Anthony May 📸 🖖🏽 🏈

Airspace changes since 26 February. See the disappearance and reappearance of traffic and the now-constricted northern corridor at the top of the image.

And this is what Jesus means, I think, in this very passage when he says, “Love your enemy.” And it’s significant that he does not say, “Like your enemy.” Like is a sentimental something, an affectionate something. There are a lot of people that I find it difficult to like. I don’t like what they do to me. I don’t like what they say about me and other people. I don’t like their attitudes. I don’t like some of the things they’re doing. I don’t like them. But Jesus says love them. And love is greater than like. Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat an individual, because you have agape in your soul. And here you come to the point that you love the individual who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does. This is what Jesus means when he says, "Love your enemy." This is the way to do it. When the opportunity presents itself when you can defeat your enemy, you must not do it.

Now for the few moments left, let us move from the practical how to the theoretical why. It’s not only necessary to know how to go about loving your enemies, but also to go down into the question of why we should love our enemies. I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus’ thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that’s the strong person. The strong person is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil. And that is the tragedy of hate, that it doesn’t cut it off. It only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. Somebody must have religion enough and morality enough to cut it off and inject within the very structure of the universe that strong and powerful element of love.

Somebody must have sense enough to dim the lights, and that is the trouble, isn’t it? That as all of the civilizations of the world move up the highway of history, so many civilizations, having looked at other civilizations that refused to dim the lights, and they decided to refuse to dim theirs. And Toynbee tells that out of the twenty-two civilizations that have risen up, all but about seven have found themselves in the junkheap of destruction. It is because civilizations fail to have sense enough to dim the lights.8 And if somebody doesn’t have sense enough to turn on the dim and beautiful and powerful lights of love in this world, the whole of our civilization will be plunged into the abyss of destruction. And we will all end up destroyed because nobody had any sense on the highway of history. Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.

There’s another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can’t see straight when you hate. You can’t walk straight when you hate. You can’t stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That’s what hate does. You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost. Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

Conclusion, pt. 1: returning to the central thesis of his life, Dr. King would ask us to consider that love does not require us to like people, but rather love them, and how the consequences of hate impact the hater as much as the person hated.

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The man who couldn’t run a casino is now running a planet-wide boss fight.

Trump really did turn an entire political party into cultish robots.

Star Trek The Original Series scene. It's just Bones standing against a purplish blueish background. Maybe a cave? A very smooth cave? Probably not a cave. Regardless, he has dreamy blue eyes. Closed caption reads, "YOU ARE A DISEMBODIED BRAIN."

It should have been obvious to MAGA that the "no more foreign wars" slogan was always going to be an empty promise as long as Trump had folks like Lindsey Graham in his inner circle.

Attacks leave dead vs killed

The thing about Lindsey Graham is that he isn’t particularly well liked or trusted by many in MAGA.

He obviously isn’t well liked by Democrats either.

His constituency seems to consist of think-tankers in Washington, lobbyists, defense contractors, and Iranian monarchists.

I know y'all's favorite thing to do is worry and doom, but the Seahawks can keep all the pookies they value unless someone else barges in with a bonkers offer.

There's always money in the salary cap stand

Key fact about the Seahawks: they have top 6 cap space in 2026 and $128 million open for 2027. Easy to put larger cap hits wherever is most convenient and let the big JSN money take effect in 2028.

tl;dr cuz numbers: The Seahawks can sign any of their FA they want to keep.

huh, makes the whole 25 year period when the Shah was our top ally kind of awkward

Hmmm 👀

More like House (Lack of) Intelligence Chair Rick Crawford

Holy shit. These people shouldn’t be near sharp cutlery, let alone seats of power.

Mullin: “This is war.”

Raju: “You concede this is war?”

Mullin: “We haven’t declared war.”

Reporter: “You just said it’s a war.”

Mullin: *stammer

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Jesus

Fox’s dignified transfer footage now just completely excludes Trump

Remarkable how shook Fox is by the footage of Trump wearing a tacky campaign hat to a dignified transfer

Certainly is

Excelsior looking like the Vengeance

Psychopaths rule the world

Bad enough that Republicans use troops as props, but now they are making war justifications based on fictional deaths.

Deplorable wasn’t strong enough a word for them.

I know it's not as horrific as a tan suit, but the President of the United States wore a fucking ball cap to honor the return of the remains of U.S. soldiers killed in battle. That happened.

Class will always out.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

It really is

Trump saluting a flag-draped casket carried by soldiers, wearing his standard ill fitting suit and a white baseball hat that says USA in gold letters visible from space

I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal.

Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.

Also that recession never happened and there were no mea culpas from those who predicted it

Nice! Way to go

Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.