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Gavin Newsom says the DSA will become mainstream in the Democrat party. Anyone surprised?
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Ok guys, is this girl terrifying, or does she just put the “WHO” in wholesome?
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Listen to Jimmy Carr define Communism and explain American Marxism:
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The Rising Sun: Benjamin Franklin and a Republic Worth Keeping On the last day of the Constitutional Convention, as the delegates lined up to sign, an 81-year-old man looked at the chair at the front of the room. A half-sun was carved into its back. All summer, he said, he had wondered whether it was rising or setting. Now he knew. It was a rising sun. That man was Benjamin Franklin, and he had spent his life helping that sun come up. A Printer’s Apprentice Franklin was born in Boston in 1706, the fifteenth of seventeen children. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was apprenticed to his older brother, a printer. He taught himself the rest, reading every book he could borrow. At seventeen he ran away to Philadelphia with almost nothing. Within a few years, he owned his own print shop. Poor Richard and the Public Good In 1732, Franklin began publishing Poor Richard’s Almanack, filled with sayings about thrift and diligence: “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” He did not keep his success to himself. He helped found a lending library, a fire company, a hospital, and an academy that became the University of Pennsylvania. A Mind for Innovation Franklin retired from business in his forties and turned to science. His kite experiment helped show that lightning is electricity, and his lightning rod soon protected buildings on two continents. He invented bifocals and an efficient wood stove. He never patented any of them. Since we benefit from the inventions of others, he wrote, we should be glad to serve others by our own. From Loyal Subject to Patriot For years, Franklin hoped to keep the colonies within the British Empire. He spent much of two decades in London as their agent. In 1774, he was summoned before the king’s Privy Council and publicly humiliated while he stood in silence. He went home convinced reconciliation was finished. In 1776, he helped draft the Declaration of Independence, and he signed it. The Diplomat Who Saved the Revolution At seventy, Franklin sailed to France. In 1778, he secured the alliance that brought French money, ships, and soldiers to the American cause. Without it, the Revolution may well have failed. He then helped negotiate the 1783 peace treaty in which Britain recognized American independence. The Elder Statesman In 1787, Franklin was the oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention. When the convention nearly collapsed over how large and small states would be represented, he urged compromise, helping clear the way for the House and Senate we still have. On the final day, he admitted the Constitution had faults. But the older he grew, he said, the more he doubted his own judgment. He doubted any other convention could do better, and he asked every delegate to sign. A Life Still Growing Franklin had owned enslaved people earlier in life. In his final years, he led Pennsylvania’s abolition society and petitioned Congress to end slavery. He died in Philadelphia in April 1790, mourned by some twenty thousand people. A Republic, If You Can Keep It As Franklin left the convention in 1787, a woman is said to have asked what kind of government the delegates had created. His answer: “A republic, if you can keep it.” Franklin knew a constitution was only paper. It would last only as long as citizens had the character to defend it. He had done his part. The keeping belongs to every generation that follows. The sun he saw that day was rising. Whether it stays risen is up to us.
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Have you heard of the xDoctor app? Elon and X, in the interest of transparency, have open sourced much of the X Algorithm. xDoctor analyzes your X archives against what has been made public, to identify posts and delete them. This isn’t a “delete all” approach, it is curated.
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The Morning Star: John Wycliffe and the Bible in the Language of the People Forty-four years after John Wycliffe died, church authorities dug up his bones, burned them, and threw the ashes into a river. They wanted his memory erased. Instead, the river carried it out to the world. An Oxford Scholar John Wycliffe was born in Yorkshire, England, in the early fourteenth century. He became one of the most respected theologians at Oxford University, and later served as rector of the parish of Lutterworth. He could have enjoyed a quiet life of prestige. Instead, he began a fight that would outlive him by centuries. Exposing Corruption Wycliffe looked at the medieval church and saw great wealth, worldly power, and clergy more concerned with privilege than with the souls in their care. He said so, plainly and publicly. He argued that the church had no right to riches and political power that Christ himself never sought. He challenged the authority of the pope, and he rejected teachings he believed had no foundation in Scripture. In 1377, Pope Gregory the Eleventh formally condemned his teachings. Wycliffe kept writing. Scripture Above All At the center of everything was one conviction: the Bible is the highest authority for the Christian, above popes, councils, and the decrees of men. And if that is true, then ordinary people need to be able to read it. In Wycliffe’s day, the Bible in England was in Latin, which the common people could not read. They depended on clergy to tell them what God had said. Wycliffe believed every Christian had a right to hear God’s Word for himself. In words long attributed to him, “Englishmen learn Christ’s law best in English.” The Wycliffe Bible So Wycliffe and his associates did something new: they translated the entire Bible into English. Working from the Latin text, they produced the first complete English Bible in the early 1380s. Every copy was written by hand. Yet the work spread across England, carried by preachers Wycliffe sent out to teach the Scriptures in plain language. His followers came to be called Lollards, and authorities would hunt them for generations. In 1409, English church leaders went so far as to forbid translating Scripture into English without official approval. That is how dangerous the Bible in the people’s language had become. Death, and a Strange Second Trial Remarkably, Wycliffe was never burned at the stake. Powerful protectors shielded him. He suffered a stroke while at worship in his parish church and died at Lutterworth at the end of 1384. But the church was not finished with him. In 1415, the Council of Constance, the same council that condemned and burned Jan Hus, declared Wycliffe a heretic. In 1428, his remains were dug up, burned, and his ashes thrown into the River Swift. Centuries later, historian Thomas Fuller reflected on that scene. The Swift carried the ashes to the Avon, the Avon to the Severn, the Severn to the sea, and from there to the oceans of the world. And just as his ashes spread, Fuller said, so did his teaching. The Fire That Spread Fuller was right. Wycliffe’s writings traveled from England to Bohemia, where they shaped the preaching of Jan Hus in Prague. Hus carried that flame to his own death in 1415. A century later, Martin Luther found in Hus a reformer who had gone before him. That is why Wycliffe is remembered as the Morning Star of the Reformation. He did not see the full day, but he was the first light on the horizon. A Lasting Influence Every time an English-speaking believer opens a Bible in their own language, they stand in a stream that Wycliffe helped begin. Later translators, including William Tyndale, would build on the conviction he championed: that God’s Word belongs in the hands of God’s people. Wycliffe could not stop the church from condemning him, or from burning his bones. But he could put the Scriptures where no council could reach them: into the hearts and homes of ordinary people.
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