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Reader, writer, trying to find my voice. I'm here as a woman who loves Jesus and his word, and wants better for his church.

Joined January 2012
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Nightingale: Every nurse should wash her hands “very frequently” Lister: Infection is the enemy of progress; cleanliness is our defense. Franklin: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. RFK, Jr: I’m not scared of a germ. I used to snort drugs off toilet seats.
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
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Rand Paul: "I see not even a hint here of anything aggressive on [Pretti's] part. I don't think this should take months and months. There needs to be a conclusion ... the public needs to know, if I go to a protest and shout something at people, could I be killed?"
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NEW: Secret passageway linked to the Underground Railroad discovered at the bottom drawer of a dresser in New York City. The 2-by-2-foot opening revealed a ladder that descended two stories. The 19th-century house on East Fourth Street in Manhattan was built by abolitionist Joseph Brewster in the 1830s, according to Spectrum News. The house is now believed to have been used as a "safe house." "I’ve been practicing historical preservation law for 30 years, and this is a generational find. This is the most significant find in historic preservation in my career," said preservation attorney and professor at Pratt Institute, Michael Hiller. Historians say the passageway is a "masterwork of deliberate concealment," designed to be "absolutely invisible to slave catchers."
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🚨 WATCH THIS. Newly released body cam shows Border Patrol agents deliberately steering into Marimar Martinez — an American teacher — before shooting her 5 times. DHS falsely claimed she “ambushed” them. Kash Patel amplified the lie. Prosecutors later dropped the case. Texts show agents celebrated: “Good shooting.” This was a cover-up.
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This is a picture that should be published everywhere: @PamBondi refusing to even look at the Epstein survivors in the eye as they say they've been ignored by the DOJ. Someone who made their pain a political point just months ago. Cowardly and Disgusting. 📷Roberto Schmidt/AFP
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Again, this is all just silly. Please tell me it's an act. When the most popular singer in the world is an American, it is not a "national humiliation ritual" for him to sing in the language of his American territory and feature its American economy and its American workers.
If you told someone in the year 2000 that within one generation the Super Bowl half time show would be performed completely in Spanish and they would set up a fucking sugar cane plantation on the pitch complete with Hispanic field labourers as part of the set, you would be considered a deranged far right lunatic conspiracy theorist. I’m watching this from Australia and it’s literally a woke fever dream. I can’t even believe that leftists decided to push demographic and cultural change this hard. Literally just a national humiliation ritual for the United States designed to make white people feel bad for existing. The message is: “This is your country now Chud, get over it.”
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Replying to @BeschlossDC
The power of true, enduring art is to reshape how we view the world. It presents a universe of abundance, rather than scarcity, a world not of propaganda falsity but a wide open lens of possibilities. Bad Bunny invites us into such abundance of cultures, reframing what “America” is. You may reject this lens and disagree with the core message: but the art will continue to speak beyond the moment, and I believe this performance will outlast this present darkness.
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one of the most powerful artists on the planet after his most iconic performance note what he does with that 'power', beloved.
Bad Bunny thanks his entire work team after his Halftime Show at #SuperBowlLX.
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The irony of much of Evangelicalism in the US is that there’s an unwavering belief in total depravity, but so much disbelief in racism in all of its individual and institutional forms.
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While the fringe MAGA watched 60-year-old Kid Rock sing about strippers, the rest of America celebrated marriage and family life.
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Racist. Deranged. Humiliating to our country. The fact that we have decided to pretend to this is normal every day is a moral abomination. Have we any shame? And every day an entire generation is being told it is “Christian” to support this. God have mercy on us.
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Earlier this morning the president’s press secretary admitted it wasn’t a mistake, and told the American people to move on pass the tweet. It was only after more and more Republicans began to denounce the racist tweet did they then attempt to pass the blame on to some unnamed racist staffer. The truth is the buck stops with the president. I’d really expected and hoped for a more transparent, honest denunciation of this blatant racism by the White House from you. What we got was blame shifting that contradicted the White House’s initial and honest response and attitude towards what took place.
Replying to @howertonjosh
Update for onlookers: As suspected, it was a mistake by a staffer, has been deleted. Wait, learn, and reflect. Don't just emotionally react.
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NEW STORY: Trump admits he was the one who found the video and asked that it be posted from his Truth Social account. Refuses to apologize.
Reporter: The WH says a staffer sent that video. Are you going to fire the staffer? Trump: No. I looked at it. I didn’t see the whole thing. I gave it to the people, they posted it. Reporter: Are you going to apologize? Trump: No, I didn’t make a mistake.
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🚨DEPLORABLE: A US Marshal acting on behalf of Trump’s DOJ in Tennessee was caught on tape kicking a dog during an arrest. The dog suffered a broken rib!
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A lack of empathy explains why the priest and the Levite passed by on the other side.
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I stand with my colleagues who are livid that the publisher of @washingtonpost showed up on the red carpet of a Super Bowl party after LAYING OFF ALMOST THE ENTIRE SPORTS SECTION. This is why he couldn’t jump on a 20-min Zoom after ending the jobs of 300 people?? @PostGuild
Will Lewis was too busy to join the call to tell his staff he’s destroying the @washingtonpost sports department yesterday … but he did have time to walk the red carpet at NFL Honors here in San Francisco today. Amazing.
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A 2001 Kid Rock song is going viral for its lyrics about underage girls. Kid Rock is set to headline Turning Point USA's Super Bowl halftime show this weekend.
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Replying to @howertonjosh
@howertonjosh @chadojackson @jackngraham @cindyjacobs @ericmetaxas @RodDMartin @robertjeffress ….You gotta step up to the plate and call this racist.
I need white evangelicals and black Trump supporters to please come to the front and defend this racism.
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Yesterday, this man appeared at a prayer breakfast at which he announced he would preside over an event on the National Mall to “rededicate America as one nation under God.”
How will MAGA Christians justify this one? Has he gone too far yet?
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