Virginia Jeffries

A security agent for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just warned the reporters here — for Hegseth’s first press conference in 6 months — that we will be physically removed from the briefing room if we are not professional and maintain decorum. We asked if that meant no shouted questions and got no clarity. It’s the first time any of us could ever remember being threatened like this. Shouted questions are normal. “This is crazy town” one journalist said, noting the White House has never threatened reporters like that. We’re in the room, back row:

This would’ve been a great fucking time for someone, ANYONE, to come to Kaitlin Collins’ defense and call this orange sack of shit a LOSER right to his fucking face.

Hundreds of elected Republicans and thousands of their staffers lost their jobs last night. All of them will now be unemployed and looking for work in the terrible economy that they helped create while serving Trump.

"The question was never whether bishops may pray for a president. The question is whether bishops may allow themselves to be staged, on camera, in the Oval Office, during an election the president is actively campaigning in." ncronline.org/node/342536 via @NCRonline

Vatican statement from doctors says Pope Leo’s recovery is “progressing very well” but they have advised against him travelling by helicopter for a meeting in Assisi on 27 October.

Note well, apparently Anthropic tried very hard to get the Vatican to alter the text of "Magnifica Humanitas" just prior to its release so that it would not deny AI personhood.

I think Bishop Barron has just published a piece against "empathy" on his Word on Fire platform. Am not sure just how this squares with the papal magisterium here.

A priest of the Archdiocese of San Antonio who was "found guilty of schism" has been removed from the clerical state and excommunicated, according to the archbishop of the archdiocese. bit.ly/3UEDmSG

💥New Netanyahu & Likud electoral campaign poster showing Ayatollah Khamenei, Turkey's Erdogan, Nasrallah and New York's Zohran Mamdani with the slogan: "They want Netanyahu to lose. Don't let them win."

Iran has received an offer from America that it considers “serious”, therefore it might help lead to de-escalation, a source in Tehran told me