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Fr. Tom Miller - [email protected]

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Whatever is going on in the world, Thomas Sowell always got there first and summed it up perfectly.

[Stephan (1) @springfield1952]

Wist je dat?

Moslims bidden niet op straat in Iran, Saoedi-Arabië of andere moslimlanden—het is illegaal en onbeleefd, omdat het anderen stoort.

Ze doen het alleen in landen die ze veroveren, als een dominantie-strategie.

[Nerdcognito @Nerdcognito]

Dungeons & Dragons & Delis!

I want a meat dragon charcuterie.

[IMPERATOR @IMPERATORAUS]

In his Summa Theologiae, St Thomas Aquinas laid out one of the most charitable yet practical arguments concerning immigration that effectively shaped the West for almost 1,000 years.

1. Immigration must always be proportionate so that foreigners can properly assimilate into the culture and mode of worship of the state.

2. Citizenship – and associated rights – should only ever be granted after the third generation to preserve the culture, mode of worship, and constitution of the state.

3. The common good of the citizens must remain the highest priority of the state, meaning, the state's obligation to provide aid to its neighbours can never be at the expense of the citizens.

However, Aquinas ends with the sobering reminder that some peoples and states are incompatible with one another, and these must be held as "foes in perpetuity".

[Jaylene🐰 @playmatejaylene]

The first trillionaire in human history

- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders

Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible

Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion

Most people quit when the world laughs at them.

Elon Musk built the future instead.

Love him or hate him…

Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.

Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.

History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.

It will remember the people who did it anyway.

Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀

[The Padre ✝️ @AskPadre]

@YoDanno Disruptive players are never welcome at a table, they consume time and don't care about the table as a whole. Go somewhere else. Evil or chaotic players almost always tend to be disruptive, but if they can play them without being disruptive so be it.

[TheRealCherokeeOwl 🦉 @CherokeeOwl]

After surrendering at Appomattox, Robert E. Lee could have cashed in big. Railroads, publishers, even foreign armies offered him fortune and power.

Instead, the man of honor chose poverty and service. He took a modest college presidency, poured himself into educating the next generation, and called for true reconciliation.

No monuments to himself — he wanted the ‘sores of war’ closed. A true Southern gentleman. 🇺🇸🦉

What true leadership looks like in defeat.

[isa⚡️ @isabellasg3]

yikes. ozempic was too good to be true.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

“We’re diagnosing boys with ADHD for acting like boys.”

Erica Komisar said this on Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO. Little boys have a huge testosterone surge between ages 3–6. They need to run, jump, wrestle, and move constantly. Instead, we put them in classrooms that reward sitting still, regulating emotions, and being quiet — behaviors that come more naturally to girls. When they can’t, we label them as disordered.

Boys’ schools get this — they do short lessons then let the kids run around multiple times a day. Regular schools don’t.

It feels like we’ve built an education system that works better for one type of kid and then act surprised when the other type struggles or gets medicated.

These early labels follow boys for years and can damage their confidence and self-image long-term. We’re not letting boys be boys.

Do you think our school system is unfairly set up against how boys naturally learn and behave?

[Dr. Abby Johnson @AbbyJohnson]

I used to believe in birth control as a means to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions, but I changed my mind. Here’s why.

In 1968, Pope Paul VI wrote Humanae Vitae and was mocked for it. He saw exactly where we were headed.

He predicted that widespread contraception would open the door to more infidelity, a lowering of moral standards, and men viewing women as something to use instead of someone to honor and protect. This is what happens when we separate sex from commitment and from the possibility of life.⁠
⁠​
Contraception didn’t reduce abortion; it helped build the mindset that made abortion inevitable and provided another opportunity to profit off women’s bodies.

When society is told that it is possible have sex without consequences, the baby is viewed as a failure.

A child is not a failure. We shouldn’t be surprised that a child results from a procreative act. 

We fail ourselves by dividing sex from the goodness God created it for.⁠​ We fail our children by viewing them as accidents.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Friends, the spirituality of the Sacred Heart is incredibly rich and beautiful. In fact, when the American bishops gather this summer, we’ll be dedicating our country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in honor of the 250th anniversary of our nation.

In theaters June 9, 11, and 14 is the new film, “Sacred Heart: His Reign Has No End.” I can't think of a better way to enter into this beautiful devotion than by watching this movie.

@SHFilmUSA

[The Padre ✝️ @AskPadre]

While stories and table-time can bring many good things in your life, it should not be used as a supplement or replacement for actual therapy. I agree, gatekeeping maintains the true gaming atmosphere. If you want inclusion and therapy start your own game called Wellness Check or Servants of the Safe Places .

[𝕊𝕀𝔸𝕋𝔼 𝕊𝔸ℕ𝕋𝕀 @SiateSanti]

Il vescovo italiano Antonio Suetta avvia un programma diocesano per evangelizzare i musulmani della sua diocesi e rompe il tabù:

Accogliere l'immigrato è incompleto, e persino un tradimento, se gli si offre tutto tranne l'essenziale: l'annuncio di Gesù Cristo.

https://t.co/jCstAOqOLb

[The Padre ✝️ @AskPadre]

@Nerdcognito Magic the Gathering: 💲💲💲It really is all about the money. I quit playing the game after Ice Age and the cards became too long to bother reading. I was a fan from 94 to 99.

[Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 @marcorandazza]

today, no legal system is based on the Mongols’, nobody reads ancient Mongolian books, its history inspired nothing.

Rome still exists in the Catholic Church, Civil Law, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian languages, the entire notion of a republic.

Eat a dick, Genghis.

[The Padre ✝️ @AskPadre]

@GigagodSesamar There is one true god - Luhtc' and he proxies his involvement through his exalted which are demigods. Like all good gamers I borrow from a variety of sources for the settings. I use it for the Cypher setting with some old school add-in from DragonQuest by SPI.

[The Padre ✝️ @AskPadre]

@Nerdcognito Time to roll up a new character.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Please Read!

On May 8, 1965, more than a year after Kennedy’s death, Dwight D. Eisenhower did something that revealed just how deeply the loss still weighed on him. Despite his own failing health and doctors’ warnings—he was 74 and recovering from his third heart attack—Eisenhower traveled to the Kennedy Library groundbreaking ceremony in Boston.

Standing beside Jacqueline Kennedy, he told the assembled crowd something that made even hardened reporters weep:

"President Kennedy possessed the greatest campaign weapon any man could have—he had Jacqueline Kennedy by his side, but more than that, he possessed a quality I grew to admire deeply in our many conversations—the courage to admit when he didn’t know something and the wisdom to seek counsel."

What made the moment even more powerful was Eisenhower’s revelation that he had kept every letter Kennedy had ever written him, bound carefully in a private collection he called “Letters from a Young Lion.” That day, he donated them to the future Kennedy Library, saying he wanted history to know their friendship had been real—that politics hadn’t divided them where it mattered most.

Jackie Kennedy squeezed Eisenhower’s hand and whispered something those nearby heard: “He called you his North Star, General. He never stopped seeking your guidance.” Eisenhower’s voice broke as he replied, “And I never stopped believing in him.”

Here were two people from different worlds—the widowed First Lady and the retired Republican general—united in grief and mutual respect. They showed us that the bonds forged in service to country transcend everything else.

This is the America worth fighting for—the one where we see each other’s humanity first.

[U.S TROOPS🇺🇲 @Ustroopss]

Mayor of Charlotte, NC asks that we not post about this lady murdered on a Charlotte train by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests

I say in Iryna’s memory please share and make this go viral! A repeat offender with 14 prior arrests should not be roaming the streets of ANY city! They should be locked up!! Epic failure in the justice system..

We will never forgot her ever