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Connor L. Ellington retweeted
Knock out the ban on congressional stock trading in the lame duck session. Better to be late in doing the right thing than refuse to do the right thing.
Make sure it applies to the executive branch as well.
Connor L. Ellington retweeted
Exactly. Stories are to human beings as webs are to spiders. It's how we live and make the world sensible.
I don't know if it's true that "you are what you eat," but you DEFINITELY are the stories to read, hear, see, tell, appreciate, and give weight to.
Connor L. Ellington retweeted
Understanding that woke right culture warriors are just Disney Adults puts so many things into focus for me
The prequels, at the end of the day, are about a young man trying to claim what is rightfully his. And he’s treated with suspicion, contempt, or even outright hatred because of it.
He wants skill, power, influence, order, hierarchy etc. and isn’t afraid to tell people that. He kills the guilt that he used to feel for wanting what he should have.
It’s remarkable how relatable all of this actually is for many young men. Made to feel guilt for who or what they are. Denied what is rightfully theirs by birth. Villainized by a weak, corrupted, aging Republic that has long outlived its usefulness.
Fortunately, everyone seems to be on the same page on this. We’re going to reclaim what is ours.
Connor L. Ellington retweeted
Happy Halloween. I'm dressing as a Congressional Bill so I never have to leave the house.
Connor L. Ellington retweeted
Audience member: "What is an Originalist?"
Justice Thomas: "When you see are Stop sign what do you do?"
Audience memeber: "Stop."
Justice Thomas: "You're and originalist and a textualist"
Connor L. Ellington retweeted
Everyone posting about Gen Z men seeing themselves reflected in Anakin Skywalker from the Prequel trilogy.
Plot twist: I agree.
Connor L. Ellington retweeted
This article is hot garbage and somehow worse than I expected.
It’s an actual hit piece with zero attempt at balance
The first quote is from Jeremi Suri who proclaims there is now “McCarthyism” on campus. This is the same Suri who called 40% of voters in ATX “racists” for voting for a pro LEO proposition. Also the same Suri who almost got arrested for mooning 🍑 APD. Totally unserious to use him as a source for anything
Then we hear from a Prof who believes Provost Inboden traffics in “White Supremacy” bc he rearranged some departments. 🙄
Then we get some quotes from Profs who left UT to go to places like
Michigan. Academics making lateral transfers to elite schools is a sign UT is strong, not weak. Academics do move around. And not a word on how many Profs are dying to come to UT!
There is not a SINGLE quote from a Professor saying things are good at UT. I’m sure @Forrest4Trees searched long and hard but couldn’t find anyone.
But the best part is Forrest has to grudgingly admit that UT is actually THRIVING under @JimDavis_UT !
Record applications ✅
Record admissions ✅
Record fundraising ✅
Elite brand recognition ✅
But of course the thinking goes all this may go away bc some Republicans have leadership positions
I get @TexasMonthly will always have a liberal slant on things but doing outright hit pieces with ZERO balance is gross
UT is thriving. 🤘🏼
#HookEm
Only my second bylined cover story at Texas Monthly! The November issue is on newsstands or maybe in your mailbox if you’re a subscriber. #hookem
Connor L. Ellington retweeted
Yikes! I sure am glad that my tax dollars aren't invested in an equity share in this company, because that's a thing the federal government would never do
Connor L. Ellington retweeted
The War Department has designated Confucius Institutes as a threat to our national security.
Connor L. Ellington retweeted
The Soviet Union is gone, but that intellectual type has moved on, finding other criminal ideologies to prop up and white-wash.
Connor L. Ellington retweeted
NEW: The Fifth Circuit ruled that a federal law restricting the interstate manufacture, transportation, and distribution of switchblade knives violates the Second Amendment, holding that switchblades are constitutionally protected arms.
Connor L. Ellington retweeted
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will hear our case challenging admissions policies aimed at racial balancing that discriminate against Asian students for selective middle school magnet programs in Maryland. This will be Pacific Legal’s 22nd time before the Court.
Connor L. Ellington retweeted
"Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years."
-Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France"
Connor L. Ellington retweeted
When I see what's happening in France, all I see are the things Sartre wrote in the early 1960s.
Le pape de l'existentialisme n'a jamais tenu une arme, mais sa philosophie a servi d'alibi absolu à toutes les formes de violence de son époque.
Pendant un demi-siècle, Jean-Paul Sartre a régné sur la pensée mondiale en justifiant la brutalité depuis le confort des brasseries parisiennes.
De l'oppression d'État au terrorisme en passant par la destruction intime, sa plume a méthodiquement blanchi l'injustifiable.
Sur le front politique, il décide de sacrifier froidement des millions d'hommes broyés par le stalinisme.
De retour de Moscou en 1954, il ment délibérément à la presse française pour ne pas briser le mythe communiste.
Il déclare publiquement que la liberté de critique est totale en URSS, crachant au visage de tous les déportés du Goulag.
Sur le front du terrorisme, la rhétorique du philosophe devient ouvertement sanguinaire.
En 1972, lorsque des athlètes israéliens sont pris en otage et assassinés aux Jeux Olympiques de Munich, Sartre justifie l'exécution de civils désarmés.
Il absout les tueurs en écrivant noir sur blanc que le terrorisme est une arme terrible, mais que les opprimés n'en ont pas d'autre.
Sa complaisance macabre culmine en 1961 dans sa préface aux Damnés de la Terre, où il appelle ouvertement au meurtre racial par procuration.
Il théorise froidement le carnage en affirmant qu'abattre un Européen, c’est faire d’une pierre deux coups, c’est supprimer en même temps un oppresseur et un opprimé.
Cette mécanique d'une violence décomplexée s'applique jusque dans son intimité, sous le vernis intellectuel de l'amour libre.
Avec Simone de Beauvoir, il orchestre un système clinique de prédation sexuelle en réseau.
Il utilise son écrasante autorité pour consommer de jeunes lycéennes vulnérables rabattues par sa compagne, broyant leur équilibre psychologique pour satisfaire ses pulsions.
Ses admirateurs célèbrent le rebelle courageux qui a émancipé la pensée moderne.
Les faits dévoilent un bourgeois intouchable qui n'a jamais risqué sa peau, mais qui a transformé la philosophie en machine à laver les crimes de son siècle.
Connor L. Ellington retweeted
Anger management, Aristotle edition.
Training one's character is noble work:
“Anybody can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power—that is not easy. And that is the reason why right doing is rare and praiseworthy and noble.”
(*Nicomachean Ethics*, 2.9, 1109a–1108b)
Connor L. Ellington retweeted
Texas Governor Greg Abbott Has Beer Summit with TMZ, and It's Not Pretty tmz.com/2026/10/17/greg-abbo…
