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ech companies and commenters at public hearings got diametrically opposed rulings last week in First Amendment challenges to the discretion of governments to police, restrain and chill speech. U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter issued a preliminary injunction against New York's "hateful conduct" law, passed in the aftermath of the livestreamed Buffalo mass shooting to punish broadly defined "social media network[s]" for letting such content spread. It compels networks to "speak about the contours of hate speech" and chills their users' protected speech "without articulating a compelling governmental interest or ensuring that the law is narrowly tailored to that goal," Carter...

Mark 9:30-37 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus presents a child as an archetype to his disciples who were arguing about who was the greatest.How so? Children don’t know how to hide the truth of their reactions. They haven’t learned yet how to impress others. In this, they are like stars or flowers or animals, things that are what they are, unambiguously. They are in accord with God’s deepest intentions for them.Children haven’t yet learned how to look at themselves. Why can a child immerse himself so eagerly and thoroughly in what he is doing? Because he can lose himself; because...

Former President Donald Trump early Tuesday warned that President Joe Biden's policies on Ukraine could lead to a third World War. "If you watch and understand the moves being made by Biden on Ukraine, he is systematically, but perhaps unknowingly, pushing us into what could soon be WORLD WAR III," Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social page. "How crazy is that?" Trump's comment came after Biden met with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday following a secretive trip to the war-torn nation's capital city of Kyiv, traveling there one day before Russian President Vladimir Putin's address to...

Karma isn’t always immediate, but for Stephen Munoz Espinoza, his patience was rewarded swiftly after being cut in line. A 43-year-old resident of Delray Beach in Palm Beach County, Florida, Espinoza was in line to buy a lottery ticket at his local supermarket, when a stranger rudely cut in front of him. Many in this situation might have reacted differently than Espinoza did that day. Instead of getting angry, or causing a scene, Stephen simply maneuvered away from the ticket machine, and instead bought a ‘500X THE CASH’ Scratch-Off game at the counter. “It was the end of a long...

What's Going Wrong in Particle Physics? (This is why I lost faith in science.)Sabine Hossenfelder | 21:44 | 759K subscribers | 683K views | February 11, 2023

As the 2024 presidential campaign picks up steam following Nikki Haley's entry, former President Donald Trump continues to release his policy plan as he seeks to return to another term in the Oval Office. On Monday, Trump released his "plan to keep American communities safe," saying "Joe Biden and the ‘Defund the Police’ Democrats have turned our once great cities into cesspools of bloodshed and crime."In his first term, Trump had success tackling crime and lawlessness with programs such as Operation Legend, and his 2024 plan both expands and doubles-down on similar actions.Slamming the "Democrats' war on police," Trump said...

TAMPA BAY, Fla. — Polk County resident Tammy Lenze can’t drive to her medical treatments due to her disability. She relies on medical transport services covered by her health insurer to get to and from weekly appointments. What should have been another routine ride to the doctor on Dec. 28 turned into a harrowing experience. Lenze said the medical transport driver lost his temper after she got into the back seat of a car sent by Safe Choice Transport. Minutes into the trip, Lenze told the I-Team that the man behind the wheel started speeding and driving erratically. An app...

Students in the nonprofit agriculture program 4H, which teaches youth ages 9-19 how to raise livestock, found their animals fatally wounded Saturday morning. Four animals were stabbed in the head and face; two lambs were killed, and one lamb and piglet are recovering from the attack. The piglet is seemingly in good health with a minor gash to the head, while the sheep sustained a broken leg. Police are investigating the gruesome attack captured on surveillance footage, which shows a male suspect, according to the program's sheep leader, Erin Askew. "The first thing that went through my mind was I...

Missouri Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey and 19 other attorneys general joined Catholic Bishops protesting religious profiling in a leaked Federal Bureau of Investigation memo. Last week, an FBI internal memorandum dated Jan. 23, was published by Undercover DC, an investigative journalism organization. It mentioned Virginia Catholics, specifically traditional Catholics, some of whom are not in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, according to information from the Catholic Diocese of Richmond. The attorneys general seven-page letter of complaint was addressed to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray. The letter states the FBI memo “identifies ‘radical-traditionalist...

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Cardinal Roche Clarifies that Francis Is The ResponsibleCardinal Roche, prefect for the Novus Ordo, has made it clear that it is an “absurdity” to think that a prefect of a dicastery would do anything other than carry out the wishes of [authoritarian] Francis, he told WherePeterIs.com (February 17).For Roche, attacks on him are attacks on Francis' authority. Using harsh terms reminiscent of Luther, he describes such mostly justified criticism as "an astonishing act full of hubris.”According to Roche, "many Catholics" disagree with Francis' "mission", [private] "teachings", and initiatives.Emphasising a pagan concept of "authoritarianism," Roche believes that these Catholics are allegedly...

Officials at the Monterey Bay Aquarium are reporting seeing larger rafts of sea otters off of the Cannery Row area in Monterey. A raft is a group of sea otters resting in the kelp. “This is a really cool phenomenon that we don't typically see in this area. We have seen rafts of this size on the Peninsula but they are typically offshore,” Jessica Fujii, Sea Otter Program Manager for Monterey Bay Aquarium, said. Fujii says it appears to be more of a localized movement rather than a big migration. Usually, in this area, one can see anywhere from five...

Genaro García Luna, once the architect and public face of Mexico’s bloody war on its powerful criminal groups, was convicted on Tuesday in a New York courtroom of betraying his country and colleagues by taking millions of dollars in bribes from the violent drug cartels he was meant to be pursuing. The guilty verdict, which came after three days of deliberation in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, was a stunning downfall for Mr. García Luna, a jut-jawed former law-enforcement officer who was so enmeshed in his country’s security establishment that he was often described as the J. Edgar Hoover of...

Former President Donald Trump, who is running in the Republican primary for a second term in office, says everyone running for president should agree to take a mental competency test, a step further than Nikki Haley’s call to only have politicians over the age of 75 should take the test.Haley, who announced a run for the Republican nomination for president of the United States, is stressing the need for “generational change” in politics and has suggested that politicians over 75 years old should have to mandatorily take a “competency test.”The idea of having a competency test was a dig at...

Senate Republicans nervous about former President Trump’s lead in presidential primary polls are impatiently awaiting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to jump into the race. GOP lawmakers don’t expect DeSantis to make his move until after the Florida legislative session ends in early May, but the waiting game is playing on nerves, with some thinking DeSantis has lost political momentum since his big reelection win in November. [cut] Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) said he also expects DeSantis to keep his focus on Florida for a while, saying “he’s probably got a window that takes him — if he wants...

SNIP “There was like this giant communal Slack chat for the whole company that became sort of the digital gallows,” he told me. “And all these angry, backbiting staffers were gathering there and demanding that heads roll and the most bloodthirsty of the employees were these sort of weird tech and audio staffers and then a handful of people who wrote for like the Arts and Leisure section, and the Style section, and the magazine, which, in other words, you know, it was no one who was actually out covering any of the protests or the riots or the politics....

Former President Donald Trump responded to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address in a video released late Tuesday night after the speech.The Daily Caller obtained a copy of the response, which Trump called the “real State of the Union.” Trump’s speech focuses on the border crisis, inflation, and high gas prices. He also says that Biden’s Department Of Justice is “waging war” on free speech and persecuting Biden’s political opponents. Trump mentions that he is running for president in 2024 and that he hopes to complete the “unfinished business” of making America great again.“Over the past two years,...

Missing British child Madeleine McCann’s parents have agreed to a DNA test for a Polish woman who believes she’s their daughter — though even representatives for the young woman making the stunning claims admit that her background is “messy.” Gerry and Kate McCann, whose 3-year-old daughter, Madeleine, disappeared on vacation in Portugal over 15 years ago, are following up on Julia Faustyna’s claims that she is the kidnapped toddler, a source told the Daily Beast this week. Faustyna, 21, became an internet sensation this month after she started posting on social media under the handle @iammadeleinemccann. Earlier this week, she...

President Joe Biden made a “surprise” visit to Ukraine Monday. It doesn’t take a cynic to wonder how many tales from the trip he’ll come up with to pad his already bursting catalog of self-aggrandizing lies, which the media has mostly ignored for decades. We can imagine Biden in the coming months telling audiences that “we were shot down twice” as the Air Force Special Air Mission jet approached the Rzeszow airport in Poland near the Ukraine border, and then while visiting the front, the Ukrainian forces “let me shoot some of their artillery,” which was particularly rewarding because “I...

Justices turned down a request for rehearing by Raland Brunson, a Utah man who brought the case. Justices did not explain their decision and a vote tally was not made available. The court periodically releases lists of orders, and the Feb. 21 list included the decision on Brunson v. Alma Adams.