Doing this video with a painting of Washington in the background is a level of irony that even he’d probably cross the Delaware again just to get away from

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

Trump thinks it’s okay because the stock market is up. Which means nothing unless you’re selling.

I have the same bad feeling about this referendum that I had about Youngkin in 2021.

You know how it is with me baby
Y’know I just can’t stand myself
But it takes a whole lot of medicine
For me to pretend I’m somebody else.
/Randy Newman “Guilty”

Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

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They sell “groceries,” another thing you find exotic and outside your experience.

I’m pretty sure people will volunteer to do it for free. Won’t cost taxpayers a dime.

I know I’ll be there.

So… sell your stocks to buy gas? Is that your final answer, sir?

Highly enriched facts.

Do the Pope & I disagree a lot in principle & probably practice? Sure. But he isn’t going to bat for those things. As Caro said, the measure of a politician is what he does with power the moment he acquires it.

Not gonna like the cone, tho.

Not “untrue,” however.

Wow, talk about WEAK ON CRIME!!!

Congress is always eager to foist the biggest assholes off on other branches of the government, every chance they get.

Now do the Washington Post, Banner!

I think it’s Uncle Sam.

how many criminals has he pardoned and set free?

Just when JD Vance thought his weekend couldn’t possibly get any worse…

I think it escaped from atop his triumphal arch.

Blasphemy, I think.

As bad as he routinely is I’ve never seen him as unmoored from reality as he was outside the plane this evening. Not even close.

Good place for it. Not as good as the sun, but it will do.

Actually this is the one thing he may have gotten right.

He’s ten years old.

I was not expecting to read David Axelrod’s name in that screed. But there it is, for some reason.

I want the Pope that dresses up like a white bat and beats up low-level street mooks, not some soft boy beta Pope with his “forgiveness” and his “Christliness”

Wait til you see DC when Trump croaks.

So hoo-venile.

Prayer teaches us how to act. In prayer, our limited human possibilities are joined to the infinite possibilities of God. Thoughts, words and deeds then break the demonic cycle of evil and are placed at the service of the Kingdom of God. A Kingdom in which there is no sword, no drone, no vengeance, no trivialization of evil, no unjust profit, but only dignity, understanding and forgiveness. It is here that we find a bulwark against that delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us and is becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive. The balance within the human family has been severely destabilized. Even the holy Name of God, the God of life, is being dragged into discourses of death. A world of brothers and sisters with one heavenly Father vanishes, as in a nightmare, giving way to a reality populated by enemies. We are met by threats, rather than the invitation to listen and to come together. Brothers and sisters, those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God, turning themselves and their own power into a mute, blind and deaf idol (cf. Ps 115:4–8), to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the whole world bend its knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life. With evangelical simplicity, Saint John XXIII once wrote: “The benefits of peace will be felt everywhere, by individuals, by families, by nations, by the whole human race.” And echoing the incisive words of Pius XII, he added: “Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war” (Encyclical Letter Pacem in Terris, 116).

Pope Leo, clearly denouncing Trump and Hegseth, decries the "omnipotence that surrounds us and is becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive... Even the holy Name of God, the God of life, is being dragged into discourses of death.... Enough of war!"
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