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Shane Claiborne
Shane Claiborne@ShaneClaiborne·
A few weeks ago, I was arrested… along with over 20 other people, as we carried the names of children killed by the weapons of Lockheed Martin, and prayerfully blocked the entrance to the world’s largest weapons contractor. Tomorrow morning, many of us will make our case before a judge. Pray for us… but even more pray for the children and families in Gaza and Iran and Lebanon… pray for an end to war… pray that companies like Lockheed Martin that profit from death would be held accountable… pray that we would turn our weapons into farm tools and study war no more.
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Hartzell
Hartzell@HartzellForKC·
Six years ago today, George Floyd was murdered by Derek Chauvin, and his death shook the country to its core. His murder changed us forever. His unjust death changed me forever. George, may you rest in eternal peace and power.
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Ed Krassenstein
Ed Krassenstein@EdKrassen·
DISGRACEFUL: ICE agents tear-gassed U.S. Senator Andy Kim at Delaney Hall detention facility in NJ today! Kim was supporting hunger-striking detainees protesting spoiled food, no medical care & extreme heat when federal agents unleashed tear gas & pepper spray. Kim struggled to breathe & injured his hand in the chaos.
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Congresswoman Analilia Mejia
What’s happening at Delaney Hall is unacceptable. I visited this morning with my colleagues to inspect conditions, get information about the hunger strike, and demand answers. Delaney Hall must be shut down, ICE must be reined in, and this fight is far from over.
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Senator Andrew Zwicker
Senator Andrew Zwicker@AndrewZwicker·
ICE agents pepper spraying protesters and a US Senator, abusing detainees and terrorizing innocent people. No more. I’m requesting funding for the Detention, Deportation, Defense Initiative in the FY27 budget so we can protect our state from ICE’s terror. nj.com/news/2026/05/i…
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Kristen Clarke
Kristen Clarke@KristenClarkeJD·
5 yrs ago, I was sworn in as Asst Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Justice Dept. While this DOJ has abandoned its mission and left vulnerable people out in the cold, I’m hopeful. There are far more who stand for justice than those opposed. Keep fighting for democracy.
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Adam Schiff
Adam Schiff@SenAdamSchiff·
At the Palm Springs Air Museum’s Memorial Day ceremony, I joined veterans and Gold Star families to honor the service members and their loved ones who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our country and our freedoms. We are grateful to these heroes, today and every day.
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Norm Eisen
Norm Eisen@NormEisen·
Trump can’t make payments only to those prosecuted by Dems—or AT ALL We called it within minutes, this is absurd & a violation of the Constitution We @DDAction_ & pro-democracy partners are fighting to stop even $1 being paid from this unpalatable & ILLEGAL fund 👇 -TN
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Rubberneck .".@RealRubberNeck·
@NormEisen @DDAction_ 100% legal. Already adjudicated. No appeals necessary or possible. The only person in the world who has standing is Trump. This is first year law school stuff...
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Admiral Mike Franken
Admiral Mike Franken@FrankenforIowa·
No women on the Navy flag selection list this year. Sixteen % of the service zeroed out by weak civilian leadership. This will take years to recover.
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Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats@OccupyDemocrats·
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV enrages MAGA by formally apologizing for the Church's role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries, calling it a "wound in Christian memory." This is truly historic and Republicans are furious... “It is impossible not to feel deep sorrow when contemplating the immense suffering and humiliation endured by so many in stark contrast to their immeasurable dignity as persons infinitely loved by the Lord. For this, in the name of the church, I sincerely ask for pardon," Leo wrote in “Magnifica Humanitas,” his much-anticipated first encyclical. While previous popes have apologized for the Christian involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, none has ever delivered such a direct apology for the broader role that the Church played in the survival of that deeply evil institution. The Vatican at times gave European monarchs express permission to colonize and enslave foreign peoples, slathering their brutal crimes against humanity in a veneer of Christian piety. In the 15th century, Pope Nicholas V went so far as to give the Portugese throne authority to subjugate and rob “Saracens, and pagans, and other infidels, and enemies of the name of Christ” as well as "reduce their persons to perpetual slavery.” Leo took that history on head-first— "Already in the early modern period, the Apostolic See of Rome, responding to the requests of sovereigns, intervened several times in order to regulate and legitimize forms of subjugation, and, in certain cases, including the enslavement of ‘infidels,'" he wrote. "In the development of her doctrine, the Church has gradually come to a deeper awareness of the gravity of these issues," Leo stated. "It is true that past events cannot be judged anachronistically, as though the moral criteria that matured over time had always been available. Yet neither can we deny or diminish the delay with which both society and the Church came to denounce the scourge of slavery." He added that it "took eighteen centuries" for the Church to "explicitly" recognize its "full incompatibility with slavery." “This constitutes a wound in Christian memory, one from which we cannot consider ourselves detached,” Leo added. The pronouncement has already been met with outrage from many members of the online right, who believe that the Western world should never apologize for anything it's done, not even slavery. Social media is aflurry with MAGA accusations that Leo has succumbed to "suicidal empathy" and "white guilt." These are the same people who believe that the Civil War was fought for "states' rights" and that the Confederacy was an admirable endeavor. “For descendants of enslaved persons, this is once again a much needed apology from the pope,” said Anthea Butler, senior fellow at Oxford University's Koch History Center. She added that the apology empowers Leo to “speak to the current issues of technological enslavement.” The Pope's slavery apology was part of a much lengthier document whose title translates to "Magnificent Humanity." It's largely focused on humanity's roles and responsibilities as artificial intelligence reshapes the world around us. Leo connected the topic to slavery by warning that these emergent technologies are leading to new forms of human exploitation and debasement, as neocolonialist labor practices are implemented to provide the rare minerals necessary to build AI chips. The situation in the Congo is particularly dire, with untold masses of men, women, and children being paid next to nothing — and in some cases nothing at all — to work in inhumane, unhealthy conditions mining cobalt. While so many of our world leaders are failing to confront the challenges and evils of the modern world, Pope Leo is boldly leading the way. Please ❤️ and share if you're a big fan of Pope Leo!
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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders·
A great turnout in Portland, Maine. The people of Maine and all across the country are saying NO to oligarchy, NO to authoritarianism and NO to endless wars. Graham and Troy will take on the billionaire class and fight for a disappearing middle class.  Thank you, Maine!
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Interesting Perspectives
Interesting Perspectives@MargaretBa69297·
@JoyceCarolOates He’s not just a religious leader. He is an extremely intelligent, highly educated, morally sound, thoughtful human. He is historically, philosophically and intellectually grounded. He thinks at a depth and breadth far beyond technology. He speaks to meaning.
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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates@JoyceCarolOates·
many will probably disagree but what a thoughtful, nuanced response to AI from a religious leader... it is actually startling when a religious leader gives evidence of caring for the well-being of others & does not merely repeat familiar phrases & injunctions to confirm his own faith & cast aspersion on the faith o others.
Ole Lehmann@itsolelehmann

the pope and anthropic's co-founder just stood together at the vatican to release "magnifica humanitas," the first ever catholic teaching on AI yes, you read that right. the full ceremony was 2 hours. here's the most interesting things for you to know: 1. this is the biggest religious response to AI in history. popes only put out a handful of these huge official letters in their entire time as pope. the fact that one of them is about AI tells you how seriously the church is taking what's coming. 2. small detail with massive meaning: this pope picked the name "leo XIV" on purpose. the last pope named leo was leo XIII back in 1891, and his most famous act was writing the church's response to the industrial revolution. picking the same name is a deliberate signal. this pope sees AI as the new industrial revolution. 3. the catholic church does this every time a major technology reshapes humanity. they wrote "rerum novarum" in 1891 to respond to the industrial revolution. when nuclear weapons threatened the world in the 1960s, they wrote "pacem in terris." climate change and runaway tech got "laudato si" in 2015. now AI gets "magnifica humanitas." they don't issue these often. 4. the pope's main line: "AI needs to be disarmed." he literally compared AI to nuclear weapons. he said the church spent decades pushing for nuclear disarmament because the technology was too dangerous to leave in the hands of a few. he says AI is now in that same category. 5. anthropic co-founder christopher olah told the pope, on stage at the vatican, that anthropic's own research team keeps finding things inside their AI models that "mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." 6. olah's reframe of what AI actually is: these things are grown. they're trained on a structure roughly modeled after the human brain and fed everything humans have ever written. in his own words: "they are made from us, from our words." he said even the people building them don't fully understand what's happening inside. 7. olah publicly admitted that every AI lab, including his own, faces pressure that can conflict with doing the right thing. commercial pressure to keep shipping, competitive pressure from other labs, plus the older pressures of pride and ambition. his solution: we desperately need outside critics with no skin in the game who will tell the labs when they're failing. 8. olah says there are 3 giant questions the AI labs cannot answer alone and the world needs religion and philosophy to step in on: > how do we make sure poor countries actually benefit from AI? > what does human flourishing even look like in this new world? > and what are these things we're actually building? 9. one of the sharpest lines in the whole encyclical: "the promise of automatic general prosperity often proves illusory." translation: the idea that AI will just make everyone rich on its own is a fantasy. someone has to actually design the system so the benefits get shared. 10. the pope also pulled out a 100-year-old quote: "contemporary man has not been trained to use power well." said by a theologian back in the 1920s. the whole encyclical is basically a long argument that we need to learn how to use this kind of power before it uses us. 11. the pope kept stressing that he doesn't have the technical answers. but he says the church has thousands of years of wisdom on what it means to be human, and that wisdom is exactly what's missing from how we're building AI right now. his closing line: this technology should serve "human flourishing and human dignity, not control consciences."

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Rubberneck .".
Rubberneck .".@RealRubberNeck·
@JoyceCarolOates There is nothing this pope can "teach" anyone about ai. The church should be focused on spiritual matters, not man made computers. Try that, clown 🤡
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Rubberneck .".
Rubberneck .".@RealRubberNeck·
@MarkJCarney You are a clown. The flotilla people were absolutely lying, and idiots like just eat it up.
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Mark Carney
Mark Carney@MarkJCarney·
Today, I spoke with the President Herzog of Israel. I reiterated that the appalling treatment of civilians aboard the Gaza-bound flotilla was unacceptable, and that respect for human dignity must be upheld everywhere, at all times. I underlined the imperative of de-escalation in the Middle East, and the importance of a genuine resumption of dialogue among all parties. Progress toward peace and stability in the region must remain the clear, shared objective.
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Democracy Docket
Democracy Docket@DemocracyDocket·
A birth certificate proves citizenship in this country. Trump does not want that to be the case. If the Supreme Court rules in Trump’s favor in the birthright citizenship case, a U.S. passport will be the only way to prove citizenship. “If you don’t have [a U.S. passport], you’re not going to be able to register to vote,” Marc Elias said.
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