Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

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.

It is supremely infuriating that there are quite literally millions of left-wing Catholics in the United States, but the press only ever wants to hear from the right wing ones

every single person actively involved in the college republicans in 2026 is the worst person you’ve ever met basically no exceptions

look I’m aware that at some point in the distant past we had territorial disputes with Canada and, much more bloodily, with Mexico. but for most of my life that’s just been extremely not a thing and that’s been a-ok by me

6 out of 10 Americans dislike the president but somehow we are the out of touch ones

"liberals are out of touch with Real America" is and always has been a propaganda psy-op to help conservatives, pushed by the media outlets they control and their sleeper agents inside outlets that they don't.

Even if we take the low count of 8 million this is over 2.3% of the US population, in a non-emergency scenario, and before the pain really hits. We can be basically certain that 3.5% of the US population will be able and willing to take to the streets in an actual governmental legitimacy crisis.

y'all

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Fucken Mahomat England and Wales, Census, 1911

"why your protest aesthetics should utilize the most median established sentiment and visual language"

Reminds me of a great moment during the 1788 constitutional convention in North Carolina when someone objected to the no religious test clause by saying "wait does this mean that a Muslim could theoretically be president?" and the response was "you betcha"

It's not some giant unknowable mystery about what the words mean. It says what it says in plain English and until it became a recent political project to pretend otherwise, exactly nobody disputed it said what it says. Some mournfully, some happily. But what it means is not in doubt.

There's literally a transcript from congress during ratification where one senator says "wait but this would mean kids of gypsies and Chinese immigrants would also get to be citizens" and the sponsoring senator says "yep, sure does"

meanwhile, as guy who has read quite extensively about the civil war and reconstruction, i'm wondering "what the fuck does any of this even matter for?" we know what they meant when they wrote the citizenship clause. they told us! we know what they were drawing from. they told us!

This is 2.6% of the US population. Over one in 40 Americans came out to protest. We are climbing rapidly toward numbers large enough to overwhelm the MAGA regime in a crisis scenario.

Priscilla Dull Newcomer Bride Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1775-1991

Average union soldier memoir: "at first I was like I signed up for this war, but is it really worth it? Then I saw the reality of chattel slavery and I had to be physically restrained from slaughtering every white southerner I encountered"

www.amazon.com/Union-War-Ga... “burn, heretics!”

the us civil war was the closest thing to a genuine wh40k esque “burn the heretic” thing in american history

yes, most of what you know about the civil war came from people who weren’t there and had an agenda (shelby foote-esque southern sympathizers). people who were there described it as a jihad against the satanic plantation aristocrats

Omar: I came to this country as a refugee. To me, America was a beacon of hope. A place where freedom wasn't just a word, but it was a promise. I could have never imagined the day would come when we were staring down at this kind of creeping authoritarianism.

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oh holy shit how'd I miss this one

Iran took out a fucking E-3 Sentry AWACS parked on the ground. that's the literal definition of high-value asset. great job Pete, your war is going awesome.

Phrasing?

AWACS aircraft "provide senior leadership with time-critical information on the actions of enemy forces" but as Sun Tzu famously said: "if you know the enemy and know yourself, you have fallen for woke bullshit. a truly based general always rushes in without considering the opposing force"

Pope Leo XIV's top Middle East envoy rebuked Pete Hegseth for invoking God in justifying the US-Israel war against Iran. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa called Hegseth’s actions “the gravest sin we can commit at this time.”

mike johnson’s make work the past year has been nullifying the House, and thus Congress, as a constitutional actor

- John Kerry, speech before Senate Foreign Relations Cmte, 1971 voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/kerry-statem...

" How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? But we’re trying to do that, and we’re doing it with thousands of rationalizations, and if you read carefully the President’s last speech to the people of this country, you can see that he says, and says clearly..."

Question for the crowd, why is the White House twitter account, an official channel of communication for the most powerful man in the world, posting like it's a deranged scizo poster on a Qanon thread?

Also posterior head and breast, apparently

No no, this can't be true, you see I was assured only Kamala would do this, it was in memes and everything

“infant mini-puberty” jesse what the fuck are you talking about

yall im still losing it over the ioc “experts” finding “infant mini-puberty” grants women with an SRY gene an immutable biological advantage so massive it makes them biologically male bc… they didnt find any evidence proving feminizing HRT eliminates the advantage granted by “infant mini-puberty”

IOC arguing that feminism means men have a biological advantage over women from even before birth. I knew anti-trans bigotry rots your brain, but oh my god this is a depressing new low.

“The core issue is that bad behavior online gets reinforced as we socialize ourselves into bubbles of cynical and mean-spirited engagement.” www.liberalcurrents.com/cringe-is-go...

You fool, you have sphealed your fate

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

Oh my god, they had smush names for celebrity couples in 19th century Belgium??

Live view from the White House:

YIMBYism has won the battle for the heart of the Democratic Party. there are still some holdouts (looking at you, Karen Bass), but Democrats are finally becoming the party of building more housing, transit, and clean energy

Why does it look like he’s your partner in a mid-‘90s CD-ROM detective game where you have to pixel hunt for clues

I choose to believe this was taken just after the mouse delivered a flying double side kick to the lynx's face.

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