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The doctrine of eternal pain is my trouble with this Christian religion. I reject it on account of its infinite heartlessness.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1884-01-20), “Orthodoxy,” Tabor Opera House, Denver, Colorado

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Ingersoll, Robert Green - Lecture (1884-01-20), "Orthodoxy," Tabor Opera House, Denver, Colorado | WIST Quotations

The doctrine of eternal pain is my trouble with this Christian religion. I reject it on account of its infinite heartlessness. Published as its own book in 1884. See Dante (1309).

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William Lindsey

1d ago

"All of this suggests Republicans’ reputation for being ‘tough on immigration’ has become (outside the MAGA cult) ‘scary, chaotic, cruel, and ineffective on immigration.’ That suggests Democrats should not be shy about stepping into the leadership vacuum on a number of fronts."

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William Lindsey

1d ago

"An enormous survey of nearly 5500 Americans (with a margin of error of only +/- 1.49%) from PRRI shows the extent of Americans’ distaste for mass deportation.

Trump personally has lost the country. Overall, his approval is at a measly 36 percent (with only 28 percent from independents)."

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William Lindsey

1d ago

"No issue more defined Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns and two terms than promises surrounding illegal immigration, and no sentiment more defined the MAGA movement than vitriolic xenophobia. Getting a close look at what that means to most people seems to have repulsed Americans, thereby breaking Republicans’ grip on the issue."

~ Jennifer Rubin

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https://www.contrariannews.org/p/trump-blew-it-on-immigration

Trump Blew it on Immigration

MAGA discredited itself on an issue Republicans used to own.

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BellingenNSW 1d ago

Koala dies after allegedly being dragged behind vehicle down a street

"A rope was tied around the animal's neck and the other end was looped around a vehicle's tow ball, before the animal was dragged along the road."

"There was blood and fur along the road where it got dragged. It was gurgling blood and had deep abrasions over a lot of its body."

"Volunteer vets were forced to euthanise the animal after it suffered injuries, including deep abrasions and a fractured jaw."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-26/koala-killed-after-being-dragged-behind-vehicle/106497782

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Koala suffers fatal injuries after allegedly being dragged by car

Wildlife carers say a koala had to be euthanised after it was injured when it was allegedly dragged behind a car in Victoria's south west.

Longreads 2d ago

"As I watched I had felt a nameless churn in my gut, some tremor of feeling I couldn’t describe. Disgust, maybe, or pity. All my life I’d been told that animals couldn’t feel the way we could, that their capacity for pain was virtually nonexistent. Yet every so often I would observe such a death and find myself filled with implacable doubts." —N.C. Happe for The Kenyon Review

https://kenyonreview.org/piece/field-notes-from-a-body/

"Through Trump’s Iran War, shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, futile effort to pass a Jim Crow-style voter suppression act (the so-called SAVE Act), and inflation-aggravating tariff scheme, Republicans are discovering they are tied at the hip with Trump. Refusing to deviate from his dictates, they will bear the brunt of his serial failures."

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William Lindsey

2d ago

"They figured congressional Republicans would share in any successes but somehow avoid any blame when things (inevitably) went haywire. Politics rarely works out that way."

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William Lindsey

2d ago

"Republicans made a calculated bet that by indulging Donald Trump’s ill-conceived and cruel schemes (e.g., unleashing ICE on cities, tariffs, wars with Venezuela and Iran, slashing healthcare to pay for tax cuts for the rich), the country would somehow stumble through."

~ Jennifer Rubin

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