Brandon Gilvin

@JDVance ICE tends to escalate under this administration. bad take.

⁨We’ve all seen the chaos unleashed by Democrats at airports across the country. It’s preposterous that Chuck Schumer continues to hold TSA funding hostage. Thankfully, ICE will bring sanity to our airports starting tomorrow, but it’s far past time for Democrats to fund DHS.

@DHSgov The republicans control house, senate, WH, and SCOTUS.

Thank a Democrat.

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@EricTrump yeah. not funny.

🤣🤣 One of the great responses to a reporter in history! JAPANESE REPORTER: Why didn't you tell Japan before the Iran war? PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Why didn't you tell ME about PEARL HARBOR?!" "You believe in surprise much more-so than US!"

@bennyjohnson yeah. That's not funny.

Trump just dropped the FUNNIEST joke in Presidential history in front of the Japanese Prime Minister. “Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why did you not tell me about Pearl Harbor? Right?” We will NEVER have a funnier President 🤣

@RepOgles Welp, I see we're no longer denying racism.

America is for people named Andrew Jackson, NOT Mohamed Mohamed.

@LexCoryell @howertonjosh @ryanburge Yep. All. Of. This.

@howertonjosh @ryanburge Those who are actively involved in their faith (Christianity, Judaism, etc.) are less likely to have MH problems than nonreligious people. & Those who believe in the science behind mental health & its biological impacts are more likely to seek treatment/ support for MH problems.

🧵A lot of people objecting to @ryanburge's post showing that Liberal people have significantly worse mental health on average than Conservatives. But this is not just one study. This has been written about EXTENSIVELY... PS - One of the contested, awkward, and emotionally difficult realities for a pastors in 2026 to accept is that in order to love our neighbors, we must defeat political progressivism

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@conservmillen Correct. Common Sense Gun Laws. Oh, you meant Reactionary Xenophobia.

Your great grandfather did not die on the shores of Normandy for you to live this way. Enough.

@DJJenkins yes! And we can passionately debate what that looks like and work it all out in fear and trembling.

Megan and others who agree with her viewpoint should consider perhaps that seminaries are not committed to shaping a particular political viewpoint, or to avoid being "woke" or "MAGA", but instead are trying to conform to the shape of the Kingdom of God... 1/

@ChristopherHale @bariweiss @CACoreyU My thoughts exactly.

@bariweiss @CACoreyU This seems like a rather partisan tweet for the head of CBS News.

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There’s always a tweet.

There’s always a tweet.

@Seattle_Mist @joelrainey This. Is. True.

@joelrainey There was a bipartisan immigration bill in progress before Trump was re-elected. He told Republicans not to sign it because he wanted to weaponize it to run on.

We can have honest and reasonable discussions about immigration. But when you literally call the words of Moses “woke,” you’ve crossed the Rubicon into a special kind of heresy.

@seanfeucht Dude, you're just silly.

Never imagined a theologian I once looked up to would became so unbelievably WOKE while weaponizing scripture to justify the illegal invasion of a sovereign nation.

@KristanHawkins I am a pro-choicer with great respect for people who come to the pro-life movement with integrity, and I'm also anti-death penalty. I have appreciated so much how you've engaged this subject, and I appreciate this thoughtful post a ton. Thanks.

I was actually shocked that so many Christians seemed almost gleeful here on X yesterday at prescribing the death penalty yesterday. Even if you support capital punishment, it shouldn’t be something we’re joyful about. So, let me try to break it down why I believe the death penalty is wrong: 1) Justice Does Not Require Execution Governments must punish evil but punishment doesn't have to mean death. Life imprisonment can protect society & still respect human dignity. 2) Government Authority ≠ Moral Obligation Romans 13 gives governments authority, not a command or obligation, to execute. Governments can punish criminals through imprisonment instead of execution. 3) Imago Dei Applies to Everyone The image of God applies to victims and to heinous evil humans. If human life has supreme value, that includes even those who have done terrible evil. 4) Jesus Reframed Justice Around Mercy The hardest commandment for me is this: Christ calls us to love even our enemies. The woman caught in adultery deserved death under the law, but Jesus spared her and called her to conversion. As Christians, we believe no one is beyond redemption. Execution permanently, and for all eternity, ends the possibility of repentance. It's hard to claim we love our enemies while insisting they must die. 5) Modern Society Does Not Need Executions In biblical times, societies had no prisons. Dangerous criminals could not be securely contained. Execution was often the only way to protect innocents in society. When killing is no longer necessary to protect society, the pro-life choice is not to kill. 6) The Church Jesus Founded Opposes It The Catechism teaches that capital punishment should almost never be used. Catechism (2267): "The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person." St. John Paul II wrote in Evangelium Vitae that cases requiring execution are "very rare, if not practically nonexistent." 7) Pro-Life Does Not Mean Pro-Crime Opposing the death penalty does not mean being soft on crime. Murder deserves serious punishment. Violent criminals must be removed from society. Being pro-life doesn't mean criminals go free — it means we punish without becoming killers ourselves. 8) War vs. Execution War and capital punishment are morally different. War should be avoided and must meet Just War standards. Killing in war is done to protect innocent people and defend a nation. Execution kills someone who has been locked in a prison cell for decades. 9) Not a pro-life argument but something to consider: Economic Reality Capital punishment costs more than life imprisonment. If life imprisonment protects society, taxpayers shouldn't have to pay extra to execute someone. 10) The Human Cost Supporting the death penalty means requiring someone else to do the killing. Someone must pull the lever, push the syringe, or press the button. That burden falls on prison workers and medical personnel. That responsibility leaves a permanent mark on their conscience. If I support the death penalty, I'm asking someone else to do the killing for me. Bottomline: A consistent pro-life worldview says if killing isn't necessary, we shouldn't do it.

@ZacharyCWagner Your longer thread was nicely done.

"Toxic masculinity" is a category that, depending on how it's used, is coherent and makes sense. "Toxic empathy" isn't.

@philvischer @conservmillen but you're correct, it's more than just a feeling--it's a function of imagination, constructive creativity. And hey, a commandment.

@philvischer @conservmillen "Put Yourself In Someone Else's Shoes" = "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" = "Act as if the maxims of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature." Of course, feeling is inevitable when you empathize, we're not robots. 1/x

This was a very interesting exchange with @conservmillen, where I gave her the dictionary definition of "empathy" as an ability, not an emotion, and she insisted I was making up new definitions. I gave her 4 sources to back up the definition, and she left the convo.