Areas of the United States that received large numbers of white migrants from the South in the decades after the Civil War shifted commensurately to the political right
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Evangelicals: Orthodox and Catholics are idol worshipping pagans

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The Stupidity of Greed

According to the court documents, in approximately 2014, David TR wanted to give his sister-in-law, who was working for the company, a big raise. But he felt that his wife and son who sat on the board, wouldn’t approve it. So, David Tran came up with an idea that he was going to make a […]

https://voxday.net/2026/05/16/the-stupidity-of-greed/

"Some 20 company bosses had joined Trump on the trip. But there seem to have been no plans or tasks for any of them. No deals were made, no contracts were signed.

"Trump offered to lift the U.S. blockade on the sales of some older NVIDIA AI chips to China. China declined as it now makes its own chips with similar characteristics.

"The Chinese side spoke of a “new positioning” and a “constructive strategic stability” as major outcomes of the talks.

"The “new positioning” is seeing the U.S. and China as equals with China being objectively in a better position."

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/05/trump-leaves-china-with-little-in-hand.html

"The American staff took everything that the Chinese officials handed out —accreditations, disposable phones of White House staff, badges for the delegation — collected it all before we boarded the AF1 plane and threw it into the trash can at the foot of the ramp. Nothing from China is not allowed on board the aircraft."

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2026/05/15/historic-visit-the-us-delegation-threw-away-all-chinese-gifts

"The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or "bugs") to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviet Union to W. Averell Harriman, the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on August 4, 1945. Because it was passive, needing electromagnetic energy from an outside source to become energized and active, it is considered a predecessor of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology.[1][2]

"The Thing consisted of a tiny capacitive membrane connected to a small quarter-wavelength antenna; it had no power supply or active electronic components. The device, a passive cavity resonator, became active only when a radio signal of the correct frequency was sent to the device from an external transmitter. This is referred to in National Security Agency (NSA) parlance as "illuminating" a passive device. Sound waves (from voices inside the ambassador's office) passed through the thin wood case, striking the membrane and causing it to vibrate. The movement of the membrane varied the capacitance "seen" by the antenna, which in turn modulated the radio waves that struck and were re-transmitted by The Thing. A receiver demodulated the signal so that sound picked up by the microphone could be heard, just as an ordinary radio receiver demodulates radio signals and outputs sound.

"Its design made the listening device very difficult to detect, because it was very small, had no power supply or active electronic components, and did not radiate any signal unless it was actively being irradiated remotely. These same design features, along with the overall simplicity of the device, made it very reliable and gave it a potentially unlimited operational life."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

"The trajectory of popular media since the 1990s has greatly favored the portrayal of the weak, scorned, and ultimately disposable fathers of Mrs. Doubtfire than the flawed, but daring warrior shepherds of Hook, and we are worse off because of it. Where Mrs. Doubtfire heralded the temporary triumph of the longhouse, Hook is an intriguing sign post on an alternate path to a world that might have been. And so I heartily recommend watching it with your kids for Father’s Day."

https://open.substack.com/pub/attentionspanlabs/p/and-wherever-children-read-it-will?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

They Want You Allergic to Meat—And They're Not Joking - Beefnews

Western Michigan professors just argued it's morally permissible to let tick bites make you allergic to meat—because it might "improve your behavior." This isn’t satire. It’s bioethics by bioweapon.

No, that’s not satire. It’s a peer-reviewed paper published in Bioethics on July 22, 2025, titled:

“Beneficial Bloodsucking: On the Moral Permissibility of Tick-Induced Meat Allergy”

The authors? Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth, both faculty at Western Michigan University

Their claim? That the spread of Alpha-Gal Syndrome (AGS)—a tick-borne allergy to mammalian meat—might be ethically justifiable, even morally desirable, because it reduces red meat consumption and therefore greenhouse gas emissions.

Their words:

“The bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a condition whose only known treatment is the avoidance of all mammalian meat. Thus, they eat less red meat, which is an improvement in their capacity for moral behavior.”