Joseph Addington 🌲

Poetic modern malcontent | Associate Editor @amconmag | Latter-day Saint | Writing about Latin America

[Joseph Addington 🌲 @JosephAddington]

@rclu @RykerJackson97 Obviously Latter-day Saints don't agree that Catholic sacraments are valid; that has nothing to do with the question of whether our theology is sacramental. or our status as Christians. A number of undeniably Christian Protestant denominations don't recognize Catholic baptisms.

[Pay Roll Manager Here @UsingLyft]

America really just does feel unfamiliar at this point and I’m not saying it to be racist or with any hate but it’s largely because the demographics just shifted so much so fast. You watch anything from TV in the 90s and 2000s and it looks like a completely different place

[Utah College Republicans @UtahCollegeReps]

A violent homeless man assaulted two sister missionaries nearby Memory Grove Park.

Today with Constitutional Action we cleared out his trashed dormant encampment.

Problem solved. Living in filth is optional.

[Ministerio de Comunicación e Información @mippci_ven]

COMUNICADO

El Gobierno de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela informa que, en el marco de una operación combinada entre organismos de seguridad de Venezuela y de los Estados Unidos en el sureste del estado Bolívar, fueron desarticuladas estructuras de delincuencia organizada que operaban en la zona.

Durante el desarrollo de la operación se produjeron enfrentamientos con integrantes de estas estructuras criminales, en los que resultó neutralizado Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, alias “Niño Guerrero”, cabecilla de una organización criminal.

La operación contó con apoyo tecnológico especializado y se desarrolló mediante mecanismos de cooperación e intercambio de información de inteligencia entre las autoridades de ambos países.

Felicitamos la labor de todos los funcionarios y organismos de seguridad e instituciones que participaron en esta exitosa operación.

La República Bolivariana de Venezuela reafirma su compromiso con la lucha contra la delincuencia organizada y continuará adoptando las medidas necesarias para garantizar la paz, la tranquilidad y la protección de nuestro pueblo.

Caracas, 12 de junio 2026

[Bones @FrailSkeleton]

The English Love of Fighting, 1695

Misson de Valbourg

Anything that looks like fighting is delicious to an Englishman. If two little boys quarrel in the street the passengers stop, make a ring round them in a moment, and set them against one another that they may come to fisticuffs. When ’tis come to a fight, each pulls off his neckcloth and his waistcoat and gives them to hold to some of the standers-by. Then they begin to brandish their fists in the air. The blows are aimed all at the face. They kick one another’s shins; they tug one another by the hair. He that has got the other down may give him one blow or two before he rises, but no more; and let the boy get up ever so often, the other is obliged to box him again as often as he requires it. During the fight the ring of bystanders encourage the combatants with great delight of heart, and never part them while they fight according to the rules. And these bystanders are not only boys, porters and rabble, but all sorts of men of fashion, some thrusting by the mob that they may see plain, others getting upon stalls; and all would hire places if scaffolds could be built in a moment. The father and mother of the boys let them fight on as well as the rest, and hearten him that gives ground or has the worst.

These combats are less frequent among men than children, but they are not rare. If a coachman has a dispute about his fare with a gentleman that has hired him, and the gentleman offers to fight him to decide the quarrel, the coachman consents with all his heart. The gentleman pulls off his sword, lays it in some shop, with his cane, gloves and cravat, and boxes in the manner that I have described above. If the coachman is soundly drubbed, which happens almost always, that goes for payment; but if he is the beater, the beatee must pay the money about which they quarrelled. I once saw the late Duke of Grafton at fisticuffs in the open street with such a fellow, whom he lammed most horribly. In France we punish such rascals with our cane, and sometimes with the flat of our sword; but in England this is never practised. They use neither sword nor stick against a man that is unarmed; and if any unfortunate stranger (for an Englishman would never take it into his head) should draw his sword upon one that had none, he’d have a hundred people upon him in a moment.

[Joseph Addington 🌲 @JosephAddington]

This must be one of the most absurd presidential elections in modern history

[AnechoicMedia @AnechoicMedia_]

What I really started worrying about today is a near future in which all access to information is intermediated by AIs, able to infer intent and political coding of all user activity, like a librarian reading over your shoulder and denying your access on a page-by-page basis.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I want people finally held to account for what has been done to our country.

Civil servants, judges, politicians.

If they have knowingly placed unvetted dangerous third world savages in our communities, near our children, then a Restore Britain Government will aim to prosecute them.

If that includes Reform’s Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman, then so be it.

When they held the power - they welcomed that Sudanese monster into our country and handed him a visa. An attempted beheading followed their decision.

Those responsible must be held to account.

And I want to send a very clear message to officials planning to place more of these men in communities across Britain - near schools, nurseries, families.

When Restore Britain wins the next election, we will pursue you with the full power of the state.

That will apply retrospectively.

If those in power are made to feel the consequences of their decisions, the quality of those decisions will improve.

We are so far past half-measures now, the country is too far gone.

Britain needs a democratic revolution.

That is exactly what Restore Britain is going to do.

[Eric W. @EWess92]

🔥Hot off the presses: @TheJusticeDept issued an opinion today explaining that disparate-impact liability under federal employment law is *unconstitutional*. This is an earthquake in federal civil rights law. If right, this is the foundation to overturn that pernicious regime.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration plans to announce it is seeking to revoke the citizenship of 17 U.S. citizens accused of immigration fraud, expanding its unprecedented denaturalization campaign, CBS News has exclusively learned. https://t.co/dFVDzHXGF6

[Joseph Addington 🌲 @JosephAddington]

Peru's presidential race will be decided by a razor-thin margin, as has historically been the case when Keiko Fujimori is one of the candidates. The final results may be delayed for recounts; the first round was already severely late and poorly handled.

[Joseph Addington 🌲 @JosephAddington]

@DavidVStewart @wit_tomahawk @MiddleearthMixr That's just on the books; many of those members left in 2000 when it formally became the Community of Christ. In the U.S. it's going to be functionally extinct soon, though it might stick around by accident in Africa.

[Joseph Addington 🌲 @JosephAddington]

@exaltedmimicry JS III did not really want to be the prophet and I get the feeling he was never completely convinced of his calling. Even after he decided he would accept the RLDS church's invitation, for a long time he was dominated by the Presiding Bishopric, who controlled church funds.

[Joseph Addington 🌲 @JosephAddington]

I served a portion of my mission in Independence, Missouri. The mission office is across the street from this "temple" in the picture here. We ran into one of their apostlesses while helping shovel snow during a storm and she offered to meet with us. We talked with her 1/

[The Middle-earth Mixer @MiddleearthMixr]

For those of you who know me you know I’m a giant nerd and consoomer of deep dives into religious sects and why they exist

Genuinely curious to know what LDS folks think of RLDS, Joseph Smith III was the first “prophet” during the breakaway and by 1890 they had gone back to Trinitarianism

[Joseph Addington 🌲 @JosephAddington]

@exaltedmimicry JSIII was a thoroughly mediocre man and David Hyrum literally went insane. In hindsight there can be no doubt that Brigham was the inspired choice.

[Joseph Addington 🌲 @JosephAddington]

@exaltedmimicry There is a splinter group, the Remnant LDS church, that had a direct male-line descendant of JS III as leader, but he died and his successor is only related to Joseph Smith by female descent.

[Joseph Addington 🌲 @JosephAddington]

@exaltedmimicry Joseph Smith III's descendants are still around, but it seems that none of them were either fit for or interested in leading the church. In any case the RLDS church's president at the time wanted to do away with the practice.

[Joseph Addington 🌲 @JosephAddington]

Otherwise it produces much the same kind of thin, meaningless gruel churned out by progressive mainstream Protestantism. It is well on its way to sharing the general fate of that strain of Christianity: bleeding into meaningless secularism before dissolving entirely. 6/6

[Joseph Addington 🌲 @JosephAddington]

not produced much of value. The church shed about half its membership-those who still believed in traditional LDS doctrine-during the transition. Its remaining members are mostly extremely old, and it is perpetually going bankrupt, saved only by our purchase of its history 5/