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in reply to papapep

Segueixo sense entendre quan xutes la pilota i surt fora, quan treus tu la touche i quan el contrari...no trobo la lògica. Pensava que era si botava abans dins o no, però veig que tampoc és això...😅

Edició: ja ho he trobat. Sempre treu la touche l'equip que NO ha xutat la pilota fora EXCEPTE si el que la xuta ho fa gràcies a una penalització al contrari, cas en el que trauria l'equip que l'ha fet fora 😅

#RugbyRules
#Rugby
#wrwc2025
#rwc25
#CANvENG

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in reply to papapep

WOOOOOOOO, la Kildune!! Quina màquina! Quin assaig!!...

Minut 8: CAN 5-7 ENG

#Rugby
#wrwc2025
#rwc25
#CANvENG

in reply to papapep

Minut 21: Ja van 5-14.
Les empreses de roba interior tenen un aparador aquí per a demostrar la resistència dels seus tangues i calces , perquè hi ha moments absolutament límit on fa por que ensenyin el "DNI" amb les estrabades que és foten als mauls i rucks 😅
Cal dir que són dones amb una autoconfiança absoluta, perquè tela com freguen el "desastre" un cop rera l'altre.

#Rugby
#wrwc2025
#rwc25
#CANvENG

in reply to papapep

I mira que les canadenques en són de bones, eh, però és que les Red Roses són increïbles...

Minut 69: CAN 13-33 ENG

Però encara que no guanyin, respecte absolut per les canadenques, quin equipàs i sense suport institucional!!

#Rugby
#wrwc2025
#rwc25
#rwc2025
#CANvENG

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in reply to papapep

acaben de dir que el pressupost de la federació anglesa és 20 vegades superior a la de Canadà 🙄
in reply to Enric

sí, ho he sentit. Entenc que el "futbol" americà es menja el pastís allà. 🤮
Van haver de fer un crowdfunding per a arribar a entrenar i preparar en condicions pel mundial...

thesun.co.uk/sport/36840316/ca…

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in reply to Enric

a banda que les de Canadà no són professionals del rugby.
in reply to papapep

bufff tinc una filla que fa anys que juga a rugbi i, sovint, m'explica coses de les normes. Avui no ho pot fer... PERQUÈ ÉS A TWICKENHAM VEIENT EL PARTIT!!! QUINA ENVEJAAAAAAA 🏉🏉🏉🏉
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in reply to Enric

@GelatDeTramussos OHHHHHHH, ENVEJA MÀXIMA!!! ☺️ I, sí, un partit preciós. Quan el públic comença a rugir se'm posen els pèls de punta i començo a fotre bots jo tambe!!! Quina emoció, hascolti!!
in reply to Enric

@GelatDeTramussos i no són complicades, però són tan diferents de les del fungolt que costa l'adaptació. Per exemple, al principi et torna boig que els àrbitres assenyalen "al revés" les faltes. No ho fan cap on ha d'anar la pilota, si no assenyalant a quin equip afavoreix! I que en funció de com posa el braç és un tipus de falta o un altre!
O el tema de que els davanters són els defensors i els del darrera els atacants! Que té tota la lògica del món, però cal recablejar la neurona! 😅
in reply to papapep

@GelatDeTramussos Això ha estat jiu-jitsu!! 😅 Au, la Botterman una estona a descansar i a baixar tensions...
in reply to papapep

acabo de mirar per què Apps no té cabell. Ostres, li va caure de petita!
olympics.com/en/news/canadas-r…
in reply to Enric

pobreta, com ho devia passar. Doncs mira el tros de dona que és ara!! Una organitzadora brutal!

#Rugby
#wrwc2025
#rwc2025
#rwc25
#CANvENG

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in reply to papapep

També si surt dins de la 22 i has llançat des del teu camp.
in reply to Iñigo Serna

@MonsieurSadman de les 22 del contrari i has xutat des del teu camp? Aleshores és teu el touche?
in reply to papapep

Sí. Tu golpees des del teu camp i si surt entre la linia del 22 i la de marca es touche per tu.
in reply to papapep

Fixa't que a vegades, si es veu que el lateral està desprotegit es busca llançar la pilota a veure si surt.


DJ PARTY

Venerdì 3 ottobre, dalle 22:00 alle 02:00, presso COX18, Via Conchetta 18, Milano

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Nato e cresciuto a Singapore, Ramesh Krishnan è un DJ, sound designer e creativo musicale con una carriera che si estende su tre decenni. Dai leggendari locali come Lola e Zouk fino alla sua attuale residenza al CÉ LA VI, è stato una figura centrale della nightlife di Singapore, esibendosi anche a livello internazionale in luoghi come Dagmarkt (Olanda), Heavyweight (Montreal) e Studio Lam (Bangkok). Tra i festival più importanti a cui ha partecipato figurano WOMAD, Mosaic con Montreux Jazz e il Worldwide Festival di Gilles Peterson.

Oltre ai club, le sue opere sonore sono state presentate all’Arts House di Singapore, al NTU CCA e alla Biennale del Design di Gwangju. È co-fondatore di Tropika, un'iniziativa musicale che unisce ritmi globali, arte e cinema attorno ai temi dell’inclusività e della sostenibilità. È anche membro fondatore di Sistrum e ha co-prodotto nel 2021 l’acclamata opera Vel Vel: A Sonic Walk.

Painé Cuadrelli, Dj, produttore musicale e sound designer.attivo dalla metà degli anni ’90, ha animato club e festival in Italia e all’Estero, produce dischi, remix e colonne sonore per spettacoli teatrali, video, installazioni e mostre.

Nei suoi eclettici dj set propone un’escursione sonora tra ritmi e stili attuali, classici e rarità dalla sua vasta collezione.

www.painecuadrelli.com

Freddy Amoruso, musicista, polistrumentista, membro fondatore di Armonika, dove con la sua armonica synth, improvvisa sul groove dei dischi suonati durante la festa.
Seleziona disco music storta su 12" e 7", rigorosamente bagnati di Guinness.
Vive tra Dublino e Milano sud.



Sozialhilfe neu: Plakolm zum exxpress – „Keine Milliarde mehr für Nicht-Einzahler“ exxpress.at/politik/sozialhilf… Ministerin Claudia Plakolm (ÖVP) stellt die Sozialhilfe neu auf: nur noch letztes Sicherheitsnetz, keine Dauerleistung – sagt sie zum exxpress. Eine Milliarde fließt jährlich, auch an Personen, die nie eingezahlt haben. Das soll enden: Volle Leistungen für Schutzberechtigte erst nach Integrationskurs. #news
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Comunque mannaggia a cristo è il 2025 perché ancora Ubuntu dopo un aggiornamento del kernel al riavvio non vede la scheda wifi, ma perché invece di fare LLM e blockchain del cazzo non risolviamo il problema di fare gli aggiornamenti senza rompere tutto.

Ma ti pare che devo fare partire tutto col kernel della versione prima per sistemare il problema manco fossi di nuovo al liceo che installavo Debian su un 486.



A long blog post to explain the artificial complexity of XLSX files, as compared to ODS files: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… @opendocument @libreoffice

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in reply to LibreOffice

Why would the xml need to be human readable/understandable? They're both file formats meant to be processed by a machine. One of them is optimized (xlsx) for that purpose. Parsing XML requires looking at every single character in the file, so having fewer characters is simply more efficient. Suggesting that the terseness of xlsx is somehow "complex" is asinine. I'm neither for OOXML, nor against ODS, but the suggestion that ODS is simpler is silly.
in reply to LibreOffice

At work we have integration with Word and Excel, modifying an existing document to add data to placeholders and conform the final document, and it was a nightmare to implement. However, the documentation is good enough to get how it works, and they provide a tool to inspect the contents of the document. ➡️


Thinking about it, if Russia combines deploying his own drones from ships at sea in Denmark and elsewhere, with activating people inside Europe to try the same with their hobby drones, things could get chaotic because detection and defense systems in Europe are not very capable in handling drones….🤔
#drones #russia
in reply to Erik Jonker

I cannot understand - if Russia is behind this - what the reasoning is.

As I read the mood (at a considerable distance, admittedly), Europe has been teetering on the edge of realising it needs to be responsible for its own defence.

To me, Russian incursions like this seem to push Europe in that direction. I see a Turkish-style shoot-down as more likely than an "OK, take Ukraine then".



Every journey starts with a single step — or in investing, a single seed. Plant it, nurture it, and trust that over time, it will grow. 🌱

What seed are you planting today for your future self?

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#caturday huddle and swimmer update: big improvements! One kitten has normal leg positioning, the other improving 👏🏼👏🏼 (third boy didn’t have it) 🐱🧡 #FosterKittens #cats #CatsOfMastodon

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Das Bild zeigt eine ansprechende Mahlzeit auf einem blauen Holztisch. Im Vordergrund befindet sich eine schwarze Schüssel mit einem veganen Gemüsegericht, das aus Tomaten, Zwiebeln, Kohl und Bohnen besteht. In der Schüssel steckt ein kleines Flaggenstäbchen mit der südafrikanischen Flagge und einem "VEGAN" Etikett. Neben der Gemüseschüssel steht eine weitere schwarze Schüssel mit geriebenem Quinoa. Die Schüsseln sind auf einem weißen Tuch mit einem Muster aus dunkelblauen Geflügel abgebildet. Im Hintergrund ist ein buntes Tuch mit einem Blattmuster zu sehen.

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“Stop al massacro“. Nuova manifestazione di solidarietà a Gaza nelle strade del centro
“Dobbiamo tenere alta l’attenzione su quello che accade“. Intanto la Questura prepara decine di denunce per lo stop ai treni.

lanazione.it/lucca/cronaca/sto…



🇦🇷 Argentina wants to be an AI powerhouse, but its tech experts are leaving

「 In Argentina, sweeping austerity under Milei’s “chainsaw” agenda of huge budget cuts to government programs has made the future even more uncertain. More than 52,000 jobs have been eliminated in the public sector since he took office, of which over 4,000 account for scientific research positions 」

restofworld.org/2025/javier-mi…

#argentina #ai #braindrain #milei #science

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#CIJ - Le Mali n'obtient rien contre l'Algérie devant la CIJ en raison du refus d'Alger de se soumettre à la procédure.
Toutes nos #news sont sur epocinfo.fr/index.php?display=…

#info #media #politique #Mali #Algerie #justice




6 AI Content Detection Tools Trusted by Schools and Professors

You've likely poured so much love and effort into your writing, aiming to highlight your unique style and original ideas. It’s understandable to worry, though: could those assignments of yours accidentally get caught up in algorithm flags?

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TCL’s 8-inch Nxtpaper Android tablet could lure you away from the colour Kindle

“Nxtpaper isn’t a reflective display technology like E Ink which relies on little drops of ink moving around, but it does feature several upgrades over standard LCD panels. The Tab 8’s glass screen is etched with a fine pattern giving it a matte fin ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/tcls-8-inch-nx…

#eink #ereader #technology



¡Un debate sobre el poder! 🎥 Un video con el análisis de expertos sobre las acciones de Ricardo Salinas Pliego. Infórmate sobre esta noticia en el artículo. #SalinasPliego #Política #Empresarios #Noticias

Infórmate: zurl.co/66622




Alla Milano Fashion Week sfilano capi di 13 designer Ied - Moda - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/canale_lifestyle/notizie/moda/2025/09/27/alla-milano-fashion-week-sfilano-capi-di-13-designer-ied_5a67e715-027e-4a0d-931c-5032ecf71d07.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Lifestyle @lifestyle-AgenziaAnsa



At the local zoo, all animals must do chores to earn their keep.

The Lion sweeps tonight.




Our top story: Some friends had rented the Airbnb for 3 days to celebrate a pair of birthdays. There were beers, arepas, and a birthday cake. They were planning to blow out candles and sing the following day.

But first there was a massive, militarized multi-agency #ICE raid. texasobserver.org/officials-tr…

#immigration #politics #USpol #Trump #HumanRights #CentralTexas #news

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Camiñar - facendo cacha 🍑 (aka glutes activation) :fittrackee:


Duración: 2:35:49
Distancia: 15.903 km
Altitude min.: -13.0 m
Altitude máx.: 294.8 m
Ascenso: 552.92 m
Descenso: 518.12 m
Descrición:

e escoitando 📻 Sateli3 The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land

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🤖 #TrainingLog #walking




un po' meno di due mesi per la traduzione, tre settimane per la revisione dovrebbero essere più che sufficienti.

nel mezzo avrei anche una bando e un po' di altre cose ma qua siamo in ballo, tocca ballare intensamente ancora per un po'.

adesso però stacco, forse.



Thank you again to @bengo for joining me on Fireside Fedi! Ben and I had an incredible conversation on what the future of digital ID's look like in Wallet Storage.

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#stream #interview #firesideFedi #FsF #people #peopleOverPlatforms #protocolsOverPlatforms #fedi #fediverse #open #internet #openInternet #podcast #show #episode #peertube #vod #castopod #writefreely #lemmy #boostplease #fedizen #btfree #bigTechFree #nonprofit #signup #tubeFree

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Audible Anarchism: **Alfredo M Bonanno Die anarchistische Spannung**

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For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com
anarchistischebibliothek.org/l…
Am 28. Januar 1995 hielt Alfredo M. Bonanno ein Referat bei einer Konferenz zu "Anarchie und Demokratie" in Cúneo. In diesem Text geht es um das



Ho messo il mio server casalingo Mastodon dietro un reverse proxy in modo da creare altri servizi sulla porta 443. Potete dirmi se sono visibile e la pagina si carica senza errori di certificati o altro? Grazie 🙂

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Italia, 2025: coppia omosessuale presa a pugni per un bacio
possibile.com/italia-2025-copp…
La politica non può tollerare queste dinamiche d’odio, deve condannarle e contrastarle coralmente con leggi atte a tutelare l’esistenza e la sicurezza delle persone LGBTQIA+.
L'articolo Italia, 2025: coppia omosessuale presa a pugni per un bacio


Natürlich fragt man sich, ob reiche Menschen unbedingt ein Privatflugzeug brauchen. Aber dann denkst du an Materialfehler, Extremwetter und Pilotenfehler und sagst dir: Wenn es sie doch glücklich macht…


Nuova ondata di email dannose associate al gruppo Hive0117


F6 ha segnalato una nuova ondata di email dannose associate al gruppo Hive0117.

Hive0117 è attivo da febbraio 2022 e utilizza il trojan RAT DarkWatchman. Il gruppo maschera le sue campagne come messaggi provenienti da organizzazioni legittime, registra infrastrutture di posta e domini di controllo e talvolta li riutilizza.

Secondo F6, l’attività di DarkWatchman è stata rilevata il 24 settembre, dopo diversi mesi di silenzio.

Gli attacchi sono stati effettuati sotto le mentite spoglie del Federal Bailiff Service dall’indirizzo mail@fssp[.]buzz. Invii simili sono stati osservati a giugno e luglio. L’analisi ha rivelato i domini 4ad74aab[.]cfd e 4ad74aab[.]xyz.

Gli attacchi hanno preso di mira aziende in Russia e Kazakistan. L’elenco dei 51 obiettivi includeva banche, operatori di telecomunicazioni, marketplace, aziende di logistica e produzione, concessionarie di automobili, imprese edili, rivenditori al dettaglio, compagnie assicurative e di investimento, aziende di carburante ed energia, aziende farmaceutiche, istituti di ricerca, un parco tecnologico, un operatore di gestione dei rifiuti solidi urbani, nonché servizi nei settori del turismo, del fitness e dell’IT.

DarkWatchman è stato distribuito anche tramite mailing camuffati da archivio apparentemente del Ministero della Difesa e false citazioni in giudizio.

L'articolo Nuova ondata di email dannose associate al gruppo Hive0117 proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.



“Biscotti e miele troppo energetici”: bloccati i pacchi umanitari della Flotilla di terra
https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2025/09/27/video/biscotti_e_miele_troppo_energetici_bloccati_i_pacchi_umanitari_della_flotilla_di_terra-15327277/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su La Stampa Video @la-stampa-video-LaStampa



🍥 Pré-Semana do Software Livre no Brasil – 27/09/25


27 setembro – 18:00 a 20:00-03


Evento Pré-Semana do Software Livre no Brasil – 27/09/25 🍥

Neste sábado, dia 27/09, às 18h, celebraremos os 42 anos do Projeto GNU — marco histórico na luta pela liberdade no usuário e desenvolvimento de tecnologias Livres.

Convidamos as comunidades e pessoas interessadas para festejar conosco e refletir sobre os rumos do Movimento Software Livre no Brasil e no mundo.

Com Blau Araújo, Paulo Kretcheu, Casa de Cultura Tainã e Você

📌 Serviço:

O quê: Comemoração dos 42 anos do Projeto GNU e da Filosofia do Software Livre

Quando: 27/09/25 (sábado) às 18h

Onde: semana.softwarelivre.tec.br

🌱 Está chegando a II Semana do Software Livre no Brasil!

De 13 a 18 de outubro de 2025, vamos construir e celebrar, de forma coletiva, a potência do Software Livre e da Filosofia que o inspira há 42 anos.

Será uma semana repleta de atividades livres e diversas, com programação colaborativa organizada em quatro frentes:
🧺 Feira | 📚 Formações | 🧭 Fórum | 🎉 Festival

🌐 Saiba mais em: semana.softwarelivre.tec.br

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Un soldado israelí que está de viaje por España, denunciado en la Audiencia Nacional por crímenes de guerra en Gaza
https://www.eldiario.es/politica/denunciado-audiencia-nacional-soldado-israeli-viajaba-espana-crimenes-guerra-gaza_1_12637849.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub


Messaggio all'avvio del portatile.
Che dite, mi basta sostituire la batteria interna CMOS del portatile?
#hardware #hack


Gaza, gli aiuti umanitari bloccati: la Flotilla di terra denuncia le condizioni impossibili. #MeloniBugiarda #freepalestine
ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/09/2…




Lego Duplo 3-in-1 Space Shuttle Adventure review


For tots with an interest in outer space, the Lego Duplo 3-in-1 Space Shuttle Adventure set is a wonderful thing that promotes imaginative play.


#Mastodon folks (especially #ttrpg folks) who have your posts set to auto-delete:

Why do you do this?

I cannot understand it. I keep my posts as a record of history. Why would you want to make them go away?

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California’s redistricting isn’t politics as usual.

It’s a defense against Trump’s election rigging.

Temporary maps. Independent commission intact. Vote Yes on Prop 50.

stopelectionrigging.com/

#politics #democrats #democracy #california #USPol #CAPol #Prop50




Liquid Glass looks like shit on MacOS. I will not be upgrading and that means this MacBook has at most 3 years left of life, unless a subsequent release gets rid of it or gives us an option (yeah, right...)
in reply to Jorge

mine are more functional bugs unrelated to the shiny. But maybe some are. It was not a finished product.


Are we at the moment when #Trump is getting increasingly desperate and attempting to provoke conflict to justify a police state?

Last I checked #Portland wasn’t a war zone. Did the restoration of #JimmyKimmel fry out the last rage regulating brain cells?

#USPol #Fascism

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Bishop William Barber: Ignoring the poor means ignoring the Jesus factor and defying Christianity


I grew up hearing that faith is best measured not by what you say but by what you do. My grandfather used to tell me that people who have real wealth don’t brag about it, and people who live their faith don’t trumpet it. Their actions speak louder than their words.

After the Charlie KIrk memorial, I wrote about how Bishop Mariann Budde’s sermon at the National Cathedral prayer service after Trump’s inauguration really reflected the true meaning of being a Christian. I was amazed at the reaction I received from so many people who recognized the same thing I did, i.e. actions speak louder than words.

And, as one reader put it in a DM to me, “You can’t just say you’re Christian and think you’re getting a free pass to heaven.” I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Related: Bishop Budde’s inaugural remarks, not the impiety at Kirk’s memorial, are what Christianity is really about

These lessons echoed in my mind when I sat down with Bishop William Barber, a man who has spent his life putting Christianity into action. From Moral Mondays in North Carolina to the Poor People’s Campaign, Barber has been one of the clearest voices reminding America that if our politics and our faith ignore the poor, then we have abandoned both the gospel and our democracy.

“Christianity is more than just saying, 'God bless me,”' he told me. “It is more than just finding a scripture that you can quote. It’s more than saying, you know, I follow the Ten Commandments. Christianity, to say one is a Christian, is to say one that I follow the example of Jesus Christ. So ultimately, Jesus Christ is the standard and the judgment of what it means to be Christian. And you can’t escape that.”

Barber calls this “the Jesus problem.” Time and again, he said, people in power have tried to justify greed and injustice with the word Christianity. He told me how slaveholders claimed Christ and how, today, politicians wrap themselves in the cross while cutting food stamps and health care.

But all of them, Barber said, eventually collide with what Jesus actually said and did.

“Jesus started his ministry declaring good news for the poor. He was raised in the ghetto of Nazareth. He went on to say that to be Christian is to have a concern for the broken, the blind, the captives, and all of those made to feel unacceptable. And then he ended his ministry declaring that every nation would be judged by how it treated the least of these.”

That clarity makes it impossible, Barber argued, to accept the silence of today’s clergy in the face of cruelty. He pointed to the contrast at the funeral of Charlie Kirk, where Kirk’s widow spoke humbly and beautifully of forgiveness while the president indulged in scorn and hatred of his enemies, and both drew applause.

“Not one minister stood up and said, ‘No, Mr. President, that’s wrong,’” Barber said. “Christianity has to have a certain courage. Love always challenges hate. Justice always challenges injustice, and that courage is desperately needed.”

Barber and I talked about the looming ramifications of Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill, and how, to put it bluntly, it steals from the poor to give to the rich. I told Barber I penned an op-ed about the devastating effects of the bill, and how it acts as a blueprint to gut Medicaid, slash food stamps, shutter hospitals, and deliberately create more medical and health care deserts.

“This is not policy. It’s mass cruelty, and it will have massive, devastating consequences. It will be fatal,” I wrote after the bill was signed into law.

Related: The deadly 'big beautiful' budget bill will turn America into a morgue

“We’ve got 140 million poor and low-wage people in this country,” Barber said. “And we’re spending more time giving $2 trillion tax cuts to the super wealthy than we are to lifting people out of poverty. We’ve got 87 million people uninsured or underinsured. We’re cutting millions from Medicaid. I saw a Yale and University of Pennsylvania study said this recent ugly bill will be deadly. It will cost 51,000 people their lives. None of this lines up with our Christian way of thinking. It doesn’t even line up with a constitutional way of thinking.”

When he spoke those words, I couldn’t help but think back to the Reagan era, when the same policies weighed heavily on the poor. When I worked on the Hill during that time period, it was glaring to see how “trickle down” economics, as Reagan preached, backfired and only benefited the wealthy.

I told Barber that after Donald Trump was inaugurated, I wrote that while Reagan was known for a trickle-down economy, Trump would be known for trickle-down discrimination, and that Trump will do more damage than Reagan ever did.

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Barber agreed that this time it is more severe. “We’ve not raised the minimum wage since 2009. That’s 16 years. Work has gone up, prices have gone up, but wages have stayed stagnated. And there’s no reason for it. We should be talking about abolishing poverty. Instead, our debates are about how to transfer more wealth to the wealthy.”

Barber calls poverty what it is, and that is political violence. “Right now we have something in the neighborhood of 800 people dying a day from poverty, and yet we don’t call it an epidemic. When 500 people were dying a day from COVID, we said it was an epidemic. Poverty is political violence.”

We also discussed how Robert F. Kennedy famously embarked on a crusade for the poor in the 1960s to shine a spotlight on the severe living conditions of those who lived in poverty. I also recalled how his brother Ted Kennedy, who I long admired, was also a strong advocate for the poor during his 47 years in the Senate.

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“I do. I think that’s what we’ve been trying to do with the Poor People’s Campaign, a national call for moral revival. But it’s got to come from the bottom up. Poor people now represent 36 to 42 percent of the electorate in every battleground state,” he pointed out. “Poor and low-wage people represent the largest potential swing vote in the nation. If just 20 percent of those who didn’t vote were to vote, they could fundamentally shift elections in this country.”

Barber’s hope lies not in politicians suddenly waking up, but in poor and low-wage Americans realizing their own power. “You don’t have to be victims anymore,” he said. “You have political power that can shift the concept and the politics of this nation. It’s our time that we mobilize around an agenda and do exactly that.”

As we ended our conversation, I thought about his insistence that just calling something “Christian” doesn’t make it so, and isn’t a “ticket to heaven.”

“Just saying something is Christian doesn’t mean a thing if it does not line up with the character of Jesus Christ,” he summed up. “And the Jesus I know, the Jesus I follow, said the nations will be judged by how they treat the least of these.”

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