I was wondering what Trump meant about the pope citing "FEAR of the Trump Administration." Seeing this, my theory is now that he thinks McElroy is the pope.

Yes! I bet he watched it on the plane. I think Trump thinks Joe Tobin is the pope

6) I am begging you, do not reuse passwords. Get a password manager. Have it randomly generate and save strong unique passwords for every login. Turn on 2FA everywhere you can. Do not let your account be one of the ones that enters this ecosystem.

Like every con artist in history, you have to understand Trump’s solution to every problem throughout his life is “just tell them this.” Every single time. His fix is always just lying to convince someone of something to get to the next day. And the next lie. There’s no fix. Ever.

If google gave a shit about their users, the top hits for any hotel wouldn't be sketchy intermediary booking sites. It's a perfect example of enshittification.

a weird belief that is held across basically all sectors of American life is that boy dollars and boy votes are better than girl dollars and girl votes and so if you have a lot of the latter you need to be constantly trying to exchange them for the former

New pizza place menu, village block party, rec league baseball signups, charity 5K, scouting event, library fundraiser: suddenly every good, human-scaled thing has the same obnoxious AI-slop poster art, and I hate it hate it hate it

The creation of a mythological National Review (high-minded, intellectual, virtuous conservatism) despite the wide availability of the real, continually publishing National Review (reactionary, chortling bigotry with a good vocabulary) is a load-bearing fiction in our political system.

I should have checked my 8-year-old son's coat pockets before we left for the ferry. That's a rookie mom mistake. Anyway, in the words of the man conducting the security screening, "You can't bring rocks to the Statue of Liberty."⛴️🗽🪨🚫

If we have the political will, there will be no shortage of crimes to prosecute.

I got this text from my elderly neighbor. She absolutely eviscerated me.

Ed Martin picked a great week to publish a theological appreciation of Trump's "solemnity and seriousness" in the application of clemency. "Through the breadth and depth of his pardons, President Donald J. Trump shows mercy unlike any other." Hope he sees this, bro!

Ed Martin picked a great week to publish a theological appreciation of Trump's "solemnity and seriousness" in the application of clemency. "Through the breadth and depth of his pardons, President Donald J. Trump shows mercy unlike any other." Hope he sees this, bro!

Trump is threatening war crimes to annihilate "a whole civilization". Republicans in Congress repeatedly voted for Trump’s war and still won't do their job to end this madness. Enough. Bring Congress back into session. Republicans must grow a spine and stop this catastrophe.

There's rightly been a lot of attention to Hegseth's recent violent prayer (which I broke the news about). I've annotated the prayer to look more closely at how Bible verses are (mis)used in the prayer: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/mad-libs-m...

To spell this out further: the issue here is that, when he backs down, it’s often because popular opinion is loud and angry enough. In other words, people who say “you fool, you thought he would do it” are getting cause and effect backwards.

Called all my reps and told them I want impeachment. Your turn!

to be clear, the civilization that will die tonight if Trump tries to annihilate Iran will be that of the United States, the one he has always degraded most relentlessly and most successfully

This is not a single madman problem and it is grossly irresponsible to present it as such. The GOP could stop him today and the Secretary of Defense is promising to commit war crimes in plain view. This must not be reduced to a Trump madman problem.

He's threatening nuclear war with the kind of language they'd use to promote a special episode of Celebrity Apprentice

Nobody said "mindless", we all know you know exactly what you're doing

he take our money and he run venezuela

It turns out that placing one man's vainglory and self-enrichment at the center of all decisionmaking isn't a good basis for governance newrepublic.com/article/2086...

It's a real "decide today whom you will serve" moment for certain prominent Catholics who've dedicated themselves to burnishing Trump's reputation. Or it ought to be.

Remember two years ago when conservatives propagandists were going hysterical because Trans Day of Visibility happened to fall on Easter

Pray for the parents in the uncomfortable space of "oldest kids stay up pretty late, youngest kids are psyched for the Easter Bunny," because we didn't get much of a window for sleep 😴

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

Trump vowed this would be free and got great credulous press for it

A really good episode (they all are!) and an upsetting one to hear during Holy Week. This commitment to spitting in the face of Christ is a scandal I can't even comprehend.

The US AID destruction is one of the sickest things anyone has ever done in human history. No one got anything out of it besides the gleeful thrill of mass black death. It’s truly bone chilling to even contemplate what this really was.

Ahead of Easter this year, I mourn Father Pierre al-Rahi, the Maronite Catholic parish priest of Qlayaa in Marjayoun (South Lebanon) who stayed behind to support his parishioners only to be killed by Israel on March 9 in a double tap attack. May his memory be a blessing.

The best Holy Saturday movie option. Thank you TCM!

Has Africa even said thank you?

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

Pope Leo: “We tend to consider ourselves powerful when we dominate, victorious when we destroy our equals, great when we are feared…As humanity is brought to its knees by so many acts of brutality, let us too kneel down as brothers and sisters alongside the oppressed.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

“It is beneath my dignity to let myself be run over by any trolley, and particularly this trolley, burdened as it is by a cape and a stupid hat.” I wrote for Defector about boycotting Harry Potter, the ‘safe’, kindly face of anti-trans politics: defector.com/its-time-to-...

"Jesus occupied the place of shame and death and curse, that place where our wrath puts people so we can survive and have meaning and apparent life at their expense. Do we see a cursed one, a dead one, a rejected one, and hastily avert our eyes...

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

"NO ONE KNOWS MORE THAN JD VANCE ABOUT BEING A FRAUD "

Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.

Really good stuff here from Parker.

President TeeVee is not beating the "all the bad kids from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, combined" allegations today.

Petition to rename all the Cesar Chavez things after this Bobbed Hair Girl

Please enjoy my third grader's respectful portraits of the current heads of the executive branch, from the Social Studies packet I found in his backpack just now.

Some people call this "sane-washing" but I think a better description is when the real Trump falters, they sub in a fake, imaginary Trump into their stories. Beyond cleaning up untidy remarks to make them sound more coherent: "Trump super concerned with nuclear proliferation" is an imaginary guy

Pope Leo at General Audience: “Let us all remember what Pope Francis liked to repeat: ‘Lay people are, put simply, the vast majority of the people of God. The minority – ordained ministers – are at their service.’” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

My 14yo walked by while this was on my screen and said, "What's that about?" And it is so hard to answer questions like that honestly when you wish you could just lie and say "It's fine; responsible grownups are in control." In other words: How do I explain this to my kids, but for real

I have been a mom for 14 years, and in that time, the number of new movies for adults that I have seen in the theater can be tallied on one hand. But ask me about movies for kids and I am RIGHT there in the conversation. Or do you NOT already have opening-day tickets for the new Mario Bros. movie?