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Guys with "preacher" in their bio but who don't pastor a church and are actually blackballed in multiple associations can just miss me with their critique of those of us doing our best to preach God's word every week and pastor in the trenches every day.

This is blasphemy

The constitutional phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is the right wing's equivalent of the Left's use of "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State..." to try to twist the original meaning of the Constitution.

@pastordmack Is it time to bring out this thread again?

@StephenM Your administration is doing that with the amount of debt you're saddling our country with.

Birthright citizenship means the children of illegal aliens can vote to tax your children and seize their inheritance.

Perhaps my favorite Supreme Court exchange in recent memory: Solicitor general: “It’s a new world." John Roberts: "It's a new world. It's the same Constitution." Into my veins 😌

“It’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution.” - Roberts, CJ.

@MrGreyShirt @jkimballcook Immigrants are either subject to the jurisdiction of the US, or to the jurisdiction of their previous homeland. In the latter case, an immigrant who breaks the laws could not be charged with a crime, merely expelled from the country. This is called "diplomatic immunity."

It's not whether I *believe* that vaccines cause autism or not It has been scientifically proven that they don't

It is impossible for states to “disobey” an executive order. An executive order is a vehicle by which a president directs executive-branch officials how to administer existing law. Trump cannot “mandate” how states administer their absentee-ballot laws. Insofar as the EO will threaten to withhold federal funds, Trump will need a statutory basis for imposing that condition. (And if he has one, why hasn’t he acted before now?)

Guys with "preacher" in their bio but who don't pastor a church and are actually blackballed in multiple associations can just miss me with their critique of those of us doing our best to preach God's word every week and pastor in the trenches every day.

Truth

Play ball! @astros

@JonahDispatch Yeah, there are some subtle clues.

Call me overly suspicious, but I think Jeff Greenfield's Twitter account has been hacked. I'm open to correction.

NEW — White House Decision Allows More Taxpayer Dollars to Flow to Planned Parenthood Through Title X The Trump-Vance admin has decided not to cancel Biden’s Title X grant awards to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business.

Dear @chicagobulls, I am a lifelong fanatical Bulls fan. Been to many games, bought your merch, and supported loyally through ups and downs. Until today. My greatest loyalty is, as is Jaden's, to Jesus Christ and truth. And I am grateful to live in a nation that protects freedom of religion and freedom of speech. Your violation of the first amendment--and, even more problematically, your ideologically selective while culturally amenable cancelling of a man who did nothing more than hold to his convictions--is a tragic capitulation to the spirit of the age. I urge you to do the right thing and publicly apologize to Jaden, acknowledging the error of censoring a man for believing what Scripture says and what Jesus taught. Respect, @JadensIV. -a Chicago pastor

As the Court showed, this was a straightforward case. It wasn’t the inverse of last term’s Skrmetti because that involved a ban on physical interventions, which Chiles involves talk therapy alone. Colorado’s argument that its ban on certain viewpoints in that regard was just a regulation of therapeutic conduct doesn’t pass the constitutional smell test. As Justice Gorsuch put it in his majority opinion, citing an NAACP case from 1963 and joined by all but one justice, “The First Amendment is no word game. And the rights it protects cannot be renamed away or their protections nullified by ‘mere labels.’”

COUNSELING FREEDOM WINS AT SCOTUS! The Supreme Court has just ruled 8-1 for @ADFLegal client Kaley Chiles, who challenged Colorado’s counseling ban. States may not censor commonsense counseling that seeks to help kids with gender dysphoria accept their bodies.

Kharkiv is one of the most heavily targeted Ukrainian cities since the war with Russia began. Despite this, CBS News' @aidan_stretch shows how people from there are determined to resume daily life – taking the train, going out to eat and even building underground schools for children.