#Charlatans

This is a good question. There are reasons for this, entrenched in white, Southern, or Evangelical culture. Remember, Republicans have been working on white churches for *50 years*. That means
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Bonjour, le temps des explications est venu Pendant des mois, je me suis laissÊ convaincre que le covid n'Êtait qu'une "grippette".J'Êtais mal à l'aise avec les restrictions, car ça
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We are knee-deep in misguided life advice here on Twitter. This thread is your truth pill.++ THREAD ++ Follow Your Passion. That’s terrible advice. Your passion won’t pay your bills,
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Ultimately I think Buddhism gave me a lot of tools to deal with AND transform the itching feeling that “things as I perceive them are in dissonance with the story
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When I was a lad tip-toeing onto Usenet in 1992, we all thought the Internet was going to empower unfettered free speech, without the "gatekeepers" of traditional corporate media.All we
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We all complain about how toxic social media has become, but very few of us actually try to change that culture by changing our own behavior. I’m not just talking
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The "marketplace of ideas" is at best an extremely strained metaphor and at worst a completely misleading one. Arguably the key feature of the actual marketplace is completely absent in
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Recently, quite a few people have told me“I thought you were on our side”“Turns out you’re a shill, after all”“You’re such a let-down”etcSo here’s an explanation of why I’ve disappointed
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Hi friends You've probably noticed I've been a bit more ranty and political lately, and that's likely not what you signed up for by following me. So, please allow me
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Thoughts on WE. As I try to unscramble what we know, what we've been told and what we heard yesterday, it strikes me there are two threads here. One is
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I don’t know how to make the world understand what it’s like to live with longterm illness. To wake up each day never knowing if you’ll be ok, to have
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I'm tired. A thread.Several years ago I attended an awesome health training program. A fun exercise we did in the 12 week program was a spoon-bending workshop. It was fun.
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This morning I got to talk with my friend @DavidBrancaccio of @Marketplace. Before we went on the air,David worried some of his listeners would be upset if he referred to
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White people and 'White Culture' are two separate things. White culture was birthed out of a chain of exploitative and violent feudal systems that aren't historically unique. It's just the
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I saw a few usual suspects attacking @vikramaditya_JK tweet crediting saving of Jammu and Kashmir to His Royal Highness, Maharaja Hari Singh. Shame on them. If it were not for
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Let’s talk about how the attempted take-over of the US Capitol came to pass. For months leading up to the general election, Pres. Trump sowed the seeds of doubt in
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