Douglas Anders

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

Columbus Dispatch: The conduct of Vivek Ramaswamy in attacking his rival has been reckless, shameful and morally depraved. Therefore we are pulling our support for Ramaswamy and endorsing his rival, Amy Acton, instead. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

I mean, geez, Ohio GOP, I already voted for him, you don't have to keep selling him to me

Dorothy Day was also a Catholic voice.

An e-mail from @chaosium.bsky.social reminded me that this is the eighth anniversary of the passing of Greg Stafford. Tonight I’m going to sit down with my Runequest books. Remember — #WeAreAllUs

Truly bizarre that this isn’t blazingly obvious.

**”This is illegal”**

We've lost track of how very un-ordinary ICE's current reign of terror is. We’ve already gotten used to a level of fascism, authoritarianism, and corruption that would be unthinkable and shocking to us just a short time ago. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-s-ty...

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

Why is it never — NEVER — ”rich people have to suck it up”? For some reason it’s always those with the least who have to pay for the tax breaks of the rich.

This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.

"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

6 of the 9 justices on the court are Catholic and claim to be “pro-life.”

The billionaires are lit just stealing from the rest of us now, and aren’t even trying hard to hide it.

Told ya.

Damn. I can find a clip of the credentials fight at Socialist Party of the USA in the movie Reds. I non-ironically love a good credentials fight.

One of the underrated parts of this election cycle is finding out what huge pieces of shit formerly safe elected officials are because they're finally vulnerable enough to get raked over the coals

@npr.org Good thing my NPR pledge is supporting great journalism.

Though seems odd that the filmmakers (George Miller, @clmazin.bsky.social) who do the best post-apocalyptic bleakness film are also the best at talking farm animal movies.

Sheep Detectives is a great movie. Not as great as l The Greatest Movie of All Time — that would be Babe (the talking pig one, not the baseball player one). And maybe it falls just short of the magnificence of Warren Beatty’s Reds (3 hours about journalists, communists, unions and sometimes sex).

As someone lead to the Church by the example of Dorothy Day — very happy. Though maybe say a prayer for the elected officials (including my boss) in Lucas County, Ohio who have to put up with my insufferable pain-in- the-ass-ness on a regular basis.

The Vatican office that handles every sainthood case in the world, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, has approved the first portion of the file assembled to make Dorothy Day a saint. mikefoxcatechist.substack.com/p/rome-advan...

In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record: The Resistance Libs Were Right.

Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer.

Lots of overfitting from the commentariat on this one, as Ryan notes. The margin here is hardly 'stunning.' If anything, it's (relatively) strong evidence of openness to left-insurgent candidates, offset in this case by an idiosyncratic candidate who was of lower skill than, say, AOC or Mamdani.

Munitions depleted. SPR run down. Naval procurement set back. Promising officers purged. That bill is going to come due. Maybe 23m Taiwanese losing their freedom to the PRC, maybe hundreds of thousands of Americans losing their lives in a war we're not ready for. The bill will come due.

i think people have forgotten that the goal of winning an election isn't winning the next election

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

"You, the rich, how far will you push your frenzied greed? When giving to the poor, you are not giving him what is yours; rather, you are paying him back what is his... you have usurped for yourself alone. The earth belongs to all, and not only to the rich." –St. Ambrose of Milan, On Naboth 3.12

Any discussion of women's roles in the church must begin with this fact: It was to a woman that the Risen Christ first appeared and a woman who was charged by him with announcing the Resurrection to the rest of his disciples. Thus, her justly exalted title: "Apostle to the Apostles."

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

Tell me you’ve never read the New Testament without saying you’ve never read the New Testament.