Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Again, the way to make sense of Supreme Court behavior as a day-to-day shorthand is just to imagine them as having the same level of knowledge, fairness, sophistication and information as the median senator from their party.

This is the distillation of DOGE: control and punish Democratic or progressive spaces. That's it.

a man is holding a can of coca cola and says introducing the new taste of coca cola ALT: a man is holding a can of coca cola and says introducing the new taste of coca cola

I may be wrong but isn't this the first time a sitting SC justice sat down for an interview on a Sunday news show?

Did everyone catch the attempt to rebrand the shadow docket as the "interim docket"?

Doge-ish comes to Florida: a DeSantis loyalist is going after ‘waste’ in Democratic cities Blaise Ingoglia was handpicked by the Republican Florida governor to lead an assault on municipal spending

Red state government declaring open war on blue city governments in Florida.

This is the MAGA model: using every tool of the state to punish political opponents, without even a pretense that you are governing "for everyone."

"interim docket"

Excellent paper!

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

Only if everyone finally catches up to @espinsegall.bsky.social

An underreported aspect of the Gaza ceasefire: The business deals that Trump's family made with Gulf Arab states gave Trump a personal stake in restraining Netanyahu — my piece @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I guess ChristopherWray is next on the indictment list.

And lest anyone forget: Drumpf nominated Wray

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Many historians of Rome identify Roman generals becoming the personal sources of payment for their armies as a key step in the downfall of the Republic, since it personalized military authority and freed armies to fight for their immediate leader, who paid them, instead of for the Republic

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.
 
Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

Reds!! Shoot The Moon!! Baby Boom!!

Obamacare Enrollment by State: Most Enrollees Live in Republican Areas (Gift Article) Millions of Americans depend on Obamacare. Here's where they live.

Most Americans Who Rely on Obamacare Live in Republican Areas
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Trump, amidst selling the country for personal gain, like openly, is protecting me from Suzanne, who does logistics for National Parks, and Dale, a curator at the Smithsonian.

Even North Korea knows better than to let their soldiers go hungry.

I guess there's always money in the Tariff Shelf...

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that's the final humiliation.

It’s this multiple times a day

Douthat has been doing this from when he joined in 2007; under 3 different EICs, 2 publishers, and I don't know how many opinion editors and he's never been scolded for it.

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession.

They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.

“After Trump got his.”

A useful, replicable phrase.