CristinaT retweeted
I am getting so sick of the stupid takes on the Lindsay Clancy trial.
The state had shit evidence for a first degree murder charge. They therefore should have let her plead out.
No, we should not abolish the insanity defense. Yes, brain conditions exist that reduce your culpability. No, it wouldn't be justice to hold people accountable for actions they don't have control over.
Yes, the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard is a good one and no you don't get to just throw it in the trash because you don't like the crime. (And no, the lone guy on the jury who did exactly this is not a hero).
No, you aren't a good person for diminishing postpartum psychosis just because you're a man or a woman who had PPD or an easy or difficult postpartum or no childbearing at all.
No, Massachusetts does not have and should not have the death penalty. And no, that one case in Maine 70 years ago doesn't mean it's a terrible idea to let a woman who murdered her children get psychiatric treatment instead of prison time today.
And no, thinking rationally about legal standards and accurately about the meaning of basic vocabulary words doesn't mean you think people should kill their children and it doesn't make you evil.
Would you all please just shut up with these unoriginal awful bad terrible takes. Three children are dead and you're all treating it like the first thought experiment you've been exposed to in decades and you can't be bothered to do anything with it except half ass it.
Ugh
CristinaT retweeted
“PPP usually starts within days or weeks, not 8 months postpartum.”
Correct. But that argument only works if Lindsay’s illness started at 8 months. The defense evidence says it didn’t.
Within weeks of Callan’s birth, there were possible hypomanic/manic symptoms. By around 3 months postpartum came significant anxiety, depression and insomnia. Then months of psychiatric treatment, medication changes and continued deterioration before the alleged psychosis.
That timeline is important because postpartum psychosis is strongly associated with bipolar-spectrum illness, and major reproductive psychiatry researchers describe childbirth as a powerful trigger for manic, mixed and psychotic episodes in vulnerable women.
So the defense is not asking you to believe Lindsay was psychiatrically well for 8 months and then suddenly developed PPP.
They’re asking whether childbirth triggered a bipolar-spectrum illness that began early postpartum, evolved over months and ultimately became psychotic.
You can absolutely reject that explanation based on the evidence. But “she was 8 months postpartum” does not, by itself, disprove it.
CristinaT retweeted
I was asked this earlier in a comment in reference to Lindsay Clancy...
"She killed her kids ... why do you care ?"
Every single person should care about this trial.
Our mental healthcare system is the one on trial.
Lindsay's life is over no matter what the jury decides. This trial is so much bigger than Lindsay.
It's about every single person who suffers from mental health issues and can't get help.
It's about every person who has called a suicide hotline because they just wanted to die, but because they didn't have a plan for how they were going to do it, they were turned away.
It's about every person who finally worked up the courage to say, "I need help," only to be told the next available appointment is months away.
It's about every person who went to an emergency room in a mental health crisis and was sent home because they didn't meet the criteria to be admitted.
It's about every family who knew something was terribly wrong with someone they loved, and begged for help.
It's about every person who has told their doctor that the medication they're prescribing is making them worse, only to have that doctor keep prescribing more.
It's about every person who stopped taking a medication because the side effects were unbearable, only to be labeled "noncompliant" instead of someone stopping to ask why.
It's about every person who needed a specific treatment but couldn't get it until they tried three other things first because that's the only way insurance would pay for it.
It's about every person who couldn't afford the mental healthcare they needed.
It's about every person who has been afraid to admit what was happening inside their own head because they were afraid of how people would look at them afterward.
It's about every person whose symptoms weren't taken seriously until they reached a crisis.
It's about every family left asking, "What else were we supposed to do?" after they tried to get someone they loved help.
It's about every person who did exactly what we tell people to do, asked for help, and discovered that getting help isn't nearly as simple as we pretend it is.
This trial is about a broken mental healthcare system.
It's about a broken healthcare system in general.
So yes, every single person should care about this trial, regardless of how they feel about Lindsay.
Because you don't have to believe Lindsay Clancy is NGRI to recognize that something is terribly wrong with a system that so many people turn to for help and can't get it.
CristinaT retweeted
A pharmacist’s reaction to the medications LC was given.
#LindsayClancy
CristinaT retweeted
I didn't get to hear all of today, but I heard enough.
The prosecution in the Lindsay Clancy trial today engaged in nothing short of emotional jury manipulation.
They put the medical examiner on the stand and forced the jury to sit through graphic, detailed descriptions of the ligature marks, the injuries, and the effects of strangulation on three little children — even though the defense had already made clear these facts were not contested.
Lindsay Clancy broke down, sobbing “I can’t do this,” as the judge had to call multiple recesses. That reaction was predictable. The prosecution knew it would happen. They did it anyway.
And they didn’t just traumatize the defendant.
They deliberately put that same cumulative emotional weight on the jurors themselves. Forcing ordinary people to absorb the most visceral details of three children’s deaths — details no longer needed to prove the act — is not about seeking truth. It is about overwhelming the panel with horror so that reason and the legal standard of criminal responsibility become secondary to raw emotion.
This was cumulative. It was cruel. And it was calculated.
A fair trial requires the jury to decide based on evidence and the law — not on how much trauma can be inflicted on everyone in the courtroom.
CristinaT retweeted
The Tartan Army has reached Kowloon!
Sources tell us they’ve drunk the place dry and eaten every Saugus Wing in sight.
After two weeks of marching through Boston, turning every street into a party, they’re off to Miami after tomorrow’s match. Take em down pals!
No Scotland, No Party! 🏴
🎶 Take me home, take me home…
We’ll miss the Scots. Safe travels, lads 🙏🏻
@TartanArmyGroup
@shaunvlog_ – at Saugus, MA
CristinaT retweeted
Scottish Tartan Army Is Singing the
USA National Anthem in Boston Pub.
They seem to love everything about America - our flag and our National Anthem.
They make me proud to be of Scottish and Irish ancestry in part.
If only the malcontent Americans who haven't figured out what a great country America is had even half the love for our country, this would be a better place.
CristinaT retweeted
Match ready…follow us and retweet for your chance to win the official World Cup ball!
CristinaT retweeted
In the summer of 1995 I was given a choice that I didn't know was life or death.
I was a data systems analyst with the 33rd Fighter Wing out of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. F-15Es. I tracked every break on every jet after the day's sorties, built the readiness reports, forecasted the trends from a little office right on the flight line. JP-8 in the morning air. Great people. I loved it.
In my off hours I served on the base Honor Guard. We carried the caskets of fallen service members, fired the 21-gun salute, and folded the flag into a tight triangle to hand to a mother, a widow, a child. I have looked a lot of grieving families in the eye. I did not yet understand how close I would come to being the reason someone folded a flag for me.
Late that summer I learned our unit was rotating to Saudi Arabia for Operation Southern Watch. They gave me a choice: deploy in January, or wait and go with the next rotation later in the year.
My boyfriend at the time—my husband now—told me to just get it over with and go in January, when the desert "only" hits 105 instead of 120. So I said yes.
The week before I shipped out, a quiet young Airman moved into the dorm room across the hall. A crew chief in my unit. We'd nod and say hey passing in the hallway but I never got the chance to really know him because we deployed the next week.
I did my 93 days in Dhahran, lived in Khobar Towers with hundreds of other Americans, came home that spring on a 24-hour C-130 ride, got engaged, went back to the beach and the good Florida weather and ordinary life.
My quiet neighbor deployed with the next rotation. The one I'd chosen not to be on.
Two weeks before that rotation was set to come home, terrorists bombed Khobar Towers. Nineteen American Airmen were killed. Twelve of them were ours, from the 33rd. One of them was the quiet crew chief from across the hall—Airman 1st Class Peter J. Morgera, 19 years old, from Stratham, New Hampshire.
Over the years I've wondered why my husband told me to go early. Why I came home and they didn't.
There is no tidy answer. What I have is a responsibility—to make sure they are not just a number. So today, say their names with me.
Eglin lost:
MSgt Kendall K. Kitson, Jr. — Yukon, OK
TSgt Daniel B. Cafourek — Watertown, SD
TSgt Patrick P. Fennig — Greendale, WI
TSgt Thanh Van Nguyen — Panama City, FL
SrA Earl F. Cartrette, Jr. — Sellersburg, IN
SrA Jeremy A. Taylor — Rose Hill, KS
Sgt Millard D. Campbell — Angleton, TX
A1C Brent E. Marthaler — Cambridge, MN
A1C Brian W. McVeigh — DeBary, FL
A1C Peter J. Morgera — Stratham, NH
A1C Joseph E. Rimkus — Edwardsville, IL
A1C Joshua E. Woody — Corpus Christi, TX
Memorial Day isn't about the ones who came home. It's about them. I get to be grateful only because they paid for it.
Say their names today. 🇺🇸
CristinaT retweeted
Tomorrow will be the feast of St. Rita of Cascia. I love her! She’s a very powerful saint, especially good for family problems. Every family has its difficulties – Rita really had it! If you find yourself with family difficulties, go to Jesus through St. Rita of Cascia. St. Rita of Cascia, pray for us! @thegnewsroom
CristinaT retweeted
251 years ago this week, a 6'2" Vermont moonshiner with no military experience and no authorization from anyone captured the most strategically important fort in North America at dawn, and accidentally won the Revolutionary War before it had really started.
It's May 1775. Lexington and Concord happened three weeks ago. The colonies have muskets but almost no cannon. The British, sitting in Boston, have plenty. Everyone knows that without artillery, the rebellion is over by autumn.
Everyone also knows where to get artillery: Fort Ticonderoga. A stone star-fort on Lake Champlain, bristling with roughly 80 heavy guns. The British call it "the Gibraltar of America." It's the bottleneck of the entire continent. Whoever holds it controls the invasion route between Canada and New York.
What the rebels don't know, but Ethan Allen has heard, is that "the Gibraltar of America" is, by 1775, mostly held together by moss. The walls are crumbling. The garrison is 48 men, many of them invalids and pensioners. The commander hasn't even been told a war started.
Allen is not a soldier. He's a frontier land speculator who runs an armed militia called the Green Mountain Boys, originally formed not to fight the British, but to beat up New York surveyors trying to seize Vermont farms. New York has literally put a bounty on his head. He decides to go take the fort anyway.
Halfway there, a man named Benedict Arnold shows up on horseback with a Massachusetts colonel's commission, waving paperwork, demanding command of the expedition. The Green Mountain Boys threaten to go home if Arnold is in charge. Allen and Arnold agree to "joint command," which mostly means walking next to each other in furious silence.
They reach the lake at midnight. Problem: they have 200 men and exactly two leaky boats. By 3 AM only 83 have made it across. Dawn is coming. Allen decides to attack with what he has, meaning roughly 1 American for every half-cannon inside the fort.
A lone British sentry sees them coming through the wicket gate, levels his musket at Allen's chest, and pulls the trigger. The musket misfires. He runs. The Americans pour in. Total resistance to the capture of British North America's most important inland fortress: one wet flintlock.
Allen pounds on the officers' quarters with the flat of his sword. Lt. Jocelyn Feltham stumbles out half-dressed, asking by what authority Allen is there. Allen, by his own later account, roars: "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!" (Other witnesses remembered the wording as substantially more profane. The Continental Congress, for its part, had no idea any of this was happening.)
Captain Delaplace, the actual commander, emerges still buttoning his trousers and surrenders the fort, its 78 cannons, its garrison, and roughly 30,000 musket flints without a shot fired by either side. Casualties: zero. Time elapsed: about ten minutes.
But here's the part that actually changed history. Those cannons sat at Ticonderoga for six months until a 25-year-old, 280-pound Boston bookseller named Henry Knox, who had learned artillery from books in his own shop, volunteered to go get them.
In the dead of winter, Knox and his men dragged 59 cannons weighing 60 tons across 300 miles of frozen rivers, the Berkshires, and unbroken snow, on 42 ox-drawn sleds. One gun fell through the ice of the Hudson. They fished it out and kept going. It took 56 days.
On the night of March 4, 1776, those cannons were hauled silently up Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston Harbor. The British woke up on March 5 to find every ship in the harbor and every redcoat in the city under the muzzles of guns that, six months earlier, had belonged to them.
Eleven days later, the British evacuated Boston. They would never hold it again.
An unauthorized raid by 83 backwoodsmen, led by a wanted man and a future traitor, against a fort defended by a captain in his pajamas, became the artillery that drove the British army out of the largest city in the American colonies.
Easiest W in American history. Possibly the most consequential ten minutes of the 18th century.
CristinaT retweeted
A book by a certified yoga instructor explores the “darkness” behind the practice of yoga and the many "misconceptions” of the practice for Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
Linda Carl spoke about the dangers of yoga and her newest book, “Yoga Unveiled: My Spiritual Journey from Darkness to Light," at a May 11 discussion at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C.
As a stay-at-home mom, Carl began to take yoga classes and eventually became a certified instructor. The practice led her into the chakras and Reiki, which “are New Age modalities” that claim to be energy healing techniques.
For nearly 20 years, much of Carl’s life revolved around yoga and other New Age philosophies. She taught yoga, practiced it, and promoted it, but after prayer and discernment, and an encounter with the devil, Carl said she left the practice entirely.
“I got swooped into the seduction, and it wasnʼt until I fully removed myself from yoga that I was able to even begin to understand what I was deeply involved in,” Carl said.
Yoga is “a fairly controversial issue, so I think when we armor ourselves, or when we arm ourselves with information, that helps us tell the truth,” Carl said. “Even priests and religious donʼt necessarily know or understand … yogaʼs dangers.”
In order to “arm” people, Carl drew from years of research, personal experience, Scripture, and the words of Hindu teachers themselves to write her book. The book explores how yoga’s postures, mantras, breathing practices, and techniques are not neutral but are acts of devotion to other gods.
The book draws “a side-by-side comparison ... of what yoga beliefs are and what Christian or Catholic beliefs are, and theyʼre very, very different,” Carl said.
While many people practice and recommend yoga, Carl said many donʼt know exactly what it is or the meaning behind it. She posed the questions: “What is yoga?” and “Where did it come from?"
“Yoga is done in the language of Sanskrit,” she said. In Sanskrit, “yoga actually means to yoke or to unite. So what youʼre yoking to is not the Judeo-Christian God but the Hindu god Brahman. Brahman is their main god."
“Itʼs not the God revealed in the Bible. And Scripture cautions us not to be yoked to unbelievers. Christians, on the other hand, yoke to Christ,” she said.
“Yoga is actually a Hindu spirituality, which makes it an occult practice, and anything of the occult opens the door to Satan and evil spirits,” she said. “We learned in the very beginning of the Bible that in the garden, Satan was present but hidden. Itʼs really no different in yoga.”
“Yoga is not really what most people think,” Carl said. There are “four major Hindu scriptures, and … one of them, the Vedas, provides all liturgical sequences for their worship, and yoga is in there. So yoga is essentially a worship of their gods.”
“The moves that were created through this liturgical process were intended to honor and venerate Hindu gods and to adore them,” she said. “And we know that Hindu gods are not real. We know that demons hide behind Hindu gods. So yoga, through its practice, through doing it, youʼre opening a door to those demonic entities that hide behind,” Carl said.
Yoga is also “a gateway to the New Age,” including “crystals, numerology, astrology, channeling,” Carl said. “The New Age is an ideology that essentially replaces religion, which essentially replaces God.”
Carl warned that it is easy to enter into the darkness of yoga because terminology and actions can be “confusing or misleading.”
“When I would go to my teacher trainings, we learned everything in Sanskrit — the postures, the invocations,“ she said. Often in the trainings, ”nobody takes the time to tell you what the translation is or to tell you what it means.”
She gave the example of breaking in yoga, which is “an important component.”
“Itʼs called Ujjayi breath. Ujjayi means snake,” Carl said. “We were never told that. So the first type of yoga that I practiced was Kundalini. Kundalini is one of the most dangerous types of yoga. Kundalini is said to be an energy that resides at the base of your spine in the form of a serpent. We know who the serpent is, right?”
Carl further discussed a book she read on Kundalini that “talks about G-O-D,” which she believed to mean God. Carl said: "Well, itʼs generator, oppressor, and destroyer, and those are three main Hindu gods, and those are what they do. So itʼs not God as we know, itʼs a different god.”
“In yoga, they talk about the universe,” Carl said. “But thatʼs not God. People mistake the universe with God. God created the universe, but God is not the universe.”
In training they also “talk about the spirit,” Carl said. “Well, itʼs the snake spirit, not the Holy Spirit … So these kinds of things become confusing or misleading to people who are not well catechized.”
"Spirituality has to be tethered to something, and if itʼs not tethered to God, then itʼs tethered to something not of God, and thatʼs where the dangers come in,” Carl said. “So we have to be really careful when we think about that. As Catholics, we know and we believe that everything comes from God. God is the source of all, everything, all good, all challenges in our life.”
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CristinaT retweeted
My alma mater did a piece on me, too. Somehow I missed this back in March...
media.benedictine.edu/carlo-…
CristinaT retweeted
FOSTERING THE FUTURE
May is National Foster Care Month
To the families, educators, leaders, and advocates dedicated to securing a better future for America’s Foster Youth - I see you and thank you.
America’s foster youth are not defined by their circumstances—they are defined by their potential.
CristinaT retweeted
"It's kill an N-word in Canton day"
- fired trooper Michael Proctor
In a scathing plea to the court, attorney Rosemary Scappichio confirms one racist text message that is on Proctor's cell phone extraction that shows bias towards her client.
"It's who this man is."
CristinaT retweeted
Hubo una persona que me escribió ayer y me dijo una cosa así: "padre, yo lo seguía, pero ahora no lo sigo más. Por sacerdotes como usted es que la Iglesia está como está". Esta persona se refería a una de mis publicaciones sobre la ideología del género.
Pues mi respuesta fue la siguiente: "no me tiene que seguir a mi, tiene que seguirlo a Jesucristo. A mi no me preocupa perder seguidores por decir la verdad. Cuando Cristo predicó su discurso eucarístico, muchos de sus discípulos dejaron de seguirlo, y él le preguntó a los 12 si se querían ir ellos también. Pedro le dijo que solo Él tiene palabras de vida eterna. Yo estoy muy lejos de ser Jesucristo y por eso yo siempre le digo a las personas: en la medida que yo los acerque al Señor me pueden seguir. Si los alejo, pueden dejarme de seguir. Al que hay que seguir incondicionalmente es a Jesucristo, y a todos aquellos que nos acerquen a Él. Pero le puedo asegurar una cosa: Cristo también condena la ideología del género. Por lo tanto, si usted me deja de seguir por decir la verdad, lo tomo como una placa de honor".
Yo he escuchado muchas veces de parte de zurdos, liberales y masones que "la Iglesia está como está por los sacerdotes que no nos adaptamos al progreso de los tiempos". Pues miren, el progresismo ya se adaptó al progreso de los tiempos durante 60 años. Resultados: iglesias vacías, seminarios vacíos, monasterios vacíos, conventos de monjas muriendo por falta de vocaciones, etc. En cambio, los lugares donde se mantiene la doctrina de siempre tienen Iglesias llenas, seminarios llenos, conventos llenos, monasterios llenos. Crecen los lugares donde se conserva la tradición de la Iglesia, y mueren los lugares donde más se adaptan al mundo.
Cuando la Iglesia quiere adaptarse al mundo deja de ser la Iglesia. Cuando me refiero al mundo no me refiero a lo bueno del mismo sino a la "mundanidad" (lo mundano, que es lo pecaminoso). Una analogía es el caso de Coca Cola. La fórmula original funcionó como un buen negocio. Cuando cambiaron la fórmula mil veces, Coca Cola dejó de ser atractiva. Luego, volvieron a la fórmula original, entonces volvieron a tener éxito. La Iglesia no es un negocio, pues busca la gloria de Dios y la salvación de las almas. No buscamos número, buscamos que las almas que sean fieles a la verdad puedan abrazarla y salvarse, pero no buscamos como negociantes contentar al mundo y a la mayoría. Sin embargo, lo concreto es que la Iglesia que da frutos es la Iglesia de siempre, no la Iglesia del mundo.
Cuando la Iglesia predica que Cristo es el único Salvador, que ella es la única religión verdadera, que el infierno existe y que hay gente condenada; cuando la Iglesia predica que el aborto es un asesinato, que la ideología de género es perversa, que la cultura woke, el liberalismo, la izquierda, la masonería e ideologías afines no son compatibles con el Evangelio; cuando la Iglesia predica que no hay que tener sexo fuera del matrimonio, que los actos homosexuales son antinaturales y no pueden recibir aprobación en ningún caso; cuando la Iglesia predica todas estas cosas tiene frutos y frutos en abundancia, porque esto es lo que mandó Jesucristo: predicar la verdad, pues la verdad nos hará libres.
Obviamente, el mensaje de la Iglesia no puede ser solo negativo. Debe ser positivo en primer lugar, ya que Cristo mandó anunciar buenas noticias. Yo también estoy en contra de que todo sermón sea pegando palos. Hay que hablar del amor de un Dios que se hizo hombre y murió en la cruz por nosotros; hay que hablar del cielo eterno que nos espera si somos fieles al Evangelio; hay que hablar de la necesidad de amar al prójimo en los pobres, en los más necesitados, en los más débiles. Todo esto hay que decirlo, porque el mensaje de la Iglesia en primer lugar es positivo. Sin embargo, no hay que dejar de predicar la verdad, por más que la verdad duela. La verdad duele, pero libera. Cristo es la verdad, y Él no tuvo reparos en hablar 18 veces de la existencia del infierno en el Evangelio. Por lo tanto, Dios bendice a la Iglesia si predica la verdad, no si se adapta con el mundo.
Hace unos días, hablaba con un señor mayor, de 80 años. Este hombre es bastante progresista y cuando fui a confesarlo, luego de la confesión me dijo: "padre, nosotros en nuestra época quisimos dejar de lado la edad media e ir adaptarnos al mundo moderno. ¿Porqué ustedes los jóvenes, tanto sacerdotes como laicos quieren volver a lo que nosotros intentamos rechazar? Me impresiona como los jóvenes hoy se alejan del progresismo y se vuelven más conservadores...eso hasta me asusta". Le respondí: "porque nos interesa el producto original, no el nuevo. El producto original viene de Jesucristo, en cambio el nuevo viene de ustedes. Nosotros no seguimos a los hombres, seguimos a Jesucristo y la mundanidad que su generación predicó no es lo que predicó el Señor. No hay nada que inventar mi amigo. Cristo ya nos dijo cual es el camino a seguir, y lo marcó perfectamente. Hay que adaptarse a los tiempos en la medida que no vayamos contra el mensaje del Evangelio. Pero si adaptarse a los tiempos implica cambiar el mensaje del Señor, entonces no nos interesa. No seguimos a una moda ni a una ideología. Seguimos a Cristo, y a Cristo crucificado y resucitado. Él es el mismo, ayer, hoy y para siempre. No hay nada nuevo bajo el sol".
No se trata de ser progresistas o tradicionalistas. Se trata de ser católicos. Hay dos fuentes de la revelación divina: la Escritura y la tradición; y ambas deben ser interpretadas por el Magisterio de la Iglesia. Un católico siempre cree en la Tradición y nunca la descarta, porque es una de las fuentes de la revelación. Por lo tanto, hay que ser católicos no según el mundo, ni según una moda, ni según una ideología. Hay que ser católicos siguiendo a una persona: Jesucristo, Dios y hombre verdadero. No hay nada que inventar, no hay nada nuevo bajo el sol. Ya sabemos cual es el camino, solo hay que seguirlo.
Bendiciones para todos.
