My anticlerical self is being mightily challenged by a pope releasing statements I could have written were I blessed with a stronger way with words...

Of course this is just carefully planned and rehearsed communication (something akin to manipulation). None of that is improvised.
Which doesn't mean it's fake: the point he is making is very real and, boy, is it masterfully brought!

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

To bé fair, you'd get much worse results attempting to play chess...

Said the guy who bragged about slashing NASA budgets.

Note to the least mathematically inclined: you won't be able to slash a non-existing budget all that much.

Policies such as... well, so many come to mind that we don't have time to mention them...

Wait, do Chinese EV need to run on proprietary electricity from Chinese coal power plants, that you must order for international delivery?

I thought only Apple did stuff like that...

If 16 year olds could be accountable, then 16 year olds should be allowed to vote.

Spaceship Earth NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon. Image Credit: NASA

So when we saw tiny earth, people asked our crew what impressions we had. And honestly, what struck me wasn't necessarily just Earth. It was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbingly in
the universe.

Greek Proverb: "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in".

That's not what we are doing now. We are pillaging the planet, each other, and the future, for a quick buck.

We need to do better.

It's good if it happens, although it's still less than he had promised years ago.

But sure, it's in the right direction. And maybe more likely to happen now thre business world can plainly see the risks of being committed to fossils.

Still, why won't he limit motorway speed to 110km/h?

And teach our daughters to demand nothing less than total respect...

You are right we cannot fully understand.
But it does révulse and trigger some of us to help you build a world where this is no longer the case.

May we teach our sons that manliness may sometimes reside in protection but never in predation!..

Narrator: they were not close to having 11 nuclear weapons.
They were not close to having 1.

Buttigieg entirely schooled this bad faith moron

It's a pun on "faire ami ami"

Spectacular ;-)
Only in Libération, of course!

4,496 out of 4,499 refugees admitted to the United States since October have been Afrikaners www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/4496...

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

OK, it only works for people in the US, but that's a very pointed observation

Why don't they poll the leading party?

Well, I'm fine with not letting him do that...

That is some silence! And I love that she's clearly holding back from laughing.

You'd think that after over 5 years they'd be prepared for this ridiculously childish attack...

Israel’s Latest Genocide Is Against the Shias of Lebanon. Why Is the World Silent? Lebanon’s Christians are being told by the Israeli military to get rid of any displaced Shias hiding in their homes or villages. Haven’t we seen this story before, and don’t we all know how it ends?

"Israel’s Latest Genocide Is Against the Shias of Lebanon. Why Is the World Silent?"

Lebanon’s Christians are being told by the Israeli military to get rid of any displaced Shias hiding in their homes or villages. Haven’t we seen this story before, and don’t we all know how it ends?

My latest:

Israel is the first state with a death penalty for one race but not another since Nazi Germany in 1945.

Palestinians convicted of certain crimes now face a default sentence of death by hanging. The conviction rate for Palestinians in Israeli courts is 99.74 percent.

(1/2)

To be fair, does burning hurt once you no longer have a body?

That's an overgeneralisation. Some of them still visit their mums.

Phil Stewart @phildstewart X.com MORE - (Reuters) - U.S. federal agents have arrested the niece and grand-niece of late Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked their lawful permanent resident status, the State Department said on Saturday. "Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement," the State Department said in a statement after Rubio revoked their green cards.

Apparently the US is taking Iranians in this country hostage now:

My!
Ours is at 16C, 18 if we're under the weather...