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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.”
October 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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.”
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"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday
Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday
variety.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
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The nicest thing I can say here is that it’s good that the story starts with her getting a divorce because it was probably a good way of limiting the damage
My Once-in-a-Million-Years Love Story
When my best friend was diagnosed with cancer, I promised to be with her until the end. Then all hell broke loose.
www.thecut.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The nicest thing I can say here is that it’s good that the story starts with her getting a divorce because it was probably a good way of limiting the damage
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Two things here I already knew: 1. Rich people are completely miserable, and 2. The NYTimes is obsessed with rich people.
They’re Rich, They Travel and They Love to Complain
www.nytimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Two things here I already knew: 1. Rich people are completely miserable, and 2. The NYTimes is obsessed with rich people.
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One of the interesting parts of this book was that the iron axe head was as transformative for indigenous warfare (at least in Eastern North America) as the gun because they could easily breach the wooden palisades used in Native fortifications
August 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
One of the interesting parts of this book was that the iron axe head was as transformative for indigenous warfare (at least in Eastern North America) as the gun because they could easily breach the wooden palisades used in Native fortifications
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Ok, one like = one game recommendation.
July 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Ok, one like = one game recommendation.
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If you're in the UK and want decent, free basic training in safeguarding then:
1) register an FA account
2) do all their online free courses for coaches/volunteers/committee members.
Hell, last time i checked the full Welfare Officer course was only 20 quid.
All certainlu better than nothing.
1) register an FA account
2) do all their online free courses for coaches/volunteers/committee members.
Hell, last time i checked the full Welfare Officer course was only 20 quid.
All certainlu better than nothing.
Is there a course that you’d suggest? I’m certainly not at that point account wise but feel like this is a good thing to learn now
July 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
If you're in the UK and want decent, free basic training in safeguarding then:
1) register an FA account
2) do all their online free courses for coaches/volunteers/committee members.
Hell, last time i checked the full Welfare Officer course was only 20 quid.
All certainlu better than nothing.
1) register an FA account
2) do all their online free courses for coaches/volunteers/committee members.
Hell, last time i checked the full Welfare Officer course was only 20 quid.
All certainlu better than nothing.
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“At first, I thought it was a comedy act or some actor doing a scene. But when we realised, oh no, this isn’t an act, this is real, it was just a bit surreal.”
‘Terrible racket’: bishop in dressing gown shuts down London choir concert
Jonathan Baker complained over noise ‘in my house’, telling stunned singers night is ‘over’
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“At first, I thought it was a comedy act or some actor doing a scene. But when we realised, oh no, this isn’t an act, this is real, it was just a bit surreal.”
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Interesting dynamic where Odysseus thinks some of the guys trying to bang his wife aren't that bad and don't deserve to die but Athena is like "hahahaha, no, we're going to murder All Of Them."
July 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Interesting dynamic where Odysseus thinks some of the guys trying to bang his wife aren't that bad and don't deserve to die but Athena is like "hahahaha, no, we're going to murder All Of Them."
See also Lisa Taddeo’s superb 2010 piece “Rachel Uchitel is not a Madam” in New York Magazine, which clued me into how that hallmark of American capitalism, efficiently segmenting the market, worked in context of nightclubs, bottle girls and men at various income levels. nymag.com/news/feature...
A Look Inside the Life of Rachel Uchitel and Fellow VIP Hosts and Bottle Girls -- New York Magazine - Nymag
And the bottle girls who work at clubs are not prostitutes. As Tiger Woods’s very public escapades through the 21st-century courtesan economy suggest, it’s all much more complicated than that.
nymag.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Cataphracts Design Diary #1: samsorensen.blot.im/cataphracts-...
Cataphracts Design Diary #1 - Sam Sorensen
Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on. About two months ago, I reread several series on military
samsorensen.blot.im
April 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Cataphracts Design Diary #1: samsorensen.blot.im/cataphracts-...
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"In 2022, [Moore] & French counterpart Bernard Émié introduced annual seminars for SIS and DGSE [officers] to meet...regularly & share best practices. Hosted alternately...UK meet-ups have been held near ...Portsmouth—they will continue after Moore leaves" www.intelligenceonline.com/government-i...
France/United Kingdom : Britain's top spy Richard Moore, the cool-headed Europhile at the head of MI6 - 30/05/2025 - Intelligence Online
Despite dealing with the fall-out from Brexit and the AUKUS controversy, Richard Moore has become a well-liked figure in Europe, a testament to both his diplomatic acumen and his skill as a spy - 5/30...
www.intelligenceonline.com
June 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"In 2022, [Moore] & French counterpart Bernard Émié introduced annual seminars for SIS and DGSE [officers] to meet...regularly & share best practices. Hosted alternately...UK meet-ups have been held near ...Portsmouth—they will continue after Moore leaves" www.intelligenceonline.com/government-i...
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A Chesterton line that I often think of -
"There is in the world a very aged rioter and demagogue who breaks into the most refined retreats with the dreadful information that all men are brothers, and wherever this leveller went on his pale horse it was Father Brown’s trade to follow."
"There is in the world a very aged rioter and demagogue who breaks into the most refined retreats with the dreadful information that all men are brothers, and wherever this leveller went on his pale horse it was Father Brown’s trade to follow."
June 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A Chesterton line that I often think of -
"There is in the world a very aged rioter and demagogue who breaks into the most refined retreats with the dreadful information that all men are brothers, and wherever this leveller went on his pale horse it was Father Brown’s trade to follow."
"There is in the world a very aged rioter and demagogue who breaks into the most refined retreats with the dreadful information that all men are brothers, and wherever this leveller went on his pale horse it was Father Brown’s trade to follow."
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The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.
April 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.
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Part 4 of the AirPower series on Operation Linebacker II or the “Christmas bombings” as the press dubbed them will be published next Wednesday…on Christmas! Be sure to subscribe to get it direct in your inbox free of charge (unlike Thomas Friedman who steals from @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social)
December 19, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Part 4 of the AirPower series on Operation Linebacker II or the “Christmas bombings” as the press dubbed them will be published next Wednesday…on Christmas! Be sure to subscribe to get it direct in your inbox free of charge (unlike Thomas Friedman who steals from @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social)