Norco College Trustee Nathan Miller

10/11/2026

Student protests have paralyzed France’s school system—but the violence sweeping the country is about something else, Thomas Chatterton Williams argues.

"The protests began in mid-September, when teachers at a high school outside Paris went on strike over unfilled posts and a lack of funding—and students promptly joined them, Williams writes. This triggered a domino effect supercharged by social media, in which students across the country demonstrated in solidarity, calling out similar problems in their own schools.

“Some of these demands may be valid, but the violence fanning out across France has little to do with pedagogical concerns”—and some of the videos that have gone viral reveal “the nihilistic resentment beneath the pretext of school reform,” Williams continues.

In one video, a 15-year-old approaches a woman in Marseille and sprays her face with a makeshift flamethrower, leaving her with first-degree burns. In another, a teen in Paris smiles as he explains to a reporter, who has asked about a policewoman being chased and tripped by teenagers, that “the ends justify the means.”

Another video shows a masked teen standing atop a car addressing a crowd of euphoric classmates, Williams writes. “There are only 10 of them,” he screams, about the police officers around. “In the name of Allah, we can kill them all!” Another depicts a group of teens gathered in a circle, rapping song lyrics that reference the “Bataclan terror attack in 2015 in which 90 people were killed.”

“For some time now, there has been an existential crisis at the heart of French life, rooted in a pervasive sense that the future will never equal the past, that the state cannot achieve what its citizens expect,” Williams argues at the link. “Their anger accumulates, then it boils over. And the government is either unwilling or unable to contain it … In recent years, France’s protest culture has been indulged and glorified to the point of insanity. This has become a particular problem during Emmanuel Macron’s tenure, which began in 2017. Protests have not only enfeebled his administration but also eroded the political viability of centrism in France.”

🎨: Adam Maida / The Atlantic

09/21/2026

A Hollywood classic and its co-star, reunited. 🎥 ⭐ Rebel Without a Cause returns to Griffith Observatory for two special evenings under the stars!

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08/17/2026

I saw the movie Prometheus, where they mapped out caves with spherical aerobots. Didn't end well.

The robots' designer says SPARK Aerobots have a good chance of doing well on Titan with their novel ion thrusters.

08/16/2026

You'll never guess.

08/14/2026

This is the tragic cost of sickening cancel culture.

It cost this man his life, likely by his own hand, and it cost Charlie Kirk his life by the hand of another low-life maniac that spent to much time on here ingesting sickening cancel culture as reasonable behavior.

It has cost countless lives of those that never make the international spotlight.

As much as Jason Arday clearly fabricated his background and work, reasonable and proper academic scrutiny would have prevented him from every even being in this situation that led to merciless online attacks and cancellation.

Accountability is one thing, vile despicable behavior, viceral attacks and name calling, gas-lighting and dehumanization isn't acceptable if you're on the left and the target is on the right - nor if youre on the right and the target is on the left. This type of social media and cancel culture is PURE EVIL, either way you slice it.

The heartless and thoughtless comments by many behaving as though he deserved it or its some kind of just consequence- I will.never relate to that, no one should, yet so many in this sphere seem to have been raised by wolves void of a sense of basic human decency.

What a tragic situation and result..

07/08/2026

07/08/2026

California Politics UNCENSORED.

Where politics and culture bask in the sun's scorching heat all day - and always forgets to put on the sunscreen.

Join the discussion, promote your perspective, just VENT.

07/06/2026

Evil is as evil does. Anyone that celebrated this evil act and felt compelled to share their vile thoughts in a public post is my enemy.

As much as it immediately stirs me to thoughts greater than condemnation that don't belong in my mind, I redirect them to where they belong in accordance with my faith to the fate of God's will.

I am commanded to pray for them.

First such that I would never find myself guilty of the same depraved acts and behavior as those in rebellion to peace, truth and justice.

Second because I live in hope.of forgiveness of the totality of all of my sins and misdeeds, known and in ignorance, in totality by the source of all creation and the true sovereign power that reigns over it.

Who am I to live in contempt with a few misdeeds.towards me or others regardless of severity given the immense grace afforded to me?

I don't say this with ease, my lesser emotions that seeks to rule.over us all at times are in great conflict with this truth, yet it remains the truth.

Third because with God all things are possible, any heart can turn to Him at any time and I would deserve the same fate as those in rebellion if I were to stand in the way of God's grace and the acceptance of it with anyone.

It's hard for me to see evil rewarded in this place but I am also reminded that temporary authority for a greater purpose has been given to a fallen creation that will in time - and at the end of it spend eternity in annihilation with all that it has sought to corrupt that refuses the same grace that has been offered to me.

His Kingdom will come and His will done on Earth just as in Heaven. I'm good with all of those promises as I would have little faith, if any, if I could not trust in every single one made by my Creator.

06/30/2026

The education many of us used to think we would find waiting for us in pursuit of a degree on a trajectory towards a career or life path has left many, myself included disappointed as academia failed to deliver.

Of course there were a handful of professors along the way that impacted my journey, and provided me with their knowledge as a torch passed from one generation of wisdom to the next.

Others however were abysmal representatives of the same profession, with an inferior ability to discern and reason - much less educate.

Following my experience with those willing to share their light and truth I have learned to discern and appreciate other scholars like those I benefited from, online amongst a sea of heretical slop. Here is one example.

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Jonathan Pageau hosts "The Symbolic World" a podcast and website that explores the deeper mysteries of human origins, history and spirituality as it applies in the present day.

In this talk regarding AI and its subtle yet profound if not alarming progression he asks the question:

Whom does it serve?

Ultimately leading to the bigger question for each of us, in out lives, through our choices and acts - whom do we serve.

Jonathan Pageau closed out Day 2 of ARC 2026 with a keynote that le...

06/19/2026

"For nearly a century, the scientific community has been mostly in support of the Big Bang theory proposed by Georges Lemaître in the 1930s. Today, however, a team of physicists from the University of Portsmouth has a different, simpler, stranger, and somehow more elegant theory explaining the origins of life, the universe, and everything."

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