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[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

A few weeks ago I had a conversation with an American who genuinely believed Europe and Canada would help the United States in its war with Iran. I asked him why he thought that, given that Trump had spent months threatening to annex Canada and seize Greenland. He went quiet. Then he said he had never heard of any of that.

Not that he disagreed. Not that he thought it was exaggerated. He had simply never encountered the information. It had never arrived.

This is worth pausing on. Because in every other functioning democracy on earth, that information would have been impossible to avoid. Not because Europeans are smarter or more curious. But because of how news works outside the United States. The BBC and The Daily Telegraph hate each other. Le Monde and Le Figaro disagree on everything. Aftenposten and Dagbladet have been arguing since before most of their readers were born. But they all cover the same events. A threat to annex Canada is not a left-wing story or a right-wing story. It is a story. It runs everywhere. You hear it on the radio driving to work. You see it on the newsstand. Your colleague mentions it at lunch. Facts are not a channel you choose. They are the weather. You step outside and they hit you.

The only media ecosystems on earth that work differently are not political opposites of each other. They are North Korea and Russia. Not because the content resembles MAGA content. But because the architecture is the same. In all three cases, outside information does not get filtered or reinterpreted. It gets blocked at the door. A completely parallel reality is built inside, maintained by repetition, and sealed from correction.

This is why the rest of the world does not just disagree with MAGA voters on foreign policy. It finds them genuinely disorienting to talk to. Not offensive. Disorienting. Like speaking to someone who is absolutely certain the building has two floors when you are standing on the third.

Which brings us to today’s masterclass. And this screenshot says everything.

A Trump supporter posted: “Absolute masterclass by Trump. He got the Strait open without any help from Europe and without any boots on the ground.”

That post was written on the same day a refinery on Lavan Island burned for hours after the ceasefire was announced. On the same day Iran’s own official statement read “this does not signify the termination of the war.” On the same day Iran kept its toll system, its uranium program, its protocol over the strait, and walked away with sanctions relief and reconstruction aid.

The post is not stupid. It is not written by a bad person. It is written by someone who received a completely different set of facts than the rest of the world did. And from inside that information environment, with only that data, the conclusion is perfectly logical.

That is what makes it so unsettling. It is not ignorance. It is a sealed universe, doing exactly what sealed universes do.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I wish to appeal to the governments and peoples of the world to renew and strengthen their commitment, to increase the resources dedicated to combating hunger and its root causes, and to remove the obstacles that prevent aid from reaching those in need. At the same time, such support should also strengthen engagement with the Church and civil society. Reinforcing the capacities of all these actors together will multiply our collective effectiveness in the fight against hunger.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7

[Antonio Tajani @Antonio_Tajani]

Le gravi e offensive parole del Presidente Trump nei confronti del Presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni offendono tutta l’Italia. Per questo motivo ho deciso di annullare la mia visita negli Stati Uniti prevista per i prossimi 21 e 22 giugno.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.

[I TELL IT LIKE IT IS - LIKE IT OR NOT @DawgzRuul]

Millions warned you that trump was a scorpion and only ran for re-election for himself.

You who elected him are the ones responsible for the current destruction of this nation.

He's stealing our tax dollars - and you Republicans do nothing.
He's squashing rights of Americans AND immigrants - and you do nothing.
He commits war crimes - and you do nothing.
He has completely weaponized the DOJ for his own personal use - and you do nothing.

I hope each and every Republican in office is charged with crimes in the future for not stopping the most corrupt individual to ever be elected.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Yet, a bright possibility emerges: that of building together, of transforming diversity into a resource and of making listening and dialogue the common ground upon which to cultivate justice and fraternity.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We must, then, avoid the “Babel syndrome,” namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance. This is the risk of dehumanization: building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

This passage from Leo's Encyclical is perfect. Perfect.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Trump is in power to make autocracies predominate. America must be wrecked so thoroughly it will take generations to recover: helping diseases to spread is part of this.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

The evaporation of critical thinking among the American people is truly shocking. How our nation substituted going to the library and reading books, valuing our Western traditions going back to Plato and Aristotle and replacing it all with mediocre conspiracy InfoWars, Joe Rogan podcasts, or Fox News evening Murdoch media so obviously intended to create a new generation of billionaires at their expense, I mean I get it, but I never thought the American people could be this gullible or susceptible

[Kristen Holmes @KristenhCNN]

Here's what one official told me on the President's revenge tour and Massie ahead of tonight:

"It’s not a retribution campaign, it’s a send a message campaign," a Senior White House adviser told CNN. "It's about reminding people of the political power. It's not about retribution..This is basic political management of a party. You have to keep everybody on the reservation. Occasionally you have to shoot a hostage. The next one is Thomas Massie."

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

At a time when our world is afflicted by so many conflicts, particularly in the Middle East, Christians must, more than ever, strive for full unity so that we may bear witness together to the Prince of Peace. In doing so, we can be confident in the powerful intercession and example of the countless martyrs who have suffered for the name of Christ. #ChristianUnity

[Ole S Hansen @Ole_S_Hansen]

(Reuters) - Chicago Board of Trade wheat and K.C. wheat futures climbed by their daily trading limits on Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture projected the nation's harvest will drop to the lowest level since 1972.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

@WHO 15/n: As I sometimes say (Ann hates this metaphor), "Mother Nature is not being coy," she's telling us exactly what the plan is, an acceleration in zoonotic spillover events due to climate change, deforestation, and urbanization, same for arthropod-borne illnesses

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

@WHO 13/n: For instance with this ANDIV hantavirus outbreak, we should have had a therapeutic monoclonal antibody already in hand, and vaccine contracts already in place. Instead we are fighting this outbreak the same way we did one hundred years ago.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

10/n: On the U.S. side our Dept HHS has dismantled pandemic preparedness. We have dropped our active surveillance, canceled contracts for new interventions, including vaccines, and allowed incurious ideologues to run the show. I believe our U.S. biosecurity is at an all time low

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