My brother in Christ what do you think a "level playing field" is

Yeah I gotta say if it turns out *this* is the thing that bothers us, rather than, say, what is done to the image of Christ found in the poor and dispossessed themselves, then all those Calvinist warnings about idolatry basically seem correct to me.

Steve Kornacki: New Gen Z poll shows clear divide on Israel-Palestine NBC News chief data analyst Steve Kornacki breaks down a new NBC News Decision Desk poll for Meet the Press showing Americans are evenly divided in their sympathies between Israelis and Palestinians, ...

A new NBC News Decision Desk poll shows that 75% of all Democrats sympathize more with Palestinians than with Israelis.

It also shows that 74% of all of Gen Z, total, sympathizes more with Palestinians than with the Israelis.

A lot of people are still in the denial about how much the median Democratic voter, the median Democratic volunteer, and the median Democratic activist has shifted on a variety of issues. Well here's the handpicked candidate of Chuck Schumer being booed, about Gaza, at the Dem convention.

damn these chapo bernie piker bros betraying the party

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Magyar has already invited Netanyahu 🙃

EU to discuss sanctions on Israel, pending new Hungarian government position Foreign ministers are to discuss Israel trade sanctions in Luxembourg next week, as EU waits for details of Hungary's new approach.

EU foreign ministers will once again discuss imposing trade sanctions onto Israel when they convene next week, while also waiting for Hungary’s new foreign policy to take shape.

The states of Belgium, Ireland, Malta, Slovenia, and Spain have advocated for sanctions in past meetings.

Think about this: The leader of the Senate Democrats just voted against 85% of his caucus all to keep sending bulldozers to Israel, so it can continue to demolish Palestinian and Lebanese people's homes.

i think that half the people who voted for it only did so bc they knew it wouldn't pass, and even if they had 60 senators, they would find 11 rotating villains

this statement elides that not in that >80% is the senate minority leader. makes one question the caucus's values that they want schumer to stay in charge!

a man with a beard and mustache is making a funny face . ALT: a man with a beard and mustache is making a funny face .

do you know who else keeps making that comparison?

If you're in NYC, come to The New School @nssrnews.bsky.social on Friday afternoon, i'll be chatting with
@adamtooze.bsky.social and you can ask him your questions, too :) event.newschool.edu/adamtoozeepi...

lol

Israel in row with South Korean leader over Palestinian abuse concerns South Korea's president says it’s disappointing Israel does not 'even once reflect on criticisms from around the world'.

Lee Jae-myung drawing parallels between Palestine and the colonial occupation of Korea by Japan has started shit abroad and afaict resonated with the party and the public
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

Yesterday Netanyahu –– "EU has become morally weak. They are losing their identity"

Today, 26 countries have expressed their will to suspend partial defense agreements with Israel

tak tohle je to,
co vedení armády cenzurovalo:

denikn.cz/minuta/20341...

So, basically, right wing populism except that instead of blaming immigrants for every problem in society, we just blame corporations instead.

Liberals will be like “oh, you want to blame the people actually responsible for problems in society? That pales in effectiveness to my strategy, blaming whoever Republicans tell us to” and then not win elections

If one or both of the JRDs tomorrow reach 35 votes, that'll be a massive step in the right direction. For comparison, last time JRDs to block bombs to Israel came up, we reached a record 27 Democratic votes. That was over half of the caucus and well before this war of aggression on Iran.

The 27:

twitter's down again

Seeing this headline with "former pence advisor" and remembering that it was "former DHS official" yesterday, then noticing that the post from yesterday was deleted.

I guess she needed more distance from maga.

Seems like maybe some powerful people want this Republican to win in a D+8. Gosh.

One of the other things that dies this week, with Orbán's loss and Trump's fit at the pope, is the perception of right-wing politics as the continuation of a successful 80s anticommunist revolution, when the pope, Reagan, and dissidents like Orbán were often depicted as a coherent ideological bloc

Čekám, kdy Čína zahájí blokádu lodí, které proplují US blokádou lodí, které proplují íránskou blokádou.

“Fidesz lost power so democratic backsliding isn’t really that much of a thing” is the worst, most complacent take possible. The minimalist definition of democracy as a system in which parties lose elections is a great place to start, but that’s all it is.

Rabbit season, duck season YouTube video by sadegh sepehri

🐰🇮🇷 Close the Strait!

🦆🇺🇸 Open the Strait!

🐰🇮🇷 Close the Strait!

🦆🇺🇸 Open the Strait!

🐰🇮🇷 Open the Strait! 🤭

🦆🇺🇸 Close the Strait!

🐰🇮🇷 Open the Strait!

🦆🇺🇸 Close the Strait! Look, I say we're closing the Strait, and that's final! Don't try to talk me out of it! 🤡

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

Our long national nightmare of effective cancer treatment is coming to an end.

"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

We can't have 80 yr old presidents,

Who can destroy the world

then just die and not be punished for or deal with the mess