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Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc - Fyodor Dostoevsky once stood before a firing squad.
He had been arrested for reading banned books and discussing forbidden ideas. At twenty-eight, he was blindfolded, tied, and told to prepare for death.
He later said those final minutes stretched into an eternity… every sound sharper, every thought purified.
At the last moment, a messenger arrived. The execution was a ruse. His sentence was commuted to hard labor in Siberia.
He spent four years in a frozen prison camp among murderers and thieves. Chains on his legs. Disease in his body. Scripture was the only book allowed. The Gospels became his lifeline.
He emerged with one conviction burned into him: that man is fallen, suffering is real, and redemption is possible only through love freely chosen.
From that came Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov… novels that stare straight at evil and refuse to look away, yet insist that even the worst soul can be saved.
https://x.com/athenaeumbc/status/2049190645005463924

Bad Hombre @Badhombre - You graduated with a degree in “government” from Bowdoin in 2017. Tuition and fees are $91,300 a year.
You never held a job outside government. You got elected to the TN State House in a 67% Black district with 20% voter turnout.
You’re now seething because you were counting on running in a ridiculously racially gerrymandered VRA district to take your ridiculous Black Panther act, complete with gigantic Afro, to the federal level, and SCOTUS killed your dream of being a career taxpayer leech.
https://x.com/Badhombre/status/2050378940355690862

Barstool Sports @barstoolsports - Video: GOLDEN TEMPO WENT FROM LAST TO FIRST IN THE KENTUCKY DERBY
THIS IS WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT!!!