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Catholic, Husband, Father and Friend, John 16:33

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

Karl Marx & Frederick Douglass were both born in 1818. Marx grew up in comfort, Douglass in chains. Marx thought the world owed him more comfort; Douglass only demanded liberty, & he'd do the rest.

[Darbi Boddy @DarbiBoddy]

If you want vaccine mandates, vote for Amy.

If you want boys in girls sports and bathrooms, vote for Amy.

If you want to become a socialist state, vote for Amy.

If you want to become the next New York, vote for Amy.

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[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Mao killed more people than Hitler. If Hasan Piker had dressed like a Nazi, we'd have an appropriate outrage. But because commies have infiltrated all our institutions & lied about how evil they are, we don't get the National Socialists were no worse than all other socialists.

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

Each generation is saved by a handful of men and women who have the courage to be out of date.

—G.K. Chesterton

[Brandon Fuller @fuller_brandon]

Penn State has 42,000 undergrads. Exactly 10 graduated in women's, gender & sexuality studies (WGSS) in 2023–24. The department lists 28 professors.

The "studies" department racket is real: every department combined—area, cultural, gender, black, Asian, Native American, Hispanic, ethnic—accounts for just 0.3% of all four-year graduates in the United States.

How do departments with 10 majors justify 28 faculty? As @firstthingsmag's @mark_bauerlein points out in @WSJopinion, they do so by colonizing general education. If "Introduction to Queer Theory," "Fashion, Gender, and Identity," and a bevy of other WGSS courses didn't check the gen-ed box, enrollments would vanish. And so would the faculty lines in the department.

Public universities are public institutions, answerable to public oversight. Legislatures and trustees should do more to exercise it: reset gen-ed policy by streamlining it back to essentials.

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[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I’ve just finished reading Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy.

It ranks, along with Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything and Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories, as the best take-down of the lunacy at the heart of the wokeist philosophy.

For Saad, empathy—in itself a perfectly decent trait—has become so grossly exaggerated that it threatens truth, reality, and justice.

Cases in point abound: so they won’t feel bad about themselves, we’ll allow biological men to compete in women’s sports and crush the dreams of thousands of young women; so as not to undermine the self-esteem of minorities, we will permit unqualified candidates to have positions in universities and the corporate world; so that everyone might feel included, we will characterize the meritocracy as “white privilege,” etc.

As I was making my way through Saad’s book, I kept remarking the sharp distinction between empathy and love.

To empathize is to enter profoundly into the experience of another and to endeavor not to hurt that person’s feelings. But to love is, as Thomas Aquinas taught, “to will the good of the other.”

As I said, in itself and all things being equal, empathy is a good thing. But it is not the same as love, which, depending on circumstances, can very much involve hurting someone’s feelings.

When a professor gives a student a “C” as an honest reflection of his work, he might well be insulting him, but he’s also telling him the truth and perhaps even urging him to try harder.

When, in the Confessional, a priest tells a murderer to turn himself in to the police, he’s undoubtedly making that person’s life more uncomfortable, but he’s also willing the man’s good.

Any decent parent knows that showing real love for her children means engendering all kinds of bad feelings in them.

In light of this distinction, we can understand why Jesus didn’t say, “have empathy for one another,” but rather “love one another.” And why St. John the Evangelist didn’t say, “God is empathy,” but rather “God is love.”

It occurred to me as I was reading Saad’s book that one reason Wokeism has seized the consciousness of so many in the West is that Christianity has faded as a cultural force and Christians themselves have forgotten what stands at the heart of their faith.

[Stacy is Right @PoliticalStacy]

Happy anniversary and congratulations to Cuba on 60 years of rent control.

[Memento Mori @TempusFugit4016]

"If you commit a sin and take pleasure in it, the pleasure passes but the sin remains. But if you do something virtuous even though you are tired, the tiredness passes but the virtue remains." - St. Camillus de Lellis

[Hayley Caronia @hayleycaronia]

What if I gave birth at an Olive Garden location? Is my baby entitled to a never-ending pasta pass?

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

David, the size of the staff isn’t what matters. It’s action. Joe Biden‘s much larger government did not patch the machines nor did they inform the American people about the 220 million voter files even as Joe Biden decried the breach of Great Britain s voter files. Can you explain that to me?

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

If you find yourself defending a child molester, saying: “WE can’t be judged by OUR worst day”, you probably need to have your hard drives checked. https://t.co/JYvSApplIU

[John Daniel Davidson @johnddavidson]

Trump’s speech reveals a level of deep state corruption arguably worse than the Russia collusion hoax.

It seems vast swaths of the intelligence community (including the CIA) were actively waging an insurrection against the first Trump admin throughout his term, prior to and during the 2020 election cycle.

The only way to prevent this from happening again is for people to go to prison. Without accountability, it WILL happen again.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

CNN aired Biden's full 2022 address where he declared his opposition a "threat to our very democracy"

But they're refusing to air Trump

[Daniel Turner @DanielTurnerPTF]

The 2023 Canadian wildfires emitted roughly 647 million metric tons of carbon.

That was more than the annual emissions of every country except three.

When are environmentalists going to call out Canada for repeatedly failing to properly manage its forests?

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Your median professor sits so far left that AOC, Sanders, and Warren would count as moderates in any faculty lounge.

Faculty from 55 elite universities form one towering blue spike of ideology far out on the left, density exploding past 6, with virtually nothing on the conservative side.

This was built through decades of selective hiring, social enforcement, and the systematic purge of dissent.

And because they credential the people who run media, law, government, and tech, the monoculture leaks into every elite institution downstream.

[WosuBosu @MWOSU1]

@Yeenie_Mcbeenie I recommend you read the book Dominion by historian Tom Holland. He is not a professing Christian.

[Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy]

Tobias "Toby" Forsythe was just 21, a star goalie for the UMass Lowell soccer team with his whole life ahead of him. On Sunday, his life was stolen.

A massive semi-truck driven by Bekhzod Asrarov rammed the back of Toby’s car on I-71 in Madison County, Ohio, killing him instantly.

At the crash scene, the truck driver ripped out his dash cam and hid it in his pocket. He failed his English language proficiency test and state troopers had to use Google Translate to talk to him.

We cannot let truckers like Asrarov, who can't read our road signs or speak to law enforcement, drive 80,000-pound rigs on America’s highways.

I am praying for Toby's family and loved ones after this horrible loss. We will never stop fighting to keep these dangerous truck drivers OFF THE ROAD so no other parents have to endure this unimaginable grief.

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Graham Platner is one of the most ridiculous figures to arise in American politics in years. He is bright red like a strawberry with a ridiculous walrus mustache. He has a giant Nazi death’s head tattooed on his chest. He posted on Reddit claiming to have engaged in sex tourism and masturbated in portable toilets. He has multiple accusations of serious sexual misconduct and violence.

There are no memes about this man. There are no late night talk show hosts making jokes at his expense. Nobody portrays him on SNL.

Consider the way this utterly ridiculous Democratic figure has been treated by the comedy world compared to Republican figures like Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and JD Vance.

This is not harmless and this is not meaningless. Democrats have successfully incepted the idea into voters’ heads that Republicans are absurd, clownish and unqualified and the one-sided mockery in entertainment media has helped to spread this lie when the Democrats are actually a collection of hideous weirdos and circus freaks that media has somehow convinced you are normal.

We have to do a better job of making fun of them.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

I guess I was willing to give him a mulligan on the communism and the Nazi death camp guard tattoo. But I'm telling you, if another half a dozen rape victims come forward I'm seriously considering cutting back on my campaign donations