So anyways….did anyone catch Tiger Woods this weekend at the Masters?

I am not Catholic. I hold to Protestant Reformed confessions. I have real theological disagreements with the Bishop of Rome. That is not what this is about. A sitting president just publicly berated the leader of the largest Christian communion on earth like a franchisee who missed revenue targets. “He should be thankful. He wasn’t on any list to be Pope.” Don Tzu genuinely believes the College of Cardinals selected a pope as a diplomatic counter move to him. Not to shepherd 1.3 billion souls. To manage Donald. That is a man who cannot conceive of an institution that does not orbit him. “Focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician.” This from a president who wants every pastor, priest, and bishop in America to function as a campaign surrogate. Who uses “Christian” as a voter demographic label, not a confession. Who says the name of Christ the way he says “the Blacks” or “the Hispanics.” As a bloc to be managed. When the magistrate tells the Church to stay in its lane, that is not separation of church and state. That is Erastianism. State authority over ecclesiastical authority. The Reformers fought kings over this. Literal kings. Some of them died for it. You do not have to agree with Pope Leo on a single point of doctrine to recognize what is happening here. A head of state told the Church to shut up and be grateful. That is not Christianity. That is civil religion wearing a Christ mask. And believers should know the difference.

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Israel has embedded itself (using blackmail most likely) in American foreign policy decision making at a level that no junior partner should occupy. They receive our weapons. Our funding. Our diplomatic protection. And in return, they steer our negotiating position toward outcomes that serve their security priorities at the expense of ours. Until the United States treats the Israeli government as what it is and starts negotiating on behalf of its own citizens, every round of talks will end the same way. Failure by design.

Once a year, on Memorial Day, fitness enthusiasts across the country put their minds and bodies through one of the most grueling tests in functional fitness. The Hero WOD: Murph. 1 mile run 100 pull-ups 200 push-ups 300 air squats 1 mile run Wearing a 20/14lb vest. 42 days out. I’m back in prep mode. If you want to join me this Memorial Day, reach out. I’ll send you my training program. Scaled versions for all fitness levels. Whether you’re a seasoned athlete or just getting started, there’s a path to the finish line. You have 42 days. Let’s see how many Nostr athletes want to get on board and train together #grownostr #FitStr

Gm Nostr. Somewhere along the way, obedience got rebranded as intelligence. The most educated people in the room became the most compliant. And the ones asking uncomfortable questions became the ones everyone whispered about. Nostr is where the conversations happen that nobody approves. The economy nobody controls. And somehow, the smartest, most dangerous thinkers keep ending up here. Funny how that works.

The tomb is still empty. Every king who ever lived built a throne and then died on it. Jesus died first and then sat down on His. The work was finished before the crown was worn. He chose the cross before the foundation of the world. This was a rescue mission planned in eternity and executed in history. Your salvation was never an accident, it was a covenant. He is worthy of worship today because He did what no man could do and then offered the benefit to men who never earned it. Freely. Completely. Irreversibly. The sun came up this morning because He sustains it. Your lungs filled with air because He permits it. Every breath you take is borrowed mercy from a God who owes you nothing and gave you everything. That is the Christ we worship on Sunday. He is risen. He is seated. He is sovereign. And He is coming back. Pass this on to someone who needs to hear it today. #ToChristAlone

You aren’t crazy. Every flag you raised. Every narrative you questioned. Every time someone hit you with “that’s a conspiracy theory” like it was a disqualification. You were right. Not about everything. But about enough. Now those same people are waking up. Slowly. Painfully. And the first thing they do is find the one person they laughed at and start asking questions. You know the dynamic. You’ve been “that guy” in the room for years. The conspiracy theorists weren’t theorists. They were early adopters. Also, GM crazies!

It’s not morning for me, but I must keep up the streak! Therefore Gm. Somewhere it’s morning. I think.

Nostr Terms of Service: 1. We don’t know who you are. 2. We don’t want to know who you are. 3. If something breaks, fix it yourself or ask someone nice. 4. There is no CEO. There is no board. There is no email. 5. These terms are not enforceable because there is no one to enforce them. 6. Welcome.

if you’re going to try and slide a lazy take past this network, understand that the verify part isn’t optional. It’s the culture.

I’ve seen what happens when policy is disconnected from the ground truth and the people executing it pay the price. I’m not theorizing. This is not Iraq. This is not Afghanistan. And the people running this war either know that and don’t care, or don’t know it and shouldn’t be anywhere near a command structure. Iran has had three decades to watch us operate. They studied every convoy route in Fallujah. Every FOB we built in Helmand. Every vulnerability we broadcast in real time on CNN. They took notes. Then they went underground. Literally. The IRGC has built what they call Missile Cities across all 31 provinces. Carved into granite mountains at depths up to 500 meters. Autonomous power grids. Ventilation systems. Automated rail networks that ferry ballistic missiles to launch silos like a conveyor belt. The Yazd base alone sits inside Shirkuh granite that the GBU 57, America’s most powerful bunker buster, cannot crack. After a month of sustained strikes hitting 77% of visible tunnel entrances, operations resumed within days. Construction crews cleared debris. Access roads reopened. Half the launchers are still intact. The geology is the defense. Now look at the map. The Zagros and Alborz mountain ranges form natural fortress walls across the western and northern borders. Ground invasion routes funnel into narrow passes that a small defensive force can hold indefinitely. This is not flat desert. This is not Highway 80. Iran’s terrain was designed by God to eat armies alive. Then there’s the Strait of Hormuz. Twenty percent of the world’s oil passes through a chokepoint that Iran controls from the northern coast. Qeshm Island alone houses an underground missile fortress with fast attack boats, coastal batteries, and cruise missile launch sites hidden in subterranean labyrinths. They’ve already effectively halted shipping traffic. They don’t need to win a naval battle. They just need to make passage uninsurable. That’s checkmate for the global economy without firing a single shot at a carrier group. Iran doesn’t fight symmetrically. Swarms of small fast attack boats armed with missiles and torpedoes designed to overwhelm larger vessels in confined waters. Dual role drones for selective targeting. Cruise missile nodes dispersed across inland silos and offshore platforms so destroying one changes nothing. This is Anti Access/Area Denial doctrine executed by people who knew this day was coming since 2003. Joe Kent, Trump’s own counterterrorism director, resigned and went on record. Iran posed no imminent threat. There was no intelligence showing they were on the verge of a nuclear weapon. Key decision makers were blocked from expressing their assessments to the President. When Tucker asked him directly who drove this, Kent didn’t flinch. The imminent threat was manufactured. The policy was shaped by a foreign government whose objectives are not aligned with ours and never have been. American pilots are getting shot down over Iranian airspace right now. F-15s. A-10s. The Pentagon won’t discuss force posture. Won’t disclose targeting scope. Won’t answer basic operational questions. They call it “operational security.” I call it a government that can’t justify what it’s doing to the people paying for it in blood. Thirty years of preparation. Mountains that laugh at our ordnance. A strait that holds the global economy hostage. Underground rail systems moving missiles through tunnels we can’t reach. Chinese supply chains restocking solid fuel. And American sons dying for objectives that belong to a country the size of New Jersey that will never fight its own wars as long as we keep showing up. Ask the question nobody in Washington will ask…who is this for? Not us.