posts because a lot of people repost them
- Bossa Nova Classics
- Chicken Piccata 👨🏻🍳 🍷 youtube.com/shorts/iAc-n...
- Reposted by A. RascalAre you an US healthcare professional that has had enough of the regime? Are you looking for a safe landing for you, your family and career? British Columbia Canada is actively recruiting doctors and nurses and fast tracking credential recognition. See more here. news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
- Reposted by A. RascalAlso universities.
- “In Minnesota, where ICE and Border Patrol shot and killed two US citizens and injured a Venezuelan man, state police tried to conduct investigations only to be thwarted by the Trump administration, which has gone so far as to block officers from a scene, even when they had a judicial warrant.”
- “C’è una conversione da fare: il potere con la logica del dominio, convertirlo in potere con la logica del servizio, con la logica della cura.” “There’s a conversion to be made: from power with the logic of domination into power with the logic of service, with the logic of care.”
- Reposted by A. RascaliOS 26.3 Release Date: Apple Signals iPhone Update Is Just Days Away
- #LRP before Dobbs, there was simply no conversation whatsoever within Catholicism about the morality of abortion bans or their safety and public health implications now we know more and where people are not in denial about the data, that conversation is finally starting to happen
- Reposted by A. RascalNo progress in Poland to ease the strict abortion ban because of anti-choice politics or reluctance in the gov't - but five years after Poland's top court gutted abortion rights, access to legal abortion has expanded a bit – only for women who learned to work within a system designed to say ‘no’.
- Reposted by A. RascalOne local who was arrested while protesting at the site of Alex Pretti’s killing talked to The Verge about his harrowing experience in custody at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building and how the community is fighting back. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/87365...
- Reposted by A. RascalA string of violent incidents involving U.S. immigration agents in Minneapolis has prompted Vermont officials & local organizers to prepare in case a similar enforcement surge is aimed at them. Vermont forbids police departments from collaborating with federal immigration authorities.
- Reposted by A. RascalMake sure, before you attend any Super Bowl party this year, you ask what halftime show they are watching.
- Reposted by A. RascalBrody King has been about this life for awhile too, not new for him bsky.app/profile/amy....
- NO KINGS BUT BRODY KING #AEWDynamite
- Reposted by A. RascalWow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
- Reposted by A. RascalNASA quietly updated its potential launch windows for its delayed moon mission, apparently now targeting March 6-11
- Reposted by A. RascalHere's how the Premier League looked 11 years ago, at Super Bowl XLIX, when the Patriots and Seahawks last faced in the finale 🏈❎⚽️ Three top-half teams are no longer in the division, while Malcolm Butler was not the only one peaking around this time. Look how high Southampton were flying 😲
- Reposted by A. RascalIt’s the big game! Made another friendly wager with @whipkclark.bsky.social that the Seahawks will be victorious against the Pats. Go Hawks!
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- Deep Purple - Knocking at Your Back Door (1984) guitar & solo
- Reposted by A. RascalFor hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world’s vast bulk its small but valuable sperm
