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Thiel brings his Antichrist lectures to the Vatican’s doorstep, and Catholic institutions back away One of the hottest tickets in Rome these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel.

Thiel brings his Antichrist lectures to the Vatican’s doorstep, and Catholic institutions back away

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Lawyers in landmark social media addiction trial make final appeals to the jury After about a month of hearing from addiction experts, therapists, platform engineers and executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, a jury will listen to closing arguments before heading to the deliberation room to decide whether social media companies should be liable for harms caused to children usin

A jury will listen to closing arguments before heading to the deliberation room to decide whether social media companies should be liable for harms caused to children using social media.

I have found that the correct administration of caffeine for my swing shifts is one cup of coffee after noon, one cup of black tea at 1500, and one cup of green tea at 1900 to round the evening out with a light buzz (and not fall asleep between 2300-0000).

"Something that's not yourself." — An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård - Believer Magazine Karl Ove Knausgård enters the empty cinema in the Ingmar Bergman Center with a package of cigarettes in his hand and asks me where I got my coffee. He runs away to get a cup for himself before sitting...

"Something that I’m trying to achieve with these books is to create a feeling of here-and-now."

—Karl Ove Knausgård, interviewed by Rebecka Bülow

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The Catholic Kerouac - Word on Fire Jack Kerouac’s Catholic faith was the beating heart of his work and life. He personified the inherent contradiction of the Beat Generation.

"Sainte Therese, choosing Love for her vocation and pouring out her happiness, from her garden by the gate, with a gentle smile, pouring roses on the earth, so that the beggar in the thunderbolt received of the endless offering of her dark void. Man goes a-beggaring into nothingness."

Military Leaders Say Iran War Is So Trump Can Bring About “Armageddon” Troops have logged more than 110 complaints about such comments with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.

Military Leaders Say Iran War Is So Trump Can Bring About “Armageddon” newrepublic.com/post/207270/... via @newrepublic.com

Bruce Springsteen or Stephen King? 1. You take Mary out for a nice drive. Disaster ensues. 2. Bit by bit, this town is killing you. 3. Two remorseless killers careen acro...

"You leave the carnival with your arm around your girl and climb behind the wheel of your car. It feels like nothing could go wrong."

U​tah's Republican Governor professed, “I was praying ... that [the killer] wouldn’t be one of us.”

But then a 22-year-old electrician from Utah, the son of a MAGA family with a passion for guns, was arrested—and they appeared to recognize Robinson as maybe, just maybe, one of them. trib.al/8z5LV9Q

Episcopal Church removes priest who founded Christian psychedelic society (RNS) — Hunt Priest was removed from ministry nearly a decade after participating in a controversial study on clergy and psychedelics.

“It was done to try to influence religious attitudes to accept psychedelics by giving clergy drugs which make you really open to suggestion,” Welker told RNS. “I came to believe that Priest was a victim, and the other folks were a victim of a really unethical study.”

I can’t wait to watch Bugonia so I guess I’ll just watch Kinds of Kindness again

melania constantly refreshing the tl

she said that “black” with a hard r

Moderate North Carolina Democrat Won’t Take AIPAC Cash for 2026 Rep. Deborah Ross became the latest Democrat to swear off AIPAC amid pressure to hold Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza.

Rep. Deborah Ross became the latest Democrat to swear off AIPAC amid pressure to hold Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza.

By the numbers: the latest Ice and CBP data on arrests, detentions and deportations in the US The Guardian US reviewed figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection since Trump’s inauguration

The Guardian US is releasing a new tool today, a tracker tallying the arrests, detentions, and deportations since the start of the second Trump admin. We are going to continue to update as the admin releases new data: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Lana Del Rey Talks New Album, Finding Love, & Life in Louisiana In a candid conversation, the pop icon reflects on her first year of marriage, the hold-up on her country record, and why she may be eyeing Hollywood next.

Obsessed with pretty much every line of this interview

I have a patient today who will not quit farting. I am wearing a mask but I cannof escape these farts. I have been smelling these same farts for 10 hrs. I am at a breaking point.

Why does the sound of the dishwasher at 10pm in my empty, clean house soothe me so completely tf out?

All of Us Strangers 🎄🥲

My kitchen smells like yeast dough and grilled aubergine 😋

having eradicated all of my other vices I shall now take to reposting redundant yet endearing animal vids like a boomer on facebook

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations “In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

"Listen here, my good bitch. Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI."

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

"What is his level of responsibility? What is a fair moral comparison? What consequences should a liberal society impose—if any—on someone like him?"

One Lancet study estimates USAID's destruction by DOGE will cost 14 million lives. It also decimated an entire ecosystem of organizations & careers.

I am an old enough man now where I shout “oh god! ooo yeah!” as I settle into bed at night

Did it get lost among all the other entries in your datebook, Blanche?

Fleabag - Wedding speech by The Priest YouTube video by T Dolma

My parents just finished watching Fleabag at my recommendation and my mom reminded me of this scene 🥲

This is my favorite of these yet

‘Not Only Cringey but Politically Troubling’: Paul Preciado’s Dysphoria Mundi, Reviewed The philosopher’s reflections on his own privileged experience of the COVID-19 pandemic range from the bizarre to the frankly obscene

Was curious about this book but this review helped deprioritize that