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[Catholic Caucus] Pope’s Next Consistory Will Have a Number of LGBTQ-Positive New CardinalsPope Francis has named 21 new cardinals, a number of whom have LGBTQ-positive records, to be elevated at a December consistory.The pope announced the cardinals-designate at Sunday’s Angelus, drawing heavily from the Global South with only a few European or North Americans named. Overall, those who had public records on LGBTQ+ issues were largely welcoming. These include the following clergy and prelates:Father Timothy Radcliffe, OP: A theologian and former Master of the Dominican Order (top worldwide leader), Radcliffe has an LGBTQ+ record dating to the 1990s. Most recently,...

Antisemitism is a big problem for blue states where protesters celebrate 'death to Israel'October 7th was the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Hamas invaded Israel, murdering people at random, raping, destroying homes and kidnapping people back to Gaza. There are more than 100 still held hostage, including four Americans. Raw and hurting, American Jews watched the streets of U.S. cities fill up with crowds. The people in the streets weren’t marching to stand with the slaughtered and the raped. They were gleeful, exuberant and there were many of them. In New York’s Times Square, hundreds of...

This week, Iran launched 180 ballistic missiles at Israel. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi justified the attack, calling it "an act of self defense against Israel's attempted genocide of the Palestinian people. The Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 and the Hezbollah missile strikes are righteous retaliation for 75 years of illegal Zionist occupation of lands belonging to Palestine. We are not unmerciful. If Israel heeds the warning we sent and vacates the stolen lands the attacks on its civilians will cease." Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) mostly agreed with Iran's position, saying "while Iran's missile strikes were unacceptable, their proposed...

‘We expected Hamas to kill Jews. We didn’t expect Americans to celebrate it.’Someone asked me the other day how I planned to commemorate October 7. I found myself speechless, befuddled by the question. How do you offer an elegy when the war is not yet over—and 101 hostages, those still alive and the bodies of the murdered, are not yet home? How do you remember a catastrophe when it is still unfolding? How do you mark a past event that feels as though it was a prelude to a much deeper darkness, whose dimensions we are still discovering? How do...

Voters with an Arab heritage could tank Vice President Kamala Harris’s chances of carrying the 31 combined Electoral College votes in the key battlegrounds of Michigan and Georgia. Arab American voters, who typically vote for Democrats by a 2-to-1 ratio, are not so fond of Harris following the administration’s handling of the Hamas/Israel war that spread into Lebanon this month, drawing in the Iranian proxy terrorist organization of Hezbollah. A recent Arab American Institute poll showed former President Trump leading Harris among Arab voters by four points nationally. In 2020, President Joe Biden won 60 percent of their votes.

Vice President Kamala Harris was roasted on social media for a comment on Israel and how she "can’t make any sense at all" in a new viral clip. Harris gave a rare sit-down interview on CBS’ "60 Minutes" Sunday, where Bill Whitaker asked whether the U.S. has any "sway" over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the war against Hamas continues. Monday marks one year since the brutal terrorist attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza. "The aid that we have given Israel allowed Israel to defend itself against 200 ballistic missiles that were just meant to attack...

Over the last month, one methodological decision seems to have produced two parallel universes of political polling. In one universe, Kamala Harris leads only narrowly in the national popular vote against Donald J. Trump, even as she holds a discernible edge in the Northern battlegrounds. The numbers look surprisingly similar to the 2022 midterm election. In the other, Ms. Harris has a clear lead in the national vote, but the battlegrounds are very tight. It’s essentially a repeat of the 2020 election. This divide is almost entirely explained by whether a pollster uses “weighting on recalled vote,” which means trying...

The RNC appears to be doing nothing about election integrity concerns and election law violations in Arizona, where Democrats are gearing up for another rigged election following the obviously stolen 2020 and 2022 elections. One would think that after 60% of machines in the state’s largest county were programmed to fail in 2022, disenfranchising thousands of Republicans and stealing statewide elections, the RNC would ramp up efforts to ensure Arizona’s elections are fair in 2024. Last month, it was revealed that the state had failed to verify the citizenship of 218,000 registered voters. The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on...

With winds of 160 mph, Milton has strengthened into the second Category 5 hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. Hurricane Beryl was the first storm to reach Category 5 status, doing so while it was traversing the Caribbean Sea in early July. Milton was only a tropical storm on Sunday morning, but winds ramped up at a tremendous pace, spiking from 60 mph to 160 mph in just 28 hours. Additionally, an abundance of lighting has been flashing around the eye of Milton, an indication that it could still be strengthening. AccuWeather meteorologists predict that while Hurricane Milton will...

Jessica Alba decries an America where working-class families are struggling to buy groceries & are sadly living paycheck to paycheck. Hey Jessica, who has been Vice President for the last 4 years? What political party is in power? Jessica Alba is a sell-out corporatist stooge.

@charliekirk11 MSNBC, which just had one of its producers caught on hidden camera admitting the network is indistinguishable from the Democrat Party, says with a straight face that Elon Musk is the “world’s leading spreader of disinformation.” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Vice President Kamala Harris struggled in a friendly interview that airs this week to competently answer questions surrounding her economic agenda. Harris sat down for an interview with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that was taped last week and is set to air on Monday night as part of a special election episode. “My plan is about saying that when you invest in small businesses, you invest in the middle class, and you strengthen America’s economy,” Harris told correspondent Bill Whitaker. “Small businesses are part of the backbone of America’s economy.” “But pardon me, Madam Vice President, the question was, how...

Twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton expressed desperation during an appearance on CNN on Saturday, where she openly called for mass censorship of American citizens. While discussing social media regulations, Clinton said platforms must censor content or else “we lose total control.” Yes, really. “We should be in view repealing something called Section 230 which gave platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be just pass-throughs that they shouldn’t be judged for the content that is posted,” she said. “But we now know that is an overly simple view that if the platforms whether it is Facebook or...

Harris and Walz exploit a tragedy to further a political narrative about ‘Trump abortion bans.’ Gov. Tim Walz dodged a question about Minnesota’s permissive abortion statute at last week’s debate by repeating a story about Georgia’s restrictive one. He brought up the case of Amber Thurman, 28, of Atlanta, who “had to travel a long distance to North Carolina to try and get her care” because Georgia prohibits abortion after six weeks. “Amber Thurman died in that journey back and forth,” Mr. Walz said. His source was an article by Kavitha Surana of ProPublica. Ms. Surana reports that in August...

Day #28 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the course of several months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so this will probably be done by early November. And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post vanity...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough claimed Monday on “Morning Joe” that former President Donald Trump was “preparing for civil war.” Saturday in Pennsylvania, Trump said, “Those who want to stop us from achieving this future have slandered me, impeached me, indicted me, tried to throw me off the ballot. And who knows? Maybe even tried to kill me.” He continued, “You know, I always say there is an enemy from within, and there is an outside enemy. If you are smart, the outside enemy is not going to be a problem. Russia, China, North Korea, we are not going to have...

Hamas is privately admitting that 80% of the Palestinians killed during the year-long war in Gaza are Hamas members or their families, Israel’s Channel 12 reported on Sunday. The report comes as most of the international media continue to use unverified Hamas casualty figures, which do not differentiate between combatants and civilians and which statisticians have previously called into question. According to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, more than ... Palestinians have been killed in the war, which was sparked by the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 massacre one year ago today. Israel has previously estimated that 17,000 combatants have been...

A Republican former Tarrant County judge said he will support U.S. Rep. Colin Allred’s campaign for Senate. Glen Whitley, who served as the Tarrant County judge from 2007 to 2022, made the announcement Oct. 5 during a campaign event for Allred in downtown Fort Worth. In explaining his decision, Whitley cited Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s loyalty to former President Donald Trump, as well as what Whitley called a “total lack of character” in Cruz.

An increase in total cereal intake and total cheese intake may reduce the risk for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), according to a study. Xingwu Liu, M.D. and colleagues performed a two-step Mendelian randomization analysis to obtain causal estimates of dietary factors and blood lipids on GERD. Independent genetic variants associated with 13 kinds of dietary factors and five kinds of blood lipids were selected as instrumental variables. The summary statistics for GERD included 129,080 cases and 473,524 controls. The researchers found that genetically predicted total pork intake, total bread intake, total cereal intake, and total cheese intake were associated with...

The police officers who arrested a black pastor while he watered his neighbor's flowers can be sued, a federal appeals court has ruled, reversing a lower court judge's decision which had dismissed the pastor's lawsuit. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the three officers who arrested Michael Jennings in Childersburg, Alabama, in May 2022 lacked probable cause for the arrest and are therefore not shielded by qualified immunity. Cops received a complaint about a strange man and vehicle on the property. The responding officers said they arrested Jennings because he refused to provide...