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Galatians 5:12. Abolish ICE.

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Terriers wouldn’t need any exposition or explanation or apology for the long gap of missing years. Just put an unkempt Donal Logue in a beat-up pickup waiting outside the prison from which Michael Raymond is being released. Or the other way around, either one would work.

07.03.2026 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For most shows, coming back 20 years later is challenging. The cast all LOOKS 20+ years older. The characters will need to have grown or changed over all that time, becoming *different* characters than the ones we remember. These wouldn’t be problems for Terriers.

07.03.2026 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What I’d much rather see would be a bunch of teasing Instagram videos showing Donal Logue knocking on the doors of Michael Raymond, Rockmond Dunbar, and Laura Allen.

Leave Firefly alone and bring back Terriers, you cowards.

07.03.2026 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

(Or they become some kind of Anabaptisty Hauerwasian.)

But you’ll never have an influential jurist upholding the evangelical intellectual tradition & evangelical political philosophy because there isn’t any such thing to uphold.

Mark Noll addresses this in The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.

06.03.2026 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One short answer is that evangelical students who go into academia to study law and politics almost all wind up turning into Kuyperian Reformed types or Catholics or Niebuhrians because those are functioning schools of thought and evangelicalism has nothing like that to offer.

06.03.2026 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

One short answer is that evangelical students who go into academia to study law and politics almost all wind up turning into Kuyperian Reformed types or Catholics or Niebuhrians because those are functioning schools of thought and evangelicalism has nothing like that to offer.

06.03.2026 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There's been lots made of a story involving "Armageddon briefings" in the US military. There's also lotsa skepticism around it, mainly bc it seems none of the first-hand sources spoke to reporters.

If you're a member of the military who HAS experienced these briefings, my Signal is: jackmjenkins.60

06.03.2026 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
Sierra Hull - Mad World (Tears For Fears) | DelFest (2022)
YouTube video by Paste Magazine Sierra Hull - Mad World (Tears For Fears) | DelFest (2022)

Happy to see some discussion of Tears for Fears and thus also hsppy to revisit this, which is lovely and subdued until the end, where it’s lovely and wonderfully not subdued.

youtube.com/watch?v=sFIQ...

05.03.2026 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The future in Texas is bright and terrifying Democrats are once more dreaming of what could be. Republicans are dreaming of Rhodesia.

Get ready to hear a lot more about James Talarico.

04.03.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 136    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Guy who gets disappeared to a black site off the win rate of his Kalshi account.

04.03.2026 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The gospel of Jubilee is beautiful. And the word itself is a beautiful word β€” it sounds as joyous and lovely and liberating as the necessary idea and ideal it expresses.

Say it out loud. It’s fun to say. Even if you don’t know what it means, you know just hearing it that it must be a Good Thing.

04.03.2026 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

JUBILEE!

04.03.2026 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.
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Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel
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Steve King 9 @SteveKinglA + Follow Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. ESTERN ILIZATION Voice of Europe @V_of_Europe Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel RETWEETS LIKES 516 688 10:40 AM - 12 Mar 2017 from lowa, USA

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

04.03.2026 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3755    πŸ” 1013    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 47

The thing I am looking forward to tonight is the reporting from that Texas county where the GOP has pledged itself to hand-counting hard-copy ballots before midnight.

03.03.2026 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Underground...stations, if you will, perhaps connected to a means of transportation that became popular in the 19th century.

03.03.2026 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

(This came up because β€œSt. Elmo’s Fire” started playing on the store PA and I made a face. There are so many songs from 1985 that we should still be playing and singing today. This is not one of them.)

03.03.2026 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Was trying to explain the β€œBrat Pack” to some kids on my crew, and how that hype was part of a boomer freakout over the idea that the world might be making NEW young people. That was impossible and unthinkable. The young generation was people who were at Woodstock. And that would ALWAYS be true.

03.03.2026 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

If you look closely on the right side of the screen, just past his left shoulder, there’s a small patch of bare, unadorned wall. No gold-colored adhesive features at all in that little space, even though there’s room for one more there. It’s just bare wall. What’s up with that?

03.03.2026 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

(In that hastily recalled edition, a printer’s error omitted the word β€œnot” from the phrase β€œthou shalt not commit adultery” in Exodus 20. In Texas this would be called the Paxton Bible.)

02.03.2026 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hundreds of corrections being issued for Texas' Bible-infused curriculum The curriculum in what is known as the β€œBluebonnet” textbook is among Republican-led efforts in the U.S. to incorporate more religious teaching into classrooms.

Texas is gonna wind up posting the Ten Commandments out of the β€œWicked Bible” of 1631.

religionnews.com/2026/03/02/h...

02.03.2026 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Tilly Norwood broke out of rehab and got her sixth DUI after hitting a school bus.

02.03.2026 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

This is a year old, but still.

02.03.2026 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My creditors have yet to acknowledge the 10% cap on interest rates the president decreed would take effect on January 20.

02.03.2026 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

His own β€œL’Etat c’est moi” confusion/ambition makes him think that killing/abducting another country’s head of state means he has conquered that country. It’s one-dimensional chess β€” the idea that he wins if he takes out the other side’s king.

01.03.2026 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So now I guess we’re looking for the Iranian Delcy Rodriguez?

28.02.2026 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Democracy starts by establishing the basic rights that can never be lost or upended by the loss of an election. Without that guarantee, the electoral stakes are too high for anyone to tolerate or accept an electoral defeat. Democracy does not mean minorities must freely surrender their freedoms.

28.02.2026 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can’t wander into the Thirty Years War and just decide to settle the matter by voting. The Protestants get 51% of the vote, so now all the Catholics have to convert. That’s not what democracy is. Democracy is when no one has to convert no matter who wins the next election.

28.02.2026 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Middle of a great thread & the point I’d highlight as to why imposed β€œdemocracy” failed in Iraq & Afghanistan. We had them *start* with elections. That’s not where democracy starts. It starts with a Flushing Remonstrance & a Bill of Rights β€” by saying what elections CANNOT change.

28.02.2026 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

🎡 … Everybody knows you live forever

When you’ve done a line or two … 🎡

27.02.2026 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We shouldn’t let the flagrantly sinful immorality of people like Sean Feucht and Dale Partridge to completely overshadow the fact that they’re also just really, really dumb.

Like, no, just dumber than you will expect them to be even when you’re already expecting them to be extravagantly dumb.

27.02.2026 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0