Every time I post about our family getting split up on a flight I’m told I didn’t pay enough for our seats or book far enough in advance.
But this is what Macaulay Culkin just posted.
It should not be legal for airlines to split up kids and parents on the same reservation.
FYI: Two of the idiots who lashed out at actual experts are David Gorski & Gavin "Yammer" Yamey. Never forget these two frauds cosplayed at evidence-based experts.
What we're witnessing here is a classic example of a struggle session. Bishop Barron is being called to recognize a schismatic doctrine he doesn't accept and being dragged socially for refusing it acknowledge it. It is taking place without regard for factual accuracy and in a leveraged, besmirching way.
The key thing to observe here is that Bishop Barron had no good options once Boller started targeting him. She pulled him into her schemes, leaving him with three kinds of options: agree with her characterization of things, respond contrarily, or don't respond at all. All three of these options are losers from his perspective.
If he agrees with her, he gives in to her lies and misrepresentations and ends up supporting them.
If he responds contrarily (which he did), he gets attacked and ripped, accused of dishonesty, misrepresentation, and misfeasance.
If he doesn't respond at all, it continues with increasing pressure until he does, besmirching him through accusation and allegation all along (which is how she got his attention in the first place).
This is why, Scripturally, Satan is referred to as a "prosecutor" (or accuser), not just the Father of Lies. This is how the game works, and it is that spirit that animates the struggle session both in general and in this specific instance.
The way a struggle session works ultimately is by leveraging a community of people, which may, in fact, be far smaller than appearances give (especially online), to get someone to cave in on their moral views and to adopt new ones that require a new hermeneutical framework ("theoretical or eisegetical lens") to recognize.
In this case, Boller, et al., are presenting a schismatic view (Vatican I, maybe, approximately) up against the current Vatican II doctrine and trying to leverage personality to discredit the existing doctrine in favor of their preferred doctrine. They're approaching this as (social) schismatics trying to leverage a religious conflict between their very minority faction and the prevailing view of almost all Catholics. The main mechanism (and possible real point) of this activity is to recruit people through online bullying to adopt the contents of their schismatic campaign (that is, recruitment, not revolution, yet).
The struggle session is only actually occurring, therefore, within the community of people who have that (bad, twisted) framing or in people who are susceptible to it. It is not happening in reality, but the struggle session is designed to isolate the target from a broader social circumstance that can provide stability and clarity in the midst of the attack. Bishop Barron would be wise to remember that these people are virulent schismatics and the opinion of angry online people is, in fact, actually fringe.
Furthermore, other solid Catholics (among others) would be wise to remember that the more isolated Bishop Barron feels, the more successful this attack will be. The goal is ultimately to diminish his standing and credibility if they cannot recruit him to their side.
For reference, the term "struggle session" comes from its original description in Mandarin Chinese: pīpàn dòuzhēng (批判鬥爭), which is what the Maoists called it, pīdòu for short. Pīpàn refers to the process of criticism and the schismatic framework through which the struggle is done, and dòuzhēng literally means to struggle with. It is sometimes referred to as the process of "criticism and self-criticism" (pīpàn and zìwǒ pīpàn). These terms specifically refer to the kind of ideological struggle that's supposed to produce thought reform or "ideological remolding" (sīxiǎng gǎizào, 思想改造).
Boller and her associates have, with what appears to be malicious intent, dragged @BishopBarron into this drama as a means of furthering their campaigns, whether personal or political (in my estimation, both).
May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour.
He had been up there for over a day.
Then the warnings started.
First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home.
Without it, reentry was nearly impossible.
Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead.
Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing.
Cooper didn't panic.
He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch.
Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer.
At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole.
Then the parachutes opened.
Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program.
The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had.
We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does.
But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next.
The final backup was never the software.
It was him.
Over the past several weeks, Carrie Prejean Boller has complained that she was removed from the Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty because of her Catholic beliefs, and she has called out myself and other Catholic members of the commission for not defending her. This is absurd. Mrs. Prejean Boller was not dismissed for her religious convictions but rather for her behavior at a gathering of the Commission last month: browbeating witnesses, aggressively asserting her point of view, hijacking the meeting for her own political purposes. The Catholic position on matters of “Zionism,” to which I fully subscribe, is as follows: all forms of antisemitism are to be unequivocally condemned; the state of Israel has a right to exist; but the modern nation of Israel does not represent the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies and hence does not stand beyond criticism. If Mrs. Prejean Boller were dismissed for holding these beliefs, it is difficult to understand why I am still a member of the Commission. To paint herself as a victim of anti-Catholic prejudice or to claim that her religious liberty has been denied is simply preposterous.
Normalizing remote school was a mistake.
Credit where it's due: Tucker is amazing at confidently delivering absolute lies. Here he is claiming that Churchill locked up members of the opposition party during WW2.
When, in fact, Churchill led a National Government, i.e. one that INCLUDED leaders of the opposition parties in prominent roles. Labour leader Clement Atlee was appointed Churchill's Deputy and other leading Labour and Liberal politicians held major roles in the cabinet.
The person Tucker is talking about is Oswald Mosley who was the leader of the British Union of Fascists and was not elected to anything. He wanted Britain to become a fascist country and work with Hitler. Despite this, contrary to Tucker's claims, he was not even detained for the full duration of the war and was released in 1943, two years before it ended. In most other countries he would have been hanged for treason without a second thought the day the war started.
Britain's treatment of this tiny group of fascists, i.e. enemy sympathisers and collaborators, during WW2 is an example of extraordinary restraint and respect for the sanctity of human life and freedom that was not only unparalleled in the world at that time but arguably remains rare and hugely admirable even by the standards of today across most of the world.
In short, Tucker is completely wrong and we can only conclude that the spreading of these malicious lies is motivated not only by his ignorance of history but also by the fact that he will say ANYTHING he deems necessary to suit his political agenda.
His opposition to the current war in Iran, about which I myself have expressed some skepticism, does not justify this behaviour and is, in fact, undermined by it - no right- thinking person can take him seriously after this.
“Scientists say” based on a machine learning model whose output can be neither proven nor falsified and is therefore not science. Yet because this result was published in Science Magazine, it will now be endlessly cited by scientists as a scientific fact.
Everyone understand how science works?
Hahahahahahha!!!
No, we *definitely* did not “undercount” COVID deaths. 🤣🤣🤣
What *did* happen was virtually *every* hospital and morgue was testing every patient and body at the time for Covid … and then cross-referencing every death certificate with testing records to find even more among the supposed "negatives."
And let’s not forget they were using tests with cycle thresholds high enough to detect DNA from practically *anything*.
Oh, and they *had* to do it or risk losing federal funding.
And now some “researchers” have gone and trained an algorithm to recognize the “characteristics” of a Covid death under the above conditions — basically turning “Covid-related” into “anything in a hospital” — and then extrapolated that model to deaths in places that weren’t swabbing everything with and without a pulse … and of course they get “undercounting.”
Garbage in, garbage out isn’t a new concept.
And people still wonder why no one trusts “science” anymore.
In which the fakest of fake causes admits that nothing was banned, but that also they are victims of bans.
This is what grade inflation looks like. AP exams suddenly became easier.
So when your local school, district, or state touts record AP participation and passage rates ... now you know why.
Source:
https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/great-recalibration-ap-exams
And have you guessed what is REALLY at stake? What is REALLY driving this? It's fear that the liability shield will be weakened.
Brian Murphy is a rogue judge, who has been rebuked by the Supreme Court for continuing to enforce an injunction after the Supreme Court had already stayed it in an immigration deportation case. In that case, the Supreme Court held that district court judges do not have authority to issue nationwide injunctions. He then again defied the same order in 2026.
He is now defying the Supreme Court again, in his demonstratively biased and error ridden ACIP ruling . Again asserting that he has the power to issue nationwide injunctions.
This is the third time in six months, he has defied the Supreme court - insisting that he can issue national wide injunctions against the federal government.
There is no other remedy to remove him from the bench, other than impeachment.
Congress must act.
Brian Murphy must be impeached.
Please contact your Congressional representatives and implore them to investigate and impeach rogue judge Brian Murphy.
@Jim_Jordan
@SenRandPaul
@chiproytx
@RonnyJacksonTX
@Eric_Schmitt
@SenRonJohnson
@HHSGov
@ChildrensHD
@HouseLyndseyRN
@React19org
@AAGDhillon
@AaronSiriSG
@NIHDirector_Jay
@DrJBhattacharya
@HeidiOverton
@brownstoneinst
@jeffreytucker
@megynkelly
@TaraBull
@MarioNawfal @LeaderJohnThune
@AmThoughtLeader
@LeaderJohnThune
@Moms4Liberty
Since the current ACIP now consist of actual practicing physicians, not just public health policy folks and pharma mouthpieces like the past, it’s reprehensible that some Fed Activist judge and @AmerAcadPeds order the meeting cancelled 2 days before scheduled, when ACIP members gave up DAYS of patient care and went on their dime to DC. #AAP is really pretending they care about patients?
It’s disgusting.
Again, the closer a tyrant becomes to losing power, the more deranged and desperate their attempts to cling to power become.
For months parents were told to stay quiet.
Now even Washington D.C. is asking questions.
Lipscomb Academy’s code of conduct bans parents from publicly criticizing the school or leadership decisions …a policy that critics say was weaponized against families who spoke up.
NO school…ESPECIALLY one claiming Christian values should silence parents who are trying to protect their children. @LipscombAcademy @lipscomb
https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/13/ftc-tells-woke-christian-school-to-rethink-speech-freezing-code-of-conduct/
"Collectively, we’ve watered down the notion that it takes effort to succeed - that trying is a key part of a student’s job."
Outstanding post from Tim Daly.
Just one of the parts that hit me below:
If I were to summarize this judge's opinion on ACIP, it would be: pharma, not the people and their representatives, should be in charge of government and its operations. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/61910a2d98732d54b73ef8fc/t/69b860ce3565975d7df99925/1773691086423/gov.uscourts.mad.286605.291.0_1.pdf
Can you sue a judge for libel, asking for a friend?
This is the same judge that has disbanded the ACIP and blocked all of the changes over the last year.
and yes, "JUDICIAL COUP" is right.
This week was to be an incredibly important ACIP meeting on vaccine injury, the first of its kind - ever.
More judicial insanity. 👇
Keep in mind the CDC is not forcing any vaccine policy on anyone (as the Biden Administration actually did with the ineffective Covid *vaccine).
This judge is telling the CDC what they can and cannot recommend. 🤬🤦♂️
If this ruling stands (it won’t), what’s the point of even having a CDC if some random judge can come along and decide they know better (rhetorical question)?
Also from the article:
“The judge, who was appointed by Democratic President Joe Biden, has earned the scorn of Republican President Donald Trump and his allies for repeatedly blocking administration initiatives, including core parts of Trump's hardline immigration agenda.”
Where is my shocked face when I need it?
This is pure activism cloaked in a robe.
Correcting the NY Times ACIP Reporting on Vaccine Injury https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffereyjaxen/p/correcting-the-ny-times-acip-reporting?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
The article is even worse.
An Islamist terrorist tried to murder 140 preschool kids in Michigan.
NPR decided the real victims were terrorists and their supporters in Lebanon.
You don’t hate these people enough.
She now claims the "friend" is actually her. But she says she has her maiden name and passport, so the claim that the "friend" could never vote again was a lie, even if the bizarre and nonsensical series of events from her original story were somehow true.
They forced human separation for three years, wrecked a million small businesses, robbed a generation of two years of education, violated religious rights, to prepare for a mandated experimental shot – and we are supposed to FORGET about it? I don't think so. http://Covidjustice.org
Someone builds a project management tool with Claude Code over a weekend. Ships it. Tweets "just replaced Jira."
The app works. One user, happy path, localhost. Then two people edit the same record simultaneously, and the data is silently corrupted. They don't know what an optimistic lock is. They never needed to before.
The prototype is maybe 1% of what makes software actually work. The other 99% is what you find after real users show up: race conditions, failed transactions, sessions expiring at the wrong moment, a payment webhook that fires twice and charges someone double. AI didn't cover any of that. It built exactly what you asked for.
And the confidence is the worst part. "Just need to adjust a few things before we go live." The few things you need to adjust are the product. That's like laying a foundation and telling people you basically built the house.
Vibe coding works. For personal tools, throwaway scripts, and prototypes you'll never put in front of paying users, it's genuinely fast and good enough. I use it. But there's a hard ceiling, and it shows up the moment the stakes get real.
Agentic engineering is a different discipline. You're not prompting for code. You're decomposing problems, designing system boundaries, writing specs precise enough that the agent doesn't go sideways. You review everything it builds, because it will make mistakes that only look wrong if you know what correct looks like. You guide it. You catch what it misses.
If you don't know what a distributed transaction is, the agent won't save you. It'll generate something broken with complete confidence, and you won't know until production.
The hard part of software was never writing the first 200 lines.
It never was.
Carrie is a grifter, and has no constitutional right to be on a commission, her "rights" were not violated. She was removed for being an antagonistic asshole and falsely accusing other people on the commission, and because she's fking retarded.
The fact that you're taking up her cause makes you even more suspicious for taking donations from Islamists.
We can’t ignore this anymore.
Here's the entire press conference with Norfolk FBI Special Agent in Charge Dominique Evans about Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, who shot three people today after driving his truck into Constant Hall, an academic building at ODU.
This is something every American should watch. It highlights the bravery of the ROTC members who stepped in and eliminated the threat.
It's time to realize where we are and what it will take to get us out the other side in one piece. The press conference effectively highlights the core issues:
- He was previously a subject of an FBI investigation into material support for terrorism.
- He shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the attack.
- He provided aid to ISIL 10 years ago.
- He sought to carry out an attack on Fort Hood.
- He shot three Americans today, killing one.
- He was released from prison in 2024 for charges related to attempting to procure weapons, send money, express intentions to carry out terror attacks, and make contact with people—all in support of ISIL.
- He was released early for "good behavior" due to far-left soft-on-crime policies.
He should have been denaturalized and deported long ago. Don't forget, countless others have entered under the Biden/Harris/Mayorkas/Becerra regime.
We don't even know who the vast majority of these people are (look up "unknown gotaways"), and Democrats are going as far as to shutter DHS at a time when national security is critical.
Good reporting from @alanagoodman on how left-wing activist groups are providing free trips and other benefits to judges to try to engineer favorable rulings on otherwise frivolous climate-related cases.
https://freebeacon.com/courts/inside-the-left-wing-operation-to-train-judges-about-climate-change-free-trips-to-napa-valley-palm-beach-and-hawaii-fuel-a-secret-judge-recruitment-operation/
Guess who the Guardian partnered with to address scientific misinformation? So hilarious @RetsefL 🤣
This is bad for Nashville. Blue wealth thinks they are fundamentally smarter and better than conservatives. They think they’re saving you from yourself and your backwards ways. If you thought the CA influx was bad, wait until you see how demented people from WA are.
And of course David doesn’t practice what he preaches. In 2021 he demonized fellow Christians who were seeking exemptions from COVID vaccine mandates as having “hardened heart[s]” that “reason and virtue have difficulty penetrating.” He accused them of having a “moral framework that’s broken” and being “dangerous,” “extreme,” and examples of “libertinism” that was a threat to liberty itself. Disagreeing with COVID mandates was not immoral. It was a reasonable difference of opinion, and yet David sought to absolutize his view on this disputable issue and anathematize as evil Christians who disagreed with him. By contrast, he now insists that someone like Talarico who is promoting truly evil things must be praised as a paragon of Christian decency.
The term "theological liberalism" is thrown around a lot.
When push comes to shove though, it still boils down to Richard Niebuhr's summation of what theological liberalism truly is: "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross" (Kingdom of God in America, 193).
Liberal/progressive Christianity is more than that but it is no less than that, and it will always come down to it. Niebuhr's words 89 years ago are just as applicable in 1937 as they are today.
They were murdered in captivity. And the whole of Ireland's cultural elite supports the men who killed them.
Our TPUSA Frontlines journalists were on site at the NYC terrorist attack over the weekend. They made some key observations:
- These were mostly white leftists
- They wanted to literally KILL Jake Lang
- They beat up at least one other journalist
- This had all the hallmarks of Antifa violence
Once again, organized rioters and violent thugs were allowed to violently disrupt a peaceful assembly. This time they also provided the necessary chaos for ISIS-inspired jihadists to nearly kill dozens of Americans with an IED explosive.
@FrontlinesTPUSA
Paging educators 🚩🚩🚩
This is the second time in 2 weeks that @JonHaidt has called to get Ed Tech out of classrooms by September:
"I hope that many elementary schools will remove devices by Sept., or create an analog path for parents who want that. Let's see if kids do better with books and paper"
Haidt drove the cell phone ban legislation. What are the odds his words carry in a similar fashion?
Are we doing enough to signal this shift to districts?
1/2
This really is an all time photo. A protestor shouting about the pros of immigration is interrupted by an Islamic terrorist throwing a bomb jumping over him.
You should read this: David French Suffers An Apparent Brain Injury Over James Talarico https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/09/david-french-suffers-an-apparent-brain-injury-over-james-talarico/
Fun fact: In 1996, Barack Obama won his first elected office (Illinois state Senate) by throwing all of his opponents off the ballot.
One of his tactics for disqualifying them was to challenge signatures on his opponents' petitions by married women who signed using the wrong name.
Happy International Women's Day.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121918996082755013
Fake issue/"crisis" alert.
Theres nothing to "reclaim"- AI is primarily affecting knowledge workers and the reality is the AI datacenter build out is a boon to skilled labor.
Texas cant even find enough electricians and skilled workers to build the datacenters.
AI power is beholden to manpower and energy.
Every parent knows that agreeable children can use their agreeableness to their advantage. They can lie, disobey, and hurt their siblings, and get away with it by being agreeable.
I'm sure David knows this. But too often it feels like he has slipped away into a moral universe where the one and only thing that matters is Donald Trump. Way too many columns try to shrink reality down Trump-size.
Decency and ideology are not the same thing, true. But agreeableness and decency are not the same thing either. And morality is not a simple question of how unlike Donald Trump you are. I sincerely wish more of David's writing felt like a search for truth, rather than a determination to just get as far away as possible from one man.