Michele Dostert

Mission Accomplished. Cranky Tom has the watch.

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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True. And thete's not many opportunities to use that excellent word. One should always seize he opportunity when it arises.

Vance has displaced Cruz as the person most deserving of the adjective "oleaginous"

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

I liked playing with GI Joe as a kid as much as the next guy. I also have a surplus British bag in my truck. I think it once carried a gas mask? Now it carries disposable gloves, baby wipes, & my daughter's "booboo box". What I like about it is that it was five bucks

ICE GOONS are harassing two 15-year-old boys on bicycles in Chicago.

Proof, again, that "Truth Social" is a fraud. Trump was in office Jan. 6.

Nice recap

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

Both he and Musk have fried themselves completely on club drugs and are far too egotistical and surrounded by sycophants to even be self aware of it. I have friends who followed this exact arc and none were rich by their mid 20s so they all are dead or live their parents.

Lol. It’s amazing how much college exposure to a famous horrible person can mark you. A friend roomed with Ted Cruz and you do NOT want to get him on a rant about it.

/4…..just had their brains utterly broken by it. Generally it seemed that the people who saw themselves as naturally entitled to leadership and adulation, but whose awful personalities hindered them, were the most broken by it. (See also Dinesh D’Souza.)

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

The President using the military as his personal police force to intimidate American citizens is deeply un-American. This is the behavior of an autocrat. Full stop.

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

According to the victim's attorney, the body camera captured the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good”
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a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

Yes. Trump republicans are often sexual predators and pedophiles. Going to church is their cover. Gross, I hope he got caught in a sting with a cop who was not 15 but looked it.

If you're going to write headlines like this, why even have newspapers?

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

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a russ vought special

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument