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The big subtext: It's low-grade unusual for Catholic bishops to do sign-on letters with other traditions, but high-grade unusual for a group of bishops (as opposed to individual prelates) to do so in a way that pushes beyond what the USCCB has done, much less on the same day!

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

Uh, pasteurized+homogenized milk is fortified with Vitamin D. So, if you don’t want a resurgence of rickets, I would avoid raw. Plus, of course, the “bugs” are also not an issue if you avoid raw.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Republiscams keep projecting.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Bravery is wheelchair users putting their bodies on the line to stop Medicaid cuts. Shame is arresting them instead of listening. Medicaid is a lifeline — not a line item.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Watching X-Files hits different when Mulder or Scully say, call a paramedic, and neither has a cell phone yet.

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Argument: AI can’t have personhood. AI can’t own anything. But suppose AI opens a C-shell corp. It assigns assets to it. And through Citizens United, it achieves personhood through proxy. Huh.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

"Sleeper cell" narrative being pushed: www.instagram.com/reel/DLPioRT...

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amtrak’s marketing team gets it

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submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

It should be no problem with the loss of our soft power abroad 😕

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

youtube.com/watch?v=IHGo... Well, well, well. If it isn’t exactly what we expected. ICE thugs.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

1/8 Republicans aren’t losing power, they’re stealing it. They can’t win over the majority with unpopular policies, so they’re trying to intimidate, confuse, & silence voters. This is a strategy, not a mistake. This is how the lying GOP wins👇 #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Our political scale has been propagandized by capitalism to make basic empathy a radical political ideology. But it's not. The entire barometer is off & a dangerous sociopathy has been the norm for way too long. That's how we got here: being conditioned not to care about others.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

My guess was the mention of the particular German is a hot issue. But this is an educational clip. And it gave me a little chuckle

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Conservatives went from "free speech radicals" to "authoritarian review of people's social media accounts" in all of 6 months. They want to be able to lie & spread propaganda with impunity - while limiting dissent. Just like every other pathetic, thin-skinned dictator. apnews.com/article/stud...

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

This is incredibly funny but, also, I hope everyone who is pro AI or a teacher that allows AI can see clear as day that the ultimate goal is to put the thumb on the scale of all of this shit. That's why they're forcing it on us. It's a joke.

submitted 6 days ago • 80 comments

Ducks eating watermelon: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Eyebleach/...

submitted 7 days ago • 264 comments

Let's play the obscene game of identifying who is ICE and who is ISIL. Ready? GO!

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

They look like two 80 year old friends :)

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor.” - @jelaniya.bsky.social 🇺🇸

submitted 7 days ago • 72 comments

Yeah, he’s Jar Jar. Change my mind, if you wanna join in.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Of course we can meet all your priorities… We have lost so many co-workers. With the two forks, early out, and a 5 month old hiring freeze. We are down more than 20%. If you factor in consolidations to DOI and our fire employees who will move to a new agency-we are gutted.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

This is the pattern of every rise to fascism. They go for the 1-in-100 citizens. Then the 1-in-10. Then your neighbor. Then you. It stops when we stop them.

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SLOTKIN: Have you given the order to be able to shoot at unarmed protesters in any way? HEGSETH: What is that based on? SLOTKIN: It is based on Trump giving that order to your predecessor, who I give a lot of credit to bc he didn't accept the order. He has more guts & balls than you

submitted 8 days ago • 916 comments

The 988 Suicide and Crisis Prevention Lifeline included a service that provided specialized suicide prevention support by phone and text for LGBTQ+ kids. That's ending.

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

It’s really as simple as, “how can you know they’re govt or kidnappers, looking like this?” Answer: You can’t. They’re the same, until they document in a legal process.

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We now know that the GOP's Big Ugly bill would allow for the sale of 250 MILLION acres of public land. 5.4 million in Washington state. We can't let them jam this through in secret. Help me say it loud and clear for Republicans: Public lands belong in public hands.

submitted 9 days ago • 52 comments

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

submitted 9 days ago • 141 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 9 days ago • 541 comments

I can't believe this father of 15-?? children so craved estrangement that he built a robot that would also grow estranged from him upon encountering actual facts.

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Ok, this fucking rocks. Everyone should be able to use the bathroom when they're out and about.

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

WE HAVE QUESTIONS… This is a kidnapping. No uniform, no badge, civilian car. Who are they? ICE? Sanctioned bounty hunters? Either way, they’re grabbing people without warrants. How often is this happening, and why aren’t more people talking about it? Congress?

submitted 10 days ago • 2683 comments

A win! A federal judge has ordered the government to restore hundreds of NIH grants slashed by the Trump administration, ruling the cuts were discriminatory against minorities and LGBTQ individuals. The judge said he’d have to be “blind” not to see the discrimination and declared the cuts illegal.

submitted 10 days ago • 107 comments

The deployment of federal troops to a city like Los Angeles without explicit statutory or constitutional authority is a direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act and threatens to erode the balance of powers upon which American democracy rests.

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Bystanders cheering on ducklings taking a giant leap. #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

submitted 11 days ago • 42 comments

Good job, Canadians. Let US sweat, until they right this ship.

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📢 Are you a federal worker or a friend of one? @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social officially has a website so you can stay up to date on calls-to-action United, we can fight our hardest against the dismantling of the federal government 💪 But we need YOUR help to do that - more info here 👇

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Moment of Gratitude: CloudFlare CloudFlare saved the Internet Archive servers from a DDOS yesterday. Max rate of this DDOS attack was 525 Gbps (44.93 Mpps) of a "TCP flood" @archive.org does not have enough bandwidth to fend off that kind of attack = wouldbe bad saturday. Thank you #CloudFlare

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments