Thad Norvell

Plan to be surprised.

[Thad Norvell @thadnorvell]

@RonDeSantis You really this dense, Ron? I know history takes work, but just try to read a little. Just a little. It truly won’t take much to discover how bad this tweet is.

[Thad Norvell @thadnorvell]

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[Thad Norvell @thadnorvell]

@DavidAFrench She knows. And that’s worse.

I’ve lost the trail of trying to understand how people do this kind of thing and still own mirrors in which they have to look at themselves each day.

[Tyler Campbell @osucowboytc]

Any denomination that would allow William Wolfe to speak but would silence Lottie Moon is not a serious Christian organization.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

It is a broken Christianity that says “God protected him!” when a president survives and “thoughts and prayers” when school kids die.

A god who only protects the powerful and not the vulnerable is an idol.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God, turning themselves and their own power into a mute, blind and deaf idol (Ps 115:4–8), to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the whole world bend its knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life. #Peace

[Thad Norvell @thadnorvell]

@Sarahthelizard @filmbitten My son and I were there when it broke. We drove over 2 hours for the 70mm. Show was delayed about 45 minutes, no one knew why. Finally started. My son looks at me after 30 seconds and says, “This is digital, not 70mm film.” They didn’t even tell us, just hoped we wouldn’t notice.

[Michael Wear @MichaelRWear]

I've attended the National Prayer Breakfast for much of the past two decades. I staffed the President and worked on his speech there for four years. I wrote extensively about the breakfast in my first book. One purpose of the Breakfast in history has been to position presidents and political leaders in such a way that they are humbled--their remarks typically focused on ways they fell short, the nation's reliance on grace that politics and politicians can't provide, etc.

Not until this president has someone gone to the breakfast to make so much of himself, and so little of God. And he does it every year. These aren't policy disagreements. These aren't differences resulting from Church-State separation. This is Donald Trump going to a convening that has a central focus on the power of relationship with Jesus as the transformative force in the world, and he uses that opportunity to make light of prayer and suggest he'll go to heaven because he's earned his way in. He goes to a convening built on the premise that Jesus transcends all divides in society, including partisan ones, and says an entire group of people *who are specifically recruited and asked to be in the room and on the program* actually do not belong there. Like he did at a memorial service for one of his most prominent supporters, in previous years he's gone to the breakfast to directly contradict Jesus' teachings on loving your enemies.

During the Clinton years, the Clintons sat on the dais while Mother Teresa lovingly confronted him on the issue of abortion. Now, people sit at their own breakfast while this president mocks their deepest beliefs to their face. And he tells them they love it. He tells them they're lucky to have him.

[Thad Norvell @thadnorvell]

@vincenthart @bradleybrisco “Someone who is completely under the sway” is a description of someone, not of some statement. But I’m happy to trust your clarification of your intent.

No one who knows me would accuse me of being toxically empathetic. I suspect we’d do better in person. Blessings to you.

[Thad Norvell @thadnorvell]

@luke_mccown Cool. Now do the president.

[Thad Norvell @thadnorvell]

@Dos_knowsball That’s not toast you smell burning.

[Timothy Sandefur @TimothySandefur]

“It would just take so much time to obey the Constitution that we just won’t.”

[patrick. @imPatrickT]

there are people who think this place is a waste of time and money. it’s important that you tell them they’re wrong.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

I took a lot of heat early on for pointing out that Trump is no friend to libertarians and constitutional conservatives. Everything he’s done since 2017 to target, smear, and defeat the most principled Republicans in Congress has proven me right.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

It is not, in fact, a violation of the law for a city not to enforce federal laws.

Will someone please read the Tenth Amendment to Trump and explain federalism to him?

Also let him know about the First Amendment while you’re at it.

[Thad Norvell @thadnorvell]

@AndrewTWalker You’ll answer one day for so willingly pariticipating in the kind of hipocrisy and lies in siding with this particular government, though you’re right about the failed-state conditions we’re experiencing under this regime.

[Thad Norvell @thadnorvell]

Trump immediately pardoned 1,500 people who attacked the capitol. Over 600 were charged with assaulting, resisting, or obstructing law enforcement, 175 of them specifically accused of *using deadly or dangerous weapons or causing serious injury to officers*.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

Reminder: if you lay a finger on a federal officer or agent, you will face the full extent of the law.

[Thad Norvell @thadnorvell]

This is sad to me. My family & I have long enjoyed and respected leaders in the church like Tom. No more. From now on we will head to @ChickfilA with its [sic] delicious food and & big, beautiful, cross-shaped love for humans made in God’s image.

[Tom Ascol @tomascol @tomascol]

This is sad to me. My family & I have long enjoyed eating at @ChickfilA. No more. From now on we will head to @SteaknShake with it's healthier food & big, beautiful American flag.