Catholics are suddenly the cool Christians and I can't handle it.

Category 4 Super Typhoon Sinlaku is making landfall now over Saipan in the US territory of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Sustained winds of 150mph and 50ft waves.

Folks in Saipan are US citizens and they need our help.

Is the U.S. economy getting better or worse? graph

Looking at this graph of consumer economic sentiment, seems clear the vibes have been Bad since May 2020 - and I suspect a pervasive sense of chaos and instability since, coupled with Covid trauma we mostly just don't talk about, is contributing big-time to that:

yougov.com/en-us/articl...

How Shifting Perceptions of What's Normal Imperil Ecosystems - and Democracy revkin.substack.com/p/how-shifti...

I think the experiment has been run

Need to read more about it all, and obviously the US and Hungary are very different places, but when Trump won in 2024, the first place my mind went was: maybe this is the end of the two party system

Everyone is talking about Orban’s loss as a victory for liberal democracy, but to me the story is the successful creation of a new political party and its sweep to power in just 6 years

Pope Leo XIV holding a baseball bat and smiling.

Mood.

This is positively North Korean.

I mean, you don't really need a translator

It's hard not to think of Paxton's definition of fascism when considering the extent to which the federal government under Trump has been reduced to a) a rogue murder state outside the nation's boundaries and b) a rogue, ethnic cleansing/mass deportation operation *inside* the nation's boundaries.

one of my strongest and clearest takeaways from spending all of Lent knee-deep in ICE death reporting is that Camp East Montana should be razed to the ground and every single person who built it, worked there or approved their decisions deserves criminal charges. it is beyond what I imagined.

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees.
Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out.

It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

One of 4yo’s favorite Frog and Toad stories atm

Top headlines: Tiger arrested on suspicion of DUI after crash. Sources: Sun sold, will relocate to Houston in '27

another banner day for "if you didn't know sports were real, ESPN headlines would be crazy"

I cannot fathom being a person who could do this

The "everything is oil" part of the coming global disruption hasn't sunk in for people yet. The price of gasoline in your car will be one of the smallest effects.

I think this thread is a bit unfair. Most of these articles are simply not saying individual actions don't matter—just that they're not enough on their own.

Exactly same over here. Health insurance CEOs of the six major national health plans earned a collective $159.4 million in total compensation, their companies made over $71 billion in profits. But my post-covid lung surgery was “elective.”

My health insurance provider is truly going to be the thing that makes me lose all my shit. We pay for this fuckshit and they deny every single claim because I have another insurance (WGA). WGA denies every single claim because I have my work insurance. I PAY FOR BOTH.

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now

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DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed, and ordered their immediate removal.

Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

lol any way 💅

Even though we basically knew it, it’s still depressing as hell to see

“There were no books”

Oh trust me, we know

‘No historical precedent’

Historians:

I have a magical device in my driveway that protects me from oil price shocks, emasculates petrothugs, slows the rising seas, and powers my car. During times like these, worth considering!