Catholic Bishop Robert Barron condemned the killing of 9 Christians in Jordan and more than 40 Christians in Ethiopia, saying, “These are not statistics. They are our brothers and sisters, members of the Mystical Body of Christ.”

The Liberals are intent on making it easier for you to be killed in their state-run, one-size-fits-all “healthcare” system.

France’s Prime Minister sent a letter to Orange, SFR, Free and Bouygues telling them to prepare to block TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram and X for up to 12 hours if protests flared again. He asked them to keep it confidential. The government wanted the order delivered privately to each company, with nothing in the official journal. The public would get a press release 30 minutes before the block went live. It was the operators’ lawyers who asked whether shutting down four platforms nationwide was necessary or proportionate. Orange insisted on a formal, signed order. France’s top administrative court ruled the 2024 TikTok block in New Caledonia illegal last year. The government drew up a bigger one anyway. Staff were on call all weekend. Nobody pulled the switch this time, but they built it ready for the next one. reclaimthenet.org/france-sna…

The DOJ is seeking research grant applications from scholars wanting to research what’s behind the rise in violence from trans-identified people. There have been many killings and threats of m—rder from that small demographic. thepostmillennial.com/doj-of…

A new investigation authored by China researcher Sarah Cook and published by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC), reveals how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is embedded throughout China’s organ transplant sector. “Every entity that Chinese officials present to international audiences as ostensibly independent or as a ‘third party’ is in fact a node in the same Party-controlled system.” Doctors who are CCP members pledge to carry out the Party’s decisions, observe its discipline, protect its secrets, remain loyal to the Party and “never betray the Party.” Violating these commitments can carry more severe personal and professional consequences than breaching medical ethics. Distinguished Professor Wendy Rogers, clinical ethicist and Chair of ETAC’s International Advisory Board said, “Chinese transplant doctors are placed in an impossible situation. Their professional ethical obligations can be overruled by state-enforced demands for CCP fealty. In this CCP-controlled system, we cannot accept assurances of reform, as no part of China’s transplant oversight system operates independently of the Party-State hierarchy.” A former internal medicine doctor, now outside China, told researchers: “Chinese people live in an environment filled with the CCP’s culture. Under the terrifying pressure of the CCP, everyone knows—if you yourself dare to speak up, you’d be the next to disappear.” @ETAC_Global @MDsAgainstFOH @JanJekielek @Eastofethan

"Conservatives Gallop to Victory on Backs of the Cancelled" Should Conservatives be thanking Dallas Brodie, Kerry-Lynne Findlay & other cancel-culture victims for their historic BC election win? Yes, writes NWT Editor David Brett. newwesttimes.com/opinion/con…

Glenna did an unusual thing that people typically don't do: she checked a citation in a law review article to see whether the citation said what the authors claimed it did. She found that the citation said the opposite of what the authors claimed it did. She then asked the editor of the law review for a correction. The editor did not reply to the request. She then asked the authors for comment on the incorrect citation. The authors acknowledged that the citation was erroneous and regretted the error. The authors then insisted that the citation did not matter to their actual argument because nothing in their argument depended on the citation being right. Glenna then wrote a post explaining why the erroneous citation was in fact important to their actual argument, and why the erroneous citation also exposed a wider ignorance of the subject on which the authors were writing. (She claims, convincingly, that it's important to know what sex is in order to understand what sex discrimination is, and that being able to define what sex is is an inextricable aspect of knowing what sex is.) I consulted with some lawyer friends in a chat group who helpfully explained to me that no one ever reads footnotes, no one checks the underlying references, and no one cares if they are correct or not because law review articles like the one Murray and Shaw published are merely political advocacy masquerading as legal scholarship that no one reads, and therefore not to expect the Supreme Court Review to issue a correction for a citation that the authors are on the record admitting was erroneous. Do I have all that right, @williambaude?

The UK has introduced new “Respect Orders”, under which those guilty of the crime of “distressing others” could be put under curfew, banned from public spaces, and forced into mandatory re-education. junonews.com/p/uk-respect-or…

My radio-tagged Monarch butterfly RHE_Theta, which had been last detected on Oct 21 at St. Joseph's Peninsula, Florida was detected today at Corpus Christi, Texas--2,517 km from its release point--apparently having flown 1,180 km overwater across the Gulf.

Famous Northern Rātā in New Zealand’s South Island. Because it resembles an Ent from The Lord of the Rings, it’s known as the walking tree. In 2024, it was crowned New Zealand tree of the year.