It's the Vatican, not the Vatican't.

"In September 2025, nine mosques and cultural centers in and around Paris were targeted...Bloody severed pig heads, each marked with the word “Macron” in blue ink, were left outside their front doors." This was a Russian stunt. From @occrp.org Read more: www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Has France found its Ron Paul?

Spring and Autumn chicken

Additional content note: swearing increases exponentially with the length of the thread.

Senator Alex Padilla. Rep. Adelita Grijalva. Senator Andy Kim. Alderperson Jesse Fuentes. Mayor Ross Baraka. huh, I wonder what the pattern is, and also, abouttime some handsome strong white men who expect my vote to step into the firehose of state violence instead of delegating the risk to others

Thread!

From a clergy friend on the ground at Delaney— this is how they’re asking people to help:

sometimes you need a transphobic therapist to help you overcome your fears

On the other hand: it's very cool to know that if you send a mildly critical email to ICE, they will absolutely allocate some of their extremely strained budget of man-hours bothering you about it people can feel free to do with this information what they will

Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else. newrepublic.com/post/206088/...

I was trying to explain what ChatGPT is to my mom (she thought it was a messaging app) and after my explanation and some thought, she volunteered, “Oh, so it’s the magic mirror in the beginning of Snow White when it only tells the queen what she wants to hear.” Perfect analogy.

I feel like the photographer could have gotten a little closer tbh

Belgium’s Court of Cassation has delivered a definitive ruling against the Belgian state on account of the removal of mixed-race children from their mothers in the DR Congo when it was still a Belgian colony. (cont.) www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/20...

Federal law enforcement is asserting that it is an extralegal gang, nothing more. I know there are enormous problems with law enforcement in general but severing the requirement that they identify themselves and their agency makes them no different from the criminals impersonating them.

this is about 5% of what we need

As usual, let me point out how I know that the bad food is on purpose and not a lack of funding or competence: they won’t let anyone else supply better food.

It's not a failure, Senator. It's what they want.

acausal trade, as in: i will clean and organize my room because someone else out in the world with adhd will benefit from cleaning *their* room and we’ve agreed to body-double based on the mutual observation that the other one probably exists

I blocked the political scientist w/ the anonymous account who said I'm tamping down the resistance telling people the hostage is dead. Words matter. We are not in business as usual. People need to know guardrails we relied on in the past have failed. It doesn't mean stop fighting.

We are in constitutional failure and past constitutional crisis

- we always ignore the prophetic voice, as unrealistic. But we are at the edge for sure. A steep drop off into uncertainty no matter what. This is what the prophetic voice does, tries to assert a vision into the void. A collective prayer.

The Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room exhibit is taking a nationwide bus tour this summer. The tour starts on July 4 and will run through the midterms. Celebrities will drive the bus, and candidates want to make it part of their campaigns. www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epst...

Jon Ossoff is making two big bets in his reelection campaign: Run harder against Donald Trump in a state Trump carried in 2024. And lock arms early with Keisha Lance Bottoms to show Democrats are unified while Republicans slog through costly runoffs. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

possible outcomes of all this, once again, include global, high-consequence, & long-lasting disaster from destruction of H2O & petrochem infrastructure. Congress can end this tomorrow. And there is no security so long as we leave Trump et al in power.

The New York Stock Exchange reopens at 9:30 am EDT Tuesday after a three-day closure.

Democracy has a few cards left to play, but I'm not sure the will exists to play them.

It doesn't take much

good try, no human beings on the internet, they don't fit through the wires.

If I were a Senator who was tear-gassed by ICE, I would spend every hour of the rest of my time in office figuring out new ways to abolish ICE.

ICE is a lawless, racist, fascist agency that must be defunded and abolished for US democracy to continue.

(Much follows that section on the materiality of digital supply chains and the unpaid labor of content moderation and data curation, tied very forcefully to colonization in ways that summaries would not do justice to).

173: 🔥 "Nothing in the world of AI is immaterial or magical. Every seemingly immediate and flawless response is the result of a long chain of mediation, involving vast networks of natural resources, energy infrastructure and, above all, people."

Hey!

133: "power detached from truth ... imposes what it wishes others to accept as true." Cites: “modern man is wrongly convinced that he is the sole author of himself, his life & society. This presumption follows from being selfishly closed in upon himself.” (This is the social media section!)

Live-read of the Magnifica Humanitas part two: This section starts by covering truth, work and freedom (and unspoken: communication). Figured it will probably need its own thread. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

The reason people like the Pope’s AI missive is because there is simply no other institution has taken the side of humanity in the humanities sense. I’m not Catholic, but I am a human who cares about the human mind and the poetics Catholics call a soul.

When I was reading that document I had no idea the church had not acknowledged this before. I literally skipped it because it seemed so straightforward. Grateful it happened but wow to it only happening in 2026.

While the Encyclical likely won’t change the way tech is built, it operates like a guilty verdict against the rich: nothing much happens to them, but we can all stop saying “allegedly” before describing their immorality

I guess I am live-tweeting my reading of the Magnifica Humanitas

A sort of counter-reformation, as it were.

Memorial Day 2026 They didn't give their lives for an autocracy anntelnaes.substack.com/p/memorial-d...

BREAKING NEWS: Two detainees have been freed from the Delaney Hall Detention Center after detainees began a hunger strike inside the facility & organizers started protests outside the facility on Friday (both are still ongoing), & after Governor Sherrill was denied entry into the building today.

This is extra mental because there’ll be no shortage of empty hotels, seeing as nobody else will want to stay there either.

you just know they'll detain them at the slightest excuse too

when you run out of weed, you should declare dankruptcy

my sincere hope for this moment is that people understand that these reports apply to every detention site, and that detention in of itself is a potential death sentence for anyone in this country no one should experience these horrors regardless of what they’re accused of

Stumbled on the best ep of the A-Team. Murdoch pretended to be an East German reporter to goad the big East German honcho (Ferris Bueller’s dad) into a football match against a Texas oil tycoon (Hannibal) who ALSO owns a team. No, I don’t know why, this is just the plan.

This is unbelievable. The AI boom is now piggybacking on green colonialism, eating up any contribution to emissions reduction while causing harm to Indigenous communities. The Yakama Tribe has been fighting this pumped storage project for years, only to learn it would primarily power…a data center.

Like cool, if the declining birth rate is such a civilizational crisis, there’s a really easy solution: give pregnant people housing and other resources. *Bearing* a child, before you even get to raising them, is incredibly expensive. It’s physical and emotional strain. Give resources.