Pope Leo is quietly mounting a long-term, moral confrontation with American authoritarianism — and history suggests he knows exactly what he’s doing. Here’s how he can defeat Trump’s dictatorship of relativism once and for all.

Absolutely heartbreaking 💔 — Jerusalem, the Holy City turned into a place of humiliation by those claiming to protect it. Spraying sewage on Palestinian homes isn’t security — it’s moral decay. No religion on earth teaches this. It’s oppression, plain and simple. It’s Zionism

"We need to take a deep breath and understand it’s like a meteor coming."

Stephen King was hit with a community note on X for his latest post about Trump.

Bari Weiss has been head of CBS News for less than a month and already top leaders and talent are jumping ship: -Claudia Milne, head of standards and practices has left -John Dickerson, anchor of CBS Evening News, is leaving deadline.com/2025/10/john...

Senate Chaplain Dr. Barry Black on the floor today: "Lord, remind our lawmakers that no gold medals are given for breaking shutdown records."

One report estimates that, in areas near data centers, wholesale electricity costs have risen by more than 200 per cent in the past five years. Rates will probably continue to increase to meet demand.

MOM: You can’t spend all day moping. Not on Lottery’s Eve! TESSIE: I have to find a way to get my life back. I don’t have time for the Lottery. MOM: There's always time for family. Help your sister roll her wheelchair down to the creekbed to collect some stones for tomorrow.

The Harriet Tubman Memorial, also known as Step On Board, in the South End of #Boston this afternoon.

"The fear of nuclear annihilation always came from the latent terror that we would accidentally destroy it all. That brinkmanship and escalation would inevitably tip us over into the 'everyone loses' portion of game theory."

How many Dylan Thomases does it take to change a light bulb? None: they'd rather rage, rage against the dying of the light. #happybirthdaydylanthomas

This is untenable. If you’re attacking people who think this is wrong, you’re doing the bidding of the ultra rich while they laugh at you behind your back.

DST is why most Americans wake by alarm in darkness. Permanent Standard Time would let us sleep longer and awaken naturally to sunlight, for health!

Remind your state and federal legislators to ditch Daylight Saving Time with permanent Standard Time for sleep health! savestandardtime.com/action/

Walz: "They are paying contractors to pay down the East Wing but they're not putting money into the food bank. So if there's a sense of frustration in America, it's very real ... when the White House press secretary said their top priority is the ballroom, we could not disagree more."

once again, i think electoral college maps shape people's sense of political reality in incredibly destructive ways

When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?

NEWS: John Dickerson, the anchor of CBS Evening News, is leaving CBS News at the end of the year. His last day is December 19. www.instagram.com/p/DQULfeqkXy...

Hundreds of residents of Gulfport, Mississippi, turned out at a No Kings protest against the Trump administration on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. Here are some photos of those who showed up and the protest signs they carried.

dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.

We need a pause on rent and mortgages for 6 months.

Tim Walz: "Everything coming out of DHS right now is about theatrics, is about a media hit or whatever. My guess is she's probably here on personal business and used it as a way to pay for it by having a press conference that had absolutely nothing factual and nothing new."

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

Anyone who would so nonchalantly tear down a huge chunk of the White House would sell ANY and all top secret information to any foreign power.

It's easy to believe most applicants to ICE can't even pass an open book test when you see the successful ones like this chad threatening to arrest a photographer simply for walking behind him in a goddamn Sam's Club parking lot. Not exactly the sharpest bunch here.

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

Cries in USA, literally

“.. These ads should not be allowed to run because they are FAKE!” he added. @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Yes climate breakdown means more turbulence for flyers. It’s also on track to heat the planet by 4C+ this century, kill billions of people & collapse our civilization. Keep on seeing the deadliest crisis our species has ever faced framed as some minor consumerist inconvenience.

The voting machines weren't hacked and the vote counts weren't fabricated in 2024 for all the same reasons it didn't happen in 2020, either. Most charitably, those pushing that stuff are gullible and ill-informed. There's a real constitutional omni-crisis going on without making stuff up.

ROLLING STONE: “The current Congress has dropped the pretense of public service altogether… Congress enjoys ultraluxe health care as it fights to gut yours.” @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn why don’t you care about anyone but yourselves? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

From my book: "Grant was forced to arbitrate the Constitution—to choose between its two sources of civilian oversight of the military. He followed the law: In peacetime, Congress’s authority is supreme in matters of military policy. The commander in chief’s authority is supreme only in wartime.”

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You actually can't say leak if you're talking about water use

Allies at War by Tim Bouverie review – a revelatory study of second world war alliances In focusing on the multilateral bonds that were forged to defeat Hitler, this entertaining account offers fresh disclosures about the course of the conflict www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

dumb tech is smart tech and vice versa, episode 7,000

Former chair of the Tennessee libertarian party 👇🏽

Rep. Brendan Boyle: "It would be nice if one month into this, President Trump woke up, realized there's a government shutdown, stopped playing Sim City with the White House, and actually paid attention to this and got everyone together in the same room."

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Please, USA…do this.

Urinary tract infections linked to contaminated meat in new study

More of that free speech absolutism eh? CAIR: “Abducting a prominent British Muslim journalist and political commentator on a speaking tour in 🇺🇸 because he dared to criticize the Israeli government’s genocide is a blatant affront to free speech.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/26/u...

Mike Pence has 'never-before-published' notes with 'evidence in case against Trump': ABC www.rawstory.com/mike-pence-t...

'We want this to apply everywhere' Housing Secretary Steve Reed tells #BBCBreakfast about new rules for social landlords to fix damp and mould within strict timescales - named Awaab’s Law after Awaab Ishak who died from a respiratory condition caused by exposure to mould in his home

Thanks to one man, Trump has successfully mounted a coup www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...