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🇺🇸 - JUST IN: Supreme Court rejects Trump's emergency request to freeze USAID funding, says a lower court must decide what objections the government must fulfil. Chief Justice Roberts and so-called conservative Amy Coney Barrett joined forces with the three liberals to block Trump's request.

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BREAKING: Thomas Massie has officially reintroduced the "End the Fed" bill to completely dismantle the Federal Reserve.

"Americans would be better off if the Federal Reserve did not exist."

@Captain_America_News

Hundreds of - largely homosexual - men attended a conference in Belgium to find out how they can pay women to have children for them. Via SurrogacyConcern

Welcome to Bilbo Baggins' house.

Hobbiton Movie Set in Matamata, New Zealand.

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Stunning flight over the clouds 😍

In a homily included among his Lives of Saints, Ælfric describes for us what Ash Wednesday looked like in England at the end of the tenth century

https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/03/u-eart-dust-and-to-duste-gewendst-lfric.html

The speed of Japanese bullet trains

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"David Hume, as you know, wrote on miracles. He didn’t like them. Which is to say, he didn’t believe them. But then Hume didn’t believe we could know any cause. It was he who is greatly responsible for foisting inductive skepticism upon us, a poorly state from which we are only now recovering. He said things like, “We have no reason to believe any proposition about the unobserved even after experience!” His italics, his exclamation mark. That kind of thing did enormous wreckage to science, though science is only now coming to see it."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-158367788#:~:text=David%20Hume%2C%20as,to%20see%20it.

Updated the channel photo to align with the branding for my new venture, The Society for Post-Quantum Research, LLC. Website is here, although I haven't fleshed it out, much: https://thespqr.com

JUST IN - IRS is drafting plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/nn850jwkdq/

@disclosetv

Good thing it's not an engineering class or he might have earned an H-.

“Vacation-Style” Beaches on Mars?
Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars, revealing evidence of “vacation-style” beaches with sand and waves. Using data from the Zhurong Mars rover, scientists identified hidden layers of rock under the planet’s surface, suggesting the presence of an ancient northern ocean. This finding offers the clearest evidence yet that Mars once had a significant body of water and a more habitable environment for life.
“We’re finding places on Mars that used to look like ancient beaches and ancient river deltas,” said Benjamin Cardenas, assistant professor of geology at Penn State. “We found evidence for wind, waves, no shortage of sand — a proper, vacation-style beach.”
The Zhurong rover’s ground-penetrating radar allowed scientists to explore the Martian subsurface, revealing formations similar to those found on Earth’s beaches. This discovery paints a picture of ancient habitable environments capable of supporting microbial life.
Read more about this fascinating discovery here: Penn State University Article

The criminal file of Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili called "Joseph Stalin" following his arrest in Baku, Azerbaijan (1910).

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com. (2017). Young Stalin in pictures, 1894-1919 - Rare Historical Photos. [online] Available at: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/young-stalin-1894-1919/ [Accessed 8 Feb. 2022].

"Tolkien, a devout Catholic and a veteran of World War I, understood what it meant to forge bonds in hardship. Frodo and Sam’s relationship is not about romance—it is about loyalty, self-sacrifice, and duty. Sam is Frodo’s steadfast companion, his rock in the darkest of times. This is not a love story in the modern, romantic sense, but a tale of unyielding devotion and duty.

"Yet, modern writers and their audiences, particularly those steeped in progressive ideologies, seem unable to accept this. Instead, they push a narrative that assumes such loyalty must have a sexual undercurrent. This obsession with redefining male friendships exposes more about their own worldview than it does about the works they attempt to reinterpret."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-157473830#:~:text=Tolkien%2C%20a%20devout,attempt%20to%20reinterpret.