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After Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump, Brian Fallon needed a job. Fallon had served as Clinton’s national press secretary during the campaign, and before that he had done the same job for my colleague Chuck Schumer in the Senate. For a while, his reputation around Washington, DC, was stellar. He was, according to a lengthy profile in the Daily Beast, “one of the most sought-after operatives in Democratic politics: a brass-knuckle brawler with experience at the highest levels of government, a cellphone filled with the top journalists in town, and a reputation for being preternaturally on...

Amoris Laetitia: a Ticking Moral Time BombOn June 22, the Vatican will host the World Meeting of Families, which will showcase the “Amoris Laetitia Family.” When asked about whether this new model of the family includes LGBTQ families and other “irregular” unions, the spokesperson for this gathering was vague and noncommittal. Although we can’t be certain about the thrust of this meeting, one thing is quite certain: there has been a concerted effort in the last few weeks to promote and propagate Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’ exhortation on the family issued in 2016. Several weeks ago, a conference on moral...

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Why does the Millennial generation (people born between 1982-1996) have lower marriage and birth rates than previous generations? And when Millennials do get married, why is it at a later age than previous generations? Prominent periodicals like The Atlantic, Time, Washington Post and others have published articles trying to explain the phenomenon. Some claim that the cause is economic – we graduated from college into the 2008 Recession, we have a lot of student loan debt, and we receive stagnant wages as housing prices soar. Financial difficulty prevents young people from getting married. This is of course part of the...

The concept of the rocket is based on autophagic, or "self-devouring," technology, which was initially proposed by Promin Aerospace's chief technical officer Vitaliy Yemets. In an autophagic rocket, the hull would be used as solid rocket fuel, in addition to other propellants carried on board. For this purpose, the hull material must be both strong enough and have sufficient combustibility. During the rocket's flight, the body is consumed, allowing for a reduction in mass as it travels and leaving no debris once the flight is completed. This advance would enable more efficient and environmentally friendly launches. Over two months, three...

The nuclear pore complex (NPC) mediates nucleocytoplasmic cargo transport. Here, we present a single-particle cryo–electron microscopy reconstruction of the cytoplasmic ring (CR) subunit from the Xenopus laevis NPC at 3.7- to 4.7-angstrom resolution. The structure of an amino-terminal domain of Nup358 has been resolved at 3.0 angstroms, facilitating the identification of five Nup358 molecules in each CR subunit. Our final model of the CR subunit included five Nup358, two Nup205, and two Nup93 molecules in addition to the two previously characterized Y complexes. The carboxyl-terminal fragment of Nup160 served as an organizing center at the vertex of each Y complex....

https://truthsocial.com/@ilpresidento/posts/108448153787607510DAILY REMINDER!!!Transcript of Riccardo Bosi's warning ["No consent. No consent. No consent"]Ricardo Bosi explains what's really going on in the Ukraine (TRANSCRIPT and 3 minute video)Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’...

The Florida governor's comments were prompted by viral videos of children attending a drag show at a Dallas gay bar Saturday.

Recent reports in the Israeli media claim that the country has developed a means of extending the range of its F-35I Adir stealth jets, allegedly providing them with enough reach to hit targets in Iran without needing aerial refueling. The development has been announced together with the integration of a new, locally developed smart bomb for internal carriage in the F-35. These apparent upgrades to the Israeli Air Force’s long-range strike capabilities come as the Israeli leadership announces a harder line against Tehran’s nuclear program, while the air force conducts exercises widely thought to be dress rehearsals for potential raids...

NATURE IN THE YEARS OF COVID “and there will be signs in Heaven above and on the earth.…”+ + + 20201. The overabundance of cloudless, crystal clear (and contrailess) days. 2. Fewer than normal fireflies. 3. Almost no blue-stemmed wild raspberries. 4. Katydids began to holler July 25--a week ahead of normal 5. Fall webworms exploded around July 27--ahead of normal. 6. Webworms attacking mulberry and hickory (normally only black walnut) 7. Black walnuts appear much lighter than normal. 8. Warmest July/warmest month EVER in 25 years. 9. Very few Deer Flies (not a bad thing)...appeared in August not June....

Law enforcement waited about an hour and 20 minutes to breach the classroom where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas last month, even though they knew that some victims in the classroom were still alive and needed urgent medical attention, according to a review of investigative records by the New York Times. The new details offer a clearer timeline of the police response to the tragedy, which has been marred by contradictions and inaccurate information from officials. Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school police chief who assumed the role of incident commander at the scene, decided...

A two-seater plane whizzed through half a dozen eastern European countries without permission, alerting air forces, before being abandoned in Bulgaria by a mysterious crew, the defence ministry in Sofia said Thursday. The aircraft flew over Hungary, crossed briefly into Serbia and then Romania before entering Bulgarian airspace at 7:09 pm local time (1609 GMT) on Wednesday, the Bulgarian defence ministry said in a statement. The twin-engine Beechcraft with two people onboard had no approved flight plan and its transponders were turned off. The pilot did not respond to radio requests and visual signals, the Romanian defence ministry said. Two...

Republican Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Charles Grassley of Iowa released a series of documents on Wednesday showing that the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board was intended to have a domestic focus, despite promises from administration officials. Top Biden administration officials, most notably Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, repeatedly claimed that the board would focus on disinformation pushed by foreign actors. However, the documents released by Hawley and Grassley reveal that the board intended to target alleged disinformation by topic, not by national origin. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “paused” the board in May before it began operations,...

Tucker takes a long hard look at the media/Dem totally made up “insurrection” on January 6, and takes their lies apart.1. He starts with the brutal murder of ex military woman Ashli Babbitt by the capitol police for no reason. And the subsequent cover up of her killer, the cop.2. He moves on to one Bob Costa from CBS lying through his teeth yesterday that 5 policemen got killed by the protesters during this “insurrection”. The truth? Not even a single cop was killed by the January 6 protesters. 4 cops committed suicide long after the protests and the 5th...

Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney alleged Thursday that then-President Donald Trump said during last year’s Capitol riot that Vice President Mike Pence “deserves” to be hanged as Trump supporters chanted “hang Mike Pence.” Cheney, the vice chair of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, laid out the claim during her opening statement at the committee’s first primetime hearing — which was highlighted by a 10-minute video tracing the course of the violence as it unfolded, soundtracked by increasingly frantic radio communications from Washington DC and US Capitol Police. “You will hear that President Trump was yelling...

Last month, in response to the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinon ending Roe v. Wade, the Louisiana legislature briefly considered a bill that would define a fetus as a person for the purpose of the state’s homicide law...... on page 16 of the draft opinion, Alito cites a brief by John M. Finnis and Robert P. George that argues that fetuses are legal people. Finnis and George are clearly wrong, though. This issue has already been considered and decided by the Reconstruction-era Congress. They definitively determined that fetuses do not count as “persons” for purposes of the 14th...

The committee investigating January 6 and the attack on Congess opened with bombshell video footage on Thursday that showed a number of his most trusted aides and advisers, including his daugher Ivanka Trump, explaining that they knew the election was not stolen. ...She spoke of her perspective being changed after hearing that Bill Barr, who was Trump’s attorney general for most of 2020, until he resigned that December, had explained to her father repeatedly that he had lost the election. “I respect Attorney General Barr. So I accepted what he was saying,” Ivanka Trump told congressional investigators. The committee showed...

A U.S. Navy helicopter crashed during a training mission in the Imperial County desert north of Yuma Thursday afternoon, the second military aircraft to go down in the area in two days, the Navy said. All four crew members on board survived the crash, although one sustained injuries not considered life-threatening and was taken to a hospital, according to Cmdr. Zachary Harrell, a spokesperson for the San Diego-based Naval Air Forces command. The MH-60S Seahawk helicopter is assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 3, based at Naval Air Station North Island, Harrell said. The crash was reported around 5 p.m....

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday compared his current actions to Peter the Great's conquest of the Baltic coast during his 18th-century war against Sweden. After visiting an exhibition in Moscow dedicated to the 350th birthday of tsar Peter the Great, Putin told a group of young entrepreneurs that "you get the impression that by fighting Sweden he was grabbing something. He wasn't taking anything, he was taking it back." When Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg and declared it the Russian capital "none of the countries in Europe recognized this territory as belonging to Russia," Putin said. "Everyone considered...

Longtime liberal radio host Bill Press wrote an op-ed Thursday calling for the Second Amendment to be outright repealed. "The only effective way to deal with the Second Amendment is to repeal it — and then replace it with something that makes sense in a civilized society," Press wrote for CNN in an article titled "There’s no way to fix the Second Amendment. Let’s just get rid of it." [cut] Press cited Carol Anderson, an academic who "describes the ‘anti-Blackness’ at the heart of the Second Amendment." He wrote that "the amendment has nothing to do with self-defense or allowing...