This is one of the most beautiful things I have seen in some time. Damn near brought me to tears.

This week: The lesson we can learn from Hungary, Rep. Swalwell leaves the California Gov race, Pam Bondi won’t be testifying about Epstein this week, and Trump is not well tonight as he attacks Pope Leo and portrays himself as a deity on Truth Social. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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It's finally finished! our little free library. The top shelf will be stocked with feminine hygiene products and some other essentials. Let me know if you have any ideas for other items that could go into a free library/pantry.

America, take a lesson from Hungary. If you want a dictator-wannabe to concede losing, you've got to trounce him in a landslide vote for his opponent. Close elections allow authoritarians to lie and say the election was stolen. www.cnn.com/2026/04/12/w...

Insanity: wapo.st/4cmvPx4

This is one of the worst things I have ever read and I study frontier genocide as a profession.

There’s just no understanding to be had here anymore. Fresh out. We’re fresh out of understanding folks sorry

Change since Feb 2025 20 point swing!!

The commandment says: “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shall not have strange gods before Me.” But millions of ”Christians” now worship at the church of MAGA.

George Riemann, The New Yorker

It’s true, purgatory is basically run like a country club these days.

Tapping the sign

Also—say what?

President Trump is out dissing on a Chicago man

Republicans are all in on supporting Putin's effort to weaken the US

GOP strategist: So Trump the party is doing terrible with Hispanic votes compared to 2024. Trump: I have just the solution to turn that around. I will attack the pope.

Trump, the serial criminal, posted that The Pope is "weak on crime." Yes, I said The Pope. I think it's important for us to remember that besides being a narcissist, sociopath, grifter, rapist, traitor, and serial criminal, he's also an out-of-control idiot.

Right. And after the death of Pope Francis, as the conclave was assembling, Trump posted AI generated photos of himself as pope. This is not something a sane or stable person would do and it is in fact blasphemous. bsky.app/profile/eric...

👀 Catholic Republican members of Congress are about to get asked if they renounce the head of their own church, or if they break with a Republican president.

Sounds like Leo nixed Trump’s request for an American Inquisition

U.S. to Blockade Ships Entering or Exiting Iranian Ports > U.S. Central Command www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-...

He’s scanning the man’s brain for his cryptocurrency account information.

Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in prison, and any suggestion to the contrary is just a crazed conspiracy theory, right? Wrong. In the course of the last year a significant part of the DOJ's claims about his death have been established to be falsehoods. The medical evidence, to the extent it has

I was wondering when Trump would dig that orb out of storage and finally start using it to heal people.

🇪🇺🇭🇺 Hungary chose Europe today. Budapest’s streets are packed, with people chanting “RUSSIANS, GO HOME”

It’s really hard to imagine anyone less like Jesus.

Shout out to all the historians rocking the Henry VIII and Avignon Papacy jokes this week. Y’all the real heroes

the Soros conspiracy coming from Elon in particular is just embarrassing. you’re worth like 80x what Soros is buddy, if you thought he was buying elections you could snap your fingers and fix it.

Breaking: Trump threatens to primary Pope Leo.

Massive street party in Budapest right now: huge crowds dancing, hugging, crying, and opening bottles. (Reuters)

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Going back up:

I hadn’t driven much in the last few weeks. So turns out the price of gas has gone up like a lot.

Swalwell OUT of governor’s race—

It's remarkable the extent to which the Orban regime exposed the total moral bankruptcy of the American conservative movement. Also remarkable is how little these same conservatives seem to understand that fact.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell suspends campaign for California governor following sexual assault allegations.

oh yes? #linux

That's it. I think this means no more jokes tonight. I don't think anything can top this. I am at a ... loss ... for words.

J. D. Vance’s key historical legacy will be to have made Dan Quayle look good by comparison.

you have got to be fucking kidding me with this. read the room. people can't get health care or food for their kids. no one cares if the richest people on the planet are happy or not. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/b...

Is JD Vance an Arsenal fan?

We should be taking notes.

Extending the conversation with @profpaulpoast.bsky.social @nytimes.com essay, and my thoughts on whether a blockade of #Hormuz could see a repeat of the 18th League of Armed Neutrality ... www.linkedin.com/posts/nikola...