Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi... 7:46 AM • 4/16/26 • 58K Views

“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”

~ Pope Leo

I consider this a self-regarding and decadent position in the current moment

In other words, the standard appendix to my every Taco Bell order: “beans instead of beef, please.”

narrator: it was, in fact, both unreasonable and ignorant

It’s sort of funny that from DC to NYC to, now, California, “Post” has become a metonym for “right-wing rag”

I actually gain a lot of respect for Scott Alexander here—most of the old anti-woke centrists *still* haven’t figured it out. To wit: Thomas Chatterton Williams, Tyler Austin Harper, Helen Lewis, Michael Powell, ….

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as threat to America He said that the values enshrined in the 1776 Declaration of Independence have “fallen out of favor” among Americans.

Genuinely funny that Sonia Sotomayor issued a public apology today for her mild criticism of a conservative colleague on a specific, substantive issue, and then a few hours later Clarence Thomas picked up a mic and was like ALL LIBERALS ARE AMERICA-HATING COWARDS

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/...

Every lefty reposting this without watching the video is embarrassing themselves

She’s not talking about people dude

Yeah, but the timing is the least relevant part. Whether out of hubris or rank racism, Ginsburg didn't resign when she should've and she screwed over the entire world with her mistake

a stochastic parrot that can also solve longstanding math problems

This is the mathematician equivalent of screaming and running around

"You reach a certain age, and you give up your seat to a - if you have the president. Well, look, it happens to Justice Ginsburg. She was not exactly a young woman," he remarked. "They had a Democrat who could have appointed a liberal justice... But she decided that she was going to live forever. And about two minutes after the election, she went out, and I got to appoint somebody."

He's fuckin' right about this

www.rawstory.com/trump-name-s...

Pity; she was absolutely right. Kavanaugh’s idealized, Pollyanaish picture of ICE stops as a trivial inconvenience rapidly terminated by those with legal status, and with no systemic chilling effects, could only have been drawn by someone mindbogglingly detatched from the reality.

Between this and Sotomayor's recent dig at Kavanaugh, I'm getting the sense that Callais (the Voting Rights Act case) will be an absolute disaster and the liberals have given up trying to mitigate the damage.

!!!!!!

It’s happening!

MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT ATHUL ACHARYA, APPELLANT This is not a case about

[sitting down to write the intro to my next oral argument]

ME: Don’t start with “this is not a case about.” You can do something different this time. There are other ways to grab attention and focus the questioning.

MY FINGERS:

Nothing has ever been more “big if true”

Virginia Governor Vetoes a Ban on Plea Deals That Waive People's Constitutional Rights - Bolts Abigail Spanberger blocked a bill to bar prosecutors from pressuring Virginians to waive protections against unreasonable police searches as a condition of pleas.

(sigh) then again

Honestly Spanberger kinda has the revenge energy I’m looking for in 2028. I had previously been under the impression she was just another reactionary centrist, but I’ll have to reassess. She’s not governing like one

Ahhhh so it’s an issue with the engineering + the model won’t tell you about the issue. That makes more sense. We have attained “grandpa who refuses to stop driving” levels of sentience

??? This is paid Gemini? And you’re using Pro? I routinely give it screenshots and it reads them with ease

Also: with the exact same prompt, frontier Claude came up snake eyes trying to find this and frontier Gemini got it in one

Did you see this back in the GPT4 days? I thought my mental model was pretty well calibrated and I got wrecked nicholas.carlini.com/writing/llm-...

I swear I will vote for any person who runs on revenge and court reform. That’s it. Those are the two planks of your campaign? You got my vote

Again the question is not whether the Times occassionally writes these pieces but whether they adopt this as "the narrative" and start doing drumbeat coverage and filtering new stories primarily through this frame, which is what they did for Biden but won't do for Trump.

Afghanistan withdrawal and Ukraine invasion clear as day on this graph

Hey @rokhanna.bsky.social just thanked Tucker Carlson and MTG for their progressive leadership. Primary this bitch

CAT: myooooooow
ME: [runs over]
CAT: ma’
ME: ?
CAT: [scurries to food bowl, where a speck of the bottom has become visible] mrrow?