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Pope Leo XIV speaks English. That’s bad news for JD Vance. The language barrier has helped maintain an air of unreality around the papacy in the U.S. That is about to change. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Hello Bluesky, if we could have the “Dog Pics” feed be just dog pics and not also stories about DOGE and furry art, that would be great. Nothing wrong with furries but I want cute dog videos and pics, and there are other feeds when I want to catch up on politics.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

The cause of death for actress Michelle Trachtenberg, who died in February, was confirmed to be complications of diabetes mellitus, a spokesperson for the New York City Office of the Medical Examiner confirmed to CNN. cnn.it/43Xw5jF

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 37 days ago • 691 comments

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 39 days ago • 178 comments

After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.

submitted 39 days ago • 176 comments

Now you just know the tariffs on the islands run by penguins is because someone at Penguin Random House Books pissed him off and he thinks it’s owned by actual penguins.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Listen if I’m going to steal something it’s not going to be an election. It’s going to be your money so I can get out of here.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

🐧 💰 😭 www.salon.com/2025/04/02/t...

submitted 49 days ago • 141 comments

Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯! "You journalists need to get your balls back"

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Elon Musk spent millions in a failed scheme to buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. Voters decisively rejected Donald Trump, Musk and the rapidly deteriorating Republican brand. Back up off the American people.

submitted 50 days ago • 141 comments

Sen. Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest floor speech in modern Senate history, surpassing the late Sen. Strom Thurmond’s speech lasting 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957, in which he spoke against the Civil Rights Act. Read more: cnn.it/4hS8Uul

submitted 50 days ago • 88 comments

After Trump betrayed Japan and South Korea with his tariff thuggery, China, Japan, and South Korea have now agreed to jointly respond to any US economic aggression. This is massive.

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I look forward to the day Signalgate is featured on TruTV’s World’s Dumbest Criminals.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students. Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students. (Published Dec. 2024)

submitted 56 days ago • 58 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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