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The master regarded the practice of hand washing as a foreign affectation and a sign of weakness. “Personally,” he said, “I don’t trust a man whose hands are too clean.” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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"The Land of Propaganda is built on unanimity. If one man says, 'No,' the spell is broken and public order is endangered."
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It was obvious to the master that his statue had not befouled *itself.* He instructed his manservant to bring him in turn each member of his staff or family, as well as their dogs. One way or another he would learn the truth. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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St. Alban lived 3rd cen. in Roman-occupied Britain. During persecution he sheltered a priest on the run and asked to be baptized. As soldiers approached, he switched cloaks with the priest and helped him escape. He was arrested and executed in the priest's place. #Solidarity
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#HappyFathersDay2020 Dad, teaching me to use a xerox machine, and so many other things. @DanielEllsberg
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FAQs to mark the 300th #TolstoysTalesofTrump 🎉
▪️Are these tales really by Tolstoy? ✍️Only indirectly.🧏
▪️Is the master’s a typical estate?🏚 Every unhappy estate is unhappy in its own way. 😳😩😱☠️
▪️Has Trump denounced these tales as Fake Literature? 📚🚯Only in my dreams. 🙏
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On 6/21 1964 3 civil rights activists in Neshoba Co. Miss., James Chaney, Mickey Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman, were lynched by the KKK in one of the most notorious crimes of that era. Arrested by a sheriff, they were delivered to the Klan, beaten, shot, buried in an earthen dam.
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World Refugee Day. Here is my intro to “A Stranger and You Welcomed Me,” Pope Francis’s writings on migrants and refugees. @OrbisBooks ncronline.org/news/vatican/f…
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The master decried the magistrate’s ruling, granting permission for homeless beggars to sleep under bridges, as “a shotgun blast in the face of Christian property owners.” Next, he said, “they will be coming for our shotguns and demanding bread!” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
These horrible & politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives. We need more Justices or we will lose our 2nd. Amendment & everything else. Vote Trump 2020!
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Reading for Juneteenth: "Let Justice Be Done: Writings from American Abolitionists." These men and women, white and Black, recognized the evil in an institution embraced by so many fellow Christians, and fought tirelessly for a goal so many believed was impossible. @OrbisBooks
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Gazing into his father’s eyes the master’s son praised his incredible accomplishments on the estate: highest production of potatoes, minimal use of deadly force, all in the face of unprecedented nihilism. “And so my question is: Why are you not the Tsar?” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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A #TolstoysTalesofTrump flashback.
Long after he had dismissed his counselor, the master often had the uncanny sense that he was still there, hovering behind, silently judging him with his mustache and his superior airs. But when he looked there was no one there. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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