Love listens to what you cannot express prefectly - me

Kensington, Philadelphia
Joined February 2010
I wonder if his work at Yale was so shoddy? "CBO anticipates that in the decade after 2034, the effects of the immigration surge on revenues and on mandatory spending for benefits will grow."
Replying to @JDVance
Here are two more studies to go with it: "Immigration inflows into a particular Metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is associated with increases in rents and with house prices in that MSA while also seeming to drive up rents and prices in neighboring MSAs." sciencedirect.com/science/ar… "The research literature has generally found that increases in immigration raise state and local governments’ spending—particularly on education, health care, and housing—more than their revenues.” cbo.gov/publication/60569
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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.
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The majority of short term "mission" trips are part of indoctrination into American exceptionalism; they have nothing to do with following Jesus.
CHRISTIANS: We will spread the Gospel by spending a week in the Third World, and maybe go on safari! GOD: I am going to bring the Developing World to your community. BTW, they already know and follow me. Just welcome them and care for their needs. CHRISTIANS: No, not that way.
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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.
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I wonder if @reachjulieroys will be reporting on Scott Martin, an @AG_USA minister who oversaw the largest sexual abuse scandal in the denomination's history (including unresolved charges of sex trafficking), being a featured speaker at an anti-sex trafficking conference.
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Donald Trump is a moral leader for people offended by Colin Kaepernick’s knee, but not Derek Chauvin’s.
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This thread is titled "What it Means to Work: How Mark Driscoll Lost His Way." 🧵 1/
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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. 21/
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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. 12/
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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.
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For me, one of the clearest examples of why the comparison between Jesus and Trump is antichrist.
Thanks for your great list, Mike. If I could add: - Jesus forgave those who crucified Him. DT insulted the judge, prosecution team, and others involved in the trial, and his followers have (allegedly) threatened jurors.
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Shockingly, the folks defending genocide are resorting to unreasonable violence.
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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.
אתם רואים את זה? מתנחלים, מגובים על ידי המשטרה, עוצרים היום את משאיות הסיוע לעזה בדרך לגבול, חוסמים אותן וקורעים את שקי הקמח והמזון. ככה לא נראים ביטחון או פטריוטיות. ככה נראית שנאה טהורה לבני אדם. ככה נראית אהבת מלחמה ושכול. כולנו מפסידים מהמציאות הזו, שרק הקיצונים מרוויחים בה.
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Sam Lufi retweeted
Openly admitting they’re banning TikTok because young people are too critical of Israel.
“Why has the PR been so awful?… typically the Israelis are good at PR—what’s happened here, how have they and we been so ineffective at communicating the realities and our POV?… some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok.”
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