I've already seen people trying to predict how little impact the encyclical will have. lol. It depends on what you mean by "impact!" When the pope speaks, Catholics listen. Initiatives begin. Catholic universities hold events. Catholic service organizations respond. Books are written.

THIS IS HUGE MORAL MOMENT… Pope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is focused on AI ethics and regulation. And the Vatican chose to partner with Anthropic, currently in a major legal fight w/the Trump admin over AI safety and military use of its technology.

BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Warrants are supposed to prevent the police from unconstitutionally searching and seizing our belongings — not open us up to pervasive government spying. That's why we're fighting in the courts, Congress, and state legislatures to stop law enforcement from using overbroad digital warrants.

Join me 22 & 29 May from 10-11am in the Trinity Long Room Hub for a discussion on The Circle which offers a chillingly relevant look at how our obsession with connectivity, information acquisition, & profit can slowly morph into a surveillance state. @tcddublin.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...

Kudos to Harvard Prof. Joseph Allen for publicly expressing his concern w/ CDC & WHO, which say the Andes hantavirus can only spread with “close & prolonged contact,” when the literature indicates the virus is aerosolized & can spread more easily. (This confirms how I’ve been reading the lit, too.)

🤯 I spent the afternoon reading the CDC & WHO guidance and all the documentation (linked above) about the earlier Andes hantavirus outbreak, and then, this hour, I see a former CDC official go on cable news and contradict large parts of what I read, always erring on the side of LESS precaution. 🤯

🚨🎯 Earlier today, @catinthehat.bsky.social posted the most comprehensive 🧵 I've seen about what is known so far about the 2026 Andes Hantavirus situation... threadreaderapp.com/thread/20530...

After 15 years of reporting on infectious disease outbreaks, what continues to fascinate me about them is the challenge of making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius is a perfect example My story in @science.org is here (and a thread to come): 🧪 #IDsky

A Dutch ⁠woman has been admitted to a hospital in Amsterdam after showing ‌possible symptoms ⁠of a hantavirus infection, the Dutch health has ministry said.

1/ Update on what we know about the evolving hantavirus situation, strap in. A Swiss man linked to the ship has now tested positive after developing symptoms after disembarking. He received an exposure alert, sought care, and tested positive. This means there are 3 deaths and 5 suspected.

Update on #Hantavirus cluster linked to cruise ship travel: Based on the current information, including how hantavirus spreads, WHO assesses the risk to the global population from this event as low. More information bit.ly/42Tc4J7

Bluesky nerds! Can you help me get in touch with someone who works on East Indian languages, specifically in the 18th century?

🎭🔬Don't miss Colin Murphy's new play 'Miasma' at UCD Trapdoor on 5 May! Dramatising the research of the VICTEUR project, this compelling one-hour detective story about the cholera pandemic in 1840s–50s reflects challenges still faced today around misinformation vs evidence. 🎟️ lnkd.in/dazUXnTF

We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following 404 Media reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.

The real cost of cheap goods and fast delivery. They are accused of preventing staff from assisting or performing cpr and requiring workers to continue on while a man lay on the floor. imagine the moral trauma to all involved. #speirgorm keep resisting Amazon.ie

New from 404 Media: WebinarTV is a company secretly scraping peoples' Zoom meetings and posting them online for others to watch. We've now found those include anonymous recovery programs, substance abuse meetings, etc. Supposed to be anonymous but show names and faces www.404media.co/webinartv-se...

"Your feed is not Ireland. It is a slice of Ireland that has been assembled by an algorithm optimised for engagement, not accuracy or balance"

"The judge concluded his opinion with an unusually sharp rebuke of the Trump administration: 'Suppression of political speech is the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy — as the Framers recognized when they drafted the First Amendment'...” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

I'm officially calling for the Cabinet to remove Trump from office under the 25th Amendment. If they can't, Congress must return from recess today and begin impeachment proceedings. Read my full statement below. quigley.house.gov/media-center...

And this:

Is Ron DeSantis using taxpayer dollars to torture immigrants? Democrats are fighting to figure out and shut down whats going on at the Everglades Detention Facility. https://bit.ly/4sZqX8n

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

Some thoughts about the President of the United States speaking about ending a civilization. The president speaks genocide. Anyone who has been involved in that conversation or associated actions would be complicit. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

Any “deal” that forestalls genocide is a good one, full stop. But Trump getting to make a big announcement claiming victory while casting himself as the savior is classic abuser behavior and will reward his brinksmanship. As always, there are the catastrophic options and just very bad ones.

New Iran thread. Starting with a Lest We Forget: Hillary Clinton, 9 years ago: “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes – because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.”

Trump is threatening mass death in Iran if he doesn’t get his way. He has spiraled out of control—and Congress has the power to stop him and end this war. Every Republican lawmaker who refuses to speak out, ducks a question, or votes to continue this war bears responsibility.

The good news is, Republicans are in a corner and other Republican supporters are in open revolt. How much pressure is being placed on them will show. The bad news is, are the Republicans ready to do this *now*? It's on them

This is simply genocidal language and is a horror in itself.

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Christian Nationalist leader William Wolfe, an ally of Doug Wilson, brags that his Center for Baptist Leadership (CBL) belongs to the new Mass Deportation Coalition. CBL is a subsidiary of American Reformer whose Director (Chris Buskirk) founded the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network w/ JD Vance. 1/

All countries between the US and Iran should shut down their airspace- deny landing rights, overflights, refueling or any other support for these explicit genocidal operations. Ideally, US military would refuse illegal orders and Congress would intervene- but that’s not happening. So, world must act

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

The President's posts are totally insane -- but also terrifying.   This is exactly why I voted against funding for Trump’s Dept of War. Trump is unhinged and he’s getting worse.   Congress must reconvene immediately, and Republicans need to join us in ending this war NOW.

This is sick and twisted from anyone, much less the president of the United States. Trump’s genocidal language and indiscriminate warfare cannot be normalized or accepted. He should be removed from office.

Targeting civilians would, in fact, be a war crime. This man is deranged, unstable, and unfit to lead. He thinks this is a game. Republicans need to find their backbone, rein him in, and end this reckless war before more innocent lives are lost and this escalates into something far worse.

This man is threatening mass killings & war crimes on social media. When will enough be enough? These aren’t policy differences. He’s threatening crimes. It’s time to invoke the 25th. But we can’t do it alone—we need our Republican colleagues to do the right thing for this country & for the world.

(1/2) Unhinged. Out of control. Criminal. It’s past time for Congress to end Trump’s dangerous war in Iran before it and he spirals even further out of control.

Donald Trump is threatening the destruction of an entire civilization. This dangerously escalates conflict, endangers innocent civilians, and makes the world less safe. America needs serious leadership focused on preventing catastrophe, not threatening to lead us into one.

This is a horrifying threat of genocidal war crimes. The lives of civilians and service members alike are at stake here. Congress must stop this war and remove Trump from the White House.