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[Billy Wilson @WilsonBilly]

It is hard to believe that our government can’t pass a law that will clean up the voting situation across America. We are the most advanced democracy in history yet without vote(r) integrity our leaders are seen as illegitimate. Please fix this now!

[Sean Feucht @seanfeucht]

We dont need a debate. We just need to read the Bible:

"For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit."

1 Corinthians 14:2:

"He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church."

1 Corinthians 14:4:

"I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you."

1 Corinthians 14:18:

"And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues”

Mark 16:17

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.

The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.

The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.

The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.

The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.

The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.

The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.

He is confident.

He has always been confident.

The confidence has never been the problem.

The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

Have started to get more questions about why I do stuff like this. Quick response...

1) Not every pastor should, and not saying I'm doing it perfectly. Guarantee I'm not.

2) I've come think of discipleship in terms of "Air War" and "Ground War."

- Air War = applying the Word to PEOPLE and FAMILIES "down there"
- Ground War = applying the Word to culture "up there"

Just like in a military conflict, if you have no Air War it doesn't matter how many battles you win on the ground, the Enemy just flies in, bombs your wins, and un-does everything you did.

I feel like that happens with Christians: If we don't combat the lies they are inundated with in culture, Enemy "air war superiority" is undoing for the next 6 days (via social media, journalism, entertainment media, higher ed, etc) what we did on 1 day.

3) Many of the "false teachers" of this era are not in pulpits. They are on podcasts, YouTube pages, Twitch streams, etc doing reverse-discipleship and frequently twisting the Scriptures to do so.

In 1960 a pastor could generally keep his sheep from wolves by controlling who he allowed in his pulpit. In 2026, people are carrying entire packs of "wolves" in their pockets... so as a shepherd I'm trying to go there too.

4) I refuse to let my pulpit get hijacked by the issue of the week. On weekends I'm preaching verse by verse through books. Stuff like this gives me the ability to combat bad teaching my people are hearing without letting my pulpit get hijacked.

(Not saying everything Tucker said in this clip I reacted to = bad teaching, listen to ep)

5) If pastors refuse to help their people think Biblically through the issues of the day, someone else will help them think UNbiblically about them.

If godly people don't, godless people will.

6) It is counterintuitively an avenue for evangelism. One takeaway I had from watching the effect of Charlie Kirk's life was that what is often called "the culture war" can be a PLATFORM for the gospel, rather than a distraction from it.

7) Last year I read a book that touched on church leadership and pastoral ministry during the era of the American founding. Pastors leveraged Sundays to preach through books of the Bible, but many leveraged the mid-week gathering to teach their people about "Christian statesmanship" (applying Biblical principles to society, local politics, culture, etc.)

We accidentally backed into doing that with Live Free.

*All that to say, I GUARANTEE I'm doing it imperfectly and this is not going to be every pastor's "thing." I've always been drawn to "Christ and culture" thinking.

But I'm doing my imperfect best for the above reasons.

[Matthew Tkachuk @TKACHUKycheese_]

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[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

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[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

Our goalie decided we weren’t gonna lose today.. One of the greatest American sport performances of all time

🗣🗣 THANK YOU FOR STANDING ON YOUR HEAD CONNOR HELLEBUYCK

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[USA Hockey @usahockey]

Your 2026 Olympic Men's Ice Hockey CHAMPIONS 🇺🇸 #WinterOlympics

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

As good as gold 🥇

[NHL @NHL]

A moment they'll all never forget 👏 #MilanoCortina2026 #WinterOlympics

[Pardon My Take @PardonMyTake]

The greatest save in us hockey history

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

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[Daily Wire @realDailyWire]

“I love the USA. I love my teammates…I’m so proud to be American today.” 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Jack Hughes after scoring the winning goal to take gold for @usahockey

[The Olympic Games @Olympics]

Exactly 46 years later... Team USA's first men's ice hockey GOLD since the miracle on ice. 🇺🇸🏒

#MilanoCortina2026 #LakePlacid1980

[Team USA @TeamUSA]

FREE BIRD ON REPEAT. 🦅

#WinterOlympics

[Daniel King @danielking100]

@PaulDaugherty “Pick up the bloody microphone!” Good preaching today with a prophetic word for the church. “The church needs to move from cowardness to courage! From complacency to conviction.”

[Seth Gruber @sgruber91]

Denver Shooter: TRANS
Aberdeen Shooter: TRANS
Nashville Shooter: TRANS
Philadelphia Shooter: TRANS
Colorado Springs Shooter: Non-Binary
Iowa Shooter: Gender Fluid
Minneapolis Shooter: TRANS
Charlie Kirk Shooter: TRANS-partner

The TRANS ideology is demonic and creates deadly radicals. The legacy media knows this and pours kerosene on the Trans movement to create more radicals. They are partly to blame, as are the politicians like Tim Walz who puts tampons in the boys bathrooms.

We must treat the TRANS ideology as domestic terrorism and route the entire ideology out of our country.

I miss Charlie.