Who gets church discipline, and who doesn't? Here's a female "executive director" of an LCMS church on the @pastortimahlman podcast. She had a spirit tell her to get involved with the LCMS. This is just the beginning (1/4) Next up is Joshua Salzberg, who cares very much about the LGBTQ+ community. And of course other races, for good measure (2/4)

The communist subtext of Star Wars is well known. Lucas may as well have invented the trope: a rag-tag group of freedom fighters vs evil “fascist” imperialists. But the prequels have a better lesson: to simply rebel against the machine, you must become it, and you’ll fail🧵(1/4) The tumor at the heart of the Republic is the clone army, which turns out even less human than the droids they are meant to defeat. The great comedic irony is that the droids (even the battle droids) are humanized more than anyone else in the story. (2/4)