Thanks for explaining this so clearly and passionately @hankgreen.bsky.social

youtu.be/payvx8pUTS4

"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement. Pope Francis was absent from Vance’s conversation with Cardinal Pietro Parolin. However, the statement said there was “an exchange of opinions on the international situation, especially regarding countries affected by war, political tensions and difficult humanitarian situations, with particular attention to migrants, refugees, and prisoners.”"

Imagine basing so much of your public identity on your adult conversion to Catholicism, only to be publicly dismissed by the actual Catholic hierarchy.

We've still got some esoteric metaphysics and astrology left in this one if you wanna reach for the stars.

phil.ashlock.us/reckoning/

The Palestinian Buddhist Arrested by ICE YouTube video by hankschannel

Hope for humanity from the Pacifist Palestinian Buddhist Arrested by ICE — as told by his Jewish Israeli friend.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FOCj...

Thanks for sharing @hankgreen.bsky.social

Viktor Frankl on Why Idealists Are Real Realists YouTube video by Levan Ramishvili

Whenever I feel the gravitational pull of rage bait toward the black hole of despair, I like to be reminded what it means to be a realist these days

youtu.be/loay2imHq5E

The Palestinian Buddhist Arrested by ICE YouTube video by hankschannel

An insightful interview by @hankgreen.bsky.social w/ Mikey Barat, an Israeli and friend of the recently arrested palestinian student Mosen Madawi. A nice story of an Israeli & a Palestinian finding common ground, but the US administration baselessly swooping in to rip'em apart: youtu.be/FOCjZZhy4Mo

Palantir: The New Deep State YouTube video by More Perfect Union

Did you hear the one about Palantir and the Reformation and their modern history of the Last Supper?

youtu.be/DZ95Gmvg_D4?...

The Last Supper history starts around 8:13

(ORDER LIST: 604 U.S.) SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2025 24A1007 ORDER IN PENDING CASE A.A.R.P., ET AL. V. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S., ET AL. There is before the Court an application on behalf of a putative class of detainees seeking an injunction against their removal under the Alien Enemies Act. The matter is currently pending before the Fifth Circuit. Upon action by the Fifth Circuit, the Solicitor General is invited to file a response to the application before this Court as soon as possible. The Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court. See 28 U. S. C. §1651(a). Justice Thomas and Justice Alito dissent from the Court's order. Statement from Justice Alito to follow.

BREAKING: SCOTUS orders the government not to remove anyone from the United States under Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation who is a part of the potential class in the Northern District of Texas case until further order of the court.

Only Thomas and Alito note their dissent.

Philip FKA Dick 🌐|🌎 @ashlock@mastodon.social on X: "Rumor has it DOGE asked ChatGPT to fix government and it just got drunk on power, took a bunch of drugs to "sharpen up" and then spat out a demented knock off of clippy. On the plus side, it runs in both Windows and the new state owned FedTux Linux desktop distro, so maybe https://t.co/HIbbDuoS0R" / X Rumor has it DOGE asked ChatGPT to fix government and it just got drunk on power, took a bunch of drugs to "sharpen up" and then spat out a demented knock off of clippy. On the plus side, it runs in both Windows and the new state owned FedTux Linux desktop distro, so maybe https://t.co/HIbbDuoS0R

LOL 🤣 it's like the counterintelligence insurgency for the Operation Paperclip Maximizer chatbot the Doge of Pretoria with OPM ERM is developing to replace government workers x.com/philipashloc...

woke and DEI get removed, economy instantly crashes.

The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites.

Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.

Are you a public servant for the American people working in the Federal Government?

Here is a quick and dirty* tool to compare different payout scenarios for severance and resignation

phil.ashlock.us/severance/

*no guarantee of being 100% accurate but does validate against example data from OPM