Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Alastair MacKellar completed this year’s Paris-Roubaix in a time of 5:46.11 – almost eight minutes faster than Peter Sagan’s effort in 2018, when the Slovakian won the race in 5:54.06. But it wasn’t even enough for him to finish in last place, the Australian missing the time cut by almost 4 minutes

Irish far-right are making speeches about migrants at their fuel protests.. meanwhile: 'Ireland’s energy-hungry datacentres consumed more electricity last year than all its urban homes combined, according to official figures.' Amazon AWS, Google, Equinix, Microsoft, Digital Realty, Edge Connex..

Trump says he's asked Benjamin Netanyahu to be “more low-key” in Lebanon. Please do your illegal bombing, ethic cleansing and genocides more discreetly.

over 250 confirmed dead in lebanon today so far. orders of magnitude bigger than anything we have seen in the past 40 days of israel’s war there.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk: Victor Orbán’s minister offered Sergey Lavrov to send him EU documents through the Hungarian embassy in Moscow. It’s really beyond shocking.

Listen to the doctors. He's simply not all there.

JD Vance comes to a foreign country to openly campaign for a candidate ahead of an election, and then accuses other countries of interfering in those very elections

When we survive all of this, there are going to be a lot of people who will not just need to become unemployed, but unemployable. There are people who should never be allowed to work in a position of public trust again, largely because they took for granted that they were in one to begin with.

For those of the 77,302,580 Americans who are telling themselves they didn't vote for this—no, you actually did vote for this.

I just saw this. Artemis II astronaut Reid Wiseman named a newly discovered moon crater after his late wife, Carroll, who died in 2020 following a 5-year battle with cancer. #ProudBlue #ArtemisII

I hate to agree with her, but...

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

At this very moment, they were the greatest band in the world. No contest 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8NL...

Americans really should reflect on the road that led them to the Easter Sunday tweet. Impossible to imagine any other nation electing someone like Donald Trump as a leader. Why is that? What has happened? When did it start happening? Will it ever stop?

Remco, Red Bull and Flanders Denials: Why the Truth Matters Remco Evenepoel and his team made repeated denials about planned Tour of Flanders debut. That’s not clever. bit.ly/3NXRG63

Any European or Canadian who thinks Trump’s America would come to the aide of a Russian invasion of their country (and that really would fall within the NATO ambition, unlike Iran) has not been paying attention. He’d be applauding from the sidelines.

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‘When the Last Worker Is Cut Down, the Last Piece of Truth Destroyed, and the Climate Is Fucked, You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Data Centres.’

To be clear with how I feel about it. Anyone in the military who directs or carries out strikes on desalination plants should be in prison when this is over.

A brief round-up of developments in Gaza and the West Bank while the world looks elsewhere ⤵️ www.instagram.com/p/DWgrLNhjCZE/

"Ah come off it!" I've only got through around a third of the responses to the legal costs consultation - but there are literally hundreds of responses calling on the government to abandon the proposal - I've copied some below

Reuters: Pope Leo said on ‌Sunday that God rejects the prayers of leaders who start wars and have "hands full of blood", in unusually forceful remarks as the Iran war entered its second month. www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

It's already far too much money for an out of control agency like ICE, which is despised by most of America.

Wait, I know the clocks changed, but have we moved to April 1 as well?

In honour of #WorldTuberculosisDay read all about Dr Noel Browne, who lost his father, mother and older brother to TB, and who spent months in hospital suffering from the disease. As Minister for Health he launched a campaign to eradicate TB from Ireland. www.dib.ie/biography/br...

So much for the "narrow interests" which the government says use judicial review. When they went out and asked people what they thought 1,470 asked for Access to Justice to be upheld, only 30 sided with the government So which interest is the "narrow interest"?

The thing about “regretful” Trump voters is that they were never regretful when the harm was directed at someone else. It doesn’t have to happen to you for it to matter and that’s something I’m confident they’ll never figure out

Soulless sociopath says what? 🤮 🤬 🖕

BREAKING: huge summary judgment win in our Voice of America case EVERYONE put on admin leave is ordered rehired & all other decisions made by the Trump admin to gut agency down to "statutory minimum" r "vacated and set aside" Kudos to r amazing partners & clients in labor, democracy & journalism

Breaking news: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s dismantling of Voice of America was unlawful and ordered more than 1,000 employees, who have spent a full year on paid administrative leave, back to work.

The second best Irish phrase I’ve heard, used to describe someone who’s always engaging in one-upmanship, is “if you’ve been to Tenerife, he’s been to Elevenerife.” My number one favourite Irish phrase, and one of the most crushing burns you’ll ever hear, is “he looks like his mammy knitted him.”

Okay this is funny: “A French general has said joining President Donald Trump’s war is like buying a discounted ticket for the Titanic after it had already hit the iceberg.” Former commander of the Foreign Legion btw. 😂 www.thedailybeast.com/french-gener...

Good thing we spent the last year antagonizing all our allies with dumb tariffs.

The whiplash effect from Hegseth saying 'Maximum lethality, not tepid legality' to 'Please world we're baby please carry us through the strait' should be on the first page of The Big Book Of FAFO

Profoundly stupid idea.

It’s insane that the world has gone to hell because of the actions of less than 10 dumb psychopathic politicians. Ten or so people are f**king up things for the entire planet.

“legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul”

0:14 - "In those files there's highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children. Of Donald Trump threatening to kill children." - Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) youtu.be/f13HINY_6RY?...

Saying the quiet part out loud as the Authoritarian attempts to control the truth. #25thAmendmentNOW

🙅 Tell your decision makers to keep their #HandsOffNature! 🌳 100 trees are lost every minute due to EU consumption. We can still turn it around, but destructive industries are pushing hard to dismantle the law. We can’t let them win. ✍️ Sign the EU-wide petition: iwt.ie/what-we-do/hands-off-nature

That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won. You broke it Don, you fix it.

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

Literally this

Diplomacy remains the art of travelling abroad to lie for your country

All dogs are good dogs and some could use your help 15outof10.org/unfunded/