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Olivia Troye, former aide to Vice President Mike Pence, files to run in Virginia’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat. (Troye endorsed Kamala Harris for president in 2024)

Pope Leo XIV places a wreath of flowers and prays for the Algerians who died in the Algerian War of Independence against French Colonial rule at the Maqam Echahid Martyrs’ Monument in Algiers.

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The statements made by President Trump on Truth Social regarding the Pope were entirely inappropriate and disrespectful. They don’t contribute at all to a constructive conversation. It is the Pope’s prerogative to articulate Catholic doctrine and the principles that govern the moral life. In regard to the concrete application of those principles, people of good will can and do disagree. I would warmly recommend that serious Catholics within the Trump administration–Secretary Rubio, Vice President Vance, Ambassador Brian Burch, and others–might meet with Vatican officials so that a real dialogue can take place. This is far preferable to the statements on social media. I am very grateful for the many ways that the Trump administration has reached out to Catholics and other people of faith. It has been a high honor to serve on the Religious Liberty Commission. No President in my lifetime has shown a greater dedication to defending our first liberty. All that said, I think the President owes the Pope an apology.

Been in IT for 5 years, and I’ll say this clearly: Muslim men in IT are among the most disciplined, hardworking, and resilient professionals. They stay calm under pressure and consistently deliver at a high level. Their only consistent ask? Time and space for Namaz. And if schedules are tight, they make up for it by staying late, ensuring work doesn’t suffer. In return, companies get people with strong integrity, reliability, and long-term commitment.

Woke is so back

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This is the biggest and most needed defeat for traitor right in Europe in modern times. It is not a victory for the left. But a victory for sane conservatism that believes in democracy and does not ally with the enemies of Europe. This is what should happen all over our continent.

111,529 Burmese nationals have been resettled and provided with USRAP benefits in the US since 2012.

There’s two answers to this: 1. Many Americans like a little space and to have a little plot of land to call their own. They don’t want to share walls. Given the choice, all other things being equal, a significant portion choose space over walkability. 2. A subset of Americans enjoy walkable urban living, and many cities offer this. Most cities in America are run by a political party that chooses to demur on prosecuting criminality and fixing obvious quality of life issues. Despite this, there’s still plenty of takers for urban living in the US. Some people who would choose urban walkability were it not accompanied by criminal elements instead choose to live in suburbs where local government cares more about their taxpayers than their criminals. There was a big push to re-urbanize starting in the mid-00s. It worked fairly well. Cities still cleaned up the streets and millennials started reclaiming urban land. This was met with a lot of resistance about “gentrification” and forcing poor urban residents out of cities, as well as policy shifts that erred on the side of giving criminals infinite chances rather than removing them. We aren’t as backwards as Europeans would like to believe, but we have structural and governance problems that hinder re-urbanization.