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Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

These women dedicated almost 50 years to science. Their efforts may soon be trashed | CNN Nurses in the US provided biological samples for decades to help study women’s health. Here’s what they think of President Trump’s actions that may end its funding.

For decades, researchers have been collecting samples from hundreds of thousands of women and tracking their health. The work has deepened our basic understanding of human health, but now the entire project is in danger.

Cree reimagining of Macbeth makes Manitoba debut in Brandon | CBC News A reimagining of Macbeth — set in a time before colonization and rooted in the Cree worldview, language and tradition — is set to be performed on Treaty 2 territory for the first time this weekend.

"While the story draws loosely from Macbeth, it has been completely rewritten to elevate Cree perspectives and language."
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Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

YouTube video by CBC News: The National Recognizing the signs of fascism today | Historian Timothy Snyder

Recognizing the signs of fascism today | Historian Timothy Snyder

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If Some of Literature’s Most Complicated Male Characters Were Just Reasonable People Instead Holden Caulfield (The Catcher In the Rye) “I really don’t feel like I fit in at this prep school, but Mom and Dad have been trying so hard to find...

Jay Gatsby:
“I’m still really hung up on my ex, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to bother her about it. The fact that I’m no longer with her has no effect on my respect for her feelings."

In the 2000s, the Scottish city of Glasgow established a small violence reduction unit and organized community outreach to young men most involved in a violent lifestyle. The results were a 50 per cent reduction within three years.

Jim Stanford: Let’s drop the phoney Alberta versus Canada nonsense. The province has met the enemy — and it is them During the so-called decade of federal 'attacks on oil,' Alberta oil giants set records for production and profits, writes Jim Stanford. So why is the average Albertan not getting their

Albertans have good reason to be angry: their real wages are down 10%, their minimum wage is frozen, their inflation is worst in Canada, their health care's at risk. None of that was caused by the rest of Canada. My take in today's @TorontoStar: www.thestar.com/business/opi.... #cdnecon

Can this be true? Shades of The Hunger Games.

Greece offers Trump fancy wooden horse.

Tweets from journalists on the hellsite saying that the Liberals won by one vote.

Seeing reports that Liberals have flipped the seat in Terrbonne, Quebec by ONE vote. 😮🗳️

Today, too, there are many settings in which Jesus, although appreciated as a man, is reduced to a kind of charismatic leader or superman. This is true not only among non-believers but also among many baptized Christians, who thus end up living, at this level, in a state of practical atheism.

dunno man it's small but in his 1st homily, Leo XIV seems to be coming for American white evangelicals and American Catholics' cozying up to them

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Eighty years ago, enemies laid down their arms.

Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability.

Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.

Hey, Dani

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If *this* isn't a 4th wall break, I don't know what is. 😂

Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media.
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏

Alberta’s provincial election will be held by mid-2026.

The UCP will manufacture disagreements with Ottawa and off they’ll go.

That’s what I just heard from Danielle Smith. This wasn’t a Premier’s Televised Address so much as it was a starting gun for @albertaNDP and @nenshi.

"If you or any other Canadians are not happy living on Treaty lands, they are free to apply for citizenship elsewhere."

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.

#ontario really disappointed #Canada tonight. After being fucked over by Ford for 6 years, seeing people #vote for an even bigger asshole in Poilievre is inexcusable and frankly mind blowingly nuclear stupid. Thanks for screwing a #Liberal majority we really needed you idiots 😡🖕

Carney: You should vote for me because I'm experienced and can handle a crisis.

Poilievre: If you don't vote for me, it will usher in a new dark age. Roiling clouds of pestilence will blot out the sun. Pets will lie dead in the street. Jackbooted thugs will seize your car. Smiling will be illegal.

I mean…I guess if the United States health department no longer agrees with germ theory, it no longer believes in germs? Yet another reason - if you still needed one - to eat Canadian chicken - and support the work of the CFIA.

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

The Supreme Court says we can and MUST

I remember this from the first season of the Trump presidency

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"