✝︎ Radical centrist.
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Van Ike retweeted
Catholics have a real faith that provides them a catechism for viewing art as art. American Protestantism is histrionic and unmoored so anything can be interpreted as the devil.
Elizabeth Holmes vibes ngl
So are we, after all, literally in Plato's cave? newscientist.com/article/259…
Van Ike retweeted
Why would they? This sculpture was inspired by the cathedral in Nagasaki that was destroyed by the atomic bomb. Since there were consecrated hosts inside, according to Catholic theology this makes Jesus himself a survivor of nuclear war.
Is this Dark Woke?
BREAKING: NYT reports that operatives with Democratic Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign were behind the effort to find & recruit a candidate named Dan Sullivan to run against incumbent GOP Senator Dan S. Sullivan in an effort to confuse voters and peel votes from him.
Specifically, NYT says they have reviewed text messages and documents that reveal in summer 2025, a Peltola staffer received instructions from campaign staffers to find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as possible.
The staffer complied, going through voter records, and compiled a list. The operation “involved secret trips to far-flung Alaskan communities and the appearance of a mysterious Midwestern operative, who traversed the state using a fake name and made his pitch to would-be candidates over beers at brew pubs.”
Per NYT:
“The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate. His name was Dan J. Sullivan.”
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/po…
Van Ike retweeted
Please pray for little Nova.
Novas surgery is at 12pm Wednesday.
Please pray for her. The anesthesiologist. The nurses.
And Dr.R, the surgeon.
I will be heading there tomorrow even
Though staying overnight is unlikely. It would take a miracle for things to be able to fall into place just right to allow that during a weekday.
It says it’s going to rain so I hope travels aren’t unsafe like last weeks.
Nova really needs me especially with such a brutal surgery taking place again. I am overwhelmed. I am emotionally tapped. I am just distracted and sad, and my kids are feeling the damage. 💔 I just need my full family home & together and everything else can come after.
Let’s hope this result of taking out the jaw hardware goes better than the surgery of putting it in.
All our love,
Nova’s mom ❤️🧸🙏
Gfm-gofund.me/722c5fcb5
givesendgo.com/baby-novas-fi…
Cash App-$allthestars92
Van Ike retweeted
Every time an old person talks about their childhood they describe insane emotional abuse like it was ordinary as going to get ice cream. So much of their behavior makes sense when you remember they have decades of trauma they stubbornly refuse to heal from.
Kathy Bates says she was sure she never thanked her mother in her Misery Oscar speech, then the interviewer showed her the tape
"She gave up her retirement because I was born so late in life to them."
"When I won the Oscar for Misery, she said, I don't know what all the excitement about, you didn't discover the cure for cancer."
"Why did I think I didn't thank her?"
"Because she should have had my life."
"I wanted her spirit to come into me and enjoy everything I was enjoying because of what she'd given up."
Her mom's whole review of the Oscar was that she didn't cure cancer, and Kathy still believed she had shorted her that night. Then she watches herself thank her mom at home, right there in the speech. Some people never stop trying to pay their parents back. You can hear it in how quiet she gets at the end.
ft: @CBSSunday CBS Sunday Morning on youtube
Van Ike retweeted
Really must be quite depressing to be a serious actor & spend most of your time being forced into silly content gimmicks. Just endlessly banal shtick. Can only applaud Seydoux for refusing to eat a stale croissant for Instagram giggles
Van Ike retweeted
MAGAtards are celebrating this white kid's death because the BU College Republicans wouldn't support Vivek Ramascammy. Bizarro World shit.
EXCLUSIVE: BU College Republicans President Who Endorsed Democrats Dies in Car Crash newsbarron.com/p/exclusive-b…
Based Capote aside, has any major American author’s reputation fallen off as hard as Norman Mailer’s?
Van Ike retweeted
Was unaware William F Buckley advocated for a prisoner, got him a lawyer, and single handedly got him released, only for the guy to immediately kidnap a woman and very nearly knife her to death.
Criminal justice reform has a sterling conservative pedigree.
Van Ike retweeted
I have long maintained that this is the single funniest thing I've ever seen. Still is.
Van Ike retweeted
absolutely insane. horrible horrible tragedy for an artist brave enough to continue to speak out and use art as an expression
Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to five years and one month in prison by a Tehran court:
• The new ruling, according to his lawyer, is separate from a previous one-year prison sentence
• The court also ordered the confiscation of Panahi’s assets and imposed two-year bans on social media use and travel
variety.com/2026/film/global…
Van Ike retweeted
Well if you were a celebrity that happened to be considering suicide for an unrelated reason, you’re gonna have to stick it out a bit longer sorry :/
Anonymous Celebrity May Die by Suicide if Sex Misconduct Claims Go Public, Lawyers Say tmz.com/2026/10/27/celebrity…
There hasn’t been a great rock song since the Obama administration.
Rolling Stone reveals their top rock songs of the 21st century.
1. “Maps” - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2. “Seven Nation Army” - The White Stripes
3. “Mr. Brightside” - The Killers
4. “good 4 u” - Olivia Rodrigo
5. “The National Anthem” - Radiohead
6. “I Know The End” - Phoebe Bridgers
7. “Last Nite” - The Strokes
8. “99 Problems” - Jay-Z
9. “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” - Arctic Monkeys
10. “Impossible Germany” - Wilco
