On 8 January, Kristie Noem chose the slogan 'One of ours, all of yours'. This slogan references the fascist sentiment of collective reprisal for the killing of a regime member. A well-known example of Nazi collective punishment was the SS massacre in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944.

Pope Leo XIV used an annual address on Friday to the diplomatic corps to the Vatican to forcefully condemn “a diplomacy based on force” and a “zeal for war.”

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

This message hits hard.

"What threatens and kills is not strength: it is arrogance, it is aggressive fear, it is evil that does not generate anything." #PopeLeoXIV #Hope www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Proudly hidden names for royalty's sake? In one rapist's pigsty ... we love lies more than young women's lives?

10% of the our taxes fruitlessly changed from health into cruelty. Against the innocent, the obedient, US citizens, and free speech.

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. It is the only resort by which incompetent men can thrive. The bully, the brute, the dictator." #IsaacAsimov

Surprisingly ... don't think I have?

Does not seem human.. or "it" is not fully grasping its reduplicative mistakes.

What natives will attend the Marriage Feast of Heaven? If we ask to be adopted by God, He will ask us what we did.

Why does it keep looking like he wants successful criminals to owe him and poor ones to fear him?

"We’re seeing that the Bible is not about some remote time. It echoes all the time, and it really is making people understand where the lines are and which side Jesus is on. We’ve seen a lot of people wake up to that." #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Even their happy times are fabricated from lies? (No meeting like this happened)

Survival of the richest is their goal? What could it be?

Seems obeying Law and Order comes before obeying orders of chaos.

Pretty solid legacy, at the least in celebrating what America can be.

Humility is wonderful! Precisely when you apply it to the most powerful. Otherwise, teaching the most powerful must come next.

"Don't yield to those who will have you believe that it makes sense to live a life against others or without others, against peoples or without them. Those who claim this pretend to be strong, but they are weak. They may seem wise, but they are mad." #PopeFrancis #Hope

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"To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place." #PopeFrancis #Hope

Regardless of the government, isnt it news a 450+ year old metropolis must be abandoned due to drought?

Martin Luther King Jr. would call this "good trouble." Still unjust and an irreparable stain, but nonviolent, Christlike self-sacrifice is spreading some Good News to hope for.

Mental contortionism for their Fuhrer.

A unlikable show from my youth. Still, a revolutionary one! About sad generations, chained to falsehoods. We were meant to see his views waning ... not grow into MAGA.

This is so demonstrably false. Many many countries wish they were not stagnant backwards backwaters. They wish immigrants yearned to start a new life there like the USA enjoys.

DO NOTE: Dave Chappelle is quite salty. Still, the first 3 minutes sum up where of America's trust was stolen 10 years ago. vimeo.com/249761895

This, I knew. Money needs middlemen and BTC and others have the worst.

It would seem someone loves Argentina and will keep giving assets the belong to the USA to show it. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

"Governments choose to increase military spending like never before...and to manufacture hunger." #PopeFrancis #Hope #RememberThePoor

A tech billionaire mocked Pope Leo XIV’s call for ethical AI. The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully. It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.

It’s the same old same old. Republicans do a tantrum and break the dishes. The Democrats clean it up. It’s an abusive relationship.

"Migration is always a double right: a right to find the conditions for a respectable existence in your own country, and a right to move away when those minimum conditions do not exist." #PopeFrancis #Hope

Why do people buy pizza with EBT? Because cauliflower is five dollars a head and you can buy five pizzas with the same money. It’s not that folks don’t want to be healthy. They can’t afford to be healthy.

New York Times Op-Ed one year ago

This hate-war on America is really still only the Fascists' game. www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-po...

Seeing a Nazi in your own mirror may be emotional too. Soneday. Hopefully soon.

That was the test, Mr. Speaker.

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

I've heard some rant about that. I forever lose respect for that person afterwards.

Speaker Mike Johnson is perpetually trying to deceive people. He uses his milquetoast speech and persona to mask his determination to ruthlessly cause harm. He wears his “Christianity” on his sleeve as a decoy from his evil intentions. He is not a good person, he just tries to play one on TV.

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

This fake "crown" of corruption may be too heavy for him to pretend to have, soon. This isn't a leader. newrepublic.com/post/202339/...

BADGES AND VISIBLE FACES MATTER. End of discussion.

Are we a pro life nation or not?

His timing is a bit ... bad.

How is this vision America?