Alec Brown, MPA

[Søren Kierkegaard Club @Kierkegaarddd]

“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”

[Christina Buttons @buttonslives]

I keep hearing about young women who reinterpret past sexual experiences as nonconsensual. I think they’re treating the discomfort they feel about the experience as evidence something was done wrong to them.

Something was done wrong to you, by you. That feeling is called regret.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

How Tyler Loop’s game-winning field goal sounded in Portuguese:

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

This is one of the best send-offs ever

When his daughter comes running I lost it.

[Detroit Tigers @tigers]

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

[Senator Jim Banks @SenatorBanks]

A few things here...

1. Illegal aliens invaded our country.

2. The children of invaders don't get birthright citizenship––it's always been that way.

3. Our nation has a constitutional right to protect its borders.

4. You said: "I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American."

5. Don't run for Congress if you're going to put another country first.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

C. S. Lewis introduced The Chronicles of Narnia with a message to his goddaughter:

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

Can you feel it

[Kevin DeAnna @VDAREJamesK]

Sorry, the Supreme Court says this is just as the Founders intended

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

This interview strikes me as one of the most important in recent decades because it simply presents a man suffering in a culture that does everything to district from, deny, and even abolish suffering. After a school shooting, activists push for some new gun regulation. Someone dies of cancer; we raise money for research. A leader is assassinated, so we carry on the victim's work. We concoct some conspiracy theory that reframes the grief into anything other than what it is.

But here, it's all laid bare. There's no campaign to run, no law to pass, no legacy to carry on, no mystery to solve, no happy-clappy "celebration of life." We just sit with a guy enduring horrific suffering in public. Other cultures, including ours in earlier epochs, have done that as a matter of course. We no longer do. We feel uneasy. We don't know what to make of it.

[Kentucky Girl @Kentuckygirl1]

December 17, 2023, Eagle Pass, TX.

This photo is the argument.

Everything else is noise.

Republicans: turn out in November or own what comes next.

I'm done pretending apathy is neutral.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

STRANGER THAN FICTION, Bollywood Edition: Stick with me and read the whole thing here, because it is NUTS.

On Saturday, Ted Cruz goes on ESPN’s College Gameday and gets roundly booed.

People try to defend Cruz by noting a bunch of people in the crowd seemed foreign.

Texas statewide political candidate Bo French posts a photo of a section of the crowd at the Texas-Ohio State game showing a large mass of Indians in one section.

Everyone loses their minds and starts flinging poop at each other over mass immigration and Indian assimilation.

Three days later, news breaks that NFL all-star TE Travis Kelce was scammed out of a ton of money by an illegal immigrant and Indian scam artist Siddarth Jawahar.

Siddarth Jawahar, an illegal immigrant, reportedly attended the University of Texas for several years.

And this is the best part: Siddharth Jawahar hired a political consultant named Jeff Roe to help him get a lighter sentence. Recorded jailhouse phone calls captured Roe and Jawahar scheming about how to manipulate the judge in the case.

Jeff Roe is one of Ted Cruz’s top political consultants and ran Cruz’s presidential campaign in 2016.

Truth really is stranger than fiction.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

One of the great lessons of adulthood is accepting that life isn't always fair.

Sometimes the undeserving get the promotion. Sometimes the person you love doesn't love you back. Sometimes good people die far too young. Sometimes you'll do everything right and will still lose.

None of us gets through life untouched by sorrow. Our character is measured less by what happens to us than by how we respond.

Find gratitude. Find purpose. Find joy. Then become a source of those things for others.

Life is too short to live any other way.

-J.B. Lloyd

[Nic Munoz @nic_munoz]

The best analysis I've heard for what made Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar great:

"All were great leaders, gifted with the ability to inspire the troops and shrewd enough to keep a steady stream of material rewards flowing to them.

They had outstanding moral and physical qualities, such as courage, patience, vigor, and stamina, but their intellectual qualities were even more important. Each. man combined a superior intellect with a decisive and resolute will.

They lacked nothing in audacity. All were bold; none was risk averse. Foresight, aptitude, and sheer brainpower are essential to a great commander; good judgement, especially in a crisis, is the most important quality of all.

Each of the three commanders had a rare combination of instinct and arrogance. Each had the good judgement to size up his enemy correctly.

All three men were gifted with strategic vision. Each had a plan for victory: a blueprint for translating battlefield success into reality. Yet each was an improviser and an opportunist, quick to take advantage of any possibility that happened to open."

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

I'm constantly amazed at how trivial statements are often given space in major publications when framed in terms of breaking binaries.

Here, the reality that pregnancy tests are occasionally wrong for a variety of biological reasons is used to debunk the pregnancy binary.

Okay. But at some point you really are either just pregnant or not pregnant. The state of being pregnant isn't a spectrum.

[Magills @magills_]

“You didn’t think it was suspicious when a guy named SIDDARTH JAWAHAR asked for the $15,000,000 to be in Amazon gift cards?!?!?!”

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

I want every George Floyd statue replaced with a statue of this guy. True hero.

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

"If a perfectly moral man entered this world, he would be humiliated and impaled"

– Plato, The Republic (375 BC)