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  • Accused Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter extracted eyeballs from corpses for a living — and was on call night of double murder

    06/19/2025 1:14:18 PM PDT · by CFW · 66 replies
    NYpost ^ | 6/19/25 | Steven Vago and Anthony Blair
    Accused Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter’s most recent job was extracting eyeballs from corpses at a funeral home, according to a pal. Boelter — a 57-year-old married dad who allegedly murdered Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and wounded another Minnesota pol and his wife early Saturday — was carrying out his gruesome extraction work as part of an organ donation program, said the friend and sometime roommate David Carlson. “I knocked on his door, and I said, ‘Hey Vance, are you there?’ ” Carlson recalled of his interaction with the accused killer around 7 p.m. Friday —...
  • Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for first time

    09/22/2022 7:30:54 AM PDT · by JSM_Liberty · 34 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Thu 22 Sep 2022 | Rory Carroll
    Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for the first time, a demographic milestone for a state that was designed a century ago to have a permanent Protestant majority. Results from the 2021 census released on Thursday showed that 45.7% of inhabitants are Catholic or from a Catholic background compared with 43.48% from Protestant or other Christian backgrounds. The 2011 census figures were 45% Catholic and 48% Protestant. Neither bloc is a majority. ... Higher birth rates among Catholics gradually closed the gap, a closely watched metric since they tended to identify as Irish while Protestants tended to identify as British....