Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech:
“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
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The Trump way has always been to cause problems and then partially solve them by backing off what he did to cause the problem, and then calling the whole thing a "victory." It's like if I threw a baseball through a window and then taped cardboard over the hole and declared myself a Window Genius.
Me too
Looks amazing. (Research has an extra "s").
"It's so bizarre to me how obsessed you are with the federal government," sneered the woman to the people who elected her to be their voice in the federal government.
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Thank you, Washington Post. More like these, please ...
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
A federal judge in Seattle issued a preliminary injunction late Friday blocking the government from withholding federal funds from hospitals in four states that offer gender-transition treatment for people under 19.
The first Republican senator to condemn the Trump administration for “embracing Putin.”👇
🚨 BREAKING: OMG! JD Vance ended up fleeing to an undisclosed location after being met by hundreds of furious protesters in Vermont on Saturday, according to Fox News. What a snowflake!
The backlash is real.
On the disobedience beat. Video of former NFL player protests laying his body down during city council proposal for a city MAGA plaque:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
Gov. Janet Mills of Maine threatened legal action after President Trump said he would withhold funding to her state unless she complied with his executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports.
Read more: nyti.ms/3F2nn9a
Again, cruelty is the point. This puts the lives of trans people at extreme risk.
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I imagine it will be challenging for this boycott to have an economic impact on such major players, but as one of the quoted sources says it could send a message. Kudos for Newsweek for covering this. It's a mainstream media story.
www.newsweek.com/nationwide-e...
(next to an image of Chappell Roan) “It's brutal right now, but trans people have always existed, and they will forever exist. And they will never— no matter what happens— take trans joy away. That has to be protected more than anything." CHAPPELL ROAN Grammy award winning artist
“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
Money talks
