Michael Reilly

#TLM GladTrad Roman Catholic Father6 Husband - 30 years, AdIesumPerMariametStIoseph, StColumba, StPatrick, StBrigid, JAdams, ALincoln, RReagan 🇺🇸 🇮🇪

[Michael Reilly @MichaelSDTX]

@Sachinettiyil Saint Patrick, St Columba, St Brigid, pray for Ireland and the 70 million Irish “diaspora”!

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

What you see democrats doing in California right now is exactly why they won’t pass the SAVE ACT.

And the 4 POS Republican Senators who won’t pass it are lowlife traitors.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Private Carlton Barrett was possibly the smallest man in his regiment.

5 feet 4 inches tall. 125 pounds.

On the morning of June 6, 1944, he landed at Omaha Beach in neck-deep water, machine gun fire cutting the surface all around him. He made it to shore.

Then he turned around and went back in.

A soldier was drowning. Barrett pulled him out. Then another. Then another. For hours, under constant fire, this 125-pound man waded back into the surf again and again, pulling drowning men to safety and physically carrying the wounded to evacuation boats offshore.

But he didn't stop there.

He ran dispatches the full length of the fire-swept beach. He found soldiers paralyzed by shock and calmed them back into action. He appeared wherever the crisis was worst, doing whatever needed doing, treating rank and personal safety as irrelevant details.

He did this for hours without stopping.

His Medal of Honor citation says his courage had "an inestimable effect on his comrades." That is military understatement for: this small, anonymous man held that section of beach together through sheer force of will.

He survived the war.

His comrades later said his life darkened after he came home. He lived quietly and died in 1986 in California, largely unknown outside of military history circles.

5 feet 4 inches. 125 pounds. He went back in.

Remember him.

[🇺🇸 Ronald Carter @USronaldcarter]

SCOTUS JUST PUBLISHED THE EXACT LIST OF RIGHTS PARENTS NOW HAVE IF A SCHOOL TRIES TO BLOCK THEM OUT

Not vague victories. Not "parents win somehow." NAMED PROTECTIONS. SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS. School by school.

🇺🇸 Advance notice — schools must tell parents BEFORE exposing children to the challenged books
🇺🇸 Opt-out right — parents can excuse their children from that specific instruction
🇺🇸 Free Exercise protection — forcing children into lessons that "pose a very real threat of undermining" religious beliefs is unconstitutional
🇺🇸 Preliminary injunction — this is ACTIVE NOW, not pending a future ruling
🇺🇸 Montgomery County, MD — the specific district that started this must comply immediately
🇺🇸 4th Circuit overruled — the lower court that sided with the school board was reversed
🇺🇸 Elementary grades targeted — the ruling applies to the LGBTQ+-inclusive storybooks in elementary English classes
🇺🇸 Nationwide signal — any district with a no-opt-out policy on religious-conflict content now faces the same legal exposure
🇺🇸 Administrative burden — schools must build notification and opt-out systems before the 2025-2026 year begins
🇺🇸 Case continues — the injunction holds while the full lawsuit plays out in lower courts

💀 6-3 vote
💀 Majority: Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett
💀 ZERO deference to the school board's "no opt-out" policy
💀 100% parental religious exercise — that is what the court protected

Every protection on this list belongs to parents. Not administrators. PARENTS.

Justice Sotomayor warned this "will be chaos for this Nation's public schools." These are the rights that caused that chaos.

I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

[Xi Van Fleet @XVanFleet]

@tedlieu @spencerpratt It’s the registered Democrats who had enough of their Communist ruler and voted for change.

[☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩ @SecretFire79]

U.S. Marines received Holy Communion on March 3, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima🇻🇦

[Chloe Cole ⭐️ @ChloeCole]

Every time I drive through Fresno for the last 10 years I see your $16,000,000,000 unfinished cement monstrosity you call “The High Speed Rail”

Sit down @GavinNewsom

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

BREAKING: Elon Musk just told his 240 MILLIONS Followers that the only way to Save Democracy is to pass the Save America Act

“The only way to save democracy in America”

I ABSOLUTELY AGREE 💯

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Rodney King, OJ, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Karmelo Anthony. My entire life I have watched black activists rally around the most dysfunctional, degenerate, morally repugnant parasites imaginable. Celebrating and defending the absolute worst of the worst. People who contribute nothing to society. When’s the last time an actual virtuous and heroic black man won popular support in his own community? It seems that kind of black man is more likely to be shunned than celebrated.

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

BOOM: Minnesota $250M Feeding Our Future fraudster Aimee Bock has officially been hit with 41.5 YEARS in prison.

We look forward to an even more severe sentence for @Ilhan whose name and office were both identified in this scandal as well.

#thinblueline #lawenforcement

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

Black cassocks symbolize “dying to the world”: humility, simplicity, & detachment from worldly vanity.

White surplices, visual reminders of baptismal garments, symbolize purity, innocence, & the call to a virtuous life.

No word yet on whether “Pastor” Steven has ANY virtues.

[Eric Sammons @EricRSammons]

I’ve found that most conservative Catholics who believe there’s no crisis in the Church either live in a unicorn parish bubble or they think the millions of souls fleeing the Church since the 1960’s is completely unrelated to the massive changes in the Church during that time.

[Dr. Clayton Forrester @DrClaytonForre1]

Trump hired a bunch of chuds to restore the Reflecting Pool, which they did on time and on budget. Liberals are absolutely furious because they don't want voters to see that you can just fix things.

[That Catholic Guy 🇻🇦 @Catholic_bro]

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[Michael Reilly @MichaelSDTX]

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[Michael Reilly @MichaelSDTX]

@ProtecttheFaith Now do Catholics who attend TLM weekly

[Deacon Nick Donnelly @ProtecttheFaith]

Don't tell me that past 60 years haven't been a disaster for the Church!

The words and deeds of the synodal Catholizs are the coup de grâce

This isn't the springtime of the Church, it's a nuclear winter killing souls

[Brock Crocker @CrockerBrock]

Blake Treinen showed up for work wearing the real Dodgers cap — not the special Pride Night version. While everyone else went along, he quietly stood on principle.

Respect. That’s the kind of character and conviction baseball (and America) needs more of. Well done.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! JD Vance reveals after Charlie Kirk's death, his wife Usha moved from being done with having children to wanting more ❤️🙏🏻

"As my wife held Charlie Kirk's widow on the first day of her terrible sorrow, Erika told Usha between sobs that she regretted having only two kids with Charlie."

"For years, I'd asked Usha to have another baby, and for years, she told me she was done, especially now that public service had elevated us into the national spotlight."

"But something changed for Usha, and not long after we buried my friend, she became pregnant with our fourth child, a boy."

"I don't know why God does things like this, but I am grateful to him that there will soon be another source of joy in our lives, another beautiful soul to wonder at and fall in love with, God's beautiful creation."

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 NOW: An Assistant US Attorney is now INSIDE the Los Angeles ballot processing center, as @USAttyEssayli announces MULTIPLE federal investigations into voter fraud in California

Expose it ALL and prosecute!