Tracey Deen ✟

classical musician/conservative/Texan

[Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic]

If you want to understand why, its all in here:

https://t.co/pg6TiIlHyp

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mr. Kristol,

The verse you cite is from Leviticus, right alongside the passages on same-sex relations that you so readily dismiss.

But setting that aside, you're misreading the historical context. Leviticus 19:33–34 was written for Israel while the Hebrews were in the wilderness after the Exodus. There was no modern nation-state with fixed borders or an immigration system. Israel was a covenant community, not a country defined by territorial boundaries.

A "sojourner" wasn't simply someone standing inside an invisible border. A sojourner was a foreigner living among Israel who accepted Israel's civil order and lived under its laws. That's why the same Torah you hijack says there should be "one law for the native and for the sojourner." The defining feature wasn't physical location... it was membership in, and submission to, the covenant community.

Using Leviticus 19:33–34 as an argument against modern immigration enforcement ignores the historical and legal context in which the passage was written.

[SaveOurChurchesUK @SaveukChurches]

St Margaret's Church in Hales, Norfolk is one of the finest surviving Norman churches in East Anglia.

Its distinctive round tower and rare rounded apse have stood for almost 900 years.

[Tracey Deen ✟ @DeenTracey]

@Fascinate_Hist Texas, howdy!

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

80,000 Followers. Astounding. 😃🙏

When I started Fascinating History, I wasn't sure how a professional historian would fit into everyone's daily scroll. Seeing this many people genuinely captivated by the past has been inspiring.

Thank you for being here; I'm so glad to meet you!

Drop a "Hi" below - I’d love to know where you're tuning in from!👇

[Alesya @AlesyaMacWaters]

As we approach July 4th and America’s 250th anniversary, I have really been reflecting on how blessed I am to be a U.S. citizen.

I was born in Siberia, Russia, to Ukrainian parents who moved there for four years to do missionary work. My mom has told us stories of having no food and living through some of the hardest years of their lives.

People who have never lived under communism often speak about it like an idea on paper. It is not.

communism is a system where the government controls the economy, property, opportunity, and often the lives of its people. It strips people of the freedom to build, own, create, speak freely, worship freely, and determine their own future. It does not reward ambition. It does not create opportunity. It makes people dependent on a system that decides what they are allowed to have.

there was no version of “dream big and work hard” where we came from. There was survival.

my family was selected through a lottery to move to the United States. We came here with one suitcase for a family of six. A church sponsored us and someone gifted us an old chevy.

To us, that car may as well have been a Rolls-Royce.

we grew up incredibly poor. I have only a handful of baby pictures and very little from those early years. When I started school, I knew zero English. I made friends by teaching girls how to braid hair and braiding everyone’s hair in class.

But my parents worked relentlessly. They gave us opportunities they never had. They showed us what freedom actually looks like.

the American dream was never that everything would be handed to you.
It was that you could work hard, take responsibility for your life, build something of your own, create value, and become more than the circumstances you started in.

that is why I respect people who work hard. People who build companies, create jobs, solve problems, take risks, and make an impact on the world.

I know what it means to come from very little.

and I know that the ability to dream, build, own, work, worship, speak, and create freely is not something to take for granted.

I hope we never forget how rare that kind of freedom is.

(sitting on the Chevy and wearing a dress I was gifted 🥲)

[SaveOurChurchesUK @SaveukChurches]

The oldest building in Greater Manchester isn't a castle or a manor house.

It's Middleton Parish Church (St. Leonard's), where a remarkable 12th-century Norman arch still survives.

[SaveOurChurchesUK @SaveukChurches]

St Bride's Church in London has stood here for centuries, but the story beneath it goes back even further.

Descend into the crypt and you'll walk through 2,000 years of London's https://t.co/4l9IuokaTP on display in the heart of London, from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace.

[QUANTUM GUARD ™️ @QuantumGuard17]

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. ICE has just announced a jaw-dropping fraud bust, saying 10,000 FOREIGN students are involved in the federal government's Optional Practical Training

There are EMPTY BUILDINGS where HUNDREDS of students should be "working" as part of their ability to be in America — run by foreign-linked groups that send money out of the country!

Locked doors, hundreds of students sharing the SAME ADDRESS, and "employers" sharing the same unleased addresses

There is a widespread "phantom employee" fraud going on. This is insane.

Many of the so-called "employers" have major red flags, such as facing lawsuits, no employment records, offshore payroll claims, and suspicious INTERNATIONAL MONEY flows

"HSI agents have visited problematic OPT employer work sites in Virginia, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Florida."

"Foreign students themselves are entering false addresses and employer names into the student and exchange visitor information system."

"But we are uncovering evidence of organized fraud that spans national and international borders. This is not accidental. It is deliberate, coordinated, and criminal."

"To give you an example, one employer we visited claimed to employ only three foreign students through OPT, while our records show over 500 foreign students claiming to work there."

"The company's representatives were unable to answer basic questions about the business and deferred HR managers in India."

"OPT employers are required to directly train foreign students, but we've seen multiple examples of alleged employers claiming that all management is overseas in India."

"We've also discovered multiple state networks which are large networks of alleged employers claiming to train thousands of foreign students in OPT, then farming them out to unreported third party employers, making oversight nearly impossible and raising serious national security issues."

[Kaiser Soze @KaiserSoze648]

@DefiantLs

[SaveOurChurchesUK @SaveukChurches]

Lichfield Cathedral has everything you'd want in a cathedral.

Three spires, centuries of history, and some of the most beautiful stained glass I've ever seen.

Is this one of England's best?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOW 🚨 Rep Tim Burchett says the housing bills that are we pushed through by Republicans and Democrats is a “Trojan horse”

The bill allows for illegals to get taxpayer funded housing and rental assistance, and lets illegals buy homes in America

“Something in it is just crazy. It doesn't limit illegals from receiving housing welfare or limit foreign ownership. It actually includes Rashida Tlaib's $200 million affordable housing pilot program and includes COVID-era eviction moratoriums — You talk about the deep state, that's what it is”

“Everybody, the only color they see is green and it's coming out of your dadgum pocket. It's ridiculous.”

He’s absolutely right,

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act

- Expands housing-related programs and grants without adding stronger verification, citizenship requirements, or bans on funds flowing to noncitizens
- States like California would be able to use the money for programs to pay for housing for illegals
- The bill does not restrict non-US citizens or foreign entities from buying home
- It expands COVID-era eviction moratoriums and protections, which favors tenants like noncitizens over landlords and American citizens

[Michael Mattox - The Mad Ox @TheRealMadOx]

Pima County bureaucrats thought they could quietly kill Sergeant Snuggles after eight months locked in a cage over one startled nip on his own family's land.

They were wrong.

This young Anatolian Shepherd was guarding the acreage like his breed does. Grandma tapped him from behind. One defensive nip. She has said over and over it was her fault. She is fine. She wants him home with the kids who miss their dog every damn day. The family offered training, fencing, a behaviorist who cleared him. Courts and animal control did not care. Vicious label. Isolation. No real visits. Fees piling up while they play God.

Today at ten in the morning, families are rallying at the PACC parking lot on Broadway in Tucson. Lucy, Brendan Jones and family drove two thousand miles from Virginia to stand with them. Lucy beat her own raw deal and came home. Now they fight for Snuggles to do the same.

This is government overreach at its ugliest. Cowards hiding behind rules to break a family and crush kids hearts. One mistake on private property and they treat a loyal dog like a monster. The system stinks.

If Lucy can come home so can Snuggles. Stand up today. Bring him back where he belongs. Running free on that land instead of rotting in a cage.

Show up if you can. Bring signs. Raise your voice. Or call the officials and demand justice.

@brendanmjones @JenniferEvn22 @Herb_Minstrel

#SaveSnuggles #BringSnugglesHome #JusticeForSnuggles

[SaveOurChurchesUK @SaveukChurches]

This might be Britain's most unusual church.

Hidden in the grounds of Arundel Castle, St Nicholas' Church and Fitzalan Chapel has been shared by Anglicans and Catholics for centuries, each worshipping in a different part of the same building.

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

Photographed in colour exactly 98 years ago this month - June 1928 - this beautiful Autochrome study of a German garden in Baden is a wondrous riot of colour. I love the 'Twenties flapper outfit with cloche hat and aqua marine scarf! It is original colour, taken by Wilhelm Tobien using an early colour glass-plate process. It isn't colourised. 😍

[Q STORM RIDER @_Qstormrider]

🚨 BOOM! DEVIN NUNES JUST DROPPED A NUKE — OBAMA PERSONALLY ORDERED THE MAR-A-LAGO RAID TO HUNT DOWN THE FALSIFIED ICA THAT FRAMED PRESIDENT TRUMP!

While Obama lectures everyone about “not weaponizing government agencies,” Nunes just confirmed the Deep State raid was laser-focused on burying the phony Intelligence Community Assessment — the hoax document at the heart of the entire coup attempt against Trump!

More declassified documents are about to explode this wide open.

This is PEAK corruption: the same traitors who turned the DOJ, FBI, and intel community into a personal hit squad against a sitting president now want us to pretend none of it happened.

FOLLOW @_Qstormrider FOR MORE INTEL DROPS!

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

50 years ago, in 1976, famed photographer Stephen Shore snapped this photo at the intersection of East Fifth & Main in 1976. It's almost a painting, isn't it? I loved it so much I emailed Mr. Shore and asked if I could post this and he graciously agreed. It's period perfect in every way: colors, clothing etc... and beautifully composed. 1976. The Bicentennial year. A time of bell bottoms and skateboards and, looking back, innocence. Yep ... almost a painting.

Thank you, Mr. Shore. This is a true time capsule.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

Drive through almost any corner of the English countryside and sooner or later you pass a ruin: a roofless abbey, a row of broken arches open to the weather, a few worked stones in a field where something vast once stood. We are so used to these skeletons that we file them under scenery. In truth each one is a crime scene, and the oldest warning we have about what the English state does when it decides its own people are there to be harvested.

The fashionable comparison this season is the Civil War: the 1640s, the king against his parliament, the long slide to the sword. The state-as-enemy-of-the-nation. I think it's the wrong century. To see our situation as it actually is, go back a hundred years earlier, to the 1530s, and to the largest seizure of wealth in English history before the modern age - the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The monasteries were far more than churches. They were the welfare state of their day, among the many other pillars-of-society which they constituted. They ran the hospitals and fed the poor at the gate. They schooled the clever sons of nobodies, took in travellers, lent money, employed half the county, and held perhaps a fifth of the land in England in a kind of standing trust for the people around them. They were the accumulated institutional capital of the nation, built up across four centuries.

In barely four years, the state took the lot.

The way it was done is the whole point. First the audit: Thomas Cromwell sent his men to value every religious house in the land down to the candlesticks - the Valor Ecclesiasticus, a Domesday Book drawn up for plunder. Then the justification: the same men came back with lurid dossiers of monkish vice and idleness, much of it invented and all of it deeply useful, because a thing you mean to destroy must first be declared rotten. Then the disposal. The proceeds went nowhere near the poor who had depended on the place. The land was sold, fast and cheap, to the Crown's creditors and courtiers and the rising, grasping gentry - a new class of men bound to the regime by the very loot they were handed, a good many of whose descendants sit on the same acres now.

When the north rose against it, in the Pilgrimage of Grace, the rising was put down and its leaders hanged on the strength of a royal pardon that was never meant to be honoured.

The result, for ordinary people, was a disaster that took generations to undo. The hospitals shut. The poor relief evaporated. England filled with vagrants and beggars - "sturdy beggars", in fact, which the same government then set about whipping through the streets - because the institutions that had carried the poor had been cashed in for the king's wars and the courtiers' estates. It took the better part of a century, and the Elizabethan Poor Law, to rebuild a fraction of what those four years had wrecked.

This is the English disease in its purest form, and a man ought to know his own country's worst habit when he sees it come round again. The English state has never had much need of tanks or secret police. Its signature is subtler. It finds the institutions ordinary people rely on, declares them corrupt or inefficient or unaffordable, audits them, hollows them, and transfers their substance - the money, the land, the power, the security - to the class that runs the machine.

You have watched it done. The hospitals, the courts, the high streets, the post offices, the savings, the very safety of the streets - audited, downgraded, closed, sold, or left to rot, while the apparatus sitting on top of it all has swollen to £400 billion a year and answers to nobody you can name. The monks are long gone and the method is immortal.

The ruins in the field are a gravestone, but they are also evidence, and evidence is always useful. Once a people learns to recognise the method - the audit, the manufactured rot, the fire-sale to insiders, the whole business wrapped in the word "reform" - it stops working on them.

The English have rebuilt everything that was stripped from them before: the parish relief, the friendly societies, the great Victorian foundations, the hospitals and schools of the last century, every one of them raised by people who refused to accept that the floor under ordinary life was gone for good. We will do it again. The first step is to stop calling the men selling the country reformers, and to call them what Cromwell's men were: looters with a jolly good filing system.

[Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻 @pepesgrandma]

🚨The Southern Poverty Law Center works with the East German Communist party, and the Democratic Socialists Of America (DSA) partnered Rosa Luxemburg Foundation! And they also work with Moonshot CVE of London that formed a January 6 task force on January 5. Also recall that Antifa is a DSA paramilitary group.

(They will hate me for this. My friend, John Rossomando, was suspended from Twitter in 2021 for writing this article.)

Anyways, after Jan 6th, Moonshot CVE was hired by the Biden Dept of Defense. In turn, Moonshot was responsible for the DOD removing right wing “extremists” from its ranks. Vidhya Ramalingam, a former Obama Foundation leader, ran Moonshot.

Moonshot CVE’s alliance with Rosa Lux backed PERIL reinforces the perception that the Biden Pentagon’s hunt for extremism actually was an excuse for classifying dissenting view as “extremist.”

The Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) is a German far-Left organization that is overtly pro-Marxist and pro-Antifa, and whose leaders have historical ties to Russian intelligence.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is another PERIL partner who Ramalingam of Moonshot CVE worked with. The SPLC also has both received money from the communist Die Linke partnered Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and trained with them.

PERIL has partnered with The DSA partnered Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS), the think tank of the German political party Die Linke (The Left). Die Linke is the successor of the former East German communist party. The think tank is named for Rosa Luxemburg, a German Communist revolutionary whose ideas pioneered the Marxist examination of race and gender.

The SPLC is an extremely controversial organization which has been accused by its own former employees of bias and deliberately overinflating supposed far right threats for fundraising. SPLC has defended Antifa.

Former SPLC Intelligence Project Director Heidi Beirich and SPLC Intelligence Project Senior Analyst Evelyn Schlatter participated in a June 2017 Rosa Lux sponsored session in New York called “Strategies Against the Far Right.”

Ramalingam of Moonshot and Beirich of SPLC were both advisory group members of a pan-European “anti-radicalization” project called The DARE Consortium. 

Ramalingam is also the author of a 2013 paper on immigration in Europe funded by a grant from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

https://t.co/ROSMo2N2k1

[The SCIF @TheSCIF]

DOMINION AGREES to DISMISS $1.3 BILLION dollar lawsuit against @realMikeLindell.

An 5-year long, 800 page report & evidence of fraud from Dominion machines will be released today.

Voting machine companies are falling like dominos. This is why I fought every single day for election integrity.

The TRUTH will ALWAYS PREVAIL.