Pope Leo has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

If the Israeli Knesset members' lapel pins shaped as little nooses isn't where you say peace-out to that fascist state, you're just carrying residual nostalgia for some fantasy version of Israel that exists only in your head.

If a majority of justices vote to end birthright citizenship, there's no reason for anyone in the judiciary to respect that decision. Once the Supreme Court invalidates the Constitution, it has invalidated itself.

White privilege is writing Hail Mary and thinking it's apolitical.

I've learned that in 1954, while suffering a psychotic episode brought on by weight-loss drugs, Muriel Spark became convinced that T.S. Eliot had been sending her coded messages through his play The Confidential Clerk, which she had seen and reviewed in 1953 (a review Eliot read and appreciated).

After the Argentine military removed Perón from office in 1955, they banned his party, its symbols, its flag, its songs. I used to think “surely not” but the understanding creeps up on you

This is a legitimately great idea. Turn every ICE concentration camp into a museum of their crimes and the people who fought against them.

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

Of course Platner's wrong about Big Pharma being behind the condition of rural hospitals. But what Mainers want is a candidate who tells them that _someone_ is behind the things that they're losing. They know that they are losing because other people are winning.

This is a very interesting argument. I'd be interested to see how many Democratic legislators are (or at least appear to be) driven the way Colin says they are.

An all-time banger.

It's almost as though seeing their friends and neighbors being oppressed by goons walking their own streets affects people differently than does seeing strangers an ocean away being oppressed by an army that is also an ocean away.

Is it good when the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York throws ICE's attorneys under the bus?

This is not a case of separating the art from the artist because the art DOES NOT MATTER. I do not care about whether or not it’s the greatest work ever written, you’re LITERALLY COMPLICIT IN HER CHILD-MURDERING AGENDA if you give her a penny.

Obviously people inside the Trump administration are using his pronouncements on Iran to turn the stock market and oil futures market into a rigged casino. What I'm wondering: whose money are they taking? Who are the losers that are buying when Trump's people sell and selling when his people buy?

I’m at ICE HQ

This is so very Soviet.

Environmental storytelling.

"I can't be dead! I just had my first orgasm!" RIP Valerie Perrine.

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

You know, guys, I'm beginning to think that a reality-TV star may not have been our best pick for Secretary of Transportation.

i once told him that i don't have problems with him defending Nazis because he's an incompetent enough lawyer that the last one he defended died in prison

I found out that Katherine of Sky died and while no one outside of enthusiasts of a certain category of computer games will know or care who she was, if you’re in that little demographic it’s a very big deal. A lovely and inspiring presence, emanating from a life of suffering, gone.

Sometimes you just get that shot. Anna's hummingbird with a little friend, in my yard. Davis, CA. #birds #ants

We're going to bring back the 55mph speed limit, aren't we?

For the record, the Nazis are spreading terms like “zio” and “zog” into leftist spaces intentionally as an on-ramp to fascism. This is what cryptofascism means. They explicitly talk about doing this on their forums and telegram channels. You’re being played.

DLSS 5 technology makes all your old videogames seem alive and new with realistic textures

It takes a disciplined writer to review Richard Vague's _The Banker Who Made America: Thomas Willing and the Rise of the American Financial Aristocracy, 1731-1821_ and not write the sentence, "Vague is clear that Willing was unwilling." Adam Gopnik does not have that discipline.

This is true. And yet, AIPAC did spend a big chunk of money to guarantee that Biss would defeat Abughazeleh. How do we know this? Because they said so.

When you find yourself releasing a video that contains the phrase "These words are not who I am," you need to give up on whatever it is you're trying to fix with that video. You are cooked. You cooked yourself.

The great geographer Peirce Lewis observed that understanding comes from cycles of observation, thinking, and writing.

THIS IS PRESTON BROOKS ERASURE.

The sacrifice Dolores Huerta made to keep this shitheel's crimes from destroying a movement that so much depended on is too much for me to wrap my head around this morning. I'm just glad she lived long enough to feel safe telling the truth. Lotta roads need to be renamed, murals repainted.

Everybody’s clowning on the NYT for calling Kennedy a WASP and having to issue a correction while they still haven’t fixed “to-the-manner-born.”

I knew this was bad, but I didn’t know just how bad until the judge said “sequestered.”

God damn it, the spirit of St. Patrick's Day is drinking green beer and vomiting in the gutter. It's only the crusty old folks who refuse to go to a bar on amateur night who think about what our ancestors endured at the hands of their oppressors. Who does this guy think he is?

I would love it if Janet Mills weren't the gerontocracy candidate, because we've all had enough of the gerontocracy. But she _has_ told Donald Trump to go fuck himself in a real and tangible way, and she has been fighting for civil rights for her entire career.

Remember this? All the promises she made? She followed through on them. All of them. Now she just has to win.

Fun, but it doesn't penalize you if your explosions hit the IRGB blockade or Iran itself. Also, the proposal isn't to use nuclear bombs with airbursts but rather thermonuclear bombs underground. nuke-canal.vercel.app

It’s so Incredibly rare for a Republican organization to kick out Nazis that it’s real news when it happens.

They’re going to sink an aircraft carrier. That’s how badly we’re going to fuck this up. A $10 billion ship carrying 5000 sailors and airmen, $5 billion worth of aircraft, straight to the bottom of the Persian Gulf.

The whole event that this is a clip from is great. Just question after question, Kat not having the slightest hesitation or equivocation on any of the questions asked while the other candidates hem and haw and eventually raise their signs a little bit or...whatever this is.

I love that he slips in the observation that staying in character under extremely stressful situations is _the job_ if you're an actor. So of course he's going to wear a silk suit. That's what his character would do. He's playing someone up to the challenge. Any challenge.

You know who we haven't heard from in a long, long time? Gisele Fetterman.

Eating the seed corn really puts the "end" in "end-stage capitalism."

Conservative MP for Powell River–North Island, Aaron Gunn, is, uh, well he’s being trolled a bit for his condemnation of land acknowledgements yesterday. Message from K’omoks, Klahoose, Homalco & Tla’amin Nations: “Chillax, bud.” #bcpoli

If you’re going to write about your uncharitable inner thoughts, you must be careful to make the fact that you’re employing irony visible even to the people in this thread. These people are how the “Just kidding! I’m white” woman lost her career.

Whoever is the next Secretary of State is going to have some big shoes to fill.