Jesus didn’t build a grand arena to hold gladiator fights for his own amusement. That was Caesar.

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named. The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river. The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn. Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound. "Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever. It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin. "Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather. I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet. In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair. And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge. You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain. The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste. I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind. Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again. "Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up. Discipline is a journey.

Carney: The new world order will be built from Europe. Canada is the most European of non-European countries, and we are transforming our cooperation with the EU ... In a more dangerous and divided world, Canada has chosen to build and work in partnership with Europe.

This courageous man, Alan Turing “If you really want to know the true power of hate, just remember that Alan Turing, the breaker of the enigma code in WWII, was driven to suicide (or was MURDERED, it isn’t known for sure) by being forced to undergo chemical castration as a punishment for his homosexuality. Historians say he saved 14 to 21 million lives. I’d also like to say in the time we studied WWII in school, the history textbooks never mentioned him. I had never heard of him until I watched “The Imitation Game” which I 110% recommend you watch if you haven’t. Alan Turing was a blessing to humanity who saved (once again) 14 to 21 million lives, and he is left out of history because he was gay and autistic. And this is just one example?? So many brilliant and heroic people are left out of history because of their race, their gender, their sexuality, their religion, and it’s just because some bigots in positions of influence get to decide what parts of history are remembered. This man has had a profound effect on the world, it’s estimated he shortened the war by 2 years, saved countless lives and was the father of modern computing. Without him the world would be a very different, and very dark place.” #PrideMonth2019 #AlanTuring #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature.” — Hubert Reeves

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

This World Cup, everyone with Norway 🇳🇴 The joy Norway experienced at the end of the match after defeating Israel 5-0: Norway donated all the match's proceeds to Palestine.

Arsenal, one of England’s big football clubs, just donated a pile of their players’ old socks to a horse and donkey sanctuary, and the rescued animals are now wearing them. It works because modern football socks are footless. Players wear separate grip socks on their feet, so the long sleeves get thrown out. That shape turns out to be perfect for sliding onto an animal’s leg, where they keep flies off sore skin, hold bandages in place, and cover the leg while hooves are trimmed. The sanctuary, the biggest of its kind in Britain, says the bright red socks have already cut down on vet visits. The donkeys have also decided they make good toys, and have taken to pulling bananas out of them.

Amazing quote from Stephen Miller's high school classmate in this new Jazeera documentary on him: "Having grown up with him, it makes you realize that it isn't the smartest person you went to high school with who's running the country. It's the most shameless person."

I loan it out in June.

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I find every one of these reactions relatable.

Amazing. According to Wikipedia, he also "authored state legislation providing for South Carolina to have the first free and compulsory public school system in the United States."

The larger picture gives perspective.

Pope Leo at Port of Arguineguín: “Dear migrants: before saying any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. You are not numbers, nor files! You are people with a family and a home that you have left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to despise.”

Pope Leo at Sagrada Familia: “We cannot believe in Jesus and make war. We cannot believe in Jesus and kill the innocent. We cannot believe in Jesus and abandon those who suffer, those who weep, those who flee from misery.”

The idea vaccines cause autism was invented by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 and was so thoroughly debunked he lost his license for gross malpractice And here we are 27 years later RFK Jr dredging up the same nonsense Such a tiresome waste of time

Two Black boys running a lemonade stand received an unexpected show of support after someone called 911 on them. Instead of shutting them down, Kansas City police officers and firefighters showed up to support them, helping them earn hundreds of dollars. This is what community should look like! Investing in our youth instead off discouraging their entrepreneurship. ✊🏿

A staff member from the Texas Veterans Land Board's Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen recently took this beautiful photo of a fawn resting in front of a gravestone. Apparently, the doe leaves her fawns in the cemetery while she forages for food. The cemetery staff has been in touch with US Army Veteran Albert Ragsdale's family to share this touching image.

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