There's a very good essay to be written about the profound emptiness of *winning* when your project itself is joyless and cruel.

Sincere answer: we know he’s the head of a structurally patriarchal homophobic imperialist institution that also has a liberatory and revolutionary history and capacity. The Catholic Church is many things and I harbor no illusions about how devastatingly unjust its teachings on sexuality are.

It’s exactly that. You’re not missing anything.

Explosions are penis and logistics are vagina. Basically as simple as that

ACAB

Flock cameras have useful, modular electronic components in them, including:

- Rechargeable lithium iion battery with solar panel
- 5G LTE modem
- 5MP 16mm camera with IR filter

Plus various other components with precious metals that can be harvested for scrap.

Over the past week, the president posted an image of himself as Jesus, the vice president challenged the pope on Catholic doctrine, and the secretary of defense quoted the speech of a fictional hit man and presented it as scripture.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

every day senate democrats will pass this piece of shit in the hallway. theyll say hi and hello like he's just a normal coworker, even a friend. people like this should be shunned and yelled at every waking moment of their sorry lives.

I called my piece of shit senators today. You can too. Tell them they’re a disappointment and you plan to donate to whoever primaries them. It takes two minutes.

$4,049 from the average taxpayer for weapons and war.

That's...
-32x the $124 paid for school lunches and other nutrition programs.
-213x the $19 paid for the U.S. Postal Service.
-119x the $34 paid toward public transit.
-253x the $16 spent on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

The trope that associates violent profiteering by elites and their henchmen with being “tough on crime” was pushed by both right wing and liberal media organizations for decades. It is one of the great achievements of modern propaganda to associate cruelty and domination and violence with “safety.”

All you fascists bound to lose.

Since Nuremberg in 1945, international law has established that the "wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity" is a punishable war crime.

No serious international lawyer would deny that this is what Israel is doing in South Lebanon.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Such massacres, going on 80 yrs, are the price of Israel’s “right to exist as a Jewish state.” So when you say “I believe in Israel’s right to exist” you’re saying you’re ok with the mass death required to secure that existence. Learn how to say, loud & unashamed: No, Israel has no right to exist

genuinely think people outside of America don't realize how big this place is, how militarized and murderous our police are, how little our politicians care, how disconnected and impoverished we have been intentionally made to be, how we still have slavery just with extra steps. we really suck gang

You can't separate anti-immigrant and anti-trans politics from what is happening with Iran. When MAGA picked transphobia and nativism as its organizing principle, it selected for the capacity to treat entire categories of people as civilizational threats whose elimination is an act of self-defense.

Happy "cars create distance" day to all who celebrate
April 7, 1977, Philadelphia Inquirer @thewaroncars.bsky.social libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item...

But they are the new norm, because the world failed to act when Israel blew up hospital after hospital in Gaza. And of course they were aided by our gutless mainstream media that hemmed and hawed and hedged until it was barely even news for babies incubators to be blown to smithereens.

Every single day Trump acts out in a way that would get you banned from Dave & Busters and the media types up things like “Trump challenges limits of executive theory.”

A woodcut icon of Jesus, pulling prisoners out through a hole in barbed wire fence. He is standing on crossed gates of hell that read ICE detention

Happy Easter! I’m back! The most important thing I want to share today is this new @benwildflower.com icon, an abolitionist anastasis icon showing Jesus harrowing the Hell of imprisonment, which is BREATHTAKING. (I commissioned this piece.) Proclaim resurrection and liberation, friends!

A beautiful mural on the side of a tall building in Tehran, Iran of an American flag hanging down in a way it's not usually hung in the US. Instead of stars on the blue field it's skulls, and the red lines each have a bomb at the bottom, making the red lines seem very much like the rockets' red glare, like from the song. It says in English DOWN WITH THE USA. It's beautiful, and it is real.

Good morning to everyone who loves public art ONLY

Anyone who wants citizenship to be an inheritance linked to blood, such that out-groups can be unrepresented and exploited by the in-groups, is a fucking fascist and needs to be treated as such.

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

A for sale listing of a Shrek CRT tv, it's shrek-green with his distinctive ears, several buttons also are in the shape of his head. There is a tiny shrek face centered below the screen, in case you needed more shrek in your shrek.

Think about how there were definitely people who saw 9/11 happen on their shrek tvs

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

I hear my one year old and five year old operating the paper shredder in my office and cackling. Choosing not to investigate.