Speaking of which wasn't it crazy how all the partisans of The Family were for a moment there fanatically defending Pio Nono's kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara on the grounds that the identity conferred in baptism supersedes that one's biological family?

The main issue in America now is freedom of speech - not in the “cancel culture” way that our political class has whined about for years, but in the fundamental “can the government tell you what to believe and punish you for disagreeing with it way” that the Constitution actually controls.

We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

Gonna lay down a marker here: if they do in fact rule for Trump here, it will be properly considered Dred Scott II, and will in an important sense mark the end of the Union

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR CHAINS AND THE SINGLE MOST USELESS PIECE OF SHIT CIVILIAN HEAD OF THE DOD IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT SINCE ITS ORIGINAL INCEPTION UNDER THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY COLONIAL GOVERNMENT

Court reform is a precondition to restoring our democracy and we can't wait for term limits.

We are beginning our slow descent into Apple Brandy season

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

Something beautiful is going to happen

- President demands that Microsoft fire a C level executive because she’s a political enemy - Ex-military professionals are now passing a FAQ around advising members of senior command to prepare for the possibility of purges by Hegseth and openly acknowledges the risk of invoking martial law

What the fuck?

It’s unbelievably funny that all of senior US military command is being summoned into the capitol at the same time there may be a government shutdown and the range of possibilities span from Whiskey Kegseth doing an anti-woke TED talk to a Ba'athist purge of the entire command chain.

ok youre officially allowed to be happy about this and to regard the whole fracas a big L and self-own by the admin

These little opportunists are always ready to drone on about how the Church shouldn't change or compromise for/with society when it comes to left-wing issues. They only do this specific performance for podcasters who want to strip civil rights from women and minorities. Why is that? Simple answer.

Geoengineering is gonna kill people but it will be interesting to live through some accidental extreme winters.

New Epstein drop from the Oversight Dems has some interesting names in it 👀 👀 👀

🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE: They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet. DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.

There are some genuinely brave people confronting them

Surely this won't give the generals any ideas

Hegseth is gonna threaten to strand all of our generals (roughly 800 of them) in DC if the government shuts down. It's such an insane plan that I'm genuinely speechless. It's reckless insanity.

I wonder what kind of a state would consider "anti-fascism" to be "anti-state terrorism." I don't know if there's a word for it, I'm kinda stumped

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walk out of UN hall as Israeli prime minister prepares to speak.

You have to admit it is an incredible act of propaganda as an academic and news outlet to publish there is less right wing terrorism at the precise moment that government is staffed by right wing terrorists who are carrying out the greatest state backed act of right wing terror in a lifetime

INBOX: Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, the nation’s largest domestic focused progressive Jewish advocacy org, has endorsed Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor.

* TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RESTRICTING COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSES FOR NON-U.S. CITIZENS, USDOT SAYS @reuters.com

trump's Thursday Night Massacre has been completely memory holed, even by professional political pundits trump extorted the mayor of NYC with the threat of criminal prosecution, an abuse so extreme it provoked mass resignations from DOJ lawyers.... yet pundits & pols just forgot about it & moved on

It's probably going to be the dumbest thing possible instead, BUT Pete Hegseth putting out a video glorifying ethnic cleansing and the slaughter of civilians right before his secret gathering of all US generals seems slightly worrisome

So many people are going to take ibuprofen during pregnancy because they’ll hear about the Tylenol thing and nothing else

2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital. “Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.

The Sisters of Charity in New York publicly rebuked Cardinal Dolan for going on FOX and Friends and gushingly praising Charlie Kirk as the modern day St. Paul, reaffirm their mission to minister to the poor and marginalized and to defend the dignity of LGBTQ+ communities

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

this is a signed executive order that directly violates a law passed by congress & signed into law!

“Maybe I hear about a guy named Reid Hoffman” spoken like a true Mafia goon

Jeffries: "We will not be intimidated by Vought, who's totally out of control. The OMB has been illegally shutting down parts of the govt throughout the entire year, & the notion Dems are gonna be intimidated when all he's done is send a message that Republicans are determined to hurt people ... "

I don't think it's been specifically pointed out but this guy is extremely hard of hearing.

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

Hey is this good?

*US MAY SEE LOWEST CROP CASH RECEIPTS SINCE 2007: USDA'S MEYER

ICE is a physical and existential threat to the fabric of this nation and they must be shut down.

An ICE agent threw a mom to the ground. You know how she can file a complaint with DHS? SHE CAN'T. Trump closed that office. www.propublica.org/article/home...

But let’s be clear: every day, masked ICE agents are acting violently against our neighbors, illegally abducting them, holding them in cruel and inhumane conditions. Treating them as less-than-human, and not deserving due process.

European diplomats have privately warned Russia that NATO is ready to respond to further airspace violations, including shooting down Russian aircraft, Bloomberg reports.

The officials speculated about the purpose, wondering if it might foretell a culling of general officers; a significant reorganization of the military command structure; a threat to eschew contact with the press; or a loyalty oath about putting Trump administration priorities above all else.

Republican/Democrats who regularly get news from X/Twitter: 14% of Republicans/ 10% of Democrats Truth Social: 4% of Republicans/ 1% of Democrats Bluesky: <1% of Republicans/ 3% of Democrats www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...

Aside from being a signum efficax of Yarvin's personal stupidity, this is also just factually incorrect. Slaveocracy was always aggressively expansionist, and correctly and presciently felt threatened by free states and countries. Some CSA leaders also had plans for a trans-American slave empire.

Even odds between complaining about unclear gender signage on latrines versus surrendering NATO command to Russia