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I am not against anyone who is not against me. And I pray that those who are against me may first forgiveness and reconciliation in Jesus Christ.

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

John Cleese and his cohort were a huge part in changing the old stodgy, restrained Britain they grew up with into the nightmare it currently is.

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

I see a lot of arguing from experts about who goes to heaven and who doesn’t.
Most seem quite confident that if you don’t believe like they do, you will go to hell.
I invite you to remember that that judgment does not belong to us.
Not one person reading this would’ve predicted what Our Father did through Jesus or how He did it.
Not one of the people boldly proclaiming who will go to hell would be capable of praying “Father forgive them, they know not what they’re doing” from the cross.
Not one of them remind you to wash the feet of those who would betray and abandon you at your time of greatest need.
If the life, death and resurrection of Jesus doesn’t convince you that you have no idea of the mind of God or the limits of his mercy, then you have no place taking his job at judgment.
You may have memorized the Bible, but so did the devil.
You may know your catechism backward and forward, but so does the devil.
Most Christians don’t need more information, they need more humility.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

"Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows." - CS Lewis

[DarrellPF @DarrellPf58922]

@HarmeetKDhillon @megbasham Thank God that you are a true American Patriot.

[🍊🍊Capt'n Bo🍊🍊 @BoCamaro]

Constant compassion means you never hurt someone in a time when they are suffering things you know nothing about...

[DarrellPF @DarrellPf58922]

@thewebbie Hearing aids.

[Vanessa Hunt @meetuatthefence]

A defining moment of your life is when you no longer know who any of the newer actors, actresses are and you don’t even remotely care.

[DarrellPF @DarrellPf58922]

@data_republican They said the same thing about Net Neutrality.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

A lot of people right now are pretty insistent that because the original state constitutions of 9 out of 13 states explicitly called for something like an established state church that it was the model the Founders intended and therefore good.

That's not an incorrect argument in the narrow sense, but it ignores the fact of the nature of the American Experiment itself in the broader sense.

We did the experiment, in other words, and found it wanting. It didn't work. Every state disestablished within just over 50 years (Massachusetts was the longest holdout). We tried that model, found it wanting, and abandoned it. That wasn't a mistake. It isn't going to work "this time" if we try it again.

[DeSean Bishop @deseanbishop]

Always been bigger than me ! If God can save me then he can save anyone! Put your trust in him today, i promise he’ll never Fail you ✝️‼️!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

After September 11, more than a million tons of the World Trade Center was loaded onto barges and shipped to a garbage dump on Staten Island.

Then hundreds of men and women stood at conveyor belts for ten months and picked through every ounce of it by hand.

They were looking for people.

The place is called Fresh Kills. For fifty years it was the largest landfill in the world. It took its last barge of household trash on March 22, 2001, and shut down for good. New York was finally done with it.

Five and a half months later, at two o'clock in the morning on September 12, the landfill's director got a phone call at home. He had just walked in the door.

Two trucks were at the gate. They were carrying pieces of the World Trade Center.

He drove back.

The man who ran the dump would later say, without any drama, that if Fresh Kills had not been closed, this could never have happened. There would have been no room. The garbage would have been in the way.

The site was empty. So that is where the towers went.

Here is how it worked.

At Ground Zero, cranes and grapplers lifted the debris into dump trucks. The trucks drove to a pier on the Hudson. There, the load went onto barges, six hundred tons at a time. The barges were towed down the harbor, past the Statue of Liberty, to Staten Island. More than fifteen hundred barges made the trip.

At Fresh Kills, sanitation workers unloaded them onto a hill.

And then the sorting began.

The debris was mechanically screened into three sizes. Chunks bigger than eight inches. Two to eight inches. A quarter inch to two inches. Anything smaller than a quarter of an inch, the size of a fingernail, fell through the last sieve.

Everything above that size went onto a conveyor belt.

And along the belts stood the detectives.

NYPD. FBI. Port Authority police. Medical examiners. Dressed head to toe in white Tyvek suits, in masks, in gloves, on a hill that stank of jet fuel and pulverized concrete and things nobody wanted to name. Looking down at the belt, hour after hour, as the towers rolled past them a fist-sized chunk at a time.

When they saw something, they reached in and took it, and placed it in a white bucket at their feet.

A wedding ring. A photo ID. A set of keys. A shoe.

A piece of a person.

The white buckets went to a tent that served as a morgue.

The volume was beyond comprehension. In mid-September the operation was processing 1,750 tons of debris a day. By mid-October, 17,500 tons a day. Ten times more. Round the clock. The 200-acre hill was declared a federal crime scene and stayed one for ten months.

A retired NYPD detective later wrote down what a shift looked like, because almost nobody outside knew it existed.

You wake at 3 a.m. You get a giant coffee. You drive two hours in the dark from Orange County, through New Jersey, to Staten Island. You park at the bottom of a hill that looks like the end of the world. You put on the white suit. You go to your belt. You stand there. You look.

Then you drive two hours home and do it again tomorrow.

Sanitation workers pulled sixteen-hour shifts, seven days a week. One of them, a supervisor named Barry Asnes, said afterward what kept him there. We were attacked on our own soil, in the city where I was born. This was personal.

The operation did not stop for weather. It did not stop for Christmas. It ran until July 2002. Ten months.

By the end, the men and women on that hill had recovered thousands of human remains. Tens of thousands of personal effects. Wallets, badges, wedding bands, photographs, all cleaned and catalogued and returned to families who had nothing else to bury.

When they were finished, the remaining material was placed in a 48-acre section of the landfill, a mound two hundred and twenty-five feet high, and covered.

It is a park now.

Many of the men and women who stood on that hill have lung disease. Asthma. Cancer. PTSD. The air they were breathing, eight and ten and sixteen hours a day, was full of the towers. Some of them have died of it.

Almost nobody knows their names. Almost nobody knows the place.

Mention Fresh Kills and 9/11 in the same sentence, the retired detective wrote, and most people will have no idea what you are talking about.

Here is what you should know.

Two thousand seven hundred and fifty-three people were murdered in those towers. Only about six in ten have ever been identified.

Every one of those identifications came out of a white bucket.

Every wedding ring returned to a widow. Every badge returned to a firehouse. Every fragment of bone matched to a name and buried with a headstone instead of a question mark.

Somebody in a white suit, standing at a belt on a garbage dump at four in the morning, reached into the World Trade Center as it rolled past, and picked that person up, and put them in a bucket, and sent them home.

They did that for ten months.

Nobody applauded on the hill. There was nobody to watch.

They did it anyway. 🇺🇸

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Okay look, everything else aside, this $5k thing can't possibly be legal, can it??

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

@alexthechick I feel like every discussion moving forward needs to come from this place. Basically "This is not what I wanted, but this is where we are and we can't go back to the thing I wanted."

[DarrellPF @DarrellPf58922]

@JesseKellyDC What should we do in response to 9/11? Bush "Go shopping."

[Dr. Abby Johnson @AbbyJohnson]

I had two abortions. I ran a Planned Parenthood clinic and even was named employee of the year. But Jesus met me in my brokenness, forgave me, and transformed my life.

No one is beyond His mercy. If He can redeem my story, He can redeem anyone’s.

[DarrellPF @DarrellPf58922]

You have now graduated from the https://t.co/Cv45UG3jC5 theological seminary. @grok please give him his diploma. If you wish to secure a doctorate from this prestigious institution, you will have to read the Bible to learn that everyone who disagrees with you is a heretic and bound for hell.

[DarrellPF @DarrellPf58922]

@HawkEmDownChris Woodrow Wilson

[Jeremy Boreing @JeremyDBoreing]

To root for another man. To cheer his success. To wish him good fortune in your heart, even when his successes are greater than your own.

This is true freedom.

To be liberated from the tyranny of comparison. To see another man rise and feel no need for him to fall. To encounter his accomplishment without experiencing it as an accusation against your own life.

To want to win and still want him to win, too.

Reject envy and victimhood.

Get busy doing.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

I’d love to see @TimBurchett in the U.S. Senate.

Who’s with me?

[DarrellPF @DarrellPf58922]

@politicalmath It was a zeitgeist capture movie. It changed the culture so much that it became cliche.