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Just to be clear, Biden freed these hostages, who Trump left to rot and did nothing for, and part of the deal is that he unfroze some Iranian assets we had seized. No US tax dollars used. Something Fox won’t mention and their audience won’t know.
“NO ONE—whether a funder or a donor, of ANY amount—deserves their own special snowflake report about how their specific contribution was deployed or what it achieved” nonprofitaf.com/2023/09/beyond…
Those who gather in Nashville are in part a bulwark against the takeover by megachurch music, known as “praise and worship” songs. Critics say these songs come with a theological vagueness and a musical blandness. religionnews.com/2023/09/12/at-…
Allowing Trump to lie on @MeetThePress and leaving “fact checking” to the website is not how we should be treating a man who launched an insurrection. It’s 2023, we should have learned this lesson over 7 years. Ratings aren’t worth our democracy
AI version of “Jesus flipping over tables in the Temple.” How you ask is important.
@GivingReview and @IPS_DC partner with @Philanthropy on September 26 webinar, “Reshaping the Conversation: How to Rebuild Public Trust in Philanthropy” … @Chuck99to1 @RCK52 @janmasaoka @DeanZerbe @stacypalmer thegivingreview.com/giving-review-…
“Human morality must win this war,” Zelensky said. And our success, the specific success of Ukraine, depends not only on us, on Ukrainians, but also on the extent to which the entire vast moral space of the world wants to preserve itself.” nytimes.com/2023/09/15/opi…
🚨🚨 #PrinciplesFirst alert: @MittRomney: “I’m not going to be supporting Donald Trump under any circumstance. I happen to believe character is destiny.” Enough said. Thanks, Mitt.
This is fun to see. Our story about Stephen Mason (aka Soccer Moses) was picked up by the AP. apnews.com/article/soccer…
Mitt Romney fires back at Trump 🔥🔥🔥
“(Romney had long been put off by Pence’s pious brand of Trump sycophancy. No one, he told me, has been “more loyal, more willing to smile when he saw absurdities, more willing to ascribe God’s will to things that were ungodly than Mike Pence.”)
A lot in here, but here's Mitt Romney on Mike Pence, per @mckaycoppins: "No one, he told me, has been 'more loyal, more willing to smile when he saw absurdities, more willing to ascribe God’s will to things that were ungodly than Mike Pence.'" theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Mitt Romney: “A very large portion of my party...really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
“I had a whole entire life before this”: Must-read recap of the story of Brandon Cammack, a young attorney who testified that he was hired, misled, used and then stiffed by Ken Paxton to help Nate Paul. via @McGeeReports @TexasTribune texastribune.org/2023/09/12/ken…
“Practices like participatory grantmaking and unrestricted support have their proponents, but they also raise uncomfortable questions about what all these highly educated, pedigreed personnel actually bring to the table.”
“Practices like participatory grantmaking and unrestricted support have their proponents, but they also raise uncomfortable questions about what all these highly educated, pedigreed personnel actually bring to the table.”
Perfection. Absolute perfection.
Perfection. Absolute perfection.
A post on a relatively obscure blog about quitting the pastorate led to a national conversation about the challenges that clergy face-- and whether or not its ok to talk about them religionnews.com/2023/09/11/mee…
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Bob Roberts Jr. ن @bobrobertsjr
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516 Followers 197 Following A broad coalition of philanthropic leaders dedicated to promoting common-sense, non-partisan tax reforms to increase and accelerate funding to working charitiesJust to be clear, Biden freed these hostages, who Trump left to rot and did nothing for, and part of the deal is that he unfroze some Iranian assets we had seized. No US tax dollars used. Something Fox won’t mention and their audience won’t know.
“NO ONE—whether a funder or a donor, of ANY amount—deserves their own special snowflake report about how their specific contribution was deployed or what it achieved” nonprofitaf.com/2023/09/beyond…
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My statement on the impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton:
So enjoyed talking with @KaitlynSchiess about "The Use and Misuse of the Bible in American History." Full video link is below. (And check out her book "The Ballot and the Bible.") And thanks to @BrazosPress for co-hosting!
See the full video of Friday's conversation with @KaitlynSchiess "Scripture and the Public Square: The Use and Misuse of the Bible in American History" youtube.com/watch?v=t4nNpw…
Not only does the text of Section 3 not permit of such an absurd result, it forecloses it.
It defies belief that the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment intended to exclude from the ambit and reach of Section 3 a former president who engaged in an insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution the first time that he was president.
having previously taken the oath to support the Constitution, would engage in insurrection or rebellion against that Constitution and thereafter seek the highest offices in the United States.
The Appointments Clause was in, and essential to, the original Constitution in 1787, while the Disqualification Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was not added to the Constitution until 1868, in answer to the specific post-Civil War concern that confederate officers,
given that the two clauses became parts of the Constitution at entirely different times in the Constitution’s history and were included in the Constitution for vastly different and totally unrelated purposes.
That the two terms would have different meanings, thus obviating the absurd result that would otherwise obtain were one to read the term in the two different clauses identically, would seem obvious,
Moreover, there is every reason to believe that the term in the Disqualification Clause would have a broader meaning, given that clause’s purpose, than the narrower and more specific meaning of the term in the Appointments Clause.
there is every reason to believe that the notable, but never noted, differently capitalized terms “Officers of the United States” in the Appointments Clause and “officers of the United States” in the Disqualification Clause would have different meanings.
for purposes of the Appointments Clause, does not ipso facto render him not an “officer of the United States” for purposes of the Disqualification Clause. Not only is there no reason to think that the term in the two different clauses would have the same meaning,
He is unquestionably an “officer of the United States,” even if he is not an “Officer of the United States” for purposes of the Appointments Clause. The fact that the president is elected, not appointed, and therefore is not an “Officer of the United States”
“an officer of the United States” for purposes of the Disqualification Clause of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. Such is constitutional non sequitur. Under the Constitution, the president holds the “Office of the President of the United States.”
There is simply no basis in constitutional interpretation, reason, or logic for concluding from the constitutional fact that the president nominates and appoints “Officers of the United States” under Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, that the president is not
Those who gather in Nashville are in part a bulwark against the takeover by megachurch music, known as “praise and worship” songs. Critics say these songs come with a theological vagueness and a musical blandness. religionnews.com/2023/09/12/at-…
Penny Pritzker, the new U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine's Economic Recovery, will be tasked with building a broad understanding in the U.S. of why Ukraine needs to be supported not just militarily but also economically. kyivindependent.com/who-is-penny-p…
On Sept 18 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld, Sec General of the UN, died in a plane crash in central Africa, most likely the victim of assassination. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP “Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road that makes death a fulfillment.”
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