David Harvey

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A Great Motto for Witches!

Great idea. Love this!

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I note that Jesus expressed outrage over the money changers at the Temple when he threw over their tables. In today's Christian Nationalist America he would have been called a domestic terrorist. Today's Christian Nationalists only value Power and Greed. They are the bizarro opposite of Jesus.

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So when I got to college I became interested in the history of religions and took courses and deep reading. I've always been spiritual, and Zen comes closest to what I experience. I admire the moral progressive message of Jesus who held Love and Compassion for all people as his highest values.

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I was never raised with religion. My mother's family was Episcopalian and my father's family was Jewish. I suspect that they both stopped practicing when they were adults and left home. My grandparents hated each other over their religions. I was only in churches for weddings and funerals.

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Your Monday Mid-Day Timeline Bop.

The Cost of Trump's War.

It was Never about "Saving Money".

The Trump Economy.

Opinion | James Talarico Is a Christian X-Ray The Democratic senate candidate in Texas is teaching us about what faith really means.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

The significance of James Talarico’s run, our columnist David French writes, is “not the old news that a Christian can be progressive, but rather that Christian politicians can actually act like Christians.”

Of Course.

A large fire ravaged a building in Glasgow on Sunday, forcing the closure of Scotland’s busiest train station, authorities said. Officials said they expected train service to be disrupted at Glasgow Central Station through at least Monday. nyti.ms/4s2Gtjo

Biden had us on this Path. Trump and the GOP killed it.

Justice Department and Live Nation Reach Settlement Terms in Antitrust Case The agreement, which requires a judicial sign-off, would avoid a breakup of the concert giant. But states who joined the suit object to the terms.

Breaking News: The Justice Dept. tentatively settled an antitrust lawsuit with Live Nation, Ticketmaster’s owner. The agreement still requires a judge’s approval and it would avoid a breakup of the concert giant.

Of Course.

Despicable.

Stunning video shows huge fireball blazing over Europe A large, bright meteor fell over Europe on Sunday, with some observers saying they could hear the rock’s explosive descent from the ground

A large, bright meteor fell over Europe on Sunday, with some observers saying they could hear the rock’s explosive descent from the ground

How Special Is The Sun? Is It Special Enough To Explain The Fermi Paradox? If only a truly tiny proportion of stars is capable of sustaining intelligent life, it would explain a lot. But is the Sun that rare?

If only a truly tiny proportion of stars is capable of sustaining intelligent life, it would explain a lot. But is the Sun that rare?

www.iflscience.com/how-special-...

The Longest Word In English? It'll Take You Hours To Read We hope you don't have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (a fear of long words).

We hope you don't have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (a fear of long words).

www.iflscience.com/the-longest-...

Lighter Than Air? If You Think Clouds Weigh Nothing You Would Be Very Wrong The heaviest clouds in the world weigh the same as 100 elephants or a large airplane.

The heaviest clouds in the world weigh the same as 100 elephants or a large airplane.

www.iflscience.com/light-as-a-c...

The oldest articulated bony fish from the early Silurian period - Nature A tiny, articulated, near-complete osteichthyan from the early Silurian Chongqing Lagerstätte, represents the oldest osteichthyan occurrence including microfossils, and the earliest articulated remain...

Nature research paper: The oldest articulated bony fish from the early Silurian period

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Skin cells boost distant antibody responses How the skin enables immune defences is not fully clear. Now a pathway has been found in skin cells that boosts the production of antibodies to protect the whole body.

Crosstalk between the skin and immune cells has historically been viewed as indirect

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How fast does a protein fold? Real-time technique captures the moment Proteins assume complex 3D shapes even faster than does DNA, which is a simpler molecule.

Scientists say they have made some of the first direct measurements of how long it takes an individual, ordinary protein to fold – and the results were surprising.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Stem Cell Treatments For Parkinson's And Heart Failure Approved in World First Japan has approved ground-breaking stem-cell treatments for Parkinson's and severe heart failure, one of the manufacturers and media reports said Friday, with the therapies expected to reach patients ...

Could be on the market as early as this summer.

www.sciencealert.com/stem-cell-tr...

Weight-Loss Drugs Could Cost Just $3 a Month to Make as Patents End A blockbuster anti-obesity and diabetes drug could cost as little as $3 per month to manufacture once it goes off patent later this month, researchers said Friday, providing a major opportunity to boo...

A medical success story.

www.sciencealert.com/weight-loss-...

'Ideal Glass' That Behaves Like a Crystal May Be Possible After All Physicists in the US say they have created a simulation that, for the first time, demonstrates "ideal glass" is possible, resolving a decades-old paradox.

"We can construct it."

www.sciencealert.com/ideal-glass-...

Pesticide Exposure Could Increase Disease Risk For The Next 20 Generations Health risks posed by synthetic chemicals in our environment could potentially linger in our germline for generations.

It won't just go away.

www.sciencealert.com/pesticide-ex...

Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...

North American bird populations are not only declining, but they’re also shrinking faster with each passing year—particularly in regions shaped by intensive agriculture, according to a new study in Science.

Learn more: scim.ag/4rMW4mP