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Defending Kids @ThemBeforeUs | Everyday Interpreter ✍🏻 | Thinking well in a crazy world 🌎
Dec 28 18 tweets 6 min read
We traded one institution for a thousand government programs.

Poverty, crime, abuse, and addiction aren’t siloed social ills.

They all share a common root.

But we aren’t allowed to say the cure 🧵 Image I’m talking about Marriage.

Anti-family forces have always been threatened by its benefits.

Married Men/Women are more independent, happier, healthier, wealthier, less addicted, and less criminal.

Truth is: you can’t build a dependent class out of intact families. Image
Dec 2 18 tweets 7 min read
The algorithm wants you to believe your husband is useless. That you’d be better off alone.

The data says married fathers do more work than married mothers.

You’re being lied to 🧵 Image Scroll long enough and you’ll find a whole ecosystem built on exhausted moms filming every task their husbands “don’t notice.” Viral posts about the “primary parent” and “invisible mental load” rack up millions, with comments that start supportive—then turn into something else.
Oct 22 24 tweets 9 min read
Who killed the American family?

HINT: It didn’t die of natural causes.

From a secret Sperm Donor in 1884
to the Supreme Court’s forced fictions of today…

Here’s the timeline of the crime: 🧵 Image 1884: Philadelphia

A now infamous Dr. Pancoast chloroforms an unconscious woman and inseminates her with a medical student’s sperm. Her husband is infertile. She is never told.​

(A crime he would only confess to decades later) Image
Oct 18 14 tweets 5 min read
There’s no neutral ground in the culture war.

Every school, screen, and stage is preaching.

The only question is whose “gospel” you will believe: 🧵 Image The culture war is the public struggle over what is true, what is good, and what is normal.

(and which institutions will teach, protect, and enforce those answers) Image
Sep 6 6 tweets 3 min read
I live in Charlotte.

I have ridden this train with my kids.

I have a few thoughts on the Murder that occurred last month on the light rail. Image The Mayor saying we can't “arrest our way out" is a deflection.

No one wants to lock up all homeless people.

We simply believe that we can and should arrest career criminals who stab people on trains.

All of them. And not feel badly about it. Image
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Sep 4 18 tweets 7 min read
The moment the law said a man could call another man ‘husband’

It also mandated that those two men could buy someone else’s child and call him ‘son.’

Here’s how gay marriage forced a redefinition of parenthood and left children paying the price: 🧵 Image Before Obergefell, states had freedom. Some allowed same-sex marriage; others upheld natural marriage.

It was messy and unjust—but at least some states were still free protect children in law if they chose. Image
Jul 21 15 tweets 6 min read
🏳️‍🌈 In 2012, a bombshell study threatened to derail the march to gay marriage.

It said what no one else would:
Kids do best with their mom and dad.

They tried to bury it.

10 years later? The evidence is stronger than ever.

Here’s what they didn’t want you to know: 🧵Image One of the biggest legal and social obstacles to redefining marriage was potential child harm.

If children do best with married moms and dads, then laws protecting that natural marriage aren’t bigotry, they’re rooted in biology and child protection. Image
Jun 10 9 tweets 4 min read
🚨 New global research across three continents all finds the same thing:

Academically, emotionally, and physically… Divorce harms kids🧵 Image 📍 In the U.S., researchers studied 5 million children and found:

“Parental divorce reduces children’s adult earnings and college residence while increasing incarceration, mortality, and teen births.”

They traced the impact through reduced income, worse neighborhoods, and absent parents.Image
May 14 10 tweets 4 min read
Divorce is the choice we’ve been told not to question.

That must end.

A massive new study tracked over 1 million children across 50 years. The results are devastating.

If you’re a parent or policymaker, you need to see what divorce really does to kids: 🧵 Image After divorce, kids face:

- 60% higher risk of teen pregnancy
- 40% higher risk of jail time
- 45% higher risk of early death
- 9–13% lower adult wages
- Lower chances of going to college

All compared to the kids whose parents stayed married. Image
Apr 18 19 tweets 7 min read
Today is Good Friday—
the day Christ died for us.

But do you know the first person to die FOR Christ?

It wasn’t one of the 12 Disciples.
It was a humble table servant.

And far from silencing the Church,
his death launched it. 🧵 Image The early Church was small but growing.

They prayed, broke bread, and healed the sick—but they hadn’t been tested by blood.

Only Jesus had died thus far.
But that would soon change. Image
Apr 11 19 tweets 7 min read
Joseph Smith claimed to have translated an unreadable Egyptian scroll by the power of God.

100 years later, we learned how to actually read that scroll — thanks to the Rosetta Stone.

What it revealed rocked the global Mormon empire... 🧵 Image To grasp the weight of what was discovered, you need to understand the rise of Mormonism.

It started with a teenage prophet in the 1820s.

By the 1840s, it was a fast-growing movement with its own cities, scripture, and army. Image
Apr 5 20 tweets 7 min read
In 1877, one secret handshake decided the US presidency, and changed the country forever.

It redrew the map of America, and erased Black political power for a century.

Here's how the Democrats conspired to take back the South, and why we're still living in that shadow... 🧵 Image After the Civil War, America rewrote the Constitution adding new reconstruction amendments:

The 13th, 14th, & 15th amendment abolished slavery, established citizenship, and granted Black men the vote.

It was the country’s second founding.
And for a moment the promise felt real. Image