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3 days ago | balloon-juice.com | Anne Laurie

Pope to Cardinals on why he chose the name Leo XIV: “There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution.” — Rich Raho (@richraho.bsky.social) May 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM How Pope Leo XIV became the conclave’s stealth candidate – The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0… [image or embed] — Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) May 10,...

4 days ago | balloon-juice.com | Anne Laurie

Welcome To The (Tomato) Jungle[image or embed]— NukularBiskits (Bo Alawine) (@nukularbiskits.bsky.social) May 3, 2025 at 7:14 PMStill can’t access my BJ email account, but I can embed pics, and Nuklar Biscuit’s tomato plants have me dreaming of summer culinary delights…(If you would like to share photos, let me know in the comments.)Meanwhile — What’s going on in your gardens, this week?

4 days ago | balloon-juice.com | Anne Laurie

Not only is it good news that Ed Martin is out; this is as express an acknowledgment we've seen so far from Trump about how the Senate can reject his nominees. Remember when his term started and he was going to try to force a recess to get his folks through in an authoritarian way?

4 days ago | balloon-juice.com | Anne Laurie

sending people to Libya who aren't Libyan is not deportation [image or embed] — Eric Budd (@ericmbudd.com) May 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM Sure, ‘disappearing’ inconvenient not-white people to some distant sh*thole seemed like a very Trumpian solution, but… “Judge warns Trump administration against Libya deportations” [gift link]: A federal judge warned the Trump administration Wednesday that it cannot deport immigrants to Libya, Saudi Arabia and any other country where they are not citizens without...

5 days ago | balloon-juice.com | Anne Laurie

How much of a tariff do you have to pay to import white nationalists from South Africa? [image or embed]— emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) May 9, 2025 at 7:12 AMNot so much South Africans, or even White South Africans — but White South Africans who can’t cope in a society where they can’t load the dice.