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just outside Whitefish Bay, MI
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Lol. Watching this generation lose the only books they've ever read is going to be hilarious.
He's right. Everyone should adopt this. Down with the AP, up with the marbles.
Instead of bitching about the obvious stupidity of AP poll voters, why not push for an actual objective way to determine CFB playoffs? There are now two variants of the Marble Game: the original flavor @CFBMarbleGame (1) and @cfbmarbles with extra sprinkles (2).
He's right. Good on him.
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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25 years after September 11, 2001, my overwhelming sentiment remains what it was on that day: anger. I still feel pretty much the same level of shock when I see the footage as I did when I saw it for the very first time. I don't think it'll ever change. nationalreview.com/2026/09/l…
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WARNING: The Lindsay Clancy trial heads for a mistrial as the jury remained deadlocked. But for Nellie Bowles of Free Press “The deeper idea being proposed here seems to be that moms should kind of be able to kill their kids. Like, if they’re really, really stressed,” she wrote. “In Canada, that’s the law already. If a parent kills a kid under the age of 1, it’s a maximum five-year sentence. We’re now going to see a movement to bring that to the U.S., and also to expand it to older kids. Death cults will death cult.”
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David Mamet @NRO: "With the academic repurposing of History as a series of abuses and their indictment, it is now difficult even to predict the past." nationalreview.com/2026/09/f…
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Satan Wondering If He Went Too Far With Feminism buff.ly/iieSLyB
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Arday may have been the victim of many things.
Personal issues. Colleagues not willing to call him out before putting him on a pedestal destined to collapse. Many things.
He was not however a victim of people who dared to notice they were being lied to. Society is not obligated to maintain fraud at the highest levels of its most prestigious institutions simply because the fraudster may otherwise self-harm.
That's not society, that's a hostage situation.
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In Lieu Of Dystopian Sci-Fi Movie, American Just Watching News From England buff.ly/1XEbZdc
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This book is needed much more today than when it was published in 1997. Then, memories of what communism actually is, and what it actually brings, were vivid. Today those memories have faded. Some people romanticize communism, or think we should give it another chance. This time, some are tempted to suppose, we'll be able to institute the "right" or the "true" communism.
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this media format where we dig up angry dumb people from the backyard, shove them in a mason jar together, and shake it up until they try to eat each other has to go
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my dad was a marine in vietnam. there is a period of months from his time out there he still can't talk about. he's not an alcoholic. he's not committing disability fraud. he didn't get a giant nazi tattoo. and he's never had a hard time not raping anybody, fyi.
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The situation is so much more desperate than you probably realize.
University professors are saying they're now unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. Their students are simply incapable of reading more than a few pages.
Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.
There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.
If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything. This is civilizational.
Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:
Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.
Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history. We must continue to form new minds in this same model if we're going to keep it.
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I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now.
It was by design.
The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times “could not corroborate” my story despite talking to two of my friends.
I gave them the contact information for five friends.
They called the two who I clarified would not know about the abuse but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline, events, etc.
They simply did not call the other three.
I also gave them the names of all my former roommates who remembered him stalking our row house (which was about 5 houses down from his) and waiting for me to return. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it.
I gave them the names of other men I dated who might have remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us. I gave them emails to my landlord urgently ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town and diary entries talking about it - all time marked.
I told them that during pre-marital counseling I had spoken to my ex-fiance about the abuse because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror any time he lost his temper. They said oh NO we don't need to bother HIM (or my priest). Besides, I had written about it in my diary in detail, they reassured.
As the weeks dragged on I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I had already given them seemed to overwhelm them and I thought it meant they clearly had more than enough to verify my every claim.
My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that yes, I had told them that he was abusive—long before he ran for Senate.
Besides, they assured, my part in their reporting would be small. I thought my details would only serve to affirm Jenny and the other anonymous woman.
Jenny and I - having never met or spoken - both shared with these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse/love bombing. The third unnamed woman in the story did as well.
But tell me again how they “could not corroborate.”
