Lisa Deeley Smith

Director, Village Help for South Sudan. Moderator, Trinity Baptist Church, Arlington, MA.

[Lisa Deeley Smith @LisaDeeleySmith]

@HunterBiden Please, oh please, set up an account on Threads or Bluesky so those of us who have left X can follow you.

[Lisa Deeley Smith @LisaDeeleySmith]

@MMHS_Athletics @BostonHeraldHS @GlobeSchools Please open an account on Bluesky or Threads.

[Lisa Deeley Smith @LisaDeeleySmith]

@MinutemanHS Please open an account on Bluesky or Threads.

[Martin Heinrich @SenatorHeinrich]

…Because people are always complaining that prescription drugs just aren't expensive enough.

[Ethan C7 @ECaliberSeven]

If this is gonna be life for the next few years, 2026 better be the bluest dang wave imaginable I swear.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

The United States is under attack. Elon Musk—who has been elected to nothing and is a deeply troubled person—is literally destroying our government from the inside and doing so without authority or consent of the governed. Working on a report on this right now. It’s an emergency.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Actually no. This misses the point of Jesus's Parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10: 25-37). After Jesus tells a lawyer that you should "love your neighbor as yourself," the lawyer asks him, "And who is my neighbor?"

In response, Jesus tells the story of a Jewish man who has been beaten by robbers and is lying by the side of the road. The man is helped not by those closest to him (a "priest" and a "Levite"), but rather by a Samaritan. At the time, Jews and Samaritans would have considered one another enemies.

So Jesus's fundamental message is that *everyone* is your neighbor, and that it is not about helping just your family or those closest to you. It's specifically about helping those who seem different, foreign, other. They are all our "neighbors."

But Jesus's deeper point can only be understood from the point of view of the beaten man: our ultimate salvation depends, as it did for that man, upon those whom we often consider to be the "stranger."

[Lisa Deeley Smith @LisaDeeleySmith]

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[Lisa Deeley Smith @LisaDeeleySmith]

Tagging along after the cool kids.
https://t.co/Qyun4XKzVt

[Amy McGrath @AmyMcGrathKY]

Congrats to Captain Hester!

Meanwhile, Trump’s pick for SecDef doesn’t think she should be allowed to do this job because she is a woman. https://t.co/ngQgm0h0Ma

[Dave Peasant, Aspiring Lorax @aspiringpeasant]

I will repeat myself:

The best helo pilot i ever saw in combat was a woman.

We got ambushed in the almond groves and called in the Kiowas. She used all her ammo AMD THEN MADE TWO MORE PASSES SHOOTING HER RIFLE OUT THE SIDE DOOR AS SHE FLEW LOW OVERHEAD.

[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

The US has 15 vaccines for kids <18:

MMR
DTaP
Pneumococcal
Rotavirus
Varicella
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis A
Polio
Haemophilus influenzae B
Meningococcal
Human Papillomavirus
Influenza
COVID-19
RSV

NOT 72.
Not 72 DOSES from birth to age 18 (it’s ~35)
Stop letting people lie.

[mass ave curmudgeon @mass_ave]

Evergreen

[Lisa Deeley Smith @LisaDeeleySmith]

Meanwhile, alert Roald Dahl: they're still beating boys in England. https://t.co/9tqNOlnYtZ

[Lisa Deeley Smith @LisaDeeleySmith]

A light shines on the darkness.
https://t.co/BTbvA5Ivjs

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

It’s mind boggling that folks are letting John Roberts off the hook for preventing Trump from facing justice so they can blame the guy who actually indicted Trump.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

In last week’s column, I wrote that Kamala Harris had run a “nearly flawless campaign.” This week’s column is about her many mistakes and how I knew it all along.

[Albert Brooks @AlbertBrooks]

It’s so odd this election had the same machines the same poll workers the same rules and yet not one republican is saying it’s fixed. I wonder what happened.

[Dr Helena Kantanen 🇺🇦 @helenakan]

Hillary Clinton was cold and elitist. Kamala Harris was down-to-earth and laughed too much. Is there always something wrong with women? There must be if a convicted, lying felon can beat them. In Finland we elected a woman president 24 years ago.

#USAElection2024

[TVWAN Online @tvwanonline]

#Sport 16-year-old sprinting starlet Gout Gout has broken another record in Australia as his extraordinary rise continues.

Read more: https://t.co/X3jpYHymjh

#GoutGout #AustralianAthletics #Sprinting #PapuaNewGuinea #PNG #TVWANNews

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