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A group of faculty, staff, and alumni from UC Santa Cruz are drawing upon and strengthening their cultural heritage and connection to Asian foodways to cultivate traditional vegetables, build community, and promote agroecological and socioecological diversity and representation.

Viral videos from yesterday’s game at Yankee stadium show two men unveiling a “Trump Won Save America” flag on the first-base side of the stadium which prompted a Bronx cheer of boos from many in the crowd. Below you can view the moment from different angles: Twitter LinkTwitter LinkTwitter LinkTwitter LinkBut what happened next belongs to countries with communist regimes. The security escorted out of Yankee Stadium Thursday – one of them apparently in cuffs. The stadium is booing the people. Below we have videos where security tackles and handcuffs the fans and confiscating the flag: Twitter LinkTwitter LinkTwitter LinkPhotos...

Ousted WeWork founder Adam Neumann continues to receive lucrative considerations from the company, with a newly revealed stock award worth $245 million bringing the total value of his exit package to nearly $1 billion. Neumann was granted the enhanced stock award in February as part of a renegotiation of his 2019 exit package, intended to smooth the way for WeWork's public listing, according to regulatory filings first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Hard-partying Neumann was once seen as a star of the business world, but his reputation was left in tatters after investors balked at his tequila-fueled management style...

For decades, gun control advocates constantly claim that Right-to-Carry laws would lead to disaster. But when disasters don’t occur they move on to the next prediction of disaster. We have to keep track of these predictions if only to judge how much weight to give to their erroneous predictions. Montana is the latest state to let people carry concealed handguns on college campuses, and the state Board of Regents for the university system demanded an emergency stay from the state Supreme Court because “serious harm is threatened” if the law goes into effect on June 1. The Regents took a...

Here are two head lines from the same issue of the Grey Lady: Deadliest Phase May Be Here Soon and As Cases Wane, U.S. Looks Forward to a More Normal Summer,Which one to believe?

Seeking not to leave behind Pentecost so soon, I propose here to briefly consider the sequence hymn for Pentecost and the purpose and history of such hymns in the liturgy. There are several feasts of the Church during which a “sequence” hymn may be sung. The sequence hymn is sung just before the Alleluia (Gospel Acclamation). The feasts with sequence hymns are these:Easter – Victimae Paschali Laudes (To the Paschal Victim give praise) Pentecost – Veni Sancte Spiritus (Come, Holy Spirit) Corpus Christi – Lauda Sion (Praise O Sion) Our Lady of Sorrows – Stabat Mater (Stood the Mother, sad...

A homeless shelter is to be created on one of New York City's most expensive streets, after a legal battle to prevent its opening ended in defeat. A New York state appeals court on Thursday dismissed the concerns voiced by a coalition of residents and businesses from the Manhattan neighborhood by Central Park, nicknamed Billionaire's Row. Billionaire's Row is not actually one street, or officially defined.

(UPI) — The Pennsylvania Parole Board on Thursday denied Bill Cosby’s petition to be released from prison on parole. A letter released by the board Thursday stated that Cosby, 83, failed “to develop a parole release plan” and must participate in and complete additional programs including a “treatment program for sex offenders and violence prevention.”

After nine people were shot to death by a public transit worker, who then killed himself in San Jose, the latest mass murder in America, California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke for many on the eve of this Memorial Day weekend. "What the hell is going on in the United States of America? What the hell is wrong with us?" Good question. Indeed, it seems that the country is coming apart. In May, Congress, to address a spate of criminal assaults on Asian Americans, enacted a new hate crimes law to protect them. May also witnessed a rash of assaults on...

The Department of Veterans Affairs was born of war. SNIP The woke tide engulfing America is now taking aim at America’s warriors. Those who today loudly argue that Lincoln’s words are non-inclusive and sexist are the same who said nothing as the Obama-Biden administration left VA in tatters.

This week, we're marking the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. His death at the hands of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin—who has been convicted of two counts of murder and one of manslaughter—sparked a national conversation about racism in America. It's a conversation that's long overdue, that activists like us have been waiting for for too long. But the national conversation hasn't been perfect. Far from it. And we've noticed one particular penchant that we feel requires correction: the use of the term "people of color" when what you mean is Black. "People of color" or POCs...

SPECIAL DISPATCH FROM WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Monday, May 27. There has been a serious mistake concerning the naval force now at or near Sewall's Point. I am informed at the Navy Department, that there should be now only the Monticello and two small single gun-boats at that point. The Minnesota ought to be by this time off Charleston, S.C., with the blockading fleet at that harbor. If there has been an attach, therefore, upon Sewall's Point, as has been reported the past two days, in which the Minnesota was engaged, she disobeyed her orders, which is not at all probable. Such...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 78Psalm 78 A maskil[a] of Asaph. 1 My people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter hidden things, things from of old— 3 things we have heard and known, things our ancestors have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done. 5 He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he...

Wildlife officials in Colorado shared photos of a rare piebald squirrel spotted in a tree near Denver. Colorado Parks and Wildlife Northeast Region said in a Twitter post that Jerry Baines spotted the unusually-colored squirrel west of Denver and snapped photos. The piebald squirrel has normal brown and gray fur on its tail and underside, but white fur on its head and back. "That is a genetic mutation causing varying amounts of white hair. Some can be almost pure white while others carry just patches of white," the department tweeted.

I'm writing from Warsaw, Poland, making for both my first time venturing behind the old Iron Curtain and my first trip back to Europe since the onset of COVID-19. Despite the overcast weather endemic to this part of the globe, the mood on the ground is unmistakably buoyant. Poland, along with its fellow Visegrad Group member Central European nations of Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic -- and perhaps also including nearby Austria -- has emerged as a perhaps-unlikely ground zero in the fight to save Western civilization from a debilitating and increasingly all-encompassing liberal decadence. The sad history of...

China braces for another dangerous flood season with 97 rivers already exceeding warning levels as of Thursday, according to Chinese state Global Times. Major floods are expected this summer, and Western media will soon be drumming up headlines about how confidence in China’s flood control capabilities is faltering. Water levels along the Yangtze River are expected to increase over the next week, the Ministry of Water Resources said, adding that major floods are possible throughout the country from June to August. Wang Wei, an official with the flood and drought disaster prevention office of the Ministry of Water Resources, told...

An Idaho police officer who became an internet sensation after mocking LeBron James for a tweet targeting an Ohio cop has been fired. The announcement comes via a statement posted by the mayor of Bellevue to Facebook on Thursday. “During the week of May 20th, while on shift Deputy Marshal [Nate] Silvester violated several clearly established City of Bellevue and State of Idaho Policing policies,” Mayor Ned Burns wrote. “After his previous policy violations Deputy Marshal Silvester was placed on probation and was on, what is called, a ‘last chance agreement’ with his superior officers.”

Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. (1 Timothy 2:1-2) Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

‘Trump Won Save America’ banner unfurled at Yankee Stadium tonight VIDEO AT LINK..........................

Authorities refuse to even consider mass immigration as a factor.A new investigation finds that Sweden has gone from being one of the safest European countries 20 years ago in terms of gun crime to the second most dangerous. The study, published by the country’s National Council on Crime Prevention (Brå), reveals that Sweden is the only country on the continent where shootings have increased substantially since the start of the century. “Most of the fatal shootings in Sweden (around 80 percent) had a link to organised crime, according to the study, a proportion which had risen from 30 to 50...