MyOwnSockPuppet said:

The below image was (as in isn't any more) the "Who We Serve" page on the DNC website in the run-up to the election last year.

The more observant of you might notice which demographic isn't who they serve...

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Valletta said:

The decision by ASU and PBS appears to directly contradict a Supreme Court ruling. The nation’s highest court held in Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes that public broadcasters can exclude candidates from debates if the criteria are reasonable, viewpoint-neutral, and not based on the candidate’s political opinions.
The court held that a public broadcaster’s exclusion of a candidate from a debate was permissible if based on objective criteria (e.g., lack of significant public support) and not on the candidate’s political views.
The court stated, “Access to a nonpublic forum can be restricted if the restrictions are reasonable and are not an effort to suppress expression merely because public officials oppose the speaker’s views.”

ASU President Pressured Arizona PBS to Give Katie Hobbs Free Airtime After Refusing to Debate Kari Lake | August 12, 2025

New emails show that Arizona State University (ASU) President Michael Crow pressured Arizona PBS to offer gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs an interview after Hobbs refused to debate Republican Kari Lake — even though it went against the rules of the Citizens Clean Elections Commission, which...

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I am not surprised, but am saddened.

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Oompa Loompa said:

Yes. It is the conservative California. The difference is that Californians are fleeing to Texas. Apparently they prefer the lower taxes over reproductive rights.

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Oompa Loompa said:

DOJ employee accused of spiking girlfriend's drink with abortion pill charged with capital murder

The pregnant girlfriend of a U S Department of Justice employee suffered a miscarriage after he allegedly slipped abortion drugs into her drink

www.christianpost.com

Is it then, in your opinion, that the murder charges the man faces in this article should be dropped as well?

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Hans Blaster said:

Junk journals, predatory journals, AI slop are all issues, but I think you completely ignored what I said about them: I don't read such journals. And frankly, neither do any other scientists I work with. They also have nothing to do with the IPCC assessments.

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Hans Blaster said:

It sounds like an excuse to attack science you don't like.

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dogs4thewin said:

I understand that and am not saying otherwise only that IF a particular woman can meet the same standards as the men she should be allowed to serve in the same roles not that very many women could do that, but if they can they should be permitted in whatever role that is.

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dogs4thewin said:

If I were to go hands on with someone I would expect them to defend themselves with whatever reasonable force was needed.

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comana said:

Work smarter not harder. Nothing wrong with teamwork.



What about the men who intentionally make those work environments toxic towards women to keep them out? Why aren’t men letting women fills these jobs while they go work in an office, classroom, or hospital?

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Tropical Wilds said:

No, women cry about the gender wage gap because the person in the desk next to them doing the same job gets paid more if they have a penis. Or the woman on the roof gets paid less than the guy on the roof next to her. Or on the construction sites next to her get paid more. They don’t cry that other unrelated industries get paid more than they do. That doesn’t even make sense.

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Clare73 said:

No, the clouds are clouds.

A could was involved in Jesus ascension (Ac 1:9) and a cloud will be involved in his second coming (Ac 1:11).

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PloverWing said:

I think varies by bishop. Here's what I'm finding at the national church's website:



Source: Reception (Christian Commitment)

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Nithavela said:

Too late, the damage has already been done. She may have been fired from her job for missing work, or even for this abortion itself. And of course this will likely have caused serious emotional trauma and destroyed her trust in the police and law.

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DOJ employee accused of spiking girlfriend's drink with abortion pill charged with capital murder

The pregnant girlfriend of a U S Department of Justice employee suffered a miscarriage after he allegedly slipped abortion drugs into her drink

www.christianpost.com

SabbathBlessings said:

I thought this podcast was excellent and Pastor Rafferty is right on point, especially about entertainment (TV, music) and how it affects our spiritual life. I know this is a struggle for me sometimes and even PG programs are constantly using God's holy name in vain. Its best to cut it out of our lives altogether- we will become better Christians. There will be no TV in heaven.

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pgp_protector said:

sigh.
That's this. (from 2013)

BRRISON: A Planetary Science Balloon Mission - NASA

It doesn’t always take a spaceship to do planetary science. Sometimes you just need a balloon, gondola and some high tech cameras. This fall, NASA

www.nasa.gov

And was only up for about 13 hours.

BRRISON - Wikipedia

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NewLifeInChristJesus said:

Jesus said, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit" (Jn 3:6). This was a direct response to Nicodemus' question, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?" (Jn 3:4) The answer makes a very good point -- there is a difference between the physical lives that all of us have and the spiritual lives that are only exist inside those who have been born of God.

Of primary interest is the fact that a "spirit" is created when God gives birth to it. And when other Scriptures speak of this spirit, it says things like, "the spirit is alive because of righteousness" (Ro 8:10 NASB), and "he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him" (1 Co 6:17). Going beyond this, we also see that the new creature created by God giving birth to it partakes of His divine nature (2 Pet 1:4), is "created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness" (Eph 4:24), and that by virtue of the fact that God is the One who has given birth to it, the new creature is free of sin, cannot be corrupted by sin, and is untouchable by the devil (1 Jn 3:9, 5:18).

The life that God creates by spiritual birth is often contrasted with our physical lives that came from Adam and Eve by way of our biological mothers and fathers. Every person's physical life ends in death (i.e., "it is appointed for men to die once" -- Heb 9:27). But their spiritual lives are preceeded by spiritual death. When Scripture speaks of this, we are characterized as being "dead in your trespasses" but "made alive together with Him" (Col 2:13), or "when we were dead in trespasses, [God] made us alive together with Christ" (Eph 2:5). These verses and others like them say we were resurrected from the dead with Christ. This must be about our spiritual lives because otherwise only people who are physically dead could be raised to new life in Christ.

But there is no mention in Scripture of the spiritual lives that we inherited from Christ will ever perish. Certainly, this would be at odds with the great number os Scriptures that characterize our spiritual lives as "everlasting" and Jesus' promises that our new lives we received from Him would never end (Jn 10:28, etc). The earliest Christian writings that contain the notion that a person could "give up" his spiritual life are referenced here (in BDAG of all places)...

This life, as long as they are in the body, κέκρυπται σὺν τ. Χριστῷ ἐν τῷ θεῷ is hidden with Christ in God Col 3:3. Those who forfeit their ζ. (=their real life in contrast to their physical existence as ψυχή) are excluded fr. the life of glory Hv 1, 1, 9; Hs 6, 2, 3; 8, 6, 4; 6; 8, 8, 2f; 5; 9, 21, 4. [Arndt, W., Danker, F. W., Bauer, W., & Gingrich, F. W. (2000). In A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature (3rd ed., p. 430). University of Chicago Press.]​

Hv and Hs refer to Shepherd of Hermas Visions and Similtudes dated around 90-100 AD. It is noteworthy that BDAG provides no Biblical references for the idea that spiritual life can be forfieted.

Why then, given these things, do we not make more of a distiction between the new lives we have in Christ and the physical lives we have in Adam?

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linux.poet said:

I have always considered the latter, perhaps biased by my innate hatred of the U.S. public school system, to be a "pattern of this world" that other Christians are to avoid conforming to.

However, perhaps given that the latter is interested in keeping Christians alive, along with everyone else, perhaps there is some alignment here. Thoughts?

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Tropical Wilds said:

Freaking Texas, man.

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