@MonikaMusing

#Catholic #conservative #CounterCulture Talking politics, faith, family, gardening, dogs, food & drink. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ Charity: @AidForWomen

NW Burbs IL
Joined September 2011
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@AidforWomen helps thousands of women in Chicago area facing unexpected pregnancies. Each woman is provided w/ emotional, practical & spiritual support needed to choose life & to provide a future for her & her child. Services are offered free-of-charge. Aidforwomen.org
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America’s corporate governance system is broken, and it’s killing public companies. Look no further than Cracker Barrel: Decades of brutal mismanagement have seen one incompetent CEO after another walk away with a massive paycheck while customers and actual shareholders take a beating. Why does this keep happening? Because proxy advisory firms like ISS are corrupt. They blindly rubber-stamp failing boards year after year, protecting the corporate elite while burning shareholder value to the ground. The root of the rot is index funds. There's no question that indexing one's money is a smart financial move for most people. But just because you passively index your investments doesn't mean your corporate votes should be handed over to the managers of your fund so they can play politics. Right now, passive funds hold massive, unchecked voting blocks while having zero skin in the game themselves. It is time for a simple rewrite of the rules: We need to index the votes of index fund investors. Passive index funds should be forced to automatically split their votes to proportionately mirror those of retail and active institutional shareholders — the people actually doing the research, risking their capital, and fighting for performance in the companies they hold shares in. No more rubber-stamping. A change like this will immediately strip corrupt gatekeepers like ISS of their toxic influence. True accountability happens when lazy, overpaid boards actually answer to the stakeholders they represent, rather than screwing them over. Actual, logic-driven governance when your money is passive happens when your vote passively follows the voting decisions of the actual market. We need to stop letting passive capital protect active incompetence. By stripping index funds of their arbitrary voting power and empowering engaged investors, we will finally torch corporate cronyism and usher American capital markets into a golden age of capitalism.
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A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures. The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019. A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years. Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out — this is the complete national picture. The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment. Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls. "Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded. Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls. The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges. The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway. How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?
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open your mail Write everything to ier @ usdoj dot gov Then, Google search for "DOLOIG Hotline form" and proceed to file a complaint. If you yourself were terminated in favor of a foreign hire, please file a charge to the EEOC. Do all three agencies at once if you were personally affected by this. If you have any material from your employer, showcasing a preference for foreign hiring. Please capture it, screenshot it with your phone and submit it to the government. You need to be doing this TODAY. These go to @AAGDhillon and @CivilRights
How can we report a company that’s laying off US citizens while outsourcing to India and maintaining/hiring H1Bs
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Gov. Spaulding "solemnly" marked the one-year anniversary of Operation Midway Blitz in Little Village this week with his grifters and mascots in tow. His description of federal law enforcement and what they did was, "...masked federal agents with military equipment in camouflage uniforms driving unmarked vehicles entered our neighborhoods, waged a campaign of terror and abuse that brought fear and disruption into people's homes, workplaces, schools and streets." It was Red Dawn and Pritzker was Patrick Swayze. What about the 2700 people apprehended and deported as part of that operation? All innocents? What about Cristobal Carias Masin? A criminal illegal alien from El Salvador, convicted of statutory rape, fraud, and aggravated felony, and with pending charges of assault and failure to register as a sex offender. Do you miss him, governor? What about Stefan Cseve? A criminal illegal alien from Austria, previously convicted of sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse, numerous sexual predator in a public park offenses, child sex offender loitering, in violation of the sex offender registry and currently charged with murder, rape or sexual abuse of a minor. Do you miss him, governor? What about Angel Galindo Viveros? A criminal illegal alien from Mexico, convicted of armed carjacking, armed criminal action, driving a vehicle without a license, possession of a firearm by a felon, robbery and traffic offense. Do you miss him, governor? Do you think, governor, a significant amount of crime was prevented and would-be victims spared by the removal of the 2700? Preventable crimes like murders of young woman by illegal aliens residing in Illinois? Sheridan Gorman. Katie Abraham. Chloe Polzin. Do you remember them, governor? Do you miss them, governor? Is there anything you would like to say other than "I'm sorry for your loss," to the moms and dads who had their daughters taken by people who were here illicitly because you harbored them? Go ahead and continue as the Jim Jones of the identitarian cult, governor. Go ahead and continue demagoguing federal law enforcement as some foreign, terroristic invading force. The projection is lost on most in Illinois. You may never be punished by the sentimental Illinois electorate that has given way to barbarism, but you will be by history for your villainous conduct. Your record will age like the Picture of Dorian Gray and for the same reasons.
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🚨BREAKING: The President has also directed all DHS departments that handle H-1B visa filings to inspect the employer on the application for evidence of recent layoffs within the past year and to deny the petition filed by the applicant. This affects the largest tech companies and all Big 4 audit firms such as @Deloitte. I have investigated where these backfill companies have been spending on candidates politically, and almost all of them are siding against the President of the United States. Some of the largest capitalized names have turned themselves into an enemy of the people. And they are now showering money on the President's enemies in support of their foreign friends. America First means America First. If you can't hire an American to sit behind a computer, then maybe you should go bankrupt and let somebody else do it.
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As I understand what has happened, the policy is not to keep the disfavored outlets out of press events in the future. They've just been kicked out of having office space inside the press area of the White House, which is limited. They can't come and go as they please, and make use of work space there as they have been allowed to do in the past. But for briefings and other press events, they are not being prevented from being present and reporting on them.
I dunno if the courts will buy this argument.
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An idea for @VP & @DrOzCMS The median Medicare Home Hospice admission length was 19 days as of March 2026. Any agency exceeding that median by more than 5 days assume fraud & investigate. Use AI to calculate the mean for all Medicare paid agencies for up to the last 5 years. Let AI save us billions and show the taxpayer. If you want to know how screwed up Episodic Home Health is thanks to OASIS I am happy to help.
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So, the White House Press Corps wants to talk about censorship. Great! Let's have that conversation. How many times have the networks and cable channels refused to broadcast President Trump's speeches?
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Greta Gerwig on Jesus in an interview from years ago. We know that Aslan isn't merely an allegory for Jesus, but is literally the incarnation of Christ in The Chronicles of Narnia. crash.fr/our-interview-with-…
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Dang! Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary – at Volo, IL
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*Me pissing off @LibertyJen* *Later* Me: Hey, want to watch a movie? Jen: Sure. *She’s puts on a movie about a wife killing her husband..*
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BREAKING: Cuba’s entire power grid collapses, triggering a nationwide blackout across the island of roughly 9 million people.
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Wrong billionaire. The war took the national average to $4.47. Illinois is $4.86. Indiana is $4.00. Chicago is $5.14. That extra 39¢ over the country and 86¢ over Indiana is Pritzker’s tax. In 2019, he doubled the state gas tax from 19¢ to 38¢ and tied it to inflation. It is 48.3¢ now. He paused one automatic hike through December and called it relief. ExxonMobil’s Joliet refinery shut down Sept. 13 after a ComEd outage and a flooded pump. That’s 11 million gallons a day out of production. Wars end. Refineries restart. But take it from an actual billionaire. @JBPritzker’s gas tax stays, and it keeps climbing.
Nothing like Billionaires telling you to suck it up
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While taking my dog out to the back yard for a Potty, almost walked right into this Cross Webweaver. Relieved it's harmless, docile, and natural pest control. cc:@MonikaMusing
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You just don't get this kind of comedy from Protestants
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With a scrunched-up, reddening face the author turned off replies.
How did Sydney Sweeney, the 29-year-old American actress of fluctuating talent, accumulate an estimated fortune of $40m? By knowing a bargain when she sees one. Bargains, that is, of the patriarchal kind – the sort the Turkish feminist Deniz Kandiyoti theorised in 1988. Her argument was that women can negotiate with patriarchal structures, rather than simply submit to or resist them. They extract what advantages they can: protection, status, money. You do not have to believe in the system, Kandiyoti writes, to make it work for you. And Sweeney has figured this out, and is flapping her $100 bills directly in our scrunched-up, reddening faces. @fayecurran99: Sydney Sweeney has made a deal with the devil newstatesman.com/culture/202…
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🚨 BREAKING: THIS IS HUGE. THE WHITE HOUSE JUST PUT AMERICAN LAYOFFS DIRECTLY INTO THE H-1B REVIEW PROCESS. President Trump signed a new executive order TODAY. Federal agencies are now directed to consider whether an H-1B sponsoring employer: Laid off similarly situated American workers during the previous year OR Plans to lay them off in the future. And there’s more. The Labor Department has 30 DAYS to begin reviewing previously submitted H-1B Labor Condition Applications to determine whether action against sponsoring employers is warranted. Think about the implications. A company lays off thousands of American tech workers. Then turns around and says it needs H-1B workers. The government is now explicitly being told: LOOK AT THE LAYOFFS. This is exactly the question companies should have been forced to answer all along. whitehouse.gov/presidential-…
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Islamic chants took a central place at the opening ceremony of the academic year at Catholic University Leuven. Leuven University was founded in 1425. Six centuries of Christian, European excellence are thrown away out of self hatred.
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O’KEEFE INFILTRATES NJ ANTIFA: Inside “NJ BURN” — Rutgers University Director, T-Mobile AI Leaders, OpenAI /ChatGPT Engineer, Reverend From Princeton Theological Seminary, and ACLU Board Member Discuss Port Newark–Elizabeth Blockade Riot, Road Spikes, Tire-Slashing of New Jersey Police Vehicles, “Ukrainian-Style” Protest Tactics, and Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Murder. NJ ANTIFA INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFIED: • Alexyss P. - New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault Community Council Member @NJ_CASA • Jim Keady @JWKeady -  Former New Jersey Democratic Candidate • Woojin Ko - OpenAI Research Engineer @OpenAI • Beleckecom Moffouk - T-Mobile AI Automation Expert @TMobile • Zainab Tanvir - Imaging Director at Rutgers University @RutgersU • Amanda Marie Dominguez - Rutgers University PHD Student in Education @RutgersU • Aditi Rao @aditilrao - Princeton University Classics @Princeton • Shannon Smythe - Princeton Theological Seminary Field Education Director @Princeton • Cres Vellucci @CresVellucci - National Lawyers Guild Co-Founder/Co-Member & ACLU Board Of Directors  @NLGnews @ACLU • Celine Semaan @celinecelines - Co-Founder Slow Factory Labs @theslowfactory
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