BREAKING: President Trump Announces Executive Order to Cut Prescription Drug Prices by Up to 80%
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The Arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka: A Dangerous Precedent
On May 9, 2025, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility, a private prison operated by GEO Group. Baraka attempted to join a congressional delegation’s tour to inspect conditions at the facility, which reopened under a controversial $1 billion, 15-year contract with ICE. Federal authorities claimed Baraka ignored warnings to leave, charging him with misdemeanor trespassing. Baraka, however, maintains he …
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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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Networks must be more cautious when reporting Trump’s so-called “deals.” His announcements often follow a familiar, deceptive pattern: declare a major breakthrough, only for the details to later reveal that nothing has actually changed. In the meantime, he gets the headlines he wants, the press amplifies the illusion, and the markets react based on fiction—not fact.
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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
The power of governance was always tied to Holy Orders. In the case of certain abbesses, were granted the pontificalia and governed as a bishop over their monasteries and sometime surrounding areas. These were parcels of land owned by the monastery and rightly governed by the abbess. These abbesses had jurisdiction over priests for the Sacramental needs of the monastery but the abbesses themselves had no authority over the Liturgy and still received the abbatial blessing from the local bishop. Is this "clericalization of the laity?" And yes, the Gilbertines in England and a few other groups had double communities ruled over by an abbess. But we are not dealing with the Church of the past. With rise of mendicant orders and then clerical institutes many who are worldwide the situation is different. I think this falls under the the motto of the pontificate of Pope Francis', "Hacer un lio." How can a layman, dispense or deal with internal form issues? How can he deal with matters that require Holy Orders? "Clericalist aversion" to lay leadership or the fact that Holy Orders does confer the offices of shepherd, teacher and sanctifier? Maybe the pope and change this too?
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