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Looked like a home gameee @CalvinAustinIII

An American is chosen as pope and U.S. Catholics scramble to look up his political affiliation in order to define his faith perspectives. Maybe we should allow our faith to define our political priorities instead. 🤦‍♂️

Even after factoring in the President's personality and tendency to say wild things with zero shame, such outlandish and aggressive claims leave us stunned by their insanity.

The United States shouldn’t outsource basic functions of government.

People think urbanism is about building 100 more Manhattans But it’s really about building 10,000 more Main Streets

Doghoven. It's a masterpiece!

We’d like to thank @CNN for taking the time to broadcast two of the strongest possible arguments in favor of electoral reform and alternative voices in American politics.

The costume though….

I continue to think the greatest risk of A(S|G)I is not that it will actually be achieved, but the dream of it being achieved. Magic isn't real, but the dream of magic is real and leads to real addiction, real exploitation, and violation of the dignity of persons and creation.

I may have done my most @StrongTowns thing ever yesterday. On the final day of a charrette in a long-disinvested place, I put up a couple boards of ideas people could adopt as their own to help make their town stronger & healthier. Let locals live strong and healthy. Pick one:

“Like living with a volcano.” @ThelmaSchoonmak

This is sick. Irremediable? No one is beyond hope. “What does it mean for the role of the physician, as healer, as bringer of hope, to be offering death?” nytimes.com/2023/12/27/wor…

“Who of us would want to celebrate Christmas correctly? Who will finally lay at the manger all power, all honor, all reputation, all vanity, all pride, and all selfishness? Who is content to be lowly and to let God alone be high?” -Bonhoeffer, 1933 Advent sermon

Definitely what Hieronymus Bosch would be doing in the year 2023.

@HistoryMuppet A delightful foreshadowing of Stand by Me youtu.be/zCRUPWDIgYM?si…

@BillAckman @Harvard @MIT @Penn I found this reflection helpful. nytimes.com/2023/12/10/opi…

@BillAckman @Harvard @MIT @Penn This is so astonishingly debased. As another said here, this is sadly a lagging indicator of our collective ethical reasoning as a society.

The presidents of @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism: Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment? The answers they gave reflect the profound moral bankruptcy of Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth. Representative @EliseStefanik was so shocked with the answers that she asked each of them the same question over and over again, and they gave the same answers over and over again. In short, they said: It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews. This could be the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress, certainly on the topic of genocide, which to remind us all is: “the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group” The presidents’ answers reflect the profound educational, moral and ethical failures that pervade certain of our elite educational institutions due in large part to their failed leadership. Don’t take my word for it. You must watch the following three minutes. By the end, you will be where I am. They must all resign in disgrace. If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour. Why has antisemitism exploded on campus and around the world? Because of leaders like Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth who believe genocide depends on the context. To think that these are the leaders of Ivy League institutions that are charged with the responsibility to educate our best and brightest. On the bright side, our congressional leaders deserve accolades for showing tremendous leadership and moral clarity in their statements, by the questions they asked, and the respectfulness with which they conducted the hearing. It was a masterclass of how our government and democracy should operate. If you have time, please watch the entire hearing. Throughout the hearing, the three behaved like hostile witnesses, exhibiting a profound disdain for the Congress with their smiles and smirks, and their outright refusal to answer basic questions with a yes or no answer.

@zillowgonewild Is this where my Aldi dollars are going?

On todays episode of You Never Know What’s Going On Inside a Home, Part 44: Batavia Edition Currently listed for $3,500,000

In 1960, the median home price was $11,600. The median income was $5600. That’s a home price to income ratio of 2:1 In 2023, the median home costs around $416,000. The median household income is $75,000. That’s a a home price to income ratio of 5.5:1 This is unsustainable.