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[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Earth is still bound to the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, and our planet's average global temperature still hovers around a very livable 15°C.

This is far below the world's long-term planetary average of 18°C to 24°C - seen throughout most of Earth's biological history. It makes the idea of a global warming crisis seem out of sync with reality.

Despite four decades of continuous climate alarmism, roughly 10% of the Earth's total land area remains permanently capped by glacial ice, which covers 15 million square kilometers (5.8 million square miles).

That is nearly a third of its extent during the peak of the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years ago), when continental ice sheets reached their historical zenith.

The Antarctic ice sheet remains the largest and thickest body of ice on the planet, extending up to 4.8 kilometers (about 3 miles) deep. It holds roughly 90% of global ice volume and accounts for 85% of total glacial land cover. Spanning 14 million square kilometers (5.4 million square miles), Antarctica alone makes up 8.3% of Earth's total land surface.

A basic geographical reality is often forgotten: land comprises a mere 28% of the planet's surface. All human cities, towns, and infrastructure combined occupy just 1% to 3% of that land (while deserts take up 33% and forests 31%).

We live on an ocean world, and waters cover 72% of the globe to an average depth of 2.3 miles.

Crucially, the oceans hold 86% of the global carbon reservoir and absorb over 90% of retained thermal energy. By contrast, the atmosphere holds a fraction of a percent of each. The oceans—not human industrial activity—serve as the true long-term regulatory engine for atmospheric carbon dioxide and global climate stability.

The current Quaternary Glaciation is part of an ice age cycle that began 34 million years ago with the thermal isolation and glaciation of Antarctica, later intensified by the closure of the Isthmus of Panama and orbital variations (Milankovitch cycles).

Carbon dioxide was not the driver of these immense shifts.

All of human civilisation, agriculture and technological progress has unfolded within a brief, warm respite: the Holocene interglacial period, which began just 11,700 years ago.

Yet for 40 years, the narrative has been dominated by a campaign driven by an unaccountable bureaucratic authority—the United Nations—pushing an agenda of global control.

The promised catastrophe of runaway, unprecedented warming never arrived.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

Jesus isn’t a Muslim because He participated in the last supper.

It’s symbolic of Passover.

The Quran removes Passover due to rabbinical Jewish influence. They had a 500+ year problem with the Passover Lamb.

Debate closed.

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

The group of slow-witted, brainwashed, trust-fund student activists who, via the DSA, have taken control of New York City are—perhaps without even understanding it—speed-running Stalinism. In just the last 24 hours, they have:

1. Set up centrally planned grocery stores.

2. Released a list of all the kulaks.

3. Locked Jews out of a professional body.

It’s going to end in tears—for New York, for Mamdani, for the DSA, and for the Democratic Party. But for the United States and the West, it is good news. Each generation needs to see Marxism fail with its own eyes. Let it run its course in New York City and serve as a kind of “inoculation” for everyone else.

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

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[Willis Eschenbach @WEschenbach]

Imagine you’re running a corner store where the profit on a gallon of milk is about the same as the coins you find under the couch cushions. Then the Mayor shows up and announces that his shiny new city‑run groceries will sell that same milk, eggs, meat, and produce for 30% less than “typical retail prices” every month, no exception

Right. And gravity sometimes takes the day off.

Grocery retail is a razor‑thin margin business. Industry numbers put net margins around 1–3%, and even bodegas often price staples just above wholesale once you factor in rent, taxes, and utilities. If you knock 30% off the retail price of those same staples, you’re not trimming fat, you’re cutting into bone.

Unless Mamdani has discovered a wholesaler who cheerfully sells below cost, his “core basket” is, by definition, a loss leader that bleeds red ink every time someone buys it.

You don’t have to trust my intuition. One analysis of the East Harlem flagship estimates at least $300,000 a year in operating losses even with free rent. City officials politely concede that an “operating subsidy” will be provided to support the discounts. That’s a genteel way of saying taxpayers will make up the difference between grocery arithmetic and political promises—forever.

Of course, they say "But we can be cheaper because we can buy in bulk" … protip. In the supermarket business, buying for one store is not buying "in bulk". Costco is buying in bulk.

And then we get the clever bit of stagecraft: “the city won’t operate the stores.” The city will merely spend tens of millions to build them, own the sites, waive rent and property taxes, and define the mandated discount basket.

A private operator, chosen by an RFP, will run the place—for a fee, under price controls, with higher labor standards, in a low‑margin sector. That’s not a business opportunity. It’s a management contract with a headache attached.

What "private operator" on earth would want to run that business?

When electricity, wages, or wholesale food prices go up—as they do—the operator has no real cushion. Either the city quietly ratchets up the subsidy, the discount quietly erodes, or the operator quietly walks. We’ve seen this movie before in other municipal grocery experiments; the ending isn’t pretty.

Meanwhile, bodegas and small grocers are told this will “not compete” with them, even as the city builds a tax‑exempt supermarket down the street that undercuts their staples.

Owners point out, quite reasonably, that they’re paying full freight on rent and taxes while the city plays both landlord and subsidized rival. In a dense city, a 30% discount on the basics isn’t background noise—it’s a magnet that pulls volume away from the stores that actually weathered crises and stayed open when things went sideways.

Worst of all, the subsidy is universal. The 30% discount applies to everyone who walks through the door, whether they’re scraping by or comfortably affluent. So instead of targeted help to the poorest households, you get a regressive scheme where taxpayers bankroll cheaper groceries for everyone—including the well‑off—while simultaneously squeezing the very small shops that have been feeding working‑class neighborhoods for decades.

If you set out to design a system that looks wonderful in a press conference, produces heart‑warming sound bites about “stability in the grocery aisle”, and quietly and permanently drains public coffers while undermining bodegas, you’d end up very close to Mamdani’s plan.

I've run several businesses, both my own and those of others. It's clear that Mamdani has done neither one.

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[1cst1tsc @1cst1tsc]

The religion John 6:66 spawned.

[C. Wilson 🇻🇦 @TomorrowsWar]

So, it's not faith alone?

[1cst1tsc @1cst1tsc]

@Mattman34 That’s why God made grafting.

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

Don’t be surprised that Mamdani—a man for whom a Judenrein Middle East is his political lodestar—also wants a Judenrein NYC. About 45% of NYC lawyers are Jewish. The odds of selecting 18 NYC lawyers at random and ending up with a panel containing no Jews are 0.55 to the 18th power—or roughly one chance in 47,149.

And it’s not about “Zionism.” There are plenty of anti-Zionist Jewish lawyers he could have picked, including thousands who, to their shame, voted for him. It’s about Jews. He hates Jews. It's not complex.

[1cst1tsc @1cst1tsc]

@bennyjohnson Then do without your taxpayer paid vacation.

[1cst1tsc @1cst1tsc]

@mattvanswol The chaos associated with public education will vanish and all your lives are going to blossom. You’ll find groups of like minded people who can fill educational gaps you are not comfortable to teach. For high school, look to your local community college for even more expansion.

[1cst1tsc @1cst1tsc]

@DavidJUrban @atensnut I’m sure there’s taxpayer funded NGO’s that can cover it. Not a problem.

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

Feel free to reject Evangelicals’ unbiblical nonsense—which is what “faith ALONE” will ALWAYS be as long as the verse “faith without works is dead” remains in the Bible. Evangelical Protestantism is NOT “the Gospel”.

[1cst1tsc @1cst1tsc]

@NickJFreitas That’s the plan. Communists create urban food deserts and blame capitalism. Their diabolical policies then create the need for their services. Sadly, all their policies lead to destruction, every single one. And it’s destruction they use to create the hate to gain the power.

[1cst1tsc @1cst1tsc]

@derekahunter Conquest by design.

[Ojike Uzoma @Xtopher_Uzo]

Asking a Catholic to prove the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary using only the Bible is like a pagan asking a Christian to prove that Jesus Christ is the Son of God without using the Bible.... Stay with me....

The reason is because, if a pagan rejects the Bible, then the very source you would normally use has already been dismissed. So what do you do? You turn to historical evidence, archaeology, eyewitness testimony, and the continuity of Christian tradition.

You start pointing to Jerusalem, to Bethlehem, to Golgotha, to Gethsemane. You point to the empty tomb. You point to archaeological discoveries, (crown of thorns, etc) and the testimony of the early Christians.

Were you there when Christ was crucified? No.

Does the existence of these places prove beyond all doubt that Jesus died there? No.

But they bring you much closer to the truth. They serve as historical evidence that supports what Christians have always believed.

Now let's apply the same logic to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Bible does not explicitly say, in black and white, "Mary was assumed into heaven." We Catholics admit that. The Assumption simply means that, at the end of her earthly life, God took Mary body and soul into heaven, not by her own power, but by the power of God.

So what evidence do we have here?

Tradition associates two ancient tombs with the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yet neither contains her bodily remains. We all know that early Christians treasured the relics of the saints. They preserved the bones of the Apostles, the martyrs, and countless holy men and women. If the body of the Mother of God had remained on earth, Christians would have venerated her relics above almost every other relic.

But there are no bodily relics of Mary anywhere.

That does not prove the Assumption with mathematical certainty, but it is powerful historical evidence that we can never ignore. If Mary's body had remained on earth, where are her relics? Why did the early Church never claim to possess them? Why is there no tradition of Mary's bodily relics being venerated, when relics were so important to the earliest Christians?

The absence of her relics doesn't prove the Assumption by itself, but it strongly supports what the Catholic Church has always believed: that at the end of her earthly life, God did not leave her body in the grave.

So if you reject the Assumption simply because the Bible doesn't state it word for word, then, by the same standard, you would also struggle to prove many historical events about Jesus to someone who rejects the Bible.

Sometimes, history, archaeology, and the constant witness of the early Church provide evidence that brings us closer to the truth. Think about it.

[1cst1tsc @1cst1tsc]

@EricLDaugh @JayVTheGreat “Animal Farm” just around the corner. We’ll all be working for the hogs and the windmill.

[1cst1tsc @1cst1tsc]

@Xtopher_Uzo 😂😂😂 yes! As a convert, I had to go back to the beginning. Always wondered how the Holy Spirit could have been so wrong as these jokers throughout history flapped their gums. It all seems so simple because it is.

[1cst1tsc @1cst1tsc]

@Di_bear @judeokeyvlogs Exactly. Sometimes we get so lost in the minutiae and forget the most sacred detail of all…the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ in Holy Communion being given to us to consume.

[1cst1tsc @1cst1tsc]

@phil_mcalister @derekahunter But we’re dealing with the stupidest people in the room. The destruction will be enormous. But no doubt that is part of the plan. Attack the food supply, create massive shortages, blame capitalism and the stupid will feed on it.

[1cst1tsc @1cst1tsc]

@Redhead4645 @kellytx2 @SenTedCruz @marklevinshow @FoxNews If I recall, he’s pretty fond of his paid vacations.