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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