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David Gibson
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Director of Fordham University's Center on Religion & Culture. "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto." Recovering Vaticanista. Occasionally commit journalism. https://linktr.ee/gibsonwrites
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A little bit of history worth knowing. If it’s history, they are trying to wipe it out, to make room for the absurd tales of eternal innocence that bring fascism and bloodshed closer.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Sorry were we supposed to think of connery, moore, brosnan, craig et al as all the same guy? Just make another movie with a new guy bsky.app/profile/will...
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

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DACO > TACO
Analysis | Yes, Democrats won last Tuesday's elections by double digits. However, they did not win them by triple digits. The time had come to cave to Trump.
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this is literally never not accurate
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Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
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This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.

Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.

Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
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“The story of this country is the story of patience in tribulation, and hope in the face of fear,” Nancy Pelosi argues. “What we choose to do in this hour of our history will determine the shape of America and the world for decades.”
America Is Great When America Is Good
Those who believe in liberty and dignity must never give in to the forces arrayed against the things we hold dearest.
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This is what happens when your daddy's tax fraud scheme makes you a millionaire at age 8, you spend years hanging around with mobsters and then the Supreme Court says that nobody is above the law except you.
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
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Gonna have to explain to my Danish colleagues about some of the nuances of America's free market system that their may not fully understand because they live in a social democracy.
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Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
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Metaphor made literal.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
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"The Bible will not sit alongside Mein Kampf. The cross will not yield to the swastika. We must ask right now: Jesus or Hitler? We cannot have both."

Great piece. Please read and send this to your maga relatives who think they're still following Christianity.
The Church Better Start Taking Nazification Seriously - Christianity Today
Tucker Carlson hosted neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes on his podcast. The stakes are high for American Christians.
www.christianitytoday.com
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Jesus Christ himself famously never attended Jewish religious functions
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The Free Press' front page is four articles of MANDAMI PANIC, a Dick Cheney nostalgia essay, and one of the richest people in the world writing about why he gave $100 million to Bari Weiss' unaccredited anti-woke college.
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oh my god they actually did it lmao
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I was taught growing up that decent people don’t cope in public like this but I guess it’s a different era
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The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.
Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.
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Turning Point USA continues to carry on the sainted work of Charlie Kirk by singling out innocent high school teachers for death threats.
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We spoke to dozens of survivors, read thousands of pages of court and police records, identified 200 alleged church abusers across decades.

Our investigation reveals a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence, complacency & cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.

Read it here:
Assemblies of God churches shielded accused predators — and allowed them to keep abusing children
NBC News uncovered a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence and cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.
www.nbcnews.com
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Just when I'm barely persuaded to vote against the socialist on policy ground, Cuomo does this overtly racist shit.
So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."
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This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
Dems "need to get over their fear of looking weak; nothing demonstrates impotence more than claiming to have principles you are too frightened to defend consistently. Trump can afford—indeed, can revel in—contradiction and wild inconsistency. The Democrats can’t."

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Lingering Delusion | Fintan O’Toole
Kamala Harris’s memoir 107 Days succeeds at least in distilling the evasions and weaknesses of the modern Democratic Party.
www.nybooks.com
Excellent Fintan O'Toole review of the Kamala Harris auto-autopsy in @nybooks.com
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So now billionaires can buy an army? Jesus God.
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com