Jessica L. Johnson

This is what gets you, Mr. French? You’re seeing who Trump is nominating and planning to pardon, but this is what you think warrants a constitutional amendment?

‘An Absurd Rage for Public Speaking’: An Abolitionist Fair Orator in the London Debating Societies, 1788–1791 On 11 May 1789, the night before Parliament’s first debate on ending the slave trade, a woman advocated for abolition before hundreds of Londoners at a debating society. Despite her compelling orat...

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Image of creepy figure whispering “Get a PhD” into the ear of a young woman. Caption reads, “This is what it feels like.”

Given that I have spent 10 years trying to find a non-academic vocational path and come up empty, do I give into the call of the darkness?

I know it’s not a smart career move, but I already spend my free time reading books on Elizabeth I and the English Reformation. So … 🤷‍♀️

Do Theobro Bibles just put a big old X through Judges 4? Deborah wasn’t anointed by a prophet … she *was* a prophet. And the highest political leader at the time. It’s so tiring to deal with their lunacy when she’s right there. 🙄

How Elon Musk turned X into a pro-Trump echo chamber As Musk has quickly become one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters, he has transformed X into a MAGA mouthpiece.

All their accusations about Blue Sky being an "echo chamber" are confessions distracting from the truth. Twitter is the echo chamber, by design, and they're mad as hell we're not forced to listen to it anymore: www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

Uh … yeah. Do it. When I say I’m against corruption, I didn’t just mean for the other side, and the fact that Republicans don’t seem to get that is telling.

I vote that here on better Twitter, we all just collectively refuse to engage with people like this. Starve them out. Make them think that this platform is worthless for them when it comes to provocative engagement.

Thank you for this! Such a timely and important subject!

Thanks for this!!

Lol. Please, no. Personally, I say we just appropriate “tweeting” since it’s already in the cultural lexicon and it would drive Musk batty.

In Genesis 2:18, the Hebrew phrase translated “helper” applies equally to all people, not just women. In the Hebrew Bible, the same word describes God as the “helper/rescuer” of his people more than a dozen times.

In the beginning . . . You were made for so much more than you know!

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