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November 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
For poor Italians, Germans, Poles, Irish, Bohemians
For African Americans escaping Jim Crow
For Venezuelans and Colombians fleeing for survivial.

Chicago is a city of hopes and dreams.

Maybe things will be better in Chicago.

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November 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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ICE vs the clergy
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Friends in the DC Metro area, The Bernardin Center is coming to you on Nov 14.

Please join us for Mass and a reception as we remember Cardinal Bernardin on his 29th memorial.

Mass at 12p at Monastery of the Holy Land in America. Reception to follow.

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Cardinal Bernardin Memorial Mass
November 14, 2025 in Washington DC and online
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November 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
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November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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sing this song every time JD and the Supremes walk through the door
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Believing in the essential dignity of all human beings the way I do, I find it hard to call any person scum.

But I am exploring an exception.
Bovino: "We're ratcheting operations up in Chicago. That's a very corrupt system in Chicago. Whether it's those elected leaders like Pritzker or those out of control judges, Chicago needs some attention. You're gonna see some very dynamic operations."
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This should scandalize us. It highlights how devastating healthcare costs already are. I shouldn't need to be wealthier than someone who was call sheet no.1 on a TV show if I am so unlucky as to get sick.

People are voting for socialists because capitalism fails them.

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James Van Der Beek to sell Dawson’s Creek ‘treasures’ to pay for cancer treatment
Actor, 48, who revealed colorectal cancer diagnosis last year, to also auction memorabilia from Varsity Blues
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November 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Last March.
This week.
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
How many fawning emails are there between public servants or academics and rich louts who are NOT sex traffickers named Epstein?

A big part of what we need to see in the Epstein emails is the insidious corruption of wealth, how much more interesting a boor can seem simply because he has money.
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Maybe I need to finally shift my Rx to Costco....
Is this good? It doesn't seem good.

"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
Walgreens Cuts Pay for Hourly Store Workers After $10 Billion Buyout
Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Pillorying 8 Senate Dems as disloyal to the party for voting their best judgment is the most Trumpian thing you'll ever hear Progressives say.

This is the poison in our system.

Partisanship brought us here. It created all the conditions that raise food & healthcare prices, fracture govt, hurt ppl.
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Friends, Commonweal Magazine has become an exciting place for Catholic readers. Not just Heidi Schlumpf, but now they also have added Antonio Spadaro, SJ as a regular contributor. Indispensable reading.

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November 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
And it feels like I've got something to prove
But in some ways it's just something to do
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK

Missed headline opportunity.

Source: National Catholic Register
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Surrounded by Saints in New Jersey: Reverence Relics in the Hundreds Across the Hudson
Parishioners at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Newark, New Jersey, have the opportunity to pray before holy earthly remains every day. Visitors are also welcome.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
~364000 Americans suffered COVID-related deaths btwn this and Biden's inauguration. Trump continued through that period insisting everything was fine.

I mention this because, if you think the Dems were going to extract subsidies to sustain Obamacare while Americans...

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Examining Trump's COVID-19 Rhetoric Against Factual Evidence
President Trump is ready to reopen America — at least the parts where coronavirus is less of a problem. How has his rhetoric throughout the crisis matched with the reality on the ground?
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November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Some thoughts on the CR/minibus.

1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.

Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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We know this because he told us.

The reality is the government was shut down the first day Trump entered office. We just didn't talk about it that way.

The only real leverage Dems had is on appropriations. Schumer screwed that up in February/March for FY 26. It imperiled his political support.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
For all the noise about this "uniquely dangerous moment" where "the ordinary rules of democracy don't apply," I think some perspective is needed.

I agree. The moment is dangerous. We are off the map. What makes it so?

Mostly the answer is Trump. He is the owner of a smallish family business who...
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Bluesky. An ugly mirror-image of X.

Social media got us here. Social media keeps us here.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This Red-Blue who's-up-who's-down framing overlooks that federal workers and SNAP recipients, families and small businesses, have paid a price for th3 shutdown.

But enjoy the "fight," I'm sure it feels good.

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November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West"

Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
You really think the suffering of the American people was going to make this guy cave?

Really?
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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