Saturday, August 01, 2026

Your Word Endures

 
Your Word Endures 
 Sovereign Grace Music

VERSE 1
Your Word, O God, endures, 
unbound and never-changing 
Your promises are sure, 
Your purposes unfailing 
You speak and earth and heaven shake, 
oceans roar, stars awake

VERSE 2 
Your Word, O God, endures, 
it binds the broken-hearted 
With riches for the poor 
and light for those in darkness
You speak and free the captive slave,
dead are raised from the grave

CHORUS
Your word is forever, holds all things together 
Your heart revealed with mercy unreserved 
Your Word, O God, endures

VERSE 3
Your Word, O God, endures 
revealing your salvation
It sanctifies your church 
through every generation
You speak and we behold Your Son, 
Word made flesh, God with us

CHORUS
Your word is forever, holds all things together 
Your heart revealed with mercy unreserved 
Your word is forever, our joy and our treasure  
Your matchless works and wisdom seen and heard 
Your Word, O God, endures
Your Word, O God, endures

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The spiritual life is a stern choice...

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:16-18

The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence, but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.  -Evelyn Underhill

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Europe Turns on Pedro Sánchez as Invasion of Spain Kicks Into Overdrive  Sánchez clearly doesn't care a whit about what Spanish citizens think of all this, but he may respond to pressure from his European peers, at least some of whom are outraged and willing to fight back.


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Slavery and Slander: Sarah Mullaly, Project Spire and the Church of England’s New Doctrine of Inherited Guilt   This ethical movement has no clothes. Worse than that, it wants to impose an anti-Christian ethic in the name of Christian responsibility. We have been blackmailed long enough by the devotees of collective wokery. It’s time we defended our Faith and a truer reading of our actual history.

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Canadian Liberal government FORBIDS military chaplains from mentioning God at ceremonies  The Canadian Armed Forces has issued new guidance directing military chaplains to forbid religious-specific language, including that of Christians and including references to God, during public ceremonies and official events. This directive comes in spite of the Canadian national anthem's mention of the line asking God to keep Canada "glorious and free."

What Europe’s Lack of Air Conditioning Says About Its Civilizational Direction  Locked into a Marxist worldview and committed to preventing the world’s climate from changing, Europe’s elites are deliberately hurting their citizens.

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Friday, July 31, 2026

For the grace of God has appeared...

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. -Titus 2:11-14

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The Gates of Hell Have Opened: Spain Implodes as Socialist PM is Begged to Deploy the Military as Thousands of Muslim Migrants Overrun Border  Spain’s borders have been overrun again by a horde of thousands of Muslim migrants in Ceuta. Leaders begged the socialist prime minister to deploy the police and military to protect the borders and he refused. Hide the women and children. Screenshot

Moment locals waving Spanish flags chase migrants after 'invasion'   In response, enraged Spanish citizens took to the streets to push them back. Many were seen waving Spanish flags and screaming at them. 
   As a group of migrants were seen running away, a loud police siren was heard in the background.


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California's Impending Energy Disaster That Nobody Talks About  How bad is it, really? Stein and Ariza note that "In just the last two months, California has been forced to import more jet fuel from the Gulf and East Coasts, via ships through the Panama Canal, than in the past 36 years combined."
   And while we just happen to be at war, California's military reserves are being depleted...

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Trump Says Trucker English Test Removed 24,000, Opening Jobs for Vets  The president went on, "As we get illegal aliens off the roads, today, we're also taking action to replace these unqualified migrant truck drivers with highly qualified American veterans. Under our brand new Freedom Haulers, as we call it, Freedom Haulers Initiative, any American who has driven a heavy truck for our military will automatically be eligible for a commercial driver's license, and it's good paying jobs, too."

‘What's My Crime?’ Meet a Few Illegal Alien Deportees  It is important to update oneself periodically on some of the illegal alien criminals the Trump administration is deporting, so that when we hear Democrats wailing about beloved fathers and community pillars being deported, we know they are full of bunk.


FIFA World Cup Resulted in Massive DHS Crackdown on Human Trafficking The DHS announced that 180 victims were rescued and 905 suspects were arrested during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Operations in both Dallas and San Francisco shut down elaborate sex-trafficking rings and saved victims, some of whom had been trafficked for years. The recently concluded spectacle brought more than 6.8 million fans and tourists for various matches and Fan fests around the country.

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Meet The Christian Pastors Who Endorsed Pro-Trans Muslim Abdul El-Sayed  Abdul El-Sayed has campaigned on reaching across the religious divide with an appeal to Christians and Muslims alike, and he boasts that over two dozen Christian leaders back his bid to replace Michigan Senator Gary Peters. Those leaders include a pastor who suggested conservative activist Charlie Kirk deserved to be shot and the senior pastor of a church that hosted a drag event for kids.


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Journalists Want to Bury Their Fawning Friendship with Fauci  This is, in a word, collusion – a complete blur between journalists and Democrats, all seeking the same political objectives. But the media that claims to be all for democracy and transparency hide their inner chumminess in concocting the “news” product while pretending there is no secretive alliance.

WPATH FILES: Trans Org Wants Female Inmates To Overcome ‘Transphobia’ And Share Prisons With Men  “Prison is already a difficult place to be. The aggressive, forced acceptance of gender ideology as some kind of state-sanctioned religion has pushed incarcerated women completely out of the spectrum of concern,” Ichikawa told The Daily Wire. “They barely had any visibility or relevance before this started trending, so they are almost invisible now.”

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Thursday, July 30, 2026

Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name...

Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
    bring an offering and come before him!
Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness;
     tremble before him, all the earth;
    yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
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 16:28-34

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Conquest Via the Classroom: Connecticut Passes Law Requiring Schools to Insert ‘Islamic and Arab Studies’ into Its Educational Curricula Connecticut has passed an emergency educational omnibus bill that requires “Islamic and Arab studies” be inserted into curricula for classrooms across the state. CAIR is naturally involved and this is yet another incidence where Islam is showed blatant bias over other religions and cultures. Control the children, control the future.

Texas: Islamic Academy Acquires Baptist Church Near EPIC City After Hostile Lawsuit Islamic supremacists are using American laws against American citizens, and are superior in their strategies due to the naivety of the population at large, as well as the willful blindness of the left.

MA Dem Lawmakers Launch DEI Program Prioritizing Muslims for State Employment  According to the bill, the commission will “Identify and recommend qualified American Muslims for appointive positions at all levels of government, including boards and commissions, as the commission considers necessary and appropriate.” Critics argue that prioritizing a specific religious group for state government positions undermines the principle of equal treatment under the law.

Death of the Bodegas: NYC and Mamdani Get Smacked with Lawsuit Over Soviet-Style Grocery Stores  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being sued by a coalition of business organizations fronted by an immigrant-led nonprofit over his opening of Soviet-style grocery stores. They claim it will put bodegas out of business and force New Yorkers to turn to the government-owned stores.

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Rand Paul Delivers a Cinematic Indictment of Anthony Fauci’s COVID Legacy   Paul reminded Fauci and everybody watching and listening of the costs of Fauci’s COVID-19 policies.

Law Professor on CNN Warns Fauci Pleading the Fifth ‘Makes Things Worse’ for Him   Fauci invoked that protection more than 100 times during a hearing that lasted nearly three hours.

NIH Announces Policy to Prohibit Gain-of-Function Research  On the day before Anthony Fauci came to the Senate for a congressional hearing, the Trump-Bhattacharya National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new policy to prohibit gain-of-function research like the kind that led to COVID-19.  

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Will New York’s nuns be compelled to advertise assisted suicide? The assisted-dying movement corrupts everything it touches. It would be a far better scenario if New York, instead of engaging in a legal fight with the church over assisted suicide, studied how the nuns take such good care of terminal patients. Screenshot

In Ohio, poker night is fine, but praying with friends is forbidden  If government can restrict religious observance in a man’s home with no accountability, then bureaucratic tentacles have slithered into the sacred space between man and God.  In this nation, founded by pilgrims fleeing religious persecution, nothing could be more antithetical to our way of life than government officials policing private religious practice.

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Lost sermons from one of Christianity's greatest saints discovered after 1,600 years  Two previously unknown sermons by St. Augustine — one of Christianity's most influential theologians — have been authenticated, revealing ideas scholars say have never before appeared in his surviving works.
   The newly discovered sermons were found on a medieval manuscript by Christian Tornau, a Latin professor at the University of Würzburg in Germany. Image

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How are detransitioners faring in medical malpractice cases across the country?  “Removing healthy body parts isn’t a proven cure for underlying trauma or the mental health problems our clients faced—autism, depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, psychosis,” Payne added. “Doctors and therapists deceive and mistreat their patients when they oversell the benefits and undersell the risks of such procedures.”

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‘Absolute chaos’ as thousands of people breach Morocco’s border with Spain’s Ceuta  “The situation is absolute chaos,” said Rachid Sbihi, head of the association that represents Spain’s Civil Guard officers in Ceuta, who police the border. “It’s not possible to give precise numbers, but there are thousands of migrants crossing,” he said, adding that the border had “totally collapsed.”

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

So we do not lose heart...

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.    -2 Corinthians 4:16-18

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The State Of American Elections: For The Left, 'The Worse, The Better'   Americans long knew that their elections were in embarrassingly poor shape, but President Donald Trump’s address this month revealed just how extensive the problems had become. The Trump administration’s investigation revealed foreign interference and deep-state, treasonous subterfuge.

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Ukrainian drone boat deal to build in US could be ‘one of the most consequential partnerships’  The Ukrainian company responsible for developing and manufacturing an autonomous drone boat used to sink several Russian navy warships has agreed to a deal with an American company to produce them in the United States for the U.S. military. Image

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Sen. Rand Paul Releases Document Trove Detailing Pre-Pandemic Biosecurity Breaches  New document release shows Customs and Border Patrol intercepted undeclared biological materials tied to this network of American and Chinese coronavirus researchers in 2018, and the FBI stopped the agency from intercepting a key covid researcher in 2021.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth..."

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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.

For you shall go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall break forth into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands."
-Isaiah 55:9-12

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The Left’s socialist revolt did not come from nowhere—it was the inevitable offspring of years of Democratic radicalization, now turning against the party that created it. Image

DSA Assault on Prisons Is Rooted in Third World-ist Lust for Barbarism  There is only one coherent explanation for the DSA's anti-cop, anti-prison obsession: naked, raw ideology.
    And there is a name for that ideology: Third World-ism. It's a dystopian zeal for barbarism over civilization. And these days, it's the name of the game for the activist left. We see it everywhere.

They Never Stop Lying:  Democratic Socialists of America-Our Program  At least these people are stupid enough to say these things out loud.

Mamdani Just Handed The Internet Thousands Of Names And Addresses Indeed, Mamdani’s move to doxx some of his wealthiest constituents comes just days after an anti-ICE extremist allegedly firebombed 26 Federal Plaza.



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Treasury Sec Lauds Screening to Stop Paying Dead People, but Reagan’s ‘Junkyard Dogs’ Did It First  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says a new computer matching process being used for the first time ever exposed “more than 4,900 federal payments worth approximately $99 million that were associated with deceased payees” and stopped payment on them.

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Even the left is now flagging the gross bias at America’s universities  This huge political imbalance in the professoriate affects student learning directly. 
   A recent study by Forest Romm and Kevin Waldman involving confidential interviews with 1,452 students at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan found that a whopping 88% of students said they had pretended to hold more “progressive” views than they really did to get ahead.
   More than 80% said they submitted classwork that misrepresented their views in order to align with those of professors.

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What started as a Christian work of mercy has morphed into a $31 billion-a-year industry that’s attracting fraudsters and private-equity profit hunters. As legalized assisted suicide gains a foothold in the U.S., some pro-life advocates fear worse problems lie in store.

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It is ironic that those attempting to destroy this country because of its history of slavery, white supremacy, racism, sexism, and colonization will see it replaced by Islam, which, since its beginning, has forcibly colonized and enslaved large parts of the world.  Islam also murders those with sexual identities it doesn’t like and considers women little more than a sexual apparatus.  And in place of white supremacy or white privilege, there is Muslim supremacy and privilege.

Crazed Jihadist Stabs Pregnant Woman and Two Others in Paris: ‘Allah Commanded Me’  Another jihadist attack in Europe… this time in Paris, France as a Muslim man with two large kitchen knives attacked a pregnant woman and two others in broad daylight before an off-duty cop subdued him. Authorities and the media immediately cried that he’s insane and Islam had nothing to do with it.


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Teen lifeguard braves massive waves to rescue young boy at Seabright Beach

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Monday, July 27, 2026

Trust in the Lord, and do good...

Trust in the Lord, and do good;
    dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
Delight yourself in the Lord,
    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Commit your way to the Lord;
    trust in him, and he will act.
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
    and your justice as the noonday.

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him;
    fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,
    over the man who carries out evil devices!
 -Psalm 37:3-7

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CIA Whistleblower Confirms Shadow Government Is Running the Intel Community—and Blocking Trump   The President has presented evidence that is being confirmed by the CIA whistleblower. The shadow government is no longer theoretical—it is documented, admitted, and, if left unchecked, a direct threat to the idea that the American people, not the bureaucracy, decide who leads the country.

Catherine Herridge Uncovers Shocking Revelations About The Biden Family    Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge has uncovered records pointing to Chinese blackmail efforts targeting the Biden family - documents that sat in plain sight for the legacy media, the FBI, and the CIA, only to be met with willful blindness

New Poll Shows That More Than Half of Democrats Support Socialism  The poll showed that 52 percent of Democrats held a favorable view of socialism, while just 43 percent held an unfavorable view. 



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Machete-Wielding Islamic Terrorist Killed By Cops After Deadly Berlin Pride Attack  Abdul Ballout, 21, crashed into partygoers near the Christopher Street Day Parade on Saturday night, killing one person and wounding 29 others. Image


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When the enemy is seen as the wealthy and the middle class, there can be some solution short of genocide, but when the enemy is ‘white people’, Jews, Asians, a clan or religion, and it is depicted as the epitome of oppression and evil, and academics teach that no social progress, no peace or justice are possible until it is ‘decolonized’ or ceases to exist, genocide follows.

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Now They Are Making Flock Cameras That Can Fly And Read License Plates From 2,000 Feet Away There are so many reasons why these deeply intrusive cameras are highly problematic.
   But more Flock cameras just keep going up with each passing month.
   And now they will be flying around in the sky.

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Mickey Mouse Massacre: Disney Has Third Round of Layoffs, Hitting ESPN, Pixar, More  This latest round of Disney layoffs include corporate jobs, roles at ESPN and National Geographic, and multiple positions across the company’s film and television divisions.

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Minnesota to put transgender dolls with swappable genitals in schools for kids as young as 4  An actual thing that is happening in Tampon Tim Walz's Minnesota.
   MyGenderDolls, the "first-of-their-kind" therapeutic paper dolls complete with removable internal and external genitalia, and over 100 interchangeable outfits, hairstyles, and accessories.
   It's like Mr. Potato Head decided to transition and applied for a government grant.

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Newly Released Fauci Diary Exposes a Major Deception … and a Striking Obsession  Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s relentless campaign to prove that former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci misled the public throughout the COVID pandemic made him Fauci’s greatest nemesis.
   Although more than six years have passed since the deadly virus reached U.S. shores, most Americans still remember Fauci’s daily briefings and seemingly nonstop appearances on cable news. He quickly emerged as the “face” of the pandemic.

Miranda Devine: Anthony Fauci was the ‘big head’ of COVID response   As the global death toll mounted, Fauci’s diary shows he was increasingly preoccupied with his rising media profile and reveling in the admiration, especially the praise from celebrities, all of which he meticulously ­recorded.

People were regularly encouraged by Jewish leaders to “never forget” the Holocaust, a plea that’s becoming a faint echo nowadays. In similar fashion, we should resist the desire to forget the price paid for Dr. Fauci’s dream of creating novel vaccines for yet-to-appear superviruses -- a toll that includes not only millions of deaths but also the enduring aftereffects of the fear he stoked and the tyrannical lockdowns he promoted.

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Saturday, July 25, 2026

Lead Us To Repentance

Lead Us To Repentance
Sovereign Grace Music 

VERSE 1
Lord, where can we hide? There’s nothing hidden from Your sight
You know every heart, You’ve seen the depths of who we are 
But when our shame says “run,” Your mercy calls us home

CHORUS
Lead us to repentance, make us know Your presence
Even when we fall, You are never far    
Draw us with your kindness, with You there’s forgiveness
Condemnation’s gone, all the work is done, 
lead us to repentance

VERSE 2
There’s no greater love, our Savior bled and died for us  
Guilty ones are dressed in Jesus’ perfect righteousness 
So when we go astray, Lord, give us grace to pray

CHORUS
Lead us to repentance, make us know Your presence
Even when we fall, You are never far    
Draw us with your kindness, with You there’s forgiveness
Condemnation’s gone, all the work is done, 
lead us to repentance

BRIDGE
Father, Your lovingkindness never has failed to find us
You have been patient with us, You always will be 
Father, Your lovingkindness never has failed to find us
You have been patient with us, You always will be    

CHORUS
Lead us to repentance, make us know Your presence
Even when we fall, You are never far    
Draw us with your kindness, with You there’s forgiveness
Condemnation’s gone, all the work is done, 
lead us to repentance

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“Seek the Lord while he may be found..."

“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
    call upon him while he is near;
 let the wicked forsake his way,
    and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, 
that he may have compassion on him,
    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

 “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 55:6-11

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Gross: Mamdani Mocks New Yorkers With Post About Dropping New Tax on Them “If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs — because you've got mail.
   Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-a-terre tax is coming soon. 
   The best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world. That's only possible when we all pay our fair share.”
So not only is he dropping more taxes on people, but he's mocking the people in the process. Image

With Mayor Mamdani leading the demagogue parade, the promise not to repeat the Holocaust is being swept away in a rising tide of antisemitism.

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Ilhan Omar’s Sister Linked To Central Figures In Minnesota’s Fraud Scandal  Records tie company founded by "Squad" member's sister to largest public theft scandal in Minnesota history.

10 States Checked Their Voter Rolls With a DHS Database to Find Startling Info So far, 25 states have cross-checked more than 68 million voter registration records through SAVE and found 28,000 noncitizens and 400,000 dead people registered to vote. As more states finalize the process, the number will likely grow.

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Sophie Cunningham's New Shoes Sell Out in Hours After Her Stand Against Wokeness  First, Sophie Cunningham dished out common sense on the subject of men playing in women’s sports.
   And then the public weighed in, making it clear that even if Cunningham made WNBA execs weak-kneed, the Indiana Fever guard certainly connected with fans, because on Friday morning, her shoes sold out within hours of their debut. Screenshot

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The Week In Pictures: Long Strange Trip Edition

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 Montana Teen Uses Rodeo Lasso to Rescue Drowning Man on Yellowstone River

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