Mark S. Phillips

@Enezator @grok is this path of the sun evidence of the earth being round?

For three years, this man photographed the Sun from the exact same spot at the same time, then combined every position into one incredible image ☀️

1. The experience of chocolate as edible, pleasurable, and meaningful presupposes rational agents capable of recognizing and evaluating it. 2. Rational agents capable of genuine recognition and evaluation require an adequate metaphysical ground for rationality. 3. An adequate metaphysical ground for rationality must itself be rational, ultimate, and sufficient to explain the existence of finite rational minds. 4. God is the only adequate ultimate ground of rationality. 5. Therefore, God exists. Just having some Tuesday morning fun.

@dougboneparth @grok, who is this post referring to? Been away for a few days.

Wife: Do anything interesting today? Me: I watched the internet destroy an innocent women’s life.

@PoliceThePolic1 @LawzDelete @DeletelawZ I remember this stunt.

"Get the F*CK out of my goddamn town!!" Cop watcher remains cool as a cucumber when police apologists runs up on him while he holds a baby, gets in his face and tells him he will "RIP HIS THROAT OUT." 📍Ironton, Ohio Video by: @LawzDelete @DeletelawZ

@Seanperez007 @game7__ A coach cheating in any form isn't good optics.

Let's go over Dianna Russini's history. This story isn't just about what happened with Mike Vrabel. In 2015, shortly after she joined ESPN, Jessica McCloughan, the wife of Redskins GM Scot McCloughan, publicly accused Russini of having an inappropriate relationship with her husband. The tweets were vulgar and specific. At the time, ESPN defended Russini and called her "an excellent reporter who should never have to be subjected to such vulgar comments." McCloughan later publicly apologized and called her own comments "unfounded and inappropriate." Today, the head coach of the New England Patriots was just photographed holding hands with one of the biggest NFL reporters in the country at a luxury resort in Arizona. Both are married. Both say it was innocent. Here's why it matters regardless: Page Six published photos of Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini at the Ambiente Resort in Sedona on March 28. Holding hands. Hugging. Sitting together in a hot tub. Having breakfast on the hotel patio. Vrabel has been married to Jennifer Vrabel since 1999. They met at Ohio State. Two sons. Russini has been married to Kevin Goldschmidt, a Shake Shack executive, since 2020. Vrabel told Page Six: "These photos show a completely innocent interaction and any suggestion otherwise is laughable." Russini told Page Six: "The photos don't represent the group of six people who were hanging out during the day. Like most journalists in the NFL, reporters interact with sources away from stadiums and other venues." The Athletic's executive editor backed Russini, calling the photos "misleading and lack essential context." Even if you take all of that at face value, there's still a problem. Russini is a senior NFL insider for The Athletic, which is owned by The New York Times. She covers the entire league. Coaching hires, front office moves, player contracts, team transactions. She's been one of the most prominent NFL reporters in the country since joining ESPN in 2015. She left ESPN for The Athletic in August 2023. Vrabel was hired as the Patriots head coach on January 12, 2025. Before that, he coached the Titans for six seasons from 2018 to 2023 before being fired in January 2024. Won NFL Coach of the Year in 2021. Made the AFC Championship Game in 2019. Three-time Super Bowl champion as a player with the Patriots. A reporter who covers the NFL was photographed holding hands with a head coach at a luxury resort. That's a conflict of interest question. Not a gossip question. A journalism question. The 2015 allegation was retracted by the person who made it. That matters. But it also exists on the public record, and it resurfaced the moment the Vrabel photos hit the internet today. The question isn't what happened in Sedona. Only the people who were there know that. The question is whether a reporter can objectively cover a league that includes a head coach she was photographed vacationing with. That question doesn't require proof of a relationship. It only requires the appearance of one. Both are married. Both say it was innocent. The photos are public. And the NFL world is watching.

@InTheory42 @Osint613 I think you'd be hard pressed to demonstrate that. Once again, how does this relate to whether churches should be taxed?

@Mark_S_Phillips @Osint613 It’s a systematic destruction of secular education in favor of brainwashing children into a specific faith. Should be illegal

Trump: Vice President JD Vance is now in charge of "FRAUD" in the United States. It is massive and pervasive, and the job he will be doing, in conjunction with many great people within the Trump Administration, will be a major factor in how great the future of our Country will be. We will call him the “FRAUD CZAR,” and his focus will be “EVERYWHERE,” but primarily in those Blue States where CROOKED DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS, like those in California, Illinois, Minnesota (Somalia beware!), Maine, New York, and many others, have had a “free for all” in the unprecedented theft of Taxpayer Money. The numbers are so large that, if successful, we would literally be able to balance our American Budget. Raids have already started in L.A. Good Luck JD!

Excerpt of John Chrysostom's Ressurection Sermon, ca. AD 400: "Come you all: enter into the joy of your Lord. You the first and you the last, receive alike your reward; you rich and you poor, dance together; you sober and you weaklings, celebrate the day; you who have kept the fast and you who have not, rejoice today. The table is richly loaded: enjoy its royal banquet. The calf is a fatted one: let no one go away hungry. All of you enjoy the banquet of faith; all of you receive the riches of his goodness. Let no one grieve over his poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed; let no one weep over his sins, for pardon has shone from the grave; let no one fear death, for the death of our Saviour has set us free: He has destroyed it by enduring it, He has despoiled Hades by going down into its kingdom, He has angered it by allowing it to taste of his flesh.... O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? Christ is risen and you are abolished. Christ is risen and the demons are cast down. Christ is risen and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen and life is freed. Christ is risen and the tomb is emptied of the dead: for Christ, being risen from the dead, has become the Leader and Reviver of those who had fallen asleep. To Him be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen."

@InTheory42 @Osint613 I’m not following what this has to do with churches needing to be taxed, quite honestly. No one is being forced to go to private schools.

@Mark_S_Phillips @Osint613 My god is not your God. Most private religious orgs are not accepting of all people and limit services to those that disagree with their creed. Take schools for example. Nearly all are Christian. Would you want your kid indoctrinated into say Islam if that was the only one?

@InTheory42 @Osint613 Are you referring to churches or parachurch organizations when suggesting that social services be moved away from the government?

@Mark_S_Phillips @Osint613 Great, full transparency. All should be required to report financials, if messaging and donations out are part of lobbying… they should be taxed.

@InTheory42 @Osint613 How do you feel it violates separation of church and state? Do hospitals founded by churches receive Medicare and Medicaid funds?

@Mark_S_Phillips @Osint613 The Project 2025 model is to eliminate all social services and have it all run by religious groups which is essentially circumventing the separation of church and state which is beyond gross. Also these dark money church groups take a lot of their money and influence politics

@InTheory42 @Osint613 Not to mention the fact that other non-profits will then be taxed, such as American Atheist and Doctors Without Borders.

@Mark_S_Phillips @Osint613 If you influence elections and laws, you should be taxed…simple. Organized religion has just turned into political engine and there is no question about it.

@InTheory42 @Osint613 Thing is, if you tax churches, they will be allowed to fund political candidates.

@InTheory42 @Osint613 Churches do not generate business revenue. They receive donations which have already been taxed.

@Osint613 It’s the evangelicals!!!

@GarfieldUtd_ @Osint613 Maybe focus on Keir Starmer. We’re doing just fine, thanks.

@Osint613 Ok 😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

President Trump: “All the countries that can't get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz - go and just take it. You'll need to start learning to fight for yourselves, we won't be there to help you like you weren't there for us”

@Osint613 I unfollowed that account as well.

Trump has not “announced a pause” despite this account with 3.2 million followers reporting so.

@Timcast I block these types of accounts as fast as my old fingers will move.

Whether Trump was telling the truth or not Iran is calling him a bitch with this comment They have no interest in de-escalation Trump will likely ignore this as any response would be bad for the markets Its looking like failure at this point

@HuffPost @JimmysSeafood

Eight activists arrested in Minnesota told HuffPost how it feels to be targeted by Donald Trump’s war on dissent — and they have a warning. huffpost.com/entry/cities-c…

AI is no match for a guy with a plan

The first criminal case of streaming fraud where a North Carolina musician who used AI to make songs, then streamed them billions of times himself making $8 million

@VikingRobVWO @CherieCurrie3 is awesome!

I was today years old when I found out that Cherie Currie, the singer of the greatest girl band in history The Runaways was on X, and absolutely blown away by her passion for supporting veterans, especially in this video clip! This is exactly the stuff I want to see! From someone with 28+ years served, and over 30 playing Rock n Roll, thank you Cherie! I'd play bass or guitar for you any day. 🤘💪👏