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Starting a place I can share my thoughts in longer form. Check out my first article. tomrwalker1.substack.com/p/t…
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Democrats should try again to impeach Hegseth, and do it right. It's not just a matter of holding Hegseth accountable for his role in an unconstitutional war. It's also a matter of clawing back war powers from the presidency. No administration has been so brazen, and unprecedented action requires an unprecedented response. nytimes.com/2026/11/12/opini…
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What about this is supposed to be appealing? The old cars? The crappy old strollers? Old cheap motels and strip malls?
Oh I get it. It’s the whiteness. That’s what they want.
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Howerton has many charges of plagiarism against him. And it’s what happens when you spend the majority of your time being a political apologist for conservatism on Twitter and your podcasts. It then leaves you little time to prep sermons. Which is why Howerton openly admits to relying on AI for Bible study. It’s unsurprising that a pastor who proudly admits that they use AI to Bible study for them can’t muster the mental fortitude to prep and create their own sermons. Using examples is great here and there. But Howerton has a repeated history. Imitation is flattery, but copying is just laziness.
I saw the recent sermon comparisons between Josh Howerton and Joby Martin — particularly on the wallet example — and thought, “there couldn’t possibly be more, right?” Well, I was wrong.
Large portions of this same sermon by Josh closely match part 3 of Robert Morris’s "The Blessed Life" series from 2023.
This is a shortened version of my full 11 minute video, which is on Youtube (link below). Both original sermons are ~45 minutes (also linked below).
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This thread is HORIFYING.
- An 18-year-old former Turning Point chapter VP says she was held down and assaulted at a TPUSA event. It was filmed without her consent, and a man can be heard saying "she is for the whole team" while she resists, and there is clearly blood visible on pants.
- The video was taken without her permission and the men jump onto her. She filed a police report with Rutgers PD. Instead of accountability, she says she got a threatened lawsuit, and that a Turning Point staffer deleted their messages.
- The man she accuses, Vincent Tabone (who goes by "Jim Callahan"), sent her an AI-written cease-and-desist and threatened a defamation suit.
- The man who allegedly filmed her, Daniel Baez of William Paterson University, kept contacting her after she told him to stop.
- Her Turning Point field rep, Anthony Romano, allegedly first told her to block Baez, later changed his position, and deleted their chat messages.
Then there's video of Turning Point's own general counsel walking into a room of underage drinkers, high schoolers included, and saying "I know you are all 21!"
Where is the outrage from the "protect the kids" crowd? Every reporter should be on this.
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For almost my entire adult life I've heard elements of the GOP base blame failure on not being tough or aggressive enough. In the first two years of the second Trump term, they got all the aggression they could ever want, and the party got crushed at a level we haven't seen in more than 50 years.
So what happens next? With Stephen Miller and Jim Jordan, they double down on aggression. Nothing about those picks suggests the slightest sense that the MAGA base understands or even cares about what actually happened.
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Pete Hegseth falling apart is a wonderful sight
The days of the Republicans getting away with all kinds of lies is over
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Republicans chose a corrupt liar as their presidential nominee
This is your own fault
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This is so bad. Impeach him now
This man was blocking whole career promotions over stupid culture war issues
These men worked so hard to get to where they are and you block becuase one spoke at a…
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Hispanic heritage month event?
This is disgraceful. According to new reporting, Pete Hegseth pulled decorated officers from promotion lists after merit boards had already selected them.
Staff printed out internet searches showing that officers had spoken at a Hispanic Heritage Month event, joined an International Women’s Day panel, or encouraged sailors to get vaccinated.
Those printouts went into files the officers never saw, and they were used to end careers built over decades.
On one Navy board, every woman and person of color who had been selected, except one, was removed.
Every American should want the most qualified leaders in charge of our military, and these men and women earned their stars.
Hegseth must come before Congress, testify under oath, and answer for his decisions.
He has no business hiding while he sabotages careers.
ms.now/news/pete-hegseth-pen…
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The Christian Nationalists are circling the wagons around their military indoctrinator.
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This is why the Wallnaus and Grahams of American Eva love Trump. He gives them an excuse to refuse Christ’s example. They hide behind his vile character and live vicariously through him.
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He can’t call out Trump.
What a disappointment to his fathers legacy
I watched @CBS @60Minutes tonight, and Ross Douthat interviewed President @realDonaldTrump. Toward the end of the interview, they talked about something far more important than politics. He asked the President, at 80 years of age and after surviving multiple assassination attempts, what he thinks will happen when he dies. President Trump said he wants to go to Heaven and not to Hell. Most people, if asked, I believe would say the same. But Heaven has borders. Heaven has unique and very strict entrance requirements. To enter Heaven, the Bible tells us that you must acknowledge your sins, turn from them in repentance, and receive Jesus Christ by faith. That means, believe that Jesus Christ is God’s Son, that He paid the penalty for your sins by dying on a cross, was buried in a tomb, raised to life on the third day, and walked out of that tomb. He’s alive! If you put your trust in Jesus Christ, you will be in God’s presence for eternity. Religion can’t save you—only a relationship with the Savior, Jesus Christ, can save you. Do you have that assurance?
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The debate here is proof that many American Xians are catechized more by the culture wars than by the church & its historic teaching.
God the Father has no physical body in all classic Christian orthodoxy. We call the First Person of the Trinity Father, but not due to gender.
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I'm amazed at the # of Christians who believe, since God took on the human form of a biological male, we can conclude that God the Father is eternally male.
Also amazed at the anger generated by pointing out this is not historic Christian teaching.
One of @megbasham followers. The problems with a statement should be self explanatory. One of the most pious and self unaware demographics. Quite the combo. No concept of systemic racism and white supremacy yet statements like this prove its existence every day.
Because white evangelicals know what's up. And it is not because we are smarter, we just have the Holy Spirit.
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All of this is why I’ve blocked her.
Could add quite a bit from my own experiences, but all I’ll mention at this time is her repeated misuse and misunderstanding of statistics. This isn’t even a matter of wisdom or discernment, but rather a matter of communicating factually untrue things because she’s misreading (intentionally or not) statistics. It’s not about interpretation at all.
Yet, she doesn’t correct herself, she doesn’t retract, she doesn’t apologize to those she’s said untrue things about, and in general she doesn’t abide by standard journalistic ethical standards when a falsehood is revealed.
Instead, she claims that those who correct her objectively false analysis are nitpicking, missing the larger point, or in some way “attacking” or persecuting her.
Meanwhile, some of these false claims make up the basis of arguments in her book and various social media hot-takes. Apparently, the analysis of material evidence she’s citing (incorrectly) doesn’t matter. That’s “nit-picking” or “irrelevant.” Except the accusations are now flowing from nowhere. And it’s precisely these accusations (people are “for sale,” woke, liberal, compromised, etc.) that are her bread and butter.
Look, there is no right time to post this series I'm about to post. Before the midterms was definitely not the right time, and immediately after isn't either, but it's less wrong. So, without further ado, here we go…
𝗠𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗺 (@megbasham) 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆.
Does anyone need the backstory?
On October 7, the Fantastic Four delivered some highly problematic speeches at NatCon Jerusalem, for which they were rightly criticized. One of the speakers was Amanda Milius (@AmandaMilius), who is friends with Megan. Over the following weeks, Megan went on an X crusade to defend, among other things, her friend's speech. In doing so, she repeatedly demanded that others adhere to moral standards that she herself failed to uphold in the slightest.
𝗘𝗫𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗘 𝟭: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 "𝗢𝗽" 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲…
Megan repeatedly criticized people for seeing an "op" behind every disagreement, arguing that accusing others of being part of an op simply because they hold different opinions is paranoid and conspiratorial. Yet she herself suggested that people creating divisions within the right-wing coalition ahead of the midterms were part of an "op."
𝗠𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗻:
"I think the people who are suddenly very interested in creating massive fights within the rightwing coalition right before the midterms are the people you should suspect of being an 'op.'" [1]
𝗔𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗠𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗻:
“I am so sick of people who don’t know how to debate any policy or election result without calling things an “op.“ It’s the last refuge of idiots and grifters.” [2]
“Yes, I’m sure Mollie and Matt and me and everyone else who is saying that he is behaving out of his mind with this stuff are ops of some fashion.” [3]
“They’re not running a dialectical hegemonic op or whatever.” [4]
“And they call anyone who doesn’t agree with them part of an op.” [5]
“Everything ends up in an 8000 word insane rant about ops and dialectics and not just a normal discussion.” [6]
“Just because people disagree does not mean its an ‘op’.” [7]
“The problem is you. Not secret ops.” [8]
“I have to have been bought. I have to be part of an op.” [9]
“Exactly.” (Reply to: “…denouncing everyone who disagrees with them as secret Marxists or ‘woke right’ ops.”) [10]
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From the beginning of the Trump era, the greatest threat to conservatism was always from the Trump right, not the woke left. The conservatives who ignored Trump or minimized him to join with MAGA to wage war on the left were partners in their own demise.
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conservative christians when their children actually take the teachings of jesus seriously and don’t vote for republicans:
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Just so I understand: You're suggesting that Republicans, who have controlled every statewide elected office in Texas for more than 30 years, rigged an election against themselves?
