Monday, August 17, 2026

You did not choose me, but I chose you...

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 
-John 15:16 Image

“A soul filled with large thoughts of the Vine will be a strong branch, and will abide confidently in Him. Be much occupied with Jesus, and believe much in Him, as the True Vine.”  ―Andrew Murray

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There is something spiritually wrong with liberal women. I’m not suggesting that liberalism is evil. Only that it has become the portal for the demonic possession of women. It has perverted their inherent compassion, femininity, and maternal instinct into a counterforce of darkness. So that they act and talk like demons. And seeing them do it is akin to witnessing a Witches Sabbath.
   Watch the ghastly clip of Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey last week signing a bill to legalize killing a baby up to a minute before his or her birth.

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How did the U.S. let a high-level Chinese government official buy a building next to the White House?  This is a national security failure of the highest order and needs to be remedied immediately. The question now is how to undo this situation. Screenshot

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New York Democratic Socialist Lawmaker Emily Gallagher Asserts Stealing for ‘Biological Need’ Should Not Be Illegal  New York State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher, a community organizer and a Democratic Socialist, advocated for the rights of thieves this week by contending that shoplifters should be allowed to walk off with soap and toothpaste from local stores without getting busted because they have a “biological need” for the products. She wants to legalize theft and asserts that most crime is rooted in poverty. Image


How illegals plunder American billions, in broad daylight...And how Democrats enabled every dollar plundered   Around 30 million illegals (plus natural-born citizen children) milk the entire American economy, and every handout agency in Washington, for hundreds of billions annually. Much of it is remitted to their home countries, from Mexico to China to Somalia.
   Large parts of those remittances end up in the hands of:
     -Terrorist groups, and NGOs that supply them with cash; and
     -Cartels trafficking in illegals, drugs, prostitutes, and even children.


Governments Don’t Like It When We Gather without Their Permission... Freedom of association is under attack   Today, we see freedom of association under constant attack in two separate public domains: (1) the local community and (2) the online community.

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I love the country of my birth and pray that all Iranians will be free from the heel of Islamic brutality soon. I also love my adopted country, the United States, and the freedoms that we all cherish. But I fear that Americans do not see the threat that’s already in our back yard, and will continue to elevate, enable, and elect Islamists like these and others, and end up seeing our cherished America becoming like the country of my birth.

Parents Sue School District Over Mosque Field Trip, Claim Religious Indoctrination  According to the complaint, students were allegedly coerced into participating in Islamic religious practices: donning hijabs, accepting Qurans.

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Second Ceuta Border Invasion Attempt Underway As Military-Aged Migrants Mass Near Spanish Enclave  Multiple open-source reports indicate that thousands of illegal aliens are massing near Spain's Ceuta border, raising the prospect of coordinated attempts to breach the enclave for the second time.
  If verified, the invasion attempt comes just weeks after the first round, in which more than 60,000 military-aged men attempted to breach the border. Screenshot

Nigerian court: Christian woman wrongly arrested for converting from Islam  A Federal High Court in Muslim-majority northern Nigeria has ruled that Islamic religious police have no authority to arrest a woman over her conversion from Islam to Christianity. The ruling curbs the reach of Hisbah, religious police units that enforce Sharia law.

English Villages In Fear Over 1,200 Male Migrants Moved Next To Schools  Up to 1,200 single adult male asylum seekers are earmarked for former military sites sitting within a mile of primary schools, nurseries and children's play areas, in direct tension with the Home Office's own recent guidance against housing near sensitive locations.
   The plan, revived and pressed forward under the current government, would drop large numbers of young men into high-trust, low-density rural communities that could not be more culturally distant from the backgrounds of many arrivals. The effect is to create maximum demographic shock and local fury in places least equipped to absorb it.

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Fifth Circuit Completely Roasts Biden DOE’s Stove and Oven Efficiency Rules  The court voids the rules after determining that Biden’s Energy Department improperly tried to fast-track the measure as a “direct final rule”, which is usually reserved for noncontroversial matters.

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Universities threaten students with investigations, disciplinary actions over 'deadnaming'   Deadnaming is the act of referring to a transgender- or nonbinary-identifying individual by his or her birth name rather than the name the individual currently uses after 'transitioning.'

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Saturday, August 15, 2026

I Will Wait For You (Psalm 130)

 
 I Will Wait For You (Psalm 130) 
Jordan Kauflin

Verse 1
Out of the depths I cry to You
In darkest places I will call
Incline Your ear to me anew
And hear my cry for mercy Lord

Verse 2
Were You to count my sinful ways
How could I come before Your throne
Yet full forgiveness meets my gaze
I stand redeemed by grace alone

Chorus
I will wait for You
I will wait for You
On Your word, I will rely
I will wait for You
Surely wait for You
'Til my soul is satisfied

Verse 3
So put your hope in God alone
Take courage in His pow’r to save
Completely and forever won
By Christ emerging from the grave

Chorus

Verse 4
Now He has come to make a way
And God Himself has paid the price
That all who trust in Him today
Find healing in His sacrifice

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That all who trust in Him today
Find healing in His sacrifice

Chorus

Chorus 2
I will wait for You
I will wait for You
Through the storm and through the night
I will wait for You
Surely wait for You
For Your love is my delight

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For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit...

You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. -2 Corinthians 2:2-3 Image

For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit:
For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee:
For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ
I give Thee thanks, O God.    
-John Baillie

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FBI’s Secret Christian Watchlist Exposed — 4 Things to Know Newly uncovered internal FBI emails, obtained by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) through FOIA litigation, expose what happened after the FBI’s targeting of traditionalist Christians under the Biden Administration went public — and the Bureau’s own people quietly freaked out about it in writing.

Jew Made President of Catholic Biblical Association, Will Edit Antisemitic Bible Verses  She denies Jesus is the Messiah, believes abortion and homosexuality are fine, and thinks Christians have bore false witness about the Pharisees, promising to rehab their image.

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That is what made the cackling in Healey’s office so sinister. Those women were not celebrating “prioritizing the patient.” They are celebrating a procedure that is undeniably infanticide; a procedure that involves injecting babies with heart-stopping poison; grim stillbirths; crushed skulls; severed limbs. They are celebrating hard tools tearing through soft baby flesh; tiny heads separated from bodies; small hands opening and closing as small bodies are targeted with violence. As one nurse recalled after a late-term abortion: “That baby boy had the most perfect angelic face I have ever seen.”

Catholic Group Urges MA Governor Be Excommunicated for Signing Law Legalizing Abortions Up Until Birth  Healey, a self-proclaimed Catholic, signed “An Act Prioritizing Patient Access to Care” or H.5595, which eliminates the state’s 24-week limit and allows unborn babies to be killed in abortions throughout pregnancy. The governor was surrounded by a gaggle of grinning women who applauded ecstatically as she signed the radical bill.



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DFW Airport Cancels Muslim Foot-Washing Stations in Stunning Development After TX Gov. Stance  “These ablution facilities appear designed to single out one subset of the population for special treatment based on religion. That is illegal,” Abbott added. “Both airports are government-owned facilities. The federal and state constitutions prohibit government from facilitating this sort of discrimination. Just as the government cannot favor the secular over the sacred, it also cannot favor one religious view over all others.”

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Friday, August 14, 2026

Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God...

And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us. -1 John 3:23-24  Image

A genuine Christian should be a walking mystery because he surely is a walking miracle. Through the leading and the power of the Holy Spirit, the Christian is involved in a daily life and habit that cannot be explained.  -A.W. Tozer

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Was it the COVID vaccine? How did America come to this?  What the hell happened? We have moronic Marxists telling us that capitalism is bad, despite the fact that it made the U.S. the most successful, wealthy -- and generous -- nation in history. We have Muslims telling us that we shouldn’t eat bacon, drink beer, or own dogs. We have men claiming that they are women … if they but say they are. To hell with Genesis, I guess.
   Was there a stupid gene in the COVID vaccines? Did the Plandemic break us? Or did we do it to ourselves?

No matter how much deception, camouflage, or brainwashing is employed, statism, socialism, and communism can never sustain public support. Throughout history, the Left has therefore begun by changing the rules and altering the demography — if not initially through changes to election rules, bureaucratic fiat, and biased court orders, then eventually through sheer violence.

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U.S. Launches First Multinational Attack Drone Task Force Military leaders named it Falcon Strike and expect it to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of U.S. operations.

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The closure of the Internet occurred in two distinct phases: 2015-2019 (associated with the 2015 migrant crisis, Brexit, Donald Trump’s election, and the so-called alt-right) and 2020-2022 (associated with the lockdowns and the 2020 election). Almost all of the technical and organizational infrastructure and conceptual justifications were built out in the first phase, which successfully decapitated and destroyed the previously-independent, but by definition fringe, online ecosystem of ideas. In the second phase, the same weapons that previously targeted heterodox online discourse were turned against opposition to the COVID measures du joure and mainstream conservatives. The scale of censorship has no precedent; tens of millions of accounts suppressed or banned, billions of posts removed.

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Muslim Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Killed Over a Quarter of the Dogs Put Down in the Entire Country in 2015  This is the same El-Sayed who lectures America about healthcare for all and justice for the vulnerable. Yet under his watch, helpless dogs and cats suffered in filth and died by the thousands.

Why are Muslim American Politicians Uniformly Democrats? The Unholy Alliance on full display.   They generally hold up their Muslim religion as a prominent part of their political identity, which presents somewhat of a conundrum.
   The principles and values of Islam, as far as I can tell, are in total contrast to the values and principles that define today’s Democratic Party.

Sore loser hysterics notwithstanding, there is truth to the allegation of meddlesome foreign interference in American politics. But that interference isn't coming from Israel. It's coming from terror-tied Islamic groups and Islamic governments.

The Islamization of Texas: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Installing Islamic Foot-Washing Stations Texas is being conquered by Islam from within, and it’s accelerating. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation has approved a project that will install “Wudu” (foot-washing) stations in existing concourse-level restrooms in Terminal D, with one in the men’s room and one in the women’s, at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in order to facilitate the cleansing of feet, hands, face, and arms before Muslim prayers. The project costs $300,000 and was approved on July 31.


Texas Districts See Huge Surge in H-1B Visa Filings   A new study has revealed a significant rise in H-1B visa filings in suburban Texas districts, raising potential concerns about wage suppression and job competition.



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'Maybe This Really is an Emergency': When Even Lefty Profs Complain About Unprepared Incoming Students  "Did you ever think we get to a place where the professors in the UC system are up in arms because they have so dumbed down the system, they don’t even have to take any standardized tests? So the professors, the mostly left-wing professors in the UC system are calling this out and saying, “Enough already.” If they’re doing that – Yeah, maybe this really is an emergency."

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HHS Report: Hospitals Pushed 'Gender Medicine' on Kids for Profit The report found that more than 225 hospitals and health systems established pediatric gender programs nationwide. The report also analyzes nationwide claims data from 2015 through 2025 and identifies approximately $50 million in insurance claims for puberty blockers billed using endocrine disorder diagnostic code E34.9 (Endocrine Disorder, Unspecified).

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Europe is currently in the midst of a historic drought. France's Le Monde reports that "many rivers and streams are facing critical, never-before-seen conditions," and that "several nuclear reactors had to be shut down" due to low flow rates. Water levels in the Rhine River have hit their lowest point since 1880. Boats, archaeological remains, and mines are being revealed in the Elbe and the Danube.

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Thursday, August 13, 2026

“Ask, and it will be given to you..."

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! -Matthew 7:7-11

Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also to seek from Him the very power. This happy necessity of having recourse to Him in all our wants, instead of being grievous to us, should be our greatest consolation. What a happiness is it, that we are allowed to speak to Him with confidence, to open our hearts and hold familiar conversation with him by prayer! He Himself invites us to it.  -François Fénelon

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How the Intelligence Community Tried to Scotch Biden Family Scandal in 2020  In other words, the new revelations once again show that the federal intelligence community was deliberately working to help Joe Biden win the 2020 election and oust Republicans from power — even while Donald Trump was in the White House. Indeed, before Trump took office, the intel community was already undermining him. The problem is that the overwhelming majority of the FBI, CIA, and other agencies are still staffed by the same people who were there two years ago, four years ago, and six years ago. Only a minuscule number of these people got fired. How do we know they are not going to commit another coup?

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Owner of suspiciously vacant adult daycare billed Medicaid $32M while donating to Kathy Hochul, other Dems  Kathy Hochul received $55,000 in campaign contributions from social adult daycare centers (SADCs) in fraud-plagued Flushing, Queens, records show.
   Almost half of those donations can be linked to two men: local powerbroker Baoli Zhang, and Jiemin Shang — who own two of Flushing’s biggest daycare businesses, both of which were empty of patients when visited by The Post last week. Image

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Northern Virginia High School Has a Major Antisemitism Problem  One male Jewish student reported being repeatedly targeted because he wore a kippah, which a female classmate tried to pull off his head. After a male student called him an antisemitic slur, he began covering his kippah with a baseball cap. A female Jewish student said that she was chased because she was Jewish, and other Jewish students described seeing Nazi salutes, hearing Holocaust jokes, and being told that they belonged in a gas chamber or that “Hitler should have finished the job.”...
   After Hamas attacked Israel, Jewish students at Yorktown were mocked for their faith and blamed for the resulting war, according to the report and my own reporting. They were targeted mostly by Muslim boys, the affected students said. Image

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The Latest Horror Story Out Of Canada’s ‘Free’ Healthcare System  The family of an 83-year-old devout Christian grandmother who opposed euthanasia said the elderly woman was killed through Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, a process that was initiated while her family was on a brief scheduled vacation.
   The family of Brigitte “GG” Stegemann said the grandmother strongly opposed euthanasia and told doctors she did not want to be killed after she developed Stage IV stomach cancer

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8 Examples That Demonstrate That The Islamization Of America Is Steadily Progressing  In Islam, there is no separation between mosque and state. The goal is to use the state to make everyone submit to Islam. If you want to see what this looks like, just check out almost any country in the Middle East that has a Muslim majority. They don’t believe in freedom of speech or freedom of religion. Do you want to know how many churches there are in Saudi Arabia? The answer is zero, because churches are banned in Saudi Arabia. Now this same ideology is spreading in America, and that should deeply alarm all of us.

Pakistanification of Texas Law Enforcement: How a Wealthy Pakistani Immigrant Became Constable — Then Opened the Station to Foreign Dignitaries  A wealthy Pakistani is running a Texas police station, courting foreign officials from a terrorism hub – all under a Republican ballot.
   The takeover doesn’t need tanks. It arrives in Rolls-Royces, plazas, and constable badges. Is anyone looking into this?

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Hordes of Africans, at this point overwhelmingly Muslims from North Africa, are already trying every way they can, especially on the small boats of smugglers, to land on European shores, where, instead of being immediately sent back, they are taken in and allowed to remain while their claims of being asylum seekers are considered. During this time, the government puts them up in hotels and inns, where their presence alarms the local population, who rightly fear a rise in crime, and are outraged that those “asylum seekers” are given more support from the government than is given to the indigenous poor. In addition to housing, these migrants are provided with free medical care, free education including language tuition, family allowances, and monthly amounts to pay for food and clothing. They have been in no hurry to be gainfully employed, but prefer to live on the lavish benefits that the generous welfare states of western Europe provide, and supplement that support with crimes of property — street robberies, house burglaries, shoplifting. Screenshot

Germany, France lead Europe in anti-Christian hate crimes: Woman stabbed at prayer, church desecrations  “The July data continue to demonstrate a persistent pattern of attacks affecting Christian places of worship, religious symbols, Christian communities and visible expressions of the Christian faith across Europe,” the report concluded.

The Sweden Democrats are calling for mosques that promote radical ideology to be closed, their funding cut off, and Islamists deported  The party said that Islamism poses one of the most serious threats to democracy in Sweden. At the same time, its representatives stressed that they were referring not to Islam as a religion, but to a political ideology.


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Women who defend the purpose of women’s sports get hit, both literally and figuratively. League executives and union leaders respond by policing the tone of the debate and promising more stakeholder engagement. Global governing bodies in swimming, track, and cycling have already drawn clear biological lines.
   The WNBA remains trapped in an endless loop of process and PR. Screenshot



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Wednesday, August 12, 2026

For His anger is but for a moment...

For his anger is but for a moment,
    and his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may tarry for the night,
    but joy comes with the morning.
-Psalm 30:5

We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as surely as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.  -A.W. Tozer

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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey just signed a bill allowing the killing of the unborn right up to the moment of birth. She was surrounded by a group of smiling, ecstatic, clapping and celebrating white women as she did so. Imagine getting so enthused over killing unborn babies at all stages of development.
   She even posted this on the social media: “Because in Massachusetts, we believe healthcare decisions should be made between women and their doctors.” Good grief, since when does healthcare involve killing innocent human beings? Screenshot

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Apocalypse soon... The Four Horsemen of the leftist apocalypse include Marxism, Sharia, AI, and the national debt   Many won’t like this, but there is only one truly viable way out, and we are about to pass the exit. We must return to the founding values of individual rights, a benevolent Christianity with separation of church and state, a renewed Judeo-Christian work ethic, and a renewed emphasis on gratitude rather than entitlement.


Trump Admin Drafts Visa Reforms to Reduce Displacement of American Workers by Imported Labor  The Department of Homeland Security and Department of Labor have unveiled draft regulations that would tighten visa programs, including H-1B and F-1 student visas, to prioritize American workers. Proposed changes include higher corporate fees, shorter grace periods for fired foreign workers, and stricter oversight of third-party staffing firms.


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Chinese Military Veterans Arrested for Spying on U.S. Bases  The incidents occurred near Gunsan Air Base and Camp Humphreys, two critical U.S. military installations located south of Seoul, South Korea. Gunsan is home to the U.S. 8th Fighter Wing, while Camp Humphreys is the largest U.S. military base outside continental America.

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New Report Exposes the Foreign Cash Behind ‘Extremist Climate Activist Movement’   Foreign donors have poured over $130 million into U.S.-based climate activist nonprofits, according to a new database tracking over $5 billion in foreign funding.

According to Anthropocene magazine, “because wind and solar projects are naturally intermittent, they can cause instabilities in the grid and even blackouts if dropped into the grid without changes.”

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Archaeologists find possible remains of Church that hosted the First Council of Nicaea  The discoveries also align with the fourth-century historian Eusebius of Caesarea who wrote in his Vita Constantini that the council met in a relatively modest church rather than a monumental basilica. The new foundations and floor surfaces strongly suggest that archaeologists have discovered the structure described in the historical record, said Professor Şahin. Image

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The deregulation of the abortion pill has been a disaster  Do-it-yourself abortions lead to viable babies being killed and to women suffering potentially deadly reactions to the pills. Image

What should not remain in doubt is this: America’s pandemic preparedness system failed us at the worst possible moment. Until that failure is honestly acknowledged and fully understood, the nation risks repeating the same mistakes when the next Pandemic inevitably arrives.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes...

Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes;
    and I will keep it to the end.
Give me understanding, that I may keep your law
    and observe it with my whole heart.
Lead me in the path of your commandments,
    for I delight in it.
Incline my heart to your testimonies,
    and not to selfish gain!
 -Psalm 119:33-36

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Wait, Rubio Revoked How Many Visas? Just Wait Until You See Why We'll start with the obvious: violent and dangerous crimes. Foreign nationals have lost their visas due to committing such acts as: 
-Felony kidnapping, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation of a minor
-Felony rape and sexual battery – including of a victim who was mentally disabled
-Disorderly conduct, resisting arrest with violence, drunk driving, and domestic violence
-Sodomy of a child and aggravated sexual battery
-Over a dozen counts of possessing child sexual abuse material
-Driving with heroin and a blood alcohol level more than 3x the legal limit
       But crime isn't the only thing that will get you kicked back to your home country. Multiple foreign nationals were removed for celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, including one who said "when fascists die, democrats don’t complain" and another who said Kirk "died too late."

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Democrats' Frankenstein Turns: Communist Ghost Dance Now Set To Devour The Party  You are surely aware that the entire regular agenda of the Democratic Party has for some time been patently insane. They are still wasting the nation’s patience with debates over the self-evident idiocy of men in women’s sports, resistance to the deportation of illegal immigrants, and their obviously evil opposition to voter ID. Communism is just the icing on that fruitcake. The recent primary election victories of such prodigies as Abdul El-Sayed, Melat Kiros, and Darializa Avila Chevalier, along with the ongoing capers of Mayor Zohran Mamdani pretending to govern New York City, must be giving the old guard the vapors.

When the Left cannot win within the rules, it changes the rules—and when that fails, it changes the people who make them.

Democrats Are Going to Try to Distance Themselves From Their Woke Policies. Don't Let Them.  None of them have changed their views. They are lying and moderating to win the next election. Everything they believe — from abolishing the Senate to prisons to the police — will come back in full force if they regain power.
   We cannot let them regain power. They'll destroy America if they do.

The DNC is $2 million in debt and mortgaged its own headquarters for a $15 million loan, while the RNC has stockpiled over $128 million.

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An investigation into surveillance equipment fitted to Royal Navy unmanned vessels has raised concerns over military supply-chain security after cameras containing Chinese-made components were found communicating with an internet address in China.

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Young Americans Are Not Alright As Marijuana Becomes the Most Commonly Used Drug  And what about the physical problems that come from daily cannabis use? As noted above, there's been a significant uptick in hospital visits attributed to cannabis consumption. Other side effects are easily predictable. Like the study of 11,000 teenagers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine that found adolescents who begin using cannabis have slower gains in memory, attention, and thinking skills over time compared to their non-cannabis-using counterparts. What happens to those same teens as they get older and try to function normally in life? In extreme cases, you get the streets of New York City or San Francisco.

“The percentage of U.S. adults who currently take GLP-1 medications for weight loss purposes has risen to 11% in 2026, up significantly from 3% in 2024. And 15% report having used the medicine for weight loss at some point, an increase of nine percentage points…

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