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Raised Baptist, got over it.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

More of this, please.

[Dee Parsons @wartwatch1]

"Show This to Your Pastor and Church Leaders: 93% of Convicted Sex Offenders Are Religious, Come to Church, and Most Reoffend." New TWW post. @ThouArtTheMan https://t.co/aOHGzI6Mjp

[triggerlily @1texsun]

@hollyoakleyy Me too, 10 years ago. Anybody, anytime, doesn't matter if you eat right, exercise, have good judgment, or follow all the rules. Things break.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

OH - MY - GOD!!!

​Every Democratic campaign manager in America just screamed "LFG" to the new 4K ad Trump literally just gifted them.

​"When you have to pay a little bit more, four dollars, it's okay."

​Trump really just said this to millions of Americans watching:

​He's so profoundly corrupt and out of touch. He only cares about himself and padding his own billions while regular people get squeezed.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

YOU CANT BE SERIOUS

If your job is to pretend to “have had it” with Trump while absolutely being in your knees then you’re doing a great job

[triggerlily @1texsun]

@RudeMcRude @kt4me Fun! Fact: it doesn't really matter what the Old Testament said. The opinions of Iron Age nomads on the other side of the world should have absolutely no impact on the lives of actual human beings today.

[triggerlily @1texsun]

@JoyceCarolOates I remember reading Sinclair's book when I was in high school. It was horrifying. It was one of the factors that began my journey into liberalism after being raised by conservative, dominionist, fundamentalist Baptists.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

sorry, this isn't T***p's fault: Texas votes for these ultra-cruel laws that target pregnant women.
in fact, (white) women vote for these laws, as well as men.
It's a question why: but not a question who.

[triggerlily @1texsun]

@Eleven__11XI It's fiction. A story. Nobody is making a biography of Abraham Lincoln and casting him as a horse.

[triggerlily @1texsun]

@Snoow_Ball_06 Bookmark was my favorite function and now it's gone.

[triggerlily @1texsun]

@NheddieGetsFit @MadelaineLucyH If the sex was really good for her every time, she would want it more often

[triggerlily @1texsun]

@MadelaineLucyH Sex isn't a need. It's a want. If men made sure they satisfied their partners every single time, their partners would want more sex.

[triggerlily @1texsun]

@ThrillaRilla369 I did that in the '80-90s because I couldn't find a job that would cover child care. Definitely don't recommend it.

[triggerlily @1texsun]

@nieboh @the_fem_tm Because most women in their fertile years who have children are so exhausted that the thought of sex is repulsive. It doesn't matter whether they work outside the home or not, they are constantly on 24 hours a day, preserving their husband's comfort and children's well-being

[triggerlily @1texsun]

@Read_Meee If the boys were not allowed to stay out being boys, the girls would be safer

[triggerlily @1texsun]

@Matty15726203 @piwniczanpotasu Men used to cut their hands off chopping wood, wrap it in an old cloth and go back out to work the fields and tend the cattle. Now, a man doesn't even know how to make his own sandwich and complains if he has to wash the dishes. So.. there's that.

[triggerlily @1texsun]

@GriftianProphet @TommyLaRussoLLC @MadelaineLucyH The uncle in question was a Baptist minister. My dad was an upright, righteous, devout man, a veteran of world war II. My mother was a housewife, no way to make a living, no one to turn to a woman in a world that told her to submit to her husband no matter what.

[triggerlily @1texsun]

@TommyLaRussoLLC @MadelaineLucyH When I was six I ouched my uncle pinned my mother against a wall, rip her shirt, stick his hands down her pants and force his tongue down her throat. When she told my dad, he called her a whore and a liar. That was the end of me trusting a man to protect me from another man.

[triggerlily @1texsun]

@anishmoonka My Meemaw, who was born in 1891 had a bottle of Nervine, prescribed by her doctor and formulated at the corner drugstore. It was for when she got "The nerves." She got the nerves a lot.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

On the morning of August 3, 1965, CBS News correspondent Morley Safer was having coffee with Marine officers in Da Nang, Vietnam, looking for a story to cover. A lieutenant mentioned his unit was heading out on an operation the next morning and invited Safer along. The destination was Cam Ne, a small village in South Vietnam suspected of sheltering Viet Cong fighters. Safer agreed, brought his camera crew, and climbed into an armored vehicle heading toward the village before sunrise.
What he saw when they arrived was not a military battle. It was a village full of women, children, and elderly men.
The Marines moved through Cam Ne methodically. When villagers could not answer their questions, or simply did not understand English, soldiers pulled out cigarette lighters and flamethrowers and began setting the thatched roofs on fire. Old women pleaded with the Marines to wait, begging for time to remove their possessions. Their pleas were ignored. Rice stores were burned. Belongings were burned. By the time the operation ended, 150 homes had been destroyed. Three women were wounded. One baby was killed. The only prisoners taken were four elderly men who could not understand a word of English and had no idea what an identification card was.
Safer kept his cameras rolling through all of it.
That evening, he shipped the film and his narration back to New York, where CBS News president Fred Friendly and anchor Walter Cronkite watched the footage together. Both were stunned. Both agreed it was too important not to broadcast.
On August 5, 1965, the report aired on the CBS Evening News. Within hours, CBS was flooded with letters and phone calls from viewers outraged at the negative portrayal of American troops. Then came the call that no network executive ever wants to receive.
Early the next morning, CBS president Frank Stanton was woken by his telephone. The voice on the other end did not introduce itself politely. It said: "Frank, are you trying to silence me? Frank, this is your president, and yesterday your boys shat on the American flag." Lyndon Johnson was furious. He immediately ordered a background investigation into Safer, personally convinced that a journalist capable of such a report had to be working for the communists. The investigation found nothing. Johnson then ordered an investigation into the Marine officer in charge at Cam Ne, certain Safer must have bribed him to stage the burning. Nothing came of that either. The Pentagon formally demanded that CBS remove Safer from Vietnam entirely. The general commanding the Marine Corps area of operations in South Vietnam banned Safer from entering Marine territory.
CBS refused to pull him.
The network stood behind the report. The ban on Safer was eventually lifted. But the consequences did not disappear. Safer received death threats. He slept with a loaded pistol beside his bed. One night, a drunken voice outside his window screamed accusations and fired a gun into the air.
The military was also forced to respond. After the Cam Ne broadcast, Marines were prohibited from burning villages. Within weeks, General William Westmoreland issued new guidelines explicitly banning the indiscriminate destruction of populated areas. Any future operations near civilians were required to include warning leaflets, loudspeakers, and South Vietnamese troops to help communicate with villagers. A single television report had changed official military policy.
Later, the New York University Department of Journalism named the Cam Ne broadcast one of the top 100 works of journalism in the United States in the entire 20th century.
Morley Safer went on to join 60 Minutes in 1970, where he spent 46 years as the program's longest-serving correspondent. He earned 12 Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, and became one of the most recognized faces in American broadcast journalism. He passed away on May 19, 2016, at the age of 84, just days after announcing his retirement.

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