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Sam Lufi retweeted
Remarkable confession by JD Vance this morning when he said he will “create stories” (that is, lie) to redirect the media.
All this to change the subject away from abortion rights, manufacturing jobs, taxation of the rich, and the other things clearly at stake in this election.
Sam Lufi retweeted
The Springfield legal Haitian immigrants controversy is pulling the covers off of evangelical and Republican racism. You ask, why is it racist? Glad you asked.
Melania Trump was born in Novo Mesto, Yugoslavia, now part of present-day Slovenia. If 25, 000 Slovenians, Romanians, or Italians were granted citizenship to work in Springfield, there would be no protest, ridicule, nor rejection,. Why no protest? Because they would be European immigrants.
At the root of the Haitian immigrants rejection and ridicule is race. Painful watching Bible believing evangelicals & Republicans disregard biblical commands to treat immigrants on your land with hospitality and kindness. When the immigrants are the wrong color, is when we find out that it is selective border control they seek.
There are people who eat snakes, possum, raccoons, squirrels, & a host of other unsavory animals. I was shocked to discover a few years ago that squirrels and rats are in the same family. My point is, the false allegations of the Haitians diet of cats and dogs has been debunked. But, let’s not ignore the fact that eating coons, snakes, squirrels, & possums are also bizarre to many people too.
The evangelical and Republican reaction has been eye-opening.
Sam Lufi retweeted
Donald Trump is a moral leader for people offended by Colin Kaepernick’s knee, but not Derek Chauvin’s.
Sam Lufi retweeted
This thread is titled "What it Means to Work: How Mark Driscoll Lost His Way." 🧵
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Sam Lufi retweeted
If you adhere to a "men are like trucks" worldview, you're saying something DIFFERENT about humanity & its relationship to God. "They'll go squirrely" means they'll get into trouble. They'll fall into sin. And the prevention/solution is to keep them busy. Keep them working.
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But also, it might not be a story designed to teach us about marriage at all. It might be a story about those who hear the Word of God (Adam) and those who haven't (Eve), and how the consequence of disobedience affects each. Note that Eve didn't feel shame until ADAM ate.
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Sam Lufi retweeted
I'm old enough to remember when certain political parties said systemic injustice and judicial corruption didn't exist. Now all of sudden it does.
Sam Lufi retweeted
There are people in the SBC who insist that agreement on the subjugation of women is a matter of greater moral urgency than reforming institutions that enable abuse.
And somehow those people have succeeded in marketing themselves as the ones who really take the Bible seriously.
Sam Lufi retweeted
Evil presents itself clearly and unambiguously sometimes. These people, despoiling aid trucks to Gaza, ripping open bags of flour, are evil. The fact that they are not thrown in prison by Israeli military police makes Israel evil as well.
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Openly admitting they’re banning TikTok because young people are too critical of Israel.
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White supremacists are now marching in Charleston, West Virginia. With no police in sight. xitter.gq/ClownWorld_/status/178…
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Dems: Climate change is a serious threat. Immigrants and trans kids are human beings. Stop cops from shooting unarmed Blacks.
GOP: Distribute assault weapons to all white Christians. Install Trump as Pharaoh. Let embryos vote.
Media: We're so polarized! Extremists on both sides!
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Vote for Central High School on this competition? The school is partnering with our work to Klean Kensington. The $20k, if they win, would go towards our Hilton gardens project. Rebrand.ly/voteforcentral
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This is how I'd explain it:
This is how Mammon works.
A poor person buying avocado toast is more morally repugnant than a billionaire buying a yacht or rocket so that their employees can't afford rent + avocado toast.
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McDonalds’ CEO is paid $8,543.27 an hour.
Burger King’s CEO is paid $56,250 an hour.
Domino’s CEO is paid $4,875 an hour.
Throwing that out there before anyone starts complaining that $20 an hour is too high.
Starting Monday, most California fast-food workers will earn at least $20 an hour — the highest minimum wage across the U.S. restaurant industry. cbsn.ws/3IWAebI
Sam Lufi retweeted
Two things can simultaneously be true. Clear-eyed residents can appreciate the response to this crisis and have genuine concerns about the other ways in which the administration handles its business — which too often lacks some basic transparency. Latest: inquirer.com/opinion/northea…
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Maga: I like trump cuz he says it like it is and tells us the truth.
Everyone Else: He says he would suspend the constitution, be president for life, and consolidate absolute power by filling all govt agencies with hand-picked loyalists.
Maga: Of course, he didn't mean THAT. 🙄
Sam Lufi retweeted
You know who’s perpetuated a pornified culture even more than Hefner?
Pastors preaching that purity is about women preventing men from being predators rather than preaching that we are defiled by what’s already in our hearts and that women are coheirs and sisters in Christ.
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While tablets are offered in many jails, they’re often exorbitantly expensive to use due to prices set by for-profit prison telecom companies.
San Francisco has made them free: boltsmag.org/san-francisco-f…
