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As popes go, he’s gotta be the best, right?

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Breaking News: Pope Francis is dead at 88. The first Latin American and Jesuit pontiff, he championed a more inclusive Catholic Church.

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Could Pete Hegseth's incompetence be a good thing in that it reduces the effectiveness of US military aggression? Or is he more likely to do harm than good?

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I. This beautiful Palestinian girl, Habida, was killed today by the U.S. and Israel II. IDF soldier says that he wants to kill Palestinian children and hang them on "a great tree of Israel" Shame on the U.S. Congress which is bought off by AIPAC and the American billionaires.

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Read this book! bit.ly/4iigbUy

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We really should be thinking of this in terms of state violence and theft.

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fighting tears

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The @jfederations.bsky.social is now on record demanding Jewish orgs be silent about the kidnapping, torture, and disappearing of Israel's critics, and about the fascist dismantling of American universities:

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Jewish American actress, Hannah Einbinder says she is ashamed that the genocide of Palestinians is done by American tax dollars. "As a Jewish person and as an American I am horrified by the Israeli massacre of well over 65,000 Palestinians." She must be antisemitic, as her figures exceed h4mas.

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Zionism requires fascism. #FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust youtu.be/kLfK8CdEX2U?...

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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

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“For many older adults, these are the only things standing between them and institutionalization.” From Geoff Gross - CEO of Med Guardian. thehill.com/opinion/heal...

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Why was Jesus crucified? Because he became too woke.

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Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.

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I don't like adults who watch professional wrestling and I blame them for Linda McMahon being Secretary of Education. Today's kids are generally too smart to watch wrestling. It is "adults" keeping the enterprise afloat.

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this is monstrous but it's also just not true. i know that gets lost but the permission structure here is "other countries do this," so it's at least worth acknowledging: no they don't.

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Trump couldn't end the Ukraine War or lower prices on Day One, but he could end the Biden manufacturing boom cepr.net/publications...

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Seeing patients in clinic who can’t get vaccinated while their families desperately try to keep them safe amidst a measles outbreak in Michigan is too much. For the love of herd immunity, get your effing vaccines if you can.

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The Bush administration disappeared people too, sent them to a different gulag at Gitmo and other black sites, kidnapped people off the street of Milan, tortured them, in the name of "a different kind of war." We didn't come close to holding them accountable. We're seeing the cost of that now.

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The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage — and solidarity. Be prepared.

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AVERAGE DEMOCRATIC SENATOR Working families are sick to death of Chaos Donald’s taxes on eggs. Let’s work together to bring down prices, mayhaps? AVERAGE BUSH ADMINISTRATION JUDGE OR COLUMNIST We must end Trump-Hitler immediately at any price. Glory to Generalissimo Sanders and Commandant AOC!

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Update: 96-year-old’s bank account was cleaned out by Social Security on the grounds that he had been dead for a while and they were reclaiming benefits SS had paid to the allegedly but not actually dead man. He now has no money. DOGE strikes again. Anybody know a lawyer for this?

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They're straight-up stealing people's Social Security.

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A direct strike on her home.

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Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.

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