Rachel Fulton Brown

Christian, American, professor of medieval European history, poet, fencer, blogger, wife. Livestreams weekly on the Mosaic Ark:

[Rachel Fulton Brown @RFultonBrown]

“This book is the product of massive and original scholarship....the book requires an almost total rethinking of how we look on Mary today, this in the light of how medieval Christians understood her.”—Fr. James Schall https://t.co/hGdWfS9Ti6

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

I absolutely love this street art. 🖼️

[Rachel Fulton Brown @RFultonBrown]

@KJCrilly I'm so happy you found me!

[Rachel Fulton Brown @RFultonBrown]

@elonmusk @GadSaad

[Rachel Fulton Brown @RFultonBrown]

To judge from the responses to my most recent posts, more people care about dandelions than chivalry—perhaps because they are sick of being lied to about dandelions, but still think chivalry is a fairy tale?

https://t.co/7JhGESo46K

[Rachel Fulton Brown @RFultonBrown]

To coin a phrase: three cheers for chivalry.

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[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

The only thing that stops violent men from raping you and your society are other men who are equally willing to be violent in stopping the rapists. The West has decided that the highest virtue is to quietly comply with the destruction of your civilization because to do otherwise is bigoted toward the rapists. It really is that simple.

[Rachel Fulton Brown @RFultonBrown]

Exactly what I said...in 2015. Three cheers for chivalry.

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Bullseye

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Spina Kicks🥇 @Spinaaaaa17]

Lang Lang the greatest classical pianist in the world walked up to emilio piano and asked him to play rush E, one of the hardest pieces ever.

What happened next... I can't believe it🔥🔥🔥

[Rachel Fulton Brown @RFultonBrown]

@StarFox_360 Moo

[Mike Steger @stegerMG]

Trump may have just pulled off the most important geopolitical move of the 21st century.

Most people still haven’t realized what’s happening in the Middle East.

This changes everything.

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

“To eliminate suffering entirely would mean, in the end, extinguishing love and desire as well. Those who love and desire cannot avoid passing through trial and suffering; and over the years, we carry within us lessons that leave their mark like scars, the memories of a journey shaped by freedom and failure, dreams and disappointments.

It is only thanks to the interplay of these elements that the wonders of the soul occur within us, allowing us to sense the richness of our humanity.

To renounce this adventure, both tragic and splendid, in the name of a presumed transcendence of all limits, could mean many things, but it would no longer be human.”

Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas (par. 120) (May 15, 2026)

[Rachel Fulton Brown @RFultonBrown]

Drake, RIP

February 16, 2021-May 24, 2026

He was the best of dogs.

[Rachel Fulton Brown @RFultonBrown]

No livestream tonight, I am still keeping vigil with my little pup.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
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[Rachel Fulton Brown @RFultonBrown]

@Patriot_Mimaw @SKirkPierzchala I hope your pup is recovering! Alas, I'm not sure mine is going to be able to pull through. It's been truly horrible these past several weeks since he started on the medicine, just when we finally understood what was afflicting him.

[Rachel Fulton Brown @RFultonBrown]

No livestream tonight, I am still keeping vigil with my little pup.

[Rachel Fulton Brown @RFultonBrown]

@SKirkPierzchala Histoplasmosis. The medicine is as brutal as the infection, and he had been fighting it for months and months before we got the diagnosis. It’s been a very long year.

[Rachel Fulton Brown @RFultonBrown]

@William_TM_ @OneArmedBoh Probably. There were definitely ditches. It makes sense if most of them were dry.

[Diane Montagna @dianemontagna]

JUST IN: Vatican announces that Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical — titled Magnifica Humanitas, on the safeguarding of the human person in the age of AI — will be presented at 11:30am on Monday, May 25, in the Vaticanʼs Synod Hall, in the presence of the Holy Father.

Speakers at the presentation will include:

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith;

Cardinal Michael Czerny, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development;

Professor Anna Rowlands, Political Theology, including Catholic Social Teaching, and theological ethics of human migration, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, United Kingdom;

Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic (USA) and head of interpretability research for artificial intelligence;

Dr. Leocadie Lushombo, Political Theology and Catholic Social Thought, Jesuit School of Theology / Santa Clara University, California.

Concluding remarks will be delivered by thel Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

The presentation will also include an address by Pope Leo XIV.

Magnifica Humanitas was signed and dated on May 15, the 135th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical Letter Rerum Novarum.

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

It’s incredible to think these images are from today, May 15th, 2026 and not from the Middle Ages

This is Gubbio, Italy 🇮🇹 during the Festa dei Ceri

A tradition more than a thousand years old, where history, folklore and religion collide in the most spectacular way imaginable