Octavia

Roman Catholic.
Ketovore.
Married with dogs.
Undeclared in NH.

[Octavia @mcscarney]

@nat718gt4 @Cat5SMASHICANE LOL, actually, it does!

[Octavia @mcscarney]

@MDMorrison82 But in cream-colored Bermudas?
Isn’t that heresy?

[Kristen Waggoner @KristenWaggoner]

This is a sexual assault—unknowingly captured by a mom filming her daughter’s wrestling match.

Kallie didn’t know her opponent was male. But she knew something was very wrong.

Today @ADFLegal helped Kallie sue the WA officials who placed gender ideology above her safety. 🧵⬇️

[Octavia @mcscarney]

Beautiful.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Very grateful to President Trump and the First Lady for joining the Catholic faithful and the bishops of the United States in dedicating the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
https://t.co/ftjM8LpDx8

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

A comprehensive demolition of this reporter, the story, the NYT and fake news journalism in general. But the most interesting bit to me are the pungent criticism of Biden's HHS secretary Xavier Becerra, which accords with my interactions with his flaks on the illegal migrant "children" he was flying into Westchester on charter planes in the middle of the night.
Kennedy says Becerra "almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. [He] reportedly spent most of his term ... in California.
"His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California."

[Octavia @mcscarney]

@murraymaker @Topps @Eric_Schmitt Huh!
This confirms wer’e not paying any streaming subs this year to watch the Red Sox. 🤷‍♀️Hubby said yesterday not to bother.

[John A. Monaco @johnamonaco]

*This* is Europe.

Europe isn't about unlimited open borders, terminating pregnancies, euthanasia, rainbow flags, secularism.

Europe is about allegiance to Jesus Christ and His Church. All of its art, politics, and culture should reflect this truth.

[Octavia @mcscarney]

@travis4nh Does Weare have its own schools or do your students attend ConVal Regional in Peterborough?

[Octavia @mcscarney]

@eightadam8 @DisgracedProp @SupposedPOTUS @elonmusk Polls in enough places were actually being vigilant in Nov 2024.

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

In what will certainly become one of the most fundamental speeches of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV told the Spanish Parliament, before receiving a 7-minute standing ovation: "The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization."

"If life ceases to be recognized as a fundamental value, what future can our societies have?" he said, speaking to a gathering of politicians, many supporting abortion and euthanasia.

"Can a community that casts into the shadows the unborn child, the elderly, the sick, those who suffer in silence, or those who depend entirely on the care of others be called fully just?"

"Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence. When this certainty is obscured, the most vulnerable are the first victims, and the law loses its deepest meaning: to serve and protect every person."

"For this reason, the moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to accompany, protect and love those lives that are most fragile," he said, repeating what John Paul II emphasized decades ago.

Starting his speech he commented that Church's is the "message offered in the spirit of service to the human person."

"When the Church addresses anything concerning public life, she does so while respecting the proper mission of institutions and the legitimate responsibility of those who have received the mandate to legislate," Pope Leo said, emphasizing "the Church offers a reflection born of the desire to serve the common good."

He hailed Spain as country that "has known how to view the human being as more than just a cog in the social, economic or political order. It has recognized the human being as a creature open to truth, endowed with freedom, and driven by a thirst for eternity that no temporal reality can quench -- in a word, as someone whose dignity takes precedence over all utility and to whose service legislative action is subject."

He said it was Catholic orders that "helped to shape a legal and moral consciousness capable of remembering that authority always entails responsibility and that every human being must be recognized as a subject of rights and duties."

"That aspiration continues to resonate today: that dignity, justice and the common good should be the measure of social relations, both at the national and international levels."

Referring multiple times to his "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical, he said: "When the common good ceases to be a shared horizon, public action runs the risk of fragmenting into partial interests, incapable of safeguarding what belongs to all."

"In this context, the family — the primary human reality and the natural foundation of the community — takes on particular importance," Pope Leo said.

"The family will always be the first school of humanity, where one learns, before anywhere else, the basic grammar of living together: welcoming life, caring for others, forgiving, serving and belonging."

"Human life can never be treated as a commodity," the pope said.

"A law does not attain its true greatness merely by having been formally enacted; it attains it when, in addition to being valid in form, it can stand before the dignity of the person and pass that test without shame."

"I invite you, then, to lift your gaze to the world around you, not to turn away from reality, but to remember that every decision by public authorities affects real people, especially those who have less power to make their voices heard."

"The expanse of one’s vision consists precisely in looking more deeply at what is at stake in every public decision. This is why, alongside technical solutions and legal reforms, a moral renewal is also needed."

Video: Vatican Media
(fragment of speech follows)

[Christopher Lynch @realCL424]

@BrentHBaker @nytimes @LuluGNavarro Donald Trump got shot in the head on live television, and got right back up. I never saw Scott Pelley do that on 60 minutes

[Octavia @mcscarney]

@BasedMikeLee Well, it’s long past time this conversation was had.
2000 years of truth has not changed.

[SONS OF LIBERTY -MAGA MOVEMENT !!! @eagameover]

GOD BLESS YOU SIR 🫵🏻🫡
My respect 96 years .
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
AMERICAN MADE .

The GOAT !!

Clint Eastwood Said Something About Getting Old That Stopped Me Cold.
Aging is not gentle.
You are still here. Still present. Still watching the world move. But the body that carried you through everything - the wars, the work, the wildness of youth - begins to ask for more than you can give it. Joints that never complained now speak up in the morning. Eyes that once took in everything now flinch at the light. Breathing, which never required a single thought, starts needing little pauses.
But none of that is the hardest part.
The hardest part is the quiet.
At a certain age, you reach for the phone and remember there is no one left to call.
The people who knew you when you were young - who remembered the same summers, the same streets, the same faces
- are gone. One by one, then all at once, until the memories you carry have no one left to share them with.
So you tell the stories anyway.
To whoever will listen. With a little more color than perhaps the truth deserves. With a touch of pride you've earned and a grief you don't always name. You know the person across from you wasn't there. You know they can't quite feel it the way you do.
But you tell them. Because the telling is the holding on.
Those stories are not just memories. They are the proof that a life was lived. That people were loved. That things mattered.
And if no one asks for them - you offer them anyway, quietly, like setting something down on a table and hoping someone picks it up.
Old age is not simply what happens to a face or a body.
It is memory looking for a place to rest.
And what an older person needs - more than advice, more than solutions, more than someone telling them how to feel - is simply someone willing to sit down, be still, and listen.
Not to fix anything.
Just to be there.
That is the whole gift. And it costs nothing.
~Wild Whispers .

[Octavia @mcscarney]

@ModernCeasar Matthew, Mark, John, Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. In that order.

[Octavia @mcscarney]

@BasedMikeLee Mormons do not confess the Apostle’s Creed. That is the baseline minimum.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

81-year-old Kenton Brown completing a sub-30 time in the 200m dash is insane....

[Octavia @mcscarney]

If you care about your health or that of a loved one, read this post by eminently qualified cardiologist @bschermd

[Bret Scher, MD @bschermd]

Cardiology calls statins miracle drugs. Social media calls them poison.

Both sides cite published scientific papers. How can they be looking at the same evidence and reaching opposite conclusions?

As a cardiologist, I think both sides are are on to something. Let me explain. 🧵

[Octavia @mcscarney]

@bschermd has saved my life in the 12 years I’ve lived it. My heart is healthy, my circulation system otherwise clean. Damn the LET.
No more long term Rxs for me.

[Octavia @mcscarney]

@bschermd I knew LET raised cholesterol but was never told it caused coronary blockages, heart disease, and cardia arrest. I learned that two months ago on learning of my 3 70-80-90% blockages. I stoped LET on my own in Dec 2025, oncologist wanted me to stay on it- I’ve fired him. Keto …