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Willfully Horn

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  1. Pope Leo has a video presentation and a public mass planned for June 14. In Chicago, at Rate Field. The pope won’t be there in person. He’s gonna Skype it. https://chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv/2025/05/28/pope-leo-xiv-video-message-mass-rate-field “.Once in a lifetime event” scheduled more or less concurrently with the Mushroom Parade? It is getting easier to like the new pope.
  2. The video of the collapse is terrifying.
  3. Blatten won’t be the last alpine village that meets this fate. https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/glacier-crumbles-above-evacuated-swiss-village-prompting-huge-rock-slide-2025-05-28/ Blatten is first mentioned in the written record in 1433.
  4. https://www.acog.org/news/news-releases/2025/05/acog-statement-on-hhs-recommendations-regarding-the-covid-vaccine-during-pregnancy Are you surprised? I’m not surprised.
  5. Figured this thread had been bumped because Leon is xitting all over the big beautiful bill and its deficit exploding tax giveaways to billionaires, but was pleasantly surprised by Chop’s post. Damn straight, government can be efficient. Medicare and medicaid overhead costs should have been a clue.
  6. Purple is associated with honor and bravery. TIL, the Purple Heart’s history evolved from the Badge of Distinction and Merit, which was conceived by George Washington. That badge gave way, over time, to congressionally enacted awards, the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Medal and Distinguished Service Cross. It was US Army Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur who repurposed and renamed Washington’s badge to the Purple Heart in 1932. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/history-of-the-purple-heart
  7. Congress has passed laws later ruled to be unconstitutional. Until such a ruling, those laws, at a minimum, provide cover, and perhaps immunity, for some individual official acts.
  8. Link to a video with this description: https://bsky.app/profile/dannyderaney.bsky.social/post/3lq3pr6vk6227
  9. Is this the legal Rubicon? I’m not gonna read the bill, because what’s the point? The parts about restricting the judicial branch from effectively balancing the executive have been reported: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-led-us-house-votes-limit-judges-power-block-trumps-agenda-2025-04-10/ Might as well lock this thread, posted at 12AM PST, Memorial Day, May 26, 2025 fin
  10. This seems prudent. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/judges-consider-own-security-force-threats-1235347919/
  11. Knew a guy whose wife’s cat would shit on his pillow … while he was sleeping.
  12. You have to love this story. Kittens, slated to be euthanized, were introduced to inmates who then were allowed to raise them. Inmate behavior improved dramatically. Kittens became cats, not to mention pets. Win-win. https://bsky.app/profile/sadgirlcassi.bsky.social/post/3lpxa6dedk22c
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