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Pope Leo XIV has said that the world is being “ravaged by a handful of tyrants” who spend billions on war
“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain,
dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth,”
Leo told a gathering at Saint Joseph Cathedral in western Cameroon.
“They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation,
yet the resources need…

"It becomes very dark when religion is used to justify immoral behaviour... "
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c070jxyjrmeo
Religion, the ultimate power tool for rulers.

Trump’s rift with Pope is playing out in public - it’s costing him valuable support
Leading conservative Catholics tell the BBC why they back the American pontiff in his spat with Trump.

“A country might justify that position if it used the proceeds to build something (anything!) like world-class public services, extraordinary infrastructure, or a society so well-functioning that the trade-off had a visible return. Ireland did… None of this. It extracted from others and failed to build anything for itself. That is the uniquely disgraceful aspect of the Irish model; not the extraction alone, but the total nothingnessthat followed it. The nothingness we live in.”
This is…

Mind the Gap
Ireland is the second richest country in Europe, and this week a single protest shut it down. Here's why.

Massive, massive, overlap between people who justify military action against another country based on terrible things it has done to its domestic population, and people who don't think asylum should be offered to any person subject to those things.

"Some supporters of the US-Israeli war on Iran are using the treatment of women in the country as a justification for bombing it."
How is feminism being used to justify war in Iran? | US-Israel war on Iran | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/12/how-is-feminism-being-used-to-justify-war-in-iran?traffic_source=rss

Federal prosecutors have repeatedly filed charges (and appealed adverse rulings),
arguing that
⚠️knowingly crossing the border is sufficient to prove criminal intent.
More than 20 legal scholars and former prosecutors told reporters they could not identify a conventional
law-enforcement or military goal that would justify their persistence.

The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law
One man, who admitted he had entered the U.S. illegally and was ready to be deported, sat in jail for 40 days over unfounded allegations of trespassing on military land. The Justice Department keeps pursuing similar cases, puzzling legal experts.

Opinion | The Rush to Justify Citizens’ Deaths Should Scare Americans https://www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-the-rush-to-justify-renee-goods-killing-should-scare-every-american/

Opinion | The Rush to Justify Renee Good’s Killing Should Scare Every American
Duvalier Malone warns that the federal government’s rush to justify ICE’s killing of Renee Good’s should concern all American citizens.

“The Accessibility Problem Isn't Design. It's Engineering.”
https://gbbns.co/journal/accessibility-problem-isnt-design/
Looking at EAA as a compliance concern, with LLMs as the accelerant going the wrong direction.

When in history has it ever been about being a good person in a vacuum. It never mattered what you'd do if the time was right, you had infinite money, no status to lose, and no other hurdles to rush through. It was always about what you'd do given the circumstances you find yourself in.
Would you offer someone refuge with little to spare for yourself? Would you stop and help someone in need even if it meant having to justify being late to an event or not showing up at all? Would you he…

DOJ says it erroneously relied on ICE memo to justify immigration courthouse arrests (Chloe Atkins/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/doj-says-erroneously-relied-ice-memo-justify-immigration-courthouse-ar-rcna265206
http://www.memeorandum.com/260325/p153#a260325p153

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Madonna:
🎵 Justify My Love
#Madonna
https://chitoon.bandcamp.com/track/madonna-justify-my-love-chitoon-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/1cYs6km6tAzpPVk62WLpHn

In the new episode of the YDS “Quadcast,” Professor of American Religious History Tisa Wenger discusses the early U.S. government’s use of Christianity to justify Indigenous land theft, the limits of religious freedom in America, and the importance of Yale’s new certificate in Native American and Indigenous studies.
https://

An attorney for ICE emailed Clayton’s office to say that the memo that prosecutors had relied on to defend the government in the lawsuit “does not and has never authorized” the arrests near the immigration courts, after previously claiming the opposite.
https://www.thegua…

I'm with the auditors on this one! Companies deploying AI need more expert human auditing, not less, at least until fundamental flaws in 'AI' are addressed and it's reliably accurate
'KPMG gets money off its own audit by arguing AI makes accounting cheaper'

RE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/116182695277730020
Imperialism wasn't done due to the racist beliefs that those we were colonizing are barbaric, the lie that they were barbarians was invented as a tool to justify the capitalist necessity of colonization.

The argument for (and against) selecting Jeremiyah Love as top-five pick in 2026 NFL Draft

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/jeremiyah-love-2026-nfl-dr…

I really don't understand how anybody can justify continuing to use twitter.
"The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography."
#Twitter

The #GOP #Congress owns this abuse - they have encouraged, not challenged, #POTUS47 and his lackies. This failure to protect our rights to due process puts everyone of us at risk.
ICE arrested an Oregon shop …

The #GOP #Congress owns this abuse - they have encouraged, not challenged, #POTUS47 and his lackies. This failure to protect our rights to due process puts everyone of us at risk.
ICE arrested an Oregon shop …

The inch that generative AI boosters give is the country mile that employers take to justify mass layoffs in the name of AI

Court orders ICE to justify arrest of Nashville journalist • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2026/03/08/repub/ice-nashville-journalist/

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116002596573081932
> To justify the sweeping move, officials cited a classified report by the Defense Department that they said found the projects to be a national security threat.
Blimey. A National Se…

Hey, remember when the regime was justifying everything they were doing because the “Dow was over 50,000”‽
Man, one month ago was a simpler time, huhn?

Trump advisers scramble to justify possible US military intervention in Iran | The Guardian #iran

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Struggles to Justify Trump's Threats (Greg Jaffe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/general-caine-iran-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p140#a260407p140

Sonnet 139 - CXXXIX
O! call not me to justify the wrong
That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;
Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue:
Use power with power, and slay me not by art,
Tell me thou lov'st elsewhere; but in my sight,
Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:
What need'st thou wound with cunning, when thy might
Is more than my o'erpressed defence can bide?
Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knows

Donald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms.
The fact that the attack violates the Constitution won’t stop him from trying.
It is our job to expose this plot and ensure that it does not succeed. https://www.

Trump’s attack on Iran and the plot against your vote
Donald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Madonna:
🎵 Justify My Love
#Madonna
https://chitoon.bandcamp.com/track/madonna-justify-my-love-chitoon-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/1cYs6km6tAzpPVk62WLpHn

Weird on so many levels.
Trump sends weird angry letter to Norway’s Prime Minister https://ground.news/article/trump-cites-nobel-snub-to-justify-greenland-demand-in-letter_fe8f31

The Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators...
...to advance their immoral agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
Original post: https://

just fixed the OEIL scraper (again!), someone who needs to justify their EU bureaucrat salary and pension had spent the (half) effort and renamed some (not all) css classes starting with "erpl_" to "es_", which of course we use in our xpath expressions and which thusly broke.
anyway big thanks and hugs to the kind person who reported the failing scraper to us. ❤️

I’ve been hesitant to share this since the post is strictly visuals sans alt text, but I think the examples it shows are worth it for those who are designing GUIs.
“It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons”
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
Though if you’re a sighted visual designer, you’ve like…

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

Sometimes, people with a large audience let it go to their heads. When they are shitty, they feel the need to justify it with fancy rhetoric because they're above the rest of us.
We all take shortcuts, we all cheat on the diet, we all hit the snooze button for another 5 mins of sleep, we all do the thing we think we can get away with (and then feel guilty about it later) because no one was looking. We're human. Sometimes you've just gotta be honest and own up and say "…

I give monthly to PBS, NPR, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Urban Milwaukee because I appreciate what they do, but there are soooo many others that put out the occasional article I want to read but can't justify paying a monthly or annual fee for. I wish there were an equivalent to the Libby magazine rack for stuff like the Wall Street Journal or The Verge.

I'm noticing people treating this as mere dysfunction, but it's not. City Hall is keeping most of the commissions intact because the whole purpose of “commission reform” was to justify an executive power grab, not because anyone seriously thought having too many commissions was a major issue.
And the executive power grab is still happening. 1/

S.F. supes plan to ignore the vast majority of commission streamlining recommendations
Commenters vented on Tuesday as the years-long debate over culling San Francisco's commissions moved towards a resolution

Found this meme as I took a second gumm... I meant doing self care.

Compilers are deterministic machines built by very smart humans. CNC manufacturing is deterministic machines built by very smart humans. In both cases, they produce higher quality output with more precision and repeatability than almost any skilled human.
LLMs are non-deterministic Autocomplete that produce lower quality output with worse precision than a human, and nobody actually knows how they work.
Comparing them to justify AI is simply not valid.

But it's worth recognizing the most brutal elements of church violence were directed at "others": Jews, pagans, Muslims, even other sects of Christianity. The Church's persecution of "heretics" neatly folded into the state, as the diest god of "Providence," represented by the "all seeing eye" atop a pyramid, ultimately justified a violent "civilization" of indigenous people.
The "Christianization" of the crusades became "civilization,' which, more recently, became "spreading democracy." Where once Atheists resisted the crushing oppression of the Church, they used the same arguments to justify the invasion of majority Muslim nations and the oppression of Muslims at home...

During a Palm Sunday mass in St Peter’s Square, the pope said the conflict between Iran, Israel and the US was “atrocious” and that Jesus could not be used to justify war.
“This is our God: Jesus, king of peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” he told tens of thousands of worshippers.
“He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.”
Quoting a Bible passage, Leo added:
“‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not li…

This is how superficial one needs to get to justify an argument of US global supremacy. Arthur Herman and WSJ deliberately choose to ignore Taiwan's unmatched leadership in superconductors and China's in energy. Instead, they turn to Soviet-style resources and headcount arguments. Apparently there is a force driving them to sacrifice whatever authority they might still have.
"China remains formidable. But from Europe and the Middle East to South America and Southeast Asia, …

Military Leaders See Iran War as Part of “God’s Divine Plan” #fascism

Military Leaders See Iran War as “God’s Divine Plan” — a Chilling Turn for Trump’s Fascism
A military watchdog has been “inundated” with complaints that officials are using end-times Christian rhetoric to justify war.

Gotta up the body count with some civilians to justify continued hostilities...and an emergency declaration?
US Embassies Tell Americans in Middle East They Can't Help Evacuate Them - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-embassies-say-they-cannot-evacuate-americans-middle-east-iran2026-3

Were Israel to shoot a Western journalist, the journalist would be like “I guess I was Hamas, oh, well, I guess I’ll die.”
I use “journalist”, here, very loosely. @… https://

Assal Rad
Israel is the world’s leading killer of journalists, they killed one of your own, and you still use “Israel says” to try to justify it. What a shameful post.

The Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators - to advance their agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
Original post: https://bsky.app/pro…

Stephen Miller and Donald Trump Want War
-- They are ignoring a judge's ruling,
ignoring the sovereign right of governors to keep their states safe
and ignoring the on-the-ground facts to justify their dangerous invasions
Source: Steven Beschloss
https://bsky.app/profile/an…

A.J. (@andynear70.bsky.social)
Stephen Miller and Donald Trump Want War -- They are ignoring a judge's ruling, ignoring the sovereign right of governors to keep their states safe and ignoring the on-the-ground facts to justify their dangerous invasions Source: Steven Beschloss share.newsbreak.com https://share.newsbreak.com/fbwk2m7v

black lives matter crowd cares about renee good
“all lives matter” people justify her killing
Very interesting

Religion Clause: 9th Circuit: Anti-Transgender Comments Justify Mayor's Veto of Membership on Police Advisory Board
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2026/02/9th-circuit-anti-transgender-comments.html

Remember how people gave techbros the term "#AI" to use for their #LLM crap, and then started using "AGI" for the old AI?
Apparently techbros are now selling LLM crap as "AGI": #spam mail anyway.
#NoAI #NoLLM

The US authorities saying that someone was a registered gun owner, when seeding a narrative to justify a killing, surely must be triggering the cognitive dissonance of the ruggedly independent bootlickers by now?

While pursuing regime change in Iran, Trump is desperately attempting to stop regime change through the midterm elections.
He needs a swift victory in Iran to avoid a quagmire, but he needs a long war to attempt the assertion of unconstitutional emergency authority over the electoral process.
Plunging into war followed Trump’s signature style:
he negotiated in bad faith,
turned to bombing when the sides were making “significant progress”, according to Oman’s foreign …

The Domination Translator Series: An Extended Essay on Various U.S. Supreme Court Rulings and Other Topics - Part 1. By @dominationchron via @IndigenousVI #acrel #law

The Domination Translator Series: An Extended Essay on Various U.S. Supreme Court Rulings and Other Topics - Part 1
How did the U.S. justify ‘ultimate dominion’ over Native nations and lands? This series examines the Doctrine of Discovery in Supreme Court rulings.

Fox News-Pilled SCOTUS Invents Wild Hypotheticals to Justify Curtailing Right to Vote by Mail (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-hypothetical-voting-by-mail-grace-period
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p101#a260323p101

What happened to the worst of the worst? Can’t wait to hear them justify this one.
55 year old US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear in subzero temps after warrantless search https://ground.news/article/us-citizen-says-ice-removed-him-from-his-minnesota-home-in-his-underwear-after-warrantless-search_e642e0

Trump describes Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer whose 2024 Paris Olympics match became a flashpoint in the transgender athlete debate, as a man who transitioned to womanhood.
-- She was not.
Khelif is a woman who was assigned female at birth. The entire anecdote, used to justify policy, rests on a lie.
Similarly, Trump claims that Somali-Americans in Minnesota have 94% unemployment.
-- The actual labor force participation rate for that community is approximately 70% …

A lawyer for ICE provided
false information to federal prosecutors
to justify seizing thousands of people seeking asylum and lawful immigration status in the U.S.
at immigration courts, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
The extraordinary revelation was included in filings by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton’s office
in a lawsuit brought by the New York Civil Liberties Union and various civil rights groups and community organizations,
which challenges …

Hegseth Invokes Divine Purpose to Justify Military Might (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/politics/hegseth-christianity-military.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p108#a260320p108

What is extraordinary is that Trump himself, prior to the attacks, made next to no attempt to articulate or justify to the American people, to Congress or to his allies his actions or his objectives.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/yet-another-mid-talks-attack-jeopardises-chances-of-iran-taking-trump-seriously?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

As Christians around the world celebrate Easter Sunday,
we go to Palestine to speak to Reverend Munther Isaac,
pastor of the Lutheran Church in Ramallah and director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice,
located in the city of Jesus Christ’s birth.
This year’s Easter preparations come against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran,
which many Christian nationalists in the U.S., including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
are framing in ext…

“Two Versions of Christianity”: Pope Leo Calls for Peace as U.S. Uses Religion to Justify Iran War
As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Easter Sunday, we go to Palestine to speak to Reverend Munther Isaac, pastor of the Lutheran Church in Ramallah and director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice, located in the city of Jesus Christ’s birth. This year’s Easter preparations come against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, which many Christian nationalists in the U.S., including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, are framing in extremist religious terms. R…

Trump’s likely casus belli for an attack on Iran
– which would be the largest US intervention since the Iraq war
– is fraught with contradictions,
and his top advisers have been left to cover for him as the White House makes the case for intervention.
In his State of the Union address this week, Trump alleged that Iran posed a direct threat to the US
and that the country was “working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America”.
But…

Senator Bernie Sanders has denounced the US attack on Iran,
comparing the justifications offered by Donald Trump to the lies used to justify previous US wars on Iraq and Vietnam that ended in disaster.
In a statement on social media, in which he called on his colleagues in the US Senate to deny the authorization for war Trump has not sought, Sanders wrote:
“President Trump, along with his right-wing extremist Israeli ally Benjamin Netanyahu, has begun an illegal, premeditate…

The FIFA tournament may create some new American fans, but at what cost?
Exorbitant ticket prices have cut out the game’s grassroots.
Onerous demands on cities have siphoned public money.
Fifa has boosted an openly corrupt administration at every turn.
Now wanton federal violence has made it difficult to justify having the World Cup here at all.
Safety, justice, freedom, the continued functioning of society
– these are all under threat.
Even to ma…

Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants.
Federal courts in the state are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II
to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves.
The Trump administration is attempting to criminalize presence in the United to justify removal.

Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register
Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants