David French
@DavidAFrench
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New York Times columnist, visiting professor @lipscomb, Chautauqua Perry Fellow in Democracy, Iraq vet, married to @NancyAFrench.
Franklin, TN
Joined January 2011
The people are not always right. Moral courage is always necessary in leadership. And we cannot ever think that we have permanently vanquished the ideas that Trump and so many others before him have used to lead so many Americans astray.
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The question is how to keep him — and those like him — in check.
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Please read this:.
The declassified Durham report annex shows the special counsel set out to prove the ‘Clinton Plan’ emails were real but decided they were fakes made by Russian spies. It's amazing to see people talking about those "emails" as if they were real. Can people read?. link follows.
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RT @bariweiss: Wesley LePatner--a wife, a mother--was murdered in midtown Manhattan. Then a bunch of people on this platform and others t….
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Wesley LePatner was a mother, a wife, and a beloved boss. But to a growing number of people, she was something else entirely: a symbol of everything they hate.
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"President Trump isn’t just trying to change the subject; he’s also trying to rewrite history — or maybe I should say reality."
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Alternative facts have become alternative realities.
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Wow. That's an incredible letter. @SallyJenki is a gem.
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All of them except El Paso.
The average American has been to 5 of these cities. How many have you been too?. I’ll start, 14.
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RT @DerwinLGray: Here's my full @NPR interview. A thoughtful, faithful Christo-centric, kingdom of God worldview is always going challenge….
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President Trump has received a significant amount of support from Evangelical Christians.
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Perfection.
I may have just stumbled upon the greatest YouTube comment I've ever seen 😭😂 . @SickosCommittee @CFBHome
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RT @DrNeilStone: New study from Denmark 🇩🇰 of over 1.5 MILLION people who received an mRNA Covid vaccine . NO increased risk of 29 differen….
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This cohort study investigates the association between booster vaccinations containing the JN.1 lineage and 29 serious adverse events in Denmark.
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A beautiful prayer.
Let us #PrayTogether that societies where coexistence seems more difficult might not succumb to the temptation of confrontation for ethnic, political, religious or ideological reasons. #PrayerIntention @clicktopray_en #ClickToPray
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RT @BulwarkOnline: "We're cutting the tiniest sliver of the budget, harming some of the most vulnerable people in the world, and then addin….
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Screaming at an American Jewish performer because of objections to Israeli policy is textbook antisemitism. It's not brave. It's not virtuous. It's bigoted.
“The only reason I speak English is because I came here to escape this sh*t”. Singer Regina Spektor reacts to Free Palestine hecklers at her show. As a child, Spektor moved to America from the Soviet Union, where antisemitism was commonplace. Notice how calm she stays. That’s
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RT @RitchieTorres: It should be possible, indeed necessary, to hold two thoughts at once. First, despite the pervasive amnesia about 10/….
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RT @JamesSurowiecki: Charlie Gasparino gets it right. What's especially weird about the situation these trade deals have created is that….
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Please read this, by my friend @jaynordlinger about one of the most vile people in the Trump administration.
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On a Trump-administration official and the state of the American Right
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RT @ReichlinMelnick: 🚨MORE HORRORS emerging from the men who the Trump admin paid to have imprisoned in CECOT without trial or due process.….
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RT @davidfrum: I wrote in May that Trump's corruption cannot be compared to anything in past US history, not to Watergate, not to Teapot Do….
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He is taking self-enrichment to a scale never seen before in America.
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That looks exactly like the box set I had growing up. So wonderful.
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At a time of extraordinary fury, we all live in a degree of pain. We all live with regrets. But hope can come from unexpected places — perhaps a show that features scallops and pastries can also teach us that only repentance can heal our broken hearts.
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“The Bear” asks the question, how do we live together when someone always seems to be going too far?
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RT @Noahpinion: "Voters also preferred the GOP on nearly every issue polled". So far, I don't see progressives reckoning with this AT ALL.….
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RT @billybinion: Repulsive. Andry Hernandez entered the U.S. *legally.* Then—without due process—the government shipped him to a torture pr….
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