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@eastbrad Wembanyana is on my good-guy list for pledging never to promote gambling.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2026/11/11/hardcore-prepping-for-nonbillionaires-doomsday.html","date_published":"2026-11-11T21:23:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-11 21:23","date_timestamp":1794432228,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"100895193","content_html":"@patrickrhone Orthodox Christianity has an unusual if not unique focus on Christ coming to “deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.” (Heb. 2:14-15) So your older friend likely is onto something.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn/100895193","date_published":"2026-11-11T15:54:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-11 15:54","date_timestamp":1794412470,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100894735","content_html":"@dswanson I’ve got it queued up for reading already. Elizabeth Breunig is on my “if she writes it, you should give it a look” list.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn/100894735","date_published":"2026-11-11T15:45:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-11 15:45","date_timestamp":1794411958,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100892161","content_html":"\n\n\n\n
Indiana escaped the blue tsunami because it refused Trump’s mid-decade redistricting gimmick. I wish I was in Spencer Deery’s State Senate district, but alas, I’m merely adjacent. (Meanwhile, my State Senator is charged with 6 shoplifting incidents, almost certainly the result of a brain disorder like early Alz.)
\n","summary":"","url":"https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2026/11/11/we-need-better-candidates-not.html","date_published":"2026-11-11T14:50:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-11 14:50","date_timestamp":1794408639,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"100827602","content_html":"It’s probably a very legitimate news story, but “honeypot” is kind of a clickbaity word even if it wasn’t.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2026/11/10/its-probably-a-very-legitimate.html","date_published":"2026-11-10T13:02:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-10 13:02","date_timestamp":1794315731,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"100827053","content_html":"@joshuapsteele On Medicare now for more than a decade, I still watch and file my EOBs for cross-checking when I occasionally get a bill. But the bills are truly occasional.
\nThis contributes to my conviction that some kind of universal health care, for better or worse, is inevitable.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn/100827053","date_published":"2026-11-10T12:49:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-10 12:49","date_timestamp":1794314942,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100774078","content_html":"George Will thinks straigh and writes pretty. Noble lies without the nobility - Breadcrumbs
\n","summary":"","url":"https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2026/11/09/george-will-thinks-straigh-and.html","date_published":"2026-11-09T14:53:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-09 14:53","date_timestamp":1794236029,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"100772767","content_html":"\n\n\nIn a letter to the editor of The Boston Globe, Mary Skorczeski linked voters’ Democratic turn to Trump’s insatiable need for attention: “What happens when you suck the oxygen out of the room for 10 years? People turn blue.” (Michael Smith, Georgetown, Ky.)
\n
Via Frank Bruni
\n\nI love that too much.
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","summary":"","url":"https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2026/11/09/well-maybe-the-story-isnt.html","date_published":"2026-11-09T14:12:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-09 14:12","date_timestamp":1794233558,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"100771406","content_html":"Impeach Pete Hegseth brings the receipts.
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\nBut if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. 1 Corinthians 11:16
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\n\n\nThe Indiana Republicans who told Trump ‘no’ last December just saved their delegation in arguably the most underreported story of the cycle. … The gerrymander that was supposed to deliver 9-0 for Republicans would have delivered 8-1 for Democrats
\n
Erick Erickson via Andrew Sullivan
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn/100646380","date_published":"2026-11-06T21:47:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-06 21:47","date_timestamp":1794001626,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100622475","content_html":"“What is a TikTok video,” [Cal Newport] asks, “if not a digital Dorito?”
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn/100620470","date_published":"2026-11-06T13:36:37+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-06 13:36","date_timestamp":1793972197,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100563425","content_html":"@bethanyh You’re in a different stage of life than I am, obviously. Venmo makes a lot of sense for you.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn/100563425","date_published":"2026-11-05T14:52:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-05 14:52","date_timestamp":1793890358,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100561477","content_html":"@ReaderJohn I’m enjoying finding signs of MAGAworld self-destructing, but I’m going to post further signs off this platform, which tends to eschew obsessive politics (but doesn’t allow comments).
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn/100561477","date_published":"2026-11-05T14:14:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-05 14:14","date_timestamp":1793888040,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100560476","content_html":"@ReaderJohn
\nTrump is reportedly asking advisers if Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, one of the Iran war’s strongest backers, should be fired. Trump denied the reports when asked about them by journalists.
@jabel Not as much as Tippecanoe (20 points blue-ward), and not from red-to-blue, but 15 points blue-ward.
\n
@JohnBrady Thanks from me, too. As I fuss over ephemera like elections, it’s nice to be reminded of solid and lasting things.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn/100559765","date_published":"2026-11-05T13:37:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-05 13:37","date_timestamp":1793885862,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100559369","content_html":"A County-by-County Look at How the Blue Wave Touched Nearly Every Part of America - WSJ
\n\nGreat maps. My county went from barely red to solidly blue, a 20-point swing.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2026/11/05/a-countybycounty-look-at-how.html","date_published":"2026-11-05T13:28:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-05 13:28","date_timestamp":1793885288,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"100558971","content_html":"@ReaderJohn House Republicans swing from “shock” to fury after elections loss
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn/100558971","date_published":"2026-11-05T13:21:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-05 13:21","date_timestamp":1793884893,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100558677","content_html":"\n\n\n15. Across wide stretches of the sun-bleached Sonoran desert in Arizona, thousands of retired aircraft sit nose-to-tail in graveyards of metal known as boneyards. Many of their engines haven’t been fired up for years. But America’s soaring demand for electricity to power data centers is bringing them back to life. Several companies are racing to strip the engines out of old aircraft to convert them into electrical generators. And data centers, desperate for power, are snapping them up. (Source: nytimes.com)
\n
John Ellis News Items (a great alt-news source)
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\n\n\n\n\nan electric engine has 100 times fewer moving parts and than a fuel-driven engine.
\n
If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand time, “100 times fewer” does not compute!
\n\n(But thanks for “fewer” instead of “less.”)
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\nBut I saw Schumer step up to a mike for a presser yesterday and he looks closer to Biden’s decrepitude than Trump’s faux vitality.
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\nHaving never used it, maybe I’m missing something.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn/100552567","date_published":"2026-11-05T11:09:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-05 11:09","date_timestamp":1793876947,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100535356","content_html":"@joshuapsteele I guess “the role of money in politics” is serviceable.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn/100535356","date_published":"2026-11-05T02:44:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-05 02:44","date_timestamp":1793846656,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100534702","content_html":"I’m imagining Biblical scenes where the enemy (Philistia?) is laying siege to Israel when an Angel comes down at night, confuses the enemy and they all kill each other.
\n\nCan Republicans, having debased themselves under Trump, keep from “killing” each other with buck-passing for yesterday’s debacle?
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn/100517035","date_published":"2026-11-04T21:13:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-04 21:13","date_timestamp":1793826834,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100516116","content_html":"@joshuapsteele @thebigbabooski
\nOne of my pet peeves is using Citizens United as a shorthand for everything about big money in politics. It’s not..
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\nUnity benefit: everyone agrees pardons are a mess.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn/100487157","date_published":"2026-11-04T13:40:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-04 13:40","date_timestamp":1793799619,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100487014","content_html":"@patrickrhone … starting with figuring out what the real work is since we can’t do everything at once.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ReaderJohn/100487014","date_published":"2026-11-04T13:37:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-04 13:37","date_timestamp":1793799454,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100480097","content_html":"An awfully good 5-minute summary of the election from Anne Applebaum: www.youtube.com/watch
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\n\nThe East West Series, now known as The Great Christian Divide: East & West (I guess it evolved during production, just as it grew from 24 episodes to 33).
\n\nLook at the “Episode Guide” and you’ll see why a long-ago Orthodox convert with intellectual leanings found it irresistible.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://microblog.intellectualoid.com/2026/11/03/gotta-say-getting-up-early.html","date_published":"2026-11-03T13:55:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Roger Wm. Bennett","url":"http://intellectualoid.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2FReaderJohn%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ReaderJohn"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-03 13:55","date_timestamp":1793714130,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"100405606","content_html":"\n\nMusing on this extraordinary election.
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\nI’m usually a blowout skeptic, but I’m having trouble imagining as many voters as fired up for more of the same as for change.
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\n
John Ehrett, Book Review: “Live Not By Lies” – Conciliar Post
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