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“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” — Pope Leo XIV

Learn to love the grating cry of a blue jay. Then you can handle anything.

All men and women, especially Christians, are called to fix their gaze on those who suffer, on the pain of the lonely, and on those who are emarginated for various reasons, for without them we cannot build a just society. Only together can we build communities of solidarity capable of caring for everyone, in which wellbeing and peace can flourish for the benefit of all. Caring for the humanity of others helps us to live our own lives to the full.

Don’t EVER let your printer know you’ve waited until the last minute and you’re in a hurry, because it can sense fear.

ELON IS RUINING AMERICA! "Democrats used to like me." Bro, you were begging us. You donated to Obama, maxed out for Hillary, and wined and dined with Gavin Newsom. You weren't just "liked"—you were on your knees for that Democratic government teat. While you tweeted "climate change is real" and built electric cars for "woke" California, we handed you $4.9 billion in subsidies. Obama saved Tesla from bankruptcy in 2010. The DOE loan kept your lights on when Wall Street laughed you out of the room. Now you play billionaire victim? Cry about "the radical left" with your hand still in our pockets? SpaceX lives off NASA contracts. Starlink milks the Pentagon. You're the welfare king in a $300 billion crown. You didn't leave the Democrats—you got rich enough to buy the Republican Party cheaper. Trump didn't bridge party lines—he just made hate profitable enough for you to switch sides. The left, the right—buzzwords to divide us while they rob the treasury.

Name calling from a draft dodger doesn't bother me. What bothers me is a clueless commander in chief who took our country to war without a strategy because no one around him has the guts to tell him when he's wrong.

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

9/ All of this was totally foreseeable. Frankly, it’s why previous presidents weren’t so stupid to start a war like this. Trump has lost control of the war. His best course now is to cut his losses and end it. That’s the only way to prevent an even bigger disaster.

I dumped Trump ten years ago and never looked back. I was blackballed permanently by ‘conservative’ media for taking that position and while it was difficult then, I am SO thankful today for that decision. It's absolutely glorious to NOT have to defend a madman. Trump is a psychopath. Save yourself.

The ultra conservative Heritage Foundation's own research found that in 24 YEARS of voting, ONLY 77 'illegals' voted, representing .00000764% of all votes. We don't have an election integrity problem. We have a Trump administration integrity problem.

@RepThomasMassie @HasanKhxnx David in the Goliath story. Truly inspiring. 🙏

I love country music more than any other music but there was no way I was taking a part in the segregated Halftime show yesterday. I don’t know Spanish or Bad Bunny’s music but I’ve watched whoever performed in the Super Bowl with excitement each year, especially when I didn’t know someone’s music (Kendrick Lamar is another great example of this). Part of the Super Bowl is the entire spectacle, from the pre show, to the anthem, to the game, and of course to the Halftime Show. It will always be the biggest of artists during that time. I’ve also come to accept that as I get older, the music might get lost on me as I age, which it has. However, I will always try and support whomever is performing on the world’s biggest stage. I absolutely HATE that the majority of the alt-Halftime show were country music artists. Artists I’ve met, paid to see, and own most of their music. But they took part in what I see as segregation. Also, a participation trophy if you will (being that none of those artists would ever be a great enough act to dawn the world’s largest stage) They didn’t have an alt halftime show for any other reason than hate. Hate for a culture they don’t know, hate for a language they don’t speak, and hate for a man with color, truly unnecessary hate for an American man that made it from nothing all the way to the top. A true American dream came to fruition yesterday and I’m sad for those that didn’t take part of it because either their politics, hate, or refusal to grow culturally. It couldn’t just be because of the music, because I too love country music. I just love my fellow human beings more.

Apparently you can’t use “beef stew” as a password. It’s not stroganoff.

I share this post in earnest and (what may prove a naive) hope that a few people caught in the situation I’m about to describe will hear instead of rushing to the usual tropes, criticisms and caricatures. For what it’s worth, I offer this in good faith. Between 2016 and 2022, I faced a test of the genuineness of my faith so large and consequential, I’m almost at a loss to think of the right adjectives to describe it. It might not have been so big to someone else but it involved so much of my Christian identity, it was all but existential. Well more than that. It was a dying. It is this test that helps me understand why people who seem deeply devoted to the Lord Jesus and hold the scriptures in highest esteem also hold to a system, institution or leader no matter what they do and defend a side or individual to a degree that is baffling. I can tell you why because I had to face every bit of it. Identity, community, camaraderie, what we’ve known and loved, what part of it we still love, the people we loved, the people we still love, reputation, what people will think, how you will be judged and condemned and thrown over to the other side who doesn’t want you either. And to whom you also do not align and would not belong. Friendships. How you will be misunderstood and misrepresented. How adrift and alone you will feel. How disliked. And then there’s this and it would be a mistake to minimize it: your JOB. Your source of income. Your vocation. This is the part of the crisis I most write these words to convey because I think they are most in play for many right now, whether in media, ministry or politics. Let me try to put this in the words that were constantly resonant in my spirit in those years. And to this day. Though you have no other place to go, Beth, and no place to fit and it not only MAY have financial repercussions but WILL have financial repercussions to the ministry and to your family and will also make them targets and none of it will ever look the same or be the same, will you choose what you believe to be right and put everything else in your vocational life at risk? This is what is at risk for many people whose professional reputations and positions are tied up with leaders, institutions and political parties. Mine was, too. The cost is enormous and the options are often untenable. And so there we are. Having to cast ourselves on the mercy of God. Not for a third way. But as THE ONLY WAY. The only truth. The only life. I’ve made multiple errors in judgment. Jumped too quickly to condemn. Spoken wrongly. Remained silent wrongly and confusingly. I never get it completely together. But what I will tell you is that I believe we are meant first and foremost to call out our own house, our own side, and our own identity group for its mind-boggling hypocrisy. These were my people. Evangelicals. Conservatives. Claim what you will but I know who I am: I am pro life from conception to casket. I am pro small government. I am pro godliness and the pursuit of a holy life. I am pro marriage and family and pro-those God calls to remain single and sanctified and I’m deeply thankful for them. I am pro traditional sexual ethics. I am pro love of God and love of neighbor and the dignity of every person as an image bearer of Christ. I am pro love all. I am pro church. I believe in the community of the saints. I am pro Bible study to the death and believe the aim of all discipleship is to know and love and follow and emulate Jesus Christ. I am pro gospel. Dear God in heaven, I am pro gospel. I believe there is one name by whom we must be saved. Jesus. What I am not is pro Trump. Wasn’t pro Clinton. Wasn’t pro Biden. But those were not the candidates many in the world that I loved so much were cheering on. I accept that Donald Trump is my president. I pray for him on a regular basis. I’m a law abiding citizen and pay my taxes. But I believe Trump fosters something in people that makes them lose their way.

@elonmusk That’s what you thrive on, isn’t it? You can dish it out just fine.

This is a political attack

Why did Republicans subpoena the Clintons over the Epstein files, but not the Trumps, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Steven Tisch, Howard Lutnick, or Steve Bannon?

Why don't reporters stand up for each other when they get insulted and degraded by President Trump like CNN's Kaitlin Collins was today. They could all walk out of the press conference. This is pathetic.

I can’t think of a better analogy for America than the Epstein files. Mountains of evidence about powerful men raping children. And the only person in prison is a woman.