This November 1st I invite everyone to pray for the souls of the deceased people and to practice charity with those who have the least Perhaps one day we can recover the beautiful original meaning that this date had and should never have lost
Lagarde has a bandage on her face. The wired microphone is not tucked inside her shirt but hangs awkwardly in plain view. Around her neck is a pearl necklace with 17 beads. On the table is an owl sculpture. The camera zooms in on her face as if inspecting and displaying it. She reads from … Read more
Haitian people, We have nearly finished deploying our soldiers and equipment on Haitian soil. This is not an operation against the Haitian people, nor an invasion of the country of Haiti. We are not a great power. We have no interest in coming to dominate the Haitian people, nor in laying hands on Haiti’s wealth. … Read more
“I address the Brazilian people and the international community as the true elected president of Brazil.” Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to recognize Lula’s electoral victory, denounces what he calls massive electoral fraud, and confirms that he has left Brazil with his family. “There is no arrest warrant against me because I have committed no crime.” He … Read more
There are major questions about how Flavio Bolsonaro left Brazil this morning with his family for the US without detection by Brazil. All morning, Brazilian authorities were utterly confused and clueless. As rumors circulated that Bolsonaro had left Brazil, they had no idea if it was true. At one point, they thought they had located … Read more
Four years ago this week, on October 27, 2022, Elon Musk walked into Twitter headquarters and changed the trajectory of the modern internet. At the time, the critics were loud. We were told the platform would crash within weeks, that open discourse was too dangerous to leave unpoliced, and that the digital town square needed … Read more
For well over a century, the rules of the electrical grid haven’t changed much: if you want power somewhere, you have to run a wire to it. Now, researchers in Finland are showing what happens when you leave the cables behind altogether. Across a set of breakthroughs anchored at the University of Helsinki and the … Read more
Yitzhak Kaduri (c. 1898–January 28, 2006) was one of the most prominent Haredi rabbis and kabbalists of the modern era, particularly among Sephardi and Mizrahi communities. Born in Baghdad (then part of the Ottoman Empire), he studied Kabbalah from a young age, including under leading figures such as Rabbi Yosef Hayyim (the Ben Ish Chai). … Read more
In 1952, a Marine lieutenant bought a small Mongolian mare from a young Korean stable boy for $250. The boy sold her because he needed money to buy an artificial leg for his sister. The Marines named her Reckless, after their recoilless rifle platoon. Her job was to carry heavy ammunition up steep hills to … Read more
