My EASTERTIDE & SUMMERTIME reading list (Low Sunday to August 31st)
-Epic of Gilgamesh
-Odyssey (Homer)
-Catilinarian Orations, Philippicae (Cicero)
-Metamorphoses (Ovid)
-Bucolics, Georgics (Virgil)
-One Thousand and One Nights Tales
-Treasure Island (R.L. Stevenson)
Thank you @NASA for the coolest day ever. One week ago, we were eating Chili’s in Chattanooga, and today we’re talking to the ISS. This is the American dream.
Thanks for letting three random World Cup tourists from Germany live it for a few days. USA rocks.🇺🇸🚀
"If you believe that Jesus is the son of God, rose from the dead on the third day, there are a lot of progressives who will say you're a crazy person."
VP JD Vance took aim at what he called "progressive atheistic culture," arguing that many on the left dismiss traditional religious beliefs while embracing ideas he considers far less believable.
"Actually, you believe something that's far crazier and clearly a violation of nature." @Gutfeldfox
C’est l’occasion de rappeler que depuis février 2022, la très basée et très Sainte Russie a détruit ou endommagé entre 600 et 700 églises chrétiennes en Ukraine, dont plusieurs dizaines (voire près de 200 selon certaines estimations) ont été totalement rasées.
Il faut cesser de définir la vie comme une fonction, et se souvenir qu'elle est un mode de l'être. Une IA est déterminée par son prompt. Nous déterminons notre propre mouvement, et c'est cette liberté la vraie différence.
https://t.co/V7QdKwV994
4000 employés actionnaires de Space X, dont beaucoup d'ouvriers, sont devenus millionnaires grâce au partage de la richesse et de la plus-value, suite à l'introduction en bourse de Space X.
Les communistes devraient féliciter Elon Musk.
My thoughts after 3 months in the US/Texas🇺🇸:
- Americans are way more extroverted than Europeans
- Talking to strangers is normal here
- My first H-E-B trip felt like Boris Yeltsin seeing an American grocery store
- Some food is more artificial, but the amount of choices is insane
- You can still eat healthy. You just have to choose it
- High risk, high reward is real
- Way more people are entrepreneurial
- People dream bigger than in Europe, and they actually execute
- Obv not everyone is smarter, but the smart people are world-class
- Successful people here are way more down-to-earth. In Europe, successful people care about status and can be arrogant
- Cars. Enough said
- Americans have perfected artificial sweets
- There’s still more freedom here than in Europe
- One thing I didn’t expect: some Americans talk down on America
- As an outsider, that’s weird, because imo it’s still the greatest country on Earth🇺🇸🇺🇸
Iranian activists are turning a World Cup match into a memorial event.
They were handing out shirts with faces and names of victims murdered by the Islamic Republic. Every face represents a life cut short. A reminder that no amount of football can erase what happened.
Je pense exactement l’inverse.
Les classes populaires le voient avec fierté comme l’un d’entre eux qui a réussi au plus haut et dans le même temps il rassure une certaine élite en la fréquentant. 100% gagnant.
Our most American experience so far🇺🇸
We met with the Houston Police department and ate typical Texan BBQ together. It looked in there just like in the movies. They even put on Ella Langley just for us.😂
WATCH: Outside the World Cup stadium before Iran's match, hundreds of protesters gathered carrying the historic Lion and Sun flag.
FIFA decided to ban this flag that represents Iranian identity, heritage and history. I stand with the people of Iran.
Via @RiseofAziola0
The Church militant kneels before the Crucified and Risen Lord.
The Church is found where Christ gives Himself: Word and Sacrament.
The old paths are not dead.
Europeans arriving for the World Cup:
“The food is actually really good.”
“Wait, they really do free refills?”
“The stadiums are insane.”
“Ok the weather is no joke.”
“Air conditioning isn’t optional here.”
“The roads are complete chaos.”
“Why is this gas station bigger than my airport?”
“Everyone is way friendlier than I expected.”
The 2026 World Cup may go down as the largest American propaganda campaign ever conducted.
And we’re not even trying.
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Built in 1878, Trinity's Victorian Gothic church was founded by a congregation of German settlers seeking freedom to practice their traditional Lutheranism. It belongs to the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.