Pope John Paul II was made Pope by the College of Cardinals to help bring down tyranny in his native Soviet-era Poland. I firmly believe that is why Leo was made Pope during Trump-era United States

It's actually not swindling to tell people what they want to hear if you actually intend on doing those things. Swindling would be something like, just for example, announcing a fake Hyperloop system solely to kill California's high speed rail initiative.

I think “planning” died a month and a quarter ago somewhere around “heheh they’ll start blaming the Democrats and confirm our mandate for a Thousand Year Reich any minute now”

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

Jail will be the compromise option

This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

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He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

Remember back when Biden was president and people weren't being dragged off the street by masked federal agents, airplanes were flying, and we weren't threatening to go to war on four continents?

The Trump administration is doing everything in its power to deny food assistance to Americans.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel. Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire. Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year. Glad everything worked out for them. How about you?

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

hear hear www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

There has been entirely too little scrutiny about the fact the American Starmerism media elites have been advocating for has been a political disaster for UK Labour. We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!

This is really impressive. They invented racism.

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

Look, it's not even in the top thousand offenses of this administration, but I can't get over how fucking tacky and gaudy the Oval Office has become under this clown. I'm surprised he hasn't thrown up some LIVE LAUGH LOVE pictures to complete the look of "strip mall Italian restaurant"

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

How can these two seemingly contradictory things about US politics both be true? 1. Partisanship is calcified. 2. Election outcomes are thermostatic. TURNOUT. It’s not the same people who vote every time. Mobilizing, organizing, educating, party infrastructure—it all matters.

If we give them this money, they will never learn self-reliance.

the problem with capitalism is eventually you run out of other people’s money

NEW: As a wise Supreme Court justice (Robert Jackson) once said, "emergency powers...tend to kindle emergencies." www.thebulwark.com/p/which-cons...

"The Bible will not sit alongside Mein Kampf. The cross will not yield to the swastika. We must ask right now: Jesus or Hitler? We cannot have both." Great piece. Please read and send this to your maga relatives who think they're still following Christianity.

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

lol

buying into AI

It's a good thing AI-driven companies aren't 40% of GDP, otherwise we would be in trouble...whoops!

ICE is a team sport for guys who would otherwise be school shooters

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

mr president sir, the pollsters are saying you should drop more diarrhea on the nation youre leading sir

oops here is the gift link

Democrats contested all 100 Virginia House of Delegates races. Part of the party’s statewide success is due to the synergies between the legislative and statewide campaigns—even the losing ones. This is a big reason why Jay Jones won comfortably. This is a model the Dems should emulate everywhere

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Apparently it's "communist" to retain a rent stabilization system which has been in place since 1941, but it's "capitalist" for Trump to insist that the federal government take a controlling stake in dozens of companies with which he engages.

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

Pope Leo is doing Catholicism the wrong way. by Ezra Klein

Some people can’t understand that the Democratic Party is a coalition of groups and the Republican Party is a ideological based party, and they insist on applying Republican structure on to Democrats