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“Human beings are called to be co-workers in the work of creation, not merely passive consumers of content generated by artificial technology.” — Pope Leo XIV

Share this three minute video of @hollybfletcher.bsky.social before the National Capital Planning Commission hearing today on the Trumpal Arch if it speaks for you too. youtu.be/TP4v40ax_uw?...

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

I want MSNBC’s coverage of the SotU to have a laugh track. That would make it watchable.

A pretty plausible reason for Trump to have taken out a low-risk target like Maduro may simply have been so that negotiators in the future could say “You don’t want to test Trump. He’s just crazy enough to bomb you. Look what happened to Maduro.”

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Don’t look away.

Walz to Trump, Vance, Miller and Bovino: come get your fuckin’ dogs.

Hand switch at the 29sec mark thus freeing up his right weapon side hand:

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

Make it viral.

I forget which is which regarding Venezuela vs the Epstein files: Is it “you can’t impeach a wartime president” or “an impeached president can’t start a war”?

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

We already know what’s in the Epstein Files.

If Trump is going so hard pushing paper ballots it must mean they’ve figured out how to cheat with them.

@maddow.msnbc.com just one of the No Kings gatherings in Reston, Virginia.

I was in a CVS at Connecticut and K in DC in the 70s when Alan Alda popped in, looked around briefly, and left.

Near, far, wherever Russian strategic bombers are Ukraine's drones will go on and on

“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc

The new Pope didn't tweet once in 2024. In 2025, he's posted 5 times, in which he: - Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus - Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies - Retweeted twice about the Pope's health - Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.

An American is the leader of the free world. Plus, there's Donald Trump.

I did not make this and don't know who did, all the same - lmao

this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news

The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.

Il Dupe

This guy gets it. It’s a succinct and thoughtful piece on where our country is on the slippery slope. It doesn’t hurt that his writing is a delight to read.

@kaine.senate.gov Do the job we who voted for you expect of you: vote no on cloture; no on the CR

Jewish activists hold sit-in in Trump Tower For Mahmoud Khalil

Historian here: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

We need to change our approach. This is a great framework

Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.

Exclusive: “Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon…” www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

Two men walk, but only one marches. One steps forward into history, the other drags behind, weighed down by the demons of his own delusions. #SlavaUkraini #NAFO #TractorCounteroffensive #StandWithUkraine #PutinWarCriminal #ArmUkraineNow #StandWithUkraine #ZelenskyUnchained #DefenderOfDemocracy

Commit to Democracy has Heather Cox Richardson and Simon Rosenberg teaming up for a virtual Town Hall in March: mobilize.us/s/VAMHoo

Our new president is a sore winner.

The reason to move the inauguration indoors was the cold, but not for the reason you’d think. The freezing temperatures will keep people away from the mall and it was going to look bad. He has to keep up the landslide popularity farce because that’s his whole justification for what’s to come.

Mr. Hegseth, how many ounces of alcohol have you had in the past 24 hours?

True meme of the day. Stay strong Los Angeles.