Transfigurations: News and Views: August 8, 2025

As Gen Z Turns to the Occult, How Should We Respond?

The emerging generation treads a well-worn path. In his wise providence, God often leads his wayward children home to him via circuitous routes. Before he brought Augustine back to his Word, God brought him to the Platonists and opened his mind to the possibility of deeper (spiritual) realities. Augustine needed to stretch before he got into the game. “I think it was Your will that I should come upon these books before I had made study of the Scriptures, that it might be impressed on my memory how they had affected me,” he remembers in his Confessions.

Could the same be true for those dabbling with the occult, those asking Satan about God?

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Another Muslim Nurse Threatens to Murder Jewish Patients

Last year, two Muslim nurses in Australia exchanged boasts online about killing their Jewish patients, with the male nurse claiming that he had already killed several. They have both had their nursing licenses suspended and now they await sentencing for making death threats. They could receive up to 22 years in prison.

Now a similar case has made the news in the Netherlands, where a female Muslim nurse, Batisma Chayat Sa’id, has called on other nurses to kill Israeli patients, through lethal injections, has promised that she herself will do this, and implied that she has already murdered Israeli patients in the past.

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For the first time in 70 years, America opened a rare earth mine—but even with Trump’s push, breaking China’s grip on critical minerals may take decades On July 11, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Wyoming’s top elected officials were in the Cowboy state celebrating something that last happened when Dwight Eisenhower was president and the Brooklyn Dodgers won the World Series: The United States opened a rare earth mine.

Ramaco’s Brook Mine in Ranchester, Wyoming, is the first such domestic mine in 70 years. Image

Securing rare earth independence from China

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UK’s Online Safety Act is restricting speech globally; the UK government is censoring the world The UK’s Online Safety Act became fully operational in July 2025. It is being used to restrict content globally.

It has caused global and significant concerns about censorship of information that is of public interest. Technology companies are implementing broad age verification and content filtering measures to comply with the law, leading to the restriction of posts on topics like the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts, parliamentary debates on serious crimes and even historical art.

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California hospital covered up surge in stillbirths after Covid shots A whistleblower lawsuit filed in the Superior Court of California, Fresno County, accuses Community Regional Medical Center of covering up a dramatic rise in stillbirths following COVID-19 vaccination.

Nurse Michelle Spencer, who has worked at the hospital since 2017, says the spike began in spring 2021, shortly after the rollout of COVID shots. Prior to that, the hospital reportedly saw about one stillbirth per month. After the vaccine push, that number jumped to approximately 20 each month — and has remained high ever since.

According to the complaint, hospital management had access to internal data showing that nearly all the stillbirths occurred among vaccinated mothers, but suppressed that information. Spencer says the hospital left official files blank when asked to provide the data to regulators and continued to promote COVID-19 vaccines to pregnant women.

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Document Dump 'Reveals' Biden's FEMA Doled Out Aid By Voter Registration FEMA employees were so fixated on voter outreach that, when they visited hurricane-ravaged Florida last October, they didn’t even bother knocking on the doors of houses that had Trump signs in the yard.

Instead of assisting Hurricane Milton survivors, they were instructed to “avoid homes advertising Trump,” according to an Office of Special Counsel complaint.

Miranda Devine: Biden abused his authority by turning FEMA into a far-left political machine

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Can’t get more extreme: Mamdani’s DSA rallied for NORTH KOREA Yep: The DSA’s NYC chapter backed the “People’s Summit for Korea” at Riverside Church late last month, along other progressive outfits like the Party for Socialism and Liberation, even though (or because?) it glorified the grotesque North Korean state.

Somehow, admiring a dictatorship that has impoverished and starved half the Korean peninsula (even as South Korea has risen to prosperity) is part of the modern left’s “unicause,” right up there with taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries.

The rally even featured a speaker from the Palestinian Youth Movement insisting Palestinians increasingly see their movement as similar to North Korea’s, as both are engaged in battles to “dismantle a US imperialist outpost.” Image

Zohran Mamdani Opposes Charter Schools in NYC, Despite Having Attended a Private School Himself “The 33-year-old Queens assemblyman said he would fight efforts to open more charters, which largely educate minority, working-class students, and even opposed the schools sharing space in city-owned buildings.”

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Watch: Victim of Infamous Cincinnati Attack Speaks Out, Counters DEI-Supporting Police Chief's Claims Holly went on to state that she has not been contacted by either the police chief or the Cincinnati mayor, despite both weighing in on the attack. Like Theetge, Mayor Aftab Pureval seemed to suggest in his statement that the people who were beaten somehow had it coming.

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