After years of being a “cafeteria catholic” due to by deep anger about the church’s child sex abuse scandals, Popes Francis and now Leo are slowly restoring my faith in the teachings of the church and the morality and values instilled in me by my parents. This is no small feat

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

The overwhelming personal quality required for the remaining MAGA folks to support this guy is an infinite capacity for cognitive dissonance.

Long past time. Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol

An amazingly insightful, thoughtful and nuanced piece by a writer who clearly knows his subject. A long piece but worth every moment of your time.

Dropkick Murphys lead singer Ken Casey at the Alex Pretti Memorial tonight just prior to their set at a benefit show across the street. Minneapolis March 6, 2026

It really is amazing that it took this long for Trump to stumble himself into a geopolitical and domestic catastrophe. I would have bet the under.

If you are going to start a fight, you best be prepared to finish it.

Herbert with a fucking killshot on this one

Trump will deem Iran to have surrendered

It is always the people you least expect

So we are 14 months into Trump’s term, which, perhaps coincidentally, was the same age of the puppy Kristi Noem killed in a gravel pit for disobedience.

Am I the only one thinking a lot about the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, and the cascading series of impacts that followed, these days?

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As one does in a functional Democracy She ran a great race and still has a bright future in politics

Brendan Carr and the FCC should be reporting a sizable increase in-kind contribution to Talerico under the heading “Streisand Effect” In a race between Talerico and Paxton in Texas, I give him better that 50:50 odds to win

I've seen enough: James Talarico (D) wins the #TXSEN Dem primary.

A *whole* bunch of people are learning some very expensive geography lessons. Like "Oh *that's* why they call it the Persian Gulf" and "Wait, the Strait of Hormuz is WHERE OH MY GOD WHY DID THEY DO THAT?"

Kind of seems like disruption to shipping is something that might have been expected if you launch a massive war in the Middle East?

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it. We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

A State Department that actually cared about Americans would have urged Americans to get out two weeks ago. Hell, they could have booked tickets for us in advance. Thanks, Marco Rubio and JD.

It's as if the administration thought they could take this action without consequences. This is what happens when you believe your own bullshit

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Trump admin officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first. That undercuts one of the key arguments for the war made by senior admin officials. www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

Of course they did

Just a quick reminder that Trump ostensibly launched this war because he was unable to negotiate a deal very much like the one he blew up just to spite Obama.

Updated:

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

There is always a tweet

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

Dolton man reminds folks if they ain’t having the parade with all the fire trucks he ain’t coming

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

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Remember in 2010, when Obama offered some modest criticisms of SCOTUS' Citizens United ruling, and the political world just about lost its mind over the breach in norms related to presidency and the court? Sixteen years later:

100%

Hard to find a more bright-line, clearly unconstitutional case to come before the SC than Trump’s “emergency” BS for usurping Congress to make his own tariffs. Fortunately the court ruled against 6-3, but the subtext is there are still 3 ludicrously corrupt justices not following the Constitution 🤬

It is always the people you least expect

They saw France bust down the doors of X for being pedophiles and immediately started developing the national sex crime VPN.

This x 1,000

We need to reckon with how to respond to a SCOTUS whose decisions are blatantly unconstitutional on their face.

Was he from ICE or the Border Patrol?

It’s official. There is no longer a such thing called scandal anymore.

Think about that statement and what it means in context of our constitutional rights.

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Surely as Jesus would have wanted…🙄 Never forget that the people who defend this are evil to the core. No religious text on the planet excuses this. Only a deep perversion of morality sees this as acceptable

I’ll take things that should have been obvious before Trump became President for $1,000, Alex

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