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[Catholic Caucus] Scenes From Trans Activist Cecilia Gentili’s Funeral as Mourners Fill St. Patrick’s CathredalThe pews of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City are a sea of black and ruby red that glimmers when the light hits just right. The shine stems from the various gems adorning attendees—on their slicked back, curly shags and mullets, delicate lacy veils, button down shirts, crocheted crop tops, and even decorated in the shape of a heart on the side of their cheeks—who arrive with red carnations and roses to commemorate transgender activist Cecilia Gentili. .... Throughout intervals during the service, chants of...

Beijing, now Moscow.… Who else is hiding in broadband gateways?The US government today said it disrupted a botnet that Russia's GRU military intelligence unit used for phishing expeditions, spying, credential harvesting, and data theft against American and foreign governments and other strategic targets. This latest court-authorized takedown happened in January, and involved neutralizing "well over a thousand" home and small business routers that had been infected with the Moobot malware, which is a Mirai variant, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray, speaking at the Munich Cyber Security Conference on Thursday. Moobot can be used to remote-control compromised devices and launch...

California has grand ambitions for ethnic studies. By 2025, the state’s public high schools — about 1,600 of them — must teach the subject. By 2030, students won’t be able to graduate high school without it.... But even in a liberal state like California, scholars, parents and educators have found themselves at odds over how to adapt the college-level academic discipline for high school students, especially because of its strong views on race and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.... Ethnic studies focuses on four groups: Black Americans, Latinos, Native Americans and Asian Americans. It aims to critique various forms of oppression and...

resident Biden's administration and liberal supporters in Washington are bracing for a possible Donald Trump victory in November by installing "roadblocks" to limit the latter's ability to fire thousands of government workers, according to a new report. The Associated Press reported that a cabal of left-leaning experts, legal advisers and others are confident Biden will be re-elected but are urging him to prepare for the worst: another Trump presidency beginning in 2025. "My impression is the Biden administration is taking very seriously that potential threat and is trying to do things now," Michael Linden, former executive associate director of the...

I've been waiting all day for someone on TV to put together Putin killing his political rival and what Biden's DOJ is doing to Trump. Why can't anyone see that Biden is doing the same thing to Trump that Putin is doing? A little while ago, Putin removed another rival from running against him in the next election. He just said he was not able to challenge Putin.We are truly 3rd world now and nobody seems to have figured that out yet. It's time for some of the 100 thousand Trump supporters he can raise in any town to show...

ON FEBRUARY 28, 1974, Tony Shafrazi walked into the Museum of Modern Art in New York and spray-painted kill lies all in red across the achromatic surface of Picasso’s Guernica (1937), in protest of United States atrocities in Vietnam. The next day, his action appeared on the front page of the New York Times, as he had intended: Shafrazi had notified news agencies in advance. On October 14, 2022, nearly 50 years later, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland walked into the National Gallery in London, opened a can of tomato soup, and splattered it across glass protecting Van Gogh’s Sunflowers...

Media assisting in the details: Chicago police could soon issue a final report on the mysterious shooting at a White Sox game last summer. Two women in the stands were shot and injured, and theories have varied about how it happened. During the game, two women were injured by bullets that struck them while sitting in the left field bleachers. One 40 caliber bullet was recovered. Another bullet remains lodged in the leg of the woman who was most seriously wounded. So two bullets? Or one bullet (in a known location) and one shell casing? Because the media is famous...

A monitoring group in Egypt has released evidence of construction work taking place in Rafah on the border with Gaza that may be intended to house Palestinians fleeing from the potential Israeli assault on the city. Photos and videos released by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights (SFHR), a monitoring group, have captured workers operating heavy machinery and erecting concrete walls and security towers along the border with Gaza near the Rafah crossing. The videos, dated February 15th, don’t appear to show the Egyptian authorities installing water or other infrastructure, and satellite images published by Planet Labs on the same...

President Biden was jeered by dozens of protesters on Friday as he visited East Palestine, Ohio more than a year after the disastrous train derailment — as concerns mount over the long-term health and environmental effects on the community. Dozens of area residents lined a commercial strip in the town with signs that said “Too Little Too Late,” “Dementia Joe You Gotta Go” and “Go home, Sleepy Joe!” A pool reporter traveling in the motorcade noted that one angry protester “was giving the middle finger” while several more were “giving the thumbs down.”... The president’s election-year visit to East Palestine,...

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office sought high bail for a group of illegal immigrants accused of attacking two NYPD officers near Times Square last month after their initial no-bail release caused a national uproar. The suspects each pleaded not guilty at their arraignment on a superseding indictment Friday morning. Despite the prosecution's change in stance, one suspected Venezuelan gang member who was ordered to leave the country last year had his bail set at $1. However – it is not expected to be paid. The move allows him to avoid deportation while in custody. First up, the judge set...

Hundreds of people protested outside the Russian Embassy in London on Friday night, carrying placards accusing Vladimir Putin of murdering Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader. A brass sign by the entrance gate to the embassy in Kensington was covered in red paint and handprints by demonstrators, while a shrine to Navalny, who died in a penal colony in Siberia on Friday, was set up on the opposite side of the road. Placards on display declared: “Putin is a murderer” and “Kremlin kills”, while protestors chanted: “Putin is not Russia”, “Glory to Ukraine” and “Stop Putin, stop the war” in a...

The GOP chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee was bullish Friday on the chamber delivering U.S. military assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, despite the “brainwashing” of some within his caucus who oppose foreign spending because of the crisis at the southern border. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was committed to eventually moving President Biden’s national security supplemental request, though the pathway remains unclear amid fierce pushback from the far right of the GOP. Speaking during a discussion hosted by the Christian Science Monitor in Washington, D.C., McCaul said Johnson faces two challenging options: bring...

The Marxist State Media (MSM) is consumed with fear about the coming election. The MSM is currently laying off employees and reducing the salaries of the big name and big ego news readers. The election of Trump will cause chaos in the industry. The MSM will have to fire most of the existing staff to accommodate the hiring of the thousands of deep state operatives fired by Trump as political consultants, military experts, lawfare consultants, journeyman news readers, etc. In unrelated news, Ray Epps completes his sentence. Ray had 30 Patriot Front people show up to perform his community service...

According to an exclusive Breitbart News item published yesterday:The overwhelming majority of general election voters say only American citizens should be allowed to vote in United States elections, a new poll exclusively shared with Breitbart News finds.Author John Binder reported that the data came from a survey sample of “1,000 general election voters” and that the “overwhelming majority” number rang in at 85.5%, which is around 6-in-7 of the polled voters. Furthermore, the opinion that only American citizens should vote in American elections wasn’t exclusive to the federal level, but the “municipal level” as well.Now, I’d like to know where...

Jack Smith wants to put Donald Trump in jail because Trump aggressively interpreted aspects of the Electoral Count Act. However, other people (not connected to Trump) were far more aggressive. They decided to completely ignore a constitutional requirement that had been firmly settled by the U.S. Supreme Court.Who were those lawbreakers? They were revered justices of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. Will Jack Smith or Merrick Garland put those justices in jail? Will the Hawaii bar association suspend their licenses? Will anyone even comment on their defiance? Don’t hold your breath. The Spirit of Aloha Legal StandardIn Hawaii, a man...

DISASTER! Fani “kept that [her relationship with Nathan Wade] secret from you, correct?” “Correct!” It’s over. Fani is done. (2 minutes and 7 seconds video in the link below)https://twitter.com/thevivafrei/status/1758536086769312109

Matthew 9:14-15Friends, in today’s Gospel, people ask Jesus why his disciples do not fast. He says that as wedding guests, they will not fast while he, the Bridegroom, is with them. But “the days will come,” he says, “when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.”Why do we fast?Because we have a hunger for God, which is the deepest hunger. We’re meant to get access to that hunger. We’re meant to feel it so that it can direct us toward God. Every spiritual master recognizes the danger that if we allow the superficial hunger of...

The Tavriia Operational Strategic Group has explained why it is important to hold Avdiivka and stressed that in the most difficult circumstances on the battlefield, soldiers’ lives are the priority.Source: Dmytro Lykhovii, spokesperson for the Tavriia Operational Strategic Group, in an interview with RBC-UkraineQuote: "Holding Avdiivka is important in order to prevent Russian artillery and Russian terror from moving further to the west of Donetsk Oblast. To grind down Russian resources and reserves, to deplete their armada.But I would like to emphasise once again that in the most difficult circumstances on the battlefield, the priority is the lives of the...

CNN legal analyst Michael Moore is a former elected Democrat Georgia state senator, and later a US Attorney in Georgia appointed by Barack Obama. So, appearing on CNN This Morning today, you might well have expected him to toe the Dem line in defending Fani Willis in her fight not to be removed as prosecutor in the election interference case she has brought against Donald Trump and 18 other defendants. But Moore entirely upended any such expectations in his comments on Willis' testimony of yesterday, and on the broader issues surrounding the matter. Here were the highlights: Moore called Willis'...

Republican David McCormick is on the verge of clinching the GOP nomination for one of the most competitive Senate races in the 2024 cycle, with a Tuesday filing deadline in Pennsylvania and no challengers in sight. Why it matters: McCormick's challenge to Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) is expected to be one of the most expensive and competitive races this year — in a swing state that could determine control of the Senate and the presidency. • McCormick, a former hedge fund CEO, was the runner-up in 2022's Senate GOP primary in Pennsylvania, losing to Trump-backed celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz. •...