At a meeting Saturday, Pope Francis discussed with Vatican officials the prospect of requesting the resignation of Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, The Pillar has learned.The pope met Sept. 9 with Archbishop Robert Prevost, OSA, head of the Dicastery for Bishops, and Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States
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Was 9/11 The Beginning Of The End Of The American Empire?
By Tom Smith
Was 9/11 the beginning of the end for America? In the 22 years since the attacks, I’ve begun to worry that the answer to that question is “yes.”
It spawned the worst and most destructive foreign policy in the country’s history. The government response to 9/11 birthed the constitutional abomination that is the modern warrantless…
White House coerced tech giants, violated free speech, court rules
By Tom Smith
The White House, health officials and the FBI may have violated the First Amendment rights of people posting about COVID-19 and elections on social media by pressuring technology companies to suppress or remove the posts, a federal appeals court ruled late Friday.The decision from the conservative 5th Circuit Court of Appeals partly upheld an…
Guns BANNED in New Mexico County Following Emergency Declaration, BLATANTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL?!
By Tom Smith
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New Mexico governor's suspension of gun rights draws fire from police, Dems, gun control advocates – Washington Times
By Tom Smith
Within hours of New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in Albuquerque and the surrounding Bernalillo County, a federal lawsuit to block the ban was filed, state lawmakers called for her impeachment and even gun control activists rebuked her for violating the U.S. Constitution.
The governor made…
Twitter/X Advertiser Boycott Is STATE-FUNDED; War on FREE SPEECH Exposed: Michael Shellenberger
By Tom Smith
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Well this is just great. How encouraging. One wants to say, hip hip hooray. Swell.
First analysis of mysterious golden orb in the ocean leaves scientists stumped | Live Science
By Tom Smith
A mysterious golden “orb” found at the bottom of the ocean during a research expedition is “biological in origin” — but scientists have no idea what it is. “While we were able to collect the ‘golden orb’ and bring it onto the ship, we still are not able to identify it beyond the fact that it…
The Technology Facebook and Google Didn’t Dare Release – The New York Times
By Tom Smith
In recent years, the start-ups Clearview AI and PimEyes have pushed the boundaries of what the public thought was possible by releasing face search engines paired with millions of photos from the public web (PimEyes) or even billions (Clearview). With these tools, available to the police in the case of Clearview AI and the public…
Talking Heads on the Return of ‘Stop Making Sense’ – The New York Times
By Tom Smith
“Stop Making Sense” is both a definitive 1980s period piece and a prophecy. Its staging helped reshape pop concerts in its wake. The music hot-wired rock, funk and African rhythms, while the fractured, non sequitur lyrics glanced at, among many other things, disinformation (“Crosseyed and Painless”), evangelicalism (“Once in a Lifetime”), authoritarianism (“Making Flippy Floppy”)…
Biden Administration’s Policing of Online Content Likely Violated Free-Speech Rights, Court Rules – WSJ
By Tom Smith
A federal appeals court ruled the Biden administration’s policing of social-media content during the pandemic likely violated the First Amendment, a decision that bars White House aides and other officials from pressuring online platforms to suppress protected speech.In a 74-page opinion released late Friday, the New Orleans-based U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said administration…