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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Vatican to allow celibate gay men in Italy to become priests |
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| Vatican announces new guidelines allowing gay men to become priests in Italy under vow of celibacy The Vatican relaxed its guidelines on admitting gay men to Italian seminaries, allowing them to train as long as they remain celibate, reported T24. The norms were approved by the Vatican Congregation... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Replies: 2,707
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| Biden spoke with Netanyahu; Sullivan says hostage deal very close U.S. President Joe Biden spoke on Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House said, as U.S. officials race to reach a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal before Biden leaves office on Jan. 20. Biden and Netanya... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Wildfires plague Los Angeles area |
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Replies: 9
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| NBC News Live Updates Santa Ana winds are expected to persist over the next three days across parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Red flag warnings are in effect for some areas through Wednesday because of the gusty winds and low humidity. The wind-fed wildfires have killed at least 24 peopl... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: JD Vance - Violent Jan. 6 rioters shouldn't receive pardons |
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| NBC News Vice President-elect JD Vance said Sunday who he thinks should and shouldn’t receive presidential pardons for their actions during the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. “If you protested peacefully on Jan. 6 and you’ve had [Attorney General] Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autism CARES Act signed into law |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:59 am
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| Maybe the money will produce some benefits but any legislation that promotes curing ASD just has a chilling effect. My reply about brain plasticity is in response to questions about the push for early intervention, not the legislation per se. The legislation "requires the Government Accountabi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 1902 New York riot that sparked Jewish-American activism |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:25 am
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| As Mona can attest to I have been anti-BLM movement for years including in 2020 at the height of the movements popularity when she was advising me not to literally say I was “anti BLM” because saying that automatically labeled you a racist even among “non wokes”. I did not listen to her. To clarify... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Trump trial verdict is in - guilty! |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2025, 8:59 pm
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| This is the ultimate demonstration of "one law for us, one law for them." If you are powerful enough, you can commit ANY crime with ZERO consequences, is what this says. Usually the legal profession tries to pretend that isn't true. True or not this is about it being decided that the vote... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: War with Canada and Denmark? |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2025, 8:50 pm
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Replies: 62
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| By this logic you lost WWI because you had to fight another war against Germany, and you didn't win the Revolutionary War because Britain burned down the White House in 1814. You weren't fighting the Taliban in 2021, you'd forced them from power and signed a peace deal on your terms; the fact that ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Jack Smith |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2025, 8:10 pm
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Replies: 184
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| Special counsel Jack Smith resigns Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department on Friday, officials said in a court filing on Saturday. The move was expected ahead of President-elect Donald Trump taking the oath of office. Smith’s report on Trump’s alleged involvement in 202... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Wildfires plague Los Angeles area |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2025, 8:05 pm
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Replies: 9
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| NBC New s Live Updates What we know about the California wildfires Five devastating wind-fed fires have killed at least 13 people and swept through 39,000 acres in the greater Los Angeles area, destroying entire communities and more than 12,000 structures. Another 13 people are missing, L.A. County... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mideast War blowback |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2025, 7:35 pm
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| A rabbi and his son were arrested for vandalizing a swastika mural. Are they heroes or hooligans? Zechariah Mehler wanted to see the swastika for himself. It was September, and Milwaukee was abuzz over a mural that had gone up on the side of a commercial building in the city’s sixth district. Paint... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Peter Yarrow Folk Music Icon, Activist, child molester dies |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2025, 1:13 pm
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| Like I said I started this thread as a tribute thread unaware of his dark side. When mucking around X I came across a tweet referencing his conviction. While I do not believe in defining historical figures solely by their sins I do not believe in whitewashing them so I posted the article. I wondered... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autism CARES Act signed into law |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2025, 12:06 pm
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| The push for early identification is based on the fact that brain wiring that decides who you are most intensely forms in the earliest years. The “hope” is that if a person can be identified as autistic in infancy ABA therapies can stop or deflect the brain wiring from making one autistic or at leas... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 1902 New York riot that sparked Jewish-American activism |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2025, 11:25 am
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| The Lower East Side anti-Jewish riot that changed the way Jews do politics You might be forgiven for never having heard of the worst anti-Jewish riot in American history. It happened on the Lower East Side over a century ago and largely slipped from history. Jewish memory was overloaded with subseq... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2025, 10:52 am
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Replies: 2,707
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| Gaza death toll 41% higher than official figures, study contends Gaza war death toll could be 40% higher, says Lancet study The Israelis are going to manipulate the totals to make them lower, the anti Israeli's are going manipulate the totals to make them higher. With no services and everything fla... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Posted: 10 Jan 2025, 9:30 pm
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| 'Due to the Zionist aggression,' most Israeli hostages in north Gaza missing, Hamas says Hamas has lost track of the majority of the hostages held in captivity in northern Gaza due to Israel's military activities in the area, a source in the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, told Qata... |
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