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Joined February 2009
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If this is true, it's not because they were white. It's because this was the center of Christendom.
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Muslims should be banned from piloting planes carrying anything but other Muslims.
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This is the highest level of calligraphy mastery. The tips move like they are dancing. One hand. Two brushes. Chinese calligraphy has always been an art of energy and balance.
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There are two photos below. One is of genocide, the other is of war waged against a terrorist state. Can you identify which is which?
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An angel slumped on a lion that's finally put its head down. Canova finished this in 1805 for Archduchess Maria Christina’s monument in Vienna. She’s not even buried here. I keep coming back to the wing. It looks like it could lift any second, but it stays with the animal and the shield dumped on the step, with the kind of grief that's past shouting.
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I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("Anti-vax/anti-trust") at pluralistic.net/2026/09/09/w… It's also available on Mastodon at: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117240… And on Bluesky at: bsky.app/profile/did:web:plu…
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Part of what you're seeing in the response to that Lindsey Clancy case is the fruit of two things in particular… 1) Abortion. As emotionally awkward as it is to say, you cannot have a jury of women, some of whom have very probably killed their own children in the womb bc of "extenuating circumstances" or the "emotional difficulty" of going thru with pregnancy, and expect them to convict someone else as guilty of the thing they acquitted themselves as innocent from. 2) Feminism. REMINDER: Godly women are not "for women." They are FOR GOD. Women of God who love the Word of God do not WANT to be found being "for women" when it is "against the Lord."
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πŸ“Ί WATCH: In the aftermath of Charlie’s tragic assassination, @Realalexclark asked Ben Shapiro the remedy to healing a sick culture. Shapiro: β€œGo to Church. I say this as a Jew: Go to Church… This is a Christian country.”
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Just your periodic reminder that, to God, life is so precious that he made it all from stardust. We are enrobed by the stuff of the heavens.
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When Dolly Parton approached Robert Plant for permission to record her version of β€œStairway to Heaven,” she reportedly worried about how he would react. Instead, Plant’s response was wonderfully simple: β€œOf course you can, you’re Dolly Parton.” And somehow, that feels like the perfect answer. Dolly didn’t try to copy Led Zeppelin β€” she took one of rock’s most iconic songs and made it unmistakably her own, adding a touch of country, gospel, and her unmistakable voice. Sometimes, a legend recognizing another legend is all the permission you need.
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