Donald Trump meets 30 men to discuss future of maternity care 'Here’s the picture of the leaders negotiating away birth control, maternity care and abortion. Notice anything?'

Perfectly displays their mindset.
No matter what, old farts go first, women are just an afterthought.
Remember this women’s “health” conference? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Why any women's team would degrade themselves by attending any event hosted by Trump, I will never know.

Are the women back there somewhere? Yes, I think I see them.

Back to books - Sweden's schools cutting back on digital learning Swedish classrooms swap laptops for books, pens and paper, raising concerns from the tech sector.

The sooner the better.
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Vance questions the pope on just war theory hours after Leo honored its founder The vice president responded to a post on the pope’s X account in which he wrote that God is "never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.”

L to the M to the A to the O

Leo, the first pope to be a member of the Augustinian religious order inspired by the saint, traveled to Algeria to visit the site of ancient Hippo, the Roman city where Augustine was a bishop for 34 years. Celebrating Mass in the Basilica of St. Augustine in Annaba which overlooks the ancient site, the pope said "the guiding principle above all for Christians is charity!" Before becoming a bishop, Leo was head of the global Augustinian religious order inspired by the life and teachings of the saint; he wrote his doctoral dissertation on St. Augustine's understanding of authority. The pope has had a longstanding relationship with Augstine: His brothers attended an Augustinian high school in a Chicago suburb, where his mother worked as a librarian, and Leo himself attended an Augustinian-run minor seminary for high school in Holland, Michigan.

Hey jd I think the pope knows more about Augustine than you.

Hours after Pope Leo XIV paid public homage to St. Augustine, one of the key architects of just war theory, Vice President JD Vance questioned the pontiff's understanding of the Catholic doctrine for determining whether a war is morally justifiable.

You can't make this shit up.

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Superpower Suicide The geopolitics of our moment

“Superpower Suicide” is a concept to help understand the approach of the Trump regime to the rest of the world. We are fighting a war for no reason we can name, losing it, and covering our defeat with genocidal and apocalyptic propaganda.
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Post from The Warning with Steve Schmidt - YouTube I mean this from the bottom of my heart with every fiber of my being... Subscribe to The Warning at https://steveschmidt.substack.com.

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Social media post: U.S. Department of energy @ENERGY Wind and solar energy infrastructure is essentially worthless when it is dark outside, and the wind is not blowing. chimpvsdog The energy is stored, you absolute fucking morons.

Note of interest: It also doesn't have to go through the Strait of Hormuz in any way, shape or form.

4. When Patel announced he was cutting off SPLC, he wrote:

“I made it clear that the FBI will never rely on politicized or agenda-driven intelligence from outside groups — and certainly not from the SPLC.”

He knows SPLC was providing intelligence on extremist groups but he didn’t say that today.

3. The indictment doesn’t mention that SPLC provided intelligence from its informant program to law enforcement/FBI to dismantle extremist groups.

But that fact, which will surely come out in discovery, undermines the entire premise the DOJ/FBI case.

The SPLC actually gets criticized within the movement for cooperating too much with law enforcement.

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on charges that it fraudulently paid informants in extremist groups The head of the civil rights organization said the group was "outraged by the false allegations" leveled against it.

Let's be clear: The Trump Admin's vendetta against the SPLC is a sign of how impactful their work is.

The SPLC has been at the forefront of exposing some of America's most notorious hate groups, like the KKK. The fact that the Trump Admin feels threatened by that speaks volumes.

Federal Grand Jury Charges Southern Poverty Law Center for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering A Grand Jury in Montgomery, Alabama, today returned an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspi...

According the AG Blanche, “The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence.” This is some whacked out far-right fantasy. Hard to imagine this theory will hold up in court, but the lives of paid informants who infiltrated hate groups will be at risk.
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In just one week, the "Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See" exhibit will be at our #CivilRights Memorial Center 🤩!

Visitors 10 and up can visit starting April 28 to learn about the murder of Emmett Till and ongoing racism and violence.

Join us for a powerful moment of reflection❤️.

OK first of all this is absolutely fucking stupid and should be laughed out of any courtroom, but are they actually calling a unite the right organizer a terrorist or extremist? They do realize what they’re saying there, right?

Leave it to a violent extremist group (the GOP) to protect violent extremist groups.

FBI cuts ties with Southern Poverty Law Center, Anti-Defamation League after conservative complaints FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau is cutting ties with two organizations that for decades have tracked domestic extremism and racial and religious bias, a move that follows complaints about the ...

Here was the prelude to the prelude: apnews.com/article/fbi-...

I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ to try.

MAGA has fantasized about criminalizing the SPLC for a decade—regardless of the org’s many flaws, the MAGA DOJ is corrupt and weaponized.

Me:

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Let's not forget why this White House, especially Stephen Miller, hates SPLC.

It helped expose Miller as connected and collaborating with white supremacists in the media to spread the white supremacism he learned from the internet.

Ah, so the SPLC violated the How Dare You Be Mean To Nazis Law

It’s a wonder Luigi only went after a healthcare CEO and not a bank one too.

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Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina here demonstrates how local journalism can contribute to stories important for the nation as a whole.

Recommended reading.

The Post and Courier is a family newspaper. Its roots go back to 1803.

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