Matthew Sheffield
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New book: What Republicans Know https://flux.community/book/what-republicans-know
🟦 Host, Theory of Change podcast
🟦 Former TV producer and pollster
🟦 As seen in NYT, WaPo, NBC, NPR, Variety ...
New book: What Republicans Know https://flux.community/book/what-republicans-know
It's inconsistent with the idea that "my kingdom is not of this world," however as the residual de facto Western cultural epistemology, they're not completely imagining things.
Their combination of newfangled postmillenialism plus old Calvinism is completely incoherent also.
Their combination of newfangled postmillenialism plus old Calvinism is completely incoherent also.
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
It's inconsistent with the idea that "my kingdom is not of this world," however as the residual de facto Western cultural epistemology, they're not completely imagining things.
Their combination of newfangled postmillenialism plus old Calvinism is completely incoherent also.
Their combination of newfangled postmillenialism plus old Calvinism is completely incoherent also.
A big part of the answer is getting traditionalist Christians to realize that they can still have their beliefs even if society disagrees. That's what powers most Republican voting. Although misogyny (and racism somewhat) is coming up among young men who are not religious.
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
A big part of the answer is getting traditionalist Christians to realize that they can still have their beliefs even if society disagrees. That's what powers most Republican voting. Although misogyny (and racism somewhat) is coming up among young men who are not religious.
Yeah it's a real embarrassment. At least Hoover employees are not officially with Stanford. His stuff is ludicrous superstition masquerading as "just asking questions" and fake academic discussions www.hoover.org/research/des...
By Design: Behe, Lennox, And Meyer On The Evidence For A Creator
Michael Behe, John Lennox, and Steven Meyer are three of the leading voices in science and academia on the case for an intelligent designer of the universe and everything in it (including us).
www.hoover.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Yeah it's a real embarrassment. At least Hoover employees are not officially with Stanford. His stuff is ludicrous superstition masquerading as "just asking questions" and fake academic discussions www.hoover.org/research/des...
Yes it's a really terrible thing. Would be an excellent idea for the left to focus on eliminating.
I did a thread on how Republican politicians are much more likely than Democrats to be guilty of CSA that discusses child marriage also bsky.app/profile/matt...
I did a thread on how Republican politicians are much more likely than Democrats to be guilty of CSA that discusses child marriage also bsky.app/profile/matt...
Someone has gone through and actually run the numbers on molestation crimes against children.
The politicians who commit these crimes are overwhelmingly Republican.
67% of politicians convicted between February 10, 2023 and May 23, 2024 nationwide were Republicans.
www.whoismakingnews.com
The politicians who commit these crimes are overwhelmingly Republican.
67% of politicians convicted between February 10, 2023 and May 23, 2024 nationwide were Republicans.
www.whoismakingnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Yes it's a really terrible thing. Would be an excellent idea for the left to focus on eliminating.
I did a thread on how Republican politicians are much more likely than Democrats to be guilty of CSA that discusses child marriage also bsky.app/profile/matt...
I did a thread on how Republican politicians are much more likely than Democrats to be guilty of CSA that discusses child marriage also bsky.app/profile/matt...
Stanford has always had a contingent of libertarian cranks. Alumnus Peter Thiel has done everything he can to grow their ranks over the years. Peter Robinson, one of his closest friends has been ensconced on-campus at the Hoover Institution where he's churned out creationist propaganda for decades.
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Stanford has always had a contingent of libertarian cranks. Alumnus Peter Thiel has done everything he can to grow their ranks over the years. Peter Robinson, one of his closest friends has been ensconced on-campus at the Hoover Institution where he's churned out creationist propaganda for decades.
A girl said no to him.
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
A girl said no to him.
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Instead of directly enriching insurance companies, giving money to fund FSAs enriches the banks and payment administrators, … who then enrich the insurance companies.
Trickle down economics at its finest.
Trickle down economics at its finest.
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Instead of directly enriching insurance companies, giving money to fund FSAs enriches the banks and payment administrators, … who then enrich the insurance companies.
Trickle down economics at its finest.
Trickle down economics at its finest.
Yes it's really disgusting to see. Conservatives have to step forward and withhold their votes from this reactionary awfulness.
You can't trust the far-right to do anything. That was the lesson of WWII. But conservatives forgot it.
You can't trust the far-right to do anything. That was the lesson of WWII. But conservatives forgot it.
November 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Yes it's really disgusting to see. Conservatives have to step forward and withhold their votes from this reactionary awfulness.
You can't trust the far-right to do anything. That was the lesson of WWII. But conservatives forgot it.
You can't trust the far-right to do anything. That was the lesson of WWII. But conservatives forgot it.
Actually there are plenty of unbuilt lots or ones that can be torn down. Also there's still lots of empty land. But local NIMBY governments have made things hard for new constructions.
Newsom in CA just got legal authority to override which is fantastic.
Newsom in CA just got legal authority to override which is fantastic.
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Actually there are plenty of unbuilt lots or ones that can be torn down. Also there's still lots of empty land. But local NIMBY governments have made things hard for new constructions.
Newsom in CA just got legal authority to override which is fantastic.
Newsom in CA just got legal authority to override which is fantastic.