Alex Cooke

EM, BBN

[Alex Cooke @AlexCookeDO]

@SheaSerrano what would be the best 5 man team only featuring players with the same 1st name? Ex: KD, KG, Kevin McHale, etc

[Alex Cooke @AlexCookeDO]

@howertonjosh I remember hearing him say this more than a decade ago. It resonated deeply within me and has stuck with me since then

[ESPN @espn]

KENTUCKY UPSETS NO. 9 TEXAS A&M IN COLLEGE STATION 😼

[ESPN @espn]

THE USMNT IS HEADING TO THE ROUND OF 16 AT THE WORLD CUP 🔥🦅

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Silencer.

[Dr. Christian Casteel @DrCasteelEM]

People who want fully AI doctors are gunna be pretty upset when they realize that AI will order far LESS testing than human doctors. US docs orders far more labs, imaging than most other countries (often not indicated or for fear of malpractice). And you won’t be able to talk an AI doc into getting a test to ease your concerns like you could a human.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

TEAM USA MEN'S HOCKEY IS SEEING GOLD 🥇

GOLD MEDALISTS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1980 🇺🇸

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

https://t.co/Go8zwSlBOB

[Alex Cooke @AlexCookeDO]

@Khoshreza There's no dumber SEC basketball fan base than Auburn

[Paul Chappell @PaulChappell]

We condemn the actions of Don Lemon and the group of activists who stormed Cities Church today in St. Paul, Minnesota, in clear violation of the FACE Act. Christians everywhere should demand that the Department of Justice arrest those who participated. We must protect religious liberty in this country.

[SEC Network @SECNetwork]

KENTUCKY TAKES DOWN LSU AT THE BUZZER 🚨

@KentuckyMBB | #SCtop10

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

You don’t care about Palestine.

How do I know?

One Word. Sudan.

CNN has just published a detailed, months-long investigation documenting ethnically targeted mass killings carried out by Sudan’s army and its allied militias. The reporting describes civilians being executed, bodies dumped into canals, and mass graves concealed until satellite imagery revealed wrapped corpses surfacing as the water receded. Investigators traced responsibility back to senior levels of command.

The scale is absolutely staggering. More than 150,000 civilians are believed to have been killed. Nearly 12 million people have been displaced. Entire regions are facing famine. Non-Arab communities have been targeted at checkpoints, driven from their villages, and in some cases wiped out entirely. Women interviewed by investigators described watching their children executed. Weeks later, bodies were still being carried downstream by the canals. A UN investigator quoted by CNN described the campaign as a “targeted extermination of people.”

If concern for civilian life were really the driving force behind today’s activism, Sudan would be impossible to ignore. Yet there are no campus encampments demanding action, no mass ceasefire marches, no viral influencer monologues, and no celebrities posting flags or slogans.

The usual explanation is that Israel is different because the United States supports it militarily, and that protests are really about American complicity rather than the tragedy itself. I don’t buy it. If mass killing only matters when it can be blamed on your own country, that is a deeply self-centered way of engaging with human suffering.

These same voices regularly insist that silence is complicity and that there is always something one must do, even when the odds of success are low. That principle is suddenly abandoned when Sudan comes up.

No one genuinely believes that protesting Israel under a Trump administration is likely to change Israeli policy. People protest anyway because they believe public expression itself has moral value. That logic does not disappear because the victims are Sudanese, yet it is treated as if it does.

There is also a tendency to pretend that the United States is simply powerless in Sudan, which is not true. This is not an argument for American troops on the ground, and it is reasonable to oppose that idea. But the United States is the most powerful military and diplomatic actor on the planet. If it wanted to exert serious pressure, coordinate large-scale evacuations, isolate leadership, enforce consequences, or push negotiations using the full weight of its influence, it could. Even short of military action, there are many tools available.

The reality is not that nothing can be done. It is that no one wants to do anything. Sudan does not offer the emotional payoff or political symbolism that Israel does. It does not fit neatly into Western ideological narratives, and it does not allow people to perform virtue without cost.

Sudan has everything people claim to care about: ethnic cleansing, mass graves, famine, millions of refugees, and overwhelming evidence documented by satellite imagery, whistleblowers, and international investigators. Even CNN could not soften what it found.

And still, there is silence.

That silence says far more than the slogans ever did. Your outrage is not humanitarian. It is selective, ideological, and narrowly focused on one country, while far worse atrocities are treated as background noise.

You don’t care about Palestine.

You care only about the tragedy you can blame on the Jews.

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

Islamist ideology is at fundamental odds with the tenets of Western civilization.

Herein lies a tension: If our commitment to an Open Society cannot prevent the undoing of, and harm to the Open Society, by those who would use the principles of freedom to eventually sunset those same principles, perhaps aspects of those principles—namely, the extent to which they are exercisable—need revisiting. In other words, a reasonable pluralism can only succeed if there is, at some point, an identifiable line that is crossed that erodes the plausibility of pluralism to start with.

Tragically, the ambient relativism of liberalism makes the boundaries of reasonableness nearly impossible for the modern mind to discern, as we have already embraced, by cultural habit and custom, the irrational elsewhere.

The only way to return Western order to sanity is to re-Christianize the West. Secularism is uncomfortable with this. The question is: Will secularists be more comfortable with a Christian order or less comfortable with an Islamic order? Regardless, secularism will not survive, so it needs to choose its conqueror.

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

INSANE KENTUCKY POSTER!!! 🤯🤯

[Larry Alex Taunton @LarryTaunton]

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION IN NIGERIA EXPLAINED:🧵

When I was in Cairo earlier this year and all hell broke loose with Egyptian State Security outside of USAID, here’s the secret part I could say little about at that time:

I wasn’t in Egypt for USAID.

I was there to meet with…

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

"Shouldn't Christians support max-boosting welfare programs, because Jesus said to feed the hungry and the early church was marked by generosity to the poor?"

1) No, using the government to forcefully take other people's money against their will and redistribute it was not a mark of the early church.

They were generous to the poor, A) with their own money, and B) of their own volition. And yes, individual Christians and churches SHOULD do that!!

2) Although a thin social safety net for the most dire circumstances is permissible, there are *no* examples in the Bible of God commanding (or affirming) governments to take money from earners and redistribute it to take care of people in the Bible.

Sometimes, people will (mistakenly) point to OT gleaning commands as an example of Biblical "welfare", but notice those are commands are given to individual Israelites. They are not an example of centralized government redistribution of wealth.

There's a reason for this...

3) There is a difference in the Bible between the role of the individual and the role of the State.

It is evil and harmful when an individual does the role of the State (i.e., taking personal vengeance for a crime rather than letting the State enact justice).

And it is evil and harmful when the State does the role of the individual and the church (i.e., stealing from people via excessive taxation to take on the primary role of charity in a society in place of individuals and churches).

It's harmful because with governments "you always get more of what you SUBSIDIZE and less of what you PENALIZE."

This is why when governments do "charity", it tends to PRODUCE more poverty in that region rather than ALLEVIATE it over time, because the government has removed the incentives for hard work and ingenuity in society. (A good portion of the population thinks, "Eh, why get out and grind, the government will cover me.")

And this is why it actually requires a form of evil and is very harmful for a government to be subsidizing 40M people (12% of the entire population) via food stamps.

[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

The standard prescription for Epi-Pens is 2 pens.

This isn’t so you have a spare.

Some anaphylactic reactions are biphasic meaning symptoms return after/despite the first dose. About 10% require a second epinephrine dose.

If you need it, you want to have BOTH pens with you!

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I love how the FDA statement on Tylenol looks like the top was written by RFK Jr and the bottom was written by very annoyed scientists overruling him

Top: Tylenol associated with increased risk of autism and ADHD

Bottom: By the way, the quality of evidence for this guidance is godawful and all other pain-relief medicines are terrible for the fetus!

[Shibetoshi Nakamoto @BillyM2k]

fyi, if your circle is mostly celebrating murder, you are the bad guy

[Alex Cooke @AlexCookeDO]

@SophiaAntimis I was guessing from left to right