Althouse: Sunrise.

July 5, 2026

Sunrise.

55 comments:

Narr said...: So, anybody watching the World Cup?; 7/5/26, 8:44 PM
Big Mike said...: @Narr, Tomorrow night; 7/5/26, 9:44 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I just dropped off a passenger who was listening via his phone. He was a Mexican expressing shock and disbelief.

Saying our goodbyes I said “Si se puede!”. Secretly I think I said that mockingly? I don’t know; I’m not a kickball fanatic. Besides, I don’t want to get political.; 7/5/26, 9:44 PM
Jupiter said...: This evenings sermon is based upon Highway 61 Revisited, Side 2, Track 2, "Highway 61";
"Oh God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son”
Abe says, “Man, you must be puttin’ me on”
God say, “No.” Abe say, “What?”
God say, “You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin’ you better run”
Well Abe says, “Where do you want this killin’ done?”
God says, “Out on Highway 61”

In this reframing of the Book of Genesis, Dylan explores the Deity as Gangster motif, implying that the Creator of the Universe was motivated largely by a desire to have sentient creatures that he might dominate by torture and terrorism. Forcing Abraham to agree to participate in the murder of his own son was God's way of crushing Abraham's will between his God-given desire to have progeny and his craven terror in the face of God's complete control of the circumstances of his existence. In Dylan's telling, God created Abraham in order to toy with him.

Extra credit; In the New Testament, God creates a Son of his own, and sacrifices Him. While He released Abraham from the demand that he kill his son, He showed no such mercy to his own Son.
1 - Does this indicate that the Universe was created by a sadomasochistic monster?
2 - Why would an immortal and omnipotent Deity require the ability to reproduce?
3 - Does the ability to reproduce somehow entail psychosexual perversion? Is there something innate in the idea of an entity that is both a reproduction of the self, but also other than the self, that necessarily drives any seemingly rational mind down an irrational rabbithole?
4 - To put it another way, is reproduction incompatible with rationality? Is it simply impossible, for straightforward reasons, that an entity that "reproduces" might remain "rational"?; 7/5/26, 10:08 PM
Smilin' Jack said...: The NYT is giving the World Cup more coverage than Iran and Ukraine combined. The Illuminati are determined to cram soccer down our throats. And we WILL like it.; 7/5/26, 10:28 PM
Jupiter said...: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16

OK .... but ... before God, the omnipotent Creator of the Universe, could make this wrenching personal sacrifice, He would have had to somehow decide to even have an only "begotten" Son. And also, he would have needed to decide, for reasons not in evidence, that only the death of that Son could save the rest of his creation from the doom He had decreed for it, in His Articles of Incorporation.
He seems like more than a little bit of a Drama Queen. With a whim of iron.; 7/5/26, 10:30 PM
Jupiter said...: From the standpoint of physical science, the idea of an omnipotent Deity is deeply problematic. In the Western tradition, we suppose that there exists a "normal course of affairs", which is what physical science attempts to identify, and then there are those occurrences that are "miraculous", meaning, contrary to that normal course of affairs. But if we assume that God is omnipotent, then it is simply impossible that anything might occur that was contrary to His Will.

Islam is more rational about this, although Islam is entirely irrational. At least some "Islamic scholars" maintain that every single thing that occurs -- each slight deflection of a grasshopper's wing -- occurs because Allah wills it. And while this seems quite absurd, or at least quite inexplicable, it makes more sense than the idea that an omnipotent God arranges things to suit Himself -- except for when He can't be bothered, and allows some other agency to determine what comes next. What, He's busy that day?; 7/5/26, 10:47 PM
Smilin' Jack said...: Before you get all judgy, remember what you did to Saturn.; 7/5/26, 10:48 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...: @Jupiter : what would be different between God of Abraham and Allah of Mohammed?; 7/5/26, 10:59 PM
Saint Croix said...: I personally think that God did not call on Abraham to sacrifice his son. Abraham misunderstood the call. I do believe God stopped the sacrifice before it could happen.

God sacrificing his own son for us, flips the Old Testament narrative on its head. We don’t have to make blood sacrifice to God, the powerful one. He, far more powerful than we are, made a blood sacrifice for us. This radically reshaped our understanding of God. He loves us.

And of course the story doesn’t stop with the blood sacrifice (Good Friday). God resurrected Jesus from the dead (Easter Sunday). This radically reshaped our understanding of death. We no longer had to be afraid of God. We no longer had to be afraid of dying.

I suppose God had to do it this way because humanity is so messed up. Jesus brought back Lazarus from the dead, and humanity barely noticed.

The disciples were shocked when God killed Jesus. They were even more shocked when God brought him back to life.; 7/5/26, 11:06 PM
Jupiter said...: On a distinct, but not unrelated topic:
"Time will tell
Just who has fell,
And who's been left behind
When you go your way and I go mine".

A brilliant lyric. An iconic line. I hear it ringing in my mind, like a tolling bell, each phrase following upon the last as necessarily it must. Except.

It should be "who fell", or else "who has fallen". Just from a grammatical point of view.

I have to say, I'm inclined to give him this one. The cadence lands upon the ear as a striding inevitability. The rhyme is necessary to that cadence. Is it even possible that the thought might be expressed in some other way? I think he has gotten away with it. Like a bank-robber, he pulled it off. And no one got hurt, so his crime is forgiven.; 7/5/26, 11:07 PM
bagoh20 said...: I've mentioned before my recurring fantasy while driving of having people from the past suddenly appear in my passenger seat and having a discussion with them while showing them the sights of the modern world.
I realized I could kind of do it with A.I., so I have Grok filling in for Benjamin Franklin, and we are having an ongoing conversation. It's fun. It may become a hobby.; 7/5/26, 11:20 PM
Smilin' Jack said...: “The disciples were shocked when God killed Jesus. They were even more shocked when God brought him back to life.”

I don’t think it should count as dying if you just come back to life a couple of days later. That’s more like oversleeping. And I suppose crucifixion is unpleasant, but God has inflicted much worse on good people I have known, and they didn’t get to come back.; 7/5/26, 11:38 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: "If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing" so goes an online opinion that appears to be gaining traction with gamers.

Video of a very animated proponent.; 7/5/26, 11:41 PM
Saint Croix said...: Matthew 7:6; 7/6/26, 12:55 AM
Smilin' Jack said...: 6-7; 7/6/26, 1:29 AM
rehajm said...: It’s everyone else’s thing and this one’s the biggest thing ecause it’s for country. Think Ryder Cup…; 7/6/26, 5:09 AM
rehajm said...: …yes I know EU is a bunch of countries so not really for country singular. Forget it I’m rolling…; 7/6/26, 5:10 AM
rehajm said...: …sometimes it’s for your life and for country, like …and he was never heard from again…; 7/6/26, 5:11 AM
wendybar said...: New York Post
@nypost
·
15h
Chilling photo shows black woman on DC train surrounded by white supremacist thugs https://trib.al/hsAURJS

C3
@C_3C_3
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8h
Not only did the Left ignore Iryna Zarutska’s murder they then tore down murals that commemorated her life.

So they can fck right off about a woman sitting safely on public transportation.

Sick people.

https://x.com/C_3C_3/status/2073943846627471784?s=20; 7/6/26, 5:13 AM
rehajm said...: those pictures I’m not concluding they’re staged but fun the film in your head of the five minutes leading up to that photo. Some train platform somewhere team Fish Monkey Face Guard is standing with one media person ready to take the pic and one random? Never occurs to random ‘maybe take the next one…’; 7/6/26, 5:22 AM
wendybar said...: Publius
@OcrazioCornPop
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Jul 4
🚨 PHOTOS by "REUTERS" (Cheney Orr) & "GETTY IMAGES" (Finn Gomez)

What are the odds these "journalists" just happened to be on the D.C. metro to capture these perfect psyop photos?

Shouldn't they try to make the coordination a little less obvious?

https://x.com/OcrazioCornPop/status/2073589670227669175?s=20; 7/6/26, 5:28 AM
rehajm said...: I am concluding Team Fish Monkey Face Guard are not what they want us to think they are. When I lived in the city and there was some protest or other every few days sometimes I’d get to see what goes on right before they take the pics and video of the thing. When ‘workers’ were demanding higher minimum wages a bunch of associates from the law firms were ha ding out fresh new hard hats and signs and stuff. The pinkie ring guys stood off to the side while the telling and screaming were happening. I stood and stared at those guys and they never met my gaze. not once…; 7/6/26, 5:28 AM
rehajm said...: …yes wendy thank you. My point too..; 7/6/26, 5:30 AM
rehajm said...: one of those fake pictures will win the fake pulitzer. what price on Kalshi is that play?; 7/6/26, 5:38 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Maybe finally spotting some truly dangerous people on the Metro will finally cause progressives to rethink their strategy of herding everyone into mass transit while simultaneously doing nothing to make passengers safer or punish people those who prey on passengers. But then the Big Fake Pandemic didn’t make them rethink their fetish for urban density or excessive emergency curtailment of the Bill of Rights.

Did it?; 7/6/26, 5:57 AM
Achilles said...: The partiot front people had to make sure they changed their masks so they didn't wear the same clothes they wore on January 6th.; 7/6/26, 6:39 AM
rehajm said...: They got in early on the Buff kickstarter last time then with all the entitlement fraud money they had plenty to just make a wholesale order with Fish Monkey…; 7/6/26, 6:58 AM
Saint Croix said...: Fantastic World Cup song. Made my eyes a little wet. I had a Reagan tear. Happiest song I've heard in a while. I'm a sucker for a fiddle.

The rumor is that it's an AI song. I asked AI, and the AI assured me that Jason Stills is a country music artist.; 7/6/26, 7:14 AM
Breezy said...: Such a lively song and video, Saint Croix. Thanks for the great start to my day.; 7/6/26, 7:32 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: It’s funny all the righty X accounts are laughing at the staged photos and saying “investigate Patriot Front and tell us who’s funding them” but the media and professional left is all “it’s fascism.”

So people playing dress up and marching is fascism now?

Might wanna let CodePink know the new rules. But since the Front has changed from arriving in U-Haul trucks to riding the Metro (only when Reuters was ready for the close up) the lazy corporate media can’t run the registration like— wait! The media never said who rented the Front trucks? They didn’t follow any cosplyers home to ID them? They aren’t doing ANY basic reporting after ten years of this charade?

Well if the media treats “Patriot Front” like Antifa and No Kings and BLM and Occupy then it’s highly likely the same people are behind it. The media never protects right wing organizations from being exposed, therefore the media is an ally of “Patriot Front” and will continue to hide their identities.; 7/6/26, 7:39 AM
Leland said...: If I’m supporting “Patriot Front”, how is it that progressives know about them and who they represent, while I’ve never heard of them?; 7/6/26, 8:12 AM
Leland said...: Apparently, an attempted mass shooting was stopped in Las Vegas when the shooter was caught when the arsenal to be used in the event. It is a lot of weaponry that isn't easy or cheap to obtain, over 22 firearms including:
M2 .50 caliber
M5 RPG
2 M203 grenade launchers
2 M16/AR15
P90
MP5
Steyr Aug

They were caught after a 911 call from the "spouse" claimed the weapons and vehicle were stolen and the police where able to track the vehicle.

How was this couple able to find and afford this much weaponry? What was their income for all this? I know several "gun tubers" have arsenals, but their funding source is readily identified.

And a reminder, we still don't know the story of the 2017 Las Vegas story, because the FBI refused to release information on it to the public.; 7/6/26, 8:43 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: That photo will become legendary …a sole young black woman, surrounded by a modern-day SS.; 7/6/26, 9:11 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: “When the certainty of rules is no longer guaranteed by its guardians, the integrity of the game is at stake and the credibility of a competition is undermined. We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision.” ~ UEFA

The US team is having what is arguably their best WC ever and in 24 hours, through little fault of their own, they go from a low key feel good story to being the biggest villains in the tournament.

The degree to which Trump has screwed up the World Cup and screwed over the USMNT is…a lot.; 7/6/26, 9:16 AM
Narr said...: Somebody wake me up when the games are over and everyone has gone home.; 7/6/26, 9:22 AM
Leland said...: Legendary image; 7/6/26, 9:50 AM
Leland said...: Does anyone know the name of the woman on the bus surround by "Patriot Front"? We know Iryna, because she was murdered. Supposedly this new woman is a victim, but we don't know anything about her. Should she be doxxed? No. But before people claim she is a victim, how about a statement from her? How about explaining the exact crime committed against her? A police report of the crime, so we can find the perpetrators and determine who they were? A police report of a crime requires a victim, so where is she? Who is the photographer? How did they get the image?; 7/6/26, 9:58 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Leland:
Twitter reports her name as Bernita Bowlding, and that she has a previous arrest for indecent exposure on the Metro. There's a picture of someone who looks a lot like her crouching on the floor of a Metro train pulling down her pants.; 7/6/26, 10:42 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: No prominent Republicans have condemned the large white nationalist "Reclaim America" march that took place in Washington DC this weekend.; 7/6/26, 10:51 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: **That photo will become legendary …a sole young black woman, surrounded by a modern-day SS**

No, it’s simply another data point illustrating how everything the Left does is performative including the Front group actors and the Reuters photographer pretending to come across the staged scene. A real reporter would exhibit curiosity and determine where the young recruits were coming from and going to.

Finally where does our resident shitposter get off labeling peaceful demonstrators who exhibit no aggression and have no visible Totenkopf tattoos SS? We actually have a DSA candidate sporting Nazi SS Guard tattoos. It’s your side, butthead. You are the party of Nazis, Jim Crow and segregation. You got it all Sport!; 7/6/26, 10:54 AM
Iman said...: 👆”condemned”???👆

Much too busy laughing at them, given knowledge of SPLC, Marxocrats and their Marxocrat media operatives still trying to sell this sorry shite, tinyEE.

Go sell crazy elsewhere, clown 🤡.; 7/6/26, 10:56 AM
boatbuilder said...: "No prominent Republicans have condemned the large white nationalist "Reclaim America" march that took place in Washington DC this weekend."

Not even Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, Mitt Romney or Mike Pence! What a bunch of sick racist nazis the Republicans must be. There are undoubtedly secret chapters of "Reclaim America" in every Republican hamlet in America, where young, fit men meet late at night and don white facemasks, baseball caps and chinos and chant unintelligible slogans. Fear stalks America!; 7/6/26, 11:30 AM
Saint Croix said...: The meaning of 6-7.

No meaning. It's an empty, nihilist philosophy. Sad!; 7/6/26, 11:38 AM
Dr Weevil said...: I've spelled it out here before, but it looks like I need to do it again. Only liars and propagandists use the term "white nationalist", which is a term designed to slander people. It is ambiguous, and means two different things, one good and one bad.

Does it mean a white person who is also a nationalist? Hey, that's me! I can't deny I'm a white nationalist, and there's nothing wrong with being white, and nothing wrong (in fact a lot right) in being a nationalist. Or does it mean a person in favor of a white, i.e. all-white, nation? Whoa! That is NOT me, or anyone I know, or anyone I've seen on this website. Whether I'm a "white nationalist" depends entirely on whether you mean (white)(nationalist) or (white nation)(-alist).

People like IEE use the term to slander people like me who are the first thing but not the second, by implying that we are the second, knowing that we cannot deny being the first, and pretending that that makes us the second. It is a vile and contemptible thing to do.; 7/6/26, 11:42 AM
Rustygrommet said...: Crazy riots in Newport Beach on the 4th.
Pro tip for rioters. Pick a place where there are more than two ways in and out. And where one of them isn't a car ferry.
The police on horseback running down rioters was particularly entertaining.; 7/6/26, 11:56 AM
Leland said...: For the progressives out there, if you can identify the individuals involved with Patriot Front; then you have my support to cane them publicly. Also, for anyone that can identify bich/IEE, you have my support to cane it as well. I’m for equity.; 7/6/26, 12:03 PM
Original Mike said...: "No prominent Republicans have condemned the large white nationalist "Reclaim America" march that took place in Washington DC this weekend."

Nobody knows what the hell it is.
Which is a tell, actually, as has been pointed out. Where are the "journalists" running down the story?; 7/6/26, 1:11 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Someone calling himself @Spacemodul8r on Twitter:
"Antifa is never ever there to Punch a Nazi when they march."
Makes you think - if you're capable of thought.; 7/6/26, 1:12 PM
Leland said...: FTR Dr. Weevil; I made my previous comment about the woman before knowing that she's been doxxed. I've now seen the imagery you mentioned. Setting aside what she was doing, I do find it interesting that she seems to be wearing the exact same shirt in both images.

At this point, not only does the whole event seemed staged as a false flag operation; I suspect everyone that keeps mentioning the event after 48 hours to also be paid to promote it. Still, if anyone can identify any of the masked people in the picture; they have my support in caning the individuals. Its assault and against the law, but if I got picked for the jury, then I wouldn't convict for the assault with a cane.; 7/6/26, 3:10 PM
Tina Trent said...: Nobody invites a White Supremacist to a shindig. Sometimes they show up on their own, though mostly it's their FBI plants who recommend it.

Nobody wanted them there. But there was no big kerfuffle, just people sick of being gaslighted ignoring them, the end.; 7/6/26, 4:20 PM
Jim at said...: *No prominent Republicans have condemned the large white nationalist "Reclaim America" march that took place in Washington DC this weekend.*

Because no 'prominent Republican' is as stupid and gullible as you are.; 7/6/26, 4:44 PM
Saint Croix said...: Another woman has come forward alleging Platner sexually assaulted her.

He denies it. He's on the verge of quitting, though.

Maine Democrat party calls on Graham Platner to drop out; 7/6/26, 5:31 PM
Saint Croix said...: Ro Khanna pulled his endorsement, said Platner needs to drop out.; 7/6/26, 5:33 PM
Saint Croix said...: I'm seeing allegations that the NYT knew about this victim, but decided not to publish in the hopes that the Republican woman (whose allegations were relatively minor) could be spun as a partisan attack.

Questions about coordination between the Platner campaign and the NYT.

New victim went to Politico; 7/6/26, 5:40 PM