It sucks that I love this show and subscribed to Wonder to watch it. Gag me with a spoon, I’m so lame!
“Vilma Palacios is one of thousands who have given up their immigration cases and voluntarily left the U.S. after being detained. More detainees are opting for voluntary departure than ever before, a CBS News analysis found.” www.cbsnews.com/news/immi…
I mean this has been the argument for my entire 55 9/10 life: poor rural ancient people don’t have ID.
Roughly 70–90% of the world’s voting jurisdictions require some form of ID to vote. A widely cited dataset found about 176 countries or jurisdictions with ID requirements as of 2021. With ~195 sovereign countries globally, that works out to around 90% requiring identification—though strict photo ID laws are a smaller subset of that total.
I guess this is the end of the road in terms of that. We live in a very modern world and most of the world requires ID in order to vote.
The European Union Now Resembles the Soviet Union
The similarities between the EU and the USSR are striking, and they are not just a coincidence. Original article: mises.org/mises-wir…
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Trump’s Assault on Our Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Is it illegal to carry a gun to a demonstration against ICE? According to the Trump Administration, it is.
Liberation Theology is Still Theology
Liberation theology developed in Latin America in the mid-20th century, especially among Catholic clergy working in conditions of extreme poverty and political repression. Its central claim is what it calls the “preferential option for the poor,” meaning the Church must stand with those crushed by unjust economic and political systems. The emphasis is structural: class, land, labor, debt, state violence. It is concerned with how power operates and how poverty is maintained.
Because it speaks about “liberation,” people sometimes assume it is simply a religious endorsement of modern identity-based activism. That is not quite accurate. Liberation theology is still explicitly Christian. It does not erase categories of sin or dismiss the need for repentance. It does not reduce faith to self-expression or cultural pride. It frames injustice as sin, both personal and structural, and calls for metanoia, conversion of heart and society toward Christ.
In other words, it is not humanism wearing a collar. It reads the Gospel through the lived experience of the poor and insists that salvation has social implications. But it remains rooted in Christ, the Cross, repentance, and the moral demands of Christian discipleship. It does not automatically affirm every modern subculture claim. Its moral anthropology remains Christian, not secular progressive.
People can debate whether its methods, political alliances, or economic analysis are wise. Some critics argue it leaned too heavily on Marxist categories. Others believe it corrected a Church that was too comfortable with elites. But it is inaccurate to treat it as a blanket theological endorsement of contemporary identity movements. Its core lens is poverty and power, not subculture pride.
Liberation theology is mostly about class and power, not subculture pride. It centers the poor and critiques unjust systems, but it stays within Christian doctrine: sin is still sin, repentance still matters, and Christ is still Lord. It is not secular activism in vestments.
Beware: even a left-leaning Catholic remains doctrinally conservative where it ultimately matters compared to a garden-variety secular progressive. www.vox.com/life/4786…
Dear liberals: we’re genuinely psyched you’re buying guns. Every new gun owner becomes a 2A voter and shifts the pH balance of anti-gun politics. Blue hair, septum rings, rainbow flags and all—join us. slate.com/life/2026…
Dear All Liberals: Please Buy Lots of Guns
Dear liberals: we gun owners are genuinely psyched that you’re buying guns. It means you’ll join us as 2A voters and protectors. Every new legal gun owner changes the pH balance of the anti-gun vote and makes blanket caricatures harder to sustain. The broader and more culturally diverse gun ownership becomes, the less viable one-size-fits-all anti-gun politics will be. So tell your friends to become legal, responsible gun owners—no matter how blue their hair, how septumed their noses, or how rainbowed their flags. The Second Amendment isn’t a costume or a tribe. It’s for everyone. The more the merrier. slate.com/life/2026…
Zuckerberg Follows Billionaire Exodus To Florida As California Pushes New Wealth Tax
Street chaos and rhetoric about America being illegitimate don’t weaken MAGA—they validate it. Voters don’t parse ideology; they react to instability. If protests look revolutionary, law-and-order wins. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/202…
Where journalists admit that they are radical activist advocates and not remotely interested in reporting.
Don’t blame rapacious owners of media organizations for the loss of public trust. Blame biased, incompetent reporting.
I listened to an episode of Triggernometry today. Britain is ~0.8% of global emissions. Net Zero mostly deindustrializes the UK while outsourcing steel, energy, and pollution to China. Emissions don’t disappear—they move. The atmosphere doesn’t care about accounting.
Super fascinating re ‘nobody wants EVs in the UK, only petrol & diesel’
How Net Zero Destroyed Britain pca.st/episode/e…
When you bring one of your unused x220s to the cafe to work and you don’t know the login password so you’ll need to pack up and go home and possibly reinstall Linux Mint; UPDATE: bringing it to my local computer repair shop to see if we can break in! Huzzah! Worth some money to get her did.
