Friday, November 14, 2025

Receive every day as a resurrection from death...

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator. -William Law

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Referencing Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Trump deserves credit for being the man in the arena striving valiantly to restore American greatness, defend Western Civilization, adhere to classical liberalism, and esteem normalcy and common sense.  Apparently, Mr. Trump was very busy during the four years the autopen was being exercised extensively.  In this second presidential term, he has hit the ground running with a comprehensive program replete with detailed planning.  Individuals committed to putting American interests first have been staffed to execute this program quickly.

Justice Gorsuch: ‘The Greatest Danger America Faces Today’ Is ‘Itself’  ‘Thomas Jefferson said an ignorant people will never remain free for long, and he’s right,’ Justice Gorsuch said.

The United Nations (UN) reported in October that member governments are very likely to fall short of a goal to double by this year public financing to help countries “adapt to climate impacts.” 
   Whether the U.N. or Dutton realizes this or not, what they’re saying is essentially that the climate change slush fund that’s used to grease the palms of greedy, corrupt, and power-hungry tyrants around the globe is going dry.

Humiliated Dems Forced to Delete Latest False Claim About Epstein and Trump  Democrats were left with a heaping helping of egg on their face after another attempt to link President Trump to Jeffrey Epstein failed, forcing them to scramble to delete the flimsy "evidence" involving their latest baseless claim.
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Historical proof that today's public schools are nothing but indoctrination mills poisoning minds  In 1909, the goal of the public schools was to teach kids knowledge, real information that kids could use to become good and productive adults in a mature society. In 2025, the goal of the public schools is to indoctrinate. Real information is irrelevant and is in fact avoided at all costs. Instead, what is pounded into the kids’ heads is Marxist anti-American racist ideology, designed to make them hate their country while knowing as little about its history as possible.
   I’ll say it again: If you have children, home school them. And if they are presently in public schools get them out as quickly as possible. The public schools are not only failing to teach them anything worthwhile, it is poisoning their brains with very bad ideas that have routinely led to poverty, starvation, and the murder of millions.

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13 Tons of Cocaine Headed for U.S. Seized from Ferry In Pacific, Panama Says Villareal explained that Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, and Nicaraguans were among those arrested from the ferry, which was heading to the United States from Colombia, CBS News noted.

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On college campuses and on the liberal side of the political nexus, support for non-violent opposition to Israel gave way to support for Oct 7 and the violent mass murder of Jews. After being initially greeted with polite revulsion, the terrorist side, including Zohran Mamdani, won the argument with the moral pragmatism of genocide lies. Accuse Israel enough of the worst crimes and suddenly no tactic, including rape and burning children alive, will seem too awful. Screenshot-Catholic church converted to a mosque

Texans Rise in Josephine: Citizens Push Back Against the Rebranded EPIC City — Now Called ‘The Meadows’   After being ‘halted’ in name only, the Islamic-centered EPIC City has quietly resurfaced as ‘The Meadows,’ proving that while Texas leaders stalled, the developers advanced — and now the fight to protect North Texas communities has fallen squarely on the shoulders of the citizens themselves. 

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Dependence Is a Choice: How Trump Reasserted America’s Control Over Energy It was an apparent contradiction: you can't talk about climate ambition while importing barrels from nations with weaker environmental standards, and build a secure economy while ignoring the resources sitting beneath stable American ground. President Trump called attention to that contradiction and moved to fix it.


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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Set your minds on things that are above...

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.  Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.  For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. -Colossians 3:1-4 Image

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Six House Democrats crossed the aisle...

By shutting down the government for more than a month to protect Obamacare, Democrats may have opened the door to its repeal. That would be a fitting ending to the failure they birthed 15 years ago.

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Confronting Anti-Ellis Island Immigration -VD Hanson Ellis Island built a nation through law and order; Biden’s border chaos dismantled it with lawlessness, division, and the greatest illegal influx in U.S. history.

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The Speed At Which Federal Judges Are Waging Lawfare To Stop The Trump Administration is Jaw-Dropping  Worried that your federal lawsuit will drag on for years? No problem -- just add the Trump Administration as a defendant and the judges will drop everything else to rule in your favor.

There are roughly seven hundred federal district court judges. When they insist on exercising a veto power over the president of the United States, they warp the Constitution’s structure by elevating the will of unelected judges above the discretion of an elected president.

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US Catholic bishops vote to officially prohibit gender transition treatment at Catholic hospitals  Most Catholic healthcare institutions have not offered gender transition treatment, including hormonal, psychological and surgical treatments.
   "With regard to the gender ideology, I think it’s very important the church makes a strong statement here," Bishop Robert Barron of Minnesota’s Winona-Rochester diocese said during the public discussion of the revised directives.
   The Catholic Health Association thanked the bishops for incorporating much of its feedback into the new directives.

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Self-Described Communist, Anti-Israel Cornell Student Elected to Ithaca Common Council  The student doubled down on her commitment to ensuring Ithaca remains a ‘sanctuary city’ for ‘immigrants, those seeking gender-affirming care, and [those seeking] reproductive care.’

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The WaPo’s admission about Zohran Mamdani’s dark side comes a bit too late “Across 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics and seething with resentment,” the editorial says, Mamdani made clear that he wants to identify “class enemies” — like landlords, and “bosses” who exploit workers — and set about “crushing them.” 
   His goal, it notes, isn’t to increase wealth, but to redistribute it to his supporters. He didn’t mention “growth” once.


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How MSU’s mandated DEI course trains future teachers in conformity The required textbook for the course says to 'save education' is to find 'new ways to resist, new ways to agitate, new ways to maintain order and safety that abolishes prisons, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.'
   'Three fourths of Michigan kids can’t read at grade level,' Michigan State Senator Aric Nesbitt told Campus Reform. 'The next generation of teachers need to be focused on teaching the ABC's, not DEI.'



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A penny short: US mints final 1-cent coins after over 230 years in circulation  The final penny was minted on Wednesday at the Philadelphia Mint after over 230 years in circulation as a useful coin flip device, a vehicle to cast wishes into lucky ponds and the smallest form of U.S. currency...According to the U.S. Treasury Department, the cost of producing a single penny has more than doubled in the past 10 years, to 3.69 cents.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Let the heavens be glad...

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice,
    and let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!”
 Let the sea roar, and all that fills it;
    let the field exult, and everything in it!
 Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy
    before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth.
 Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
    for his steadfast love endures forever!
 -1 Chronicles 16:31-34

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Even the Liberal Media Is Admitting That Obamacare Is a Failure  For years, Democrats sold Obamacare as a moral crusade that would make healthcare cheaper and fairer for everyone. Instead, premiums exploded, deductibles skyrocketed, and coverage got worse. When even CNN pundits are conceding that people can’t afford their insurance “even with subsidies,” the illusion of success is crumbling. No amount of spin can hide the reality that Obamacare’s signature achievement — affordability — never materialized.

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Mamdani’s Victory Proves Mass Legal Migration Is Just As Dangerous As Illegal Migration  No matter how great our principles sound, they mean nothing to a population that doesn’t understand or value them.


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New Alliance, Old Scandal: The COVID Failure Haunting Hochul   Gov. Kathy Hochul’s new “nonpartisan” health alliance masks a partisan agenda—and revives memories of New York’s deadly nursing home scandal and years of cover-ups. Image

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The digital Reich: how America forgot the lessons of 'Never Again' Eighty years after Auschwitz, America has reinvented propaganda with hashtags, algorithms; political extremes now mirror each other and same tactics Holocaust education was meant to end are once again shaping the American mind. Image



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Meanwhile, the consequences of unchecked migration and non-assimilation are playing out on the streets of increasingly dangerous British cities. Most of the migrants arriving in Britain are from places like Eritrea, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Somalian — societies that have very different views of civic life and of civilization itself. Most of them are Muslim, and upon their arrival they are absorbed into one of Britain’s many growing unassimilated Muslim communities — in Birmingham, Bedford, and parts of London like Tower Hamlets. These are places that only bear a faint resemblance to what they were 20 years ago thanks to mass immigration.

Instead, Penstone bemoaned the sorry state of freedom in a censorship-addicted United Kingdom in which actual “thought police” arrest Brits for expressing opinions.  “What we fought for was our freedom.  We find that even now, it’s a darn sight worse than what it was when I fought for it.”  Boom!  The ol’ salty dog managed to knock out both co-hosts with just a few blunt words and direct eye contact.


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A 20-year-old Iraqi migrant who had previously served prison sentences for drug offenses was discovered to have filmed and mocked elderly dementia patients while employed as a caregiver at a municipal care home in Ängelholm, southern Sweden.


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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

The path of the righteous is level...

The path of the righteous is level;
    you make level the way of the righteous.
 In the path of your judgments,
    O Lord, we wait for you;
your name and remembrance
    are the desire of our soul.
 My soul yearns for you in the night;
    my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
For when your judgments are in the earth,
    the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
     -Isaiah 26:7-9

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Anchorage School District Puts Disclaimer Distancing Itself From the Viewpoints in Our Founding Documents "What does it mean when a government-funded institution refuses to endorse our country’s Supreme Law of the Land and the documents forming the basis of our national identity? Not only did Anchorage School District refuse to endorse the American Constitution and Declaration of Independence but took pains to sticker an “Anchorage School District does not endorse the materials or viewpoints expressed in them” disclaimer on the documents. Such a blatant attack on our most foundational documents which detail America’s most dearly held values and shapes the American identity requires explanation."
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New York City Enters a Death Spiral as Hundreds of Thousands of Law-Abiding Citizens Prepare to Flee   Those that wanted to “fundamentally transform” America have largely succeeded, and now a 34-year-old Islamic communist that wasn’t even a U.S. citizen a decade ago is going to be the next mayor of New York City.
   The largest city in the United States is about to descend into a state of complete and utter chaos, and everyone can see that this is a story that is not going to have a happy ending.

The attempt to “elevate Muslims” in American history will simply be the next step in the Left’s road to deflate Judaism and Christianity from influence in the country.


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California is hurtling toward the gas panic of ’25 because it has been at war with fossil fuel for decades. In the case of motor fuel, “the state legislature has disincentivized the production, distribution, and refining of oil in California,” says Ring, while “cities and counties have followed suit.”
   Two refineries are closing their facilities, the companies that own them having determined that it’s become too difficult to do business in California, which is hostile to energy companies that aren’t sucking up taxpayer-provided dollars to build politically preferred solar and wind projects.
  “By this time next year,” says the Pacific Research Institute, “there might not be even a dozen refineries left in the state to produce the 38 million gallons of California’s boutique blend that’s consumed every day.”

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What I Saw And Heard In Washington: Groyperism's Spread Among Generation Z Conservative Apparatchiks Is Real-Rod Dreher  The inability of us older people — Boomers, Xers, and older Millennials — to comprehend the world through the eyes of Zoomers is a big, big problem. Another strong theme: while it’s important to take a clear stand against anti-Semitism in the ranks, there is no way to gatekeep our way out of this. You cannot simply point at the Zoomers and say, “Thou shalt not,” and expect it to work. The problems are too deep and complex, and anyway, they have learned to have no respect for authority. Image

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The Mood of the Nation survey, published in February 2025, found that 73% of adult respondents are dissatisfied with the quality of public education in the U.S. It is the highest dissatisfaction rate since the survey began in 2001.
   Government (public) schools have failed most students by every key measure. Across five metrics, including suicide, major depression, suicidal thoughts, mental distress, and days in poor mental health, young people suffering has increased substantially since 2011. One quarter of individuals who identify as transgender are between the ages of 13 and 17. Research findings add to the growing body of evidence showing the importance of school climate and its association with student mental health.

Meet the American Educational Organization Accrediting CCP Bureaucrats  The accrediting body for public service programs in the United States, the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration, accredits public policy schools in China and other authoritarian states. Why?

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Peer-Reviewed Study in Germany CRUSHES the COVID-19 Narrative Around PCR Tests Accuracy The principal finding from our analysis of ALM data on both nucleic acid amplification (PCR from mucosal swabs) and IgG antibody (serological) testing for SARS-CoV-2 in Germany between mid-March 2020 and summer 2021 is this: only 14%—and possibly even fewer, down to 10%—of individuals identified as SARS-CoV-2-positive via PCR testing were actually infected, as evidenced by detectable IgG antibodies.

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Meanwhile, biblical illiteracy is growing. In 2022, a comprehensive survey found that 26 percent of evangelicals think the Bible is more made-up than historical (up 9 percent since 2016); 56 percent think God accepts the worship of every religion (up 8 percent since 2016); and from 2020 to 2022, 13 percent more evangelicals agreed with the statement “Jesus was a great teacher, but he was not God.” How much these stats have to do with our collective brain rot is unclear, but it’d be naive to think the two are unconnected.

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Liberals vs. Conservatives Family Dinner Battle

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Sunday, November 09, 2025

O you who love the Lord, hate evil!

O you who love the Lord, hate evil!
    He preserves the lives of his saints;
    he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
 Light is sown for the righteous,
    and joy for the upright in heart.
 Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous,
    and give thanks to his holy name!
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Democrats Finally Caved and Lost Everything in the Shutdown Showdown The deal is simple. Schumer’s caucus agreed to advance a package of spending bills that will reopen the government and extend funding through January.
   That’s it.
   No sweeping policy concessions, no big wins tucked into the fine print, no “historic framework” or “moral victory.” Just a basic continuing resolution, dressed up with some boilerplate back pay for furloughed workers and funding for food assistance through next fall. In other words, exactly what Republicans had put on the table before the Democrats decided to make a scene.


The Race for the Trump Economy...VD Hanson  Trump’s first-year economy is surging, but the race ahead hinges on perception, messaging, and whether voters see the boom before the 2026 midterms

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New York City Braces for Police Exodus, Thanks to Zohran Mamdani  The NYPD saw a 35% hike in cops of all ranks leaving in October – 245 police officers compared to 181 in the same month last year, according to Police Pension Fund data. 
   ’Morale is down because everyone is concerned about the policies Mamdani wants to put in place,’ said Detectives Endowment Association President Scott Munro.



Mamdani’s win is a warning shot: the revolution is being voted in, not stormed in. And unless conservatives understand the symbolic power of revolutionary identification—and learn to counter it with a compelling civilizational narrative—they risk being outflanked by movements that care less about governance than about transformation.

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BBC Heads Resign over Doctored Trump January 6 Video The BBC 'spliced two Trump quotes, one hour apart to make it seem like he encouraged the January 6 riots.' Image


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Increasingly, employers are recognizing value in starting microschools at their workplace or in workplace-adjacent facilities. An increasingly popular arrangement is to create partnership microschools, where the employer serves as host partner who contracts with a technical partner responsible for teaching and learning functions. 
   Such partnerships often boost productivity, leveraging assets the host can contribute like staffing for support functions, front office help, or meals, allowing educators to keep focused on supporting teaching and learning, maximizing personalization. Employers describe numerous benefits in offering microschooling options which provide different returns on their investment. These vary widely by employer and circumstances...

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Both COP30 and the increasingly frequent EU climate summits reveal the lengths to which authorities go to prevent these doubts from taking root in public consciousness.
   Too much is at stake: the gigantic CO2 tax machine, which in the coming years is designed to funnel massive funds primarily to Brussels’ central EU apparatus.

Mass propaganda and censorship: much like COVID, they declare an emergency and barrage the public with propaganda while demanding that social media monopolies censor any disagreement otherwise people will die. After successfully implementing this program with COVID, they want to eliminate any dissent on their environmentalist program...

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Saturday, November 08, 2025

Rise With The Sun

 
Rise With The Sun 
CityAlight

V1
There’s a song that’s sung through the nations
Of joyful thanks to the King
Where the countless saints who are rescued 
Praise Jesus who set them all free

V2
Hear the anthem sung in the islands 
Where sun first touches the earth
Over land and sea it advances
Now joined by the saints of this church

CHORUS
Rise with the sun 
Lift up His name
All through the earth
We sing out His praise
East to the west
Night to the day
Join in the song
And sing out His praise

V3
I will add my voice to the chorus
Of many people and tongues
For we share the gift of salvation
And share in the life yet to come

CHORUS

BRIDGE
And the church will sing
Holy, holy, holy are You Lord
You’re the glorious one, we lift up Your name

And the church will sing
(Fijian)Tabu
(German) Heilig 
(Aus Creol) Oli
are you Lord
You’re the Lamb who was slain, we lift up Your name

And the church will sing
(Mandarin) Shèngjié
(Spanish) Santo
(Hebrew) Kadosh
are you Lord
You’re the King who was raised, we lift up Your name

And the church will sing
Holy, holy, holy are You Lord
Now You reign evermore, we lift up Your name
Over all of the world, we lift up Your name

CHORUS
Rise with the sun 
Lift up His name
All through the earth
We sing out His praise
East to the west
Night to the day
Join in the song
And sing out His praise

Come sing out His praise!

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Every growth of spiritual life...

Every growth of spiritual life, from the first tender shoot until now, has been the work of the Holy Spirit....The only way to more life is the Holy Spirit. You will not even know that you want more unless He works in you to desire it....The Spirit of God must come and make the letter alive, transfer it to your heart, set it on fire, and make it burn within you, or else its divine force and majesty will be hid from your eyes....Prayer is the creation of the Holy Spirit. We cannot do without prayer, and we cannot pray without the Holy Spirit. -CH Spurgeon

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Friday, November 07, 2025

Restore us again, O God of our salvation...

Restore us again, O God of our salvation,
    and put away your indignation toward us!
 Will you be angry with us forever?
    Will you prolong your anger to all generations?
 Will you not revive us again,
    that your people may rejoice in you?
 Show us your steadfast love, O Lord,
    and grant us your salvation.

 Let me hear what God the Lord will speak,
    for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints;
    but let them not turn back to folly.
 Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him,
    that glory may dwell in our land.
    -Psalm 85:4-9 

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Report: Nigeria Threatening to Arrest Victims of Jihad if They Denounce Terrorism Nigeria’s Premium Times newspaper reported on Thursday, in the context of the federal government claiming to release over 500 hostages from “bandit” captivity, that the government has threatened locals plagued by jihadist violence with arrest if they speak publicly on the slaughter.

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AI, Human Uniqueness, and Public Policy: Why “Image of God” Still Matters in a Secular Age  In truth, democracy’s survival depends on precisely this anthropology. A polity that confuses capacity with worth will soon grant rights to the efficient and deny them to the weak. By anchoring dignity in divine image, we retain a concept of personhood resilient to both technological imitation and ideological drift. The imago Dei is therefore not a relic of pre-modern thought but a civic design principle—a reminder that progress untethered from moral ontology degenerates into automation without accountability.

Across platforms, Gen Z engage in digital rituals that shape their theology and identity. From curated modesty aesthetics to Bible journaling and micro-testimonies, spiritual expression is increasingly mediated through visual culture and short-form storytelling. The issue is not just that these practices are distractions or increasing screen time, it’s that they are seemingly more influential in shaping Christian ideology today than traditional sermons and catechism.

Nearly three-quarters of teens say they have used an AI companion, over half use them at least a few times a month, and yet only 37% of parents know their child has used one.
   What stood out over and over again in a recent Senate hearing where parents of child victims of AI chatbots shared their stories, was that the parents had no idea their child was talking to an AI chatbot on their phone. They had no idea their child had downloaded a chatbot app on their smart device.

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The lack of fallout over Kirk’s assassination has proved once again that the left is vastly more adept at following Rahm Emmanuel’s famous advice never to let tragedies go to waste. Kirk’s death, politically speaking, was a blip compared to George Floyd’s, for instance. The date Kirk was slain is not common knowledge, unlike that of the Capitol riots, which have been forever branded in the public memory, 9-11 style, as “January 6.”

'Furry' Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk Assassination and Said US 'Deserved 9/11' Running for Congress in Michigan Smeltzer's social media activity also includes posts of himself in a fursuit lying down on a pentagram and saying he hates the United States and loves China.



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Parents Win: Federal Court Blocks Ohio School District's Transgender Pronoun Policy  In this case, it’s the students who are being told what they can and cannot say—and facing punishment if they disobey. And as the court noted yesterday, the school district’s ban on biological pronouns extends far beyond the classroom, reaching personal speech on social media off school grounds.

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