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So many much more affordable EV’s around now.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Wow. The Chicago Sun-Times published a photo of Pope Leo XIV at the 2005 World Series. Amazing. (Link in post below.)

submitted 21 hours ago • 24 comments

“Records from the 1900 Census … list [Pope Leo XIV’s maternal grandfather] Joseph Martinez as ‘Black,’ his place of birth as ‘Hayti,’ and his occupation as ‘cigar maker.’ … ’Both … Martinez and [the pope’s grandmother] Louise Baquié were people of color, no doubt about it.’”

submitted 12 hours ago • 107 comments

tl;dr: White smoke, black pope!

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Apparently the Cardinals watched Conclave and Sinners before they voted.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

THIS IS NOT NORMAL Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl's face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation #immigration

submitted 21 hours ago • 874 comments

these agents and everyone up the chain of command need to be investigated and prosecuted

submitted 11 hours ago • 100 comments

A wide majority of American and British adults support the nascent U.K.-U.S. trade deal, according to a POLITICO-Public First poll. But less than one-third of U.K. respondents and 44 percent of Americans said they believed Trump would abide by it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 34 comments

President Donald Trump wanted a “big, beautiful bill” — but now Republicans are having to take some of the shine off of it. A closer look at what Trump demands could be on the chopping block 👇

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

Immigration judges have been ordered by management to hand out this DHS “warning to self-deport” (which contains several glaring problems) to anyone ordered removed or granted voluntary departure. That some judges are handing it to people who WON their cases is even more absurd.

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

Literally five minutes apart.

submitted 11 hours ago • 361 comments

Conservative law professor @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social says it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/o...

submitted 11 hours ago • 14 comments

The Catholic Church is elevating an American to be its leader as Washington assumes a more contentious stance toward the rest of the world. Francis X. Rocca on the first American pope:

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NEW: @nbcnews.com confirmed last night that the Trump admin almost sent a dozen men from Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, and Mexico to Libya, a country described as a “hellscape” for migrants where some have been SOLD INTO SLAVERY and many have been subjected to extraordinary horrors.

submitted 11 hours ago • 137 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court says retired Justice David Souter has died at age 85.

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John Prevost, the brother of Robert Prevost, was in "disbelief" when he saw his younger brother be named Pope Leo XIV. He said he expects Leo to be a “second Pope Francis" who will have "great concern for the plight of the poor, for the downtrodden, for people who don't have a voice."

submitted 11 hours ago • 32 comments

Republicans' "budget will skewer the poor and squeeze out crucial long-term investments in energy, scientific research, medical advances, and children," @annielowrey.bsky.social writes:

submitted 10 hours ago • 22 comments

"Fifty years ago, a Polish pope helped defeat communism. What will Bobby from Chicago do today?" An all-star Morning Shots featuring @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social, @eggerdc.bsky.social, @jimswift.bsky.social, @samsteindc.bsky.social and @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/an-america...

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

Focusing on the judges presiding over the administration's cases only serves Trump’s interests, @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Thank God DEI was ended so we can get back to a true meritocracy: putting people in positions based solely on their willingness to suck on to Trump on TV.

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

If you were looking for someone to remove any doubt that the Department of Justice is being weaponized against Trump’s political opponents there would be no one better for the job than an election denying, Jan. 6th defending, political hack. So, in that sense, this is a perfect pick.

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments

I know some of you may do this anyway, but I nonetheless urge you NOT to send items like these to the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, 601 D St. NW, Washington, DC 20530. Please do NOT do that. Thank you.

submitted 23 hours ago • 745 comments

Trump is being handed a string of L’s by judges who seem to be losing patience with his unconstitutional actions. @gtconway.bsky.social and I discuss. Also, some Pope talk!

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

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submitted 23 hours ago • 274 comments

Here is Justice Antonin Scalia making clear that Congressman Donalds is wildly wrong. Completely agree with @billybinion.bsky.social that it is an embarrassment that so many members of Congress appear to know so little about (or are happy to willfully distort) the foundations of our constitution.

submitted 22 hours ago • 38 comments

My seat mate on my DC to SF flight can’t stop won’t stop. Total coincidence but utterly fun.

submitted 22 hours ago • 456 comments

The “wrong direction” his brother says here is specifically “on immigration”!

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

Moskowitz: We’re not talking about this, but hurricane season is starting, and I’m worried about whether FEMA is going to work. There are people in the Trump West Wing from Florida who know this. They’ve got to stop the secretary—who has never done disaster cleanup in her life…

submitted 21 hours ago • 143 comments

Grateful that the new Pope seems to share Pope Francis’ views on the current wave of nativist immigration policy.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

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The new pope's brother: “I know he’s not happy with what’s going on with immigration. I know that for a fact. How far he’ll go with it is only one’s guess, but he won’t just sit back. I don’t think he’ll be the silent one.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/w...

submitted 21 hours ago • 57 comments

Benson: I mean, everywhere I go in Michigan, it’s clear that these reckless tariffs and the confusing economic policies of this administration have only driven up the cost of living in the state and made things more uncertain for so many people.

submitted 21 hours ago • 48 comments

“Every act of compassion is an act of defiance. Every moment of empathy is a refusal to surrender. Every time we choose decency over cruelty, we reclaim a piece of our shared humanity. This is the fight of our time—not for power, but for the soul of our nation.” open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

submitted 21 hours ago • 126 comments

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Retreating on tariffs 'confused illiterate clown' Trump admits he's too weak to do his job.

submitted 20 hours ago • 20 comments

Gallego: I’ve certainly seen a reversal—mostly among Latino men. I would say it started about three to four weeks ago. It’s really a combination of factors: they’re deporting people who aren’t criminals, they’re separating families… The economy is the other big factor pushing these guys away…

submitted 20 hours ago • 411 comments

My son just pointed out to me that His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, as a Villanova graduate, may well be the first supreme pontiff who has been to a Wawa

submitted 1 day ago • 249 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 1,000 openly identifying transgender troops will be moved out of the military immediately under new Pentagon order.

submitted 1 day ago • 291 comments

The rightwing hates me because I fight. They fear me because we win.

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