FLASHBACK: Barbara Walters called out Trump for being $3 BILLION in debt, infidelity, not talking to his son, reading the works of Hitler, etc Real Journalism used to be a thing! (Now ask yourself what long-term promises you might make to people if you were billions in debt…)

This is the most disturbing thing I've seen yet. How fucking dare they?

Why I’m grateful to the Pope for his encyclical on AI | Francine Prose

I just finishe reading Tim Minchin’s book and I found a quote very appropriate for these days when GenAI is being pushed as the next being thing for arts of any kind (it’s a scam really). Lovely quote in my opinion: “Art is any expression of an idea into which you’ve put a bit of fucking effort.”

This. I’m reminded of being with an addict who wants you to indulge with them, so that they won’t be alone in their addiction and yet – and this is key – they think their experience means they understand life better than you do.

Scientists are calling this the most metal shit they’ve ever seen

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries.

THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!

Donald Trump has done a lot of terrible things to this country over the last decade. But here’s what I think is most insidious of all: Trump has taught Americans that cruelty is strength, that resentment is identity, and that hating other people somehow makes you superior.

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this.”

Allowing third parties to curb trans people's rights to participate in society opens up everyone's manner, clothing, physical appearance to intrusive scrutiny and potential challenge. History also shows allowing erasure of rights for one group soon sees others targeted. This is not a 'them' issue.

Quote with a fictional band that isn't Spinal Tap.

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

For those of you who read my Sherlock fic, Through the Clouds, this is what Sherlock's bathroom looked like. www.instagram.com/p/DYZfFYmurc...

The Trump/Musk dismantling of USAID having very real, deadly consequences. www.commondreams.org/news/ebola-d...

This is horrifying. Our government is specifically barred from establishing a national religion, yet here they are. How do we stop this?

I live across from a Catholic Church specifically designed to look as Roman as possible to stick it to the KKK in Indiana in the 1920s.

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

He should be embarrassed about this, but he absolutely will not be.

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”

The same new network that thinks trans people are "mutilating" our bodies to feel more comfortable with our gender are now.... breathlessly praising the benefits of men inflating their testicles with surgical lube to feel more masculine.

I have never, and will never, advocate for violence against anyone. It's against everything I believe in. But I will vocally oppose this administration and everything it stands for with everything I have. It's wrong, it's criminal, and I will never accept this.

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK.

I've never heard earned wealth phrased this way, but she's right about it.

If we have completely fallen off the deep end at this point. We're in some war that isn't a war, we're all paying through the nose for gas and groceries, AI is taking people's jobs, they've neutered the EPA, a pedophile is president and now whatever the fuck this is.

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

“It’s been stunning to see the speed with which Southern states have initiated redistricting before the midterms to disenfranchise Black voters…Stunning—and saddening—because it vividly exposes the deep strain of racism that continues to poison America.” www.americaamerica.news/p/the-contin...

This one is for @macbean221b.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DX9lNTz...

All right, friends. This BOFQ is finally starting Heated Rivalry.

We learned NOTHING.

New in PN: The Confederacy rises again "But this is more than a tragedy for voting rights. It’s a kind of revival of the Confederacy, in a way that few liberals thought was possible. The Lost Cause doesn’t seem so lost anymore."

“Rarely does a day pass when Trump doesn’t remind…why he should never have been allowed near the levers of power again…how important it is to have leaders who work hard, care about the people they serve & perform their duties with intelligence & compassion.“ www.americaamerica.news/p/what-quali...

I swear, spending stupid money on my sleep number bed might be the best exchange for my labor I have ever made as an adult. And I own a house and 3 cars.

To put it mildly, this memorandum caused some concern.

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When antis insist "people should just stop writing gross fanfics" I always think of this quote Everyone will not "just", so you need to start blocking/muting, and getting over it, or you're going to drive yourself mad

Reagan actually got shot at the same hotel and never asked for a ballroom

So what happened to that 300m supposedly going to the ballroom, and the fact Trump kept pitching the idea as "this is a great gift" or whatever? Or are we all just pretending none of that happened?

Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

Didn't Melania's husband mock the Pope, post blasphemous content, threaten genocide, ridicule and threaten the press, and engage in an illegal, unwinnable war with Iran -- all of that in the past month? Very offensive, divisive, and hateful.

🔥🔥And the sickest Trump burn of the year goes to 60 Minutes correspondent Norah O'Donnell:

Time to share this again.

“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people

Literally what these men think of women. They're front and center in a picture supposedly to honor the women's tennis team. Fucking egomaniacs.

THANK YOU. The Catholic Church my husband grew up on was focused on poverty and the dignity of people. The late 90s went absolutely bonkers, and even moreso after my confirmation in 2000. It pushed me away.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.