A believer in building a better world via dialectic with the aim towards the moral arc. Community Engagement Coordinator @AtheistsLiberty

San Diego, CA
Joined October 2011
Profiles in courage.
This brave woman, @FahimaSarfaraz, was blinded when her Taliban ex-husband threw acid in her face. He laughed & said she could never be the voice of freedom—because people would be afraid of her. She told her story to a huge crowd in Poland. And she said, “He didn’t win. I win.”
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The claim that QFI only had "Arabic language teaching aids available to download from their website," is disingenuous. See one example below of a lesson shared on QFI's resource page that downplayed the terrorism that led to the murder of 3,000 Americans on 9/11. web.archive.org/web/20220708…
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1/ Former Education Secretary and registered foreign agent, William J. Bennett wrote an op-ed downplaying Qatar’s influence in U.S. K-12 education. A thread 🧵
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To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth. —Marcus Aurelius
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The problem with land acknowledgments beyond their virtue signaling without ever having to do anything (like give the land back), as explained by Jerry Coyne @Evolutionistrue e.g., Indians stole land from other Indian tribes so who actually owned the land a 1,000 or 10,000 years ago? whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/…
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Something people don't mention enough is that JK Rowling is a domestic violence survivor. She didn't have a victim mentality. She survived by writing the best-selling children's books of a generation. With that said, she's still a DV survivor, and she inherently understands coercive control and abuse dynamics, and she identifies them in the trans activist movement. It amazes me that she has exercised so much restraint in discussing the depths of the effects of her own witch-hunt in an age where few resist doing so, but she doesn't because she doesn't have a victim complex, and that is why they hate her so much.
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“Europe is belatedly discovering how unbelievably stupid it was to import millions of people from cultures that despise Western values and which often promote hatred toward the people who have let them in.” —Thomas Sowell, August 18, 2015
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REPEATING A LIE DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE. REPEATING A LIE DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE. REPEATING A LIE DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE. REPEATING A LIE DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE. REPEATING A LIE DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE. REPEATING A LIE DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE. REPEATING A LIE DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE. REPEATING A LIE DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE. REPEATING A LIE DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE. REPEATING A LIE DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE. REPEATING A LIE DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE. REPEATING A LIE DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE. REPEATING A LIE DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE.
ISRAEL IS STILL STARVING GAZA. ISRAEL IS STILL STARVING GAZA. ISRAEL IS STILL STARVING GAZA. ISRAEL IS STILL STARVING GAZA. ISRAEL IS STILL STARVING GAZA. ISRAEL IS STILL STARVING GAZA. ISRAEL IS STILL STARVING GAZA. ISRAEL IS STILL STARVING GAZA. ISRAEL IS STILL STARVING GAZA. ISRAEL IS STILL STARVING GAZA.
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"Jihad" has been used for centuries to justify conquests, mass killings, enslavement, forced conversions, terrorism, and other atrocities. This is not fringe. It's rooted in classical Islamic law and practice.
Jihad means the struggle to become better btw
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Two icons of freedom and free speech. Two survivors of Islamist terrorism. Two nightmares for the ayatollahs. Two heroes. @AlinejadMasih @SalmanRushdie
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You can pre-order - it comes out Nov 12. I am speaking to those of us who want an explanation for what is going wrong and know that it isn’t as simple as ‘third worlders’ or ‘racism’. Life is always more complex. My book explains that complexity. amzn.eu/d/0gtCcDsy
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Free speech doesn't defend itself. From fighting censorship in court to defending students on campus, @theFIREorg’s work depends on talented people who believe these freedoms are worth fighting for. We're hiring across several teams! 👇
Free speech needs people willing to stand up for it, and a team working to defend it. We're looking for two new team members to help expand our reach and build the connections that move our work forward. 🧵👇
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Because they think anyone who opposes Western Civilization is their ally
Why does the left just ignore how Muslims treat women?
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Listen, I know not everyone is going to agree with @TheFIREorg all the time. That’s unavoidable when you’re committed to being a genuinely nonpartisan institution in a hyperpartisan society, and when you don't shy away from complex cases that divide even the most thoughtful of us. But here’s my take: If you agree with FIRE 50% of the time, you should probably be a donor. If you agree with us 80% of the time, you should probably work here!
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Our rights don't come from your god or anyone else's. They’re protected by a secular Constitution, not granted by a supernatural being. If rights came from God, they’d depend on whose god you believe in. That’s precisely why separating religion and government matters.
Tulsi Gabbard: “Our rights and freedoms do not come from government. They come from God. And God alone.” @TulsiGabbard
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A foreign bank with Iran as its third-largest shareholder has given over $17 million to at least 50 Islamic private ​K-12 schools in the United States. Along with these grants, ​t​he Islamic Development Bank works with the​ largest Islamic K-12 school accreditation organization in the U.S., the Council of Islamic Schools based in North America (CISNA).
🏫 America’s primary and secondary schools have become targets of foreign influence campaigns. Over $10M in QFI grants have reached nearly two dozen school districts, mainly supporting Arabic language and culture instruction. @76brandy76, @JenRichmond & @SimoneJWei dive into how the American K-12 education system is vulnerable to foreign influence: fdd.org/analysis/foreign-fun…
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Have we heard him urge Russia to stop bombing Ukraine?
Vance: Ukraine should stop bombing Russian energy
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