233/ Goosebumps at the plane the Iranian negotiators took to Pakistan where they negotiate a peace with the Americans Sharing a picture on social media, Ghalibaf wrote: "My companions on this flight." #Minab168 💔 www.ndtv.com/world-news/u...

"It’s so cool that the pope can’t stop tweeting about how much God hates the American government" - @jenny2x4

I don't know that I've ever seen a pope so radically reverse Catholic history, accepted theology for literally centuries, and call his predecessors corrupt and without divine mandate before. "God does not bless any conflict" is an UNBELIEVABLE rupture of theological continuity. Good for him.

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

"The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked" warhammer Pope intensifies

This is the first oil crisis in which clean alternatives to oil and gas — solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and batteries — are both inexpensive and widely available. clean technology flying off the shelves already... nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

"I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact" World changing fast & ppl outside the climate space don't know how quickly power & technology is shifting. If this is you, we made a podcast ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER for you: buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

Found it strange that ppl push back on my argument that sales of electric vehicles are going to accelerate now with Iran War, coz LINE GO UP for a decade now Turns out almost no one knows this fact: Sales of internal combustion engine cars peaked way back in 2018! bsky.app/profile/70sb...

The University of Michigan has been measuring consumer sentiment since 1952. We just got the first Iran-afflicted measure for April, and it's at the lowest level ever recorded.

“Crowds watch the Artemis II Orion capsule splash down off the coast of San Diego at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego, California.” Photo by Sandy Huffaker

I love this photo of astronaut Christina Koch looking back at Earth from Artemis II. She's the first woman to see the full sphere of our beautiful planet. Welcome home to the crew, and thank you for reminding us of all we can discover together.

Like in the days of Noah when the greedy powerful kings grabbed any girl or woman, anything they wanted, just because they could and no one stopped them, until the flood. Here we are again. Pope Leo is a welcome breath of fresh air; I believe the Holy Spirit of God, Jesus, rests on him. 🙏🏼🌍☮🕊✌

In my wildest dreams, I never thought I’d have a crush on a Pope.

Re: Iran's Hormuz tollbooth. Lots of ppl say freedom of navigation is some kind of right without knowing anything about international law. "Hey man without looking, tell us what other country never ratified the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea" -- @adamjohnsonCHI x.com/adamjohnsonC...

For those asking 'how many divisions does the Pope have?' There is enormous power of leadership and power of fidelity

FT offers 3 reasons why Iran war derails AI boom 1. Korea & Taiwan rely on imported fossil energy for chip manufacturing 2. Asia’s chip industry is reliant on the Middle East for chemicals too -- helium for cooling silicon wafers, sulfur for chip cleaning 3. Financial: www.ft.com/content/df3f...

“Once... Iran completes its assessment, vessels are given a few seconds to pay in Bitcoin, ensuring they can’t be traced or confiscated due to sanctions”: www.ft.com/content/02ae...

In the US hyperscalers are set to spend $650bn on AI infrastructure this year!! "Investors are yet to price in the paucity of scenarios in which the AI supply chain comes through the war unscathed." Good luck. www.ft.com/content/df3f...

Emerging markets equities are (were) Asia (and particularly Asia tech) dominated, Iran shock edition. Of $70bn in portfolio outflows from EMs last month tracked by the IIF, over $53bn of the drop was EM Asia equities. EM debt flows holding up surprisingly well, maybe.

Within you there are two eras. www.ft.com/content/5269...

Thrilled that my first new short story in several years, "Constellations," about astronauts crashlanding on a distant planet, has been published by the @technologyreview.com. Acquiring editor Rachel Cortland. Art by Rogan Brown. Free link to avoid the paywall: ter.li/r3tbrsgr

He had me at Hello!

A good point succinctly made by @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/syncreti...

Science is good. We should fund it.

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

🛰️ Our European Service Module has successfully separated from Orion's crew module! 🚀 After propelling the spacecraft over 1 million km in deep space, it will now burn up in Earth's atmosphere, as the astronauts continue their journey home 🌍

Splashdown! Welcome home, Integrity.

ok iran, i say this with deepest possible respect, are you trying to explain culture to Donald Trump?

Obviously the 5 Catholics and 1 former Catholic on SCOTUS aren't the same brand of Catholic as Pope Leo. SCOTUS prefers the "feed the rich, starve the poor, immigrants go home, and down with democracy" brand of Catholicism. I think it's called Leonard Leoism.

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

90 minutes until they're back, if you want to watch #ArtemisII 🧪🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhD...

The Orion capsule with the #Artemis II astronauts is now on its final trajectory for re-entry. Angle and trajectory all good. Hoping the re-entry goes smoothly!

American press: Gas prices or Bodybags, what will sink Trump first? Financial press: oil markets are gyrating, financial risk is building up. Indian press: GUYS. FOCUS.

"we let a drunk Millennial run the Pentagon and now Persia is mogging us at a civilizational level" x.com/ContraPoints...

We remember Stalin's line precisely because it is ironic; Ultimately the USSR fell, while the Church persevered.

this is a banger

i’d be lying if i told you i have not been humming this for a week straight

We have a pope that speaks about all the wrongs in our world. He is not afraid to call out injustice in any part of the world and lately his message is a direct message to US Catholics and bishops who have been OK with this administration and it's policies that are contrary to Catholic teachings.

Pope Leo (2026): against the American imperium Pope Leo (1054) - of the Great Schism, the turning point in which the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches formally separated.... ht @palmapolyak.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Good acknowledgement from centrist democrats that this is not just a Trump problem but a US unreliability problem in whether other countries can trust US ever again. If Dems retake House & Senate in midterms, they should think less about stabilizing world gone by & more about new world ordering

ngl this goes hard. "Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business" bsky.app/profile/adha...

“profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business” got this perfect line from pope Leo stuck in my head

glad to be still a catholic - lapsed and skeptical but still - in 2026 with pope leo xiv

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“We will restore peace, stability and harmony throughout the world"-Donald Trump @katemac.bsky.social & I decided it was time for a Polycrisis podcast about the peace, stability & harmony reigning throughout the world Enjoy our first season ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

1/ The US "has decided that it now needs to engage in full-scale demolition of the same system that it created...The US is becoming poorer and weaker as it dismantles the very system it once built.” Latest Polycrisis from @katemac.bsky.social & I on how investors and countries are responding

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Coining Schrödinger's Strait The strait is indeed a philosophical concept at this point.

I think the number one, two, and three reasons for Israel's public relations crisis is that it's doing this to four separate countries simultaneously

Trump and his administration do not care about women’s lives. Posting a video of a woman being graphically murdered is yet another form of objectification and dehumanization. The purpose of it was to shock and offend, in order to encourage racism against immigrant men. It is a form of terror.