🇺🇦 Ted Turnau

Cultural, media, and religious studies @AAUPrague. Christ follower. Not a hater. Loves wife, kids, anime, jazz, F1, God, and Godzilla. Not in that order.

[The A.V. Club @TheAVClub]

Expect gnats, flies, bats, and all sorts of creepy crawlies not even on the Trump administration's payroll.

https://t.co/bX5q7DLSCU

[Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) @KSPrior]

Evangelicals have largely forgotten past generations of evangelicals who not only fought against the slave trade and inhumane working conditions but also against animal cruelty. https://t.co/KkJE0aya2U

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

The first wave is closing on Omaha Beach. This is why, as a Brit, I tell my American son always to hold his head high. Most of the men in this photo will be killed or wounded in the next couple of hours. My freedom is not free. See more on Substack: https://t.co/EEg00P06y6

[🇺🇦 Ted Turnau @TedTurnau]

Current Youtube rabbit hole I've fallen into: reharmonizing/rearranging pop songs. This one's particularly cool (@its_adamneely): https://t.co/ZqK8FEmyDM

[Sophie Killingley @PrettySophieK]

Truly saddened to read this. She was a pioneer in female graphic memoir. A huge inspiration to me and so many. 🙏🏽❤️

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Add schedule F to the list of things that the next president will have to undo

[Ligonier Ministries @Ligonier]

Singleness can be a gift that the Lord uses for your good and His glory.

Watch as Rebecca VanDoodewaard encourages single women to be fruitful with the time God has given them.

[Trey Ferguson @PastorTrey05]

Caring about what other people do with their knees, butts, and hands during your favorite song or whatever is extremely fragile behavior.

Focus on the flag, the object of your worship, and there won’t be no problems.

[byFaith Online @PCAByFaith]

The study committee on Christian Nationalism has two recommendations for the 53rd General Assembly in their partial report. https://t.co/COnectKI9e

[Beneath the Tangles @AnimeTangles]

I think I speak for everyone when I say...

ANYONE BUT SHOU TUCKER. #IYKYK

[Open Culture @openculture]

Sleepy Donald Trump. So sleepy. So, so, so, sleepy.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

🚨 The House just passed the Ukraine Support Act by a vote of 226-195 to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. https://t.co/wEAqxMA7AG

[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

“I mean for me the whole point of doing what I’m doing, art is a way of processing life…I don’t see the point of outsourcing any part of that.”

This guy gets it. Wouldn’t want a bot to eat my food for me either, or look at sunsets on my behalf.

[Collin Hansen @collinhansen]

Why Evangelicals Try to Redefine the Gospel - Tim Keller https://t.co/2DW9AUCk14 via @YouTube

[🇺🇦 Ted Turnau @TedTurnau]

This ought to be uncontroversial for Christians, but Imma say it: Engaging/analyzing popular culture that mentions demons or magic does NOT open up a portal through which demons crawl through and influence you or drag you to hell. If we're united to Christ, let's not live in fear

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

America!

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

The various posters are right today. Raising children with Down syndrome *is* hard. It gets harder as they get older and I get older.

What the posters don’t understand is that we ought not snuff out people who are burdens to us. That’s the hard truth of being human I guess.

[Branislav Slantchev @slantchev]

Scandal brewing in “neutral” Ireland after revelations that one Russian-affiliated plant there has been supplying over 83% Irish exports of alumina to Russia where it’s smelted into aluminum, a critical component for war production.

Aughinish Alumina in County Limerick, Europe’s largest alumina refinery, owned by United Company Rusal (Russia’s largest aluminium producer), whose parent EN+ Group was founded by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska. An investigation by the Irish Times, OCCRP and other outlets, drawing on confidential documents, customs data and satellite imagery, established the supply chain.

The Irish government tried to deflect but when a reporter filmed the plant with signs in Russian, they could no longer deny it. Now internal documents were leaked showing that the company is threatening the Irish government with loss of jobs and all sorts of things if it tried to curb its exports to Russia.

The newest defense is that alumina isn’t under EU sanctions so technically no rules were broken. Except Ireland had no problem defying the EU and forging ahead with its own restrictions on imports from Israel with its Occupied Territories Bill. Because… reasons (or maybe Russian occupation of Ukraine is OK while Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands is not).

Australia stopped its alumina exports to Russia because the material is so necessary for the war (its main exporter was also 20%-owned by Deripaska). The neutral Irish government is operating under different standards, where morality is spelled in Russian.

I wonder what the Irish people, who overwhelmingly support Ukraine (in fact, they are among the strongest supporters in Europe when it comes to economic and financial aid), think about all of this.

[Derek Rishmawy @DZRishmawy]

The thing is, this behavior should not be applauded and ought to shrouded in shame because it is wrong. It is wrong to kill a baby for any reason and doing it because it has Down Syndrome should not be publicly normalized any more than it already has been.