I don’t think it’s a question whether or not he threw the sandwich, just whether or not that’s assault…

Or, hear me out, include sales tax in the listed price. If a cheeseburger costs (ugh) $5, no one cares that $4.70 is going to McDonald’s and $0.30 is going to sales tax, they just know they’re paying $5.

Pope Leo is literally American, so presumably some US Catholics trust in his leadership and agree. Not all Catholics are like Cardinals Burke and Dolan.

He did both. Luke 4 has him reading in a temple specifically, and Mark 14:49 (and other places during the passion) Jesus specifically says “why didn’t you come arrest me when I was teaching in the Temple?”

The specific place they are talking about, Gonghe County, is around 9,400 ft high (at least at the random point I picked within it off a map). The average height across the Tibetan Plateau is 14,800 ft, but that’s an average, not a minimum.

There were elections during Assad’s regime, they were just single-party shams. First (hopefully free and fair) election in a long time, though, which I’m sure was your actual point.

I’m not saying that there is only support for AfD in east and none in the west, but there is definitely more support in the east: see recent state elections map.

A ton of AfD support is actually geographically split. Much of the support is in former East Germany, not in the west of the country. While their overall support has been rising steadily, this could have been a bellwether moment that showed that support rising to electoral success in the west. These results aren’t a mystery, they’re just not a simple as you would believe reading only headlines.

Don’t look a gift horse on the mouth

They corrected it in article on the site. The man is an Oregon resident, but was fighting the fire in Washington.

I definitely understood their comment as “Israel claims everyone in Gaza as Hamas, so they’re more likely to die from a random airstrike than they are at sea”

Skibidi is literally listed as a nonsense word, so it essentially has no meaning!

A Wild Mimic’s info is what you asked for, but for what it’s worth, you can just look at the election that happened earlier this year to see if it passes the smell test (and it does):

The AFD won 20% of the vote in the election earlier this year and then the incoming chancello passed a policy with the old parliament (as leader of the opposition still) that would change a financial rule that would have no chance to pass once the new parliament was seated (because the AFD and most of his own party opposed the change), so a lot of the people who voted CDU/CSU (his party) felt betrayed and said “fuck it, I’ll vote AFD next time”

I don’t think working until 70 is that unreasonable (as long as it’s by choice). The age you start receiving full Social Security benefits is 67 now, and putting a few extra years of work in, if you are able, enjoy it, and it gives you purpose, is a valid choice.

That being said, for high-level decision-makers like Congresspeople, they should be forced to retire right when that SSA kicks in. The IRS administrator is right on the line of “should be able to keep going” and “should be forced to retire”.

Public defenders exist already and they’re government-employed lawyers with the express intention of arguing against the government.

Frustratingly the article does not say, but based on the other numbers in the article, I think they are talking in terms of percentage, likely 15-20%

From the Passion narrative according to John (John 18)

29 So Pilate came out to them and asked, “What charges are you bringing against this man?”

30 “If he were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed him over to you.”

31 Pilate said, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.”

“But we have no right to execute anyone,” they objected.

Literally the exact same method that the Jewish religious authorities used to try to convince the Romans to execute Jesus because they weren’t allowed to execute people.

(Note: this is not meant to be antisemitic, just contextual, though the Jews’ role in the execution of Jesus has been and is still used to justify antisemitism)

An ark is a boat, an arc is a curve

We all know something is wrong with Timmy

Ah, he’s been alive longer than the USSR lasted, not that he’s been alive since before it was founded.