Did you know you can modify the recent annoying change to the search bar on your Google phone so you don't accidentally trigger Gemini daily? (There's no fixing actual Google AFAIK, sorry.)

V. impressed those FBI guys would bother requisitioning the battering ram to bring Emergen-C or Gatorade or whatever to their boss who they have so much respect for.

Pretending to be a doctor is a crime itself, under the right circumstances, but it's a pretty cool lie under the right circumstances, like if it means your followers won't tar you with the "antichrist" brush, I guess.

Middle East crisis live: Trump says Lebanon is ‘separate skirmish’ to Iran as Israel launches massive strikes on country Lebanese PM says Israel is killing unarmed civilians as US president says country is not included in provisional ceasefire

Saw a woman today praising god for making sure her roof repair only cost $850. He does what she asks b/c he blesses people who pray a lot. So glad he took time to address her roofing costs at this particular moment in history.

HUD, decrying an injunction halting new restrictions to housing grants, slams something it calls "the self-serving homeless industrial complex."

In case you were wondering what's going on in doublespeak this week outside the Middle East

If someone posts a "State of the Union minus fawning" cut LMK. I cannot with the applause for you-know-who.

"[A]udiences, around the world, will begin to taste the boot that the American establishment so blithely licks" — The Independent, on "Melania," the $75M story of America's "Hermann Göring’s staring up at his looted Monet."

UUA President Arrested During D.C. Protest Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt joined other religious leaders at U.S. Capitol Complex to protest the Homeland Security budget.

I'd extend her statement that faith leaders "have an ethical obligation to show up and say that this will not be done in our name" to all people of good conscience. Your 'showing up' may look different, but it IS essential.

Proud to be part of a faith so unapologetically bold.

Chloe Hamburglar would like a word.

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Clergy arrested, businesses shutter as Minnesotans protest Trump's surge in immigration agents Clergy members sang hymns and prayed as they knelt on a road at an airport as part of a day of protests and walkouts.

Proud of our UU clergy and so many others for standing up to ICE today. We stand with love, not hate.

What I heard about today's 104-min. Trump speech: binder clips, baseball, asylums. What I didn't hear about: anything rational, strategic, substantive.
His most effective strategy to distract us from his actions remains his voice.

"Increasingly shaped"? Maybe. Maybe also "more transparently shaped." Lest we forget DOGE Brought to You by X (which the article doesn't) and the 2016-20 reign of terror-by-tweet.

Actually says "for promoting peace through strength." 😲🥹😡🤯

I'm in. I have my own bandana & the other side pays in Bitcoin.

Kid asked, "Will a miracle save us" from ICE?
"Not a miracle, bud. Real people, making real change."
Then we hugged it out, and he felt better. I don't, yet.

Aside from the content and the interviewee and the platform and the climate — is she in any way making "good" TV? Like is it watchable entertainment if one strips it of all context?

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

[Free birth scammer's] eighth child ... was born “limp, unmoving, and grayish white." ... “Had I intervened to accelerate his revival, this would have deprived him of his ownership over his vital and truly enlivening experience of transitioning independently to full incarnation.”

Boycott the Federalist, Epoch Times and One America News (Pentagon sycophants). Not like you weren't already, if you're here, 🤓 but if someone has like a site blocker for cell phones for us less savvy tech users, LMK.

Remember when people told on themselves by dismissing misogynistic banter as "locker room talk"? I feel like that's what's going on here. Time to leak JD Vance's texts.

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I didn't see mention of the effects of foreclosure freezes/thaws as states grappled w/Tyler v. Hennepin County's effects on tax lien foreclosure. Mass., for example, froze cases for many months while redetermining interest rates in these cases.

Good Morning America (typically, sanitized news we can easily edit w/a kid in the room/our only antenna channel) featured a 2-year-old Palestinian in a body bag this morning.

It is the definition of willful ignorance to deny the reality of this horror.

Double whammy on the hud.gov front page: mixing of church and state AND blaming the "Radical Left" in a pop-up before you can access vital details about housing.

This administration feeds on cruelty. Pushing the death penalty and unable to cope when they can't kill everyone they want to kill. "[T]hey will be treated like they’re on death row for the rest of their lives,” Bondi said of prisoners whose death sentences were commuted under Biden.

Texas superintendent rips 'crushing’ laws,' hypocritical parents "Holy moly, do I want to pack it in right now. The burden is heavy."

I'd have called TX public schools "absurd," "hypocritical" and a "crushing" environment 25+ years ago when I was in them; they've fallen
so much farther since.

Chron: Texas superintendent rips 'crushing' state laws, 'moral superiority' from parents

When love and empathy are "hate speech" and inconvenient history is erased; when people in power deliberately erase literature and art and truth, all we have is one another. Hold tight to truth & love wherever you find it. ❤️‍🩹

Kirk said empathy is toxic manipulation, & he's still wrong. Don't waste time caring about a person who thought caring was weakness because you're told to. Caring comes from your heart, and it's OK not to feel sad for someone who didn't care about you — or the reverse, if true. Trust your ❤️!

Frog falls off the sled and his imaginary presence is a comfort to Toad until he realizes what he's been missing. (Or: Why we don't read quotes in isolation.)