Christian Borglum

Father, Husband
Interests include economics, history, culture, music, politics.
Cat person in an unhealthy emotional relationship with the Minnesota Vikings

[Muse @xmuse_]

The Romans built this villa in the early 4th century, probably for a very high‑ranking official, maybe even an emperor.

Every corridor, every room, every bath, every reception hall was covered in mosaics.

What’s even more impressive is how it survived.

The villa was buried under mud after a massive landslide in the Middle Ages, and that disaster ended up being its protection. The roof collapsed, the walls fell, but the mosaics stayed sealed under layers of earth for centuries, untouched by weather, war, or looters.

When archaeologists finally uncovered it in the 20th century, they found the largest collection of Roman mosaics anywhere...more than 3,500 square meters of them!

[Dane @UltraDane]

Washington, D.C. has a total area of about ~ 68 square miles, 10 x 6.8 miles in essence.

Right on your front porch, you have dozens of businesses sponsoring H1B visas in that tiny little area. Imagine that map updated to display the entire country, the "dots" go viral, they're covering entire cities.

Now seeing there's over 200,000 working age adults NOT working (just in that picture of DC), how are H1Bs making the situation better?

The saddest part, Americans dont give a shit.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

The Trump administration has decided to reconstitute the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which produces the National Climate Assessments. My good friend Dr. @MatthewWielicki has been appointed as the Director of it.

I have a lot of confidence that the next NCA assessment, should they do a new one, will be based on REAL data as opposed to quasi-religious rhetoric, odd metrics, and modeling garbage.

All of the right people are upset about it and I am here for it.

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

And here it is:

Remember the $24 billion in homeless money Gavin Newscum supposedly “lost”?

No, it wasn’t. It was funneled to some of the most profitable organizations on the planet: NGOs.

Democrats gave an NGO $23 million.

The NGO used it to buy:

A mansion in Los Angeles
A $125,000 Land Rover
A second home in Greece

How was it exposed?

Bill Essayli
United States Attorney for the Central District of California.

He has identified 12 more NGOs across California that are under investigation for similar fraud.

📝 In other words: This is how U.S. NGOs have amassed $14.2 trillion in assets—an amount equal to roughly half of the U.S. national debt.

[Ron Stewart @RonStewart_]

Bro who is telling Marv he needs to be bigger and slower

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Rome ran a trade deficit with India. Roman writers complained that vast amounts of gold were flowing east as wealthy Romans eagerly imported Indian spices, gemstones, silk, and other luxury goods, making it one of history’s earliest recorded concerns about a trade imbalance.

“India takes 50 million sesterces from our Empire every year.” — Pliny the Elder, writing in Natural History, complained that Rome’s appetite for Indian luxury goods was draining the empire’s wealth.

Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Roman Empire maintained a thriving maritime trade network with India through the Red Sea and across the Indian Ocean. After sailors learned to harness the seasonal monsoon winds, direct voyages became faster, safer, and more reliable, greatly expanding trade.

Roman merchants imported black pepper, pearls, ivory, gemstones, fine cotton textiles, and other luxury goods from India, while exporting wine, glassware, coral, metals, and silverware. Because Roman exports did not match the value of these imports, merchants often paid the difference in gold and silver.

Archaeologists have uncovered thousands of Roman coins, amphorae, and other artifacts at ancient trading sites across India, highlighting the scale of Indo-Roman commerce. Pliny’s complaint is one of the earliest surviving written criticisms of a persistent trade deficit and the outflow of precious metals to pay for imported luxury goods.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

Here we go again...

Another margin warning for the GB grid for tomorrow. Low wind and hot weather along with reduced imports from Europe leading to tight margins on the GB system

1200 MW shortfall projected from 18:30 to 22:30

Update expected at 9:30am tomorrow

This is now the THIRD day of tight margin warnings this summer (plus 23 June when there should have been one but wasn't)

Before this year there had never been a summer margin warning

So why now? Because our reliance on both wind and imports is growing. Then when it's not windy we're in trouble, particularly if it's also not windy in Europe where most countries we're connected with also rely on wind. They don't have the spare electricity themselves to sell to us

This is only going to get worse. Although the temperatures we're seeing now are unusual, the actual weather isn't

High pressure weather systems with lots of sun but little wind are common both in summer when they cause high temperatures and winter when they bring the coldest temperatures

Clearly we're struggling to manage

Reliance on wind is not energy security
Reliance on imports is not energy security

We need sensible energy policies and to stop gambling on the weather and praying other countries can bail us out

@neso_energy @Ed_Miliband @ClaireCoutinho @AndrewBowie_MP @griffitha @NJ_Timothy @DavidGHFrost @TiceRichard @mattwridley @cmackinlay @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @mattotele @jonathan_leake @afneil @ofgem

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The Defense Department failed its last 8 audits and still gets $1 trillion per year, because the companies who receive the government contracts are also funding the election campaigns of the members of Congress voting to give them money.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is how ruins should be displayed

[Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT @lone_rides]

"Did you hear? ICE killed another American!"

"A citizen?"

"Well, no. But he had been here for 35 years."

"So he wasn't supposed to be here. Still, that's not a death sentence. What happened?"

"ICE shot him!"

"An ICE agent just walked up to him and shot him?"

"Well, no. He hit an ICE vehicle and started to run down the ICE agent."

"So he tried to kill an ICE agent."

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

NYC: Fire bombing churches last night

[Christian Borglum @CBorglum]

@bolderston_mark Absolutely loved these when I was a kid, I thought they looked SO beautiful.

[Shlippi @realshlippi]

There are forces trying to do that here in the U.S. too.

Flock "safety" cameras everywhere.

Car kill switches

The "verify your age with identifying legal documentation and remove your anonymity to use the internet to protect the kids and nothing else, trust me bro" act (also called the KIDS act) that passed the house with bipartisan support, and will likely pass the senate.

People need to wake up, pay attention, call their reps, hold them accountable when they enable stuff like this.

[Christian Borglum @CBorglum]

@TRHLofficial What the EU is implementing right now are steps that the Stasi and KGB had wet dreams about.

Europe is not okay

[Oli London @OliLondonTV]

Muhammad ranks most popular boy's name in England and Wales for 3rd year in a row. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Christian Borglum @CBorglum]

@UltraDane As a Boy Scout, conservation and respect for Nature were emphasized throughout my experiences.

Whoever this troop was, they are Very Poor examples of scouting values.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Leaving out the Italian, Jewish, and Irish enclaves in NYC is like leaving out Mexican and Persian enclaves in LA.

It’s not an “oopsie!” This is deliberate subversion. The communist must erase your history so he can demolish your home and make it his own.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pope Celestine V resigned after just five months as pope in 1294 because he never wanted the office and longed to return to his life as a hermit. Elected after a two-year deadlock in the papal conclave, he quickly became overwhelmed by the demands and politics of the Church. Before stepping down, he issued a decree confirming that a pope could voluntarily resign, then became the first pope in centuries to use it.

Pope Celestine V resigned just five months into his papacy in 1294, having never sought the position and wishing to return to his former life as a hermit.

Before his election, he had spent decades living in a mountain cave in central Italy, dedicating himself to prayer, fasting, and isolation. His reputation for holiness grew so strong that, after the College of Cardinals failed to choose a new pope for more than two years, they selected him as a compromise candidate, hoping his spiritual reputation could bring stability to the Church.

Instead, Celestine struggled with the realities of papal power, becoming overwhelmed by political conflicts, legal matters, and the responsibilities of leading the Catholic Church. He issued a decree officially recognizing a pope’s right to resign and then used that decree to step down himself, becoming one of the few popes in history to voluntarily leave the office.

After his resignation, Celestine tried to return to a life of solitude, but his successor, Pope Boniface VIII, feared that political opponents could use him as a rival claimant to the papacy. He was ordered to be detained and spent the remainder of his life confined in a small fortress, where he died in 1296.

Celestine V was later canonized as a saint in 1313.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

23 "Little-" designations but no Little Italy. Amazing.

[Immigration Accountability Project Action @iaproject]

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