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A tiny but wild snapshot of the current chaos

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Yesterday, I saw Musk's biographer Walter Isaacson wheeled out for a TV interview under the chyron "Musk: Back to Business" and it really feels like the media is entirely happy to go along with a concerted PR effort to increase Musk's finances by downplaying what he did to your government.

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Oh so we’re just doing the Chinese Exclusion Act?

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"Jesus has been westernized and whitewashed to fit an image of divinity that is more palatable to white people. They reject the Palestinian immigrant living under Roman occupation, instead seeking to depict him the way they envision a ruler, a savior." (2021)

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Thomas Sankara led Burkina Faso from 1983 until his assassination in 1987. What is Sankara’s legacy in the country today? Join us and two guests from the Centre Thomas Sankara in Ouagadougou to discuss Burkina Faso’s revolutionary past and present. bit.ly/21CS_Burkina

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Mr. Tapper if you'd like to write a sequel I have a lead for you.

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The one leading Nazi who got the lingering painful death they all deserved.

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Below is a photo of the Memorial for the Victims of the Nazi Euthanasia Program. This is where eugenics leads. Where categorising people by intelligence, ability, or worth ends up. Never again.

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Saying Bluesky is dying feels like saying Discord sucks just because you’re in a bad server

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Gearing up for a City Council fight this week and this verse from yesterday’s #DailyOfficeClerb struck me ⚓️ “Look at the rainbow, exceedingly beautiful in its brightness, and bless the one who made it.” 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈 ‭‭ Sirach‬ ‭43‬:‭11‬ ‭CEB‬‬ www.wistv.com/2025/05/21/c... @aclusc.bsky.social

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Every enslaved person in this shitty movie is happy and content with their life, and are fiercely loyal to their enslavers. It's a truly odious film.

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‘From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scru of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that, you son of a bitch.”’ Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut

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If Disney wants another idea for a serious Star Wars story, do the New Sith Wars in the style of Game of Thrones

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Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.

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Religion News Service reporter here. Johnson’s claim here is heavily disputed, in part because it elides a bigger question: if the U.S. was founded on “Judeo-Christian principles,” which version of Christianity are you talking about? Puritans? Quakers, who were hanged by Puritans?

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Some "Christians" these are.

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Americans put sugar in all kinds of dishes that don’t require it. And one of the main reasons for this national aberration is … Prohibition. 🧵

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“I renew my heartfelt appeal to allow the entrance of dignified humanitarian aid to Gaza and to put an end to the hostilities whose heartbreaking price is being paid by children, the elderly and sick people,” Pope Leo said Wednesday. religionnews.com/2025/05/22/p...

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This is the exact stuff that Alex Jones and white militia movements used to scream at the top of their lungs that they were afraid of and that it was coming any day now and what they failed to predict/confess was that actually they were the jackboots and everyone else was the snake.

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It feels like an oversight that we never made "the situation being ruled on has to be real" a requirement for the Supreme Court

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Okay, Tom Cruise won round 1, Stitch is winning round 2, let's see what happens in 2050 when Top Gun 3 opens against the second remake of Lilo and Stitch.

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New York Times: Chinese women have small fingers Just mentioned this to Kid3 and she demonstrated that one of her fingers at least is not small Seriously, though? This is like 19th century shit

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I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'

submitted 5 days ago • 61 comments

Is that so?

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Also, we all know he doesn’t actually care about honouring veterans or America’s glorious dead (not wanting to pay his respects at war graves in France, using Arlington as a backdrop, the disgusting stuff he said about John McCain, etc). He just wants a Soviet-style parade with tanks.

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St. Basil the Great (4th century), in a sermon on debt and lending: "Tell me, do you really seek riches and financial gain from the destitute? If this person had the resources to make you even wealthier, why did he come begging to your door? He came seeking an ally, but found an enemy."

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People famously love to get democracy at the point of a US army gun.

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tfw you find the ancient Dathomiri temple in Seattle

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My latest… We need more courageous faith leaders who refuse to assume supporting roles in Trump’s white supremacist morality play. open.substack.com/pub/robertpj...

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The omitted verses from today’s #DailyOfficeClerb 👀🌶️ ⚓️ “It was right for them to suffer…for their hatred of immigrants in their midst. Some people have failed to welcome strangers who came into their midst to stay awhile…Judgment will come on those who greeted ppl who weren’t like them as enemies.”

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I think we have yet to reckon with Trump's hunger to be the center of the universe

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ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go

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As Trump threatens to escalate the trade war again, and tariffs on China are scheduled to shoot back up to 145% over the summer, we urge everyone to read our deeper dive into the tariff issue. bit.ly/21CS_tariffs

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Jesus: feed my sheep Us: which ones Jesus: I’m the shepherd, so all of them Us: what about Jesus: feed my sheep Us: but Jesus: feed my sheep Us: we passed a law Jesus: FEED MY SHEEP