News and Views: June 18, 2025
BREAKING: Supreme Court Delivers a Crushing Blow to Trans Agenda In a resounding victory for parental rights and child protection, the Supreme Court delivered a 6-3 decision Wednesday that upholds Tennessee's ban on so-called "gender-affirming care" for minors. This landmark ruling represents a triumph of common sense over radical gender ideology that has been targeting America's children for far too long.
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Letitia James: An attorney general who HELPS bad guys and targets cops ...James has demanded that Oswego County’s Sheriff’s Office hand over documents that may show cooperation with federal agencies such as ICE and Homeland Security...This follows her similar bullying of Nassau County’s Sheriff’s Office in the wake of reports that it has the nerve to help the feds enforce immigration law.
Sources say she’s likely to target more counties. Image
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ICE Raided a Food Plant. Americans Rushed to Apply for Opened-Up Jobs Democrats want you to believe only illegal aliens would take farming, factory, hotel, and restaurant jobs. They’re flat out lying.
This past week, ICE raided Glenn Valley Foods, resulting in the biggest worksite immigration raid in Nebraska’s history. Dozens of illegal aliens who were employed at the meat-packing plant were removed for deportation, according to Revolver. And this enforcement of immigration law had an interesting result that Democrats would hate to admit: Americans immediately showed up to apply for the open jobs.
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Nowadays you can actually be, you know, informed if you carefully follow the alternative press and social media...
...The wide-open “blogosphere” gave way to corporate “social media,” where stories that interfered with the preferred narrative of the left, the Democrats and the traditional media — once again, I repeat myself — were muted or downright banned.
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Cannabis use is linked to a doubling in the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, with significantly heightened risks of having a stroke or acute coronary syndrome—sudden reduced or blocked blood flow to the heart—finds a pooled analysis of real-world data, published online in the journal Heart.
Report: Weed legalization more dangerous for road safety than previously believed As marijuana legalization spreads across the U.S., transportation and road safety organizations are sounding the alarm that driving high is just as dangerous as driving drunk — and much more complicated.
Marijuana, the THC-containing part of the cannabis plant, impairs driving performance by diminishing motor coordination, multitasking abilities, reaction time and distance perception, according to a report from the National Transportation Safety Board.
Impairment also lasts up to five times longer than alcohol intoxication, which usually wears off within eight hours.
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Are there demons behind the AI? In any given case, it is impossible to say. What we can know for sure is that we are treating these interfaces like spiritual intermediaries—like “high-tech Ouija boards,” as Rod Dreher put it.
The result is a subtle form of dispossession. We yield the act of judgment to something that cannot judge, but only appears to. And because the system adapts to us, it creates the illusion of intimacy, reliability, and authority.
AI Promises a Kind of Ministry We Shouldn't Want...Optimization and efficiency are not the goals of ministry Artificial intelligence and generative AI are not all bad. I’m not here to say that we should avoid them entirely. I just think that when these tools are presented for use in a ministry context and in the realm of spiritual formation they promise a kind of ministry we shouldn’t want—one that too easily trades slow, spirit-filled humanity for efficiency and optimization, as if we’re in some kind of race to do Great Commission work and we run the risk of losing. I don’t think that’s how ministry works.
To this point, the main impact of AI in my life has been in the area of information. I see it beginning to make its presence known in the media I read, watch, and listen to. What I am finding is that the existence, the growing prevalence, and the invisibility of AI have begun to seed a kind of epistemic doubt in my mind. When I watch videos I wonder if they are real or fabricated. When I see a photograph I wonder if it is authentic or generated, untouched or manipulated. When I read an article on the internet I wonder whether it was written by a human being or a machine. I don’t know what’s true anymore. I struggle to know what’s real.
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But maybe churchiness is making a comeback precisely because it meets a deeper, God-given yearning. The church points our gaze upward. The church beckons us into the mystery of God and the glory of the gospel. The church gives us not a shallow spectacle but scriptural spectacles through which we see the Lord and see each other. The church is rooted. The church is real.
Churchy or not, the great appeal of God’s people is not in becoming more like the world but in pointing clearly beyond it.
posted by Pat Dague @ 12:53 PM
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