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Prior to the French Revolution the Church had a prominent place in society, running virtually all schools and providing all of the healthcare, such that it was at the time. But, because the Church erred and allied with the Crown, the Church suffered uniquely harsh treatment after the Revolution.

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slate.com/news-and-pol... “The highest federal court in the land has responded by announcing, without any basis in law, that some Americans have a constitutional right to insist on theocracy.”

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www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sig... “You try to turn off the stove. Twenty masked men in body armor hit you with rubber bullets and tear gas. “The air smells like soup. A timer dings. “The room feels like a sauna. Your ankles are wet. When you open your mouth, out comes a croak.”

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Just a reminder that while her ex nonstop soils himself in public with tasteless displays of wealth and look-at-me, thirsty nonsense, Mackenzie Scott has given away close to $20 billion to 1,600 charities, no strings attached and without any need for recognition.

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www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-h... I just can’t pinpoint the origin of my contemplations about a behind-the-scenes takeover of the executive branch. Is this what Shakespeare meant when he wrote, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”?

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www.sfgate.com/national-par... A very satisfying, almost cathartic read….

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www.cnbc.com/video/2024/0... It’s wonderful to hear more about what is actually happening - and designed to happen - behind the scenes from a ceo who knows and understands the landscape.

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www.raygunsite.com/products/the... I mean we tried it the way all you “do gooders” wanted to do it for like half of century. What did we get except better food, water, health, equality, and general happiness. Ugh. Gross. Now back to our originally scheduled programming of tyranny.

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Simply knocking would have been a fine option. There is no reason for any of this except stasi thuggery.

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Vent ! Pluie ! Canicule ! Tout est ta faute Me dit le chat en rentrant +++ Wind! Rain! Heatwave! It's all your fault The cat said to me on the way home #ombres #3lignes #3lines #vérité #truth

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I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

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degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/rogue-scot... Performatively brutalizing noncitizens and introducing background terror also suggests to U.S. citizens that working at cross-purposes with the government’s violence against immigrants might be dangerous for them, too. Stand strong together. 1+1=1

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So Jeff Bezos is getting married, in Venice, for $55M. It’s time for the obligatory reminder of wealth inequality: With a fortune estimated at $268B, he could spend that amount of money every day for 13 years. It’s the equivalent of a person making $100k spending $20 Get your mind around that.

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Trump Warns if He Does Not Win Nobel Peace Prize He Will Bomb Norway THE HAGUE (The Borowitz Report)—Raising eyebrows on the final day of the NATO summit, Donald J. Trump said on Wednesday that if he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize he will bomb Norway.

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My new favorite handbill advert. Weird and whimsical ❤️

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“White House rejects intelligence assessment that strikes did not destroy Iran nuclear programme after details/damage assessment were leaked from the Pentagon.” Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, calling the leaked intelligence assessment "treasonous". So…the truth is treason

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"I DEMAND THAT THE NOBEL COMMITTEE IMMEDIATELY CONVENE AND AWARD ME THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER."

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... “What the current moment has revealed is a cohort of regimes fundamentally unsuited to crisis, fit only for management; a crop of politicians whose very role is not to rethink or challenge the way things are, but simply to shepherd geopolitical traffic.”

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Mambo # 47 A little bit of Greenland in the ice All of Canada would be nice A little bombing in Tehran Starving Gaza all night long Ignoring Ukraine every day For whatever Putin had to say

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The ultimate water sausage compilation:

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“Don’t worry the pendulum will swing back” is: 1. A false assumption 2. Stunningly naive 3. Real loser shit

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Israel, using U.S. planes, flown by pilots trained by the U.S. and paid from U.S. support funds, used U.S. intelligence to identify targets, is dropping U.S. made bombs on Iran. Yet the NYT is asking the question as to whether the USA is going to get involved. SMH

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“You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, ‘never get involved in a land war in Asia,’ but only slightly less well-known is this: ‘Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!’”

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I think with a well-disciplined phalanx of Greek spearmen, we should be able to take and hold Persia with limited difficulty.

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So you fire the entire intelligence community and decide to go war while adding $3 trillion to the deficit.

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www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... Now do Fox News.

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www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its... This is satire. (You can’t be too careful these days.)

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... A Harvard study showed that once 3.5% of the population became engaged in sustained and non-violent resistance, change has happened. In every country studied. That’s 9M Americans. Let’s do this.

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www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th... Hartman Turnbow, a Black Mississippi farmer and community leader, was a case in point. With tragic foresight, Turnbow bluntly warned Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964, “This nonviolent stuff ain’t no good. It’ll get ya killed.” Let’s not forget the use of force.

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www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... Israel, using U.S. planes, flown by pilots trained by the U.S. and paid from U.S. support funds used U.S. intelligence to identify targets, and dropped U.S. made bombs on Iran today. “No US involvement” says the Trump “administration.”

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