View on Threads There’s a new Pope in town. Editor Joe Gandelman at The Moderate Voice goes to mainstream news and social media for reaction to Pope Leo XIV. Turns out conservatives are in meltdown. Those outside of Trumpville kind of like a Pope who urges a more Christlike approach toward migrants and others who are marginalized.…

Acts of kindness are everywhere. Humanity on a bus: View on Threads News Corpse notes the political reality. Fox polling joins every mainstream poll, showing that voters don’t like Trump, or Musk, or what they are doing in pretty much every area. So, naturally, Trump attacks Rupert Murdoch. Dave Columbo provides a wonderfully frank review…

Too cute: And so we transition from our new source of sweetness to more familiar wellsprings of wisdom: Hackwhackers has US District Judge Paula Xinis stomping all over specious falsehoods and evasions offered by Trump and Trumpers to excuse deportation and continued imprisonment of innocent US resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The 4th Circuit Court of…

Disturbed at Musk reading your private stuff? Well, this is startling: Yikes. That was intense. We can take comfort, maybe, in the always available sagacity offered by our usual suspects: Dave Columbo tracks the overlapping, contradictory, TrumpFolk narratives about the on‑off‑on‑off TrumpTaxTariffs   Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the numbers. The American public doesn’t much…

As a kid long long ago, I was taught to write out a straight line list with commas between all items, even when it concludes with and. As in: My loved one asked me to move the car, clean out the garage, and move the car back in. As opposed to: My loved one asked…

From @pubity on TikTok: Leading us to blogging wisdom from the usual suspects: The Beaverton reports from the Mediterranean as Greeks celebrate the results of Trump’s first weeks in office. They are no longer the civilization that has fallen the furthest. The editor of the Yale Review has finally broken the code. He has the…

From B/R Football on TikTok via mike taddow on Blue Sky – An amazing athlete: Let’s climb up the mountain to our internet gurus: tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors is always entertainingly acerbic. In this case, sarcasm is especially justifiable, as tengrain lists a few ways accidentally revealing combat decisions to a reporter ahead of…

From Pubity Group: And on to contributors of weekly wisdom: When it comes to an overload of human tragedy, there often comes to the human psyche an incapacity for empathy. Large numbers become a mere statistic. Brian Beutler finds individual cases that make it personal. www.cbsnews.com/news/grievin… [image or embed] — Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler.bsky.social) March 19,…

From Chris Kinney: So sad to note the loss of Kevin Drum, whose extraordinary internet presence pulled many of us through the Bush, and later Trump, years. There are no adequate words. I am occasionally reminded of the sinister portrayal by actor Marton Csokas of an erudite and thoroughly evil Russian villain (19 second clip)…

From The Borowitz Report, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with a Russian agent. Key reprimand: After the Ukrainian thoroughly destroyed his counterpart in the meeting, the Russian agent received a harsh upbraiding from his Kremlin superior, Elon Musk. The meeting in brief: Trump and Vance who, like many of us, have mercifully never seen war…