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David Wright retweeted
You know, Lord, the heart of the city: its lights and shadows, its noise and loneliness. Lord, may our urban communities be open and welcoming homes, places where hope is shared, where no one feels invisible, and where the joy of your Gospel shines in the hidden lives of so many brothers and sisters. Let’s #PrayTogether at popesprayer.va/praywiththepo…
On a Venn diagram, this is where corruption and incompetence overlap
nytimes.com/2026/08/07/us/po…
Wonderful story from @nwinfield! Essentially:
Vicars of Christ… are Just Like Us (w/ the travel delays).
And… not! (with royal Uber leaving Vatican journos stranded)
apnews.com/article/pope-leo-…
Corporate schadenfreude from @Delta for members of Congress! nytimes.com/2026/03/24/busin…
And that’s the way it was, Friday, March 20th, 2026…
Just tragic!
thehill.com/media/5793260-cb…
Ireland takes the Triple Crown just ahead of St Patrick’s Day! (Wales took the spoon) #sixnations
The secret policemen who killed Alex Pretti identified as CBP agent Jesus “Jesse” Ochoa and Customs and CBP officer Raymundo Gutierrez, both of south Texas, per @propublica
propublica.org/article/alex-…
Gun Activists Bridle at Suggestion That Pistol Justified Killing nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/mi… via @NYTimes
This is the man the secret police shot dead in the street today in Minneapolis nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/al…
David Wright retweeted
Pope Leo XIV to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See:
“It is painful to see how, especially in the West, the space for genuine freedom of expression is rapidly shrinking. At the same time, a new Orwellian-style language is developing which, in an attempt to be increasingly inclusive, ends up excluding those who do not conform to the ideologies that are fueling it.”
David Wright retweeted
"It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the Records Department, where Winston worked, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes Hate."
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
ICE corporate partners:
•Dell $18.8 million contract
•UPS $90,500 contract
•FedEx $1 million contract
•Motorola $15.6 million contract
•AT&T $83 million contract
•LexisNexis $21 million contract
•Home Depot & Lowe’s
per: thenation.com/article/activi…
My Canadian grandparents always used words like ‘cheque’ & ‘colour’.
They’d sit on the Chesterfield, which always had antimacassers.
Yet Carney’s British spellings are now somehow un-Canadian?
NYT/Canadian Linguists Rise Up Against the Letter ‘S’
nytimes.com/2025/12/16/world…
David Wright retweeted
From @WSJopinion: The political cycle of using government to punish opponents is taking the country into dark corners that will result in less freedom, and less free speech, for all sides on.wsj.com/4gv0ZUV
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner weighs in on the @jimmykimmel firing - not impressed by the leadership of his successor @RobertIger in this case!
Where has all the leadership gone? If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment? The “suspending indefinitely” of Jimmy Kimmel immediately after the Chairman of the FCC's aggressive yet hollow threatening of the Disney Company is yet another example of out-of-control intimidation. Maybe the Constitution should have said, “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, except in one’s political or financial self-interest.” By-the-way, for the record, this ex-CEO finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny.
Private beach?
Westerly residents push back on restrictions imposed for decades at one of the jewels of RI’s coastline
thepublicsradio.org/stories/…
