Monica Sandor

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@danprimack And I thought the §TRUMP meme was invented by his critics, not that he actually put it on his MAGA caps 2.0!

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@strategywoman Glad you're still posting here! I have left X for quite a long time, but just popped back in to see.

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@TinaBeattie Excellent point - it is entirely possible he wanted to allude both to the various popes named Leo,notably Leo XIII & his work on Catholic social teaching, while also finding a way to tip his hat (tiara) to an early Franciscan. Not something others have mentioned, afaik.

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@simon_schama A business deal negotiated behind closed doors, with a public announcement of the final deal reached, is different from state-to-state negotiations, where the media follow every move. So how can he save face if his 'deal' is, say, just a modest renegotiation of his own USMCA?

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@simon_schama Trump wants to demand the earth (or rare...) so that he will get something, rather than nothing, that he can call a win. Yet if he aims high and has to climb down and settle for less, that will make him look bad at 'the art of the deal' - a contradiction in terms.

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@yo_wonderful @vkaramurza True if those on 'the internet" had the full-time availability & funds to do the investigative reporting (produce content) that 'such media' do. For now, most are just 'influencers' or comment on actual reporting by existing media.

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@BarbGEO47 @visegrad24 Probably because queues of voters at polling places make a great target for missiles,drone attacks, etc.

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@TinaBeattie But surely praying for someone who's ill -for comfort, less suffering, a show of love and solidarity- is never misplaced. Whether this is his last journey or he recovers. Of course, when someone is aged and ill, those who love her or him pray for recovery if it's God's will.

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@BillWylie3rd @Stephen02375629 @Timodc Of course he did. As has Israel with Hamas and Hezbollah, etc. etc. all prisoner or hostage exchanges require negotiation.

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@Dogberry007 @JamesMartinSJ The term used in the Gospel was one that could mean brothers/sisters (like the word brethren in English,now somewhat archaic) or wider kin like cousins. That term on its own does not say anything either way about the type of relative being referred to.

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@kermodeandmayo A great one based on Morris West’s novel of the same title: The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) Starting Anthony Quinn as a Ukrainian cardinal and former Gulag prisoner unexpectedly elected pope.

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@hewantswealth That’s what I’m doing at xmas!

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@RossKneeDeep Not immediately but after a decent time.

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@nicholas_bannan @PhilipSwallow2 @ianpacemain Teaching world literature is an enrichment to a lit. degree course. Of course at graduate level one would have to read the original. But one can lament lack of basic familiarity with core texts like the Bible, or the works of Shakesoeare, but also welcome studying non-EN authors.

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@KamalaHQ It’s true that the rant is disjointed. But it is true, if far from mainstream, that some energy-neutral houses have been modelled that are partly/wholly underground (https://t.co/xA89C0DSjA) and that some countries, like the Netherlands, are trying to reduce the no. of cows.

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@TinaBeattie You must watch the film, then - there are so many virtuoso scenes, forever etched in their viewers’ memories!

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@RealMattKing @mjfree But I lke your spoonerism nevertheless -Magadscar!😀

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@GrammarTable Just saw this n I oday’s Axios news roundup: 📰 AP style, which Axios follows, is Harris' and Walz's. The NYT, Washington Post and WSJ, on the other hand, do Harris's and Walz's.

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@RealMattKing @mjfree I guess you are alluding to the (short-lived, never realized) proposal by the Nazis in 1940-41 to deport all European Jews to Madagascar (see the history of the Madagascar Plan in Christopher Browning’s excellent The Origins of the Final Solution (2004), chapter 3).

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@mjfree Enjoy Canada and its universal health care.