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ah, an exactly wrong take the reason mon mothma becomes the figurehead of the rebel alliance and that the alliance gets catalyzed is because Ghorman protesters are radicalized and armed and pushed into accelerationist action by a terrorist leader this isn't subtext it's text
Mike Benz (aka “Frame Game”) is once again demonstrating his lack of reading/listening comprehension to push his pet conspiracy theory — falsely portraying a research study from my team that *counted* 20M tweets related to 2020 election rumors as “targeting” (implying censoring) those tweets.
If new popes pick their names to signal their intentions, Leo XIV clearly intends to build on Leo VIII's 19th century encylical Rerum novarum, the foundation of Catholic social teaching which includes the right to fair wages & working conditions & the right to organize labor unions.
who can deny your moral right for prosperity and order? / you fell outside your mother on the correct side of the border / and this mother-fall gives you all the power you wield today / but there are forces in this world that can make all that go away (in a second) youtu.be/bTWckV-DGzg?...
"Until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope." -Robert Barron, appointed by Donald Trump to the so-called "White House Commission on Religious Liberty" Only a few hours passed between this statement and the appointment of Robert Prevost as successor to Pope Francis.
80 years after Liberation Day, far-right parties are the strongest parties in the polls in the UK, France, and Germany. For every politician the most pressing question should be how to save liberal democracy. Yet, small minded partisan tactics prevail. The far right gets normalized and empowered.
Police violently attacked anti-war students tonight in #NewYork. "NYPD attacked demonstrators...charging into crowds, pinning students to the ground, using chokeholds, and threatening protesters with batons...two people were carried off campus in stretchers. 75 arrests have been confirmed so far. "
I am not a trade expert, but everything I read on tariffs gives me the sense that we are about to go over a very major economic cliff. And everything I see out of Trump indicates that he is inclined to double down even and maybe especially once the pain hits. I PRAY that this undoes the dude
I asked if I could take his picture. Yes. I stepped across a band of shit. The pigeons began to frighten. Too close. A cloud of gray & blue & pink rushed at me. He looked up. Bare of birds. He said nothing. I stepped back. The birds returned. Together they ate. He said “Now,” & I took my picture.
“I hope other wealthy people consider how much they can accelerate progress for the world’s poorest if they increased the pace and scale of their giving, because it is such a profoundly impactful way to give back to society” - Bill Gates www.reuters.com/business/bil...
“Of all the things at risk, the loss of objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest”
I’m seeing so many “social media celeb” Catholic priests rushing to remind us all “not to politicize the papacy” (are you kidding me???) and that it’s not about whether a Pope is “progressive or conservative” but whether he is “holy”. Sure. He should be a holy person, but let’s define “holiness” /1
It is honestly very funny that the far right grifters class wholesale sold itself on adult conversion to reactionary Catholicism. I assume because they saw the Monty Python Spanish Inquisition sketch and never once bothered to check it again the realities of the contemporary Church
Although this article mentions mentions Marjorie Taylor Greene's claim that wildfires were "started by Jews wielding space lasers," it doesn't highlight the degree to which so many of these right-wing conspiracy theories, like QAnon, are rooted in antisemitism. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/b...
The military parade for his birthday is actually really funny because he's clearly mad about Macron getting to watch and be filmed watching the military for the Fete Nationale on Bastille Day, and he's so small, so petty, so jealous, and so week that he wants it to be about him.
The fact that American fascists were not smart enough to seize on an American being made pope and are instead fighting about increasingly reactionary views and how to be a better rad Cath etc shows they are not focusing on narrative wins or creation and no one is really at the helm for some of this.
The zombie theory of vote switching. Only a tiny share of today's far-right voters are former social democrats. True in the UK as much as in other European countries. Yet, in politics, media and the public debate this narrative lives on. No matter how much evidence you throw at it, you can't kill it
My employer, Dartmouth College, is only Ivy not to sign a "defend higher ed" letter. But as our newspaper reports, an uncommonly high number of mild-mannered faculty have signed a letter demanding that our president join the fight. Even the economists. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...
Williams College's Special Collections has an incredible small collection of medieval manuscripts, including an early 9th c lectionary from Tours that apparently no one works on outside of classroom examples. So, if any of my medievalist people have an interest...
Rural colleges and universities have “a long history of welcoming international students and can have large international student population relative to the entire student body.” “… many community leaders recognize the benefit international students can bring to economically depressed rural areas.”
It’s so wild that MAGA people expect the pope to be an American nationalist. The last pope Leo *grudgingly* accepted the existence of republican France. The pope who was in the saddle in 1776 died in the custody of Napoleon. It’s impossibly moronic to look at this institution through an OANN rubric