“Reality is too heavy for people, so they rent illusions and call it happiness.” - Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian writer whose haunting and unconventional stories became some of the most influential works of modern literature. Best known for The Metamorphosis, The Trial, and The Castle, Kafka wrote about alienation, anxiety, isolation, guilt, identity, and the struggle of individuals against confusing and seemingly impossible systems. His characters are often trapped in situations governed by rules they cannot understand and forces they cannot control. This unsettling style inspired the word “Kafkaesque,” now used to describe experiences that feel bizarre, oppressive, complicated, and frustratingly beyond a person’s control. Kafka’s work remains powerful because it reflects a timeless human struggle: searching for meaning, certainty, and belonging in a world that does not always provide clear answers. Kafka didn’t just create strange fictional worlds—he revealed how strange the ordinary world could become.

Crossing the Atlantic on her gave me a memory to last a lifetime. ☦️🙏❤️🥲🇺🇸🇬🇷

“The man, the more he studies, the more simpler he becomes, because as he studies he discovers the greatness of his ignorance.” - Aristotle Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher whose ideas profoundly influenced Western thought. A student of Plato and later the tutor of Alexander the Great, he explored subjects ranging from logic and ethics to politics, science, nature, and human knowledge. His philosophy placed great importance on observation, rational thought, and careful investigation. “The man, the more he studies, the simpler he becomes, because as he studies he discovers the greatness of his ignorance.” Although this quotation is often credited to Aristotle, its exact wording is difficult to locate within his surviving writings. Still, the message reflects a longstanding philosophical idea: gaining knowledge often makes us increasingly aware of everything we have yet to understand. Someone with limited knowledge may initially feel confident that they understand a subject completely. Deeper study, however, exposes layers of complexity, unanswered questions, and the boundaries of what we know. In this sense, genuine education tends to encourage humility rather than certainty or arrogance. The “simplicity” described in the quote does not suggest becoming less intelligent. Instead, it refers to becoming less concerned with appearing knowledgeable. As understanding grows, so does the realization that there is no need to pretend we possess every answer. The larger lesson is that wisdom often brings an awareness of our own limitations. The more we learn, the more clearly we recognize how much remains unknown. True intelligence is not believing we know everything—it is remaining humble, curious, and willing to continue learning.

🇬🇷 🇮🇱 Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met today on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session. Netanyahu emphasized the importance of the strategic partnership between the two countries for regional stability and welcomed Greece's selection of Israeli defense systems. The two leaders also discussed regional developments, energy cooperation, and preparations for the next trilateral summit with Cyprus.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met on Sept. 21 with His Majesty King Charles III at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. This was their second meeting since the British Monarch’s accession to the Throne. The first took place in October 2022. archons-of-the-ecumenical-pa…

Jim wrote the foreword to my book about the Trump shooting. In it, Jim contemplates how he'll be remembered. Posting it here for anyone who wants to read:

On this exact day in 1780, three ordinary militiamen stopped a stranger on a road, searched him, found treason hidden in his boot, turned down a small fortune to let him walk, and in doing so saved West Point and possibly the whole Revolution. Their names were John Paulding, Isaac Van Wart, and David Williams, and almost no one remembers them. They were not famous soldiers. They were young New York farmers, part of the informal patrols that watched the dangerous no-man's-land north of British-occupied New York City, a lawless strip crawling with raiders and spies from both sides. On the morning of September 23, near Tarrytown, they stopped a well-dressed rider who called himself John Anderson. Here is where luck and character collided. The rider, seeing rough men in mixed clothing, guessed wrong and assumed they were Loyalists like himself, and he let slip that he was a British officer. The instant he realized his mistake, he tried to backtrack, but it was too late. The three militiamen were suspicious now, and they decided to search him. They made him strip, and inside his stockings, tucked into his boot, David Williams found folded papers, detailed plans of the American fortress at West Point, its defenses, its garrison, its weaknesses. They had no idea, in that moment, that the man was Major John André, head of British intelligence, or that the papers had been handed to him by Benedict Arnold himself in a treason plot to sell West Point to the enemy. But they knew they had caught something enormous. And then came the test that made them heroes. André, desperate, tried to buy his freedom. He offered them his fine horse, his watch, and money, and by the account given at his trial, a bribe of a thousand guineas in gold, an almost unimaginable sum for three farmers of modest means, enough to change their lives forever. All they had to do was let him ride away. They said no. Three poor young men, offered a fortune to look the other way, refused it, and instead marched their prisoner to the nearest American officer. That single act of plain honesty unraveled the entire conspiracy. The papers exposed the plot to betray West Point. Arnold barely escaped to a British ship. André was tried and hanged. And the fortress that guarded the Hudson, the linchpin of the American position, was saved. The young nation understood what it owed them. Congress voted the three men the very first military decoration in American history, a silver medal called the Fidelity Medallion, its reverse inscribed with a Latin motto meaning "the love of country conquers." Each also received a lifetime pension and a farm. George Washington himself presented them their medals. Remember Paulding, Van Wart, and Williams. Not generals, not statesmen, just three farmers on patrol who happened to stop the right man on the right morning, and who then proved that they could not be bought at any price. The Revolution was saved that day not by a brilliant plan or a famous hero, but by ordinary men who were simply, stubbornly honest when a fortune said they should not be.

RT @AndrewKolvet: WOW! Senator Katie Britt just UNLEASHED on Democrats after not a single one showed up for today's hearing on Safety in Wo…

SIX OF THE MOST WANTED FRAUDSTERS ON PLANET EARTH — ARRESTED IN THREE MONTHS. Four continents. $2 BILLION in fraud against American citizens. 5,000 days on the run. Then there’s Operation Blackout. $17 BILLION in scam-center fraud seized. Thousands arrested. Thousands of workers freed. These criminal syndicates targeted Americans’ life savings, retirements, and their kids’ college tuition. We’re finding them overseas. We’re dismantling their operations. And when we’re done — they won’t be able to replicate them. The FBI is leading the scam-center fight and the fraud fight. That’s what it takes to complete the mission. -DKP 🇺🇸

Another seemingly impossible feat accomplished. In case you’re confused why it was so important for America to secure Greenland before another superpower did... Here’s one of many reasons. Here you go America . . . WE GOT GREENLAND — AT LEAST WHEN IT COMES TO SECURITY! BIG news today. President Trump announced an agreement with Denmark and Greenland giving the United States a permanent and expanded role in Greenland’s security. Under the announced agreement, U.S. adversaries will not be allowed to establish military bases, maintain a military presence, or make certain sensitive investments in Greenland without U.S. approval. Greenland isn’t becoming a U.S. state, but America’s strategic position in the Arctic just got a whole lot stronger. This is a HUGE geopolitical development. 🇺🇸🇬🇱

“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”….Plato

Seneca curó la ansiedad 2.000 años antes de que existiera la terapia. Fue el hombre más rico de Roma y consejero de un emperador. Y aun así pasó su vida escribiendo sobre cómo calmar la mente. 7 frases de él que todavía funcionan 🧵

Goosebumps. For all its faults, Western Christian culture is still worth defending.

Today marks the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution - the bedrock of the greatest country in the history of the world. Happy Constitution Day and never forget how fortunate we all are to live in America. 🇺🇸

🚨 BREAKING: The US House has OVERWHELMINGLY voted to CODIFY President Trump's FRAUD DIVISION within the DOJ, 352-72 This is a HUGE win 🔥 The Fraud Division will soon have FULL STATUTORY AUTHORITY to investigate and prosecute fraud against: • Federal government programs • Federally funded benefits • Taxpayer dollars more broadly It now heads to the US Senate Absolutely MINDBOGGLING that ANYBODY could vote against this. But it's just Democrats being Democrats, I guess.

Maria Callas may have died on September 16, 1977 but her immortal voice lives on, along with her legend. It’s no mystery why Greeks, Italians and Americans, all claim Callas as theirs.

HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM: This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve... My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!! Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ?? Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity." Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress. Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."