Retired coach and financial marketing exec, Spiritual companion, Outside adventurer. Living gratefully.
DC-Baltimore, USA
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Who cares for children of deported parents? This priest has signed up to take on 31.
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Jamie Raskin’s next move if Democrats win back Congress
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NEW from me: The National Association of Evangelicals (along with several other religious groups) are now joining the USCCB in condemning Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plans to publicly execute Nidal Malik Hasan, also saying doing so promotes a “culture of death.”
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URGENT RECORDING BELOW: Despite MAGA liars claiming that James Talarico was a patient at Lindner Center of Hope in Ohio, and allegedly recording an employee stating that he was, I just got off the phone with the Lindner Center and they have confirmed that the whole story is a Giant LIE.
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Never rely on AI to plot your hiking route. Never again, says the rescued young man.
Hiker, 16, Is Rescued From ‘Widowmaker’ Ledge After Using Chatbot to Plan Route nytimes.com/2026/10/07/world… via @NYTimes
Preparing to vote, look to leaders who mirror our values. God’s voice is one of compassion and encouragement; one community where all belong.
Expect no less an aspiration from the leaders we elect. Kind words matter.
#2026Midterms #Catholictwitter
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Ossoff: Each time Mike has called himself a trucker tonight, you'd think he's cruising down 85 behind the wheel. This is a congressman's son who inherited a seat in Congress, who now runs his daddy's trucking company, who voted seven times for the war in Iran, who voted for the tariffs, who voted to cut your health care — all so he could give a tax break to data center developers and some of the wealthiest people in the country. His office has been in cahoots with some of the most notorious white supremacists in America. He's already brought disgrace to our state.
But I am so grateful to Georgians for investing the trust in me to represent Georgia in the Senate. I've stood up to the drug companies, to the big tech companies, and to the insurance companies who are denying us the care that we need when we need it. And I humbly ask for your continued support in this election.
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Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship yesterday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas during the 1960s.
Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes before purchasing without adhering to certain conditions. For instance, they had to try on clothes over their clothes, put on protective covers when trying on hats, or weren't allowed to make returns once they purchased clothes and brought them home. These policies stemmed from the racist fear that white customers would refuse merchandise previously worn by Black shoppers.
The downtown Neiman Marcus flagship was one of the first major Dallas businesses that broke with these practices. In 1961, the company desegregated its Zodiac Room, a swanky restaurant frequented by Dallas elites. Neiman Marcus later welcomed Black shoppers without restrictions. These victories were achieved through the efforts of Civil Rights activists, along with support from Neiman Marcus president Stanley Marcus, who was an early advocate for desegregation in Dallas. The Neiman Marcus store manager purportedly warned Marcus that he would ruin his business — and indeed, some shoppers closed their accounts — but he stuck with his decision.
At the time of the flagship's closure, the Main Street store had been open for 112 years.
When college is unaffordable, students get creative in crowdfunding support.
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🚨 The Champs Elysee is completely FULL
This is unbelievable
The people have France have turned out in their hundreds of thousands to see Pope Leo XIV, the atmosphere is electric
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I kept hearing that Pope Leo XIV was “far left,” and for a while I assumed there must be some truth to it.
Then I started actually listening to him.
Not clips. Not political commentary. Not somebody telling me what I was supposed to think about him. His speeches. His words. His teaching.
And I have completely changed my opinion of him.
On immigration, he has acknowledged that a country has the right to control its borders. But he does not stop there. He has also told immigrants that entering another country comes with responsibilities. Learn the language. Respect the laws. Learn the customs. Participate in the life of the community.
That struck me because it is neither “open borders” nor a rejection of the immigrant. It is order and responsibility alongside human dignity.
Then there is abortion.
Pope Leo has been absolutely clear that the right to life begins at conception and continues until natural death. In his encyclical, he specifically named induced abortion and euthanasia among choices the Church considers gravely wrong.
And now, as he prepares to go to France, where abortion has been placed in the constitution and assisted dying has advanced into law, the central theme of his visit is essentially a defense of human life: “That the world may have life.” (AP News)
Then listen to what he tells young people.
Stop being afraid of commitment.
Stop being afraid of your vocation.
Stop being afraid of marriage.
When speaking to hundreds of thousands of young people in Spain, he congratulated couples preparing for marriage and told them plainly: “You don’t have to be afraid to get married and start a family.”
In a culture constantly telling young adults to delay marriage, delay children, chase themselves first and keep every option open forever, hearing the Pope tell young people that marriage and family are something beautiful enough to embrace instead of fear hit me hard. (National Catholic Register)
The more I listen to Pope Leo, the more ridiculous our political labels start to look.
Borders matter.
Laws matter.
The unborn matter.
Migrants matter.
Marriage matters.
Families matter.
Human dignity matters.
None of those things cancel the others out.
That is Catholicism.
I thought I had Pope Leo figured out before I really listened to him.
I was wrong.
And honestly, the more I hear from him, the more I love this Pope.
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Mother Teresa was asked what she would say to someone who doubted Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist. Her answer: “Pray.” Then came the question, “What if someone doesn’t know how?” She answered, “I will teach him. We learn to pray by praying.”
A wave of US #retirees are boosting travel spending.
More and more traveling friends are planning Canada trips to support the Canadian economy (and take in its beauty!)
Trips: Canadian Natl parks, BC, train trip to Banff. Americans are voting for Canada! 🍁 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
What is lost when a Trappist monastery is sold to a tech billionaire?
A farewell to a treasure in Snowmass, CO
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“The network didn’t fire her for lying; it fired her for leaking.”
— Salon
Maria Bartiromo’s Fox exit exposes breakdown of Trump’s media machine salon.com/2026/09/05/maria-b…
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GOOGLE LETS YOUR GMAIL STORAGE FILL UP WITH YEARS OF JUNK.
I hit 13.7GB out of 15GB and was almost ready to pay for more storage.
Then I found a way to free up space in under 20 minutes — without deleting a single important email.
Here are the 5 steps I used:
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What’s the money for? Is the first question. kiplinger.com/retirement/ret…
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Pritzker: I have to worry about whether people can eat lettuce or blueberries off a grocery shelf because Trump is doing away with food inspections.
I have to track measles outbreaks because the president put a madman in charge of vaccine recommendations.
I have to monitor the movements of ICE agents because he handed guns to people who couldn’t pass a background check, frankly, to work in an animal shelter.
I have to find money that we don’t have to fight problems that didn’t exist before Donald Trump. It’s the reality of being a governor in America today. I’m not the only one.
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The full scale of the Himalayan disaster is only now becoming clear | More than 90,000 people are estimated to be directly affected by the Himalayan landslide and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, the Red Cross said on Friday, as aid officials voiced fears of further flooding. "We believe that at least 93,000 people have been affected and are in great need," David Fisher, head of delegation for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Nepal said. "We're of course very concerned about the secondary flood," he added. Full Report Here 👇
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