“enhanced interrogation” instead of torture walked so “detention centers” instead of concentration camps could run.

Acknowledging the stark, ugly truth that the Republicans basically had no good reason to do what they have done for the last 11 years and have lapsed into vast collective psychosis over totally immaterial and utterly depraved delusions is terrifying, and as such most commentators simply do not do it

1 year ago today I was terminated by DOGE from USAID where I worked to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. Everyone I knew across almost 10 years of my career across 3 prior jobs became unemployed as well. My entire LinkedIn network suddenly became "open to work"

I'm a one issue voter. Punishment.

At this point court-packing isn't enough. We need to jail and disbar some SCOTUS justices.

a concert backdrop that says over 30 universities destroyed in iran against black and white picture of rubble

backdrop that says last standing university in gaza against a black and white image of al-israa university

giant three screen stage backdrop showing footage of the bombing of a university in gaza

The Strokes played Coachella against a backdrop listing all the world leaders that had been assassinated by the CIA, a count of the number of universities bombed in Iran, and footage of the bombing of the last university in Gaza

let's make a cultural value judgment: palantir are a bunch of execrable fascist shitheads and their ideas go against the basis of every civilized country on earth, from which they should be extirpated like the intellectual cancer they are

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

This is the most human a robot has ever been

Email sent to all staff, students and the greater university community at large that just says "no worries."

We all have days like this

ICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro Surge Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

everything about DOGE was fucking wildly illegal and everyone involved in it should spend time in prison and have their assets seized

How Silicon Valley Humiliated the Democrats When will they learn? The party remains far too solicitous of an industry that’s rewarded their fealty with four years of Trump and untold damage to democracy.

"Democrats need to break from this path and acknowledge that billionaires—especially those in the increasingly antidemocratic tech sector—are never going to side with them over the GOP." From @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2087...

One of the biggest labor battles in the US is happening right now in Los Angeles, at USC, where our faculty-union campaign with majority support is being met by nasty, corporate-grade administrative resistance, and national press won't cover it.

This is how it looks when I start telling my wife the same dumb fuckin story for like the twentieth time

No respect too for the growing sports media environment of talking heads who host shows on betting. Horrid!

This understanding of legitimate power finds one of its highest expressions in authentic democracy. Far from being a mere procedure, democracy recognises the dignity of every person and calls each citizen to participate responsibly in the pursuit of the common good. Reflecting this conviction, Saint John Paul II affirmed that the Church values democracy because it ensures participation in political choices and "the possibility both of electing and holding accountable those who govern them, and of replacing them through peaceful means when appropriate" (Centesimus Annus, 46). Democracy remains healthy, however, only when rooted in the moral law and a true vision of the human person. Lacking this foundation, it risks becoming either a majoritarian tyranny or a mask for the dominance of economic and technological elites. The same principles that guide the exercise of authority within nations must likewise inform the international order - a truth that is particularly important to recall at a time when strategic rivalries and shifting alliances are reshaping global relations. We must recall that a just and stable international order cannot emerge from the mere balance of power or from a purely technocratic logic. The concentration of technological, economic and military power in a few hands threatens both democratic participation among peoples and international concord.

In this regard, my predecessors have expressed the need for updated institutions and a universal authority (cf. John Paul II, Centesimus Annus, 58; Pacem in Terris, 137), marked by the principle of subsidiarity (cf. Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate, 57). The development of such a global community of fraternity calls for "a better kind of politics, one truly at the service of the common good" (Francis, Fratelli Tutti, 154). Indeed, it is "more necessary than ever to boldly rethink the modalities of international cooperation" (Visit to the FAO Headquarters on the Occasion of World Food Day, 16 October 2025, 7). In the final analysis, when earthly powers threaten the tranquillitas ordinis — the classic Augustinian definition of peace - we must draw hope from the Kingdom of God, which, though not of this world, sheds light upon the affairs of this world and reveals their eschatological meaning. In this perspective of faith, we are reminded that God's omnipotence is shown especially in mercy and forgiveness (cf. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I, q. 25, a. 3, ad 3); divine power does not dominate, but rather heals and restores. It is precisely this logic of charity that must animate history, for human activity inspired by charity helps to shape the "earthly city" in unity and peace, rendering it - however imperfectly - an anticipation and a prefiguration of the "City of God" (cf. Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate, 7). Such faith strengthens our resolve to build a culture of reconciliation capable of overcoming the pitfalls of indifference and powerlessness (cf. Address in the Presence of Religious Leaders, 28 October 2025).

More great stuff from Pope Leo today — on democracy and international order.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

I’m glad that he’s showing what (white) American Christianity is really about. The thirst for domination and power to the point of blasphemy. They’ve been calling him the chosen one, an avatar of God, because he allows them to hate marginalized people. He can do this because they won’t abandon him.

If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.

We need this energy. Nothing less than completing Reconstruction.

They missed ‘born miserable hates born miserable, but not enough to voluntarily watch a Donald Trump State of the Union address!’

The Big Man’s sax solo on Jungleland.

branding my "America should have snap elections" policy as "Don't you think you have the right to speak to the manager whenever you want?"

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

The 28th Virginia battle flag is a Confederate battle flag that belonged to the 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Captured by the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, the flag was brought to Minnesota and exhibited at the state's capitol for several years before passing into the permanent collection of the Minnesota Historical Society after 1896 where it has remained since.

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up.

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Like genuinely, we do what people have done for centuries and work together to build organizations capable of standing up to the bourgeois controlled government. There are more of us than there are of them. Labor stoppages and strikes have the capacity to change what they do by pressuring capital.

what are the odds that a political system fully captured by capital would eventually put the most evil living person in charge

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

Cardinals are a historically great franchise, but definitely not cool. It would be awesome to have a franchise coolness power-ranking.