Tessa Pulaski

food security, migration, climate change // @georgetownsfs // @gwlaw // AMDG

[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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[Tessa Pulaski @tessapulaski]

@4intheflames @AllyTaft “Too many liberals” spooooky

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 “I’m so glad people are finally waking up to your cruelty — and to the idiocy of your star disciple Pete Hegseth.”

@WajahatAli eviscerates Hegseth’s pastor Doug Wilson (with @Timodc & @piersmorgan in the front row)

H/T @FurkanGozukara

[Tessa Pulaski @tessapulaski]

@StephenM You are a truly evil, evil human.

[Tessa Pulaski @tessapulaski]

@jonfavs We are truly living in a sick time.

[NCR @NCRonline]

The vice president @JDVance's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith, writes digital editor John Grosso. https://t.co/Zj522uGx8o

[Tessa Pulaski @tessapulaski]

@pitchfork No Rosalia???? come again?

[Tessa Pulaski @tessapulaski]

@JimHoudek1 Any updates? Waiting on the runway for departure, but we haven’t moved yet.

[Tessa Pulaski @tessapulaski]

"What one finds is just as intriguing as the album’s dynamic sound: a search for salvation through God, a fascination with religious figures and traditions, an embodiment of a distinctly feminine spirituality." @americamag

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[Tessa Pulaski @tessapulaski]

@mehdirhasan @ezraklein Thank you for pointing this out! Huge fan of both yours and Ezra’s, but I found this piece infuriating. So many people were discriminated against and ostracized because of Kirk’s violent language and we can’t give him a free pass.

[Tessa Pulaski @tessapulaski]

@Acyn Truly sick

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Re: the idea that empathy or compassion is bad or even "toxic," a belief held by some Christians today.

There is problem with that belief, and that problem comes from Jesus himself.

Over and over in the Gospels, an important word is used to describe what Jesus feels whenever he sees someone who is poor, or hungry or struggling. Most English-language translations say that upon seeing suffering, Jesus's "heart was moved with pity." In Matthew 9:36, when Jesus sees hungry crowds, "like sheep without a shepherd," the Greek word used to describe his feeling is σπλάγχνον ("splagchnon").

Basically, that word means that he felt compassion in his spleen, or as we might say, in his "guts," the seat of emotion in the Hellenistic world. It is an almost physical reaction to seeing someone suffer.

That word is used repeatedly in the Gospels to describe Jesus's emotional reactions. Jesus himself also uses the same word in some of his most famous parables: for example, to describe the feelings of the Good Samaritan towards the man by the side of the road (Luke 10:33), or the compassion of the loving father in the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:20).

In other words, Jesus himself felt compassion so intensely that he felt it in his guts. And his own parables invite us to feel that same compassion ourselves.

Sympathy is feeling how you would feel if you were suffering like the other person. Empathy is feeling how they would feel. Compassion is the willingness to suffer what they are suffering, alongside them.

Jesus felt deep compassion, in his guts, for anyone who was poor, sick, hungry or struggling in any way. For the Christian, then, empathy is not a sign of weakness but of strength, as we follow Jesus along the road of compassion.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I am deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life and injury caused by the military attack on the Holy Family Catholic Church in #Gaza. I assure the parish community of my spiritual closeness. I commend the souls of the deceased to the loving mercy of Almighty God, and pray for their families and the injured. I renew my call for an immediate ceasefire. Only dialogue and reconciliation can ensure enduring peace!

[Brian Strassburger @StrassburgerSJ]

“God does not fault one who does not go to Mass out of fear, he faults those who cause the fear.” Our immigration enforcement strategy is based primarily on creating fear. God finds fault in that, and so should we. Thanks for your prophetic voice, @bpdflores

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country. And remember, 93% have no record of any violent crimes. This facility, then, is comparable to the internment camps for Japanese Americans during the Second World War. But let's call it what it is: a concentration camp. Jesus wept.

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

If the party elites in NY are so upset Zohran won they should just do what they do best- write a very strongly worded letter.

[Charlotte Alter @CharlotteAlter]

Whatever happens, Mamdani wrote a new playbook for progressives

He reached outside the base. He ran away from purity politics. He didn't run as "I'm the true progressive and you're not." He tolerated disagreement, embraced persuasion, and emphasized building common ground.

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

Pope Leo at Mass for Feast of Body and Blood of Christ: “In the face of the misery of many, the accumulation of wealth by a few is a sign of indifferent arrogance, which produces pain and injustice. Instead of sharing, opulence wastes the fruits of the earth and of human labor.”

[Meghnad Bose @MeghnadBose93]

JUST NOW: Mahmoud Khalil is reunited with his wife Dr. Noor Abdalla and his infant son Deen, as well as his friends, upon landing in New Jersey.

After 104 days in detention, Mahmoud Khalil is home.

@DropSiteNews

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Is there a term for a racist Freudian slip? A Bunkerian slip?

Anyway pretty disgusting to watch the VP demagogue about "political theatre" while holding a purely for show press conference in the city his administration is occupying with military troops for no reason