Lucy Pick

After his editorial equating a man who promised mass deportation now with a woman who won’t jail you if you have an abortion.

He could have kept his mouth shut. That was also an option open to him. He could have said something like, American Catholics should pray about it and decide.

I assume that will be n the “Grokepedia.”

Pope criticizes Harris and Trump and tells US Catholics to choose ‘lesser evil’ Pontiff, 87, likens abortion to ‘assassination’ and condemns Trump over immigration plans

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/s...

Indeed, the last months of my relatives were spent here and I should read this.

I lowkey think Matt is using an LLM for his most recent tweets. “Chatgpt, write a post that will generate controversy and engagement.”

Remembering how Pope Francis was so unsure about whether Trump or Harris was the greater evil.

Oh I see they’re planning it for the whole Christmas season. They’ll raid the Catholic Churches on the feast of Guadalupe and Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve.

Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.

Knee-buckling report from Justice Dept sources. "[T]wo pastors close to Trump have given their approval.... One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans."

thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...

Catholics don’t do special masses on Tgiving. They must be planning to raid all those little Pentecostal storefront churches. Evangelicals attacking their own.

Sian Bielock, jeez.

Hopelessly devoted to minor presidential candidates.

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...

I’m seeing the same thing.

“That’s when I noticed the sheets of Kimpton Hotel stationery that would alter the course of our lives.” Omg, so bad.

That’s one way to stop your girlfriend from cheating.

I’m old enough to remwhen he said it would be by September 2025.

Disgusting. And Summers‘ wife Elisa New suggesting Epstein read Lolita. Vile people.

In my view, MTG’s greatest asset is that she has an understanding of where the MAGA crowd is in issues that rivals and now probably exceeds Trump’s. If she thinks this is the right avenue to pursue, I’m betting on her.

We were saying in a grubby flat on Park Lane (!) and we ate at a simple Italian place in Mayfair where they were so sweet with us. The IRA bombed it to smithereens the following winter.

I visited the UK for the first time in 1975 and my impression of it as a child of eight was it was dirty and poor.

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

Maybe Epstein is haunting him

The NYT will never love you back, Emily.

Sulzberger. Bingo.

I think she just told us. Depends how rich/powerful the guy is.

Exactly what it says on the label: The Pope in 1982. He's wearing a black hat, dark RayBans, and looks like he's a member of the Blues Brothers.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.

Ew she ran a modeling agency.

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

Someone said this exchange happened a month before the famous Helsinki Trump Putin meeting when Trump came out looking like a whipped dog. I have not checked the dates but interesting if true.