Violette Jane

“Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning and works to no end.” — H. G. Wells

[ThinkingJack @ThinkingJack67]

‘60s facade was modern, forward looking. For the owner, low maintenance.

The old building had porous Indiana limestone that wears quicky and is horrible to maintain. I know this as I‘m from the area and also studied architectural history at Harvard w/Neil Levine.

This is not necessarily a step forward. It’s erased a modern era adaptation and saddled the owner with greater cost. Some may be happy, others not so much. It’s not a clear victory.

I also spent quite a few years working in One World Trade in NYC. A lot of us would love to have that building back. Modernism is not evil. It reflects time, it holds history, and mediates memory. These are as important as dirty stone and ancient tintypes. Even more so.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

@elonmusk Talarico is the opposite of what a real Texan is.

[Senator Rob McColley @Rob_McColley]

Amy Acton is LYING!!! An expired license is not the same as a suspended license. Only the BMV or a court can suspend a license. She was charged with a 1st Degree Misdemeanor punishable by jail time and she doesn’t remember why?!

@joingles @jbalmert @jpelzer @AndrewJTobias @MorganTrau @AnnaStaver @SarahEDon @DougPetcash @karenkasler @danielgeldredge

[Catholic Answers @catholiccom]

All the times Bl. Fulton Sheen predicted the future of America👇

“There is a dominant minority that makes a lot of noise and that uses violence to enforce its will upon others…They only know what they’re against. They do not know what they are for.”

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Man shares a photo of him and his daughter and a photo of him with his granddaughter.

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

A gorgeous Short Eared Owl looking for a tasty vole from a post! 😍🐦🦉

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

This Photographer Waited 8 Hours for the Perfect Shot of a Rare Bald Eagle

Credit: Terry Nunn

[Violette Jane @VioletteJane9]

DOJ Tracking Possible Racial Motive in Brutal Mob Attack on White York College Students https://t.co/boPwe5yuke

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! Charlie Kirk saw Islamism coming and he NAILED IT:

"This parasitic ideology is about conquering without ever firing a shot."

"If our biggest city is about to fall to an Islamic mayor, 24 years after 9/11? We should ask why we sent all of these hundreds of thousands to fight in IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN, just to have THAT ideology come to NYC?!"

He's spot-on: By electing Ugandan Mayor Mamdani, NYC proved they FORGOT

Did you know that roughly a THIRD of NYC's voters are not even from America?

And it turns out, Mamdani is most popular with foreign voters...🤯

Inviting the 3rd world makes you become the 3rd world. Charlie knew. Islamism is not compatible with America and we need to STOP pretending that it is! 🇺🇸

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

It has been 50 years since this photo was taken. Palestinian terrorists invaded the Lebanese Christian town of Damour and massacred 582 Christian civilians.

It was an apocalypse, recounted a priest who survived the massacre.

“They were coming in thousands, screaming ‘Allahu Akbar! Let us attack them for the Arabs, let us offer a holocaust to Muhammad.’

They were slaughtering everyone, men, women, and children.”

Men were lined up against the walls of their homes and gunned down.

Women were tortured and gang-raped.

Babies were shot in the back of their heads.

Pregnant women had their babies cut out of their wombs.

Just one of the many massacres committed against Christians by Palestinians. This is how Muslims became the majority in Lebanon. Learn from history.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Good stuff right here!!

I hope this Biker group increases 100 fold and goes to other cities overrun with Mosques and Muslims.

[Brian Bullock | Everyone Knows @EveryoneKnws1]

"THE LAST PRIME MINISTER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM"

That is what John Swinney says Andy Burnham will be remembered as. Tomorrow in Cardiff, the leaders of the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Féin sign a joint agreement pushing for independence referendums in all three nations.

Burnham told the Commons on Wednesday that a Scottish vote could happen with clear public support. A letter to Swinney days later said it was off the table.

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

I see this quote from Napoleon on Jesus all over IG, YouTube, etc now

I hope it reaches many more

[Jack @jackunheard]

This photo is LOUD

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Fulton Sheen explained that since God is the source of our rights, the communist must wage war against God in order to deny the true source of our rights

[Handre @Handre]

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.

No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.

Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.

What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.

The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

[Violette Jane @VioletteJane9]

Parental Estrangement https://t.co/HSpjUqQ5XM

[Dallas Texas TV @DallasTexasTV]

108 degrees in North Texas today 🥵

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

Quote of the Day!

From Argentinian President Javier Milei:

“I thought being on the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refused to accept it. But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law. They are very violent, and since they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.”