The Onion: It must be boring having to go to church so much. Pope Leo XIV: Yes.

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Pope Leo XIV theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-int...

a man with a beard is wearing a crown and saying you bow to no one . Alt: GIF from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King showing Aragorn saying "You bow to no one."

Similar answer here.

Also wild

I watched Armageddon tonight. It's a ridiculous movie but totally holds up. That said, it was a really wild choice to play Aerosmith while Live Tyler and Ben Affleck get it on.

Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

This is NUTS

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

I guess I should do my taxes.

I should listen to this one tonight.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Keep your stick on the ice.

Saying the Pope is weak on crime is like saying "the pope is weak on crime" (there are no good analogies for how fucking stupid that is; it's a category that contains exactly one example)

Are popes supposed to be, like, *strong* on crime?? Other than witchcraft and heresy I guess?

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The podcast platform the show is using has a bunch of different ads that they dynamically insert based on where you are downloading from.

Not sure why, but localized podcast ads feel especially dystopian to me.

Ro Khanna has a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago, where they apparently don't teach about the Vietnam War.

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

my kink is seeing fascists lose

JD Vance is on a historic roll:

He campaigns for AfD in Germany - they lose.

Invited the Pope to come to US for Trump’s big event - Pope refuses.

Leads peace negotiations with Iran - fails miserably.

Campaigns in Hungary for Orbán - who gets smoked.

Viktor Orban? More like Loser Orban, amiright?

Congratulations on turning Exodus, Part 2!

i couldn’t help but wonder: if trump is so concerned about oil futures, why can’t i get over my oil past?

A Taste of Armageddon, about computerized war

Patterns of Force, where the ship literally beams down to a Nazi planet

This Way to Eden, with fucking space hippies

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, the most on the nose parable of racism ever written

When conservative rage-baiters complain about Kurtzman and allege “60’s Star Trek was more subtle about its political messaging,” I always react with… did we watch the same fucking show?

A hammer to a thumb is more subtle.

Also the Windows 95 shutdown sound.

I'm enjoying it. Having separate stealth and fighting-focused characters that you swap between is a decent mechanic.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is the first one of these games with forests that feel like real wild forests, which does have the side effect of making shortcuts off the roads pretty infeasible.

was once New Amsterdam.

Every crate in cargo bay 3:

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

Ensign Harry Kim finally gets promoted, to love slave on Rick Berman's planet full of horny women, in the Star Trek Voyager episode "Favorite Son."

Project Nail Harry