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It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

submitted 2 days ago • 661 comments

Can't stop thinking about the fact that Zelenskyy barely speaks English and had no translator. For a fair fight, JD Vance should have done his self-righteous Yalie-lawyer bullying in Ukrainian.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

AMANPOUR (with face in hands): “Never have I ever ever ever seen anything like it… the president and VP were taking all the Putin talking points.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGolFp-...

submitted 3 days ago • 1226 comments

Every single one of the Trump supporters sounds like a domestic abuser. "You should've let him hit you, you shouldn't have complained in public, you're never grateful, you never say thank you."

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

A reminder that Ukraine was once the third largest nuclear power in the world and voluntarily gave up those weapons. In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia guaranteed Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum. www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Congressional Dems, you know what to do. Follow the precedent the GOP set with Netanyahu and invite Zelenskyy to speak with your caucus. Hold press conferences. Be gracious. Talk about our shared values. Let him speak. Stand up for him! @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A prayer for Pope Francis during his grave illness www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Roman concrete's 2,000-year durability secret finally decoded The exceptional strength comes from 'hot mixing' quicklime directly with volcanic ash at high temperatures. This creates distinctive lime clasts that grant remarkable self-healing properties. buff.ly/3EQOcxi #ShareGoodNewsToo

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

submitted 7 days ago • 212 comments

Solid state EV batteries are now here - thanks to this lady, Siyu Huang, who I interviewed in 2021 about her firm Factorial's groundbreaking tech.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Pope Francis releases today a beautiful message for Lent in this Jubilee year. (3 points like a good Jesuit homily) This is clear and able to be printed in a parish bulletin or campus emails . Worth the read. press.vatican.va/content/sala...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Sign of the day…

submitted 8 days ago • 1453 comments

A prayer for Pope Francis.

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

1. Don't drive behind Cybertrucks because the glued-on parts can fly off and hit you. 2. The hack who manufactures cars that are glued together is now in charge of the federal government.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Brilliant. Can all Dems please watch and learn? I watched to the end, learned something, and got an specific actionable item to do -- all while being charmed.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I need all my elected officials content in this format now and I never even watched sex and the city

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

For all you who continually whine “I’m not racist, I just think we need to have standards,” this is absorb this.No Black man could become head of the Joint Chiefs without meeting the standard. What they want is to harden a system of affirmative action for white guys.They what their grandfathers had.

submitted 10 days ago • 59 comments

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 10 days ago • 50 comments

A man with a conscience John Furlong helped #Bessboro girls escape. RIP John 💐 www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I just added more things to this list today: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 16 days ago • 78 comments

The lead prosecutor on the Adams investigation - Hagan Scotten - resigns from SDNY. “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion [to dismiss Adams charges]. But it was never going to me.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 17 days ago • 240 comments

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments

Give her what she really wants this Valentine’s Day - Reproductive rights, an ancient tome of curses, the souls of her enemies, and pockets in every dress.

submitted 19 days ago • 49 comments

THIS. An executive order is literally just the president telling executive branch employees "as your supervisor, do X." They are only meaningful if the president has the legal authority to implement X, which must be granted by some ACTUAL LAW either in a statute or the constitution. Period.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

2. Help Democrats The success of any opposition rests on the opposing party taking power. Next time you want to attack a Democrat for being too much of this or too little of that, realize that you are only helping the GOP. Instead, find a Democrat you support and volunteer for their campaign.

submitted 19 days ago • 209 comments

When you become the point person with Grandpa's doctors.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking: Pope sends letter to US bishops decrying mass deportation and rejecting "any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality." The true "ordo amoris," he says, is the ethos of the Good Samaritan. www.vatican.va/content/fran...

submitted 20 days ago • 40 comments

Great point.

submitted 22 days ago • 1221 comments

We need to make this jazz version of the national anthem the standard.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The way an executive branch that respects the rule of law objects to a district court ruling it doesn’t like is to appeal it, not to imply that the ruling just shouldn’t be followed.

submitted 22 days ago • 97 comments

Notable that Elons crew of incels and edgelords are full fledged men for the purposes of being given the keys to car to run the govt. But for the purposes of being accountable for their actions they’re just kids from good families with youthful indiscretions.

submitted 24 days ago • 175 comments

I’ve always said this was a big key to Trump’s appeal: What perversely excites a lot of people is that he represents liberation from the tyranny of basic decency.

submitted 23 days ago • 98 comments

submitted 23 days ago • 43 comments

as of tomorrow in the northern hemisphere we have FINISHED the darkest TWELVE WEEKS of the year. That's it! The darkest quarter of the year is finished again. We made it. . . . . (I will block anyone who replies negatively to this. We must be allowed to enjoy the return of the sun at least.)

submitted 31 days ago • 21 comments