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Scenes are repeating across the United States, passersby and local residents confront & resist Trump's ICE regime troops as they’re spotted kidnapping their neighbours. The regime continues its campaign of ethnic cleansing, appearing at homes and businesses masked and without warrants. #3E #StopICE

"Autism doesn’t erase potential. It reshapes it. Sometimes it’s quiet. Sometimes it’s nonlinear. Always, it’s human."

I’m seeing this quote go around a lot. I do hope that the Catholic Church can thread the needle between “Replacing humans with machines is bad” and the stereotypical church stance of “everything modern is bad.” LLMs aren’t going away, so please give guidance on how to use them *well.*

Had a conversation with a family member last night about import tariffs who said, “It’s going to get worse, but then it’ll get better.” I can see folks getting *used* to higher prices, but I don’t understand why anyone thinks things will get *better.*

Remember, this is the party of limited government

Pope Without Borders

Cue a Hulu or HBO documentary in like 1-2 days. “American Pope: History in the Making” or some such

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!

I genuinely don’t understand why he wants so badly for them to leave. They *want* to be here. They work 10x as hard as Americans lol. He wants to bring manufacturing back and these are the folks who would actually be willing to work those jobs. Doesn’t make any sense except racism

What does it profit the church if it gains the whole world but forfeits its mercy?

This is a widely inaccurate & dangerous mischaracterization. The vaccine was developed in fetal cells obtained from two elective abortions in the early 1960s. There is not abortion debris floating around in the vaccine. And the Vatican has okayed its use. RFK Jr. is again spreading disinformation.

Man the worst part about this onion video is that it absolutely sounds like something this administration would do

The only way I can comprehend Trump’s actions being “good” is if you’re feeling disaffected and left behind by the American economy, and now someone’s coming along to burn it to the ground and so you grind your teeth and say, “Good.”

It isn’t deportation if they’re citizens. This is immoral, soulless, vengeful authoritarianism.

Vance missed his calling as the lead singer of an early aughts emo band

"The most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done. Not close.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

At its first meeting, Trump's anti-Christian bias task force hears from: A veteran Christian litigator about an IRS penalty for a church accused of endorsing Trump in a sermon Liberty's provost about its record-setting fine for campus safety violations www.christianitytoday.com/2025/04/trum...

I wonder if it has to do with releasing a cyber dumpster on wheels and then turning our government into the same

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The Unenlightenment

Celebrating and infuriating both sides of my Christian & Jewish heritage by making this for Easter tomorrow

We elected a petulant child. Usually he’s pretty good at coming up with mean names for people, but you know he’s big mad when he comes up with something as uninspired as, “Too Late” Jerome Powell.

Call me the little red hen cause I planted this corn, picked it, ground it, and made flatbread out of it

If these things are true, why not prove them in a court of law? No one would have problem with deporting or imprisoning him if they did.

I don't think people who DO have a criminal record should be disappeared to a Salvadoran prison either

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

Yesterday / today. Crazy Colorado weather haha

Ok a variant on Dayenu — unlawful and cruel Trump 2.0 immigration policies that should’ve been enough to get thrown out in the court, to get us out into the streets, to get Congress to act, to get DOGE/DHS/State dept officials criminally charged, and to force the president out of office.

1 day after tweeting this, I got locked out my twitter and slapped with a label for “platform manipulation.” Strange times.