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We are living in precarious times.

submitted 15 hours ago • 235 comments

The contrast of how the previous pope spoke to Ukrainians and pope Leo’s compassionate, gentle but definitive tone with so much more understanding and care really makes me tear up a little

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Stepping back from the flurry of initial reaction, what is striking right now, is the Supreme Court is walking away from national baseline civil and constitutional rights and turning towards a state based civil and constitutional law regimes. Two problems strike me.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

The United States tried presidents who were smart, decent, and capable of empathy, but decided it wasn’t for them. It just didn’t reflect them.

submitted 19 hours ago • 976 comments

Cartoon by @claybennett.bsky.social. Birthright Citizenship

submitted 15 hours ago • 367 comments

Enough! This is exactly why ICE should be required to identify themselves. If ICE looks like criminals and thugs, they should be regarded as such. 🚨 Yesterday, an L.A. man was arrested for impersonating a federal agent. Loaded gun, fake documents, cop gear and even blinking & blue on his car

submitted 10 hours ago • 608 comments

This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

submitted 16 hours ago • 441 comments

I just did the math, and yes, this checks out.

submitted 16 hours ago • 569 comments

Heartwarming video of people dressed up as superheroes bringing joy 🥹🥰 #superheroes #happiness #love #SpreadKindness #SpreadLove

submitted 1 day ago • 336 comments

I should get credit for not attending Jeff Bezo's wedding even though I wasn't invited.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1642 comments

I sure as hell have noticed. How about you? 🤨

submitted 17 hours ago • 1129 comments

I am still in shock. I still can't QUITE believe this miracle! And it is thanks to you! My readers have more oomph and pizzazzzz than any readers on Earth. So that's Champagne I'm shooting out the water pistols. (KIDDING. It's water, but the great photographer, Elinor Carucci got the shot!!)

submitted 14 hours ago • 300 comments

He’s a good pope

submitted 14 hours ago • 18 comments

Accurate

submitted 13 hours ago • 375 comments

Two communists are found on a deserted island living on opposite sides of the island. When asked why they didn't work together to make life easier, one called the other a revisionist and the other said the first was too idealistic

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

This should be a constitutional requirement, in addition to not being an insurrectionist.

submitted 14 hours ago • 421 comments

Mark and Melissa saw the humanity in everyone. Let’s honor them by doing the same.

submitted 12 hours ago • 377 comments

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submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this? Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids. She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms. Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 3064 comments

People are going to say this is militarization of the police but it’s worse than that. Militarization would imply they also took on the professional ethos, discipline, dedication to training, high education, and sense of purpose from the military. But they just took the weapons and gear.

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

One valuable lesson when arguing with westerners is to never use the risk to your safety against them, they don’t care about that Use the risk to THEIR safety against them

submitted 23 hours ago • 24 comments

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

submitted 1 day ago • 1243 comments

These people are heroes

submitted 21 hours ago • 32 comments

NEW If international law suddenly did not exist, what difference would it make? By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Mark and Melissa lie peacefully at the center of our state and our hearts today. Their memorial, guarded by service dogs and men and women in uniform, casts a momentary shadow over L'Étoile du Nord as we honor their life’s work to make Minnesota shine brighter for all.

submitted 1 day ago • 841 comments

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat

submitted 1 day ago • 187 comments

This today by @iandunt.bsky.social is one of the very best things he has ever done. (I wish I could write about Birmingham a fraction as well as he writes about London.) iandunt.substack.com/p/they-hate-...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I make no comment on the jurisprudence of a foreign court, particularly where I’ve not had the chance to read a judgment in detail. However, I am finding it much easier to predict results in front of the US Supreme Court than I found it to predict the outcome in UK Supreme Court cases I appeared in.

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A look at the history of the long canclled Operational Utility Vehicle System (OUVS) Click to read ➡️ www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2024/09/oper...

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3 proofs that Jesus was a woman: 1. He fed a crowd at a moment's notice when there was virtually no food 2. He kept trying to get a message across to a bunch of men who just didn't get it 3. And even when He was dead, He had to get up because there was still work to do.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Sadly, this is even truer now than when this first started going around about 7 years ago.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Things are bad over there, getting worse.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

When the Torygraph says your plan is batshit crazy... www.telegraph.co.uk/money/pensio...

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The news that the family Golden Retriever, Gilbert, will lie in state at the Minnesota Capitol along with Melissa and Mark Hortman just broke me again. He failed as a service dog because he was too friendly. 😭

submitted 2 days ago • 231 comments

Had some Trdelnuk in Prague together with @einwolfiee.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 229 comments

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

submitted 1 day ago • 1731 comments

I don’t like to give unsolicited advice to parents HOWEVER if you have a toddler, you need NEED to get them a plush robe with a hood. Because they beebop around the house like a tiny Sith Lord and it’s so hilarious.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

If even a fraction of what this letter says is true, Emil Bove should be prosecuted for criminal contempt and disbarred. In no way should he be confirmed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

submitted 2 days ago • 379 comments