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All in this together: kicking off the San Francisco premiere of #InTheHeightsMovie at #SFPride with Freddie Seipoldt, Rock Sakura and Fred Lopez.

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 9:10 am Our Girls Night Out/Gay Pride Trolley Tour is tonight. Each bar will have a specialty drink in one color of the rainbow.

I may not be posting tomorrow.

“A win?” Pelosi responded Tuesday when asked whether Gottheimer had scored a significant victory. “We’re not talking about a win. We’re talking about passing a rule.”

Pope Francis and Nancy Pelosi meet to discuss climate action

Erin Doherty
Sun, 10 October 2021, 12:29 am·2-min read
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Pope Francis met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday, as he urged lawmakers to overcome "the narrow confines" of partisan politics to fight climate change.

Context: Francis spoke to parliamentarians who were in Rome for a meeting before the UN's climate conference, which comes as scientists caution that the window for keeping alive the Paris Agreement's most ambitious temperature target is rapidly closing, Axios' Andrew Freedman reports.

He was slated to be the first pontiff to attend a COP, but the Vatican announced Friday that Francis does not plan to attend the summit anymore. The pope underwent intestinal surgery in July.

Of note: Francis cited a joint appeal that he and other religious leaders made this week that called on political leaders to make ambitious commitments at the climate conference, which is scheduled for Oct. 31, per the Vatican News.

"To meet this challenge, everyone has a role to play," Francis said. "That of political and government leaders is especially important, and indeed crucial."

The pope said that lawmakers' commitment to fighting climate change "will be illuminated by the two important principles of responsibility and solidarity."

"We owe this to the young, to future generations," Francis said.

What she's saying: Pelosi, a practicing Catholic, in a statement called the pope's encyclical Laudato Si,' which lays out his views on the relationship between humanity and nature, "a powerful challenge to the global community to act decisively on the climate crisis with special attention to the most vulnerable communities."

"I expressed the gratitude of those working on climate action in the Congress for the immense moral clarity and urgency that His Holiness continues to bring to the climate crisis, and how we continue to cherish his address to the Joint Session of Congress in 2015," she added.

Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect Pelosi's meeting with the pope and comment from the House speaker.

Suranis wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 9:30 am Naturally those papers that mentioned this at all did not focus their headlines on Climate change but on another topic which had nothing to do with the meeting, starting with A.

Estiveo wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 5:43 pm The Clintons & Obamas flank the pontiff in their photos, but TFG is the only one allowed to be pope-adjacent in his, because it's HIS papal audience, not theirs,

This pope has made veils optional.

Estiveo wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 5:43 pm The Clintons & Obamas flank the pontiff in their photos, but TFG is the only one allowed to be pope-adjacent in his, because it's HIS papal audience, not theirs,

Speaker Nancy Pelosi will stay until at least after the midterm elections, extending her nearly 20-year run as the House's top Democrat after she turns 82 and, perhaps, beyond.

She is planning to file and run for reelection in her San Francisco district next year -- at least for now -- in keeping with her pattern of deciding about staying in Congress after the elections, when she likely will have won an 18th full term.

And sources familiar with Pelosi's thinking say she isn't ruling out the possibility of trying to stay in leadership after 2022, despite her original vow to leave as the top House Democrat. She'll devote much of next year to raising money for Democrats as they try to hold their narrow majority, those sources tell CNN, adding to the nearly $1 billion her office calculates she has already raised for Democrats in her time as leader.

The months of tortuous negotiations over President Joe Biden's legislative initiatives are inspiring a contradictory mix of emotions. Many House Democrats are more eager than ever to see the California Democrat go and give way to younger leadership. But even many of those same lawmakers are terrified that, without her, they will be consumed by squabbling instead of fighting back against House Republicans at a moment when the fundamentals of American democracy appear to be on the line.