One of the priests at the Catholic school/church I went to was a family friend.

Years later it came out that he had been abusing an altar boy who was just 1 grade behind me. I’d see this kid all the time.

When my mom told me he had been arrested and why, she said “But don’t tell anyone” - because he was “a friend”.

I said bullshit - I’m telling everybody I see.

He’s in prison forever now but that poor kid…and that’s just the one I know about.

He’s just trolling at this point.

Well said.

Mardi Gras Day is February 17 so good on ya governor for intentionally sabotaging the biggest money maker of the year for your state.

The season itself starts January 6 so epic big brain move there.

A couple weeks ago here in TX we voted on 17 state constitutional amendments. I want to say 12-13 of those were some form of tax cut for the wealthy. I voted against all of them but they all passed. And they passed big, like 60-70% to 40-30%.

The wording they used to describe the amendments was very much skewed to make them sound wonderful. No negatives, only positives. For instance, something like this may have had the wording “more money for schools”.

On its face it seems like a good idea - fewer taxes for me, more money for schools - what could go wrong? I assume most folks just looked at it said “ok” without much additional thought.

It’s very frustrating to basically have the large majority of voters approve this, giving the state government reassurance that they can do whatever they want, when it’s an obvious lie.

Nothing they do is to help the “regular” people of Texas. It’s all tax breaks for businesses and the super wealthy and Christian Nationalism disguised as “parental choice”.

It’s absolutely disgusting.

From the standpoint of water, it is wet. At least that’s what Trump says.

I’m not familiar enough with it with respect to images I guess, so I didn’t know. But thanks for the tip, I’ll start playing around with it :)

Can someone with talent remake this gif by replacing the word “flames” with “leopards”?

Original link: https://media0.giphy.com/media/xQz492gZVUoms/giphy.gif

Could the mythological good guy with a gun be real?

Yeah, totally makes sense. I wouldn’t want to revisit it either. :(

Oh yeah there’s a doc on Netflix about that showing all the police bodycam footage. It was a good doc but so sad :(

That’s the 12 days: Dec 25 - Jan 6.

Jan 6 is All King’s Day, when the 3 Kings visited Jesus…aka Epiphany…aka the first day of Mardi Gras season.

I’m not religious, I’m just from a culture where Mardi Gras is very important. And imo, we should all celebrate a day for no other reason than to eat, drink, and be merry :)

I’m guessing he doesn’t know that New Orleans does this as well? In his home state? Nobody tell him.

You literally orchestrated an insurrection because of your “reluctance to relinquish power”.

Greta <3

I wish we could use a “regular” app like Waze and start reporting “icy weather” as code for ICE. I mean we can, but idk how to make it a thing. Kinda how they were using “winter boots” as code on TikTok for ICE to get around the censors.

fwiw when we got a puppy, the vet instructed us to do just this with our cat who had already been with us for a few years. Worked like a charm.

Good point.

climate.nasa.gov still works, for now.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.