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Fr. James Martin has now been received a number of times by Pope Francis, as the pro-LGBT priest’s support from the Vatican continues unabated.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – After meeting privately with Father James Martin S.J. on Thursday, Pope Francis described the pro-LGBT Jesuit as a “man who has values, a communicator who also knows how to teach you the way of communication with God. Pope Francis met with Martin on November 10, in a private meeting which lasted 45 minutes, during which time the pair covered topics including “the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties, of LGBTQ Catholics.” The...

Democratic consultant and political commentator James Carville said Monday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that the MAGA Republicans who run the GOP were on crack cocaine. Monday on the Senate floor, Sen. Chuck Schumer said, “I say to my Republican colleagues, embracing the MAGA way of divisiveness, nastiness, negativity without constructive compromise, that’s how Donald Trump wanted it. Some of our colleagues follow him. That will be a disaster. That will be wrong. It will be bad for America, but it will also be bad for the Republican Party because these elections have shown that the MAGA Republican way is not...

Moscow, November 9, Interfax - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree approving the foundations of the state policy for preserving and consolidating traditional Russian spiritual and ethical values. The decree is published on the Russian official legal database website. Some actions by the United States and other unfriendly countries, transnational corporations, and non-governmental organizations pose a threat to Russia's traditional values, according to the Fundamentals of the State Policy for Preserving and Strengthening Traditional Russian Spiritual and Ethical Values endorsed by a presidential decree. "Activities of extremist and terrorist organizations and certain mass media outlets, actions by the...

Atlanta Pastor and the Guy from 0nlyfans - Dwayne Dawkins (pastor cheating on his wife with man from OnlyFans)

The National Education Association (NEA) appears to be playing clean-up after a tweet Saturday drew harsh criticism for claiming that educators "know better than anyone" what students need. The NEA, one of the largest teachers unions in the United States, later turned off replies to the tweet, but not before 5,000 people responded, including former education secretary Betsy DeVos, who simply stated "You misspelled parents." The National Education Association took issue with DeVos’ tweet, and noted the role of parents in shaping their children’s education. "Together, families and educators are an essential team for advocating for the resources and opportunities...

Decision Desk HQ projects Katie Hobbs (D) elected governor in Arizona. R to D Flip.

Maricopa drop finished, Hobbs leads by 20,481 votes. No link as of yet.

Thats an improvement

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Ellsworth Air Force Base, South DakotaEllsworth Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force base located about 10 miles northeast of Rapid City, South Dakota, just north of the town of Box Elder. The host unit at Ellsworth is the 28th Bomb Wing (28 BW). Assigned to the Global Strike Command's Eighth Air Force, the 28 BW is one of the Air Force's two B-1B Lancer wings.The mission of the 28th Operations Group, whose motto is to find and kill the enemy, is to provide combat-ready B-1 bomber aircrews for world-wide...

A trio of longtime Republican operatives will lead Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, which the former president is set to announce Tuesday evening in the ballroom of his private Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., according to five people familiar with the staffing decisions. [cut] The top advisers include Chris LaCivita, a longtime Republican strategist who is directing a super PAC tied to Trump, and Susie Wiles, a Florida-based political consultant who helped Trump win the state in his previous two presidential bids and has led his political operation for the past 18 months. LaCivita is expected to take the leading...

[H/T combat_boots]Some Arizona voters must cure their ballots and ensure it gets counted by the deadline on Wednesday.Arizona votes have been kicked back and were not counted due to issues relating to signature verification.This needs to be corrected by Wednesday by checking your status at https://recorder.maricopa.gov/Elections/BeBallotReady/ or KariLake.com/cure and curing your signature.Tyler Bowyer tweeted this information yesterday, explaining how one can cure their ballot.TweetTyler Bowyer @tylerbowyerARIZONA — Some votes get kicked back. You need to CHECK YOUR BALLOT STATUS NOW: https://recorder.maricopa.gov/Elections/BeBallotReady/ And then CURE your ballot— the deadline is Wednesday — making sure your vote gets counted 2:05 PM ·...

I was searching the internet for examples of electronic voting machine hacking and the history thereof and I came across this webpage, "National Election Defense Coalition". National Election Defense Coalition The webpage shows videos of hacking and discussions of the vulnerability of electronic voting machines. One video includes John Oliver admitting Trump was right. Electronic voting machines are vulnerable John Oliver: 'Trump was right. Electronic Voting machines are vulnerable' (20 mins) See RELATED below.

Race was called by Business Insider yesterday, but CNN now says 99% of votes/ballots are reported. Ciscomani leads 50.5% t0 49.5%, 99% of votes counted. AP, CNN, etc. say the House race is 212 R to 204 or 205 D. BUT AZ 1 Schweikert Vs. Hodge was called for R on Business Insider/Yahoo so R is really 213. https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-rep-david-schweikert-faces-231400298.html There are now 5 races where the margin for R is more than 20% of outstanding votes. They are - D on left, R on right, last number is ratio of R advantage over outstanding votes CA District 45 Chen 46.3...

The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (IBB) announced Monday its members voted against ratifying a tentative agreement with the major freight railroads, making IBB the third labor group to turn down the deal brokered by the Biden administration and upping the chances of a nationwide strike. The IBB said in a statement that it has now entered a "cooling off" period and plans to continue to negotiate further with the National Carriers' Conference Committee (NCCC), which represents the nation's largest railroads, including BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific. IBB joins the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS) and the Brotherhood of...

A German man who found a lost check worth more than $4 million...is disappointed with the company's "cheap" reward. The man, identified by Daily Mail as Anouar G., 38, of Frankfurt, said we was sent a box of gummies valued at just over $6 for returning the check worth $4,631,538.80 Euros ($4.05 million USD). The check was reportedly issued to Haribo from the supermarket group Rewe and was inexplicably misplaced. "There was such a large sum on it that I couldn't even pronounce it," Anouar told local media outlets via Daily Mail. Anouar contacted Haribo and was told by a...

Dave Wasserman 7:55pm, November 14th I’ve seen enough: Juan Ciscomani (R) defeats Kirsten Engel (D) in #AZ06. Dems’ path to the House majority virtually non-existent now. Some good flips today. Hopefully R's get to at least 222, which I believe is what the D's have currently.

Anish Adhikari awoke at the Qatari labor camp at 4 a.m. to diarrhea from last night’s rotten fish. His tonsils were swollen from the limited water made available by his employer while working 14 hours a day in 125-degree heat. But he remained hopeful that building air conditioners for 80,000 ticket-holders could provide the equivalent of $8,000 over three years to support his family in Nepal. That he could pay back the loan shark who’d secured Adhikari a job beginning in 2019 with the Hamad Bin Khalid Contracting Co. (HBK), the contracting firm owned by the the highest echelons of...

Move represents about-face by US, which had said it wouldn't open its own probe into death of reporter who Israel says was likely shot by IDF in error; Gantz: We won't cooperate The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is launching an investigation into the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, apparently by an Israeli soldier, officials said Monday, with Israel immediately rejecting cooperation with the probe. US officials updated their Israeli counterparts earlier this month about the decision, an official familiar with the matter tokld The Times Of Israel on Monday, confirming a Channel 14 news report....

WASHINGTON (AP) — There was no violence. Many candidates who denied the legitimacy of previous elections lost and quietly conceded. And few listened when former President Donald Trump tried to stoke baseless allegations of electoral fraud. For a moment, at least, there’s a sense of normalcy in the U.S. The extremism that has consumed political discourse for much of the last two years has been replaced by something resembling traditional democratic order. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, said midterm voters were concerned about Biden’s leadership but that they had a more urgent message: “Fix policy later, fix crazy...

Despite the scrutiny of crypto by Gensler, the SEC missed on FTX Gary Gensler’s controversial tenure as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission could reach peak drama over a 45-minute Zoom call with Sam Bankman-Fried, the former crypto wunderkind at the center of the largest debacle the $1 trillion digital coin industry has ever witnessed.On March 23, some eight months before Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire collapsed and was forced into bankruptcy, Gensler granted what some crypto players are calling an unusual meeting to the then-billionaire and prolific fundraiser for Democratic candidates, including his boss, President Joe Biden.Even before the FTX...