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The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Yes. Very casually turning the SSFA into a determination that any statute addressing race discrimination must be time-bound. Just absolutely untrue. An utter usurpation of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

Is there any reason the SCOTUS advocate just directed his comments to Justice Alito when he was being questioned by Justice Sotomayor??

Goodness, what a week

‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet

As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

I wish Justice Busby would make a BlueSky account so I could know if TX bar results are going to drop 😅

The only saving grace about this razorbacks game is that we are now another loss closer to Pittman’s buyout provision shifting to only $3.5 Mil instead of $9 Mil.

#WPS

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Brad Lander's comment during the NYC primary that people view Dems as either "fight" or "fold" people is the best characterization of how lose -- this is a fold strategy, and people want their candidates to fight for them, not step on their necks trying to reach across the aisle.

/9 By the way - we should also fight the inclination to abandon the rule of law because bad people are cynically abusing it. First, while bad things happen on a national scale, every day on a micro scale advocates use the rule of law to fight injustice and improve lives.

The ZcavengerHunt is one of the coolest demonstrations of political mobilization that I have seen in awhile. It’s so clever!!

A matter of time is a fantastic album

This and the fact that the anti-Catholic views persisted where JFK was questioned about his loyalties to the country or the Pope.

It really puts into perspective that Catholics were largely disfavored when utilizing any history and traditions analysis

a woman with glasses and a stethoscope says i am a savage classy bougie ALT: a woman with glasses and a stethoscope says i am a savage classy bougie

Me walking into the bar tomorrow

No, just go to therapy, please.

ICYMI: Trump’s tariffs are taking money out of your pocket.

Chicago-area children get deportation letters: Leave or ‘the federal government will find you’ Immigration advocates warn that a growing number of children are now receiving letters from DHS ending their humanitarian parole.

"“They say I have to leave the country immediately,” the young teen whispered in Spanish, barely meeting anyone’s eyes at a Chicago law firm on a recent Friday afternoon.

No explanation. No hearing. And no time."
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/t... [gift link]

The return of the mullet is an indication we have lost our way as a society

I saw a clip of this response in Colbert’s TV interview with Anderson Cooper and have always adored him after that response.

I didn’t know the larger context, but that just makes it so much more admirable

YouTube video by Robert Reich The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)

Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?

Well, they may already be doing that thanks to a shady tactic called “surveillance pricing.”

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains what we can do about it. youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?...

What is freedom? Are you really free if your groceries or medicine are so expensive that you can’t afford them? Or if yo How Monopolies Secretly Steal Your Freedom (ft. Lina Khan)

What is freedom?

Are you really free if your groceries or medicine are so expensive that you can’t afford them?

Or if your boss can change your work schedule on a whim or block you from getting a new job?

Lina Khan explains how excessive corporate power makes us less free.

This is absolutely unacceptable.

like canceling student debt is a major question but....

dismantling the dept of education - firing 50% of the staff so they can't perform their various functions that congress has assigned them .... isn't?

let's take stock here:

(Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it.

Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... 🤷‍♀️ YOLO?

Freedom of association and evidence issues aside, this is going to be used as pretext to racially profile.

Barbri should be happy that I can now easily spot propensity evidence!

Obviously evidence that a person hangs out with someone is evidence of their character (sarcasm)

Texas is going to see this and claim that the TDCJ is actually being green by depriving their prisoners of air conditioning.

you are SUPPOSED to signal virtue. The actual argument, such as it exists, is that people are signaling virtue while not actually being virtuous. But you are supposed to signal virtue and BE VIRTUOUS.