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As always, well-said.

I recognize that I do not speak for an entire gender, but FWIW, I'm sorry that Harris and women generally face this kind of thing from men. In my role as a pastor, I do my best to combat this sort of thing. It is ugly, reprehensible, and just plain sinful. God intends better.

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Thank you! And yeah, I don't think it's most men. I pretty much never encounter this stuff directed at me, certainly not in real life. But every now and then one runs across it, and oof

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I am new subscriber who knows you through CT. I connected as I am with you that I can neither be Republican or Democrat as I relate to both side. With humility I have found that as I am seated with Christ in the heavens I want to be able to have a cup of coffee with anyone. Sometimes I must graciously cut those chats short. Do we need to remind ourselves as disciples that in Christ, spiritually, there is neither male nor female. The Lord created us such and it is a wonderful thing when we get it. For me, being from Mars (knowing women for years, I have visited Venus and learned to listen) I think women are the most beautiful of our Lord's creation. By the way, I have moved by frustration to pray for the controversy over women preaching or teaching. When Jesus was raised, He assigned women to bring a message to the men who were in seclusion for safety. Was that "apostolic"? You bet it was. Think Amy Carmichael and Elizabeth Elliott and Heidi Baker. Keep writing sister. My passion is stirred up for His Name.

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Thank you, Mark!

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Thanks for this article (and the one last week about whether God protected Trump from death). Hopefully with reports that Mike Johnson advised the GOP to focus on policy attacks on Kamala instead of race/gender attacks, we'll see a civil discourse.

Congrats on the 1,000 subscribers! Here's to 10,000! I am curious, you mentioned that you had 100,000 subscribers 10 years ago on Tumblr -- how come they haven't migrated to Substack? (Too many news/blog outlets now? Your writing topics are different? Free vs. Pay? Laziness?) I ask this respectfully, as I am shocked that more aren't subscribed; if you told me today that you would move to a new platform, I would easily follow.

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Tragically, the Tumblr accounts all went dormant years before Substack became a thing -- I could still log in to over 100k followers, but no one's actually there. I'd be shouting into the void. It's annoying in a petty way; if I could have monetized Tumblr like I can Substack, maybe my financial situation would be very different!

That said, I'm not sure it'd work quite the same way even if those accounts weren't all dead. Tumblr users tended to be much younger (college or even high school age), though the big political accounts like mine were generally run by people more in their mid-20s to 30s. I don't know that the average Tumblr follower ever would have paid a subscription fee, or how much they ever followed my work off the platform. There were a few who did, certainly, but it was a contained ecosystem back then.

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100K x $70 = $7MM would be niiice!!!

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Hahahaha

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Thank you, Bonnie. As a former good faith Republican who now finds himself politically homeless, I’m still in proximity to a lot of MAGA (or hold-your-nose-Republicans who believe he’s still better than the alternatives). I’m saddened by the party who told me all lives matter, even the unborn. Instead what I see demonstrated is the only lives who matter are those who agree with them or are not a threat.

It’s important that we call out this bad behavior and label it for what it is: sin.

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