I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion

it's kind of funny to me that the best Christian movies of the past two decades (silence + first reformed) came from directors who aren't really that vocal about infusing it into everything they do like evangelical film makers do

The Harvard Crimson has ID'ed and published the name of a well-known economist who was the subject of emails between Larry Summers and Epstein. Born in China, she did her B.A. – Ph.D. at Harvard. The code name that Summers and Epstein used in their emails about her was "peril." What a vile pig.

It’s kinda wild the President is openly corrupt, Nazi sympathizing, and very likely a pedophile—and most Republicans in Congress are still willing to ignore the Constitution whenever he asks.

They were helped by a hugely favorable media environment where many, many people were eager to muddy the waters.

FDR: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." JFK: "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." DJT: "I did not blow Bill Clinton."

Just a little Malice, just to keep everyone in line

Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino responds “roger that” to a tweet reading “big or small, deport them all.”

interesting where the Vice President decides to weigh in

As I said, the New York Times is not protecting Trump. They're protecting Epstein.

the epstein victim video is powerful because it puts faces to a nebulous accusation and it is a reminder that in a just society a person like donald trump would have been shoved into a volcano forty years ago. we have monsters and the thing about monsters is that you have to slay them.

i'm not sure if i think this was true of the first administration, but i do think it's true of the second

"housing is a human right and that's why it should be illegal to build more of it"

the whole deal with NIMBYs is that they would rather people suffer than admit capitalists are ever right about anything every single day I'm stuck in this godforesaken antifascist coalition with people like this I understand Ayn Rand better

I really do like the analogy because the grunts in the army of the Potomac from 1861-1863 had to grind it out under incompetent leadership until the union found Grant, and that kinda feels like what’s going on with the dem party rn…

Listening to the Unclear and Present Danger podcast with @jamellebouie.net , and he made a striking analogy: the Trump administration sorta resembles the Confederacy trying to win everything in the first 24 months...

Good question from @jamellebouie.net. The vice president of the United States has embedded himself in far-right communities and spouts extremist claims about blood and belonging. Why hasn't he been asked to explain his connections to the far right and why has he not yet disavowed Nick Fuentes?

Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.

I agree that people who want to gamble should be forced to physically marinate in cigarette smoke and a lingering ambience of body odor and shame to do so

i can’t talk about sports gambling anymore without sounding like a crank but i do believe legalized sports gambling is like 15-20% responsible for our current dystopia

Tibetan history is fascinating in general but 20th century Tibetan history, especially the period between Qing collapse and the PRC invasion, is a particularly messy mixture of modernity, tradition, cynicism, and genuine belief.

w h a t a r e y o u t a l k i n g a b o u t. unless you count the Mongols favoring the monastic aristocracy because of the popularity of Tibetan monks as administrative retainers in Mongol courts, this is complete nonsense.

American tankie influencer gets interrogated by actual Chinese state police while visiting Tiananmen Square sounds like a comedy sketch and yet it's real lmao www.reddit.com/r/Livestream...

Also, if Republicans say “Republicans don’t care about this,” perhaps, just perhaps, they are lying.

Jesus Christ.

I am trying to imagine the Democratic pundit minds that think it is not effective to say, "The president and the leader of the Republican party is a corrupt pedophile who is going to war with his own party to avoid disclosing his extensive relationship with the most notorious pedophile of all time."

Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing

Lots of valid concerns about any possible WB sale, but my main concern is that this Chuck Jones cartoon might go back in the vault.

look we have fun on here going back and forth with our cousins across the pond but "i don't think the uk is a friend to this country" is one that should get you tossed off into the pacific

this is a major blow from trump

We can claw it all back and put them in prison for accepting it in the first place

Oh this is so utterly fucking disgusting. “Lol we know how you like fucking kids, may I suggest reading Lolita”

From Christopher Hale: “Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between the pope and the trans community.”

No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...

There is a good argument to fire and disbar every DOJ lawyer involved with this.

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South Park - Trump cheats on Satan with JD Vance

Charge Trump and Hegseth personally for the cost.

No one brings this up enough: -Acosta gives Epstein a sweetheart deal -Becomes Secretary of Labor -In that capacity tries to gut anti-human trafficking funding It's like a poorly written paperback legal thriller

This is the map, commissioned by a mid level State Department employee in 2013-2014 and then unearthed and presented to Kerry who then presented it to Obama in 2015, which allegedly shocked Obama to his core and led him to not veto UNSCR 2334 in December of 2016.

So I guess the idea is that Ghislaine Maxwell got transferred to a country club prison that someone with her sentence would never go to and gets all sorts of perks but that’s completely coincidental, that just happened unrelatedly

To all the weirdos defending Megyn Kelly: 15 year olds are underage, and that is statutory rape. Pretty simple

Just a reminder, the coward who refused to accept an election loss in 2020 and then committed crimes trying to overthrow that election will certainly cheat, abuse his powers, and break the law to try to win the 2026 & 2028 elections. He’s a real threat to democracy. Believe it.

what the hell. this dude is only a year younger than me?!?!?

It’s funny cuz even the trump White House calls him a pedophile

Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films

For every surveillance state to function, there must be a critical mass of people who willingly act as snitches to further the regime's ideology. I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer