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Yet many Catholics voted in line with the MAGA nuts, purely on abortion. The American Catholic Church has turned abortion into its defining political litmus test. Hopefully this new Pope can convince American bishops that there are other issues worth their attention.

Besides, the folks who run the US right now always need an enemy. Once they run through the immigrants, and LGBT people, who's next? It's entirely possible these christofascists start ostracizing Catholics. They never liked them anyway, they just liked their votes, and they probably think they won't need votes anymore to keep in power.

The goodest boy in Washington today

I feel no need to observe this in real time. I'll read about it after the fact.

I guess if the kids want to be safe they need to quit school and work on the farm

I'd love to see him run, and I hope he gets a meaningful debate in before the DNC stacks the deck for Newsom

I'm surprised this wasn't an ex-J6er. Still, I wonder if Trump will pardon him?

There is a difference between customs and immigration. Customs cares about things (and import duties on those things), Immigration cares about people.

As a US citizen, you should be able to just enter as long as your paperwork is in order. (And if Immigration is interested in you beyond the formalities, it means you are probably on some sort of list, and good luck to you!)

Customs will care mainly that you are only bringing in personal goods, and not commercial goods you intend to sell. They will also care if you buy any goods abroad to take back, because you may owe import duties. So they will not care about your Fairphone unless you bought it while in your trip abroad. In normal times you will have an exemption that allows you to bring in some amount of goods duty-free but the world is all topsy turvy now so I would check what the duty-free allowance is before coming back.

They are used to people bringing phones, laptops, camera equipment, and other expensive personal effects with them on trips. They won't care unless you have a lot of things, and they think you are not being truthful when you say none of it was purchased abroad in that trip. Having five phones for one person would be a red flag, for instance.

Your dad is correct in that every driver gets into an accident at one point or another. You have your license, which means you passed the test. And while the test is the bare minimum, you did meet it.

Every driver starts out new, and has to learn a lot. It can take years before you are truly comfortable, and that's OK.

My recommendation would be to not give up driving cold turkey, but only drive when you are comfortable. Find an errand you need to run once or twice a week and do that route consistently. (Or, if you are working, do your work commute by a consistent route every day). Learn that route, and where all the tricky things are. You may find that after a month or two, you build enough confidence on that one drive that you are not spooked by other drives.

Fear not, MAGAs! Nature is no match for Donald Trump's Sharpie

The actual parade route is super tiny, less than a mile. NYT published a parade route map, and the troops have a longer walk to the parade start point than the parade route itself. It is just going by the National Mall, and that's it. My local town Memorial Day parade (which only had the mayor, boy/girl scouts, fire department, and school marching band) was longer.

(Edited to add: I don't want to sell the town Memorial Day parade short, it also had a bunch of cool old tractors....)

Cloudy and overcast, with sporadic bursts of fascism. Possible flood of lies in high-conservative-media areas.

Reddit still publishes RSS feeds, so you can use an RSS reader to see the latest stuff. You can't interact with it, but who wants to trade shit posts with bots anyway?

This is how I keep up with my Sportsball teams since that community hasn't really taken off here yet.