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I guess you mean his name predesessor, Leo XIII, but the choice of name may be an indication of his standing.

Ikke fall for den kule mannen Mange har noe å lære av Aftenpostens feil.

Les denne!
www.aftenposten.no/shared/menin...

Happy Friday!

This is the resistance.

Cause some Good Trouble today!

This is really something

Would have been an unthinkable column from @gideonrachman.bsky.social a month ago. www.ft.com/content/11f1...

Et 100 år gammelt gjenferd har våknet til live. For under 3 generasjoner siden sendte det en hel verden ut i død og tyranni. Nå står det og roper i ansiktet vårt, men vi nekter å tro det øynene våre ser og ørene våre hører.

Det er på tide å våkne nå.

A satirical timeline chart showing the evolution of the Twitter logo from 2006 to 2025. The timeline begins with a basic blue bird in 2006, evolving into a more detailed bird by 2009, and the familiar blue Twitter logo in 2010 and 2012. In 2023, the logo changes to a black "X." By 2025, the chart depicts a Nazi eagle emblem with a swastika, suggesting a provocative commentary on the platform's direction.

Devolution.

Front cover of Private Eye.

Opinion | Lessons on Authoritarianism From Around the World (Gift Article) Tyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

H/t George Conway — it’s perfect 🤣 from Olivia Julianna:

A wide aerial view of a snow-covered landscape at the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. Rows of rectangular building markings and brick chimneys extend symmetrically, marking the remains of structures. Railway tracks run in the foreground, with a lone red freight car positioned nearby. A single tree and barbed wire fences frame the stark and desolate scene, evoking a somber and reflective mood.

Our mission is to commemorate victims, preserve the historical site & educate the world about the tragic history of Auschwitz.

Follow @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social & shape memory with us.

CARTOONS OF THE DAY 🫤

(Cartoonists are rallying around @anntelnaes.bsky.social as she leaves the @washingtonpost.com )

1995: Let’s be up until 230 at a party and carousing and then get up at 5 to go to the parade, that’s awesome

2024: Really midnight in New York is the canonical NYE so we only have to stay awake until 9 p.m.

A right wing car maker who bought a media outlet in order to amplify antisemitic conspiracy theories is advocating for a far right German party that promises to expel a disfavored minority? You don’t say.

10/ We went back to West Point. They apologized.

An Army spokesman wrote:

3/ We called back to ask if that meant that Hegseth had never been admitted and a second spokesperson told us on the record:

“Absolutely 100%. Because he never opened a file.”

2/ We contacted the West Point Public Affairs Office.

A spokesperson wrote on the record: “According to the admissions office – Hegseth had not applied for admission to the U.S. Military Academy.”

1/ Here’s a story about how journalism works.

Spoiler Alert: This is how we decide *not* to publish.

We were recently looking at Pete Hegseth’s different statements over the years about West Point, where he has said he was admitted.

First stop: West Point.

BREAKING: The Bank of England will hide the identities of any pension funds, insurers or hedge funds bailed out under a new financial stability tool to prevent a wider crisis engulfing the economy, per Bloomberg.

James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.

Frederick Douglass, still relevant: