ah yes, personal freedom, that thing that is always present IN THE MILITARY

Dave Granlund

Burning trees for energy is as bad as burning crops for energy. New paper by the protagonist of a recent book!

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

Amazon is behind on jobs promised for funding to build Virginia headquarters The company expected to be nearly halfway to its goal of 25,000 new jobs in the area by 2038. It has created a little more than 7,000.

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Bonkers

Many pasteurize it to get the results they want

Mike Luckovich

There’s a reason Republicans don’t constantly shit on their own voters and that’s because it is an abysmal strategy for winning elections

Germany just activated its largest ever solar installation — one farm, 1.5 million homes, zero carbon. The #CottbusSolarPark covers 3,500 hectares and produces 2.1 tw-hours annually, replacing two coal plants that operated on this same land until 2022. #SolarPower #ActOnClimate #Renewables

Had a friend once who, on a Friday afternoon, told me was diagnosed that day with pancreatic cancer. He was dead in two weeks.

An absolutely incredible breakthrough!

Bump

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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Well-played, @zeit.de and Ben Wiseman.

📌Pope Leo XIV TODAY:

“The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants. Blessed are the peacemakers, but woe to those who manipulate religion and the name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”

He is NOT backing down.

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi... 7:46 AM • 4/16/26 • 58K Views

“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”

~ Pope Leo

The super-rich are not worried about their car dying, or if they can afford daycare, how to feed a family & clothe growing children. They don't consider skipping a medication b/c of its cost.
But the rich want to feel oppressed, so they pretend slightly higher taxes is life or death. How dare they

Folks, I think the word we want here is “Vansplaining”.

IYKYK

Republicans channel their inner Kamala Chuck Grassley is on board, too.

Surprise! Republicans are adopting Kamala Harris’s tactics to deal with high fertilizer prices.

Is Pope Leo XIV the right person to lead the Catholic Church? We asked four evangelicals at a megachurch outside of Nashville.

Someone had fun with this headline.

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

If Hungary can get rid of its autocrat, so can America

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2.1 million pounds of nitrate-nitrogen traveling down the Iowa River today.

1.7 million pounds of nitrate-nitrogen traveling down the Des Moines River today.