Andrés Alvarado

The meal is not over when I am full, the meal is not over until I hate myself

[Andrés Alvarado @claptonisgod51]

When 2 Chainz said "For my birthday I threw myself a surprise party" I felt that... https://t.co/5l0Dj7xYLr

[everything is discourse (laur-a) @LTrain5407]

Lemme tell you, growing up as a Catholic on the North Side of Chicago, I was AGHAST when I learned not all Catholics vote blue 😭

[jacob @jtimsuggs]

Not even exaggerating when I say that this is literally how tonight feels

[Paulina Mangubat 🫏 @paulinaVEVO]

Wake up babe the Democrats are Andor posting

[Andrés Alvarado @claptonisgod51]

@Jarritos ✋✋✋

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

If you tried to warn people a year ago that something like this would happen you would have been ridiculed as a deluded alarmist by the same very smart political commentators who are now telling you Democrats shouldn’t make an issue over it because it’s what people voted for.

[Cristina Cordova @cjc]

Turns out the last line of defense against authoritarian pressure is a mild-mannered former investment banker armed with spreadsheets.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Sharing this remarkable image, José y Maria, by Everett Patterson, seems even more urgent this year. In the past, I’ve delighted over the clever visual puns (Dave’s City Hotel, Weisman cigarettes and Mary’s “Nazareth High School” sweatshirt) and in the reminder that Mary and Joseph were, like this couple, desperate young people looking for lodgings, when there was “no room at the inn,” as one translation of Luke’s Gospel has it.

In the past few years, there has been an intense debate (mainly online) over whether Mary and Joseph were refugees. To me, it seems clear that they were, at least during the “Flight into Egypt” where they flee a murderous king, leave Galilee and travel to Egypt to take refuge. That fits the classic description of a refugee: someone who leaves their homeland out a “well founded fear of persecution.” Some people say, well, they were still in the Roman Empire, which is beside the point. Do we really think that a poor couple from Galilee would have considered Egypt their homeland? Popes since at least Pope Pius XII have agreed. He called the Holy Family the “archetype of every refugee family.”

But before that, as a couple looking for lodging, they mirror thousands of couples and families today who have been denied “room at the inn.” In the United States, couples and families (and children) looking for “room” have been harassed, rejected, arrested, beaten, imprisoned and tortured. “No room at the inn.”

I will never understand how people can treat other human beings like this—even if they are, or are assumed to be, somehow breaking the law. Christ is present in every person, and every person has infinite dignity--whether you are Joseph and Mary, José y Maria, or an unknown person looking for room for their family.

If we delight in making room in our homes for our Nativity scenes, and delight in making room for Baby Jesus in the creche’s manger, can we make room for Christ, who is present in every migrant and the refugee? José y Maria, pray for us.

(Image: "José y Maria," Everett Patterson https://t.co/74UW24kf6Y)

[Joshua McElwee @joshjmcelwee]

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @Reuters

https://t.co/Z91z9fGMKB

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

An emotional Nikola Jokic reacts after watching his horse win 🥲

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

You’ve planned and saved for months to take your family on that dream vacation. You buy amusement park tickets. Then, you go to buy the flights, except all of a sudden… the price has skyrocketed. Why? Because your airline knows you just purchased those tickets.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: ICE secretly deported Luis Leon, an 82-year-old torture survivor and U.S. legal resident of nearly 40 years, after he walked into an immigration office to replace a lost green card.

Instead of processing the request, ICE handcuffed him, detained his wife for 10 hours, and later told the family; through a fake “lawyer,” that he was dead.

Turns out, ICE quietly transferred him through a Minnesota detention center and dumped him in Guatemala, a country he has zero ties to. There’s no deportation paperwork, no public record. His family only found him alive after relatives in Chile tracked him to a Guatemalan hospital.

Leon suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart issues. The DOJ is now under fire, but this is the Trump-era immigration machine still in motion—cruel, unaccountable, and lawless.

If they can disappear an elderly, law-abiding U.S. resident…

They can disappear anyone.

[amber ♡ @tanijrou]

this is genuinely making me cry

[Andrés Alvarado @claptonisgod51]

Looking at you One Piece: Resounding bad news! Buster Call Invoked!

[Andrés Alvarado @claptonisgod51]

Funniest thing in older anime is when the name of episode spoils the plot of the episode.

[Lord Miles @Lordmiles]

MEGA LUCE POST! Everyone post their Luce memes here! 🇻🇦✝️

[Flan in Heaven 💿🪽 @pucciplushie]

Ehm

[Toa Philo @ToaPhilo]

Enjoy the Meme of Luce!