MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @GovTimWalz fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.
My pastor gave a wonderful homily last year that our Lenten fasting should always be in service of bringing us closer to God. Want more fasting? That's fine. And do so in a way that draws you closer to the source of all goodness.
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. The once-serious discipline of fasting demanded by the Church has lessened over the years and is now pretty minimal: just two days a year we are called to limit ourselves to one meal, which can be supplemented with two collations. Pretty much the whole of Lent used to be as demanding, if not more so.
As a direct result of the relaxing of demands, the faithful have gone soft.
The point is that we ought to take it upon ourselves to go beyond Bare Minimum Catholicism. I propose all chivalry-enjoyers should considering going entirely without food tomorrow and undertake an extended fast during Holy Week, at the very least. It will be good for us.
@Tranzmute5 Good q. Short term likely more circling the drain - fewer students, fewer $$, more expensive students left behind and not keeping up. Mpls seems to be a few decades behind east coast cities that went through this previously. I'm not sure there's a compelling model of recovery.
Minneapolis Public Schools will have to ask for a bailout despite receiving the highest per-pupil state funding in Minnesota.
Yet another indictment of Democrat control.
I feel like a good chunk of the discourse on X could be saved if we all just read Return of the Strong Gods by RR Reno. His thesis plays out dozens of times per day on here.
๐จGovernor DeSantis instituted a Civics Course for teachers where they are taught Western civilization, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, the Scottish enlightenment, and history of English literature.
Teachers get a $3000 bonus to take the course.
So far 21,000 have taken it.
โThose God damn fools. No one could shut them up. All the way they sang and praised Christ the King. One of them fell dead when we hit him with the butt of a gun, and this is no lie, but the more that we hit them the more they sang and shouted Viva Cristo Rey.โ - Spanish leftist recounting their mass execution of Catholic priests during the civil war
Hot shower every night. Warm bed. Food in the fridge. Truck in the garage with heated seats.
We live better than kings did 100 years ago and still complain.
American problems pale in comparison.
Reminder: Lifeโs pretty damn good.
@rightscholar A major development of my political thought in the past few years is coming to realize that Obama was a failed president. It was a hard pill to swallow but so much made sense after admitting it.