Lauren

I’m not your lawyer, you know the drill

[Lauren @sposinator]

Relevant every day. https://t.co/7WEnS2lPKL via @HuffPostPol

[Lauren @sposinator]

@KyleClark I don’t think I could have said no to that experience!!

[Lauren @sposinator]

@yeeeerika Dermatologist and grab EVERY PRESCRIPTION YOU CAN

[Mish, Esq. @attorneymish]

Law school was hard but at least I never joined The Federalist Society

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

You can actually put 30 different fruits in a smoothie but when you put a banana in that mf it is now a Banana Smoothie.

[Lauren @sposinator]

I have nobody to laugh about this with 😂

[Lance Corporate @lance_corporate]

Dental hygienist (28F): I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this but based on my observations you are mere hours from death

Dentist (44M): looks good man

[Lauren @sposinator]

@coloradopols That’s very misleading

[Lauren @sposinator]

Saw a new medical provider, talking about my history and my psoriatic arthritis diagnoses. She asks what horrific, stressful thing was happening to me that I would start developing symptoms in my late 20s.

The answer? Law school. Law school gave me an auto immune disease.

[Sophia Benoit @1followernodad]

Everything bad in the world is because of private equity and everything good in the world is because of the moon

[Tobechi Ogazi, Esq. @TobechiOgazi]

Lawyers can navigate complex regulatory frameworks but will forget their own passwords.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Yes, he really said that.

Yesterday Vice President JD Vance criticized Pope Leo XIV for not knowing enough theology: "I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology ... If you’re going to opine on matters of theology, you’ve got to be careful, you’ve got to make sure it’s anchored in the truth," he said, at a Turning Point conference.

One of the many, many, ironies about that statement is that it came in response to Pope Leo's comments about war and peace and, specifically, the concept of "just war," which originated with St. Augustine. As many have already noted, when the Vice President was making his comments, Pope Leo XIV, a member of the Augustinian Order, and twice Prior General of the Augustinians before his election as Pope, was visiting the hometown of St. Augustine, then called "Hippo," now in Annaba, a town in modern-day Algeria. For good measure, Pope Leo XIV, the man critiqued for insufficient theological education, earned not only a master's degree in divinity, but also licentiate and a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.

JD Vance's recent conversion to Catholicism is beside the point, because many converts are of course not only highly intelligent (and learned in theology) but faithful and energetic Catholics. We rejoice over everyone entering the church.

What most of us do not rejoice over, however, is a deadly combination of inaccuracy and hubris. Pace, Vice President Vance, but the current war in Iran is not a just war under Catholic doctrine. You can hear that from church leaders from across the theological spectrum, from Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the head of the military vicariate and former head of the @USCCB, to Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington who holds doctorates in both theology and political science. You can look all that up online. Suffice to say, the Vice President doesn't seem to understand the tenets of just war.

Nor does he seem to understand the fundamental position of the church, which is for peace. "War is always a defeat for humanity," as St. John Paul II said. If that authority isn't enough, then turn to Jesus who said, "Blessed are the peacemakers," not "Blessed are the warmongers." And after the Resurrection, the Risen Christ says to the frightened disciples not "Vengeance is mine" but "Peace be with you."

Incidentally, the day before, the Vice President said that the Pope (and the Vatican) should stick to teaching about morality, also seeming to forget that war and peace are profoundly moral issues.

For his part, Pope Leo was focused yesterday on his spiritual father, St. Augustine. After what seemed like an emotional visit to Hippo, he celebrated Mass at the Basilica of St. Augustine in Annaba. During his homily he said, "The primary task of pastors as ministers of the Gospel is therefore to bear witness to God before the world with one heart and one soul, not permitting our concerns to lead us astray through fear, nor trends to undermine us through compromise."

Amen. Let's all continue to pray for the Holy Father as he works for peace.

(Image: Pope Leo XIV prays at the archeological ruins of Hippo, home of St. Augustine, in current-day Algeria. CNS photo).

[❤️‍🔥pop tart💋 @pop_tartlet]

I’m old fashioned. I don’t use AI. I draft my briefs by copying and pasting from all my other briefs

[Cranky Federalist @CrankyFed]

I'm going to say this the gentlest way I know how

Some of you are very stupid and should be embarrassed by your opinions

[Lauren @sposinator]

It’s a war movie—this is a hill I will die on.

[Michael F Kane @MichaelFKane]

You guys are arguing about whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie and I'll do you one better.

White Christmas is NOT a Christmas movie.

[Michael F Kane @MichaelFKane]

You guys are arguing about whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie and I'll do you one better.

White Christmas is NOT a Christmas movie.

[Lauren @sposinator]

Do some people NOT say goodbye?!

I also read somewhere that having a routine when you leave helps manage separation anxiety, so I usually say the same things in the same order every time.

[Elma @oelma__]

Super serious question. Do people say goodbye to their pets when leaving home?

[Lauren @sposinator]

First snow of the year, power goes out. Not a good sign. Not helping that @XcelEnergyCO keeps removing our neighborhood from the outage map, despite the power still being out.