@atrupar
@Captain_X_Gogo
I was just downtown in DC and believe you me, there's no mistaking the fact that DC hates Trump, and people were proclaiming it very loudly today.
@ElishevaAvital
By the way, if you message me, I can show you how you could request your grandfather's military personnel file from the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. A lot of the WWII-era military service files burned up in a fire in 1973, but not all, so still worth trying.
@ShaiDavidai
We need to talk about safe spaces for political dissenters too. I'm wondering if the attack on pro-Palestine protestors with skunk water by Israeli students who are members of the IDF bothers you at all. Doesn't seem like it.
Really fantastic and thought-provoking article,
@AshaRangappa_
. Gives me a lot of ideas as to how to fight, for instance, rightwing Christian nationalism. Well done, professor.
@ck1actual
@tisaiahcho
Christians also complain the loudest about "socialism" (i.e., government welfare programs) even as they give to charitable organizations. For some of them, charitable giving allows them the illusion of generosity while they choke off efforts at resolving structural poverty.
@TexasGOP
@AllenWest
@TXlege
So you're endorsing secession? Isn't secession unconstitutional? And isn't it the first step to fomenting insurrection against the legitimately elected government of the United States? Just sayin'....
@AmiDar
It occurs to me, Ami, as you say this that one of the things that evangelical Christians like me in America can possibly do is to try to influence the legions of American evangelicals who are funding the settlers and creating an environment of permission for their mass violence.
@aaronc_smith
@joshchafetz
@KevinMKruse
That's right. Instead of crying in our beers, we need to take a break, get back together and work to change voting laws to be more, er, democratic across the country.
@LightShoo
@davidcrais
@DLeonhardt
Thank you for saying what the rest of us are thinking. It'd be nice if people in the heartland stopped smearing us urban, coastal people as godless communists and baby-killers.
@davidcrais
@DLeonhardt
People in interior of America also need to get out more too. They don't understand America either. People in coastal cities constitute a growing majority of the country, but people like continue to coddle the willful, small-town/rural ignorance, bigotry and anti-intellectualism.
@AdamRFisher
That's because every "state" offered the Palestinians was a pale shadow of the actual state that the Palestinians could have had if it wasn't STOLEN from them by the Israelis. They kept getting offered crappy options that no self-respecting people would accept.
@jnoubiraf
I'm not Palestinian, but my Palestinian-American friend Cindy gets stopped and interrogated coming AND going in and out of Israel. She's been interrogated so often that she's now got the interrogation down to 45 minutes.
@coton_luver
@gregolear
YES!!! These are the people who deserve our thanks for their service, every bit as much as or more than the hero-worshipped military! If it wasn't for the diplomats, we'd have a lot more soldiers dying in useless wars than ever.
@BethMooreLPM
@CTmagazine
I think one of the biggest failings we face is that for centuries, Americans have rejected historical truth about themselves, preferring to spin self-glorifying mythology that makes ourselves seem supremely virtuous when in fact, we're fallen human beings like everyone else.
@JonathanFineMBA
@KayeEllen17
I pray for the doctors and nurses who are handling Molly today. I pray that you would give them wisdom to understand what must be done to save her and prevent long-term harm, and skill to make it happen without mishap.
@AshaRangappa_
That's what bothers me about Barrett. I see no evidence that she is at all conflicted about the circumstances that have elevated her to the court. She seems not to care about the political conflict her high-court appointment is going to cause.
@DemMaj4Israel
Those who dismiss BDS in this way are either ignorant of Israel's dogged refusal to put international human rights principles into practice or are purposely misrepresenting them. Give us a better option, if BDS upsets or offends you. Take the initiative to help Israel do better.
@AndreaChalupa
But did he cry because he was sorry for what he did, or because he was trying to gaslight you into thinking that what happened to you didn't happen?
@BethMooreLPM
One of the things I am going to seek to do in the new year is to spend way less time arguing fruitlessly on Twitter and more time writing cogent, thoughtful, Spirit-led content that I can just put out there and let people do with what they will.
@Artful_Inquirer
@PeterBeinart
@AOC
Not sure why. After all, what's the point of "Never Again" if not to protect against other minority groups being herded into dangerous, unsanitary prison camps simply because of who they are?
@eliseviebeck
This is the story that isn't being told enough: the suffering imposed on those of us who are neither federal employers or contractors, but whose business depends on a fully functioning federal government.
@LMessi_Curry
@POTUS
Dude: I've seen this identically worded message all over Twitter under many different account names. Either you're a bot or you're passing this bullshit among associates as a propaganda campaign. Either way, it's obviously manufactured nonsense.
@MelissaMoore77
Are you talking about the snit that the far right is currently in because they blame the quashing of the expected red on single women voters? I kind of find it funny too, but also disturbing.
@mehdirhasan
What do you wanna bet that this is an attempt to spark a hot war with Iran in order to divert public attention away from the impending impeachment trial?
@LizziGreen2
I'm very much opposed to abortion, but the way it's being done is very antidemocratic and seemingly designed to be carried out in a way that is cruel as possible. Those with a true commitment to life should work hard to advance the interests of both mother and unborn child.
@KimmelmanLouis
@biannagolodryga
Very simple. The Israelis are habitual, pathological liars, and the bar of evidence needed to prove their claims is a lot higher. You can't keep crying "Wolf! Wolf!" over and over again, only for it to be nothing and then have people believe you.
@BethMooreLPM
This is one of the reasons why time spent listening to God is so important, because until we allow the Living Word to transform our souls, God is just a great idea with no power.
@gtconway3d
I can't believe even an inept lawyer could possibly be so clueless as to blather on and on about stunningly irrelevant nonsense. This has to be a deliberate effort to run out the clock.
@MuhammadSmiry
Lord, I pray that you would heal Jana completely and swiftly. Protect her vital organs and her spinal column from harm and mend the torn muscles and anything else that was damaged by the bullet. Calm her fears, heal the pain in her heart...1
@DavidAFrench
You're presuming that the conservative justices actually respect legal precedent, and I think they only respect legal precedent when it suits them. I think this is only the first stop to a stripping away of numerous rights.
@ShaiDavidai
Horseshit. Utter falsehood. Zionism is and always has been a zero-sum game in which Jews must displace Palestinians to "feel" safe, even though the crimes committed in the name of realizing the Zionist dream makes Jews in Israel more unsafe than anywhere else in the world.
@AshaRangappa_
I still remember that lurid color photo of the bloated bodies of the dead that thickly covered the ground of the last assembly place for the Jonestown community. When I went to work at the National Archives Still Picture Branch, I opened up a binder with color prints from...1
@AshaRangappa_
...the US Air Force photo collection, and there it was, staring back at me just as I remembered it from all those years before. It got burned into my brain and has never left...2
@joshua_flanders
Yes, because Israeli crimes against humanity are still in progress and the Israelis have made no reparations to the people they've harmed.
@orielle98
@nypost
...but only if you despise free speech and care nothing about the hundreds of Palestinian lives pitilessly snuffed out in the latest Israeli bombing campaign on Gaza.
@leahmcelrath
@BarackObama
@DNC
@BetoORourke
Not a problem. I'm right now watching the Cruz-O'Rourke debate, and it only makes me more impressed with the grace and dignity and vision of O'Rourke and the vicious hate-mongering of Cruz. To the barricades!!!!!
@AshaRangappa_
Asha, we are all grateful for you for your wisdom, integrity, and decency. You helped millions of us get through the hellscape that was the Trump era with our sanity intact, if only barely. Thanks for speaking out and being the voice of reason, experience and good character.
@Artful_Inquirer
@PeterBeinart
@AOC
....I mean, does "Never again" only apply to situations where industrialized murder camps are being used to annihilate a minority group? That's a really high bar to have to meet, especially since situations like those at the southern border of the US happen a lot more frequently.
@IsraelMFA
I don't think you have the right to nitpick and complain when just last week, you burst into Al Aqsaa and started beating and arresting worshippers.
@jbouie
False idols is exactly the term for this. As an evangelical myself, I will further say that this Trump-worship has more of the odor of the spirit of Captain Ahab than the Spirit of God about it.
@BethMooreLPM
I can speak with authority on this, bc I simmered with such rage for most of the last 35 years, and I was finding that I was becoming just like the people I had begun to hate.
@RubyWaves_
I think we've seen enough, and we know what the next "debate" is going to be like:
Biden: As president, I will... xxx...yyy...etc. (speaks in full sentences).
Trump: asdfpoaijvr.....bewrkgo wr...avdoknb ngnewon...(foams at the mouth).
@MuhammadSmiry
May you arise and execute justice for the people of Palestine, oh Lord. Destroy the wickedness that keeps the people of Palestine imprisoned by walls, checkpoints, discriminatory laws, acts of violence, hatred, and lies. Let Palestine be free, Lord...2
@Colovion
@thrasherxy
Kind of like the typical American low-information-voter working stiff who has been taught to avoid taking adult responsibility for the behavior of its government.
@rahaf84427714
I have to say, it's kind of a shame you weren't able to emigrate to a country that is warmer in the winter, but I'm still glad you're in Canada.
@KSPrior
Well, as a pro-lifer who is nonetheless politically liberal, I feel I must say that if we really are going to make abortion illegal, then we damn well better be willing to expand our national health care system, institute federally subsidized child care, national parental leave,
@JayarJackson
I was just in DC an hour ago, and it was glorious: people clogging the streets for blocks around the White House, shouting, screaming for joy, honking horns, ringing bells. When you get away from it, the noise sounds almost like the roar of a professional football game.
@SpencerGuard
@mehdirhasan
What is crazy is how many people ignore the obvious evidence of war crimes right in front of their eyes and excuse or deny it.
@upstreamism
@jackmjenkins
Actually, Christianity Today probably has a younger, more politically moderate readership, which is probably why they felt permission to say this publicly.
@ShaiDavidai
Seriously, if you think that Israel is the only safe space in the world for Jews, you are delusional. There is no other country on EARTH in which so many Jews have been killed or wounded since 1945. That doesn't look like a safe space to me.
@BethMooreLPM
One of the reasons this is so important to hear is bc the older generation has @#&%ed things up so horribly that the younger generation has basically had it with their biblical malfeasance, and the consequent eruption of fury has begun to metastasize into rage and bitterness.
@BethMooreLPM
By the way, Aunt Beth, one of the reasons I love you responding to people like Jessica in such public spaces is that it gives the rest of US opportunities to minister to people we might never have met in real life.
@el_sabawi
". . . meek, subjugated." Ha. Not the Arab women I encountered. Arab women are pretty tough and fearsome. This display of courage doesn't surprise me in the least. Very much in character.
@KSPrior
and other public programs that support families. To do any less while torpedoing abortion rights will just prove that those who call themselves pro-life are not really pro-life, but just anti-abortion.
@JustinWStapley
I don't think there is a compromise candidate. How do you find a compromise candidate among a party who just wants to burn everything down, not govern?
@Front_Center
@dylanlscott
I think businessmen are thoroughly unsuited to public office, as they have spent their working lives working for profit, not for the common good. I think we should discourage business people from running.
@neral525
@TimothyDSnyder
The language late 19th century European great power empires and nationalist movements used to describe contemplated future invasions or acts of ethnic cleansing.
@MuhammadSmiry
This is why we need to keep pushing for equal rights and protection of the rule of law for all between the river and the sea. The shooting may have stopped, but the oppression and small-scale violence goes on.