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AFPI 👽 The MAGA-Dominionist Partnership To Put Trump in Office - And Wield Power

Right Wing Watch 👀 The New York Times profiled the MAGA movement organization America First Policy Institute this week.Peter MontgomeryAFPI was created as a sort of Trump administration in exile after voters dumped Donald Trump from office. AFPI has provided jobs and salaries to a lot of Trump loyalists, who are working to put Trump—and themselves—back into power. And they’re preparing

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Three Hundred And Thirty Three

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousCross-party group of MPs back move to scrap bishops’ benchPastor running for Missouri Senate blames mental illness on "demon

A Morning Thought @ 2316

The Murders Billy Hutchinson Was Convicted Of 🪶 “Legitimate Targets?”

Brandon Sullivan ✍  delves into claims by the loyalist activist, Billy Hutchinson. IntroductionFifty years ago this week, Billy Hutchinson and his accomplice, Tom Winstone, drove a short distance from the Shankill Road onto the Falls Road and shot dead two men, half-brothers Michael Gerard Loughran (18), and Eric Edward Morgan (27). I’ve chosen to quote in full what

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Three Hundred And Thirty Two

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousTomer Bar to IAF pilots: 'No enemy Is beyond reach' after Iran strike“A Major Massacre” in Jabaliya; Israeli Forces Raid Kamal

Shels ⚽ Drogs ⚽ Exquisite

Anthony McIntyre ⚽ The outcome didn't much matter. Drogheda would still be in the play offs so, win, lose or draw at Tolka Park last night was pretty much academic. To my mind the most important thing was not the victory but emerging from the game with no players injured ahead of both the Cup final in two weeks time followed by a play off the following Saturday.We arrived quite early and

How A Russian Operative Snared An Irish Politician

Sunday Times 📰 Written by John Mooney.Recommended by Carrie Twomey. Classic Cold War tradecraft lured a sitting member of the Oireachtas to offer his services to a spy.Despite his extensive counter-surveillance training, Sergey Prokopiev failed to notice the surveillance officers monitoring his activities at quarters. Officially, Prokopiev served as a counsellor at the

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Three Hundred And Thirty One

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be Curious'I think Trent Alexander-Arnold is gone - there's no chance Liverpool can keep him'Liverpool ruthless truth about to be revealed

A Morning Thought @ 2315

If There Is A Heaven

Sean Bresnahan ✒ Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Al-Sinwar was born in the Khan Yunis Refugee Camp, in the then Egyptian-controlled Gaza Strip, Palestine, on 29th October 1962.His parents had been forcibly evicted from their homes in the since destroyed city of al-Majdal Asqualan, dispossessed of their land by Zionist forces as they rampaged through Palestine, carrying out what would become