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Raphael Warnock meets with Mike Johnson after questioning speaker’s Christian faith
(Both photos via AP)
I mean, Strong is definitely pulling off a pretty remarkable impression here.
Random question: folks have posited that decentralized social networks (namely, Bluesky and Mastodon) with good features (e.g., Bluesky's super block, decoupling quote-posts on demand, etc.) are better for society/democracy than centralized ones.
But has anyone crafted a study to try and test that?
Hegseth does not appear to answer the question, which is not about motives, but whether the U.S. military plans to hit civilian infrastructure in Iran and whether that, in turn, would constitute a war crime.
Tbh, I think that study would likely be hard to craft and/or it'd probably work best as a series of studies testing different granular things and seeing the results.
But I'm curious if anyone is actually *studying* that, or if there's just a lot of dialogue around it.
Ahead of this event, I keep thinking about the joke Obama made at Trump’s expense at the 2011 WH correspondents dinner, when Obama flashed the image on the left on the screen poking fun at what a (then hypothetical) Trump presidency would look like.
It’s theorized the joke spurred Trump to run.
More on Rice's victory here: religionnews.com/2026/06/09/w...
Last night, the Southern Baptist Convention elected Willy Rice as its new president.
His win is seen as a victory for the denomination's right flank, and showed up in my colleague @bmietana.bsky.social's recent story on "pastors who support ICE raids." religionnews.com/2026/06/05/m...
