My daughter came home from school and said,
“Mum, you’re not going to believe what happened in history class today.”
Her teacher told the class they were going to play a game.
He walked around the room and whispered to each kid whether they were a witch or just a regular person. Then he gave the instructions:
“Form the biggest group you can without a witch. If your group has even one, you all fail.”
She said the whole room instantly lit up with suspicion.
Everyone started interrogating each other. Are you a witch? How do we know you’re not lying?
Some kids clung to one big group, but most broke off into smaller, exclusive cliques. They turned away anyone who seemed uncertain, nervous, or gave off even the slightest hint of being guilty.
The energy shifted fast. Suddenly everyone was suspicious of everyone.
Whispers. Finger-pointing. Side-eyes. Trust dissolved in minutes.
Finally, when all the groups were formed, the teacher said,
“Alright, time to find out who fails. Witches, raise your hands.”
And not one hand went up.
The whole class exploded. “Wait! You messed up the game!”
And then the teacher dropped the bomb:
“Did I? Were there any actual witches in Salem, or did everyone just believe what they were told?”
My daughter said the room went dead silent.
That’s when it hit them. No witch was ever needed for the damage to happen. Fear had already done its work. Suspicion alone divided the entire class, turning community into chaos.
And isn’t that exactly what we’re seeing today?
Different words, same playbook.
Instead of “witch,” it’s liberal, conservative, vaxxed, unvaxxed, pro-this, anti-that.
The labels shift, but the tactic is the same.
Get people scared. Get them suspicious. Get them divided.
Then sit back while trust crumbles.
The danger was never the witch.
The danger is the rumour. The suspicion. The fear. The planted lies.
Refuse the whisper. Don’t play the game. Because the second we start hunting “witches,” we’ve already lost.
[Naomi Dennis]
@slmandel Don’t won’t to go back to the brown bags and buying cars or race horses and the same old schools in the playoffs every year who would have thought Indiana would become national champ in football that part is great
@slmandel Why is it ok for coaches to come and go as they please and make all the money they can possibly make without repercussions but now players can make money off of themselves and it’s suddenly bad for college sports.The portal and adding years of eligibility needs to be fixed
Umm, excuse me? Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev PAID FOR TRUMP JR'S.'s WEDDING - while his father asked Ukraine to stop striking Russian oil refineries.
NOW WHY WOULD A RUSSIAN OLIGARCH PAY FOR A BILLIONAIRES SONS WEDDING, WHOSE DADDY IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES??? Hmm?
Them: “You can’t tax unrealized gains. You haven’t actually made the money yet.”
Me: Then why did my property tax increase?
Them: “That’s not the same thing.”
Me: My house went up in estimated value.
I didn’t sell it.
I didn’t receive a check.
I didn’t cash out a single dollar.
But because the number attached to my property increased, my tax bill went up by thousands.
So apparently an increase in value can be “not real” when we’re talking about investments…
…but becomes very real when it’s time to calculate what a homeowner owes.
Maybe the argument isn’t whether unrealized gains can be taxed.
Maybe it’s who gets asked to pay them.
The best sermon is the one you live.
I preached this morning. But my real sermon happened across Texas this week, as our campaign collected 20,000 pounds of groceries for our neighbors.
As scripture says, “faith without works is dead.”
🇬🇧 UK officials are furious after The Trump Administration secretly flew a US diplomat out of England, after authorities found child abuse materials in a raid on his London apartment.
By the time British’s authorities searched his drives and found the content, the US had smuggled him out of England and back to the US, via a US Air Force base.
Did y'all hear about the woman in Iran who was sentenced to 12 years in prison because authorities believed her stillbirth was an abortion?
Sorry, my mistake....that happened in Oklahoma.
The folks who want flock cameras in your neighborhood, the folks who wanna read your emails without a warrant, the folks who say, “If you’re not doing anything wrong, why do you wanna hide it?” have withheld 3 million Epstein files and redacted the rest.