Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com I am following with deep concern what is happening in the Middle East and in Iran during this tumultuous time. Stability and peace are not achieved through mutual threats, nor through the use of weapons, which sow destruction, suffering, and death, but only through reasonable, sincere, and responsible dialogue. 6:33 AM • 3/1/26 • 893K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com Faced with the possibility of a tragedy of immense proportions, I make a heartfelt appeal to all the parties involved to assume the moral responsibility of halting the spiral of violence before it becomes an unbridgeable chasm. May diplomacy regain its proper role, and may the wellbeing of peoples, who yearn for peaceful existence founded on justice, be upheld. And let us continue to pray for peace. 6:33 AM • 3/1/26 • 187K Views

The Pope on Iran:

“Faced with the possibility of a tragedy of immense proportions, I make a heartfelt appeal to all the parties involved to assume the moral responsibility of halting the spiral of violence before it becomes an unbridgeable chasm.”

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Now you know why we are where we are today. Last year, he said we destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities. That was another lie.

A highly complex website showing two betting accounts earning nearly $500,000 and $120,000 on a minimal number of positions.

In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28.

Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier.

The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.

lmao people worrying about an apple watch in a SCIF when these guys are drawing up war plans in claude and placing side bets with online bookies

Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home.

14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.

No surprises, surely?

Candidate is arrogant charmless TV presenter & hates everything: lose.

Campaign is entitled technocracy + smearing left-liberalism: lose.

Candidate is local & can make OK speech about how a good job should lead to a good life: win.

Normal politics is trying to be born.

300 million on the streets in a historic national strike in India : Peoples Dispatch The strike was called jointly by the worker unions and farmers groups to demand the withdrawal of the anti-people policies, such as the four new labor codes and the recently signed trade deals with th...

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When a racist suggests a group has cast votes illegally, without supporting evidence or contrary to overwhelming evidence, they are asking for permission to disenfranchise those voters as a future project. It is a statement not of the facts as the occurred, but a statement of intent.

I would say one of the main right-wing projects of the past twenty years has been gaming every web 2.0 platform into thinking the right-wing is much bigger and more influential than it actually is. And the people who have been most taken in by this effort has been the right wing

Tottally, some non speaking cameo, whose name is only learned when they show up as an crappy extra minifig to bulk up the big LEGO set. Like Bib Fortuna and Kash Patel.

Boomers: Millennials, only you can save mother earth

Millennials: omg we will do it, we will save her

Boomers: no

Donald Trump canceled Direct File after giant tax prep companies spent millions lobbying.

Why? Because Direct File let you file your taxes for free.

So today, I’m introducing a bill to make Direct File the law of the land. And 160 members of Congress are joining me.

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

EMBAJADA DE CUBA Cuba in the UK • @EmbaCuba_UK • 1h This was not a migration event; it was a heavily armed, coordinated paramilitary operation against #Cuba. Confiscated from the US-registered vessel: Assault rifles 口 Handguns Improvised Explosive Devices (Molotovs) Body armor & telescopic sights Miami Cayos Falcones Havana CUBA ) 23 ılıl 253

Cuba in the UK ‹ @EmbaCuba_UK•1h G... The detained attackers are US residents. Crucially, two individuals (Amijail Sánchez González & Leordan Enrique Cruz Gómez) are already designated on #Cuba's National Terrorist List pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1373. 1 7 10 19 ill 354 贝 企 Cuba in the UK • @EmbaCuba_UK•1h | S... #Cuba has also arrested a local facilitator sent from the US to receive this armed group. This is a clear, undeniable case of cross-border terrorism planned, financed, and launched from US soil against a sovereign nation.

More info about the US Cuba attackers

Yeah BIG surprise www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

To be fair it is hard to do anything economically to punish Kansas that their own destructive GOP hasn't already done to themselves.

Excellent and wild read

Students feel like they can’t enroll in majors like Af-Am Studies and WGSS because they’re getting messages from all sides that they’re not remunerative. And yet they desperately want the knowledge, so classes are full. That seems to be the situation everywhere.

This over the course of 5 days, disrupting lives now and endangering them going forward any time they need to show licenses or IDs.

This while marauding ogres are demanding arbitrary identification or else they lock you up for as long as they like.

And it's the year of a major federal election.

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

What folks need to understand is that the Democratic party is through and through a fundraising organ, largely as a consequence of our broken election finance system.

Electeds get into office through skill at raising money, not skill at leadership.

They are wholly unequipped for this moment

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

note: it’s not enough to be white collar, stupid, and greedy. to be a Lumpenprofessional, being full of shit must be at the very core of your whole career

i propose a category of workers called the Lumpenprofessionals. AI snake oil CEOs, career op-ed columnists, personal injury attorneys who advertise on the subway. who else

Back in the News: Uihleins Shuttled In Workers From Mexico Billionaires supported Trump's anti-immigration stance while using Mexican workers.

The most read article in the past 24 hours: Back in the News: Uihleins Shuttled In Workers From Mexico

This isn’t getting enough attention for me

Trump has been declaring that America is in a constant state of emergency for the past year. Funny how he couldn't be bothered explaining these critical national emergencies when he reported on the state of the union yesterday. Bit of an omission there, Donnie.