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New Pope has a Twitter account and this was the last thing he sent

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Casar: "The party of 'very fine people on both sides' or 'Jewish space lasers' does not give a damn about stopping antisemitism. If my Republican colleagues want to stop the spread of antisemitism, maybe they should stop apologizing for and promoting antisemites."

submitted 5 days ago • 155 comments

Arguing against ChatGPT/AI/LLMs on the basis of claims that they're dumb, inaccurate, uncreative, soulless, etc. seems to me to miss the point. The real issue is that they systematically turn their human users into dumb, inaccurate, uncreative and soulless things.

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I heard Stephen A. Smith tell CNN yesterday that "people are afraid they're going to lose their job for messing up a pronoun" and it really amazes me how many people don't realize they are awash in intentional propaganda designed to make them afraid of the wrong things and angry at the wrong people

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submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

> @iansams.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 276 comments

James Comer and House Republicans spent two years trying to smear #Biden by implying he benefitted from his son’s deals. Now they have explicit #corruption from #Trump and his family, and they couldn’t care less. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Mohammad served the U.S. cause during the war in Afghanistan. When it ended, he fled his homeland to avoid being hunted by the Taliban. But after entering the U.S., Mohammad learned his application for a special immigrant visa was denied. https://nbcnews.to/44MCv5s

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

Elon Musk may or may not fulfill his promise to step back from DOGE. But his legacy is already clear: He is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system — the likes of which we have never seen in the United States. My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

submitted 12 days ago • 104 comments

LOL Canadians skipping US vacations and heading straight to Mexico. 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 $BNKG

submitted 13 days ago • 106 comments

Canada stood up to Trump — and we didn’t. That says everything about what’s going on here.

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Death toll in vehicle ramming at Filipino street festival in Vancouver rises to 11 and more could die in coming days or weeks, police say.

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

Government officials were quietly developing a plan to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia before Trump appointees muscled their way in and halted it, per the Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

My latest: How MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com is Fixing a 2024 Dem Problem– And Why Legacy Media Isn’t Cheering. A few months ago, Joe Rogan and his podcast audience numbers were thought to be untouchable.

submitted 17 days ago • 87 comments

See the problem here?

submitted 18 days ago • 422 comments

“Once he actually starts having to administer the country, the Trump problem, the American problem, is just inconceivable,” historian Robert Bothwell said. “It’s like being handed a sack full of rabid beavers.” apnews.com/article/cana...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: MeidasTouch has won the Webby Award for 2025 Podcast of the Year! Thank you for this incredible honor. None of this would be possible without this incredible pro-democracy community. Shoutout to the Meidas Mighty!

submitted 20 days ago • 1626 comments

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson called it “extraordinary” that a country would choose a foreigner to head its central bank, and that it’s a mark of how admired Carney is. “He is calm and cool in a crisis,” Paulson said. apnews.com/article/mark...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

NEW reporting from the NYT: “A Bukele aide placed the two glasses with cherries and salted rims on the table in front of Mr. Van Hollen and Mr. Abrego Garcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo.” In a deeply disturbing social media post, President Bukele then…

submitted 24 days ago • 411 comments

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

submitted 24 days ago • 1173 comments

One of Canada's two federal election debates is over. After its post-debate scrums were dominated by right-wing partisan outlets, it's not too late to save tonight's. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

“The White House did not respond to a request for comment.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 25 days ago • 280 comments

Seth Rogen attack on Trump edited out of science awards show coverage

submitted 26 days ago • 53 comments

Molly Jong-Fast: “I'm going to respectfully push back on this. This is thought policing 101. This is not okay. They are using anti-antisemitism as a cloak. This is about targeting speech. It has nothing to do with anti-antisemitism and everything to do with authoritarianism.” #HarvardUniversity

submitted 27 days ago • 307 comments

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

submitted 27 days ago • 1267 comments

SCOOP: THE CANADIAN TIE TO TRUMP'S EL SALVADOR MASS DEPORTATIONS As it turns out, someone with significant ties to Canada — to our biggest museum, our 150th anniversary celebration, and more — is a top dog at the company behind the El Salvador deportation planes. youtu.be/O8El6gbYHx0

submitted 27 days ago • 47 comments

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said he doesn’t have the authority to return to the U.S. a migrant deported to a Salvadoran maximum-security prison in error.

submitted 28 days ago • 31 comments

El Salvador won’t return Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Meanwhile, Trump is not only refusing to bring him back—he is lying about the Supreme Court ruling compelling him to do so.

submitted 28 days ago • 543 comments

JUST NOW: Trump + the president of El Salvador each say there is nothing they can/will do to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia They claim he’s a “terrorist” & “gang member” without evidence or criminal record The Supreme Court’s ruling to “facilitate” his return will be ignored

submitted 28 days ago • 81 comments

Suspect in arson at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence had planned to beat him with a hammer, documents say.

submitted 28 days ago • 38 comments

Canadians, among others, shouldn’t go to America any more. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

submitted 29 days ago • 29 comments

Buckle up, folks. This is a constitutional crisis unfolding before our eyes.

submitted 29 days ago • 837 comments

"Donald Trump and his allies have been using 'anti-Semitism' as a pretext to advance a radical agenda that has nothing to do with Jews at all—and that most American Jews do not support," @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social writes:

submitted 30 days ago • 26 comments

Under the Trump administration, America is retreating from hard power, surrendering soft power, and yielding economic power, David A. Graham writes in The Atlantic Daily. Is this what greatness looks like?

submitted 32 days ago • 23 comments

Check out this video of trump introducing Charles Schwab. If you listen carefully, trump says that he made $2.5B while the guy next to him made $900M. This was posted by Margot Martin, special assistant to trump. The tariff stunt was, at least partially, market manipulation.

submitted 32 days ago • 59 comments

The cowards at Paul Weiss own this most of all, but they are joined in disgrace by Milbank, Willkie Farr, and Skadden. Trump suggested there are other firms that have agreed to debase themselves, but did not reveal the names.

submitted 32 days ago • 321 comments

New on @MSNBC: The White House will not release the list of 75 countries that have reached out on trade deals, despite requests from NBC News.

submitted 33 days ago • 2532 comments

60 MINUTES: “75% of the men sent to the El Salvador mega-prison had no criminal records… the only evidence Trump’s government presented against Andrys (a gay makeup artist) were pictures of his mom & dad tattoos…” Horrific. In all of our names. 🇺🇸 www.facebook.com/share/15wy7b...

submitted 35 days ago • 84 comments

Keep downplaying the protests at your own peril. Keep threatening Americans. The protests will only get bigger. Trump is hated. Musk is hated. The political winds have shifted. People are fed up. This is only the beginning.

submitted 37 days ago • 1800 comments

These are stressful times. It's okay to laugh at silly things. #CanadaVotes

submitted 37 days ago • 11 comments

NEW: Conservative candidate used a secret Signal group chat with Freedom Convoy leaders, right-wing media and far-right influencers Andrew Lawton was a member of the “clandestine” group chat used to coordinate convoy messaging on social media

submitted 38 days ago • 83 comments

“.. Tariff threats and hostility towards supposed allies have already made Canadians and Europeans wary about trips to the US (together, these two groups account for almost half of overseas visitors).” @bloomberg.com 🇺🇸 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 43 days ago • 24 comments

“.. bookings are down over 70% every month through the end of September..” 🇨🇦

submitted 47 days ago • 118 comments