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I grew up Catholic and remember going to visit some older relatives and they had EWTN on ALL DAY watching coverage of the Pope (must have been John Paul) on his visit to America. They would not be happy about Trump at all. Losing the Catholics would be fatal to the GOP.

You don’t wanna know about European vacation time, either. substack.com/@themouthyre...

The dumbest country. We killed ourselves. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

I think this is the most likely explanation for what unfolded after the fact. #DonaldJChrist

Imagine 1930s Germans reading about Jews being shipped to concentration camps, and shrugging. That’s what America is doing right now.

Fox’s Maria Bartiromo asked Trump: “Is the Iran war over?” Trump: “It is over.”

ChatGPT is a website. Claude is a website. I will never respect a website. You cannot convince me to treat LLMs as anything different to any other technology. If a website only gets things right sometimes, it's a bad website. I will not be told otherwise. www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never...

Reminds me of This Is Spinal Tap when they played at the amusement park. Was there a puppet show?

If Obama had posted a photo of himself as Jesus, the story would've disappeared in a couple days, right?

Students should walk out en masse over this

Walking out is literally a speech act

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

Republican Senator: “Shut up and be poor”

Folks, there are multiple ways to respond to this news. One is to brand the entire GOP as the pro-terrorism party. And hard.

Being “high on the hog” for too long makes one forget what it’s like to wallow in the mud. USA & Western global Constitutional Democratic Republics, with all their problems, have effective Law, Justice, functioning economies, so voters become complacent & take for granted how bad the alternative is.

yay!

Around a quarter of US farmers did not lock in fertilizer prices last fall, and many are now scrambling to cover costs stemming from a war they didn’t anticipate.

Devastated to hear the entire Marvel Studios’s Visual Development team has been let go. This was my old home but more importantly, the home of so many incredible artists and peers. Absolutely heartbreaking 😔 Sending all my impacted peers my love and support. Please reach out if you need anything!

Also screw wealthy CEO’s and corporations laying off the very people that made them wildly successful, just for short term gains. Folks with institutional knowledge, with decades of work, dedication and success all dismissed. For what? Who knows but it’ll make a great bonus for an exec.

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social: “What law would you want to make?” 🔥 SMART KID: “🇺🇸 needs to let people go to the doctor free, because in other places they have it free.” #MedicareForAllNOW

Every damn Republican, and a fair number of Democrats too

Jesus Murphy.

This is a disaster

One thing that's frustrating about the DoorDash PR guy's response that "no one is claiming it was a real delivery" is that this is how mainstream media actually covered it:

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered new evidence to be turned over in a lawsuit seeking details on a secret "voter data agreement" between DOGE and election deniers. This marks the first ruling forcing the faux-agency to disclose what happened behind the scenes.

“Hollywood, believe it or not, is a blue-collar town...“It’s thousands and thousands of Grips and Gaffers. Drivers and Decorators. Builders and Boom operators. Camera teams and Caterers... And they’re all about to get f*cked” Damon Lindelof Reveals Reason He Signed Anti-Paramount-WBD Merger Missive

US edges closer to popular vote determining winner of presidential elections Virginia signs National Popular Vote bill into law, joining an interstate compact with 17 other states and District of Columbia

NEW: Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Sen. Van Hollen to @patrioticmillionaires.org: "We need to demand that everybody use their full powers to fight and win. If the people in Minneapolis can stand up and fight and blow the whistle on ICE to protect their neighbors, every single one of us can do that."

Great, now all of Italy hates us.

You know what's really embarrassing about this conflict? Iran has a 90 percent literacy rate while 50 per cent of the US reads at the 6th grade level or below. Iran sent Phds to the ceasefire talks. The US sent realtors.

Trump damaged or destroyed a lot of lives. The 77 million who voted for him, knowing better, share his guilt. And some of those 77M are outraged at him because he did a god shot. The murders of people on boats and in Iranian schools didn’t bother them. 🤷‍♀️🤷🏼‍♂️

The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2090...

Fact check: LOL NO

Italy suspends its defense agreement with Israel Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says that given the 'current situation,' Rome has decided to suspend the automatic renewal of the defense agreement www.ynetnews.com/article/hjg6...

In case anyone is still confused

Yes, because according Republicans, Black and brown people are guilty at birth.

Unearthed FBI doc undercuts White House denial about Epstein's connection to Melania Trump

🔴The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire New Epstein-linked revelations show how neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging ‘memetic warfare’ against their enemies

I'm fairly gobsmacked by the number of people who profess surprise that Orbán was funding CPAC. Did you know of his ties to Heritage and Project 2025? One of the most telling, tho, was he funded Rufo and the racist Trump tried to install at State, Jeremy Carl. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Happy tax season: Here's how Trump's tax cuts helped private-jet — and thoroughbread racehorse — owners this year nymag.com/intelligence...

It’s interesting that Republican politicians aren’t speaking out against Trump, because if they lose the Catholic vote they’re going to be a minority party for a generation.

Everything is staged. Including his assignation attempt.

It turns out that the DoorDash deliverer earlier at the White House was a Republican staged event. Sharon Simmons of Arkansas was used last year by the GOP to promote their “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

So, Putin via Orban has been funding CPAC and Project 2025? America is saturated with Russian agents, if so.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

. Funny how this works . . . .