George Orwell wishes to clarify for the Trump Administration that he did not intend "1984" to be a "how to" manual.

Well, I guess we know the answer to "Who's a good dog?" for this one ...

Bishop Robert Barron celebrated his 40th anniversary as a Catholic priest by urging Catholics to stop "demonizing" the Trump Admin over immigration. bsky.app/profile/kim....

At Trump’s Rededicate 250 event, religious leaders—including Bishop Robert Barron—insisted that America was founded as a Christian nation. The claim doesn’t withstand historical scrutiny. NEW from @stevenpmillies.com: www.commonwealmagazine.org/millies-barr...

Typical Trump functionary doesn’t like it when the Pope objects to their dehumanization of people.

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

“‘What we saw here is unfortunately just what we see all over the country,’ Kim told @nj.com on Monday.” “It’s sad, it’s a sad day.” Senator @kim.senate.gov was among the crowd of protesters when federal immigration agents fired pepper balls. www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

Outside Elizabeth Detention Center where Martin Soto was unlawfully transferred for organizing prisoners at Delaney Hall against human rights violations, protestors are giving ICE a word. credit: Cosecha NJ @cosecha.bsky.social

Only Donald Trump has what it takes to bring triumph to a nation and humiliating defeat to its enemies. Unfortunately that nation is Iran

Nobody disrespects our military more than Donald Trump, the enablers in his administration, and the GOP Congress. They send the military on ill-defined and poorly planned missions, causing death and destruction which yield just more misery without accomplishing anything productive.

a disgrace not only to the office of the president but to military families who have lost loved ones

If you’d told me 15 years ago that in 2026 Donald Trump would be the Republican president and that I would be reading papal encyclicals muttering “fuck yeah, this Pope really gets it,” I would have laughed in your face. And yet here we are.

Kaepernick took a knee to protest against tyranny, Dart took the stage to affirm the guy who lobbied against justice for child trafficking victims.

Pope Leo's "A.I. Encyclical" may be less about what computers can do, and more about what *people* and should be doing. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Pope Leo's "A.I. Encyclical" isn't really just an A.I. encyclical. It's about Catholic teaching in light of all of the challenges in the 21st Century, including war.

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

In Pope Leo's encyclical on our responsibilities in the A.I. age, he cites various sources, *including* - "The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way" - (1/2) www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

The manifesto left behind by the San Diego mosque shooters dedicates only a few paragraphs to the shooter’s hatred of Islam but pages and pages to their hatred of Jews, which would seem weird if you were a newborn baby deer who knew nothing about Christian Nationalism

Bishop Robert Barron celebrated his 40th anniversary as a Catholic priest by urging Catholics to stop "demonizing" the Trump Admin over immigration. ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials | Minnesota | The Guardian share.google/Yt60iodWaNqV...

Over a decade of insisting that verifiably restricting Iran's nuclear program was terrible, because unilateral US force would achieve so much more. It hasn't. The JCPOA advocates were always right. Cruz, Graham, FDD, etc. bear responsibility for this disaster (but will likely never acknowledge it).

A few updates on the Delaney Hall hunger strike: - Strike ongoing per detainee families, DHS continues to deny there is a hunger strike at all - @kim.senate.gov and @menendez.house.gov visited last night - Gov. Sherrill says she has reached out to ICE about visiting gothamist.com/news/hunger-...

I think it’s pretty cool that Bluesky has become a viable alternative to the hellsites. Not without flaws, mind you, but nobody said social media was going to be easy. For now it’s the best mix of user-focused features without algorithmic manipulation.

Can’t wait to watch all the people who criticized the JCPOA and excoriated Obama for “pallets of cash” try to sanewash Trump giving Iran even more cash for a worse deal than the JCPOA.

This is why the war in Iran was always a fool’s errand. Trump was never going to commit the necessary resources to actually win it. Now, we’re apparently getting ready to leave with an emboldened Iran and a Middle East that’s in a worse position than when we started.

We don't need Trump officials to tell us what is happening in Delaney Hall.

Senator Andy Kim confirms inhumane conditions, bad food and water and lack of due process in Delaney Hall. Says there are pregnant women not getting medical care. Asks for his Republican colleagues to also visit and press ICE and GEO Group on these issues. @north.dsanj.org

So what we should logically be seeing right now is speculation as to whether the GOP will abandon him entirely, and Vance take the presidency. The reason we’re not seeing this—despite Trump absolutely drowning in scandal—is that media can’t stop treating him as the Great White Exception.

Not over it yet. Thanks to those who didn't vote for the Democratic nominee in 2016, "the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, had finally achieved the right’s decades-long goal of nullifying what’s considered the most successful civil rights law in our nation’s ignoble racial history."

Cult of personality watch

An extraordinary rebuke of Todd Blanche and his Justice Department. Federal judge dismisses the indictment of Abrego Garcia (an exceedingly rare outcome in a criminal case). Finding of vindictive prosecution and "an abuse of prosecuting power." The opinion name checks Blanche nearly 30 times.

Anti-immigrant bigotry from Trump - "The Trump administration said on Friday that most foreigners seeking green cards will have to return to their home countries to apply, [making] it more difficult for hundreds of thousands of people to obtain permanent residency." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

He doesn't mean they're doing better now. He just means we stopped helping them.

This Memorial Day, let us celebrate the fallen heroes who have defended our freedom by giving a billion dollars to insurrectionists. #Satire

Not over it yet. Thanks to those who didn't vote for the Democratic nominee in 2016, "the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, had finally achieved the right’s decades-long goal of nullifying what’s considered the most successful civil rights law in our nation’s ignoble racial history."

Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.

I’ve said it before and will say it a few more times. When Trump 2.0 came for accreditation I knew we had crossed into a different era of white reclamation. Precise, focused, stealth. Anyway, you probably don’t want these reforms.

Seven Republican senators voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial. There’s little doubt that Mitch could have taken a bunch more with him if he’d chosen that route after the Insurgency of Dunces.

this autopsy is error riddled and looks like a freshman senior project written with AI www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

He did Nazi this coming ...

I mean look at Bezos. Yes ordering books online was an innovative idea. God bless. And how did Jeff get those books to people to make his billions? The post office that taxpayers built and subsidized for over 250 years.

i think this is a polling question that makes sense to the kinds of people who read polling for fun and makes relatively little sense to the people polled, i.e. “left” “center” are vague terms that mean an infinite number of things to ordinary voters

One reason I hate death penalty cases is that capital punishment is incredibly stupid and irrational. It's cruel, expensive, and serves no deterrent effect. It's rarely imposed, except against a tiny minority of unlucky defendants—and in those cases, racism almost always plays a role. Just end it.

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

Wildly underreported fact, especially from Bezos himself: the Post Office— that thing you pay for with tax dollars—handles “last mile” delivery of more than a BILLION Amazon packages a year. Roughly 15 percent of the entire USPS’s activity is servicing Amazon.