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  • Pope Leo's First US Bishop Calls on Priests to Escort Asylum Seekers to Court: 'People of Faith Stand with Immigrants'

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  • Many hospitals are also run by the church. Catholics believe in science - all recent popes say evolution is fact.

  • No Kings!

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  • What about him?

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  • Obama's been gone almost a decade at this point and we still have yet to pass this bill because the government always backs down at the last minute in the face of threats from the US that it would "force" US companies to not do business with us. The Dáil (parliament) supports the bill but the cabinet shoots it down. So you're not wrong to be cynical, but every time Israel commits some fresh outrage the pressure grows for the government to pass it or risk losing the next election.

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  • To be specific, Ireland isn't in Schengen because the UK isn't in Schengen and we're trying to keep the border as non-bordery as possible.

  • PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut?

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  • Oh, and let's not forget:

  • PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut?

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  • A lot of those, I wouldn't consider PC mascots as their games are on console too. They'd be more like multiplatform mascots. Doom was on the SNES for example. But there are some games that just aren't the same unless you're playing on PC.

  • 2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in 'targeted' incident: Officials

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  • If they found his car they must know who he is and what he looks like. Shouldn't they be putting his picture on the news?

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  • Note: by having the USA abstain from that UN vote right at the end of his presidency, Obama made it possible (ie legal) for us to do this.

    If we were targeting Israel specifically, we would run afoul of all sorts of EU regulations since external trade policy falls under EU competency. HOWEVER, because there is a UN resolution specifically identifying the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories as illegal occuptions under international law, it's possible for us to pass a law that doesn't specifically target Israel by name, but rather target any territory that is illegally occupied.

    If Brussels takes issue with the ban and tries to fine us for some trumped-up reason like arguing that we're exceeding our reserved competencies, that would initiate legal proceedings which would give us standing to counter and argue that we are only meeting our international obligations as outlined by the UN, and furthermore that the EU-Israel trade deal has a boilerplate clause requiring Israel to meet certain human rights criteria or the entire trade deal goes kaput.

    Basically if the EU takes us to court over this, we'll be able to force the argument to be over whether Israel is violating human rights, at which point (because judges are not politicians) the court will almost certainly side with us, which would THEN put Brussels into the legal position where they're OBLIGED to ban these goods EU-wide.

    Because Brussels knows this, they're likely to try and avoid initiating proceedings, turning a blind eye. However a lack of consequences for us would embolden other EU members to copy us. Basically it's a rock and a hard place for Brussels.

    Just pointing this out so that people see that UN votes DO matter.

  • Seeking for funding

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  • The word "al" means "the" in Arabic - for example, "al jazeera" means "the island". And a lower case L looks like a capital i, so "AI" is visually indistinguishable from "Al". So the joke is that people who try to shoehorn Artificial Intelligence into everything look like they're speaking in Arabic.

  • Direct hit in Tel Aviv

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  • Every land is stolen. The problem is that they're in the middle of committing genocide.

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  • Like, extra rights, you mean? Because lots of countries recognize animal rights.

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  • I might have tried it once when I was a kid but it's not as effective as a fingernail so once was enough.

  • Russia might use Belarus to attack the Baltics, but Belarusians will not do it, Tsikhanouskaya says

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  • Lukashenko's smart enough to know that he doesn't wanna rock the boat when it comes to public support. He only ever goes along with Putin JUST enough to avoid Putin deciding to just outright annex Belarus, but stops short of anything that would make the domestic situation untenable. Remember when he did a public presentation on the Ukraine war with a map that showed the Russian plan to continue the advance into Moldova? That probably wasn't an accident. It spurred the West into taking things seriously.

    To stay in power he needs Belarusians to believe that any attempt to oust him will result in Russian soldiers putting the revolt down, BUT he also needs to keep Putin from ACTUALLY expanding Russian control of Belarus. He knows that if Russia wins in Ukraine then the Baltics are next, and that Belarus will get dragged into that. So he has to play nice with Putin but doesn't want Putin to actually win.

  • Dollar divorce? Asia's shift away from the U.S. dollar is picking up pace

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  • I don't think history supports that prediction. Far more likely that America will follow the trajectory of post-USSR Russia. Not as extreme of course, but I think the normalization of open kleptocracy is already on display.

  • Cuomo's SuperPAC is getting desperate

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  • I'd say the entire color balance of the one on the right was tweaked specifically to remove the sparkle of humanity that can be seen in the one on the left.

  • US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state

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  • Evidently not, since some voters thought (and still think!) that the solution was to elect Trump. That's evidently where the bar is, as determined by the voters.

  • When will the next "E.T." moment happen in the industry?

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  • It's happening, but for Hollywood.

  • US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state

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  • Worse than Trump? No.

  • US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state

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  • Same thing as you, me and everyone else here, I'd wager. Nothing. Welcome to social media.