Vespers

Rachmaninoff for a cold winter's night by the fire. The Russians understood that beauty and grief were never opposites.

@Geiger_Capital Rents fall. Wages rise. Schools breathe. ERs empty. Crime drops. Etc. The young find out what their country was supposed to feel like before the donor class sold it.

Imagine what mass deportations would do to rents and public services. GenZ and Millennials would realize that they’ve been competing with an entire foreign class for their own country.

The Odyssey we’ll never get is the one Tarkovsky would have made. Three and a half hours, no score, Odysseus weeping on a beach while the camera holds. Imagine what he’d have done with the wine-dark sea.

@EndWokeness The View has been doing this bit for 28 years. Five women, zero books btw them, one hour of confident wrongness a day.

Hostin: "If you think Helen of Troy cannot be black, you don't know history" She says Greek culture is from Africans

@CynicalPublius When the enemy press starts praising a man on your side, the man stopped being on your side somewhere back down the road.

A "Republican" being lauded by the New York Times is like a Jew being lauded by Stormfront. It tells you that the lauded person is unfaithful to the allegiance he claims.

The “Columbo villain” move every single day from the left. Build a strawman, oppose it righteously, keep the conversation on tone and hope nobody asks about receipts. Columbo villains did it for 10 seasons. Cultured villain builds a story about who the killer must have been, nudges the detective toward it, hopes he never asks about the cigar ash. He always asked about the cigar ash. Once you see it you can’t unsee it. Yglesias does it using 1000 words, Alice everyday, Bob does it here, and on and on and on.

This is easy when you dispense with the facile strawmen. The median lib is increasingly detached from reality and in thrall to the Omnicause hysteria du jour whether it’s ‘Russia collusion, ‘George Floyd,’ ‘the Gaza genocide,’ or ‘Trump is Hitler.’ Especially ironic that this guy is an ‘urbanist’ who lives in Minneapolis which has undergone a precipitous decline in quality of life and social order as it simultaneously developed into the Midwest epicenter for progressive technocratic lunacy, becoming ground zero for libtards engaging in deadly skirmishes with ICE, George Floyd festivities that burnt entire city blocks down (open your windows and smell), and international scammers rushing in to loot its Scandinavian-style welfare system.

@DavidBobJoeseph @C_3C_3 agree

@doji_up @C_3C_3 I doubt he read them all.

Ah yes… It all makes sense. This is raging leftist feminist Emily Wilson She “translated” Homer’s masterpiece which Christopher Nolan supposedly used in his adaptation of the Odyssey. Every single time.

@EndWokeness $2,000,000,000 a year, one party in power since 1967 and half the kids miss one third of school.🤣

@bonchieredstate Section 2(b). Last sentence. Congress wrote it in 1982 specifically to prevent the reading the original poster just gave.

Can you point me to the part of the VRA that says that? Because Section 2 doesn’t. A specific citation please.

@creation247 Never Look Away (2018)

Can you name ONE good movie made after 2013? (i bet you can't)

@FischerKing64 They are the worst. Wolfe diagnosed this species in 1970 and we are dealing with their kids/grandkids. Obama was their Roquefort moment.

White liberals are the worst demographic. They are mostly 105-15 IQ, ‘educated’ just enough to be dangerous (not realizing how little they know), they are ferociously hostile to other whites who challenge their views - impervious to reason. Still proud to be Obama voters.

@RepRoKhanna Translation: rig the map or we rig the bench. There is no third door.

The Supreme Court has engaged in an ugly recidivism that has marked the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Reconstruction. 18 year terms limits on Justices now. Expand the court from 9 to 13 Justices now.

Here I am, reading Homer’s Odyssey directly from the Greek text and thinking about how much Christopher Nolan disrespected us. Don’t pay for the movie. Resist this slowly dying agenda that is rotting our societies. Hollywood is dead.

He’s got me . Who you got?

@matthewschmitz @firstthingsmag Four raw numbers and zero denominators? Raw numbers w/o %'s and vice versa is just propaganda. The rate is what tells you whether the thing is collapsing relative to its baseline or just shrinking alongside everything else. To be clear, doesn't mean you are wrong.

Catholicism is in steep institutional decline. It also seems to have increasing public salience. I try to make sense of this dynamic in @firstthingsmag firstthings.com/our-strange-ca…

@TomPilcher6 @WesternLensman the voters pay, always have

@doji_up @WesternLensman Yes...but without consequences, who really pays?

Hakeem Jeffries, still stinging from the humiliating rebuke in Virginia, rails against the VA Supreme Court: "Republicans have concluded that they need to cheat to win." "The notion that four unelected judges would overturn the votes of more than 3 million citizens in Virginia. Is this what Republicans are celebrating right now?" A legal decision he doesn’t like is now “cheating to win." Stay mad.

@jonfavs The real stunt was being in Ghana while the city burned. What are the odds of that? Some might say the alibi is the evidence. 🤔

Right, because he's filthy rich and the trailer was a media stunt, much like his entire campaign.

Smart, the expected value (EV) calc for sitting next to a stranger on public transit is: probability of harm × severity of harm, minus any minor convenience of sitting. For young women, the downside can be catastrophic and irreversible, while the upside is negligible. Standing costs little. Avoiding a potential negative EV spot is just smart Bayesian updating. Well done.

Iryna Zarutska. These girls just want to survive.

@SNR_ALEXANDER @FoxNews

@FoxNews Conversations like this are difficult because people are trying to protect both equal participation and fair competition at the same time.

"It’s just really disappointing to go into a competition knowing you already lost." California high school athlete Reese Hogan says she’s spent three straight years competing against a transgender athlete, and it’s cost her track and field titles she's spent a lifetime chasing. Now heading into another state final, she and teammate Olivia Viola are speaking out, saying too many adults stay silent while the debate over fairness in girls’ sports intensifies. The moment is reigniting a larger fight in California, where state law allows athletes to compete based on gender identity — and where a growing Title IX clash is now pulling in national attention, despite Governor Newsom's office pushing back.