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[ad_1] Photo by Christian Harb On July 2, 2026, the Vatican announced formally that the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), a fundamentalist sect, had entered into schism by consecrating four Bishops without authorization from Pope Leo XIV, thereby incurring latae sententiae, or automatic, excommunication upon themselves. After months of intransigence in the face of outreach from Rome, SSPX carried through with plans it had announced initially last February, a highly-symbolic act timed to memorialize another instance, nearly four decades earlier, when their right wing founder Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre had incurred the same penalties for the same actions. This was the…
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[ad_1] As it turned out, Trump behind the scenes was a little less bombastic than Trump in front of cameras. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] David DeCamp, Antiwar.com. Calls Iranian Leadership ‘Scum’. The president said Iran would get hit hard again and threatened to destroy civilian infrastructure. President Trump said on Wednesday that the ceasefire and US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding are “over” and called Iranian leadership “scum” after the US bombed Iran again and the Iranian military hit back at US bases in the region. “To me, I think it’s over. I don’t want to deal with them anymore. I think they’re scum,” the president told reporters at the NATO summit in Ankara while meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. “You know what scum is?…
[ad_1] EDITOR’S NOTE: This report is based on a growing body of economic indicators, labor market behavior patterns, and on-the-ground observations across multiple U.S. states. While the official economy continues to show stability on paper, independent data sources and field accounts suggest a rapidly expanding informal labor structure operating outside traditional reporting systems. Readers should be aware that the reality described below reflects a widening gap between measured economic performance and lived financial conditions across large segments of the population. At 5:03 a.m., in a suburban parking lot outside Atlanta, the day has already begun long before the official economy…
[ad_1] How the Smithsonian Lost America's Plot [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] What are the limits of executive power, and how should such limits be enforced by the courts? If there was a single dominant theme in the U.S. Supreme Court’s recently concluded 2025–2026 term, then those two questions capture it in a nutshell. This was a SCOTUS term uniquely focused on the debate over the proper scope of presidential authority. That makes sense, given the current occupant of the White House. In his second term, President Donald Trump has pursued an agenda of maximalist executive power on every front. Trump was not the first president to bypass Congress and seek…
[ad_1] Photograph Source: Laurie Noble – CC BY 3.0 Nigel Farage is not a picture of happiness. As Britain’s version of Trumpism (only a version, never a facsimile), the leader of Reform UK had been flying high in the polls. But his themes are starting to tire: the anti-establishment figure who so happens to be profiting from it; the martyr who always falls just short of the sword; the erratic, even cranky bully who aims volcanic fury at media reports he doesn’t like. A report from The Sunday Times was certainly one such example he did not take a shine to. According to the paper, George Cottrell,…
[ad_1] Conventional wisdom holds that the United States is the most violent and dangerous nation in the developed world. This dark view is frequently invoked by conservatives to demand stronger penalties for [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] From Wysocki v. Nassau County, decided Tuesday by Judge Sanket Bulsara (E.D.N.Y.): Dennis and Lisa Wysocki were issued New York State pistol licenses by the Nassau County Police Department’s (“NCPD”) Pistol License Section (“PLS”) in September 2017 and February 2021 respectively. In 2022, both applied for and were issued unrestricted concealed-carry pistol licenses. The Wysockis live with their minor daughter, who was in middle school in February 2023. On February 8, 2023, their daughter told a school counselor she had been feeling depressed and described past thoughts of harming herself using a rope. The counselor asked her if there…