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Twenty-five attorneys general and several other plaintiffs have sued the Biden administration asking the court to halt a federal ESG policy that could negatively impact the retirement savings of 152 million Americans. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court Northern District Amarillo Division naming Secretary of Labor Martin Walsh and the U.S. Department of Labor as defendants. It alleges the U.S. Department of Labor created a rule prioritizing “woke” Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing that jeopardizes the retirement savings of 152 million workers, or two-thirds of the U.S. population. Last November, the Department of Labor finalized a rule...

Continuing to craft a second generation of his policies, former President Donald Trump is proposing a dramatic change in the education sphere that would empower parents to elect and fire school principals. "Our public schools have been taken over by the Radical Left maniacs," Trump said in a video announcement released late Thursday night. Trump said the first step in his plan to "save American education" and restore power to parents would be to cut federal funding for any school or program pushing Critical Race Theory, gender ideology or other "inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content to children. Trump, who...

Joe Biden on Friday is departing the White House and traveling to Camp David, the presidential retreat in Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland. Biden is leaving Camp David to go to Delaware just for one night on Sunday. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday refused to say why Biden was going to Wilmington, Delaware on Sunday night. “Is there a specific reason the president is leaving Camp David to go to Delaware just for that one night on Sunday night?” a reporter asked Karine Jean-Pierre. "I don’t have anything to preview about what he’s gonna be doing.” Karine...

Videos released, Paul Pelosi attack. I'm trying to make sense of the timestamps shown on the Break in video and the Axon body cam police video. My understanding is that the body cam video timestamp is UTC. Time stamps are strange. 9:30 zulu UTC

Mark 4:26-34 Friends, our Gospel for today features the parable of the mustard seed.How does God tend to work? From the very small to the very great—and by a slow, gradual process. God tends to operate under the radar, on the edges of things, quietly, clandestinely, not drawing attention to himself. C.S. Lewis speaks to this principle. How, he asks, did God enter history? Quietly, in a forgotten corner of the Roman Empire, sneaking behind enemy lines. How was European Christianity established? Through the handful of people that listened to St. Paul in Philippi and Athens. How did the mighty...

Antifa has issued a call to arms for protestors to light up New York City on Friday night, as America braces for violent riots nationwide following the release of the Tyre Nichols bodycam footage. A poster obtained by DailyMail.com shows the group calling upon demonstrators to gather at various locations in the Big Apple and 'Burn It All Down'. Cities across America are anticipating widespread protests following the release of the distressing footage, which will be posted to the Memphis Police Department's YouTube page at 7pm. Federal employees in Memphis and Portland have been told to go home early, and...

[Catholic Caucus] A New Catholic Faith for Children to AbandonAbove: a blessing service as part of a day of action in defiance to the Vatican’s ruling on same-sex unions in the Youth Church in Wurzburg, Germany, on Monday, May 10th.I am picturing a small French-speaking Saskatchewan village in the 1930s. It is perhaps disingenuous to shrug one’s shoulders and simply declare that times are tough. When dust bowls replace food and water, and roots and berries are standard fare on a large family’s table, suffering abounds. Living in the shadow of death is a reality. No government bailouts will reach...

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is a non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack...

"And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird." "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." "How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and...

[Catholic Caucus] Rupnik's Amoris Laetitia Morals: Francis Gets Away With LyingA former member of the Loyola community named "Klara", 58, gave another testimony against Father Marko Rupnik SJ (EditorialeDomani.it, January 23).Klara was 16 when she met Rupnik, who was ten years her senior, in 1980. A year later, he began kissing and hugging her as "a gesture of tenderness". In 1986, he masturbated in front of her and asked her to masturbate him.A year later, Klara joined the Loyoala community, which was controlled by Rupnik. Many sexual encounters followed. He admitted to her that he had sexual relations with other...

Seven people were shot and killed and at least three others were wounded in a terror shooting attack at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood, police and medics said Friday night. According to police, the terrorist arrived by car at 8:13 p.m. at a building used as a synagogue in the neighborhood in the northern part of East Jerusalem and opened fire at people outside the synagogue and other passersby.

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday said he takes “full responsibility” for classified documents ending up at his home in Indiana and pledged to cooperate with any investigation into how it happened. “During the closing days of administration, when materials were boxed and assembled, some of which were shipped to our personal residence, mistakes were made,” Pence told Fox News in his first public comments since his office disclosed earlier this week that classified records were found at his residence. “We were not aware of it at the time until we did the review just a few short weeks...

Former President Trump congratulated Ronna McDaniel for winning a fourth term as chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday. “Congratulations to Ronna McDaniel on her big WIN as RNC CHAIR,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social, before later baselessly alleging Democrats were rigging elections. The former president had not offered a public endorsement of any candidate ahead of the vote. McDaniel won reelection for the RNC after committee members held a secret ballot vote in Dana Point, Calif. The incumbent faced two other challengers: California-based attorney Harmeet Dhillon and MyPillow CEO and prominent election denier...

Washington state is releasing Level-3 sex offenders from McNeil Island. Called "the worst of the worst" by the federal government, this group of offenders includes convicted pedophiles that are likely to re-offend. They will be resettled into residential neighborhoods in halfway homes operated by a private company. Washington Democrats passed legislation in 2021 that amended state law to make it easier to equally distribute conditionally released sexually violent predators which they refer to as "residents" in counties across the state. The legislation established what lawmakers called "fair share principals," requiring each county in the state to provide community-based housing for...

Dallas police are preparing for demonstrations Friday night following the release of video of the arrest of Tyre Nichols, a Black man whose death led to murder charges for five Memphis police officers. …

Government officials are calling for calm ahead of the planned nationwide protests over the Tyre Nichols bodycam footage, which will be released tonight, as the Georgia governor activated 1,000 National Guard troops and Capitol Hill amped up security. Many cities, including Memphis and New York City, are gearing up to protest after the gruesome footage, which has been described as worse than Rodney King, on the Memphis Police Department's YouTube page at 7pm. Police are releasing the footage later a night to allow people to get home beforehand. Nichols, 29, was brutally beaten like a 'human piñata' by five Memphis,...

Northern mountains could get up to 30 inches of snow in some areas Friday through Saturday.. Coloradans are in for some serious winter weather this weekend and early next week. Some areas of the northern mountains could get up to 30 inches of snow by Saturday, and Denver and the plains could see wind chills of -20 degrees Sunday through Tuesday. Starting Friday afternoon, snow will intensify over the Park Range, including Rabbit Ears Pass, and portions of the northern Front Range mountains like Medicine Bow and Rocky Mountain National Park. Snowfall rates could be as high as three inches...

Congressional Republicans and Asia policy experts are sounding the alarm over the Chinese Communist Party’s influence on K-12 education as well as colleges in America through what are called Confucius Classrooms and Confucius Institutes. “Confucius Institutes and Classrooms allow the Chinese Communist Party to wield influence throughout the American education system, projecting the CCP’s preferred message in the United States,” Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., chairman of a new House select committee on China, told The Daily Signal in an email. The full name of the panel created Jan. 10 by Republican leadership is the House Select Committee on the Strategic...

Donald Trump spent the final months of 2022 reeling from electoral setbacks and media disasters. Many of his high-profile endorsements in the midterm elections flopped. His attacks on popular GOP governors in Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Georgia did little damage to their reputations. His 2024 campaign launch was a snooze. His infamous and inexcusable dinner at Mar-a-Lago with high-profile anti-Semites put him on the political fringe. By the end of last year, Trump appeared to be fading from the national conversation. His chances of winning the Republican nomination seemed to dim. Now those chances are brightening. Trump continues to dominate...

It’s no secret that the majority of Antifa members are white kids from privileged backgrounds; you only have to look at the recent reports from the far-left riots in Atlanta, which confirmed the arrest of the ‘non-binary’ son of Democrat Rep. Katherine Clark, and the son of a millionaire surgeon to see an emerging demographic. The recurring theme is undeniable.