NEW: Pope Leo XIV has criticized Donald Trump’s Iran War for the third time in three days:
“Find solutions, without weapons, to resolve problems,” the first U.S-born pontiff said.
“Pray for peace, work for peace, less hatred. Hatred keeps growing in the world.”
such as, what my predecessors left undone, I will finish
03.03.2026 02:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0it's surreal how Witkoff's talking points about Iran are just warmed-over Bush talking points on Iraq ...
03.03.2026 02:41 — 👍 1682 🔁 421 💬 114 📌 25
the bombings will continue until peace improves
01.03.2026 02:00 — 👍 2527 🔁 618 💬 215 📌 75
You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.
Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.
JUST IN: Judge Murphy has ruled that the Trump administration's policy of sending deported immigrants to third countries without notice or a chance to challenge is illegal and unconstitutional.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Amen! I love an essay that blithely refuses to focus on the latest passing fad and goes for the jugular -- contrasting two of the greatest stories ever about women in love.
25.02.2026 00:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yes, @brianbeutler.bsky.social is correct on billionaires.
www.offmessage.net/p/the-case-f...
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
22.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 7370 🔁 1900 💬 165 📌 204Looks like a great story but it's almost impossible to read, because pop-ups etc.
21.02.2026 17:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0my cackles will sustain me through the gulag
21.02.2026 02:03 — 👍 133 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 0Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
21.02.2026 00:51 — 👍 11814 🔁 3925 💬 107 📌 128Bolsonaro in prison, Yeon sentenced to prison, Andrew arrested on his birthday...and America still holding on to a 34 count felon as President.
19.02.2026 12:26 — 👍 5348 🔁 1415 💬 94 📌 70
James Talarico: My Republican colleagues were promoting a hoax that students were identifying as cats.
They want us talking about furries so we don't realize that they are picking our pockets, gutting our health care, and raising taxes on all of us while they cut taxes for their billionaire donors.
Next week, Trump will deliver his State of the Union address. I won't be there.
Trump is marching America towards fascism, and I refuse to normalize his shredding of our Constitution & democracy.
This cannot be business as usual.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...
An Andrena bee, her pollen baskets loaded with yellow pollen, is gathering pollen from bur oak flowers. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
Here is an Andrena bee gathering pollen from a bur oak. Pollinator insects are busy as flowering begins. Honeybees get all the attention, but we should know this: There are over 4000 species of native bees busy pollinating; and honeybees are not native to North America, but are imported livestock.
18.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 66 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0
If they force us to choose between calling for the resignation of imbecilic bigots or normalizing hateful religious incitement, that’s not a tough one. This fanatic should spare his constituents any further embarrassment and resign.
18.02.2026 15:56 — 👍 3473 🔁 882 💬 151 📌 34Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
14.02.2026 03:39 — 👍 4400 🔁 1118 💬 46 📌 20LATimes op-ed I believe
14.02.2026 01:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tell me again that you don’t understand the econ…oh never mind
13.02.2026 18:40 — 👍 464 🔁 41 💬 21 📌 2You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
12.02.2026 20:38 — 👍 12631 🔁 4476 💬 208 📌 113
You can repeal an endangerment finding.
You can’t repeal the endangerment.
But don't just take it from me; ask our most prestigious scientific institution – the US National Academy of Sciences:
12.02.2026 20:10 — 👍 31 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The high wouldn’t last. Seahawks safety Julian Love soon intercepted a throw from New England quarterback Drake Maye, and the Patriots never recovered. In the end, Kane lost a bit less than $100,000 in bets that favored the Patriots. “What are you gonna do about it? You get very numb to these kinds of numbers,” said Kane, who works out of his one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia.
In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint
www.wsj.com/business/med...
West Texas is so slow economically it looks to be going backwards. Few signs of life. Even the steers look lonely in the vast emptiness.
08.02.2026 18:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's sad that people were tricked by this conman so many times. It's like the Mark Twain quote: “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
08.02.2026 15:28 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The Mountain Theatre at Mount Tamalpais State Park is one of the crown jewels of Civilian Conservation Corps #mountaintheatre #mttam #mttamalpaisstatepark #civilianconservationcorps #castateparks
08.02.2026 17:13 — 👍 71 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
The Friday roundup is here. With links to the latest podcast episode! And I wrote about the ways that people keep themselves from seeing or responding to the suffering of others. What if Senator Katie Britt *was* haunted by Liam Conejo Ramos's detention, yet still won't do anything to protect him?
06.02.2026 23:56 — 👍 64 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 7
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
