Clint Brooks 🇺🇦

Sinner saved by grace. Jesus loves you. I'm trying to. Love ≠ Agreement. Don’t confuse the point I’m making with the one you’re obsessed with. John 6:67-69

[Clint Brooks 🇺🇦 @clintbrooks]

When someone is being principled and reasonable (or is honestly trying to do so), it doesn’t make them right, but it does make them worth listening to.

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@JonahDispatch The role of Ezra Klein will be played by John Travolta in the feature film.

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@BretVDB @CathyYoung63 Let’s see Rosetti try that with “orange.”

[Bob Elder @southernphd]

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him.

In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over.

Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed.

When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye.

She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession.

As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him.

Rest in peace, professor.

[Clint Brooks 🇺🇦 @clintbrooks]

@Spikeypine34271 @sentdefender His performance isn’t about marshaling evidence. He’s shoring up the deficiencies in his own self-esteem with these outbursts.

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@jaynordlinger … He is piling one thing upon the other to maintain this fantasy. As the English say, it will all end in tears.

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@jaynordlinger The President is in the grip of a mania. His inability to accept legitimate defeat in 2020 in part led to the January 6th insurrection. His continued refusal to accept legitimate defeat it has led to this perverse fantasy that the insurrectionists were somehow the victims…

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@DavidAFrench …though not as much as the mullahs.

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@DavidAFrench …the moral calculus might be considerably different. But the Trump administration has not demonstrated any strategic vision or plan for such. Having encouraged demonstrators to face down the regime in the first place, the administration has much to answer for…

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@FoxNews You guys are supposed to be a news channel, not Pravda.

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@Bking78120265 @greggnunziata JHFTR

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@JohnDalyBooks Given that the “They” literally is crazy people, technically he should have written “We.”

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@nytimes @nytopinion Hypocrisy never sleeps.

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@EsotericCD TBF - That was the Democrats’ strategy for Trump in 2016. Never underestimate the electorate’s capacity for self-delusion.

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@EsotericCD My wife and I watched Zero Hour tonight right around the same time.

[Bahar Ali @baharr_ali]

فقط ١٨ سالشه و براى دومين بار، حكم اعدامش در دیوان عدالت تائيد شده. سكوت نكنيم!!! از اعداميا بنويسيم. شايد صدامون به جايی رسيد!!

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

This man should not be forgotten. Neither should Boris Nemtsov. Neither should the others who have been murdered by Putin's dictatorship.

[Clint Brooks 🇺🇦 @clintbrooks]

Self-professed war criminal Vladimir Putin.

[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

This is putin casually admitting to what can only be described as a textbook war crime, and he’s doing it with a smug smile on his face.

He literally brags about using Ukraine as a human testing ground.

He openly admits that they didn't fire their "Oreshnik" missile at a military test range. Instead, they fired it at populated areas in Ukraine just because it was "convenient to watch”.

Think about that for a second. He sent explosive warheads into communities, and then sent drones in right after just to count the bodies and measure the craters "down to the millimeter" like it’s some kind of science fair project.

But the scariest part is how he ends it. He casually drops that they are collecting this data so they can figure out how to better use these massive missiles in "urban areas”. That is political speak for densely populated cities filled with civilians, apartment buildings, and schools.
It’s pure, calculated terror.

putin: “After all, we... we used to test such systems at testing ranges. But 'Oreshnik' wasn't tested that way. And this wasn't a combat application. In fact, we haven't had a single combat application of 'Oreshnik' over the territory of Ukraine in the full, so to speak, sense of the word.
And the last one—to be completely honest, I will reveal a major, major state military secret to you. We simply struck a location where it was convenient to observe the results. Well, this concerns Bila Tserkva, and it especially concerns... concerns the DPR [so-called Donetsk People's Republic] area within the perimeter of the main fortified area.
Afterward, our drones flew into that area—the target area we had struck—and simply looked at how the multiple reentry vehicles had landed. They calculated everything down to the millimeter, exactly where everything hit.
For us, this is important in order to make future decisions regarding the full-scale deployment of 'Oreshnik' against designated targets. Including within urban areas.”

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@Oct7NeverForget @JohnCleese What they should be calling for is an independent clinical psychological evaluation of the President. More defensible. The White House is going to ignore them anyway.

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R.I.P.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author whose graphic novel series “Persepolis” illuminated the struggles of Iranians during the Islamic Revolution, died at 56. https://t.co/WQWxavBm5l