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[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

I present you the slimiest most pandering congressman in all of the land, ladies and gentlemen…

[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

My brother in Christ, I have read it in Greek. Have you?

[Andrew Ireland @AndrewIrelandIN]

🚨 Wow. The Indiana Family Institute just released an audit showing numerous Indiana public schools are still administering DEI programs under different names and potentially violating state law.

Indiana must close the loopholes and put a stop to this once and for all

[Steve @Steve_Stuck]

@nathangotsch Did 3,000 Americans not get slaughtered by this death cult 25 years ago? Even the Plainfield mosque(ISNA) was an unindicted coconspirator in a terrorism case in 2007.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

This is the Oxyrhynchus Hymn, dated to the late 200s AD. It is the earliest known Christian hymn manuscript with both lyrics and musical notation. A plain English rendering of the surviving words:

“Let all creation be silent.
Let the shining stars be still.
Let the rushing winds and rivers cease.
While we sing to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
let every power answer: Amen, amen.
Strength, praise, and glory forever to God,
the only giver of all good things. Amen, amen.”

[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

Now in @wapo: my review of Nolan’s Odyssey. It’s good. Is it perfect? As good as the original? No, of course not! But is it the hostile woke takeover you feared? Also no, definitely not.

Go see it, then read or re-read the poem. It remains unsurpassable.

https://t.co/EKXEerTwZO

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

EXCLUSIVE: California Democrats are rapidly moving toward a South Africa-style racialist government: anti-whiteness as a governing principle; racial commissars in every institution; $500 billion in reparations; land seizures in the name of "equity."
https://t.co/bp5z2iqd2k

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Alas, Mr. Congressman, I'm not lying. And I started this line of questioning assuming you were telling the truth. I've written long essays on extremist Israeli violence in the West Bank. I know it happens. I was ready, at first glance, to believe it happened here. But it didn't. This wasn't Israeli violence. This was agitprop for your American audiences.

I said explicitly that I'm not familiar with the details of that area. It took a lot of effort for JPost to find out what it found out -- which was that it was a closed military zone only recently opened.

But if you'd coordinated your visit with Israeli authorities, this would have been sorted out from the start. Those soldiers weren't angry or aggressive, they seemed mostly just confused about the status of the area and how to handle your visit.

Because, you know, there was no coordination.

JPost suggests all that in the article you yourself shared.

And what of the violence? Your group had cameras -- a professional photographer and at least one bodycam -- yet you've produced no evidence that I've seen of the violence you claim to have experienced.

Remember that you claimed the violence was sufficient to demand that Netanyahu order the prosecution of those soldiers.

I've seen that sort of violence before; if you produce that footage, I'll join your demand for prosecution. That's not rhetoric. I really will, wholeheartedly.

But if you don't, I think it's safe to assume you blew up a small inconvenience caused by your own refusal to talk to Israelis.

In a similar vein, you used the word "detained" as if you were unlawfully held against your will -- and hide behind its second meaning, that you were a bit delayed in driving forward into the area. The first is on the spectrum of kidnapping crimes, the second is the sort of problem you'd encounter at the entrance to a federal building as you search your pockets for an ID. Which was it?

Anyway, you were angling for some domestic political brownie points, and congratulations, you got 'em.

[Steve @Steve_Stuck]

The Indiana Family Institute released a 70 page report showing DEI is still being promoted in public schools, even though the state has banned it. One report shows Carmel schools still promoting drag queens and transvestites within the school. https://t.co/WPgSBvFAMz

[AG Todd Rokita @AGToddRokita]

Our office released a formal advisory opinion today concluding that the Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises (M/WBE) components of Indiana’s Diversity Business Enterprises (DBE) Program are unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

This blatantly illegal program gives special treatment to some Hoosiers purely because of their sex or the color of their skin, and it insults them by suggesting they cannot compete on a fair playing field. The program is both un-American and unconstitutional.

Read the full opinion here: https://t.co/iNxaz0Lyl6

[Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee]

We have had respectful relationship & hopefully will continue but call to US Embassy was AFTER your vehicle was stopped. We had no advance notice of your trip. I go often into Judea/Samaria & visit Palestinians. I publicly condemn ALL violence whether Israeli to Palestinian or Palestinian to Israeli. You would have been well served to have spent time with Israelis who were held hostage or victims of terror to understand big picture but you only chose to come in secretly with an anti-Israel activist to hear one version of reality. Please come back. Let me know when. I will go with you & we will meet with ppl in the PA & in Israel with Jewish, Christian, & Muslims We will visit Hadassah Medical Center which will destroy any notion of “apartheid “ & will arrange a classified briefing to dispel any doubt about the ridiculous claim that Israel engaged in “genocide.” Let’s elevate the discussion. I’ll leave the light on for you!

[Katie Daviscourt 📸 @KatieDaviscourt]

Why is there always more coverage when an illegal alien gets killed in self-defense than when an American citizen is brutally murdered by an illegal alien?

[Fr Gary Dench @garydench]

‘We must rebuild trust’…. Yet she supported a Synod motion commending a document denounced by the Chief Rabbi and Jewish organisations as antisemitic and dangerous. It’s hard to preach reconciliation while endorsing a view that leaves so many Jews feeling ever more threatened.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Our administration owes a debt of gratitude to Nick Shirley for exposing one of the most egregious cases of fraud this country has ever seen.

If the media was worth their salt, they would take notes from Nick and other citizen journalists who care about investigating stories that affect the American people instead of trying to silence them.

[Andrew Ireland @AndrewIrelandIN]

🚨 Huge. Indiana is officially ending its unconstitutional and discriminatory race and sex-based state contracting programs.

Indiana is replacing DEI with MEI - merit, excellence, and innovation

Great work by Governor Braun and AG Rokita

[Alex Petkas @costofglory]

I believe in Homer. I believe such a man named Homer existed.

Here's how you can believe that and still gain much insight from Greg Nagy's theories.

-Nagy didn't invent the "Homer not one guy" thesis, which goes back at least to Friedrich August Wolf in late 18th century Germany (and actually deep into antiquity if you keep pulling on the thread).

-In modern scholarship it's called the Analyst school (as opposed to the "one genius Homer" Unitarians). Many shades of grey between.

-There's no doubt Homer comes from a tradition of Indo-European epic bards, a tradition older in Homer's day than the Western literary canon is now.

-Homer's stories weren't invented out of thin air, nobody sane thinks this, but rather developed over centuries (well, millennia) of 'audience testing'.

-In Best of the Achaeans (1978, excellent), Nagy explains how the Iliad and Odyssey both represent a relatively universal Greek Heroic epic tradition - they are mutually exclusive and, in some sense, collectively exhaustive.

In other words, they resemble something coming from one "mind" (singular or collective).

-In particular, "Monro's Law" holds that the Odyssey studiously avoids mentioning any episode or event that occurs in the Iliad. (It's not so strict in the other direction)

For example, there's no Trojan Horse reference in the Iliad, but many in the Odyssey.

-The poems are fundamentally in a competition for who is the "Best" of the Greek heroes (the Achaeans) from the Trojan War.

The Trojan Horse (Odysseus' game-winning idea) makes Odysseus seem like the "best", so it makes sense this appears in one and not the other.

-The simplest explanation is "Homer wrote the Iliad first and then the Odyssey." And maybe add "his perspective changed somewhat. But not too much." This is more or less the ancient perspective found in Longinus On the Sublime (~ 2nd c. AD). (Iliad written by young Homer in his prime, Odyssey from the reflection of old age).

On this view, Homer can still be an oral poet inheriting a vast tradition (in which the Iliadic tradition and the Odyssean tradition interacted for a long time, probably many generations). But "Homer" is the crucial oral poet who decided to write this stuff down. (Maybe he was blind or illiterate and a scribe did it for him, who cares.)

-You can get into the details of the Analyst school, text criticism, scholars rejecting books as 'spurious', multiple layers, etc. etc. You can read about Milman Parry and Albert Lord. You should, it's very interesting. You should definitely read Nagy (esp. if you know some Greek).

But at the end of the day, even if you accept most of Nagy's work (and the work of many Homeric scholars in general—he's just a good representative), you can still meaningfully treat the Iliad and the Odyssey as the works of "one guy," written in that order.

[cue Midwit Meme]

To "believe" in the ancient sense more often meant "to trust" or "to obey." In other words, you can act as though it's the case, and that's still worth doing—including about things you can't have certain knowledge of.

And get on with it.

(Also I believe Homer cares about you, different story)

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

BlackRock has a scholarship program specifically for “diverse students.”

Starbucks has training programs specifically for employees who are “bipoc.”

This isn’t “diversity.” It is discrimination.

[Kathy Gyngell @KathyConWom]

Is this the beginning of the end for Jews in Britain?

What @ArchbishopSarah said is dark beyond belief - her calumnies about Israel and the wicked lie that is it perpetrating genoicide

These are not just untruths but put British Jews at terrible risk.
https://t.co/eUrdDA74cM

[Josh Hawley @HawleyMO]

Joe Biden’s DOJ not only tapped my phone; I just learned they ILLEGALLY obtained my texts with members of President Trump’s administration.

Everyone involved needs to be PROSECUTED