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An adopted son of God (Galatians 4:6)
Grocery inflation meets reality: nobody wants liver.
>“Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive…If you buy a *Porterhouse steak* or a strip steak, it is gonna set you back…
You can buy **liver** or the cheaper cuts… that are very, very affordable.”
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The funny part is he’s not wrong on price.
The real reason people aren’t “solving” grocery inflation with liver is simpler:
**Most people don’t want to serve liver for dinner.**
The Independent
RFK Jr. mocked after suggesting Americans eat liver over beef to save on groceries
‘You can buy liver or the cheaper cuts of steak that are very, very affordable,’ the Health and Human Services secretary said at a MAHA event
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Grocery inflation meets reality: nobody wants liver. \ stacker news
“Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive…If you buy a Porterhouse steak or a strip steak, it is gonna set you back… You can buy l...
Americans are voting with their feet
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/americans-leaving-the-us-migration-a5795bfa
>“Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: more people moved out than moved in.”
>“America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.”
>“The new American dream, for some of its citizens, is to no longer live there.”
>“In nearly all of the European Union’s 27 member states, the number of Americans arriving to live and work is at a record and rising.”
>“The total living in Portugal has jumped more than 500% since the Covid pandemic.”
>“More than 100,000 young students are enrolled abroad for a more affordable university degree.”
>“You don’t face the prospect of your 5-year-old going into a kindergarten and doing an active shooter drill.”
>“Americans move abroad and find they like life better abroad. They like the social democratic policies.”
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Americans are voting with their feet \ stacker news
“Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: more people moved out than moved in.”...
When ‘babies of slaves’ is a talking point, you’re watching a rights rewrite
It’s easy to treat this like a tantrum about the Court.
But the signal is simpler: this is a **power expansion being described in real time.**
>“The Supreme Court… gave me… far more powers and strength than I had prior…”
>“I can use Licenses to do absolutely ‘terrible’ things…”
That’s not commentary. That’s a mechanism:
**Ruling → usable authority expands → discretion increases → outcomes get more coercive with “legal certainty.”**
He’s not arguing for tighter limits. He’s identifying alternative pathways. Tools that remain available and can be used more aggressively.
Then comes the second tell:
>“babies of slaves”
That’s not historical framing. It’s a **scope reduction**, turning a constitutional guarantee into a narrow, negotiable exception.
Once a guarantee becomes “only for X,” exclusion becomes administratively easy.
**Expand authority without tightening constraints, and discretion fills the gap.**
This doesn’t require bad intent. It's how systems behave under these conditions.
What evidence would distinguish a real expansion of power from rhetoric here?
Trump's Truth
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When ‘babies of slaves’ is a talking point, you’re watching a rights rewrite \ stacker news
It’s easy to treat this like a tantrum about the Court. But the signal is simpler: this is a power expansion being described in real time. “The...
Trump admin will collect social media handles from legal immigrants and citizens
It is easy to treat this like a niche “immigration paperwork” story, or just another privacy gripe. But the real shift is procedural: **USCIS is turning online identity into a screening input.**
I’m not claiming this instantly becomes a First Amendment showdown. I’m claiming it **widens discretionary power** by making speech, association, and networks part of the adjudication file.
The administration approved a plan requiring people applying to change immigration status (work/travel authorization, green cards, citizenship) to submit every social media handle they’ve used over the past five years. In some cases, they must also list handles for close family members, including people who are in the U.S. legally and even U.S. citizens.
That matters because once the government has a durable index of your online presence, the “standard” it applies becomes the real policy. And the standards being invoked here are vague: screening for things like “hostile attitudes” or “anti-Americanism” without clear definitions. When categories are that fuzzy, the effective rule is set by **case-by-case interpretation**, exercised at scale across millions of applications.
The predictable result isn’t cleaner vetting. It’s a climate where people self-censor because they can’t know what will be read as disqualifying, and where outcomes vary based on who is holding the file.
What evidence would convince you this improves screening accuracy rather than just expanding enforcement latitude through discretion?
Brennan Center for Justice
Trump Administration Will Collect Social Media Handles from Legal Immigrants and U.S. Citizens
The new requirement poses serious threats to free speech and privacy rights.
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Trump admin will collect social media handles from legal immigrants and citizens \ stacker news
It is easy to treat this like a niche “immigration paperwork” story, or just another privacy gripe. But the real shift is procedural: USCIS is ...
NPS Likely Acted Unlawfully Removing Slavery Exhibits from President's House
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.paed.648842/gov.uscourts.paed.648842.53.0.pdf
They didn't "update" an exhibit. **They removed the subject.**
*This memo opinion says the National Park Service likely acted unlawfully when it removed slavery-related materials from the President's House site at Independence National Historical Park without the City's required consultation/mutual agreement, and that the City is likely to succeed on the merits at the preliminary-injunction stage.*
**Key points from the opinion itself:**
• The opinion states that on Jan. 22, 2026, NPS removed **34 educational panels** and deactivated related videos at the President's House exhibit that referenced slavery and the people Washington enslaved.
• The City sued under the APA; the court finds the City has standing tied to Congress-authorized cooperative agreements and the City's role/funding in the exhibit.
• The court treats the removals as **final agency action** reviewable under the APA (not just "day-to-day operations").
• On the preliminary record, the court concludes the City is likely to show the removals were *arbitrary and capricious* because they disregarded governing constraints (including mutual-assent requirements and the site's agreed interpretive framework).
**Question:** What would the administrative record need to show for this kind of exhibit removal to be lawful under the APA?
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NPS Likely Acted Unlawfully Removing Slavery Exhibits from President's House \ stacker news
They didn't "update" an exhibit. They removed the subject. This memo opinion says the National Park Service likely acted unlawfully when it removed...
He Defined "White Culture" by Contrasting It With Black Church Music
If you want the cleanest signal from Jeremy Carl's confirmation hearing, **don't start with tweets.**
**Start with this exchange.**
Pressed to define "white culture," Carl didn't cite constitutional principles, legal traditions, or philosophical heritage.
He cited **church aesthetics**, saying *"the white church is very different than the Black church"* and that *"music could be different."*
That's not policy analysis. **That's racialized worship framing.**
When Sen. Murphy followed up, *"So our ability to access white churches or white music is being erased?"*, the claim visibly collapsed. No statute. No federal action. No measurable deprivation. **Just grievance language.**
This matters because **the job in question isn't a podcast seat.** It's Assistant Secretary for International Organizations. The portfolio that interfaces with the UN system and multilateral institutions.
If your definition of cultural harm centers on contrasting "white church" and "Black church" music styles, that's not just rhetoric. **It's worldview.**
And worldview is exactly what confirmation hearings are meant to test.
Carl's [nomination has faced GOP opposition](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-nomination-senior-diplomatic-post-doubt-over-insensitive-remarks-2026-02-12/) over his remarks, with the [official nomination](https://www.congress.gov/nomination/119th-congress/730/13/) still pending Senate action.
Murphy Grills Unqualified Trump Nominee On His White Nationalist Views | U.S. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security,...
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He Defined "White Culture" by Contrasting It With Black Church Music \ stacker news
If you want the cleanest signal from Jeremy Carl's confirmation hearing, don't start with tweets. Start with this exchange. Pressed to define "whit...
The claim here is narrow but important: Early Christian art suggests “what Jesus looked like” was never a fixed portrait, images were a network output (region + style conventions + patronage), not a preserved photo.
Before we go further, let’s be clear about what this isn’t. I’m not claiming this painting is “the one true face of Jesus.” I’m saying it’s evidence that the modern default image is not inevitable or original.
If the goal is historical honesty, the question worth asking isn’t “my Jesus vs your Jesus". it's how images propagate through institutions, copying, and canon-building in the first place.
What most people miss when they see an early Jesus like this
Look at the painting: tight curls, dark tones, a battered surface, and a very “Mediterranean” feel, nothing like the sanitized, Northern-European Sunday-school poster. The reaction most people have is to turn this into an identity argument, but that misses the deeper mechanism at work.
To make a serious claim that “Jesus looks like X,” you’d need a stable, early visual tradition tied to eyewitness-era communities, consistent descriptors across regions, or evidence that later depictions preserved rather than rebranded an original image. What we actually see is something else entirely, a system where images emerged from local conditions and then calcified through institutional power.
Local artists used local faces and local styles because you paint what you know. As Christianity gained scale, institutions standardized the “safe” image. Copying, through icons, manuscripts, and church art, locked in defaults via repetition. Power and patronage decided what became “normal,” not archaeology or preserved memory.
Now, it’s true that pigments age and styles vary, so no single image proves skin tone or exact features. But the broader pattern is hard to miss: the “default Jesus” is downstream of transmission networks, not historical certainty.
Which raises a question worth sitting with: If images are shaped by institutional copying rather than preservation of fact, what other “defaults”, in theology, politics, or identity, are we treating as original when they’re really just the winners of a distribution war?
A question I keep running into in U.S. politics isn’t “how much immigration,” but:
What does “American” mean?
Two definitions keep colliding:
• Civic/legal: citizenship (birthright + naturalization), equal standing under law.
• Inherited: ancestry/“stock”/a cultural baseline treated as the “real” nation.
My hypothesis is a recurring pipeline:
definition → orgs → policy templates → campaign messaging.
A compressed throughline:
• 1937: Pioneer Fund is chartered with “heredity/eugenics” + “race betterment” language (nation-as-bloodline stated explicitly).
• 1980s–90s: records/reporting describe Pioneer Fund grants to FAIR (often summarized ≈ $1.2M).
• 2023–25: Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership functions as a coalition transition blueprint; contributors include people tied to FAIR/IRLI/CIS.
• 2017–present: Miller isn’t the origin—he’s an operational connector across the enforcement ecosystem (incl. AFL overlaps/distancing).
Two Ohio snapshots of “who counts” politics:
• “Replacement” framing in candidate messaging (“End the Replacement of Ohio Workers”).
• Open boundary enforcement (Coulter: “I wouldn’t vote for you because you’re an Indian”; Fuentes urging a block on Vivek).
Question: is this a traceable continuity—American = inherited membership—moving through institutions into everyday politics?
Or am I linking separate arguments that only look connected from 30,000 feet?
We built civilization by outsourcing ourselves.
Writing = memory.
Money = value.
Networks = communication.
Bitcoin = verification.
AI = cognitive labor.
Every upgrade scales cooperation and control.
So don’t act shocked when it works.
Examining the documented history of Christian Right legal organizations founded by leaders who explicitly defended racial segregation in the 1950s-70s, and asking whether today’s dismantling of DEI programs and affirmative action, resulting in measurable declines in Black institutional access. represents coincidence or infrastructure working as designed with evolved messaging. View article →
BLS Reality Check: Unemployment by Race (Seasonally Adjusted:
I pulled the official numbers from the BLS Employment Situation release (Table A-2) and charted the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate (%) for selected months.
Selected months (SA):
• White: 3.8 (Nov ’24) → 3.7 (Jul ’25) → 3.7 (Aug ’25) → 3.8 (Sep ’25) → 3.9 (Nov ’25)
• Asian: 3.8 → 3.9 → 3.6 → 4.4 → 3.6
• Black: 6.4 → 7.2 → 7.5 → 7.5 → 8.3
Source (BLS): 
TL;DR: This is what the official data shows for unemployment by race across those months.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age
- 2026 M03 Results
When Mutants Marched: How X-Men Became America’s Superhero Civil Rights Movement
Stan Lee’s X-Men debuted in 1963 as a direct allegory for the Civil Rights Movement, with Professor Xavier and Magneto embodying the contrasting philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Six decades later, the mutant metaphor still resonates, teaching new generations that fighting for justice when the world fears you is the most heroic thing anyone can do. Article : 
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When Mutants Marched: How X-Men Became America’s Superhero Civil Rights Movement
Stan Lee’s X-Men debuted in 1963 as a direct allegory for the Civil Rights Movement, with Professor Xavier and Magneto embodying the contrasting ...
The biblical world was Afro-Asiatic, not European. Its central figures were almost certainly brown-skinned by modern standards. While Jewish identity evolved through migration and conversion, the idea of a white biblical past is historically indefensible.
Yeshua Was a Dark Brown-Skinned Semitic Refugee
One of the earliest images of the Messiah, painted in the Roman catacombs centuries before Europe rewrote the visuals, showing Yeshua (YHWH Saves): a dark-brown skinned, dark curly short-haired Semitic refugee-immigrant from the Galilean ‘ghetto,’ remembered as his own people saw Him, not as later empires rebranded Him.
