Reposted by Max Kuzmadan sinker @dansinker.com · 14hYou'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn. 8733151041
Reposted by Max KuzmaPop Base @popbase.tv · 12hAn Arizona man that fatally shot another male in a road-rage incident will be resentenced after an AI-generated video of the victim forgiving him was improperly used during sentencing. The initial judge said he felt that the AI-generated depiction of the victim portrayed “genuine forgiveness.” 5052398
Reposted by Max KuzmaRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10hCardinal Cupich: “For Chrysostom, the altar inside the church and the ‘altar’ of the marginalized person on the street were two aspects of the exact same reality. To bow before the consecrated Host while being indifferent to the stranger is a fundamental breakdown of eucharistic logic.” 66318
Max Kuzma @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social · 9h"Art, when it is authentic, is animated by restlessness. Art is an essential place of listening, where we allow ourselves to learn about the aspirations and wounds of humanity, its thirst for beauty, for justice and peace, and its search for meaning." - Pop Leo XIV 000
Max Kuzma @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social · 12hToday on my Substack, a review of Sara Bareilles's new album "Good Grief," with a bit of a reflection of redemptive suffering: maxwellkuzma.substack.com/p/sara-barei...maxwellkuzma.substack.comSara Bareilles and The Art of Grief“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. 000
Reposted by Max KuzmaMike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.nbcnews.comHow Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rightsAfter issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community. 481142652
Reposted by Max KuzmaDean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Great piece interviewing legendary liberation theologian Frei Betto on the election in Brazil. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.com‘Viscerally dedicated to social issues’: behind Lula’s drive to win final term in Brazil’s crunch electionLongtime friend tells of president’s obsession with social justice and fears for country’s future under another Bolsonaro presidency 131
Max Kuzma @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It’s so upsetting that this is what gets elevated in American Catholic spaces. 210
Max Kuzma @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We're actually already seeing this realization on anti-trans messaging from Third Way assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...assignedmedia.orgDemocrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned MediaInsiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights. 010
Reposted by Max KuzmaMaggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration 3433331056
Reposted by Max KuzmaCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571472051
Max Kuzma @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🤦🏻♂️ transphobia continuing to be totally logical 🙄 might be easier to just, you know, treat us as people 000
Max Kuzma @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026AI this, AI that, why doesn't Adobe Photoshop have a spellcheck 000
Max Kuzma @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social · 30/09/202640 years ago this October, the Vatican released the document that became known as the “Halloween Letter.” Written by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the 1986 letter described homosexuality as an “objective disorder” and same-sex sexual activity as “intrinsically disordered.” 110
Reposted by Max KuzmaKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026I actually don't think the Republican Senator mixed up "Hawks" and "Hawkeyes." Going by his own statements, it appears his staff saw he went to a basketball game on that date and googled basketball games and found the only men's game that night in the whole country was in Atlanta. 441592197
Reposted by Max KuzmaGay Catholic Priests @gay-cath-priests.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Vatican’s anti-gay 'Halloween Letter' to be examined 40 years later www.ebar.com/story/170732...ebar.comVatican’s anti-gay 'Halloween Letter' to be examined 40 years laterLGBTQ Catholics will have an opportunity to revisit one of the darker days in their fraught relationship with the church as an affinity group holds online sessions timed with the 40th anniversary of w... 001
Reposted by Max KuzmaNPR @npr.org · 30/09/2026The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies. n.pr/46UKiy3n.prHow Trump keeps undercutting his anti-communist messageThe Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies. 2019689
Reposted by Max KuzmaDean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Brazilian Conference of Catholic Bishops, which has been outspoken against far-right tendencies in Brazil, also had their X account restricted. paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...paydayreport.comX Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back LulaPolls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference. 2137
Reposted by Max KuzmaChristopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Asked aboard the papal plane Monday about Germany’s far right, Pope Leo XIV said its fusion with “a certain kind of religion” is “not an authentic expression of Christianity.” The values of the Gospel, he said, “are not about hatred and division.” 27921
Max Kuzma @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This honestly doesn't surprise me. And wouldn't be surprised if Data Centers see similar discrepancies between funding/ revenue 010
Reposted by Max KuzmaImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026The trans women in sports panic has got to be one of the GOP's most successful manufactured culture war campaigns. Somehow they got a lot of people who would otherwise say they support trans rights to somehow fear "fairness" in sports. It's a non-issue. 121305245
Reposted by Max KuzmaBr. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It's astounding how much of Catholic social media is: 825637
Reposted by Max KuzmaKevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Cardinal Robert McElroy issued another sharp denouncement of Trump administration immigration enforcement and deportation policies, adding to the growing collection of such pronouncements from U.S. church leaders around the country in recent months. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...americamagazine.orgAt Mass for Migrants, Washington’s Cardinal McElroy says public cannot ‘pass by’ plight of immigrants“For the last year and a half,” Cardinal McElroy said, “the people of the United States have witnessed the suffering of the undocumented in our midst, purposely and strategically magnified by our gove... 085
Reposted by Max KuzmaDean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Guys do not tell these researchers about tomagachis 2206
Reposted by Max KuzmaThe Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 26/09/2026One of eight such craftsmen left in Japan, Yoshinori Shimatani never drinks or has a contentious conversation before he tunes a Buddhist bell: "Frustration ruins the sound. You have to find peace within yourself first."ebx.shTo craft a Buddhist bell, ‘you have to find peace within yourself first’Yoshinori Shimatani, a fourth-generation “orin” (standing bell) master craftsman, views his process as equal parts physical and spiritual. 13514
Reposted by Max Kuzma🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 122123065234
Reposted by Max KuzmaParis Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 1533461491
Max Kuzma @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What is the "Video killed the radio star" of the internet era? 000
Reposted by Max Kuzmajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty." 513354645
Reposted by Max KuzmaRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW BRAIN DROPPEDmed.stanford.eduHuman brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research findsStanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more. 232600781
Reposted by Max KuzmaAndrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.wbur.orgMass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court recordsJoseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect... 10460381982
Max Kuzma @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social · 21/09/2026New on the podcast today substack.com/@maxwellkuzm...substack.comTelling LGBTQ Stories with Prism UnitedDear Listeners, 000
Max Kuzma @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Really good www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3w-...youtube.comSmart Answers to Smart Questions About SlaveryYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 000
Reposted by Max KuzmaChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism" 193198737
Reposted by Max KuzmaTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026Folks, remember when Geoff Hinton called gpt-2 humanity's caterpillar and gpt-3 humanity's butterfly or something like that? Also remember how he said radiologists were gonna be obsolete in 5 years (but he said that ~10 years ago)? Ok now, he says ChatGPT is an alien being. 1636461
Reposted by Max Kuzmajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026yes. i would wager that these people genuinely believe that the country is MAGA and that there is a vast and untapped audience to be appealed to. incidentally, these people also exist in an impenetrable bubble of sycophants. 1304414538
Reposted by Max Kuzmaderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story. 381217532546
Reposted by Max KuzmaSojourners @sojo.net · 12/09/2026The Vatican will build a roughly $117 million renewable energy plant that could power the Holy See within two years. sojo.net/articles/new...sojo.netVatican Planning $117 Million Pivot to Renewable EnergyThe renewable energy plant that could power the Holy See within two years via a system combining solar power and agriculture, sources involved in discussions on the project said. 072
Reposted by Max Kuzmatomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 08/09/2026Tarrant County cut 92 polling places in a county that is 60 percent nonwhite, and the coverage will be a human interest piece about a patient voter in a folding chair. Long lines are not a turnout story. They are a budget decision someone made on purpose.hartmannreport.comHas the Media Normalized the GOP’s Voter Suppression Right Before Our Very Eyes?For decades, reporters have treated hours-long voting lines as a “normal” feature of Election Day instead of investigating why some Americans consistently face greater barriers to the ballot… 1202102976
Reposted by Max Kuzmajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth. 8157211152
Reposted by Max KuzmaMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Yep! The anti-vaxx/MAHA movement is very clearly a product of a right-wing media environment. A 2022 survey found Fox News viewers were 4x more likely to hold anti-vaxx views than non-Fox viewers, by far the best predictor. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 6518100
Max Kuzma @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Empathy has become the latest battleground in the culture war. Bishop Robert Barron has now joined the fight—but what does Catholic Social Teaching actually say about empathy, human dignity, and the responsibility to listen? maxwellkuzma.substack.com/p/empathy-is...maxwellkuzma.substack.comEmpathy Is Not the Enemy of LoveEmpathy has become a battleground in the culture wars. 011
Reposted by Max Kuzmajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2026the reason i keep arguing against “the vibe shift” being a real thing is that quite a few commentators believe otherwise and it has left them completely unable to analyze, understand and respond to the current political moment 482610338
Reposted by Max Kuzma4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026School meals should be free for everybody. Charging children to eat somewhere they are legally required to be for the entire day is crazy. 308104092096
Reposted by Max KuzmaNPR @npr.org · 04/09/2026The global effort to end child marriage is in the news. In the U.S., there's a new bill before Congress (but it's controversial). And the U.N. is designating a day dedicated to ending the practice. n.pr/4yoJoFVn.prWhatever happened to the U.S. campaign to ban child marriage?The global effort to end child marriage is in the news. In the U.S., there's a new bill before Congress (but it's controversial). And the U.N. is designating a day dedicated to ending the practice. 2521968
Reposted by Max KuzmaCody⁺ @cebmplus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The Roman Catholic archbishop of Indianapolis has dispensed the Sunday mass obligation for those afraid of detention or intimidation by ICE. What a profoundly messed up world we live in! 🕯️ 37314