The Mother Jones article about Scott Wiener has a quote from someone saying "He has preempted virtually every local government from making the decisions they’ve made for over 100 years" as if that's a bad thing lol

I’m okay with this move just because Kirby hasn’t been able to get Carpenter out in particular.

Adams vindicated on the importance of civic virtue

Ashamed to say that I was momentarily fooled by a deepfake ad of Hoda Kotb shilling a salt-based weight loss trick; we are so cooked

I mean this is genuine "war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength" type shit

Reading through 20th century/post-9/11 Supreme Court cases on presidential power in foreign affairs currently and in retrospect we really messed up with presidential power

Elder Race is fun and short

And correspondingly decrease the number of people who say “They’re all corrupt” as an excuse to vote for the guy who’s doing corruption in the open

There’s a podcast making the rounds in certain Mormon circles about an “ancient tradition” that heavily relies on people like Eliade and Rene Guénon so that’s… not great

Any good books to start with about the crusades??

Would the mention in Jeremiah 52 come from a later author/editor who realized that chap 39 didn’t say anything about it?