behold how these things pass away so that others may succeed them, and the low universe comes together in all its parts

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A picture that really affected me as a teenager is this one of rosaries confiscated at the border, thrown in the trash, and recovered by a janitor who worked at the border facility
JUST IN: Catholic Archdiocese sues Trump administration, alleging immigration detainees are being deprived of private confession, communion, & other sacraments.
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BREAKING: DHS contractors are toppling the last of four ancient cottonwoods to build double border walls across the San Rafael Valley. The wall cuts through the key remaining wildlife corridor for endangered jaguars between Arizona and Sonora, where human border crossings are seldom seen. A protest camp had occupied and protected this tree for more than 60 days, halting construction. The camp was raided and campers were arrested this morning. This wall will effectively lock the remaining jaguars in the U.S. into solitary confinement, while permanently marring one of the last remaining wild places along the Arizona border.
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Arguing for the death penalty by appealing to the most famous case in world history of a guiltless man being wrongly executed is a titanic self-own
Christ Himself accepted the death penalty
Community note
While Jesus submitted to his crucifixion, the Gospels depict the process as unjust and interpret his acceptance as sacrificial, not as an endorsement of Capitol Punishment. bbc.co.uk/religion/relig… biblegateway.com/passage/?searc… biblegateway.com/passage/?searc…
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I love my shitty band <3333333
Just got a “Fuck ICE” and “Free Palestine” from Karly Hartzman at a Tyler Childers concert in Portland, Oregon. The cheers she received didn’t surprise me. The fact she is Jewish did. Never heard of her shitty band, Wednesday, until tonight.
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Joanna Newsom for Rodarte ss27
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she is so gorgeous wow… like it’s almost frightening…
why do literally ALL of the albums pitchfork praises and gives scores of like 9.0+ sound like this… literally all of them.
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tinashe … would you ever… take a chance… on a girl like me ..???
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my Albums 🤍
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hiroshi yoshimura wasn’t showing up otherwise i would have put GREEN on here too
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this club banger 😍
IBFs Magazine
why do literally ALL of the albums pitchfork praises and gives scores of like 9.0+ sound like this… literally all of them.
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A single regent honeyeater is worth more to me than all the computers, LLMs, and techies in the world combined
A rare split-second view of the critically endangered Regent Honeyeater banking in flight, revealing its exquisite black and gold plumage. Fewer than 400 remain in the wild. 📷 Jan Wegener ( @jan_wegener_ )
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podcast flopping, acting career torpedoed, getting too old to be coquette… most people would have the self-respect to pack it up instead of saying increasingly depraved things in a desperate bid to maintain relevance
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if i got fired from the cast of succession for being a huge piece of shit i'd never show my face in public again
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It's incredibly important to aggressively resist the idea that AI can be conscious or have "personhood," not only because it's as ridiculous as believing that a book can think, but because once this is accepted, "AI's interests" will very quickly be prioritized over humanity.
Note well, apparently Anthropic tried very hard to get the Vatican to alter the text of "Magnifica Humanitas" just prior to its release so that it would not deny AI personhood.
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Some ppl will never be swayed by evidence of your humanity because their goal is not to move through life with empathy and connection, but to continue supporting violence that makes them feel even tangentially powerful. Logic and empathy doesn't penetrate bad faith! Their souls have rotted away in self-made prisons that reflect the ugliness and cruelty of their world!!! There are a great number of people who DO understand, and healing, love and safety can be found in each other ILY
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“Abolishing the death penalty” was quietly removed as a stated goal of the Democratic Party as of 2024. Just something I’m thinking about today
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time to prosecute Sam Altman
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This guy has gotta be recalled ASAP lmao. Just throw it all out and start over.
Xavier Becerra, the Democratic candidate for California governor, has taken substantial corporate funding from oil companies like Chevron. He assured us that he won’t take money from just any company, though. Watch the full interview: sf.news/3VVgRcN
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The Israelis cannot be any more clear what their goal is. They say it over and over without euphemism. But a mass psychosis has taken hold in most Western govts & media that refuse to engage with the monstrous reality of what this country is instead of the fantasy in their heads.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Gaza: The biggest key to migration is: take away their hope. If you annex up to the Yellow Line and say, "This is ours," and leave them with a tiny, crowded and destroyed area, everyone will understand that there is nothing to look for there and they will start searching for solutions for where to go. That is the right thing.
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gotta be high up on the list of things you are not supposed to say out loud
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
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