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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.

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

The gospel of Jubilee is beautiful. And the word itself is a beautiful word — 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.

JUBILEE!

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."

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.

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

(This came up because “St. 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.)

Was trying to explain the “Brat 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.

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?

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

Hundreds of corrections being issued for Texas' Bible-infused curriculum The curriculum in what is known as the “Bluebonnet” 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 “Wicked Bible” of 1631.

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

This is a year old, but still.

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

His own “L’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 — the idea that he wins if he takes out the other side’s king.

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

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.

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.

Middle of a great thread & the point I’d highlight as to why imposed “democracy” 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 — by saying what elections CANNOT change.

🎵 … Everybody knows you live forever

When you’ve done a line or two … 🎵

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.

I had to see this pop up a few times before grasping that this was a second, different, death-laser mishap and not just a follow-up on the recent party balloon incident.

Compromise proposal: DHS can use the song, but only if they play it, live, and get all the time signatures right.

Judge: IRS broke law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving DHS data A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency and federal immigration authorities.

Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.

Post old memes to confuse young people

Our communities didn’t ask for this. It’s going to overwhelm their infrastructure with potentially catastrophic consequences, and we do not want them here.

Subsidiarity invoked!

Inescapable network of mutuality ftw.

David Dark shared a word from Brian Eno that I’ve been sitting with as a source of hope.

Eno says revolution/change comes in two stages: “Firstly, when everyone realizes something is wrong, and secondly, when everyone realizes that everyone else has realized.”

Some of these faculty are literal, doctorate-level experts in Catholic social teaching. Dissertations on Rerum Novarum and on Laborem Exercens and on the priority of labor and whatnot. This is gonna get ugly and erudite at the same time.