Thursday, June 18, 2026

"Blessed are you..."

“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. -Matthew 5:11-12

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The MOU “reaffirms that [Iran] shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons.” Notably, the U.S. will also start “the removal of its naval blockade and any disturbances or impediments against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and will fully end the Naval blockade within 30 days.”

American Workers Now Winning As Illegal Immigration Slows  The Trump administration's immigration crackdown was initially couched in terms of crime, as in the president's vow to expel the worst first. But we are seeing now the economic benefits of controlled immigration as well: Housing costs beginning to drop, wages beginning to rise. That's a key message for the midterms.

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Woke is Striking Out—Even in San Francisco   Americans will no longer cower and kowtow to people who want to ridicule, bully, “cancel,” and ultimately exclude them in the name of “inclusion.” They have already struck out.


The Curious Case of California's 'LGBT-Owned' Business Certification Program Californians don’t need an energy system delivered by gay contractors; they need an energy system that works. Utility regulators should be in the business of regulating utilities, not verifying contractors’ sexual preferences. Companies should award contracts based on competence, quality, and cost—not the sexuality of the business owners.

It’s long past time that gays settle down. Stop asking the nation to indulge your preoccupations and preferences. They’ve come to resent it. Public opinion is now turning against the gays. After decades of climbing acceptance, approval of same-sex relations has taken a nearly 10-point dip since 2022. Support for same-sex marriage is trending downward.
   The rainbow thuggery isn’t cute anymore. 

Two Americas: Black Rednecks and Karmelo Anthony — and Civilization The greater mass of people must say, in no uncertain terms, that if you embrace this culture, we’ll have nothing to do with you. We won’t do business with you or hire you; you’ll be scorned and ostracized.

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GOP moves to ‘stop climate shakedowns,’ block Democrat-led states and cities from going after oil companies  The judicial system has been "weaponized against American energy producers," Sen. Ted Cruz said.

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New Inquiry Reveals the Terrifying Truth About Muslim Atrocities Against UK Girls and Women   We have learned that no fewer than 250,000 white women and girls, and likely more, were raped and tortured in the UK by "Asian grooming gangs," which is a phrase used to lead people into thinking the attackers aren't who they largely are: Muslim gang rapists.
   We learned that former Prime Minister Tony Blair exacerberated what was already a problem by importing millions of Muslims throughout the UK. Keir Starmer, then the director of public prosecutions, let 13,000 gang rapists and pedophiles walk out of court with nothing more than a strongly worded warning. All the while, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, a Muslim, pretended the crimes weren't happening.

The Media's Silence on the recently published Rape Gang Inquiry: Fake News by Omission  ...the silence is deafening and Google seems to be suppressing searches related to the report: independent and crowd funded and organised by Restore Britain. A final insult to victims.


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Yet there is one place where Pride remains dominant: progressive parishes in the Church of England. Wandering back to my hotel from a visit to Hatchards bookshop, I was struck by a church noticeboard advertising not merely a month of Pride-affirming liturgics but a whole year’s worth. A Q&A with “the next generation of queer priests” in March (tickets available for a mere £5); a queer movie night in April; an evening of LGBTQ questions for clergy in May, followed by a screening of the film Pride; a Pride service in June; a drag performance and then another queer service in July; a Drag Sports Day in August; another Pride service in September; an evening denouncing conversion therapy in October; another queer movie night in November; and in December, a queer Christmas Carol Service where the public is invited to join the congregation to “celebrate the Nativity through song, blending its beauty with iconic queer anthems—from Cher to Ariana, Bowie to Gaga—for a truly unforgettable night.” A month is clearly not enough for this parish as it hijacks the rainbow from God’s promise to Noah and attaches it to human confusion for a whole year. Image

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Three U.S. states have introduced legislation targeting COVID-19 mRNA injections  A major political and medical controversy is gaining national attention after lawmakers in three U.S. states introduced legislation related to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
   The proposals, introduced in Minnesota, Tennessee, and Arizona, are drawing intense debate among lawmakers, medical professionals, researchers, and citizens across the country.
   Supporters of the legislation argue that serious questions remain about the safety, oversight, and long-term effects of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2026

I waited patiently for the Lord...

I waited patiently for the Lord;
    he inclined to me and heard my cry.
He drew me up from the pit of destruction,
    out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
    making my steps secure.
He put a new song in my mouth,
    a song of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear,
    and put their trust in the Lord.

Blessed is the man who makes
    the Lord his trust,
who does not turn to the proud,
    to those who go astray after a lie!
You have multiplied, O Lord my God,
    your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us;
    none can compare with you!
I will proclaim and tell of them,
    yet they are more than can be told.
-Psalm 40:1-5

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The privately funded Rape Gang Inquiry Report alleges that political sensitivities, institutional failures, and missed investigations allowed abuse networks to operate across much of the UK  The report examines Britain’s rape gang scandal, a series of cases uncovered in towns and cities across England in which groups of men, largely of Pakistani Muslim heritage, sexually exploited underage girls, often over many years. Previous official investigations in places including Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford, and Telford found repeated failures by police, social services, schools, and local authorities to intervene despite numerous warnings.
   According to the report, those failures were not isolated incidents but part of a nationwide pattern. The inquiry claims to have identified evidence of grooming gang activity in at least 149 local authority areas across the United Kingdom and argues that organised networks used similar methods regardless of location.

Europe's Rape Crisis: What Islamic Sources Actually Say  That is the truth of the matter. The mass sexual slavery and enforced prostitution of little girls by gangs of Muslim men and the mass rape of women and girls across Europe by Muslim migrants is founded in the institution of Islam. A virulent, hyper-sexualized supremacist ideology that views non-Muslims as chattel for slavery and sexual abuse.
    Until we confront the hideous truth that Islam has a rape problem—and confront it we must—the sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, and mass rape of European women and girls will continue.

Here Comes Herr Starmer's Next Blow Against Liberty  -safety is the sales pitch, but control is the product.

The UK Goes Full Dystopia As Parts of Europe (Finally) Begin to Fight the New World Goblins  The UK has recently been rocked by brutal, racist attacks against white people, but to the Leninian lizard person currently desquamating inside 10 Downing St, PM Keir Starmer, the problem isn't the third-world savages slicing and dicing caucasians like they're Waffle House hash browns; it's Elon Musk and his pesky free-speech platform, X, that has to go.

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School Pays $95,000 After Punishing Student for Charlie Kirk Tribute  ADF Senior Counsel Travis Barham said the incident was a blatant free speech violation. "Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools should be ashamed at how it treated Gabby. She did everything right, and they did everything wrong. She got permission, and she painted an uplifting message of faith. They censored her speech, publicly denounced her, and then punished her for expressing her views," he said in a statement to Fox.

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Gay Couple Convicted of Murder and Sexual Abuse of Adopted Infant   The case has raised serious questions about the adoption and child protection systems, as Preston’s abuse began almost immediately after Varley and McGowan-Fazakerley adopted him. It was noted that social workers and medical staff were aware of Preston’s suspicious injuries but failed to intervene effectively. In response to Preston’s death, an independent Child Safeguarding Practice Review has been launched to investigate the systemic failures leading to his death.

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Southern California’s San Andreas Fault is at its highest stress level in 1,000 years sparking fear among researchers   "Our results show that stress levels on multiple fault segments are now at or above the highest values seen in the past millennium and that the region may be capable of a large through-going rupture involving both fault systems," she said.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2026

For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus...

For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfille

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Massive Domestic Terrorism Plot Against UFC Freedom 250 Thwarted by FBI  The plan, officials said, called for explosive-laden drones to strike buildings near the event in order to trigger a mass evacuation, funneling terrified attendees toward a pre-positioned sniper team.
    A “second wave” was then intended to storm the White House gate itself. Image

FBI disrupts alleged explosive-drone plot targeting White House UFC event, officials say  Five people were in custody as of Monday, and investigators identified 23 people as part of a potential network of plotters. The alleged plan involved using explosive-laden drones to hit buildings near the event, force a mass evacuation and steer crowds toward a pre-staged sniper team, officials said.

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Why Americans Are Falling Out Of Love With LGBT ‘Pride’  Same-sex marriage is not on the rocks — yet. But the LGBT triumphalism of a few years ago is receding. Support for same-sex relationships is dropping, businesses are less inclined to pay for “pride” festivities, and Republican leaders are reclaiming June from the rainbow

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Starmer announces intention to implement facial recognition and digital ID to access social media   The UK government, reinforced by Keir Starmer at a press conference today, has announced its intention to ban social media access to under-16s from early next year.
   The ban will be enforced using facial recognition software and digital IDs.  To enable this, everyone wishing to use social media will be subject to facial recognition and digital IDs. Image

Child protection is an excuse for the super-surveillance of everyone  State elites have become extraordinarily skilled at presenting themselves as humanity’s guardians. They portray citizens not as individuals capable of exercising judgment but as wards requiring permanent supervision. The role of government is no longer merely to enforce the law and protect basic rights. Increasingly, it seeks to manage behaviour, shape choices and regulate feelings. Every social problem becomes an invitation for intervention. Every intervention becomes a justification for further intervention. The proposed restrictions on children’s access to social media fit neatly into this pattern.

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In sum, import poverty; romanticize illegal immigration; demonize the middle class; drive out private-sector capital; and exempt elites from the consequences of their own ideology—and you’re left with a state where democracy dies, along with everything else.

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Toronto church: The Most Disturbing Offering Collection You'll Ever See  Drag queen collects offering during Canadian church service and places cash in bra.

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Monday, June 15, 2026

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven..."

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
    and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
    giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
    it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
    and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it."
-Isaiah 55:10-11

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Trump Announces Peace Deal with Iran Is Complete Obviously, there's still work ahead. And there’s reason to be skeptical of Iran because this is a regime with a long history of buying time while running out the clock. But, we aren’t sending them plane-loads of cash in the dark of night, or giving them a path to nuclear weapons, as Barack Obama did.
   And that’s the key here. Trump built in verification.


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The Face of Modern Britain: Jihad’s Triumph  Britain’s leaders celebrate multiculturalism even as the ideology reshaping the nation grows increasingly hostile to the civilization that welcomed it.

Islamic attacks on innocents know no bounds.

Belfast Is Burning, and the Media Won't Say Why  The pattern is not difficult to discern. A horrific crime, or series of crimes, is committed. The perpetrator is a migrant, often some variety of "asylum" seeker. The government responds by condemning the violence of an enraged public while studiously avoiding any reckoning with the underlying policies that generated the crime and the inevitable subsequent rage. The Pravda press dutifully follows the official, regime-approved script.

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Biden and Becerra’s Border Policies Enabled the Largest Child Trafficking Operation in American History  The irony cuts deep. Progressive politicians and media spent years condemning border enforcement as cruelty. They manufactured outrage over basic detention facilities equipped with education and recreation. Yet when thousands of migrant children were pressed into modern-day servitude — working dangerous jobs or sold for sex — the same voices fell mute.
   Protecting children, it seems, only mattered when it scored political points against conservatives.


Ordinary citizens in western countries are being lectured to and shamed by leftists because we object to vast numbers of immigrants from second and third-world countries.

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400 Businesses With $6 Billion in Fed Contracts Had No Physical Addresses  For too many years, Ferguson declared, "dishonest citizens, and tons and tons of foreigners and foreign governments, have been putting their hands into the pockets of ordinary and honest Americans and taking that money from them, and President Trump is the first president to take this problem seriously, and that's why the task force is being successful."


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Detroit Sisters Charged After Violent Restaurant Attack Over Wrong Food Order   The worker, whose name has not been released, reportedly tried to flee, but prosecutors say the sisters chased her around the restaurant before one of them, Kierianna, stabbed her in the stomach.
   The victim then ran outside and sought shelter in a stranger’s vehicle, calling 911 while bleeding heavily.
   The employee was rushed to a nearby hospital where emergency surgery was performed.

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Two-thirds of colleges require DEI courses to graduate: report  Additionally, the report found that ”students are subjected to courses advocating far-left ideological perspectives and pushing far-left political advocacy.”

A New Study Just Confirmed the Left's Worst-Kept Secret  Decades of research have shown that political conservatives report better mental health and greater happiness than their counterparts on the left. A new study published in the journal Political Behavior takes that finding a step further, finding that “mental illness is emerging as its own political identity and is most heavily aligned with leftist political ideology and causes,” and that it clusters heavily among younger, far-left Americans.

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The Lockdown Dissidents 
Wall Street Journal

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Saturday, June 13, 2026

A Thousand Hallelujahs...

 
A Thousand Hallelujahs 
 Brooke Ligertwood

Who else would rocks cry out to worship
Whose glory taught the stars to shine
Perhaps creation longs to have the words to sing
But this joy is mine
 
With a thousand hallelujahs
We magnify Your Name
You alone deserve the glory
The honor and the praise
Lord Jesus this song is forever Yours
A thousand hallelujahs
And a thousand more
 
Who else would die for our redemption
Whose resurrection means I’ll rise
There isn’t time enough to sing of all You’ve done
But I have eternity to try
  
Praise to the Lord
To the Lamb
To the King of heaven
Praise for He rose
Now He reigns
We will sing forever
 
(We sing) Praise to the Lord
To the Lamb
To the King of heaven
Praise for He rose
Now He reigns
We will sing forever

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Friday, June 12, 2026

Living stones...

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 
-1 Peter 2:4-5 Image

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Feds Take First Step in Dismantling Los Angeles' Homeless Industrial Complex, Cutting Funds to LAHSA   The White House fraud task force, through the Department of Housing and Urban Development, has cut off funding to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) effective immediately pending an investigation by HUD's inspector general, accusing the agency of "obvious fraud" and "wanton mismanagement."

ICE Touts Conviction of Criminal Aliens in Deadly Pharmaceutical Scheme  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is celebrating the conviction of two criminal aliens who were engaged in a massive scam to manufacture and distribute fake pharmaceuticals. The scheme killed at least one American.
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The Truth Is Simple: Democrats Don’t Care About Anything but Gaining Power  The only conclusion that can be drawn about the way Democrat voters operate is that they will hitch their wagon to anyone, no matter how vile, creepy, scuzzy, or disgusting, if they think they can win. And any party that will try to win with people like that is, well, a party you have to do anything necessary to make sure they don’t get within a Rory McIlroy tee shot of power. Image

Black Activism in America Has Become Cultural Poison  The interesting thing about the political left and minority movements in general is that they reveal their hand every time they suffer a loss, as much as when they celebrate a win.  These are frothing and rabidly emotional groups and they cannot control themselves in the slightest.  With the sentencing of Karmelo Anthony for the murder of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, the “champions” of civil rights are out in force threatening mob violence, attacks on innocent white bystanders and they are calling for more murders.


CAIR Threatens Chicago-Area University For Allowing Conservative Event On Campus  A Lutheran university in the suburbs of Chicago should rescind its decision to let a Christian group use its facilities for a political event, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Chicago chapter.
   Specifically, CAIR wants to see Concordia University cancel the event because of the presence of Megan Basham, a Daily Wire reporter, and Robert Spencer, an Islam critic who runs Jihad Watch.

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Belfast Faces Brutal Awakening as Multicultural Dreams Collide With Harsh Reality  For years, officials and media outlets promoted the notion that importing large numbers from culturally distant regions would enrich society without friction. The events in Belfast suggest that illusion is cracking.
   Working-class neighborhoods, often the first to absorb the impacts of rapid demographic change, bore the brunt once again. Asylum hostels placed in these areas—far from the insulated enclaves of policymakers—have become flashpoints. Image

After Beheading Attempt In Ireland, New York Times Says The Real ‘Violence’ Is From Right-Wingers  Rather than show concern for the victims and bystanders of such violent crimes, the Times focuses more on the worries of immigrants: “Immigrant communities in Northern Ireland said they were living in fear.” Never mind the fear of native citizens who don’t recognize their own country anymore and are banned from noticing that it’s not the native-born who are most likely to commit these kinds of barbaric crimes.

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C.S. Lewis Warned Us That Dark Forces Would Distort the Meaning of 'Democracy' and 'Equality'   C.S. Lewis is the most effective Christian apologist in the modern era, and by that I mean the last 200 years or so. Perhaps his most effective work is The Screwtape Letters, which was written from the perspective of an imaginary demon (Screwtape) instructing his nephew (Wormwood) on how to seal the eternal fate of his “patient.” Lewis found no joy in writing it. He confessed, “The world into which I had to project myself while I spoke through Screwtape was all dust, grit, thirst, and itch. Every trace of beauty, freshness, and geniality had to be excluded. It almost smothered me before it was done.” Image

The Hype About Aliens, UAPs, And ‘Disclosure’ Isn’t What It Appears To Be  After all, if Christianity is true, in all its awesomeness and wonder, then what is the more likely explanation for UAPs? That they are the alien spacecraft of Spielberg’s science fiction, or that they are manifestations of spiritual beings created by God, who have rebelled against heaven? If the latter, then any such beings who come promising salvation, or a new era for humanity, or anything at all, should be understood for what they are: not benign creatures from an enlightened star, but the ancient enemies of mankind, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

As the aphorism goes: “Man plans; God laughs.” Steve Spielberg is but a man, like the rest of us.

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Auschwitz-Birkenau: The Silence, the Horror, and the Duty to Remember Don’t forget you are walking on the same ground as the millions murdered by the Germans.

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Thursday, June 11, 2026

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more...

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. 
-Philippians 1:9-11

There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.  -St. Augustine

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Terrorists & Nazis & Satanists, Oh My! Democrats’ Gallery of Rogues Shocks the Conscience  What do a plastic surgeon with links to Al Qaeda, an oyster fisherman with a Nazi tattoo, a former bandmate of a child sex offender, and a Lutheran minister who took part in a satanic wedding have in common? They’re all Democrat candidates for Congress in this November’s midterm elections.

Jasmine Crockett’s Vile Comments About Austin Metcalf   Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), one of the most morally despicable stooges in Congress, claimed murdered teen Austin Metcalf’s family have never suffered as she suffers for being black, and that killer Karmelo Anthony was justified in randomly stabbing Metcalf to death.

Democrats Defend Giving SPLC Police Power To Target Conservatives With Impunity  The SPLC was able to ‘de-platform, de-bank, and deny services to every single organization on that hate map.’

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In George Orwell's 1984, Great Britain was just a province of Oceania named "Airstrip One" as a none-too-subtle nod to the U.K.'s role as host to the heavy bombers of U.S. Eighth Air Force during World War II.
    Four decades past the real 1984, and there's still no Oceania. But Britain looks more and more like Airstrip One as Parliament considers a bill opening up everyone's smartphone to government supervision — and jail time for tech execs who don't submit.

The murder of Henry Nowak and cultural Marxism   For decades, cultural Marxism has run rampant through our institutions.
   This week, the world watched an officer dragging Henry Nowak across the floor as he died. The police officer, in the moment, failed to take seriously Henry’s claim to have been stabbed. He was needlessly handcuffed. His murderer stood over him, complaining of a swollen eye. He died on the floor.
   It was the moment that the world woke up to the danger of cultural Marxism.

How would you describe a culture where women are flogged in public for “inappropriate dress?” A culture where one woman suffered 40 lashes from a leather whip for the crime of wearing trousers and a T-shirt? A culture where a man who lies with a man risks being whipped a hundred times before being put in a dank cell for five years? A culture where apostasy is considered such an abominable sin that even a heavily pregnant woman could be sentenced to death for supposedly committing it?
The good people of Belfast are well within their rights to ask whether men from such a culture should be living on their streets.
   Personally, I would call such a culture “alien.” In fact, I would call it backward, regressive, inhuman and morally inferior to the freer, more forgiving culture we Brits are lucky to live in. Why, then, was the unionist MP Jim Allister rebuked in the UK House of Commons yesterday for suggesting that the bloodletting maniac in Belfast heralded from an “alien culture?” For all of the primitive punishments listed above, all that state barbarism, took place in the nation where he was reportedly born: Sudan.

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‘It's only a matter of national security.’ America Workforce Academy’s mission to fill the workforce gap  In April, the property services firm JLL issued a report showing that by 2030, 2.1 million skilled trades positions for electricians, HVAC technicians, plumbers, welders, pipe fitters, and equipment operators were at a high risk of going unfilled. These are the key jobs needed to build homes, offices, buildings, energy infrastructure, and artificial intelligence data power centers.
   Some raw facts from the American Builders and Contractors Association are even more chilling: 39% of electricians in this country were 45 years old or older. Another disturbing stat: for every five plumbers leaving the workforce, only two apprentices are entering. As Baby Boomers age out, the industry faces an estimated shortage of up to 550,000 plumbers, according to the Merrow Report.

College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read   “What I am seeing in my classroom is no longer a hunch,” Jagt writes. “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires.”
   Pupils arriving unable to read is an increasingly common complaint from college-level educators amid the explosion of generative AI.

We knew students were unprepared, and we sent them on to fail   More than a thousand University of California faculty, led by Berkeley mathematicians, signed an open letter calling for a return to SAT/ACT testing for applicants to STEM majors. They say they're reteaching middle-school math to Calculus 1 students.
   It's no surprise to Elizabeth Statmore, who teaches at San Francisco's Lowell High, the largest single feeder to the UC system.  Every year, she finds herself teaching very basic math -- fractions, the distributive property, exponents and roots -- to her high-achieving students, she writes in Voice of San Francisco. These holes in their knowledge will sink them in college STEM classes.

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