total and utter mystery what the primal social ethic of the early church was

True on all counts. I'd also add another notable leap of logic, which is that critiquing the billionaire class is an example of covetousness. This is an absurd understanding of what it means to covet, and what it means to suffer poverty in the face of the super-rich.

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

Guys, c'mon, this isn't even a new con. In the very near future, @hankgreen.bsky.social will have to change the name of his hit podcast because he fell for this a decade ago.

Friendly reminder that Canada is a basically centre/centre-left nation.

We also have small, private universities and they have have a lot recommend them (I teach at one of those; it's great, you should come). But they are not "elite" so much as "distinctive."

"Vance got Yooned by Kirkification" You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

Setting everything else aside, this is also an utterly incoherent talking point given actual Canadian military history, and how Canadian civilians and soldiers tend to take pride in the CAF. It is such a painfully American transplanted talking point, and I don’t mean that as a dig at US culture.

Solid quarter-final round shaping up, with a lot of potential for a really great semi round.

I don't think Platner is a plant. he's just your run-of-the-mill misogynistic, racist leftish dudebro.

perhaps disliking nazis on principle could also be construed as pragmatism

Anyway, appreciate how the story of 28 YEARS LATER I & II is "the weirdo who's into heavy metal and skull art is nothing to be afraid of. the man child obsessed with stuff he watched as a kid though..."

But the Sudokus have totally unique numbers in each one!!! That makes them worth things!!!!

i don't think the average american would believe me if i told them there's a state in india that's like 80% christian and specifically baptist

What's crazy is that this is obviously extremely racist but it's also still euphemism, what he means is if he ever has to see someone who isn't white he "doesn't have a country," it is not about rights or citizenship but race purity which even edgelords are still queasy about expressing directly

This is so good! Denial of history and historical theological learning is part of the patrimony of Protestantism. The rhetoric of return to primitive Christianity is powerful and has had its moments where it needed to be said and used. But it is a rhetoric, not a viable theology.

Racist attacks against Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who has two beautiful children from Haiti, are gaining traction after yesterday’s birthright citizenship ruling. I’m posting this here because this is the American Right. This is what it is. It must be defeated politically and ideologically.

Getting in some good old fashioned kid trouble is better than falling down an online right wing radicalization rabbit hole.

Hey there everyone, why are we yelling at each other about urban planning? Did I miss something in The Discourse?

John Candy, Martin Short, and Eugene Levy all attended McMaster University. Factor that into your QS World Rankings next time!

Explicitly anti-fascist and deeply emphasizing God’s solidarity with the world and our solidarity with one another.

Meanwhile, here’s how Ohio’s governor, a Republican, responded to today’s decision.

My Odyssey and Iliad translations are available as audiobooks, read/ performed by very talented real people: Claire Danes and Audra MacDonald. They do a much better job than the robots! www.audible.com/pd/The-Iliad...

Hear me out: what if we replaced rolling news with helicopter footage of trains every day? I don’t think anyone would actually be less well informed.

This is like recent claims that younger people are more religious. There as well the data shows that overall younger people are much less religious, but that young religious people are becoming more intensely so. The actual takeaway is that young extremists are becoming more extreme (which is bad).

See the Yale Youth Poll where moderates are basically disappearing and where young voters are basically self-describing as plurality liberal

The logic of schism is remorseless. Purification through purgation needs to be constantly renewed.

The objection to UBI is not really about money without work. It is about which class is allowed to receive money without work.

Hey, SpaceX is a miracle of crashing rockets, so there's that.

Hot take, but I think if you're holding out for the asteroid mining thesis, you've probably got a little bit of time before you need to buy in. The reason no other company talks like this is because other companies aren't run by a conman/loon.

Look, I know there's a lot of NYT nitpicking on here, but when Trump takes an L in particularly pathetic fashion and you frame it like this ("Is he secretly winning?"), you're not beating the allegations. He's never going to stop calling you failing and crooked! You can just say what happened!

The main work of this week sucked very deeply, but the people I got to do it with were great, and I wrapped it up with a very Spielbergy Spielberg movie and some incredible tacos, so honestly, I'm all good.

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I love how Dr Oz has a billion dollar career launched by those exact same people watching TV all day and now he's on TV telling them to get fucked

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Yes, famously, shutting down O'Hare is no big deal and doesn't cause nation-wide delays.

Interesting that conservative social media depicts Smith winning the premier's meetings, while lefty socials show her getting owned by Eby and Kinew. A reminder that we are each living in the reality our own algorithms are building for us, as are our neighbors.

Dear Alberta Conservatives, please stop encouraging and platforming the worst, fringeiest segment of your base. Sincerely, literally everybody else in the province.

Adding to Tom Steyer discourse

That Fox poll is glorious.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith united her detractors across the political spectrum in anger: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... w @mattscace.bsky.social

The Premier of Alberta intervened to lower the threshold for getting a separatist question on the ballot. She then intervened to eliminate a review requiring the question be constitutional. She intervenes again tonight after yet another court has told the separatists to slow down & follow the law. 🧵

Way to construct the question in a straight forward and accessible way. Not stupid at all.

Ok so the committee needed unanimous consent to go past the scheduled time and the NDP refused and so the meeting adjourned. So this whole affair is in suspended animation for now.

Is Premier Smith still going on tv tomorrow night? If so, what does she say now?