Tompaul Wheeler

Author. Photographer. Filmmaker. Nashvillain.

[Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler]

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[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

like, we could have world-class public education, libraries and museums, affordable housing for working families, and you’d no longer have the problem of random billionaires, for example, getting bored and deciding to ruin twitter, if we simply returned to 1940s tax rates.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

it’s incredible how many of our problems boil down to “the wealthiest people aren’t getting taxed at the rates we used to tax them, and middle-class living standards and investment in public goods are collapsing as a result.”

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

Parents then:
"How dare you interfere with my child's independence."

Parents now:
"Hello, 911? I'd like to report an independent child."

[Patrick K. Miller @PatrickKMiller_]

🧵 After watching this I’m reminded how rapidly our culture has changed and why evangelicals have become so fractured.

In 2007 Lyons published Unchristian, which argued that people are skeptical of faith because Christians are too political.

Welcome to 2023:

[Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler]

@AdventistCowboy @markfulop_pdx I suppose it’s more than “fairly good” to support universal healthcare and establish the Environmental Protection Agency. Doesn’t make up for Cambodia or Watergate.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed the oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.

[Pro-Democracy RTs @ProDemocracyRTs]

Call it “tribalism” if you want. But another explanation is that one political party turned full-on fascist and the rest of us found that unacceptable.

[Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler]

@AdventistCowboy @markfulop_pdx The top 10 US cities with highest rates of violence are in Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Ohio, California, and New Mexico. Several of those states, including my Tennessee, are deeply Republican ones that continue to make it easier to carry guns in public.

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

If LA sticks with this it will be one of those things that becomes a major turning point.

There is a paradise beneath the pavement down there. It just needs a nudge to come to the surface.

[Rian Johnson @rianjohnson]

Ah yes the stickers for my 90s Christian punk band came out great

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Life expectancy in Mississippi is now shorter than in Bangladesh. Infants are 70% more likely to die in the US than in other wealthy countries. Newborns in India and Venezuela have a longer life expectancy than newborn Native Americans. What's wrong? https://t.co/1r9g5wid7H

[Carlos A. Rodríguez @CarlosHappyNPO]

Jesus didn’t blame the poor for their poverty.

Jesus invited the rich to abandoned their riches.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

15 August 1921 | A Pole, August Kowalczyk, was born in Tarnawa Góra.

In #Auschwitz from 4 December 1940.
No. 6804
He escaped from the camp during a revolt of prisoners of the penal company on 10 June 1942.
After the war, an actor.
He passed away in 2012.

[Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler]

If people romanticize the past they are comfortable with its wrongs.

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

“Even before Nashville’s swift and stunning growth began to gentrify working-class and impoverished neighborhoods, Father Strobel had already become our civic conscience,” writes @MargaretRenkl. https://t.co/5gYs5DExF9

[Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler]

@WJCork No words.