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[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Christian Nationalism is perverting my faith and subverting our democracy.

It’s incumbent upon Christians to call out this dangerous ideology.

That’s why I spoke at my home church about the threat of Christian Nationalism.

[Ro @_ro1313]

Two years later...another company tried to poach me, and they beat their offer by more than 10k. Long story short, it was the best decision ❤️

[Ro @_ro1313]

I just got offered a job. Without looking. Like fuck yes 2022. Go off.

[Ro @_ro1313]

Made a new rule: Every time I buy clothes I have to pay the exact same amount towards my credit card/student loans. Instead of saving money, I'm just even more poor.

[Rohan Talbot @rohantalbot]

Her name was Sidra Hassouna. She was just 12.

[Ro @_ro1313]

Honorable mentions:

She hates the terms boy mom and army wife. 😂😂 Idk why but it's funny, and I do use them to make her mad. Sisters man

[Ro @_ro1313]

One of my favorite qualities about my sister is that she, an army wife, has no problem voicing her opinions about the military. Before you make conclusions:

[Ro @_ro1313]

Lastly, she was like 3 when 9/11 happened and the horrid happening in Palestine have led her to better understanding the post and pre 9/11 world. How it really was, not the patriotic lies.

[Ro @_ro1313]

Flash forward a month and we stopped at her parents house and I saw her mom was reading a book about the Platagenets and we spoke for like 20 minutes about 600 years of English history-in short she said to get the tattoo.

[Ro @_ro1313]

Make a comment the other day about wanting to get a sword tattoo and my friend asked why and I said because my love of history and the correlation of the sword. She was confused and was like I've never heard you talk about that...

[hot dam historian @hotdamhistorian]

as someone who's read a lot, like a lot of french history, this is the most french thing i've ever seen.

[Joshua Claybourn @JoshuaClaybourn]

British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher famously once said, “Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.” Nearly all European nations trace their beginning to a common ethnic kinship or a cultural characteristic, but America was created by exiles united in voluntary assent to shared political beliefs. That’s why British writer G. K. Chesterton visited the United States for the first time and remarked that America was “a nation with the soul of a church,” not because of its religiosity, but because of a common creed enshrined in “sacred texts” of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

In 1776, a near-miraculous stew of ideas and leaders came together to form a Declaration of Independence, and 11 years later an equally miraculous gathering formed the Constitution, both centered on a belief in universal human dignity.

Government does not grant you the right to free speech, assembly, religion, press, protest, or redress of grievances. We believe that these rights are inalienable and government’s role is simply to protect those rights and ensure human dignity. Government is just a tool, not a source. That’s really a remarkably profound idea we take for granted and fail to celebrate enough.

Of course, the sad irony is that the very Founders who argued these ideas so frequently fell short of those same principles. Some owned slaves, and nearly all opposed equal rights for women. So it naturally caused upheaval when nineteenth century Americans increasingly adopted a view held that “All men are created equal,” including black Americans, and a few generations later it came to encompass women as well.

Abraham Lincoln believed that the Declaration of Independence did not necessarily proclaim people equal in all respects. Instead, it meant that all people were created with certain equal, inalienable rights—they are ours by right of simply being human—among which are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” A free society should always strive to achieve these equal rights, even if, as in the case of the Founders, it fell short of that goal in the past. The Declaration’s concept of equality is an aspiration, Lincoln said, “constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even, though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere.”

That is the genius of Lincoln’s argument: that the Constitution is concrete (at least until amended), but the Declaration of Independence is aspirational, and the American project is a move toward the aspiration.

Despite its roots in American independence, the 4th of July is incomplete without understanding and celebrating Lincoln too. His unique view of the Declaration as an aspirational goal helped properly frame American independence for what it was and what it was bound to be.

[Ro @_ro1313]

65: let's make the the age everyone has to retire. I do not care what job it is. Good bye. Go volunteer at an animal shelter.

[Ro @_ro1313]

Snapchat memories will literally be like here are a series of memories with all the sociopaths you dated. Have a great day!

[Ro @_ro1313]

❌1.65 million people in the Phoenix-metro area
❌332.1 million people in the US
✅ 1 person I met (and haven't spoken to in) seven years ago in a country 5.1K miles away

[Ro @_ro1313]

I went to a pool party today and got a, "you look like old money" comment.

Dress for who you want to be, am I right.

[Ro @_ro1313]

The same Congress that still doesn't understand wifi?

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

In some ways, A.I. is similar to social media: rapidly evolving and conceptually slippery to grasp, particularly for a somewhat gerontocratic legislature, @Grace_Segers writes. https://t.co/nyiJ69Mu3W

[Ro @_ro1313]

Bar regular: I like natural girls, like you.
Me with a lot of Botox and some lip filler: yeah me natural you know it.