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Two ant colonies have been fighting a war outside San Diego for decades.
~30M die a year. The front line is miles long.
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🎁🤡 BOZO’S GRAND… PRIZE… GAME!
G.I. Joe Watch Tower, Bozo birthday cake, photo with Bozo, Transformers backpack and ice cream… Not a bad haul!
Who else wanted to be that kid?
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Man, this was good. Really good. Great job, Berman and ESPN. I was never a Bears fan. But this just reminds of a time when Ditka symbolized football and masculinity. the 1980s were amazing.
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How's it feels when my wife snaps at me because annoying her is my love language.
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Metallica's Sphere residency began last week and secondary market prices have been falling sharply across all shows.
Tonight's show is a good example. Get-in prices have dropped 43.4% in the past 7 days, down to $396.
What could be causing the price to fall this much?
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I'm almost in AWE at the masterful level of deception James Talarico employs in this ridiculously viral interview on Jimmy Kimmel.
There is a VERY SUBTLE play getting run on Christians over and over. And once you see it, you can never unsee it.
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Marco Rubio: “We preoccupy ourselves more with the comfort of the worst than the potential of the best. We hold the most exceptional things among us hostage to the average.”
.@SecRubio: "Too often, these days, we build downwards. We design our standards to ensure that no one will lose. We preoccupy ourselves more with the comfort of the worst than the potential of the best. We hold the most exceptional things among us hostage to the average."
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.@SecRubio: "Too often, these days, we build downwards. We design our standards to ensure that no one will lose. We preoccupy ourselves more with the comfort of the worst than the potential of the best. We hold the most exceptional things among us hostage to the average."
.@SecRubio: "The things we owe to this place as Americans — and as Westerners — are actually far, far deeper... What blossomed here in this place was the Western desire to uncover all that ignorance, darkness, and distance had kept hidden from the mind of man."
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TURNING POINT USA event today at Judson University in Elgin, Illinois. Erika Kirk is speaking soon. #IAMCHARLIEKIRK
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Probably the most right wing thing a politician has ever said
.@SecRubio: "Too often, these days, we build downwards. We design our standards to ensure that no one will lose. We preoccupy ourselves more with the comfort of the worst than the potential of the best. We hold the most exceptional things among us hostage to the average."
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Here's how I think it worked:
- Intentionally shoddy voter rolls are the feedstock
- D SecOfState gives registration data to NGO1
- NGO1 identifies low propensity voters and gives the list to NGO2
- NGO2 oversees a network of local street level ballot harvesters for given lists and targets..which if they do not meet will result in them not being included next election.
There doesn't need to be a central committee or anybody making all the decisions, and the only people really breaking the law are low-level harvesters. The fraud self-organizes, but it costs an enormous amount of money.
Marc Elias and Norm Eisen are the tip of the spear of a huge legal network getting the rules in place to allow the fraud, and all those NGOs and street level harvesters are on the payroll. It adds up.
There were 20-30K democracy/ election related NGOs in the US with reported funding of $3.4B in 2020; that's what the Zuckbucks and Soros paid for. On top of that, there are another 500K "advocacy" NGOs funded at $50B, which is important because the money is fungible and it sloshes around these left wing networks; that's the work
@DataRepublican has been doing.
So much money and tens of thousands of people on the payroll, all with the single job of maximizing @TheDemocrats
votes.
Drying up the money cripples the networks. Cleaning the rolls reduces the feedstock, which is important even if the blue states don't participate because lots of red states have bright blue dots in them; think Jacksonville and Houston. Deportations and ICE drain the front line workforce. And lots of those frontline workers are involved in other shady Learing Center type operations and are gonna be lying low, especially if HSI and ICE are at the polls.
Evidence: NoKings fizzled, and there were no mass protests this summer. Even Cornell7, AI Apocalypse, and Black Girl Lynchings seem half-hearted, and the 2020 playbook doesn't work anymore. It was all manufactured, and the network that produced it is fractured and under assault.
It's a bummer that the SaveAct didn't get passed, but I think all these actions are still going to reduce the fraud, and I further believe that our being a 50/50 country is an illusion. Without the election and census shenanigans, we should already be up 40 seats in the House.
I’m telling my sons that Cornell exposes the poverty of a sexual ethic built almost entirely around consent.
We have told young people that sex can be easily detached from marriage, permanence, fidelity, children, responsibility, even love, and that as long as everyone says yes, the encounter is morally legitimate.
That leaves women with an impoverished set of categories afterward. If a sexual experience leaves her feeling ashamed, degraded, used, or disgusted, our culture gives her very little language for saying: I consented, but it was still wrong. I participated in something that was bad for me.
Instead, the options increasingly become: it was liberation, or it was rape.
But there is a third category: consensual sexual behavior can still be degrading, exploitative, reckless, and morally destructive.
Consent matters because sexual coercion or assault is a grave violation of another person. No man has the right to force himself on a woman, exploit her impairment or incapacity, or use her body against her will. But the absence of coercion/assault does not make a sexual act good.
Consent establishes a floor, not a moral vision. It tells us when a boundary has been violated; it cannot tell us what sex is for, where it belongs, or what men and women owe one another before, during, and after it.
Marriage can.
Marriage does not treat sex as a free-floating act whose morality is determined only by whether two people consent in the moment. It reserves sex for a specific context because sex is powerful, consequential, and sacred.
Before the sexual act, a man and woman stand before their families, their community, and God and make a public, lifelong commitment to one another. That commitment gives sex its proper purpose, perspective, and protection. Sex then becomes not merely something two people agree to do, but the bodily expression of a covenant they have already made: fidelity, permanence, mutual obligation, and openness to the children their union can create.
That framework asks much more of a man than, “Did she say yes?” It asks: Have you promised yourself to her? Will you remain faithful to her? Will you accept responsibility for the children sex may create? Will you still be there tomorrow, next year, and fifty years from now?
Marriage offers a richer sexual ethic. It says consent is necessary, but it is not enough.
Sex belongs inside a covenant strong enough to bear its meaning, its potential, its vulnerability, and its consequences.
That is what I want my sons to understand. The goal is not merely to become men who can secure consent.
It is to become men worthy of making, and keeping, the kind of promise that gives sex its proper home.
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Listen up. It is time to set the record straight on contemporary worship services. We are not dealing merely with style. We are dealing with a fundamentally different theology of worship.
Take this chart as an example. At first glance, someone might assume that the difference between a Liturgical Divine Service and a Contemporary Evangelical Service is simply a matter of preference: guitars versus organs, praise bands versus hymns, screens versus hymnals. But the chart shows something much deeper. Now, pay attention: The architecture of the services differs because their goals differ.
The Contemporary Evangelical Service moves toward response, next steps, connection, and integration into the church’s ecosystem. The Liturgical Divine Service moves toward reception: Christ gives His gifts through His Word and Sacraments so Christians can return to their vocations. That is to say, these are not merely different styles accomplishing the same thing. They reflect different theological assumptions about what worship is, who is acting, and why the congregation is there.
That is why the so-called “worship wars” cannot be reduced to instrumentation or aesthetics. Indeed, the issue is much deeper than guitars versus organs. It is about theology embodied in the service's structure.
And this is precisely why the Confessional Lutheran Church must take the ordo seriously. You see, Lutherans should not be naive enough to think that the historic order is merely an empty shell waiting to be filled with whatever style happens to be popular. The ordo has a theological direction. Its architecture confesses something.
And here is the point: The shape of the service reveals its theology. Change the shape long enough, and you may eventually change the theology with it.
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My “I Regret Being A Slut” piece ebbs and flows and it’s getting shared a lot again and apparently mentioned on podcasts so here it is.
phetasy.com/p/slut-regret
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Here’s a recap of Metallica day 1 at The Sphere Las Vegas.
Since they will be playing different sets, here are some highlights of @spherevegas insane visuals
@metallica 🤘
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Slow-Braised French Onion Chuck Roast with Caramelized Onions and Cheese
Servings: 6
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 3 hours 15 minutes
Total Time: 3 hours 35 minutes
Ingredients
For the Chuck Roast:
3–4 lb beef chuck roast
2 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp garlic powder
2 tbsp olive oil
For the Caramelized Onions:
3 tbsp unsalted butter
3 large yellow onions, thinly sliced
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp fresh thyme leaves
Salt and black pepper, to taste
For the Braise:
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 tbsp tomato paste
1 cup dry red wine
3 cups beef broth
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
2 bay leaves
3–4 sprigs fresh thyme
1 sprig fresh rosemary
For the Cheese Finish:
1½ cups shredded Gruyère or Swiss cheese
½ cup grated Parmesan
Fresh parsley, chopped
Fresh rosemary sprig, for garnish
Instructions
Preheat oven to 325°F (165°C).
Season and sear the roast. Pat the chuck roast completely dry. Season all over with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Heat olive oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Sear the roast 4–5 minutes per side until deeply browned. Transfer to a plate.
Caramelize the onions. Reduce heat to medium. Add butter and sliced onions to the same pot. Cook 25–30 minutes, stirring occasionally, until deeply golden and jammy. Sprinkle in sugar halfway through to help them along. Stir in thyme, salt, and pepper.
Build the base. Add garlic and cook 1 minute until fragrant. Stir in tomato paste and cook 1–2 minutes until it darkens slightly.
Deglaze. Pour in the red wine and scrape up all the browned bits from the bottom. Simmer 3–4 minutes until reduced by about half.
Braise. Add beef broth, Worcestershire sauce, balsamic vinegar, bay leaves, thyme, and rosemary. Return the roast to the pot — the liquid should come about two-thirds up the meat. Cover and transfer to the oven.
Slow braise for 2½ to 3 hours, turning the roast once or twice, until it's fork-tender and pulls apart easily.
Add the cheese. Remove the lid, discard bay leaves and herb stems. Shred the beef slightly with two forks right in the pot. Scatter Gruyère and Parmesan generously over the top.
Melt the cheese. Broil 3–5 minutes until melted, bubbling, and golden in spots. Watch closely — it goes from golden to burnt fast.
Serve. Garnish with fresh parsley and a rosemary sprig. Serve with crusty bread, mashed potatoes, or buttered noodles to soak up the sauce.
Tips
Don't rush the onions — 25–30 minutes of slow caramelization is where most of the flavor comes from.
Chuck roast is key — its marbling breaks down into that fall-apart texture. Lean cuts will dry out.
Liquid level matters — too much and you're boiling the roast instead of braising it.
Even better the next day — the flavor deepens overnight.
Variations
Add sliced mushrooms with the onions for extra depth.
Swap the wine for extra beef broth plus 1 tbsp red wine vinegar.
Serve over toasted baguette slices as French onion roast sandwiches.
