For most of the time I worked on the Gaza humanitarian response at USAID, this smuggling ring was the bane of our existence. It dramatically impacted price and market stability in Gaza and made the truck drivers jobs far more dangerous. We all knew it was the IDF running it.
Pope Leo XIV: In a world wounded by arrogance, people hunger and thirst for justice. We must encourage those who believe in peace and dare to engage in “countercurrent” politics, which focus on the common good.
Characterizing something as “fascism” is now grounds for suspension on X??? So much for their supposed love of “free speech”.
Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.
lol this fucker knew exactly what he was doing, just like when he pushed the iraq war on behalf of the last gop president. these guys are scam artists and you shouldnt buy a thing they ever say.
Homeland Security klogo: More Third World Violence: ICE Requests Texas Not Release Illegal Alien Who Murdered His Co-Worker with a Sledgehammer Release Date: April 20, 2026 If you import the third world, you become the third world WASHINGTON — The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an arrest detainer requesting local authorities not release Josue Abraham Chirino-Leonice, a 19-year-old criminal illegal alien from Venezuela, who is charged with murdering his co-worker to death with a sledgehammer.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is using official press releases to message that Westerners (they mean white people) are superior to people from the Global South (they mean non-white people). This is a dangerous, backwards position for our government to take.
/also, "murdered .. to death"?
What is wrong with her
When communism ended the Russian Orthodox Church glorified hundreds of martyrs and confessors pretty quickly. It turned out that a few of them were in fact still alive so the glorification was reversed. It is technically possible
"Oh I hate getting to the airport too early" c'mon now we all know that you're just going to be looking at a screen in a different place, I know you're not spending your free time doing woodworking when you're on this website
There are saints we know for a fact never existed and they’re still in the Roman martyrology. Imo canonizations are not infallible.
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
My only big interaction with AI at work was cleaning up a huge dangerous mess because somebody was putting things in deepseek that they should not have
Now, if universalism is true then maybe we're cooking. Unfortunately that's been condemned for far longer than canonizations have been declared globally infallible
I mean either they are fallible or they're meaningless because even a lifelong monster can get one
We're not declaring him damned. We are recognizing that a canonization was likely not infallible because it was compromised by an abusive cult. I don't see how this is different from annulment. I do not see a workable alternative to this besides closing our eyes and pretending it didn't happen
Well something is wrong here
Actually....we already have the annulment process for marriage.
Canonizations surely can be annulled due to new information being considered or the person being canonized under false pretenses or through outside influence
Neither of which are necessarily devastating I think
There's a third option but I don't think this is enough to warrant it's consideration
Blood orange negroni...
According to Tasnim, Iran has launched drone strikes on US naval vessels following the US attack and seizure of an Iranian cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
These are the only civilized places in America
how is this literally happening in real life
Pope Leo XIV spoke out against the "scourge of corruption" at a giant open-air Mass attended by 100,000 worshippers near Angola's capital Sunday, before visiting a venerated historic shrine in the country scarred by poverty and inequality. u.afp.com/SEax
The vote came as the government is fighting at the Supreme Court to end Temporary Protected Status for an estimated 330,000 Haitians currently in the country.
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Iran's military command says it will retaliate for the US shelling and seizure of the Iranian-flagged cargo ship Touska earlier today.
Alt text: Screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Abdulkhaleq Abdulla (@Abdulkhaleq_UAE), with a verified badge. The post reads: “This is what I told Reuters today: The UAE no longer needs America to defend it, as it has proven during the Iranian aggression that it is capable of defending itself with distinction. What the UAE needs is to acquire only the best and latest weapons that America has. Therefore, it is time to think about closing the American bases, as they are a burden and not a strategic asset.” The post is labeled “Translated from Arabic by Grok” and shows a timestamp of 10:21 AM · 4/19/26 with 139K views.
NEW: UAE scholar Abdulkhaleq Abdulla says the UAE no longer needs U.S. protection, calling American bases a “burden, not a strategic asset” and suggesting they should be closed. The United States’ standing in the region has been obliterated.
The Good Morning Captain scream going off mid-wake
Guy who requests that slint be played at his wake
He's got ligma
