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Everyone interested in Encounter Ministries and other neo-gnostic charismatic movements needs to follow Father Buffer's research.

The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy.

Nonetheless, holy shit.

What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.

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Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

Thankfully, our principal was already pretty reasonable for accommodations like that. Part of the purpose (we felt) of having a special education program is to teach the general student body charity towards people with different needs from their own. That has to start from the literal adults in the room saying "they need this, so in the virtue of justice we will give it to them". So yeah, it definitely begins with extra transition time and not making a big deal about absolute, identical conformity from every student on things like that.

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