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Ditto. Polish nuns Hartford, CT

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Mike Ditka RIP:

“I am so grateful for the Roman Catholic faith with which I was raised. My dad didn’t go to church, but my mom was a terrific Catholic – a fervent convert to the faith – and always saw that we went to mass and Catholic school. The Sisters of Saint Joe taught us so much at St. Paddy’s Church and school in Aliquippa, Pa. The nuns, they were really tough – they’d hit you if need be – and they taught us everything we needed. It was really great. I wouldn’t trade that for anything.”

[Richard Zytka @RichardZytka]

Efton Chism the third. Go Pats!

[NFL @NFL]

The Eagles said NO on 4th down ❌

@LARvsPHI on FOX/FOX One
Stream on @NFLPlus

[Richard Zytka @RichardZytka]

John Hartford included

[friendscallmeJay @Jaypotta]

“The only bluegrass playlist you’ll ever fucking need.”

https://t.co/TSjNd8MG36

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November third. This is the day you put on your calendar to vote. 11/3. More than ever

[CSPAN @cspan]

.@LeaderJohnThune (R-SD) on President Trump not visiting battleground states: "We need the president to turn out voters that are his voters... In a midterm election, the challenge is always voter turnout."

[Richard Zytka @RichardZytka]

Curiosity is the fountain of youth

[The Food Manufacturing Guy @TipOfTheBanana]

Your uncured bacon is cured. Pick up a pack and find the line that says no nitrates or nitrites added except those naturally occurring in celery powder. The company isn't hiding it, USDA requires that wording.

Celery is naturally high in nitrate, but the cure comes from nitrite, so the nitrate has to be converted. A supplier takes celery juice, adds bacteria that turn nitrate into nitrite, and lets it ferment. Then they dry it into a powder and blend it to a set nitrite level. The bacon plant mixes that powder into the brine it pumps into the pork bellies, often with cherry powder. The vitamin C in the cherry powder speeds up the cure, the job sodium erythorbate does in regular bacon. The nitrite breaks down to nitric oxide, which binds to the pigment in the meat and turns it pink like any cured meat.

It has to say uncured because celery powder isn't on USDA's list of approved curing agents. In 2020 USDA told the Center for Science in the Public Interest it planned to approve it as one and stop the uncured claim on meat made with it. In 2024 an FSIS official said the proposed rule would be out by early 2025. If celery powder is on the ingredient list, the bacon was cured.

[Richard Zytka @RichardZytka]

https://t.co/sUa5NjjVNK. Coventry, Ct

[@realDianaWest @realDianaWest]

Nathan Hale (1755-1776). “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." 250 years ago today.

[Richard Zytka @RichardZytka]

Jagiellonian University is a historic public research university located in Krak��w, Poland, founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great

[The Data of Everything @TheDataHubX]

Best University in Each European Country

1. Albania - University of Tirana
2. Andorra - University of Andorra
3. Armenia - American University of Armenia
4. Austria - University of Vienna
5. Azerbaijan - ADA University
6. Belarus - Belarusian State University
7. Belgium - KU Leuven
8. Bosnia and Herzegovina - University of Sarajevo
9. Bulgaria - Sofia University
10. Croatia - University of Zagreb
11. Cyprus - University of Cyprus
12. Czechia - Charles University
13. Denmark - University of Copenhagen
14. Estonia - University of Tartu
15. Finland - Aalto University
16. France - Université PSL
17. Georgia - Tbilisi State University
18. Germany - Technical University of Munich (TUM)
19. Greece - National Technical University of Athens
20. Hungary - Eötvös Loránd University
21. Iceland - University of Iceland
22. Ireland - Trinity College Dublin
23. Italy - Politecnico di Milano
24. Kosovo - University of Pristina
25. Latvia - Riga Technical University
26. Liechtenstein - University of Liechtenstein
27. Lithuania - Vilnius University
28. Luxembourg - University of Luxembourg
29. Malta - University of Malta
30. Moldova - Moldova State University
31. Monaco - International University of Monaco
32. Montenegro - University of Montenegro
33. Netherlands - University of Amsterdam
34. North Macedonia - Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
35. Norway - University of Oslo
36. Poland - University of Warsaw
37. Portugal - University of Lisbon
38. Romania - Babeș-Bolyai University
39. Russia - Lomonosov Moscow State University
40. San Marino - University of the Republic of San Marino
41. Serbia - University of Belgrade
42. Slovakia - Comenius University Bratislava
43. Slovenia - University of Ljubljana
44. Spain - University of Barcelona
45. Sweden - Lund University
46. Switzerland - ETH Zurich
47. Türkiye - Middle East Technical University
48. Ukraine - Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
49. United Kingdom - University of Oxford

Source: QS World University Rankings and Other Web sources

[Richard Zytka @RichardZytka]

They sing with class. All the time

[Lake Street Dive @lakestreetdive]

Last month at the legendary @NewportJazzFest 💫 Already wanna be back!

[Richard Zytka @RichardZytka]

25th amendment

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper tomorrow.

[Richard Zytka @RichardZytka]

Can’t we all get along?

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

united states leadership and power was at its peak after 9/11, not before.

the country united as americans hadn’t experienced since world war ii. us allies around the world rallied to america’s support, fighting together in a war of necessity.

if only the political decisions that followed had been wiser, the perspectives longer term.

[Richard Zytka @RichardZytka]

The life expectancy of a male in America in the year 1900 was 47

[ささみ @i_love_reiwa]

プーチン：73歳
トランプ：79歳
��タニヤフ：76歳
ナレンドラ・モディ：75歳
習近平：72歳

年寄りが始めた戦争で、若者が死にます

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Father Mychal Judge — the first recorded death at Ground Zero on September 11 — could be the first openly gay saint in the history of the Catholic Church.
⁣
He died as he lived: ministering to the suffering as a firefighter, patriot, priest, and saint.⁣

As Mychal rushed into the North Tower with firefighters, the Mayor called out, “Father Mike, pray for us!” The priest responded, “I always do! I always pray for you!”⁣

When commanders gave orders to evacuate the building, he refused to abandon the firefighters still trapped inside, saying to the lead, “My work here isn’t finished.”⁣ Other priests came Ground Zero, but Mychal was the only one to actually enter the World Trade Center.

He offered absolution, prayers, and the Last Rites in the lobby as death rained all around him, until his own death — the result of blunt force trauma to his head.⁣

After his death, fellow firefighters carried him out in an image that to me has embodied the definition of authentic American patriotism and humble service.⁣ ⁣

It’s a modern-day pieta that reminds me of how I imagine Jesus’s friends carrying him to the tomb after his death.⁣

At his funeral, thousands of everyday people showed up, describing how Father Mychal helped them during times of need and got them medical care, clothing, housing, and a future. He had a particular heart for HIV/AIDS patients during a time when many were treated as lepers.⁣

Everyone thought Mychal was their best friend, because he was.

Here’s how the priest put it at his funeral:⁣ ⁣ "In the next weeks, we’re going to have name after name of people being brought out of that rubble. And Mychal is going to be on the other side of death — to greet them.⁣

“And so, this morning we come to bury Myke Judge’s body, but not his spirit. We come to bury his voice, but not his message. We come to bury his hands, but not his good works. We come to bury his heart, but not his love. Never his love.”
https://t.co/q3rAxh9SNi

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Slava Ukraini

[Вал Мишель @VALMICHEL7]

Бен Ладен убил 2606 человек. Его пристрел��ли и выбросили в океане.

Путин убил сотни тысяч человек.
Трамп называет его другом.

Не понимаю, как можно поддерживать этого подонка.

[Richard Zytka @RichardZytka]

Food for thought

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

25 years after 9/11, a different administration has gotten the united states involved in a different war against a different country in the middle east.

but this time, rather than relying on its allies to help, it bullies and pushes them aside.

which has more staying power, forever wars or forever allies?

[Richard Zytka @RichardZytka]

Health insurance in America

[CrowdHealth @JoinCrowdHealth]

Washington's dream for healthcare (inspired by Nate Bargatze).

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Slava ukraini.

[Sheff+Ukraina 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @SheffUkraina]

This is a terrible shame for the USA that will last for centuries!

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@andrewmichta Plymouth Mass. I don’t ride. I admire

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Pigpen

[friendscallmeJay @Jaypotta]

Good morning. Here’s the Dead rippin��� “Mr. Charlie” on a German tv show in March of 1972. Highly suggest.🔥

[Richard Zytka @RichardZytka]

Paxton’s future if he was to lose

[Mike Madrid @madrid_mike]

As a campaign staffer watching this is painful

As an American it’s beautiful

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Move the n