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Chiquis Rivera Put a $555 Price Tag on Peace and Love
Hazte para acá! Grab your cafecito, and get comfy, and let that café con leche cool off a little before we consider journaling for beginners at a $555 price tag. Need to rejuvenate your alma? Pues que crees? Chiquis Rivera is hosting Alma de Luz, an "intimate wellness and self-love experience." Fancy, huh? Wait until you see the price tag. Honestly, when did healing become a ticketed event? Here's how she sold it: the experience ran four hours, 11 AM to 3 PM, tucked away near

Maria Salinas
Jul 213 min read


The Character Assassination of Mary Magdalene
The theological effect was immediate and durable. A woman with a claim to independent religious authority became instead a symbol of redeemed sin, forgiven rather than empowered. Historian Susan Haskins called the matter "settled" for nearly fourteen hundred years, and the settlement held remarkably well for something built on a mistake.

Maria Salinas
Jul 164 min read


Collins Defends ICE's "Vital Safety Work" While a Toddler Wore Bluey Pajamas When Her Father Was Killed
Susan Collins picked an interesting week to defend an agency's honor. On Tuesday, a day after an ICE officer shot Joan Sebastian Guerrero through his windshield in Biddeford, Maine, in front of his three-year-old daughter, the senator told reporters ICE could improve but deserved defending against its harshest opponents. Guerrero wasn't the target of the operation, and he was driving to work when the agent fired. He lived in the country legally. "There's no doubt that ICE nee

Maria Salinas
Jul 154 min read


Federal Judge Rules Byrne Invented Hunter Biden Iran Bribery Story
Patrick Byrne built a reputation on claiming inside knowledge of conspiracies few people ever verified. On Friday, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled his biggest claim yet, an $800 million bribery scheme between Hunter Biden and Iran, never happened. The ruling cost Byrne $1.7 million. U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson, a Reagan appointee, entered a default judgment against Byrne after years of litigation. The case traces back to a 2023 interview in which Byrne claimed Hun

Maria Salinas
Jul 133 min read


Comply or Die Is a Pattern, Not a Warning
Somebody's mother taught her children to keep their hands where officers could see them, to speak slowly, to do exactly what the badge said and nothing more. That lesson used to buy safety. Renee Good followed it. Alex Pretti followed it. Ruben Ray Martinez followed it, brake lights lit, car barely moving, hands where anyone could see them. All three ended up dead anyway, and the country owes their families more than a press release calling it self-defense. "Comply or die" is

Maria Salinas
Jul 105 min read


Praying to a Man Who Prayed to No One
eorge Washington never knelt in the snow at Valley Forge with his cocked hat resting beside him and a shaft of light breaking through the trees. Historians who have spent careers on the man say so plainly. Thomas Tweed, professor emeritus at Notre Dame, has traced the image to a story invented by Mason Locke Weems, the same early biographer who gave America the cherry tree. Weems never witnessed anything himself. He wrote up an account from a secondhand source, a Quaker named

Maria Salinas
Jul 24 min read


Trump's 60 Minutes Meltdown After WHCD Shooter's Manifesto Lands on Live Television
Saturday night at the Washington Hilton Saturday night at the Washington Hilton was supposed to be Washington's most famous dinner party. It became something else entirely. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, charged a security checkpoint at 8:36 p.m. armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives, firing at a Secret Service agent before being tackled and arrested at the scene. A Secret Service officer was struck by at least one round but was protected by a bulletproof vest and is ex

Maria Salinas
Jul 23 min read


How Pulp Fiction Ended Up in a Pentagon Prayer Service
On April 15, Hegseth stood at the podium. Pete Hegseth has been running monthly Christian worship services out of the Pentagon since taking office as Secretary of Defense, and for a while, the most controversial thing about them was the fact that they were happening at all. On April 15, Hegseth stood at the podium during one of those services and asked his audience to pray with him, leading them through what he introduced as "CSAR 25:17," a prayer he said was recited by the S

Maria Salinas
May 123 min read


The America That Could Have Been
Let's go back to November 4, 2024. Let's close our eyes and imagine... what if. Kamala Harris would have inched those 1.5 percentage points in the popular vote. Kamala Harris would gotten those 230,000 votes across three states: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. She would have flipped just 229,726 votes in the right combination across those three states, she would have won the Electoral College. What if Kamala Harris would have been our 47th President of the United State

Maria Salinas
Dec 22, 20253 min read
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