heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Outdated laws from the 1700s and 1800s give the president tremendous power to use the military at home. It’s past time for Congress to repeal the Alien Enemies Act, close loopholes in the Posse Comitatus Act, and reform the Insurrection Act. bit.ly/4oxXJLN

A nice dose of state terror before I head to bed 😇

“While the president’s authority to grant clemency for federal crimes is virtually unfettered, the power to impose vengeance via prison assignments isn’t clear.” Actually, the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. It’s in the Bill of Rights. It’s pretty clear.

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Cooked as a country when art can’t be made because we have to take into account the fee-fees of Klan members.

Perennial political adage: Comments made by Democrats in private will always be deemed more worthy of rebuke than comments made by Republicans in public.

The tank's role is to draw aggro

The CIA’s deputy director has “abruptly demoted” the CIA’s acting general counsel & installed himself in that role, thus taking “control of making legal judgments for the agency while continuing to help lead it…” (This follows Hegseth’s termination of top military legal officials in Feb.) 10/6/25 1/

Gov. Glenn Youngkin says he will not submit further appointments to state boards and commissions to the General Assembly for confirmation until January, when the legislature convenes for its regular 60-day session.

“The records show that the police retroactively created a separate document about the Flock search a week after our article was published, in which they justify the search by saying they were concerned for her safety.”

Just incredible dishonesty by Republicans on this. In fact, those were escape hoods provided to all Congresspeople (Ds and Rs alike) during the violent 1/6/21 pro-Trump insurrection bluevirginia.us/2025/10/fina... h/t @daveweigel.bsky.social

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Earlier this year Youngkin vetoed HB 1989 bipartisan legislation that was intended to fix issues with the current law. One of those issues was that edibles should tell the milligrams per product and the legal issue of delivery agents, especially since there's a big portion without providers.

Wow it’s almost like right wing populism is never about helping the populace???

“That the ‘law’ was illegal also made little difference in a Germany where the former Austrian corporal had now become the law itself.” Shirer, William. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 178

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Conformity is our strength 🫡🤪🇺🇸

“Goering shouted, ‘This [the Reichstag fire] is the beginning of the Communist revolution! We must not wait a minute. We will show no mercy. Every Communist official must be shot, where he is found. Every Communist deputy must this very night be strung up.’” - Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, p 139

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

Pathetic and 100% disqualifying. bluevirginia.us/2025/09/vide... h/t @ab21.bsky.social

“I’m gonna have a way bigger apartment when the world is destroyed!” —Acolyte of the Eyeless Hand while a tentacle comes out of their chest ( @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social once again with the biting commentary @dimension20.bsky.social )

*Entering a suddenly silent elevator at work* *…* “Why is the sexual tension in here so high?”

they believe that women are commodities and trans women are counterfeit women. it’s just pure misogyny. they do not think women are people, and plenty of feminists are fully on board with this logic

This is what we should’ve been doing constantly after J6

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Wow they’re making sissy hypno porn real @katie.bzky.team

there should be more frogs in general

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

Hello fellow legal experts. Check out my new hoodie. I am at the Virginia Board of Elections for their meeting to check out things including future rules on prohibitions on personal use of campaign funds.

coates is genuinely a generational writer

The Trump administration is using Charlie Kirk’s death as a way to weaponize citizens against each other, its chilling effect suppressing free speech on the left. Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/77897...

The point is not that this can’t get worse. It can and it will. The point is Trump/MAGA already intended that, they weren’t pushed to by any event. And they’re already trying, in quite bad ways, they weren’t being nice up until now. Their ongoing limitation is capacity, not desire or morality.

The WI Dem party flags that GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden has tweeted more than 550 times in the 5 days since the 22-year-old Utah man killed Charlie Kirk. And in those posts, Van Orden has:

“Klein’s interest here isn’t honesty but flattery. It shows Klein isn’t writing about Kirk at all. He’s writing about himself and saying, ‘I’m doing politics the right way because I’m lauding someone who disagrees with me.’”

Counter-revolutionary Godzilla can still happen if people want it bad enough

Does anyone know who they sampled this from? “” The ultimate desire of these people that are in power in America... "Is to kill you." "Listen to what I'm saying." "They're coming for you!" "They plan to destroy you." "They hate you. They hate your children. And they're coming for you." “”” #KMFDM

This is known as "chain refoulment" and yes, it's a violation of international law.

So glad we’re innovating in education This will surely improve society. www.axios.com/local/charlo...

EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

are we done yet? did we get it out of our system? can we go back to talking about me now?

Unsurprisingly, the thing Noah Smith is saying is obviously not true. Look at reports on the reaction to the assassination of MLK... "glee, satisfaction and weeping in equal parts" (www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/r...) as the Smithsonian notes "some actually celebrated" (nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...).

also on the subject of political violence

Journalists are not beholden to congressmen

Democratic populism needs to dump this fucking corpo plant from the party

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...