it is, actually, notable that two justices of the supreme court and their spouses are violent reactionaries who belong to networks of people who earnestly and wholeheartedly believe in authoritarian rule

JD Vance, god-splaining to the pope

We agree. That’s the issue. This government is immoral, evil, and murderous. .

After living through the Nazi & atomic bomb eras, Tove Jansson writings would often encompass fearful ideas about loss of a familiar world. However she would balance this with characters who displayed kindness & community, showing goodness even in the darkest times #BookArtWeek

It’s Sunday. Can I get an amen?

I don’t think a lot folks understand how massive Péter Magyar’s election was today in Hungary over Viktor Orbán. It was a massive 33% swing in votes. That’s insane. That would be like a Democratic supermajority being created in Congress overnight. Holy shit.

Illiberalism is not Inevitable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

At a packed Budapest metro station, crowds of Hungarians are chanting: “Russia, go home.” It’s our turn now. #Vote

Orbán turns out to be more of a democrat than the U.S. president and a nontrivial number of GOP candidates.

There will be a party like this in the U.S. one day

The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.

To the doomers who keep saying Trump will rig the 2026 and 2028 elections: Do not concede in advance

There’s cheering ’cross the world tonight As Viktor Orban takes the L But louder still the cheers will rise When Donald Trump heads down to Hell

My crim professor had to end class early the day we went over sexual assault bc the men in a large lecture hall which was mostly men kept asking the most horrific questions indicating they were just realizing they’d committed sexual assault under the law and deciding the problem was the law not them

These 2 pics are happening simultaneously: LEFT: Vance after he fails to secure permanent ceasefire to the illegal war Trump launched RIGHT: Trump attends UFC fight 5 days after threatening genocide of 90M people This is what happens when you elect a genocidal fascist and an unqualified sycophant

At a certain point of wealth, what is being pursued seems not to be wealth, but the ability to make other people suffer. What's being pursued is immunity from human decency; the ability and even the right to be depraved with impunity. They get off on the suffering. www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

“Even the holy name of God, the God of life, is being dragged into discourses of death," Leo said at the vigil. "Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death." #PopeLeo #IranWar www.ncronline.org/vatican/pope...

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

The CDC has delayed the publication of a report showing that the Covid vaccine significantly reduced the likelihood of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter. This is a clear example of putting politics over science at the cost of lives. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/h...

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What Tom Holman looks like vs what he thinks he looks like

Part of why we remain here is that most people don't interact with the actual criminal punishment system, they are stuck in Law & Order land and fantasy land.

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

this story is specifically about AI generated code

The next day Toad gave his jacket to Frog. Frog thought that it was beautiful. He put it on and jumped for joy. None of the buttons fell off. Toad had sewed them on very well.

what they've actually done here quite deftly is shine a 3000 watt Fresnel lamp on the central problem for which Pope Francis wanted an American Pope in the first place: namely, that the American right wing believes they are invincible, they are destroying the world, and they have to be stopped

excommunicate jd vance. place washington dc under interdict. the whole diocese of arlington, too, for good measure - that’s where half the supreme court goes to mass.

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I'm a kindergarten teacher and instead of whatever this garbage is, I'd like resources and a fair wage to do my job. One that I am fully capable of doing. Thanks!

1) Unconstrained by truth 2) Tells people what they want to hear so they’ll come away with a positive short-term impression 3) Unconcerned with the consequences of 1 & 2 Is that a description of Sam Altman or of ChatGPT?

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

“Toad, Toad, wake up,” said Frog. “Look at your garden!” Toad looked at his garden. Little green plants were coming up out of the ground.

It's also super-tiresome the way people talk about #metoo as though it fell out of the sky or was born already grown up from Zeus's head. It was just another stage of a long process called feminism, notably the big surge of feminism that had begun some years beforehand.

Military families evacuated at last minute from Middle East were allowed to bring no more than a backpack with them, now relying on charity for essentials like toiletries. USO, community groups scrambling to help www.npr.org/2026/04/03/n...

I love rivers so much they do whatever the fuck they want, rivers don't give a FUCK www.nps.gov/vick/learn/n...

'An MIT Media Lab study titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT” found that LLM users “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” The tech oligarchs have somehow managed to enshittify thinking.'

there's a decent chance that at some point, everyone around Trump will realize he's doomed and the chaos will be mind-blowing

This is powerful, if true. More of this. Refuse. Stand on principle.

This worship of efficiency kills creativity. Every transcript I have, every piece of research, I go over again & again, looking for detail, pattern, illuminating anecdote. It’s not efficient. I flail sometimes! But it’s essential. It’s how I learn to tell the story to myself, so I can tell it to you

Since the New Deal, the right edge of the conservative movement has been committed to the goal of eliminating all facets of the federal government that do good in the world, leaving behind only a war machine and a surveillance operation capable of containing the “internal leftist enemy.”

This is the wet dream of the Project 2025 crew. Obliterate as much of the federal “administrative state” as possible & eliminate as much domestic spending as possible except for that which is funneled into conservative institutions or is devoted to making the US population whiter and more Christian.

one of the things I treasure most about writing is it is one of the vanishingly few remaining pursuits that involves sitting quietly with your own thoughts—something the entire tech industry has mobilized to ensure we never do again

Former TIME editor Richard Stengel: “He is repeating every foreign and domestic policy mistake the US has made over the last 5 decades, but he’s doing it with a gracelessness, cluelessness, and corruption that has no precedent.”

adam says it much more succintly. the american right will happily impoverish the united states and make it an oversized backwater if it means they can dominate women and minorities and play act as a master class

“This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” Leo, the first U.S. pope, told crowds in brilliant sunshine. sojo.net/articles/new...

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

This 50 yr old woman spent 5 months in jail accused of a crime in a state she's never even been to, because Clearview AI misidentified her as the suspect. A judge signed off on it, cops went along with it, no process in place to even question the AI. www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/u...

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars reut.rs/4rZIThC