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@TiceRichard Burnham’s coup is well underway. Big speech today with no questions from journalists. No debate in Parliament. No scrutiny from MPs until September. Power without accountability. Funny how Burnham demanded a General Election in 2022, but not now. We need a General Election.

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What are the best Charades ideas? This timeless game of silently acting out a clue never gets old - but the best clues depend on who you're playing with. Something simple is best when playing with kids or limited time, while more ambitious adults will be looking for a challenge. This guide features plenty of adult Charades ideas and simple, kid-friendly options for all kinds of Charades topics. BasAs a reminder, this is mainly a miming game. A team's elected play-actor must use their gestures to describe a random words, phrases, or titles before a timer runs out. Clever signals...

Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight Interviewer: “What do you want to say” First Guy: “If Sheikh Naim wants, I have a 7 month old baby, and I’m willing to put explosives on him and send him to Tel Aviv” Interviewer: “Abbas, do you have anything to say?” Abbas: “I sacrificed my brother Hammudi, and I’m will to also give my parents and all my brothers to Islamic resistance” This is the depravity and psychotic mentality of “Palestinian resistance”. Palestinianism is a mental illness.

The Metropolitan Police has identified more than 4,000 grooming gang cases that may need to be reinvestigated, according to a report. Scotland Yard has been carrying out a major audit of group-based sexual abuse in London dating back to 2010, amid concern that perpetrators could still be at large. Of the more than 12,000 alleged incidents that were reported to the Met during the period, a review has found that a third of them may need to be reopened. The potential major escalation of the Met's policing of historic grooming gang cases comes despite Sir Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of...

Schools, offices and hospitals in London should be fitted with air conditioning as heatwaves in the capital become more frequent, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said. It comes as the mayor unveiled Heat Ready London — a city-wide strategy designed to help the capital adapt and better prepare for extreme heat events. Climate projections suggest London could face two to three times more heatwaves in the next 20 years, with around one million homes at serious risk of overheating, alongside 1,361 schools, 60 hospitals and 351 care homes. A report from City Hall urges stronger protections for people most vulnerable...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Matthew 16:17–19Though the Church will suffer in many ways, She will ultimately overcome all...

IntroductionThe Coercive Acts not only sparked outrage among the common people whom Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816) derided as members of the mob; they also inflamed the indignation of Americans who occupied positions of power and influence. One such person was Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), a member of Virginia's House of Burgesses who helped write a May 1774 resolution designating a day of fasting and prayer to show solidarity with the people of Massachusetts. Soon after, Lord Dunmore (1730–1809), the royal governor, showed his solidarity with Parliament by dissolving the House of Burgesses. As the elected members of that body prepared to regroup...

"Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected; and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, 'And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,' and he was called the friend of God. You see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith alone" (James 2:21-24). You are a friend of God if you love Him and obey His Word. Can you imagine life without friends—those...

A senior Paris official has blamed the United States in part for France's deadly heatwave. Audrey Pulvar, the city's deputy mayor for international relations, has raged at Americans mocking France's limited air conditioning - and claimed their greenhouse gas emissions are to blame. "Dear American journalists and social media 'influencers': for days, some of you have been criticising and making fun of Paris because the city does not have A/C in every room..." "As the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, you bear a significant amount of responsibility for global warming and the consequences we, in France,...

A Mexican vigilante dubbed “Batman” is wanted by police for allegedly chasing down suspected motorbike thieves around town and taping them to lampposts, according to a report. At least five men were discovered helplessly duct-taped to street poles over 10 days, beginning on June 13 in the area of Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, The Sun reported. Many of the alleged thieves also had mustaches, cat whiskers and the Spanish word for “thief” scrawled on their faces, according to several images posted by Mexican journalist Luis Cárdenas on X. The vigilante — which Cardenas referred to as the “Batman of Lagos...

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Andy Burnham will today set out his Left-wing plan for a decade in power, as he plots a tax raid on middle-class Southerners. The would-be prime minister will begin to reveal his plan for when Sir Keir Starmer is shoved aside next month. He is set to be given the keys to No 10 in a Labour 'coronation', in which the public will have no say. But despite his lack of mandate, the former Greater Manchester mayor will demand ten years in power. Mr Burnham will put devolution at the heart of his programme, arguing that transferring powers and money...

I used to love New York City. You could go there and walk around, unmolested, and enjoy the sights and sounds the city had to offer. Now, the aroma of urine and weed permeates the streets like a poorly ventilated cigar bar on its busiest night. There is no real punishment for crimes short of murder. Walk into a Duane Reade, a pharmacy and convenience store chain owned by Walgreens up there, and you will see less security than in a bank. As leftists insist, “People need to steal to feed their families,” you can’t help but notice that the...

The transcript from the video would be too long to post here, but the gist of the video is about how Microsoft is extending the ESU program until Oct 2027, and maybe even into 2028. I thought maybe folks here would want to know because it makes getting new hardware to support Windows 11 unnecessary as long your IT device still runs good and has Windows 10, like mine. I was going to put together a system to dual boot W11 and Linux but I'm putting that off for now.

"Major study blames iPhones for collapsing birth rate. It's a cute hypothesis, but in fact conservatives are having as many kids as the 1980's. It’s liberal ideology that's eating the kids."

On July 4, Americans will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. At the heart of that document is the proclamation that “all men are created equal” and “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” Today, many people think that belief in a Creator is a subjective preference based on their personal faith. But that was not the view of America’s Founders. Nor was it the view held by many of the thinkers who preceded them. More than two millennia ago, key Greek and Roman thinkers already argued that nature supplies objective evidence of a Creator....

A rare double earthquake ravaged Venezuela on Wednesday, killing at least 920 and injuring another 3,360, authorities said. Many more are feared dead. Thousands of people have been reported missing. Some of the heaviest damage and casualties were in La Guaira, a coastal region north of the capital, Caracas. Here’s what to know about the earthquakes and the search for survivors: The powerful 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes struck 39 seconds apart along the San Sebastian fault on Venezuela’s northern coast, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. They were among the strongest in the South American nation in more than a...

The U.S. CDC raised its response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic ​Republic of Congo to its highest level on Friday, but said the risk ‌of the disease spreading in the United States remained low. The move, reserved for the most severe health crises, signals growing concern over the rare strain's rapid spread. The outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola has infected over ​1,200 people in Congo, including 321 deaths, and 20 cases in neighboring Uganda, ​reaching the highest first-month total of any episode of the disease, the ⁠World Health Organization said this week. The Centers for Disease...