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Trying to live by the Sermon on the Mount. Happily apostate.
Mental health advocate. Love Star Trek esp. DS9

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Happy Thanksgiving

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

A Christianity that prioritizes love of nation over love of neighbor is a Christianity completely devoid of Jesus Christ.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

IMO, this is not exciting. This is bad and I'll tell you why. 🧵

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵

[Alan Levinovitz @AlanLevinovitz]

There's been a LOT about why RFK Jr is a terrible pick, but I want to focus on something that is very concerning to me, but no one seems to be mentioning.

He appeals to a widespread, common-sense idea that the problem with our food is that it has "lots of artificial ingredients". Get the artificial ingredients out — no chemical additives! no food dyes! no high fructose corn syrup! — and our health problems magically resolve.

This is 100% incorrect, and fundamentally misunderstands the problems with our food system.

[Alan Levinovitz @AlanLevinovitz]

Wondering why I'm skeptical of health influencers who "know the secret THEY are keeping from YOU"?

Okay, buckle up, and let me tell you about someone you've never heard of...one of the biggest health influencers of the 20th century.

Horace Fletcher, aka "The Great Masticator."

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Cool how he went from free speech absolutist to literal anti free speech authoritarian

[Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild]

1/ I *always* get some hilarious pushback from MAGA believers and anti-abortion idolaters when I talk about the vile compromises the modern anti movement has made.

There are two reasons I say that about the modern anti movement:

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

1. “Land for peace” sounds nice but Putin isn’t fighting for land. He is fighting to destroy Ukraine as a nation. When the next U.S. president takes office he will therefore face the same choices as Biden: let Putin win or help him lose
https://t.co/wxvlqRqIls

[will davis @wdavisx3]

THREAD: 1/? True story, @PeteHegseth was the subject of my first ever research book in 2017.

I used to have to wake up early every weekend morning to watch Fox and Friends and hang on his every word.

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

I don't know what to do about the appeal of the "easy fake solution" versus the "complicated actual reality" issue in messaging.
Because when I think about the misinformation I've encountered in the last few months ("tariffs mean other countries have to give us money! Getting

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not.

Tough one. I can see why RFK Jr is so concerned.

Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.

[Michael Tomasky @mtomasky]

New Column: Why Does No One
Understand the Real Reason Trump Won? https://t.co/h2AFF2CukU Follow @newrepublic

[Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute @RonaldReagan]

35 years ago today, the Berlin Wall fell, allowing Germany to reunite and dealing a fatal blow to communism in Central and Eastern Europe.

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

― John Kenneth Galbraith, in 1967