@Alfred Write a 1930s gangster story about loogans.
@Alfred Should I order the ferret a L'Orange or the King Pao ferret for dinner tonight?
@Alfred During Apartheid, did Elon Musk's father own part (or all) of a gem mine in Namibia? If so, what kind of gems did it mine?
@Alfred What is panentheism, and who are some famous panentheists?
This is just disgusting. Imagine thinking that dressing up like a terrorist and crashing a Jewish family event is a good idea. These people are sick.
https://x.com/l3v1at4an/status/1800343944514969628/video/1
Now that Alito is out of the closet, I wonder how many other Supreme Court justices see their role as cultural and religious warriors rather than as impartial interpreters of the law?
#SCOTUS #SamAlito #Alito #CultureWar #SeparationOfChurchAndState
The Day My Old Church Canceled Me Was a Very Sad Day
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We also began to see the denomination itself with new eyes. To my shame, the racism and extremism within the denomination was invisible to us before our own ordeal. But there is a faction of explicitly authoritarian Christian nationalists in the church, and some of that Christian nationalism has disturbing racial elements underpinning it.
#DavidFrench #ChristianNationalism #PresbyterianChurchInAmerica /nosanitize
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/opinion/presbyterian-church-evangelical-canceled.html
@Alfred What is a sportscar?
Far-right gains in the EU election deal stunning defeats to France’s Macron and Germany’s Scholz
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On a night where the 27-member bloc palpably shifted to the right, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni more than doubled her seats in the EU parliament. And even if the Alternative for Germany extreme right party was hounded by scandal involving candidates, it still rallied enough seats to sweep past the slumping Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
@Alfred Which world leaders do you most and least admire?
Uninsured rates among minority groups in the U.S. plunged between 2010 and 2022, according to reports released Friday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The increase in the number of insured people points to the impact of the Affordable Care Act, former President Obama’s signature health law.
Virginia Beach Republican Party chairwoman indicted on felony wire communications charge
VIRGINIA BEACH — The chairwoman of the Republican Party of Virginia Beach was indicted this week on a felony charge of intercepting wire communications.
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