NEW: The conservative archbishop who leads Catholics serving in the U.S. military says the war against Iran is impermissible under Catholic teaching. Asked to respond to Pete Hegseth's claims that God is guiding the military effort, Archbishop Broglio said the war is not “sponsored by the Lord.”

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Pfizer has ended its large Phase III Trial of an updated COVID19 vaccine. They were not able to enroll enough people to meet their goal. A major problem is the FDA’s wholly unreasonable demand that people with chronic conditions, who benefit most from the vaccine, not be allowed to participate.

Any associate I hired would know to use an em dash, not an en dash, and not to put spaces around it.

⚠️ Trump confirms US responsibility for the bombing of the B-1 bridge in Karaj, Iran. Again, this bridge is civilian infrastructure.

Real astronauts use mutt

This is NOT what I signed up for

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

[Watching "Star Trek: Discovery"] it's absurd that all long-distance travel would be rendered impossible at once, shattering the baseline governance structures and galactic hegemony that shaped the universe for centuries [Watching Hormuz closure constrain jet travel globally] Ah. Okay.

Good morning. "Jerry Chen Seeking Verification" was a 32-month sociological experiment studying the effects of excessive nagging on social media and its effects on users, conducted by Quinnipiac University. We are now complete with our study; thank you for your time.

I love voting in bar association elections where the candidates have been practicing law longer than I have been alive

That the NYT is reporting it so plainly is telling: Israel is targeting one religious group, telling them their homes and lives are gone forever. It is offensive, repllent, abhorrent to me as an American that my political leaders continue to insist we share values with this country.

my level of stress has crossed a threshold where i think it would be funny if trump attended the birthright citizenship oral argument and scotus incoherently ruled in his favor 6-3. cortisol levels so high that i can't stop lolling about all my family members in danger. wouldn't it be funny tho

You know you've made some peak new tech when you have the exact same fine print disclaimers as Miss Cleo.

I hate it when I'm struggling to do a simple task in a web app, and the solution turns out to be to make the window wider, because they hid the button I need.

As a protestant, this feels strange to say, but the point at which an adult convert to Catholicism has been rebuked by two Popes in one year and then goes on to write a memoir called 'Communion' about his faith, they ought to bring excommunication back. This guy is evidently an unrepentant heretic.

oh, so Friday's jobs numbers are gonna be BAD bad

An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.

Semper Fuck You

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

FUCK NO

Aside from the ugly Real Folkz nonsense, the name of the party is the "Democratic Party" & normal, pro-democracy political parties don't keep intentionally using other parties' wrong names to delegitimize them, just like they don't make mass voter suppression the center of their policy platform.

Unsolicited advice for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: please don't endorse Platner. At the very least, don't say anything about him. I'm sure people around you are nudging you to endorse. Please do not give in to them. bsky.app/profile/did:...

That champion of the working man, King Midas

Why I'm canceling my monthly contribution to the Working Families Party

i keep being reminded of how many evangelicals i encountered who were apparently unaware that Eastern Europe has Orthodoxy

Calling it the “Trump regime” is just accurate in the sense that the constitution is not in effect. The minute they seized the power of the purse from Congress was the moment it stopped being a mere “administration.”

Live your life in such a way that the Pope is not rebuking you, in particular.

"I'm a cop, I don't understand the law" is literally one of the most on-brand things I have ever heard in my life

I’ll just set this down here without comment.

Hey everybody, I have the only correct take on cursive discourse, which is that we should teach all the kids how to read it so they can interpret primary sources and fancy script, and the weird ones will immediately go off and teach themselves how to write it, and then everyone will be happy.

BREAKING Mexico's navy says two boats ferrying aid to Cuba are missing

counterpoint: no it isn't. you ridiculous centrist stooge.

The U.S. and Israel were two of only three countries to vote against a resolution in the UN to condemn the transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations.

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Hot take: No Kings is good and if you have the time and capacity, you should go to a protest on Saturday.

"You go work or whatever. I'm staying here."

According to the Cato Institute, The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications. It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far. Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?

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So much for the rules we made for everybody but ourselves

"You were gone all afternoon. You owe me."

This decision sides with the 5th Circuit in Buenrostro and functionally ends the fast-track habeas petition arguments used in the vast majority of cases in Minnesota and the 8th Circuit.

O'HARE (Chicago): "There are dozens of ICE agents at TSA checkpoint, almost all of them doing the jobs of the TSA agents. They are the ones checking IDs and passports and verifying flight info, while TSA agents stand there and do nothing."