Responding to the entire Bible being read in D.C.

Read full article here: open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com #ArtificialIntelligence systems increasingly shape and permeate our mentality and social environments. Like every great historical transformation, this too calls not only for technical competence, but also for a humanistic formation capable of making visible the logic behind economics, embedded biases and forms of power that shape our perception of reality. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 91K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 209K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 696K Views

Pope Leo on AI:

“Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses.”

This short thread is worth reading:

Chart showing media bias

You failed in your analysis during the campaign. Now we reap what you have sown.

He is sabotaging alliances that are in our national interest while selling out our national interests to anyone who wants to help his personal interests.

As President Trump supported sanctions repeal effort last year, the Al-Khayyat family negotiated with Mr. Kushner to help him finance a multibillion Mediterranean resort in Albania. Here is Ivanka Trump with Ramez Al-Khayatt in Albania in Jan 2026 in baseball cap. Prime minister of Albania on left

They think just war doctrine means that it’s just because they say it’s just….

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now:
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

I personally think not safe to remain in any personal relationship with anyone who is using LLMs to analyze your relationship, make conclusions about your motives, or determine how to treat you. I think this is beyond red flag—it should be an immediate dealbreaker.

The “America First,” president wants to cut billions of dollars from American innovation and scientific research.
 
From NASA to NIH, no one would be spared.
 
We cannot let this budget pass.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tom Morello opening speech in Minneapolis 🔥

Do Evangelicals Still Care to Make a Moral Case for War? When President Bush invaded Iraq, evangelical leaders argued the war was justified morally. When Trump went to war with Iran, evangelical leaders simply cheered.

What's that thing that will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross again?

I remember those days- back then it actually had a hilarious critique of evangelical church culture

Tomorrow, Jack Smith will testify publicly on all the evidence he collected and why Donald Trump was lawfully indicted.

Everyone should watch.

MAGA Jesus Is Not the Real Jesus Trump is causing incalculable damage to the Christian faith, yet most evangelicals will never break with him.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Growing up, I thought that the commandment not to take God’s name in vain was about saying goddamn, but this is what that commandment was talking about. Keep God’s name out of your mouth when you do your disgusting fascist deeds.

Trump And Stephen Miller Have Created A Secret Police Force In Plain Sight After promising to focus on deporting criminal illegal immigrants, Trump is instead using militarized immigration agencies to terrorize cities where he is unpopular.

NEW -- ICE and Border Patrol agents do not wear name tags. They don't identify themselves in their encounters with civilians. Many wear masks to hide their identities.

Donald Trump has created a de facto secret police force to terrorize communities.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The President of the United States is trying to economically damage and coerce NATO allies because they don't agree with his imperialist ambition to seize a NATO territory by force.

Donald Trump is the most egregious traitor and saboteur of the West in history.

The People Are Turning Against ICE. Will the Politicians Take Notice? Strongly worded statements will not stop the terrorization of the country.

"Humiliation of their victims, a kind of relish in their fear and misery, a kind of—let’s call it what it is—sadism has become a dominant part of the culture of ICE."

Remember, when Vance was caught spewing racist lies that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets, he admitted that "if I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do."

Proudly, openly a liar.

Everyone should read this one paragraph.

www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

He kidnapped the president of Venezuela for them

And oil companies are like

Meh

@maddow.bsky.social: “There are very few Americans right now who have any idea why the United States did this. If this was about drug trafficking then why did President Trump just pardon the former President of Honduras who was convicted of sending hundreds of tons of drugs into the US?”

Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid! Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.

"Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!"

Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.

From me for Zeteo:

The great isolationist ‘America First’ GOP President Donald Trump has in less than a year in office declared himself the ‘owner’ of Gaza and the ‘ruler’ of Venezuela.