Immigrants are being loaded into planes and sent to gulags in El Salvador with zero due process even after courts order they be brought back. I’m not saying trans people aren’t being targeted, but I’m not aware of it happening at that level or something similar. If they are, please educate me.
Targeting immigrant rights are how they’re testing taking away everyone’s rights. Eventually, it will be anyone who disagrees with them. That’s how fascist takeovers work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/nyregion/pope-leo-xiv-lgbtq-gay.html
It looks like there were some negative comments in 2012 and basically nothing since. I hope Leo XIV continues Francis’s strides toward acceptance.
Leo XIV has been solidly pro-workers rights, anti-racism, critical of the Trump administration, and, perhaps most importantly, very supportive of immigrant rights. He is solidly progressive on the vast majority of issues.
We all know that the growing fascist movement will eventually target trans people and gay people for jailing and rendition without due process, but the people they’re actively doing that to right now are immigrants. Having a pope who is a strong ally for immigrant rights is a very good thing.
If this nightmare continues to play out the way the MAGA Nazis want it to, I don’t think a pope who actually cares about human beings and their basic rights would turn a blind eye to abuses to the LGBT community. Let’s all hope for the sake of everyone that it doesn’t come to that.
Trump, who was almost certainly unaware of the new pope’s criticisms of him and his immigration policies in the past, sent Leo XIV his well wishes after he was made the head of the Catholic Church.
Imagine having to be the staffer to explain to Trump that the “first ever” American pope that he’s hoping will somehow sign on to his sacrilegious Anti-Christ bullshit is actually going to be the ultimate nightmare for him to deal with.
Pope Francis on steroids. Pope Leo XIV has a record of being pro-workers’ rights. He was the exact right pick for pope to stem the rising fascist tide that’s trying to co-opt religion.
You can be horrified by the lack of security and its implications, or you can rejoice in the rampant stupidity that will be on display when the leaks begin.
Emojis, ALL CAPS, general cluelessness, the JD Vance “I don’t know about this, but whatever” comments.
Changing CEOs to right the ship is what real companies do, and it can be effective. Tesla is a meme stock. It’s a hype machine designed to overpromise and underdeliver. Tesla is made of smoke and mirrors built around once-promising tech that was subverted for the interests of the VC parasite class.
Even if the board actually makes a move on Musk, they’re going to replace him with another money guy who cuts actual tech to pump up sales and marketing and drives more investing dollars into the black hole.
Granted, the next guy would almost certainly be better for the company than musk, given his mountain of bad press. But if Tesla actually wanted to make a real move, appoint an actual Tesla to run the company instead of another Edison.
His motives may be unclear, but his actions are crystal clear. He’s tried to enact tariffs already and been stopped before they were implemented because everyone knows the level of damage they cause. He’s moving forward this time. He’s deliberately crashing the global economy.
Why? Who knows? His Silicon Valley overlords demand it? I doubt it’s Putin, because Russia’s economy is hanging on by a thread, and the last thing they need is a global downturn, especially when it craters oil prices. Is it just that Trump is stupid, maybe senile, and ultimately in charge?
Regardless, the leader of the biggest economy in the world has decided that it’s time for a global recession/depression, so unless that course is changed, that’s probably what’s going to happen.
What level of bullshit can the right wing tech bros maintain when ordinary Americans are priced out of bread and circuses? Even the most unfair social contracts have rails.
More to the point, how many Americans have maxed out their credit cards paying bills and basic necessities? What happens when making the minimum payment on the maxed credit card balance makes them unable to afford food and housing? Are millions of people going to become homeless in the next several months? Is the credit system going to collapse?
Honestly, the solution at the citizen level is for everyone to file bankruptcy. It ensures a roof over your head, paused payments on debt, and it shifts all the financial losses to the banks. Banks taking actual losses and being threatened with insolvency puts their skin in Trump’s game to destroy the global economy.
Google is kissing the ring for the new would-be dictators, Trump and Musk. Don’t fall for any lip service to the contrary.
At this point, I think debasing his office is a sexual fetish. That also lines up with the pee tape.
Charge of the Light Vatnik Brigade
The last thorough report on Trump’s health came in 2019, when he was still president. That checkup classified him as obese with a weight of 243 pounds and a body mass index of 30.4, which raises the risk of heart disease, diabetes and other problems. That report also revealed increased dosages of medication for high cholesterol.
As for his family history, his father had Alzheimer’s disease late in life
That, plus an obvious cognitive decline do not paint a pretty picture. If Rs are realistically voting for President Vance, they deserve to know that.
I am outraged! Where are we going to find money for all the gender reassignment surgeries for undocumented children now?
Seriously though, good for them. Don’t let the Republicans in Congress play politics with disaster victims’ lives.
Same as killing the bipartisan immigration bill.
The Capitol Police were heroes on J6. An issue that didn’t get widely reported were the incidents of suicide among those officers. Source
Nothing to laugh about.
In hindsight, sending starving North Korean soldiers into the breadbasket of Europe to fight the breadmakers might not have been a great idea.
The tested LLMs fared much worse, though, when the Apple researchers modified the GSM-Symbolic benchmark by adding “seemingly relevant but ultimately inconsequential statements” to the questions
Good thing they’re being trained on random posts and comments on the internet, which are known for being succinct and accurate.
They have a point, but that’s a target-rich environment. Shitty GOP Senators grow on trees these days. Rand Paul? Lindsay Graham? And those are the ones who know better and go along willingly.
Tuberville will paralyze the ability of the US military to promote its best officers to carry water for Putin. Traitorous filth.
Sanewashing Trump while seeking to nitpick every tiny detail of Harris’s platform to death is the exact same “both sides” bullshit from 2016. What’s different this time around is no one buys these outlets as some kind of Fourth Estate above it all. They’re looking for a gotcha answer, so they can put up a clickbait title attacking Harris and generate more clicks.
Harris is not playing by their rules. Good for her.
The fundies thinking that pornography propagates “transgender ideology” says a lot about what kind of porn they’re watching.
Anthony Bourdain hit hard. I always thought of him as having the best job on earth. He got to see the best of the world and show it to everyone.
It just goes to show we all wrestle with our demons. Don’t ever be afraid to reach out for help.