Ethan Harris

Rm 8:28

[Acyn @Acyn]

Karl: Israel is a Jewish state. That’s in the charter. Do you support that?

Mamdani: I’ve said time and again that I support the state of Israel as a state with equal rights.

Karl: As jewish state?

Mamdani: I believe that any state that privileges one religion over another is one that I can’t tell you I support, whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else. And a lot of that comes back to a fundamental belief that we should all be considered equal, no matter what our faith is.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Give Mandami credit. He is doing exactly what he said he would do when elected. He is turning New York into a socialist/communist anti American city by getting “politicians” like Darializa Avila Chevalier elected. Here is just a sampling of things Chevalier has said, tweeted or done. (This is not an onion article. These are all facts)

Founded a group at Columbia with the express goal of overthrowing western society

Called all white women ugly colonizers while criticizing interracial relationships

Wishes she could wipe her ass with a the American flag

Waved a Hamas flag the day after October 7th attacks

Wants no borders

Wants to abolish the police

Wants to abolish prisons

Against all deportations. Clarified that even if a non citizen murders or rapes somebody deportation is immoral

Said all of the United States is on stolen Native American land

Things she has not done in her career. Had a job.

On the brightside though at least she never said America deserved 9/11. (At least that we are aware of yet) Unfortunately the other candidate Mamdani endorsed Aber Kawas did say that. And got elected. In NYC. What a world

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Stephen A. Smith admits he can’t wrap his head around “how the hell” the Clintons and Obamas left office worth upwards of $100,000,000 after “serving” the American people.

“Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas, grew up poor, relatively broke. How the hell he and the Clinton Foundation are worth hundreds of millions of dollars beats me.”

“Barack Obama was a community organizer who became the President of the United States. And last time I checked, that salary ain’t over $450,000.”

“How the hell you depart from office, [together] you worth over $200 million?”

Clintons’ net worth before office: ~$1,300,000
Clintons’ net worth today: ~$120,000,000

Obamas’ net worth before office: ~$1,300,000
Obamas’ net worth today: ~$70,000,000

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[Liz Benichou @basedinmalibu]

So let me get this straight…

Spencer Pratt runs on cleaning up the streets of Los Angeles, fixing the homeless crisis, making sure reservoirs and fire hydrants actually have water, saving dogs and making LA safer and cleaner for everyone…

…and the media calls that “MAGA”? 🤔

Since when did wanting functioning infrastructure, safe streets, and competent leadership become controversial?

Shouldn’t that be the goal of EVERY politician regardless of party?

I guess some people would rather hand out free stuff while cities continue falling apart.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Where did they get it?"

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."

Activist: "From... eating?"

Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."

Activist: "The soil?"

Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."

Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."

Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."

Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

[Steve Guest @SteveGuest]

Spencer Pratt UNLEASHES on CBS exposing how the corporate media rigs the game.

“After CBS embarrassed Karen Bass by fact-checking her debate lies about the Palisades fire, they clearly got the call.

CBS filmed with me on my burnt-out lot for over an hour talking about crime, housing, affordability, things that voters care about, and they turned it over to Karen Bass's PR team to edit it into a comical five-minute hit piece with clips from The Hills.

They can't beat my ideas, they can't beat me in the debates, so they got to try to turn my campaign into a sideshow.

People are done with these sleazy political tricks, and I'm done with CBS. They should release the full unedited interview. The voters deserve to hear from their next mayor.”

[lavitalenta @lavitalenta]

This clip is the perfect encapsulation of the real “Mediterranean mindset”

It’s not about stupid shit like sunning your balls or larping as an ancient Roman…

it’s always been about LEISURE

[Jacob Edward @JacobEdwardInc]

Neither of these men are married or have kids.

Both are simply obsessed with their own personal perfection and optimization.

There is nothing impressive about a single man with no kids sleeping well and being fit.

Show me a man with young children, a full time job, disrupted sleep, who works out regularly, eats healthy, trains Jui Jitsu, with a muscular body…

THIS is impressive. THIS requires extreme discipline.

[Ethan Harris @EthanHarris9]

It is interesting to think that history always repeats and we like to think we would never make the same mistake. Not meant to be political just interesting.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jordan Peterson's chilling reality check on human nature

"People read Nazi history and always think they're Schindler—the hero who would've saved Anne Frank.
They never imagine themselves as the perpetrator.
But look at the pandemic: 30% of my Canadian neighbors were thrilled to inform on others.
They would've worn masks forever if it meant feeling morally superior."

Dark truth about what people are capable of when given the chance.

0:34 clip inside—uncomfortable wake-up call.

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

Buying a home only makes sense if you’re staying put for at least five years.

If you’re early in your career, rent close to work. Walk. Save the transit costs and invest them. When you start a family, that’s when you shop for a home in a community that fits your life.

Rates today are 6–7%, so you’ll buy less house than your parents did, but timing it right matters more than size.

[AmericanPapaBear™ @AmericaPapaBear]

"Quick message to everybody on Active Duty right now."

"Those 6 Democrats that are urging you over and over again to disobey the order of the President of the United States, NOT EVEN 1 MONTH AGO voted repeatedly for 2 months to keep you from getting paid, to keep food out of your families mouths."

"They do not care about you!"

BASED!

Democrats used civilians and military members as leverage, like pawns on a board.

[Phil Mickelson @PhilMickelson]

This is treasonous behavior as are those who allowed this to happen.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: A massive scandal is erupting in Minnesota as Somalians in the state artificially surged their rates of autism to fraudulently gain Medicaid funding...

...and then sent the money to terror organization al-Shabaab.

Tim Walz's Minnesota has MASSIVE problems.

To the tune of millions in Medicaid fraud.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Bill Maher lays out exactly what happens when people trade capitalism for socialism.

He says New York City is in for a rude awakening after voting in Zohran Mamdani:

“In 1990, Venezuela was wealthier than Poland. But then Poland, finally free of Soviet-style economics, went all in on capitalism. Now their economy is as big as Japan.”

“Meanwhile, Venezuela traded capitalism for Hugo Chavez's socialism for the 21st century, which turned out to be like socialism capitalism in the last century, or any century, a f*cking mess.”

“It turned one of Latin America's richest countries into one of its poorest. Low wages, high inflation, shortages, outages, eight million people fleeing.”

If you think New York can somehow reinvent this wheel, you're in for a rude awakening. Zohran can't make your wishes come true.“

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Sydney Sweeney refuses to apologize for the American Eagle jeans ad after GQ's Katherine Stoeffel continuously tried to get her to cave.

Stoeffel: I mean, Trump tweeted about the jeans ad ... that just seems like a very crazy moment...

Sweeney: It was surreal.

Stoeffel: The risk is that there's a chance that somebody will get some idea about what you think about certain issues ... Do you worry about that?

Sweeney: No.

Stoeffel: The criticisms were that maybe white people shouldn't joke about genetic superiority ... I just wanted to allow you to talk about that specifically.

Sweeney: I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear.

[Nicki Minaj @NICKIMINAJ]

Reading this made me feel a deep sense of gratitude. We live in a country where we can freely worship God.

No group should ever be persecuted for practicing their religion. We don’t have to share the same beliefs in order for us to respect each other.

Numerous countries all around the world are being affected by this horror & it’s dangerous to pretend we don’t notice.

Thank you to The President & his team for taking this seriously.
God bless every persecuted Christian.
Let’s remember to lift them up in prayer.

[Benjamin Michael @RealBenMichael]

Idk if ya’ll realize how unprecedented this is. This has NEVER happened in the history of the modern world.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Advocating socialism is a luxury paid for by the successes of capitalism.