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New from me at : The right wages war on “suicidal empathy,” with a misogynistic slant. Do you know who else railed against supposedly misplaced empathy or compassion? Just about every totalitarian leader
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SECDEF Hegseth has ANOTHER Signal scandal — that and much more in today’s SITREP!
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Pope Francis lifted the world as he led the Church with his profound moral voice. As he returns to God, may his call to humility and concern for the least among us continue to resound.
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Pope Francis was a decent man in indecent times. His voice, at this delicate moment, seems hard to replace.
Today's Morning Shots from Bill Kristol, , and :
A Pope Who Preached Decency in Indecent Times
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“In retrospect, it was absurd that an opinion piece published in the Times by a sitting senator could trigger the effective firing of a top editor and nymag.com/intelligencer… among staff.”
This sentence, just published in New York Magazine, is a bit of a moment.
At least for me, whom they fired a few weeks after the NYT fired James. 😏🤣
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Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.
The Secretary is unfit to lead.
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Made it to Gorgonzola, tomorrow I hope to make it to Treviglio. As long as it’s not too hot.
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SINNERS is a lot of fun: unrepentantly dirty, often quite humorous, and a handful of just absolutely dynamite performances. Plus, it has a guy playing Evil Michael Flatley, Dark Lord of the Dance. What more could you want from a movie?
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It's amazing that our military struggles to meet recruitment quotas when we have so many maga males imagining themselves as fonts of testosterone with true Viking warrior impulses and skills. They're the ones who want a total disinhibition of the things their parents, Sunday School, catechism nuns, high school coaches and principals tried to teach them, and they're confident they found it in the churlish, narcissistic knucklehead, the icon of their he-man woman-hater juvenile clubhouse in a cave.
It's not surprising at all really, the flip side of a bully is a coward.
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True that bullies are the poorest excuses for men. Chump most of all. Muskrat as well. I have known a couple of Asperger’s types, at different points on the spectrum. One was pretty realistic regarding his strengths and weaknesses, as were his parents. One was a total fool and had the poorest judgment of any man I knew. His parents were the same and had unrealistic views and pathetic judgment. both were smart men. Even though social judgment problems are common in this condition, I feel that so…
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Somebody should tell Marco Rubio, Border Czar Tom Homan, AG Pam Bondi and other Trump officials that Trump's pardon does NOT apply to international crimes against humanity. They will still be prosecuted at the Hague just as Hitler's top officials were prosecuted in the Nuremberg trials.
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Somebody should tell Marco Rubio, Border Czar Tom Homan, AG Pam Bondi and other Trump officials that Trump's pardon does NOT apply to international crimes against humanity. They will still be prosecuted at the Hague just as Hitler's top officials were prosecuted in the Nuremberg trials.