So when it comes to beards and hairstyles, discipline requires strict conformity. When it comes to contracting and spreading a preventable illness that directly affects unit readiness, follow your bliss, man.

Oh my. Earthset, from the Artemis II Crew. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

General George Washington required Continental Army soldiers be inoculated for smallpox. We would not have won independence if he hadn’t. You dumb chucklefuck.

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

By a 6–3 vote, and with no opinion, the Supreme Court throws out a lower court decision denying qualified immunity who killed an unarmed, mentally ill man by using "bodyweight force" to restrain him. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

c'mon guys we've had "an army marches on its stomach" for hundreds of years, did you already fuck up the greatest logistics machine in the world so bad they can't keep sailors fed

A bomb threat was reported Wednesday evening at the home of John Prevost in New Lenox, Illinois. sojo.net/articles/new...

another thing i find really funny about the maga industrial complex lashing out at the church at various tiers is like, hold up, you're trying to make priests and nuns into martyrs? ... really? this is like their whole deal. they're absolute perverts for it. they've been training for this

Today, I received a notification of another death in ICE custody. That’s 47 deaths during Trump’s second term. We must stand up and demand real accountability — ICE has a duty to provide care to those in their custody.

Update to the update: sometime late this morning ET, the image of Trump as a Jesus-like figure was removed from the president's Truth Social page.

it's going to be a long, slow, messy process, and it will take longer with the base than the grifters but Trump is starting to acquire the loser stink even among his erstwhile allies, all of whom would like to come out the other side of this with their influence intact

I know things feel helpless in the United States. But they are not. Orbán was in power for sixteen consecutive years. He was the spoke at the center of the global far-right. He built the network, wrote the playbook, modeled competitive authoritarianism. His long reign seemed a sure thing.

thomas aquinas is WEAK on crime

Reskeeting so I'm not the only one randomly laughing and then refusing to explain during my morning classes...

Also, note the choice in language. Trump is throwing an "angry counterpunch," while the Pope "pleads." One is cast as the dominant actor, the other one a passive submissive.

Good for him for speaking up (even as weak as it was). But Barron is about to find out what happens when someone doesn’t show absolute loyalty to the Supreme Leader. Too bad he has staked all his credibility in supporting MAGA.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

In which President Trump, among other things, claims Pope Leo is only the pontiff because the papal electors — who are from all over the globe — "thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump." Trump also posted the picture on the right a short time later.

I don't know about you, but this is not what I voted for when I voted for Pope

Nurturing interest in space exploration in the next generation

#catswatchingartemis #artemiscats 😻🚀✨

To all the Cats who collectively assisted in the Splashdown portion of the Artemis II mission, including my Gonzo, I salute you and thank you for your service. #catsthatlovenasa #cats #nasa #artemisII

Reminder: All the amazing high quality video you’re seeing from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters youtu.be/GvJtVOmFs5Q?...

Individual reporters - even the small minority who make decent money via newsletters and crowdfunding - will inherently struggle a lot more than a big organization would to keep up the fight when they’re sued over their work. Which is, again, pretty much inevitable.

Here’s a key reason why it’s very bad that we keep losing big, well-funded media outlets that publish real journalism: Only those organizations have the money and heft to protect reporters from inevitable legal battles with powerful people (like, say, sex offender politicians and tech CEOs).

huge thank you to everyone involved in this mission for reminding us of the best of humanity and I am tremendously glad it all went off as planned space is pretty cool and so, in many cases, are people

Sorry I can't respond to your email I'm currently surrounded by plasma

Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones Things that don’t work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones

No Catholic President is quite literally a talking point of the second Klan.

Seriously, stop what you are doing and go here:

“quit immediately” ought to signal a lot in the “people can’t find jobs” era.

"Integrity, Houston, loud and clear!"

Perfect descent, "crew sounding hale and hearty." 1 min to splashdown

They have voice! Comms are back and trajectory is good. 🎉🥳🙌

“We believe representing the voters will get in the way of our election by the voters to represent them.” DO YOU HEAR HOW YOU SOUND GUYS

i don't think that'll make the result any more precise, but sure

They put Michael Scott in charge of the FBI.

Greatest. Correction. Ever.

A fascinating look into this mentality. Why do you need to compete with a Fortune 500 company? You are a diner! The number one thing I want to see is photos of YOUR food, not a generic AI burger or your mac and cheese animated beyond recognition

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Precisely this

I have seen one good example of this plate

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

Everytime I learn more about software I am more surprised that the entire world is not on fire, all the time.

Signal has a setting to stop this (Settings > Notifications > Notification Content). It's likely not an issue limited to just Signal, but more fundamental friction between secure chat apps and phones. Very interesting data point when talking about forensics www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

I cannot stress how difficult this kind of behavior makes things for people with legitimate service dogs.

New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

On the one hand, this is a pretty normative Christian belief. On the other hand, wild to hear MTG — a self-described Christian nationalist — take this position in this political moment, when other self-described Christian nationalists/those associated with the movement are arguing otherwise.