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So, basically, 500 million Europeans οΏΌexpect 300 million Americans to protect them from 120 million Russians who canβt even defeat 40 million Ukrainians while those 500 million Europeans donβt even realize they are being conquered by 2 billion Muslims who claim they are being persecuted by 8 million Israelis. Is that about right?
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Time to write off the long-corrupt Vatican. You can be fully Christian without adhering to their aberrant dictates.
Italian bishops just put out βfact sheetsβ for Catholic schools that call the Quran βthe revealed word of God.β
Cardinal Zuppi calls it an antidote to violence and ignorance. The material was developed with Muslim partners. It treats Islamic claims as something to affirm rather than examine.
While Christians are killed for their faith from Nigeria to the Middle East, the Church is teaching Italian children that the Quran is divine revelation. This is not dialogue. This is surrender
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Dogsβ reactions when you ask them if they want a walk
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Natalie Winters' reporting is plugging a lot of holes in the Democracy Files from a different direction.
π¨ EXCLUSIVE: European Parliament money helped fund a CLOSED-DOOR meeting on resistance to Trump and MAGA ahead of Americaβs midterms.
The keynote speaker? A University of Georgia professor who had publicly argued that Democratic victories could βmake Trump a much weaker president for the rest of his second term.β
The June 3 meeting examined where Democratic Party, activist and NGO resistance was workingβand how European progressives could learn from it and strengthen transatlantic cooperation.
The agenda spells it out:
βCLOSED DOOR ROUNDTABLE.β
βfinancial support of the European Parliament.β
European Parliament Vice-President Katarina Barley convened it. The Foundation for European Progressive Studies and Germanyβs Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung organized it.
Professor Cas Mudde delivered the keynote, according to the organizersβ recap.
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Michelangelo was only 6 years old when his mother died in 1481, and he spent much of his childhood with a nanny whose husband was a stonecutter. Years later, according to Vasari, he joked that "along with the milk of my nurse" he had received "the knack of handling chisel and hammer."
Seventeen years after his motherβs death, in August 1498, a French cardinal in Rome signed a contract with the 23-year-old sculptor for "a clothed Virgin Mary with dead Christ in her arms," meant for his funeral chapel in the old basilica of St. Peterβs. Michelangelo travelled to the quarries of Carrara to choose the marble himself, and the banker who guaranteed the contract promised it would be "the most beautiful marble work in Rome."
Even Vasari, writing in 1550, could hardly believe what he was looking at: "It is certainly a miracle that a stone, at first with no form at all, was ever reduced to that perfection that nature barely manages to form in flesh."
Whenever I see this masterpiece, I think of a six-year-old boy who no longer had his motherβs arms to hold him, who grew up among the hammers and chisels of a stonecutterβs home, and who, seventeen years later, gave the world the most loving arms ever carved in stoneβ¦
If you look closely at the forearm of Michelangeloβs Moses, youβll find a tiny muscle that only tightens when you lift your little finger, and since Moses has his little finger raised, Michelangelo carved that muscle tensed beneath the marble...
He poured that extraordinary knowledge of the human body into a statue carved between 1513 and 1515 for one of the most ambitious projects of his life: the tomb of Pope Julius II.
The horns on his head, which surprise almost everyone who sees them, come from the Latin Bible of the time. In the Book of Exodus, the Hebrew word describing Mosesβ face as he came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments is usually translated today as βshining,β but it is related to the Hebrew word for βhorn,β and Saint Jeromeβs Latin translation rendered the passage as βhis face was horned.β By Michelangeloβs time, artists across Europe had been showing Moses with horns for centuries, and he followed that long tradition.
Today Moses sits in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome, looking so alive that itβs easy to forget heβs made of stone. Michelangelo seems to have felt the same way: according to a famous story, when he finished the statue, he was so proud of how real it looked that he struck it on the knee with his hammer and shouted, βWhy donβt you speak?β
Iβve stood in front of him, and I can tell you that in person it really does feel as if he might answer at any momentβ¦
How many Californians can't afford both food and manicures, while parasites are coddled? nypost.com/2026/10/29/opinioβ¦
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I think itβs awesome that people raised $200k for Walt, the Red Baron worker who was harassed by a dumb prankster.
But what nobodyβs talking about is how his company was sold to a Korean conglomerate β which then cut pay, gutted benefits, and forced unpaid mandatory overtime.
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3 weeks ago I caught Abe on streetsβ¦
π Had been hit by a car in hit and run
πͺ¨ Locals had been throwing rocks to chase him away
π€’ His friend had been poisoned
Luckily weβve made some big progressβ¦ (1/6) π§΅
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Another murder by a foreign invader.
EXCLUSIVE: University Hockey Captain Killed in Wrong Way Collision With Twice-Deported Mexican Illegal in Sanctuary Connecticut
A beloved member of the University of New Haven community was killed in a head-on collision with a driver who is in the U.S. illegally, federal authorities have confirmed with Border Hawk.
The tragedy unfolded at around 11:45 p.m. on Oct. 16 in North Haven, Connecticut.
Ryan OβShea, 21, was driving southbound on Interstate 91 when a pickup truck traveling in the wrong direction slammed into his Honda Accord, causing his vehicle to strike two SUVs, Connecticut State Police (CSP) explained in an accident summary.
OβShea, who was on his way back to campus after playing in a hockey game, was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The driver of the pickup truck, who suffered βserious life-threatening injuries,β was identified as 31-year-old Guillermo Carmona-Lopez, a resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
βIn May 2013, Border Patrol arrested Carmona-Lopez, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, after he illegally entered the country. Carmona-Lopez was issued an expedited removal and was removed from the country,β the Department of Homeland Security told us.
βHe then illegally reentered the country near the Rio Grande Valley after being removedβa felonyβand was once again arrested by Border Patrol in May 2013. Carmona-Lopez was issued a final order of removal on May 30, 2013. He then reentered the country at an unknown time and place.β
It is currently unclear if Carmona-Lopez will face charges in connection with the crash.
A resident of Stony Point, New York, OβShea served as senior assistant captain of the universityβs club hockey team and also chapter president of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
He was studying criminal justice with a concentration in police science and aspired to work for the New York Police Department.
βRyan was not only a great leader, but he was a caring friend to anyone around him. He always knew how to light up a room and make people laugh, no matter the time. Ryanβs leadership and the memories he has made will never be forgotten,β Kappa Sigma wrote in an Instagram post memorializing OβShea.
Ryanβs sisters said he βalways found a way to make everything positive.β
βHe was always trying to go out of the way to help others and include them in new spaces if they didnβt know anyone,β Kiera OβShea stated.
Two memorial scholarships have been established in Ryan OβSheaβs name. Contributions can be made here.
We contacted CSP to request more information on this investigation and Carmona-Lopezβs current condition and will provide updates if they become available.
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The spectacular Rouen Cathedral (CathΓ©drale Notre-Dame de Rouen) in Normandy, France. π«π·
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Asakusa Kannon Temple in Rain, by Yokouchi Kiyoharu, 1935
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Parallel vote tabulation (PVT) is a common tool in color revolutions.
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In thousands of Japanese neighborhoods, if you walk into a local community kitchen at dinnertime, you will see a wooden board on the wall covered in colorful paper tickets.
Each ticket was paid for in advance by a stranger on their way home from work.
A hungry child can pull one ticket off the wall and exchange it for a hot, home-cooked dinner with zero questions asked.
This movement is called Kodomo Shokudo, or Children's Cafeterias. It started in 2012 when Hiroko Kondo, a Tokyo greengrocer, learned that a neighborhood child was eating only a single banana after school while his parents worked late. Today, according to the national network Musubie, over 9,000 volunteer-run cafeterias operate across Japan, outnumbering the country's middle schools.
To make sure no child ever feels singled out as poor, any kid in town is welcome to eat for free or 100 yen.
Adults buy pay-it-forward tickets and write little notes on them like: Eat well tonight, and good luck on your math test.
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