"Don't yield to those who will have you believe that it makes sense to live a life against others or without others, against peoples or without them. Those who claim this pretend to be strong, but they are weak. They may seem wise, but they are mad." #PopeFrancis #Hope

Ethiopia's Hayli Gubbi volcano erupts for the first time in at least 10,000 years; no casualties were reported. (1440)

Pioneering Jamaican singer and actor Jimmy Cliff has died at age 81. His 1969 song "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" became a global hit, reaching No. 6 in the UK charts. (1440)

"God looks upon the sick, the poor, and sinners, who because of their condition, are marginalized by society and even people of faith. He opens the eyes of the blind, heals lepers, raises the dead, and proclaims the good news to the poor: God is near, God loves you (21)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe

At today's Christ the King Faith & Family Mass, Father Jim talks with children of all ages about how the Lord's cross is the "key" to the Kingdom of Heaven. Please pray for our young disciples and their families! Peace and blessings to all! #ChristTheKing #GloucesterMA #RockportMA ccgronline.com

A female police spy known as the "Met's Mata Hari" married an activist she targeted while undercover in an animal rights group.

Ukraine must not be forced to give up land or cut its Army, Donald Trump has been warned.

Rocky Horror creator Richard O’Brien: ‘The Spice Girls couldn’t sing. But lovely girls’

Here's some news to brighten your day: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation after 11 years today (1990)

He chose the wrong sugar daddy 😭 www.normalisland.co.uk/p/politician...

‘Chaotic and indecisive’: key findings of report on UK’s Covid response under Tories

When Trump was asked about the release of the Epstein files, he called one reporter "piggy" and said another was "being insubordinate." When Trump saw a video calling on the military to follow the constitution, he called for the death of the Democrats who made the video. He's a tyrant.

To be fair to Nigel Farage, Reform UK has always insisted that the European parliament is corrupt. And now the party has finally provided indisputable proof.

3: why can’t our politicians in 2025? History is speaking louder than ever. The only question is: are we listening? (Ref: Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF)

2: 500 years later, those same words cut straight through the noise. Because today we are again stirring hatred, again blaming the vulnerable, again pretending cruelty is “strength”. If the great humanists of the 16th century could see the danger…

1: Sir Ian McKellen is quoting Thomas More, writing in 1517 during anti-immigrant riots in London 🔥 when terrified foreigners were dragged from their homes and blamed for every social ill. More asked the mob a simple question: “What would you do, if you were the stranger?”...

Britain's utility, water and rail privatisation provide proof that only one outcome is possible when you put your cats in charge of a jug of cream

Trump’s 'affordability' efforts are a mess of absurdity and magical thinking | Steven Greenhouse

Highlighting the surging inequaility between the super-rich and everybody else isn't 'exploiting divisions'. It's simply pointing the divisions out.

‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response

SMITE!!!

Robin Hood robbed from the rich to give to the poor, despite an exodus of barons to the Middle East. So obviously it can be done.

It’s the monopoly power stitch-up that keeps our energy prices high www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/its-... #morningstaronline

Hopefully,junior Westminster staffers are probably a bit more alert to possible "stings" than this lot. #R4Today news.sky.com/story/former...

Everywhere there's lots of piggies Living piggy lives You can see them out for dinner With their piggy wives Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon — Piggies, The Beatles

I will not be buying any World Cup tickets or merchandise due to FIFA’s collaboration with the Trump regime. Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.

Massie: “[Speaker Johnson is] trying to say the rich, powerful men who flew to Epstein Island are the victims now. The only way a ‘Christian man’ can stand up there and sell a lie like that is if he’s already decided in his head that protecting them is somehow okay.”

After living in multiple cities now, I’ve decided all architects in the 60s and 70s must have been stoned out of their minds as their cement behemoths clash with my outfits (and sensibilities). #Newyork #newyorkfashion

American lawmakers have called on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to come to the US and testify amid controversy over his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Just along from the Fusilier's memorial is Newcastle's South African War memorial, designed by Thomas Eyre Macklin and unveiled in 1908. The winged figure of Victory looks towards the still-smoke-blackened tower of St Thomas's church.

#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy An ICE Agent was BUSTED by Bloomington Police in "Operation Creep" trying to solicit sex from a minor. When arrested, he said "I'm ICE, boys." That #FuckICE Agent is toast.

golden bone saw..

Another day another example of Berkeley street art. #Photography #StreetArt #Mural #Berkeley 📷

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

Jamal Khashoggi. Say his name.

Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

“To be pro-life, you must be against abortion, but being against abortion is not enough to be pro-life.” #LiveTheGospel #RebuildMyChurch #RespectLife #RememberThePoor cruxnow.com/news-analysi...