This happened to me five years ago while I was serving as a missionary in New Orleans. I got a flat tire and pulled over to the sidewalk to fix it. All of a sudden, I was confronted with an angry rant about race and religion. I know that lots of people are using this post as a way to bring out their own feelings of anger and contempt, but I hope people can find patience and avoid spreading more hate. I feel for all of those who have been victims of racial and religious hatred, no matter where it comes from. It is my prayer that we can all seek Christ’s grace and feel God’s love for each and everyone of us.

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Karl Popper, this one is absolute gold

Keir Starmer: “there is no such thing as two-tier policing”. Police chiefs today: “we will review controversial guidance advising officers to treat ethnic minorities differently”. The absurdity of modern Britain.

🇬🇧 There is a village in Orkney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It is OLDER than the PYRAMIDS. Its stone furniture is still standing. A storm gave it back to us in 1850. Its name is Skara Brae. It sits on a curve of beach on Orkney. And it was built 5,000 years ago. By a people who farmed barley, kept cattle, and worked stone with the patience of a craftsman. They had no metal. And yet they built homes that have outlasted every empire since. 🏛️ Each home was made of stone. A hearth at the centre. A bed of stone slabs along each wall. A stone dresser facing the door. A drainage system carrying waste away from the walls. What we would now call indoor plumbing. 5,000 years before it appeared in any English home. Eight homes. Linked by stone passages. They lived there for 600 years. Their children played at the doors. Their dressers carried the best of what they made. The Grooved Ware they fired here would later be found from Orkney to the south coast. Five centuries of one settled people. Then the Earth changed. 🌍 The sand began to drift across the homes. A mother carried her child away from the only home she had known. The dunes closed over the village. In 1850, a storm hit Orkney. The wind stripped the sand from the dunes. And one of the homes appeared again. A village 5,000 years old, sitting in the open as if it had never left. The people of Skara Brae did not vanish. They became Britons. Their descendants became the British. And we are still building our homes around the hearth. Still arranging our shelves to face the door. Still carrying waste away from the walls. 5,000 years on, we are still living the same way they did. 🇬🇧 Civilisation did not come to Britain. Britons were already building it. And building it well. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This village was buried for 4,000 years. We nearly lost their own story. Help us put British history where it cannot be lost again. 👇🙏 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

The amount of alfalfa grown in the American west is a representation of how little we value water.

Nearly $27,000 a year for family health insurance premiums, up from $6,000 in 1999. And that’s before deductibles, copays, and surprise bills. The system is fundamentally broken.

Why did SGA think it was about him?

I was informed the bar was never lowered. Bring metrics back. Bring merit back.

Let's understand a few things about what's actually about to happen here if Zohran gets his way -- which he almost certainly will, unless courts intervene. First and foremost, Cea Weaver and DSA 'organizers' will be unleashed with the full institutional and legal support of the city government to ramp up tenant complaints in targeted buildings. No complaint will be too small. No building will be too small. Everything will be treated as catastrophic. Full-scale demagoguery will ensue, complete with protests, rent strikes, street theater, and harassment of property owners. Accordingly, the city buildings department will be weaponized to begin writing as many violations as possible in order to bolster the city's effort to justify a seizure. It won't matter how small or large the violations are, the total number will be breathlessly cited as evidence of mismanagement. It will be impossible for landlords to clear these violations in good faith. The combination of a weaponized buildings department writing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, rent strikes, and constant threats and harassment against landlords by militant activists will make the situation untenable for any property owner to realistically fight back, and the city will seize the property. The landlord will be lucky to walk away without prison or being beaten to death in the street by an angry mob (as Zohran's buddy Hasan Piker referred to landlords -- 'let the streets run red with their capitalist blood'). But that's only the first half of the plan, and everyone needs to pay very close attention to the big picture here, because it's hugely important and has national implications. The properties will then be turned over to nonprofits. This is no small detail. This is in fact the whole point. The idea here is to build up Zohran's DSA-connected nonprofits with a multbillion-dollar portfolio of hard assets -- New York City real estate. This portfolio could theoretically reach into the hundreds of billions or even the trillions, depending on how aggressive they get. Now these highly political nonprofits would become the new land barons of New York, complete with all the political clout, leverage, and reach that goes along with it. It would be a true nightmare scenario. As it stands now, the nonprofits depend mostly on the largesse of grants, donations, and other third-party resources to stay afloat. They are lavishly funded of course, and many do hold significant assets, but it would all pale in comparison to simply handing them the keys to a New York City real estate empire, courtesy of Zohran Mamdani and the DSA. The resources at their disposal would be immense. The organizing potential that goes along with those resources will have national implications. Every DSA candidate in every town and city in the country would be trained, funded, and staffed by organizers with ties to the NYC nonprofit empire backed by a trillion dollars in free real estate. And they would be shameless in leveraging those resources for pure political power. That's the game plan here. That's the whole ball of wax. Zohran isn't interested in making housing better for anyone. If he was, we'd be talking seriously about solving the NYCHA disaster. Hell, if he was even remotely sincere about seizing these properties from 'bad landlords' for the 'public good' he'd be focused on turning them over to the city itself, as misguided as that would be. No, this is about nothing more than consolidating political power for the DSA. Just like everything else these people do. Giving the DSA a massive war chest backed by seized real estate. Once you understand that they have no interest in fixing anything other than elections, it all makes a lot more sense.

University of California STEM professors want standardized tests back due to severe math deficiencies among students: “We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle school mathematics” “The current admissions metric, based primarily on GPA & essays, can no longer reliably distinguish readiness for university-level STEM majors in an era of severe grade inflation & AI assisted application essays”

🚨 California just voted to pass AB 2624 aka “The Stop Nick Shirley Act”: This bill puts journalists at civil risk for investigating fraud and makes it harder to expose fraud in “immigration support services,” including NGOs, nonprofits and health care facilities that receive hundreds of millions from the state of California each year. This bill would have made it criminal to expose fake hospices in LA or the Somali “learing center” in Minnesota if they then claim “reasonable fear” and the business owner gives a written demand not to post the video. Plain and simple, California is trying to make it harder to expose fraud and scare individuals from investigating fraud in their communities, as they could be sued for an injunction to remove the video forced to pay their attorney fees minimum $4,000 in damages. The Attorney General's wife, Mia Bonta, created this bill and is now trying to make it law. How is this not a conflict of interest? California is full of FRAUDSTERS!

🚨 BREAKING: New report by UN Watch reveals UN “experts” accepted millions of dollars from China, Russia, and Qatar before attacking the U.S., Israel, and the West. 🧵 See the report’s most striking findings:

If you see wild turkeys in your neighborhood, you're seeing one of the biggest conservation wins in American history. They were down to just 30,000 birds in the 1930s. There are now over 6 million across the US. They're excellent natural pest control, eating beetles, snails, mice, and even ticks. A wild turkey in your yard isn't a pest, but a native species that almost disappeared and came back because hunters, biologists, and state wildlife agencies spent 50 years bringing it back.

We don’t know them all but we owe them all.

Math.

The only instance "let's not try to boil the ocean" is appropriate.