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“Young Latinos are abandoning organized religion at a faster rate than any other demographic in the United States,” Axios reports. “The declining religious affiliation of Latinos ages 18 to 29 — particularly among Catholics — is challenging long-held assumptions that their explosive growth would boost traditional religious values in American culture.”

The Vision of St. Augustine from the Altarpiece of St. Barnabas, 1488 #botticelli #sandrobotticelli

“Your father didn’t believe in revenge.”
“Yeah, well, I do.”
— Dune: Part 2

New poll has James Talarico up 5 points. From the Texas Tribune:

Since Paxton locked up the GOP nomination in late May, polling of the contest has found a neck-and-neck race with neither candidate able to break 50%. But TPOR’s poll found Talarico leading among voters who do not have a college degree — a group that has consistently favored Republicans in Texas and across the country — and dominating among independents, less than a quarter of whom said they planned to vote for Paxton.

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Before we go any further, skip to 0:50 in the video below. Pay attention to the pre-chorus. Your ears will probably want the chord sequence to move on long before ABBA let it. That’s exactly the point. I play in an indie rock band called Shenanigans. We’re the sort of band that plays Radiohead, Nirvana, […]

We were using the wrong value from config.json to build the URL for the <link> element in RSS.chat-generated feeds. Fixed in server v0.6.12, on both public servers. Thanks to iheartrss.com, whose checker caught the mistake.

Get the new rssnetwork.js and package.json from the repo and restart. No new packages this time, so there's no npm install step.

not clear exactly what's not working. will wait for details.

Just made a small change in the way we prepare feeds, and I have to post something to cause the feeds to rebuild.

It looks like the JavaScript-rendered page content is blocking right now, but I'm having Claude suggest some fixes. :-)

I just fixed this issue, but I have to post something to cause the feeds to rebuild.

Grinning idiot Kevin Hasset says, “I don’t think any of us think” and then some other stuff, so he gets it partially correct: Hassett: "I don't think that any of us think there's any reason at all why US debt should be downgraded" — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-29T1...

The story of Poland in the 20th century is tragic, heroic and redemptive.