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[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

How to know if you’re at the end of the empire.

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

A new survey found that 75% of Americans believe restaurants should offer some form of adults-only dining experience, including child-free sections, late-night restrictions for kids, and quieter environments focused more on the dining experience than family-friendly chaos.

[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

@SamoBurja That is because secularism is a fundamentally Christian state in light of intellectual strength. We created it. No other religion allows for religious freedom in that same way.

[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

@TheSalonDon Children makes costs exponential.

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@Sean_ADFIntl @ryanburge this is worth a whole deep dive.

[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

@AnglicInn Christ the King Episcopal church in FL this morning.

[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

@TheStalwart Try reading "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" by Keynes and you will have the same mindblowing experience.

[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

@WillManidis great engagement bait.

good luck with your dm inbox.

[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

@monkofjustice May God have mercy on your family and you feel His loving embrace.

[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

@IVMiles @aaron_renn I’ve had a very similar experience. Only saving grace is studying a magisterial reformer or protestant from a past life.

[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

DC statehood cannot be granted by ordinary legislation but would require a constitutional amendment.

The Enclave clause gives Congress exclusive jurisdiction over the federal district, by design. The Founders did not want the national capital sitting under the political control of any single state, getting caught up in temporal politics, but rather wanted it to be a sort of eternal city.

The 23rd Amendment was A compromise, granting the district three electoral votes, the same as the smallest state. But again, desiring it to be above state politics and an “eternal” city, those electors are appointed “in such manner as the Congress may direct.” There is no constitutional right for DC residents to choose them by popular vote.

If something like this is done, it would cause mass chaos. BC a future Congress, by concurrent resolution and without a presidential signature, could appoint the three electors directly rather than allow a local election. A Republican Congress could install Republican electors for DC, even over the objections of a Democratic president and an overwhelmingly Democratic DC electorate. Congressional supremacy over the district stays intact, and the 23rd Amendment’s limited representation is honored on its own terms.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

And basically.. none of this it thought through. It’s just raging against the machine. Good luck.

[BeshearStan @BeshearStan]

If Democrats actually want to fight back after the VRA ruling, they should split DC into 8 wards and admit them as states. +16 Senators to codify voting rights reform into the Constitution. No more half-measures.

[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

@timhwang @jpeaterman @jakobdiepen @JoshuaTLevine @JoinFAI @jakobdiepen "this is my God-given duty to solve this problem"

love it

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@DouthatNYT (we could do both)

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@Allesontiire

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@findveritasx You'd have to torture me to admit to this level of being one-shot'd

[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve.

I was made weak, that I might learn humbly how to obey.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Our problems do not disappear in the Lord’s presence; they are illuminated. Just as every cross finds redemption in Jesus, so the story of our lives finds its meaning in the Gospel. #ApostolicJourney #EquatorialGuinea https://t.co/xZkyUdlIr2

[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

Not even one month later and I couldn’t have expected how exponential this would become.

The average man is being told -

- your electricity bill is going up

- your town will be displaced for a data center that employs 5-10 peoples

- your job is going away

- they hate you

[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

People will brush this off because everyone “in the know” is making too much money -

But this sentiment is wide spread.

People think AI will take their livelihood.

They will not go gentle into the night.

Meanwhile, they are having their land bid on 10-25x market.

[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

If you ever hope to meet death gracefully, full of dignity, and with an eye to eternity -

you must know God deeply and personally, just as our friend Ben does.

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

Finally watched this — incredibly powerful interview.

Death is coming for us all, and I can only hope to greet it someday with @BenSasse-level dignity.

[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

@pronounced_kyle @BenSasse The only way to do that is to know God, deeply and personally.

[BlakeSilver @BlakeSilver]

@RadioGenoa Zero chance this cost $32M. Easily a $100M project.