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Holy Day Mass - January 1, 2026

Happy New Year!

 I’m delighted to see the back of 2025, a craptastic year if ever there was one. Problem is, I'm scared out of my mind what 2026 is going to bring. 

Still, as the old year closes, we have a few points of light, to whit:

Spain has applied international law to make it illegal for travel sites operating within its borders to list vacation packages, rental properties and the like in the occupied West Bank.

The House Judiciary Committee released the transcript and recording of Jack Smith’s – testimony concerning his investigations into Trump’s criminal activities.

On the other hand, Israel banned Doctors without Borders and thirty-one other humanitarian organizations from Gaza, illegally, since Gaza is not their territory to ban any person or organization from.

ICE’s terrorist activities continued through the Christmas season.

I’m tired. I’m disheartened. I’m frightened. But there are points of light, and they are created by people who are just as tired, disheartened and frightened as I am, and yet continue to hold fast to the law, to justice and morality and somehow find the strength to keep working, keep struggling.

Friends, as we enter this new year, remember that, as Glenn Kirschner says, it’s us who’s going to save us. Us by showing up, by reading and sharing the news, by talking to everyone we can, by believing and praying and stubbornly refusing to accept injustice, hatred and evil as normal, that shall overcome it and rebuild our beloved country and our beloved world in the light.

Happy New Year, my friends. May we go forward together.

Jack Smith Deposition Released Outlining Evidence of Trump's Alleged Crimes 'Beyond a Reasonable Doubt'

We end the year with a shining point of light.

BREAKING: Jack Smith Deposition Released Outlining Evidence of Trump's Alleged Crimes 'Beyond a Reasonable Doubt' by Aaron Parnas

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Trump's Grotesque & Indecent Attacks on the Late Rob Reiner PROVE Trump ...

And the rich get richer

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM

ICE Abuse Continues Apace

Luis Ruiz, a private ICE contractor, allegedly engaged in severe and pervasive sexual harassment including requesting sexual favours and sending explicit texts.He did this from 2023 until 2025.The woman he abused reported him and was deported the very next day.She had been in the US almost 40 years and is a mother of 8.This is not the only time ICE has retaliated against a woman for speaking out about abuse. Alma Bowman is a disabled woman who spent 30 months in an ICE camp during the first Trump regime. She got out, and worked as a whistleblower to expose atrocities including forced sterilizations. In March of this year, ICE grabbed her again. She’s been held in a detention centre ever since. There’s a lot of abuse and misogyny happening in addition to the egregious violations of human rights.

- Broadwaybabyto

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Israel's War Crimes and Atrocities Exposed

 In this edition of The North Star, Shaun King documents just a handful of the atrocities perpetrated by the terrorist state of Israel on Palestinian civilians in their custody. 

🚨🚨WARNING: I am going to show you what Israel did to the Palestinians they kidnapped. This should be ALL OVER THE MAINSTREAM NEWS. If the roles were reversed it would be. by Shaun King

It's completely and utterly despicable. And you and I both know that if ANY OF THIS happened to Israelis we'd never hear the end of it.

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Autumn - Orange Mums

Photo courtesy of Listener at Howard Empowered PeopleWe had our first frost of the season last night. It's definitely feeling more like Autumn.

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