Prayers up for me because I have to be on a work trip on election night and I haven’t had to work in person on Election Day since 2016 and I don’t know how I’m going to do
Pope Leo XIV becomes the first pope in history to vote in a U.S. election, submitting a mail-in ballot in Chicago ahead of the midterms.
Pope Leo XIV has become the first pope in history to vote in a US election
Pope Leo XIV has become the first pope in history to vote in a U.S. election. The Vatican on Friday confirmed the Chicago-born Leo submitted a mail-in ballot in Chicago ahead of the November midterm election.
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I went to Twitter HQ in San Francisco years ago & they had this in a framed triptych on the wall. ❤️
RIP sir patrick stewart, brought to you by two of my best friends from south jersey
Pope Leo will vote from the Vatican, by mail, in Illinois' midterm election chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Pope Leo will vote from the Vatican, by mail, in Illinois' midterm election
That mail ballot had to travel a long way — from Joliet to the Vatican City, where Pope Leo XIV has led the Catholic church since white smoke appeared from the Sistine Chapel in May 2025.
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Patrick Stewart story that I've told before: He did a few performances with The Improvised Shakespeare Company, one in New York (for about 15 minutes of the show) and one full show in Chicago. It was the upstairs at iO in Wrigleyville - maybe 100 seats. Nobody knew he would be there.
The passing of a loved one who has had dementia and especially someone with a big, fun personality is, honestly kind of a relief for them even if it hurts for you. In whatever comes next, they’ll get to be themselves again, and that is wonderful (dementia is the fucking worst)
the lead-in here is so smooth ☠️☠️☠️
Jordan Uhl@jordanuhl.com · yesterday"There's not like seeing a cult right up front man."
Also it would be fine if we’re in a rom com and they just met tonight
Felina510@felina510.bsky.social · 2d agoREACTION FACE GIRL IS MIZ'S FIANCÉ
Watching another team’s fans celebrate their first World Series
Norm Charlatan@normcharlatan.bsky.social · 2d agoWatching another team’s fans celebrate their first World Series
jacob misiorowski fought in pokemon battles and payton tolle fought at the somme
Yesferatu@iloveredrobot.bsky.social · 2d agoA weird baseball thing is they will show you a guy who is clearly in his mid 40s and then a guy who is obviously 15 and then actually, no, both of these men are 23.
Judge David Carter: "Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government … the Executive would have this Court believe that it reigns as a sole sovereign. But California and its people are sovereign, too."
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoReuters: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LOSES INITIAL BID TO BLOCK CALIFORNIA FROM COUNTING MAIL BALLOTS FROM ALLEGED NONCITIZENS
Coug Night at the Kraken // every piece of sports merch can be a monogram if your first initial matches your city
“At Harvard, students are clamoring for a class that assigns a hefty book a week, requires regular essays, bans digital devices. Humanities 10 drew 180 applicants for just 90 spots this fall. Students expressed urge to be forced to think for themselves in the age of AI." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ha...
The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take
It’s an ungodly amount of reading and no easy A. So why are freshmen lining up to get into Humanities 10?
wsj.com
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d agodon’t forget the inverse secondary, inequality the other way: freedom to learn with your human brain from human teachers who professionally decide on curricular applications of model use, a freedom for only the students at one kind of institution
"Nothing of this scale has been seen in the United States, experts say, since the federal government’s counterinsurgency against the New Left and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s." Incredible reporting here from @awinston.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.
wired.com
I’m in the on-deck circle taking off my pants, hopefully I can get this taken care of before my teammate is done batting.
Every World Series commercial makes me feel like I’m in one of those interactive episodes of Black Mirror
The Kalshi ad with Shane Gillis and Danny McBride makes me want to destroy my TV
So far, remarkably high turnout by young Black voters in Georgia. Eye-popping chart.
Dj@djsoke.bsky.social · 4d ago18k 18-29 voters in GA today, 53% of the same day in 2024, by far the highest %24 day so far. Today only: Black 18-29: 77.3% of 2024 White 18-29 voters in blue ATL counties: 51.9% White 18-29 in the rest of the state: 31.3% Cumulative numbers below
WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department says it will give US visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family.
This will be the ✨third✨ round of restructuring at Xbox this year (everyone at Xbox received this offer)
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4d agoMicrosoft has offered 60,000 employees, or about 27% of its global workforce, voluntary buyouts as the software giant spends heavily on artificial intelligence.
9:30 a.m. PT finals on a start time on a Thursday is fucking nuts