As the wife of an Army medic during wartime deployment, I know what it feels like to lie awake alone at night wondering if you’ll ever see your loved one again. For some military families, those fears come true. Today we pause to honor those who gave their lives in service to our country.

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In his address, Pope Leo warns against "disturbing" weapons systems that are "increasingly autonomous, practically beyond any human control," and "algorithms that can prevent access to healthcare, employment, and security based on data tainted by biases and injustices."

6 Greenville, SC residents, including at least 3 cops have been arrested & charged with child sex trafficking AGAIN—not immigrants, not trans people, not drag queens, not Black or brown people. And we will not hear Trump or any MAGA politician acknowledge this. These were cops. How deep is the rot?

Elon Musk's brain isn't deranged because he's trying to control an uncontrollable social media platform. Elon Musk's brain is deranged because he's a quivering coward who has never done the hard work of actually improving the quality of his own humanity like a grown-ass man is supposed to.

See, the thing with that is, I don't need to get into fights defending my opinions from 14 year-old Roblox-cooked Jr Nazis to feel like my ideas are correct and I'm righteously intelligent. I feel that way just waking up in the morning and existing. If you DON'T, that sounds like a "you" problem.

In 1965, after Coretta spoke before 25,000 at a DC antiwar rally, when MLK tells a reporter "she educated me," she literally did. But journalists at the time & many biographers missed her leadership. “Since the spotlight shone so brightly on Martin, the press overlooked my agenda and activities.”

MLK gave his historic anti-Vietnam speech April 4, 1967. Most of his themes—the unjustness of the war & its colonial intentions, the ways spending for war deprived social spending at home, how you can't be for human rights & nonviolence at home & not abroad—Coretta had been saying publicly for yrs.

“History shows us" Coretta proclaimed, "that no political ideology has ever been destroyed by military might, nor any political problem solved by the killing of young men.” A reporter asked King if he had educated his wife on these peace issues. “She educated me,” MLK made clear.

NEW: Earlier this month the Department of Labor quietly appointed Ken Wolfe, who leads the faith office and organized the controversial worship services, to run the office in charge of ensuring that federal contractors comply with anti-discrimination laws @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-de...

I'm not taking corporate PAC money, money from AIPAC, nor fossil fuel money. Below is how I responded to a pro-crypto lobbying group. With only 9 days to go, chip in to help get us to the finish line:

And we’re so far gone that we don’t even understand that the premise of the question is why we’re here. The Senate is supposed to be an independent body that counters the President. It shouldn’t be his to lose.

Israel has killed more than 120 rescue workers, damaged 16 hospitals, and targeted over 130 ambulances in Lebanon since March 2nd

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

That was the plan all along, lining their own pockets, with your tax dollars. Indicative of the real welfare queens and terrorists we need to be worried about.

Most folks don't realize how central events like J6 were to the Jim Crow state. Dozens of unprosecuted coups & massacres—actively encouraged by those in power—revived the fundamental logic of the pre-emancipation state: that Black Americans had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

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Hunger strike erupts in ICE facility as detainees grow desperate over conditions | Calavia-Robertson www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...

Trump’s Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants- tries to rewrite history www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

And Trump’s reliance on idiot golfing buddies: During talks with Iran European officials were stunned to find themselves explaining basic uranium-enrichment concepts to the American team, Reuters reports.

Trump says US will send additional 5,000 troops to Poland - TIRED OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WHIPLASH YET? www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Howard Lutnick, a sitting cabinet member, donated $5 million to Republicans efforts to hold the House via @teddyschleifer.bsky.social. He even lists Cantor Fitzgerald as his employer, not the Treasury Department or U.S. government. Says it all doesn't it?

Mortgage rates climb to highest level in 9 months - thank Trump www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/e...

A bird I rarely see is the female Indigo Bunting. To have this one visiting my feeders was a special and unusual treat. #Bobsbackyard #birds #birding #Ancaster #HamOnt

Beautiful Korčula, Croatia. 🇭🇷 Settled by ancient Greeks over 2,000 years ago, Korčula became a vital shipbuilding center for the Romans & Byzantines. In 1214 it introduced one of Europe’s earliest laws banning slavery. Legend has it Marco Polo was born here in 1254. 🧭 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

Sadly, I don't think we gave Coretta Scott King her flowers while she lived. A civil rights icon in her own right 👑

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NEW: A U.S. counter-terror fusion center believes ICE's tweets are so racist they could incite acts of violence by white supremacists and encourage neo-Nazis to seek employment at the agency, according to an internal memo we obtained. theintercept.com/2026/05/21/i...

The establishment Democrats would rather lose elections than take progressive stands, whether on Palestine or anything else.

Commissioned from an outside consultant, the 192-page report on why Democrats lost doesn't address a key source of disillusionment with the party.

CBS News Radio ends today. It’s a major loss for the US -end of an era www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Pope Leo XIV previews his encyclical by attacking Silicon Valley’s “unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity.”

Fun fact: North Carolina still hasn’t recovered from hurricane Helene, and Trump wants $2 billion to give people who smeared shit on the walls of the Capitol.

If you own TSLA or plan to buy SpaceX then you own this. Period.

An overall excellent piece from Nathan Brown which explains what I and others have been saying: Israel's destructive policy of dominance without settlement, degradation without reconstruction, and territorial denial without a political horizon is not improvisation is the policy, not an aberration.

🏛️ TODAY: A federal court in Alabama will hold a hearing on Black voters' request to block the state from using its 2023 congressional map with only one majority-Black district. Stay tuned for updates:

Another win for vaccines.

What really happens when a homeless encampment gets evicted? Encampments often reappear days — sometimes hours — after they’re cleared. The evictions cost taxpayers more than $7 million each year. What actually solves homelessness? Housing, not handcuffs.

So this happened in Pittsburgh yesterday

I encountered an Electric Flame Scallop exhibiting its illusory method of warding off predators by shimmering its mantle, giving the impression it is electric. #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #photography

Christian music spent decades preaching “love” while throwing gay artists away the second they stopped hiding who they were. Good for Michael Passons and the exvangelicals reclaiming this song from the cruelty and hypocrisy of evangelical culture.

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KAT WON. FUCK ICE.

Introvert recharge methods, ranked: 1. Complete silence in my own space with no obligations 2. Long drives alone with good music 3. Reading without people asking what I’m reading 4. Sleep that no one interrupts 5. Doing something creative without talking to anybody

UK tourist receives bill from hospital in New York for £192k AND insurance refuses to pay because she was drunk! This is what Reform & Farage want for the UK!! THIS is what private healthcare LOOKS like!! 💰 Accident/illness=bankruptcy. Why don't people realise!? #Labour

Choose wisely in the primaries. I’m the *only* candidate running in safe blue #CA14 who will push for prosecutions of these criminals.

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this.”