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@JonathanTurley Believe this was in Federalist Paper 10 3/4. Publius says all this stuff about the meaning of the Constitution and the laws is a diversion. All that really matters is how a judge feels about the issues. The Supreme Court as group therapy.

Justice Jackson recently said that “I have a wonderful opportunity to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues, and that’s what I try to do.” For some of her colleagues, that cathartic benefit is coming at too high a cost for the Court. jonathanturley.org/2026/05/05/bas…

@TeeplesCY @peterschweizer Logo therapy— Viktor Frankl’s philosophy that our most important purpose in life is to find lasting meaning. Ultimately this is fulfilled only through transcendence—to know there exists a meaning that is beyond mundane existence.

Poor Americans who attend church regularly are happier than rich Americans who never go. Behavioral scientist William von Hippel thought he'd made a coding error. He hadn't. "Regularly attending services has a bigger impact on your happiness than wealth," he writes. "Money buys a fair bit of happiness but connection gives you more bang for the buck." What's happening? Rich people already have most of what money buys. What they lack is what churches provide for free: weekly, repeated contact with people who know your name. Von Hippel is direct about the cost: "I suspect that wealthy, educated urbanites are paying a steeper price for their lifestyle than they realize. Many of us have paid too great a price in connection for our increased autonomy."

@johnddavidson Bare, ruined choirs. . .

What’s more, the Tudor terror inaugurated the modern authoritarian state and the creation in England of a powerful, wealthy elite outside the control of the crown, through what Hillaire Belloc aptly called “the looting of the monasteries.”

@Texas__Bulldog @KeithKing110046 @pragmatometer @jtLOL Hitler loved Naziism more than Germany. Once the war began to go badly for him, he expressed contempt for the German people. At the end he had apocalyptic visions of the complete destruction of the German people which he thought they deserved.

@KeithKing110046 @pragmatometer @jtLOL The only difference is that Nazis loved their country and democrats despise it. Other than that, democrats are the same as Nazis all the way down to eugenics.

The Platner tattoo story isn’t about Platner. It's about the people who spent years calling everyone on the Right a Nazi for the slightest association, only to line up like rank-and-file partisans behind a Democratic Senate candidate who wore a literal SS Totenkopf tattoo for 18 years. It's a story about how years and years of moral indignation from the Very Serious People™ class proved to be a paper-thin veneer over your team jerseys.

@VAUDEVIL666 @neur0maencer @SydSteyerhart The Tsar abolished serfdom in 1861. Prior to World War I, Russia had one of the fastest growing economies in the world. In the decades leading up to the war, steel production for example increased by over 300%.

@neur0maencer @SydSteyerhart "serfdom is fun" Fuck off. If you need communist to raise the literacy rate by 90% then you deserve a commie revolution

One of the great tragedies of history is that 60 million people could have been saved from the Soviet meatgrinder if the Tsar had hardened his heart and rounded up a thousand people before it started. I don't know who the next thousand will be, but I know they're on Bluesky.

@Amy_K_Nelson @JeffBezos Hard to understand how the government can seize your assets without a trial based merely on accusations made by a corporation. That is Kafkaesque.

I can tell you, because @JeffBezos sent the FBI to my door over lies. You have none. We fought and won. Four years of hell. Four million in legal feels. We lost our home, our careers, our future. We had 4 babies. I'm a lawyer. We barely survived.

@johnddavidson The perfume of an empty vase.

What a bleak, morally impoverished world secular liberals live in, reduced to sifting through the rubble of modern tv shows and children’s books to find fragments of the morality that modernity discarded but which they could possess in full through the Christian faith.

@oneillaw @elonmusk In 1972, the Democratic candidate for president campaigned on opposition to the war and “bringing our boys home.” How did that election turn out?

One of the lies supposedly corrected in this book is that "The Vietnam War was unpopular and pointless.” Professor Reilly was born after 1980. I was very much alive and draft eligible while the war was going on. I know from experience that the war was incredibly unpopular and has been proven to be pointless, or worse. So why would I buy this book?

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@comedyschwartz @mazemoore From NPR—“Twitter Permanently Suspends Trump, Citing 'Risk Of Further Incitement Of Violence'

@mazemoore Did they ban him? Is MAGA incapable of creating an argument that isn't a false equivalency or fallacy? Because I'm beginning to think they can't do it.

The Late Night show hosts were so giddy and celebratory after Trump was banned from social media. They absolutely LOVE censorship until someone accusing one of them of crossing the line. Then they become supporters of free speech.

@ThatGuyMarkRyan @Mrgunsngear Polk County Fl. Sheriff Grady Judd when asked why they shot the suspect 68 times—“That’s all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more.”

Interesting. I’m kind of half joking and half being real, but in the past, it seems like New York City cops often mag dump on people and as soon as one starts shooting everyone start shooting. Has something changed in their training or something? Of course, those rounds seemed well placed and highly effective.

Anthony Griffin (44), who the New York Times described as a "popular battle rapper" (seriously, the article is still up...) decided it was a good idea to stab and slash 3 elderly Americans (65, 70, and 84 years old) with a Gerber Gear machete at Grand Central Station in New York City. As officers arrived on scene, the first cop pulls his Gen4 Glock 17 with night sights and tells him to drop the knife. Mr. Griffin isn't deterred by the Glock as he knows, from multiple Hollywood movies and rap songs, that it can't be detected by a metal detector. So, the second officer has to pull his Sig Sauer P226 and performs an impromptu ballistics test on Mr. Griffin's chest cavity with his Speer 124gr +p 9mm bonded hollow points as Mr. Griffin was yelling "I am Lucifer!!!" As it turns out, even Lucifer isn't immune from a couple well placed 9mm bonded JHPs in the torso and died on the scene saving taxpayers millions of dollars. Carry accordingly... #CityLife #NYPD #cops #ballistics #NewYorkCity #decay #FailedState #crime #glock #GerberGear #SigSauer #GoldDot #FAFO #3rdWorld #decline #communism #GrandCentralStation #urban #democrats

If they are so concerned about people killing witches they might want to turn their attention to Africa right now. CBS news report from last year—“Six people accused of witchcraft were killed, burned alive, stoned or beaten by a militia in Burundi.” And the ones doing the killing were not doing it for Christianity. Guess that doesn’t fit the narrative they want so who cares.

Obwohl während der Französischen Revolution in nur drei Jahren mindestens 200.000 unschuldige Menschen brutalst abgeschlachtet wurden (man denke alleine an die Vendée), was ein Mehrfaches der Opfer von zwei Jahrhunderten „Hexenverfolgung“ ausmacht, wird die Französische Revolution bis heute gefeiert. Die Opfer der Französischen Revolution sind genauso vergessen wie die Opfer Stalins oder Maos. Die gegen den Willen Roms durch die Reichsstädte durchgeführten Hexenprozesse hingegen muss sich die Kirche jedoch noch nach einem halben Jahrtausend vorwerfen lassen. Schließlich gibt es „gute“ und „schlechte“ Opfer. Im Rahmen der „Erinnerungskultur“ haben stets diejenigen Pech, die während „humanitärer Weltverbesserungsmaßnahmen“ ums Leben kamen.

@TristinHopper “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” G. K. Chesterton

Living on the West Coast means being surrounded by people who think religion is bullshit, but are convinced that a passing crow is their dead father.

@FDRLST @MZHemingway No amount of contrived statistics can deny the absurdity of claiming political violence is equal on both sides of the spectrum. Real world examples such as this illuminate the disparity.

"There's one way of life for the liberal justices and another for the conservatives," Mollie Hemingway noted. While the liberals could "appear on a Broadway play" or "travel all over the world," the conservatives can't go to dinner with their families "because they might get killed."

@Jimbo12421 @TheStingisBack What a cast. That may be the oddest combination of actors ever assembled in one movie.

@TheStingisBack Very good. Opening credits are possibly the best part of the movie. youtu.be/SSEmKXzpQMQ?si…

Casino Royale (no, not that one—the other one) turns 59 today. Here’s the story of the royal who sparked a full-blown on-set showdown between Peter Sellers and Orson Welles… Written, edited and voiced by yours truly... be gentle.

@peterboghossian Some years ago Tom Wolfe noted—“The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.” Looks like we can now include Canada as well.

This is a political arrest. There are NO MASS GRAVES of indigenous students. Questioning the narrative is heresy. Shut people up by arresting them for trespassing.

@GolfweekNichols Nothing more difficult in life than a parent seeing their child suffering. Thank God, his prayers were answered.

'One more time' HOUSTON – The same day Stacy Lewis had surgery to fuse a metal rod and five screws into her spine, the medical team asked her to get out of the hospital bed and make her way to the bathroom. Lewis didn’t say anything, but she did give them an are-you-crazy kind of look. When she’d shuffled about halfway across the room, her father, Dale, noticed a tear fall down her face, and that was it. He left the room. Out in the hallway, Dale sat down next to a window and sent up a prayer, asking God for two things: 1) that she never have to wear a back brace for the rest of her life and 2) that she play college golf. That second one, he admits, might have been a little greedy. One year later, in September 2004, Lewis teed it up for the University of Arkansas at a tournament in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Dale cried again. “We weren't sure she'd ever do that,” said Dale, walking down 10th hole at Memorial Park on a cloudy Friday afternoon at the Chevron Championship, six weeks removed from knee surgery. “Everything after that's been a bonus.” And what a bonus it has been: 13 LPGA titles, two majors, two Solheim Cup captaincies, an NCAA championship, two LPGA Player of the Year titles, two scoring titles, 25 runner-up finishes and nearly $15 million in career earnings. As Nelly Korda rocketed up the board to a seven-shot lead at the Chevron, Lewis, a woman who helped make much of what Korda and her peers enjoy today possible, closed out her LPGA career at the major that berthed the dream nearly 20 years ago. Now four months pregnant with her second child, 41-year-old Lewis had husband Gerrod Chadwell caddie for her this week, but it was Chadwell who insisted that Dale take the bag for the final walk up the 18th. “One more time,” said a teary-eyed Dale as he put on the bib and headed to the tee. Full story below:

@BobtTaber @elonmusk Brings to mind the old saying—The road to Hell is paved . . . .

@elonmusk The donations show the American Peoples intentions are in the right place, unfortunately it also shows that some of our government employees aren't.

SPLC got better returns than Nancy Pelosi and inverse Cramer combined!

@DrBuzz_Forensic Safe to say given a high-profile murder such as this, the reason it was never solved is because the power brokers who controlled Hollywood didn’t want it solved, for whatever reason.

Silent film star Mary Miles Minter was #BornOnThisDay April 25, 1902. In 1922, involved in a scandal surrounding the murder of film director William Taylor, her career was tarnished, ending in 1923. The murder of Taylor remains unsolved. Minter passed in 1984 (age 82) #RIP #BOTD

@jk_rowling @clharrington024 “Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.” Ernest Hemingway

@clharrington024 That’s such a lovely message and reminds me of the night I went to say goodnight to my nine year old son, who I found with Half Blood Prince face down on his duvet, and who said to me solemnly, ‘why did you kill Dumbledore?’

My 6th grade daughter is reading Harry Potter, she finished the 6th book very late the other night so I was already asleep. I awoke to a post it on the kitchen counter: “Mom, Dumbledore died! I’m so sad. Love, Charlotte” This small note made my heart explode. Reading great books is magical and moving and heartbreaking. Thanks @jk_rowling for writing this world for kids to love and live in. Parents, too many kids today haven’t read all the Harry Potter books. Start reading this series with them. I promise it will be one of your most cherished memories.

Reading X, one comes across numerous touching, fascinating firsthand accounts. But increasingly one suspects they are variants of what S. J. Perlman describes in his story, “The Idol’s Eye.” In it, a man tells that he is startled by a loud unexpected knock on his door. It takes him back to when he was a guest in the Maharaja’s court and had espied a fabulous jewel set in the eye of a statue. At just the right moment he had seized the jewel and fled with the Maharaja and his guards in hot pursuit. As he made his escape, the Maharaja vowed someday he would get revenge. So the knocking on the door? That was the repo man, I had fallen behind on car payments. And the Maharaja’s jewel? Oh that, I just made that up to make the story sound interesting.