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The new American Pope Leo XIV, is the son of a WWII veteran Chicago school superintendent father and accomplished Catholic school teacher mother. What a country! chicago.suntimes.com/religion/202...

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

I never thought I’d live long enough to see an American 🇺🇸 Pope. I’m crying right now. Wow!

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

White smoke!!! Praise be 🙏

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

I’m a huge NBA fan and I still haven’t grasped how 20+ point leads no longer mean anything. It’s crazy. When Portland blew a 15pt lead to the Lakers in the playoffs 25 years ago it was considered the collapse of collapse.

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

Starting to see the screenshots of tariff increases on social stories and posts followed by 🤔. The beginning of the beginning is here.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

So many self owns.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

This is very scary. Let’s pray it’s just a temporary flex.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is great.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I always think it’ll be 10x worse but I actually think this is the one where the GOP Congress blinks. They have a lot of leverage if they want before the “big beautiful bill.”

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

OPINION by @stevebenen.com: “With each passing day, Trump’s authoritarian ambitions become less subtle.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

Uphold the Constitution? Call me maybe. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Because some 18th in command clown wants to flex and play GI Joe. These pointless flights endanger and kill innocent people.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Sovereignty beats Journalism. Oh what an omen. 🇺🇸

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

During the MSNBC town hall — "100 Days of Trump: Forced Out Federal Workers" — @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports from West Virginia, where funding for health care screening for "black lung" in coal miners has been cut by DOGE and protections for miners may be in jeopardy.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

I think about this a lot. Two things- 1. People are absolutely exhausted and just trying to get by. 2. Even if you do the work of rising up, you need to live with the fact your neighbor voted to bring all this back despite January 6th, felony convictions & Project 2025. Apathy is understandable.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

"But if the situation is not changed quickly, American consumers will feel the impact of trade changes unfold over the next three to six months, he said. “We’re going to have higher prices and, in some cases, empty shelves,” he said. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Honestly surprised that LeBron’s career as a Laker has been so mid. Odd roster construction and coaching dysfunction. Wish he could have a shot at one last run.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Every day during a Democratic Administration for the last 20 years I heard, "Only the GOP can deliver businesses the reduced regulatory environment and economic certainty to expand and create growth!" www.cnbc.com/2025/04/30/g...

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Stayed up late following the Canadian election and I realized how much being a parliamentary democracy would fix the USA.

submitted 9 days ago • 36 comments

“Economic outlook deteriorates in Mountain West amid trade war” www.axios.com/local/san-fr...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

This photo essay of Pope Francis' 2023 visit to DRC & South Sudan is truly beautiful: www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/w...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Is “Lonesome Dove” obscene? www.chron.com/politics/art...

submitted 12 days ago • 36 comments

The Lieutenant Gov of Indiana in 2025 folks: www.newsweek.com/republican-d...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Trump is "soft-launching" his third term. Forget that he's trampling the Constitution. Once his MAGA defenders start wearing these hats around, it begins the process of normalizing the idea. That's the goal. That's the tactic. It's authoritarian marketing.

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

It still feels like this Administration & their allies in Congress do not expect to face a “normal electorate” in 2026. 🤷‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Troubling www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Trump has enough clout within the GOP to break party orthodoxy and push this, if he did, seeing how popular COVID money was...people would call for a 3rd term: oaklandside.org/2025/04/23/o...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Trump Adm cuts one of the most beneficial women’s health initiatives in 🇺🇸 history…that…cost $10 million or half the taxpayer cost for his golf trips in his first 3 months in office: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague

submitted 13 days ago • 720 comments

JFK: “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” Reagan: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Trump: “Vladimir, stop!”

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Amen

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

OPINION: 'He hit the ball squarely into his own goal': Analyst blames Trump for market plunge CNBC’s @steveliesman.bsky.social joins @nicollewallace.bsky.social to discuss the markets' reaction to President Trump's policies. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhHM...

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

In his last days on earth, Francis thanked healthcare workers, visited prisoners and blessed the faithful on Easter despite being told to slow down. Truly the People’s Pope.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

OPINION: Jorge Mario Bergoglio becoming pope was a singular event, likely not to be repeated in our lifetimes. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

At his core, Francis understood people. He knew the true teachings of Christ resonated on the treatment of others. His papacy was a needed reform for a faith too bogged down in dogmatic layers of unimportant process. Where too many fixated on judgment and not compassion.

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments