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it is deeply funny watching a subset of this site realize AOC is a devout Catholic

You don’t need to apologize for making a Catholic post!

For Lent I stopped checking BlueSky during the workday (and I’m not on X). I wasn’t doing it a huge amount but I have now found not doing it at all keeps me focused and less stressed.

Miami-Dade small business owner who voted for Trump feels pain of partner’s ICE detention It has been eight months since U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Yamile Alcantu, and her partner of 20 years, Wayne DeMario, has been in a lot of pain.

Miami-Dade man who voted for Trump says ICE "kidnapped" his partner of 20 years, who is Cuban. 8 months detained, she hasn't seen a judge and could be deported to Cuba. "I didn't vote for this," he says. "I'm sorry. I didn't know this was going to happen." www.local10.com/news/local/2...

Brooklyn snow probabilities ranging from a tenth of an inch to over 18 inches

Wow, this is like a Tahoe forecast.

“Depending on precise temperature and timing you will either get an inch or three feet”

They can’t figure out how to spend the extra $500 billion they gave themselves for the military, but cut our healthcare and food assistance because they said they couldn’t afford it.

Omg the little dance he does

The Supreme Court tried to save him from himself, but he's too stupid to grab the life preserver.

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

At this point, we should just assume they’re lying. But by their own account the kid had no record. US citizen. At the very least, it looks like multiple policy violations — they surrounded the car, fired into a moving vehicle, killed him through the driver’s side window.

just read a story about a little boy in SC who just learned to ride a bike but he was unvaxxed and got measles and got really sick and got a spinal tap and then pumped with medicines and then his brain swelled anyway and now he won't ever walk or eat on his own and he definitely won't ride a bike

To my mind, this is the single tweet that explains 95% of the energy behind the MAGA movement.

I hope John Roberts signed all his mortgage paperwork correctly

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

Bridge Owner Donated $1 Million to MAGA Inc. PAC Before Trump Blasted New Span

SCOOP: Less than 1 month before Trump came out against a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1M to the Trump-backed super PAC, MAGA Inc.

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Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

The Musk family are actively endorsing Restore Britain, a party the racist Reform UK considers excessively racist, whose slogan is “millions must go” and whose leaders call for the expulsion of Britons of darker skin or Jewish, Muslim or otherwise non-Christian faith

So many terrible moments, though, it’s hard to choose

US bishops warn ICE mega-detention plan is 'moral inflection point' for America The bishops' conference issued a stark critique of plans to double federal immigration detention capacity: "The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the cons...

"The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/news/us-bish...

Trump's claim that the court "confirmed" his authority to use all these other authorities to reconstruct his tariffs scheme is false. Justice Kavanaugh said that, joined by Thomas & Alito, but the majority said this:

Free idea for the next Democrat in the White House: auction off the privilege to push the button that blows this thing up. Give the proceeds to refugee groups.

Trump created a Board of Peace, which is not part of the U.S. government, and dubbed himself chairman for life. This means he will still be in charge of the board once he’s out of office.

I think they should turn it into the Smithsonian Museum of Immigrant Contributions to America

There is no reason to believe Trump's foreign policy is designed to benefit America or Americans
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Trump: "I want to let you know that United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace." (Congress has not appropriated this money!)

Austrian Man Found Guilty in Girlfriend’s Death on Mountain Hike

Oh my god, the guy who left his girlfriend on a mountain to die had done the same thing to a different girlfriend on THE SAME MOUNTAIN.

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

Large banner of Trump unfurled at Justice Department headquarters The DOJ has traditionally operated with a degree of separation from the White House to prevent the department's powers from being abused for political purposes.

“Hanging that banner should put to rest any doubt that Donald Trump has hijacked the independence of the Justice Department. He — not the American people — is the only client DOJ’s current leadership serves." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

⚡️UPDATE: Under Trump the Tennessee Valley Authority is sticking with coal rather than clean energy — and letting Elon DOUBLE xAI’s power draw… with no public input.

The oligarchy is straight-up looting our state, and our country.
grist.org/energy/the-n...

Cancer is definitely caused by vaccines in that vaccines now cause many more people to live long enough to get cancer 😉

Cancer is definitely caused by vaccines in that vaccines now cause many more people to live long enough to get cancer 😉