Christiaan

@UWMadison, @StIgnatius Alum | SF Native | KTVU Channel 2 once called me “deeply profound” | Opinions are my own

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Pope Leo XIV intoning the Gloria at the Mass in the Basilica of Sagrada Família in Barcelona, on the 100th Anniversary of the death of Venerable Antoni Gaudi.

[Marlin @nostalgiafkninc]

He’s going to trap leftists inside crystals

[U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops @USCCB]

“I am disheartened that the President chose to write such disparaging words about the Holy Father. Pope Leo is not his rival; nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls.” - Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, President, USCCB
@ArchbishopOKC

[Caroline Downey @carolinedowney_]

I think of Boston as a bit of a pagan town. But I just left mass where young people packed every pew, with the confessional line 40 strong at least. Could not have imagined this while I was a college student here 5 years ago

[Charlie @CharlieFreyre]

Congratulations Jason Eck for becoming the 2027 Wisconsin Badgers Head Football Coach!

[Christiaan @cmparnell18]

The Catholic Church does not need to be in line with American — or any country for that matter — policies and decisions. Our beliefs come from God, not man. The Church is growing not just in the southern hemisphere, but amongst young men and women in our own country. It’s unfortunate that our President is attacking our spiritual leader. Fortunately, more and more people are choosing God over man.

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Donald Trump’s long post on Pope Leo.

[Christiaan @cmparnell18]

A few weeks ago I watched Eric Swalwell taking meetings in Sacramento signing his name as “next Governor.”

Today his campaign is in freefall — endorsements pulled, allies fleeing, ActBlue cut off.

Politics moves fast. Blackmail politics moves faster.

[Christiaan @cmparnell18]

@SarahforWI @nateforwi @grok Using official government time to tweet at a political candidate isn’t a flex. Wisconsin taxpayers are paying you to run the Secretary of State’s office, not run opposition research on Nate Pollnow at 11:42 AM on a Thursday — which is DURING your business hours.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The life of Saint Augustine, and his call to servant leadership, reminds us that we all have God given gifts and talents. Our purpose, fulfilment, and joy comes from offering them back in loving service to God and our neighbor.

[Sturgill Simpson @johhnyblueskies]

Magical weekend in San Francisco.🤘🎸#GD60

📸 : Edwin keeble

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Remembering Jerry on his birthday.

[Tyler Winklevoss @tyler]

A lot of people have asked me if I will get involved in the NYC mayor race by supporting a candidate that can defeat Zohran Mamdani. TBH, I’m torn and undecided. Like every other city run by democrats, NYC is a broken kleptocracy. Taxes are astronomical and services are pathetic to nonexistent. Anarchy and socialism are the next logical steps in this story arc. It's what the people of NYC have been asking for for years and it looks like it's what they are about to get. Trying to fight against this tide seems like throwing good money after bad.

It appears things will have to get worse in NYC before they get better. The Zoomers and Millennials need a refresher on the outcome of Marxism and socialism. They are too young to remember the crack and crime epidemic and murder sprees of the late 80's and early 90's. The squeegee men, graffiti, mugging, lawlessness, chaos, and pandemonium. Streets that were too unsafe to walk alone at night or even during the day. Getting mugged on the way to and from school was not just a rite of passage, it was an inevitability.

The Wall Streeters, financiers, and hedge funders have been too busy working on their fishponds and climbing the rungs of polite society to remember to protect the system that allowed them to achieve their success in the first place and allowed New York City to once become the greatest city in the world. Not ruffling feathers was more important than questioning the ideological insanity being taught in the private schools and universities that they sent their kids to. All that mattered was fitting in and getting invited to the right dinner parties.

Now their kids are indoctrinated NPCs, always protesting and supporting the current thing. Like their parents, they too want to fit in. To do so, they unironically exchange bromides and platitudes on the benefits of socialism over rosé brunches in the West Village. Because their friends hate America and capitalism, they do too. It never dawns on them that their lifestyle and studio apartment that their parents subsidize are all made possible because of capitalism.

This delusional thinking was ingrained in them at an early age by institutions that were captured by insane ideology and left unchecked by their grossly negligent parents. Instead of providing their children with immunity from stupid and provably bad ideas that have only led to misery and death throughout history, these parents shrugged it off as kids will be kids.

Now these kids are adults who can vote, but are totally unequipped to do so. In many ways it’s not their fault. From their parents, they learned some combination of magical thinking, preference falsification, and an inability to stand up for anything greater than themselves. As a result, they never learned how to think critically or independently. They never learned the value of Western civilization so they don't understand why, or know how, to fight for it.

Sometimes the only way to learn something is to learn it the hard way. Sometimes the only way to learn the value of what you have is to lose it. If that’s the case, Marxism and socialism might just be what the doctor ordered.

[Rep. Tom Tiffany @RepTiffany]

Cheers, Scott.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

US President Donald J. Trump has designated San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, to serve on an advisory board of the Religious Liberty Commission.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Congratulations to Leo XIV, the first American Pope, on his election! I’m sure millions of American Catholics and other Christians will pray for his successful work leading the Church. May God bless him!

[Ryan James Girdusky @RyanGirdusky]

Trying to fit the ideology of the Pope in the context of American politics is a fruitless endeavor.

If you’re Catholic, pray that he’s a good steward of the Church and defends the throne of Christ as the successor of Peter.

[Eric Sammons @EricRSammons]

Right now there’s a man weeping as the awesome responsibility of his new job weighs down on him. Pray for him.

[California Republican Party @CAGOP]

CRAZY TOWN: @AsmRepublicans @Macedo4Assembly: "I've seen a lot of crazy things in my short time here in Sacramento, but this one takes the cake. How many 16 and 17 year-olds are going to have to go through the trauma of this until we do something?!"

[Jon Gruden @BarstoolGruden]

Me and @BarstoolBigCat on State Street!

Go Badgers!

[Jessica Millan Patterson @millanpatterson]

Thank you @molly_parnell for joining our California Campaign Study Session at @uscpolfuture The students know all the ins and outs of fundraising because of your session.