Friday, September 25, 2026

As you come to him, a living stone...

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
 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 2:1-5

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely ways—there God is hewing out the pillars for his temple.   -Phillips Brooks Image

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That's Right: We're Shooting Down Enemy Drones With Fricken Laser Beams  The Department of War said this week that lasers disable "drones and incoming cruise missiles at a much lower cost than using more expensive kinetic weapons like missiles."
   That's no joke, either.
   The Pentagon is mum on the details, but my understanding is that most of the laser weapons currently in use merely "dazzle" incoming threats, sending them off course. So there aren't any cool vaporizations.

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Crisis at Europe’s gates...Slowly but surely, the European migration debate is changing  In her “State of the Union” speech, European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen announced a new migration initiative following the Ceuta crisis in Spain, whereby EU member states would be given more flexibility to respond to sudden mass arrivals. In particular, she announced her institution would propose a so-called “European Emergency Response” Instrument will deal with mass movements of migrants.

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Hurricanes Colliding, Hawaii Flooding, and a Giant Nor’easter Hitting the East Coast All at Once If you live on the east coast, please take this storm very seriously.
   If you live in Hawaii, please stay inside this weekend.
   And if you live in California, I would suggest watching the path of Hurricane Polo very closely.

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'Paging Hezbollah' Goes Inside One of the Most Daring Anti-Terror Operations of All Time  Clocking in at just over an hour and a half, Paging Hezbollah details the operation and its execution, including interviews with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, General David Petraeus, former Director of Mossad David Barnea, and Sarit Zehavi, a former member of the IDF’s intelligence division. Screenshot

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Muslim Community Network That Urged Congress to Withhold Funding from 9/11 Museum Awarded $4M for its Community Center: ‘So They Can Educate You About Islam’   It’s the blueprint for Islamic conquest from within across the nation. One city at a time. They are taking over police forces, schools, governments, and the media. Do the math.


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Women’s Group Finds That Biological Men Stole Over 2,000 Gold Medals From Girls  Trans-identifying males have stolen over 2,293 gold medals from women and girls in the United States, pushing each rightful champion down to second place.
   Trans-identifying male athletes have stolen over $501,498 in prize money from women in professional sports.
   In California alone, over 611 women and girls have taken silver below a male allowed to compete in the women’s category.
   Trans-identifying males have competed in more than 14,301 female sport events, amateur and professional. Image

'Trans-Identifying Nurse' Charged With 4 Counts of Child Abuse After Abusing a Premature Baby Girl in the Hospital   A now-former nurse at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has been charged with four counts of child abuse after a tiny premature baby girl in the neonatal intensive care unit was found with multiple broken bones and bruises covering her body, including her tongue.
   The accused is 43-year-old Kieran L. Ansley of Niles, Michigan.

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Non-Binary Episcopal Priest Declares: 'God is Trans'-'I think Jesus transitioned' (Video)  In a video from March that is going viral, shared by Disnter,  Rev. Flourish Klink, a non-binary Episcopal priest, told a congregation that Jesus was trans.
   According to Klink, Mary assigned Jesus a male at birth, but when he resurrected, he returned as his ‘true, transgender self.’
   “God is non-binary,” Klink declared
   “God is non-binary, but I’m going to go further than that. And I’m going to say God is actually also trans.” Screenshot


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Thursday, September 24, 2026

He will swallow up death forever...

He will swallow up death forever;
and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,
and the reproach of his people 
he will take away from all the earth,
for the Lord has spoken.
-Isaiah 25:8

The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.   -D.L. Moody

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Trump is a practical visionary, which is one of the rarest combinations of traits in the world. He is a patriot and a peacemaker. Yes, he has his flaws (all great men do), but he is presiding over a most golden of golden ages, and if more people understood that, these midterms would be a red wave.

America Walks Out During Iran’s Speech At U.N.  The Iranian president accused the U.S. and Israel of attacking Iran while insisting Tehran will not surrender its nuclear rights.

Is it the best of times, or the worst of times?   How about “yes.”

When Democrats Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them   Many of the Democrats running this year aren’t the usual squishy socialists we’re used to. They are people who hate Americans, the U.S., and the Constitution.

Congratulations to the homeless, the rats and the politicians.

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The “Welcome Family” program would be better branded as the “WTF?” program.
   Besides depression, what might a typically “progressive” government “visitor” screen for? A MAGA hat on a table? A cross on a wall? Lee Greenwood music playing in the background? You know they’ll be looking for firearms.

State Department announces new visa restriction policy targeting those facilitating birth tourism  The secretary claimed foreign commercial birth tourism networks have exploited the American immigration system to sell U.S. citizenship for profit by coaching people seeking American citizenship on how to lie on their visa applications.

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America must rapidly develop AI to maintain national security and stay ahead of China while ensuring data centers minimize their environmental and community impacts.


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Yes, the Resting Place of Noah’s Ark Has Been Discovered, and Scientists Are About to Prove It   The remains of Noah’s Ark are contained in the Durupinar formation in the Mountains of Ararat. I have no doubt about this. The boat-shaped Durupinar formation has the exact same dimensions that the Bible says that Noah’s Ark had. Ground-penetrating radar has confirmed that the ship that is buried there has corridors, compartments and three distinct levels. Needless to say, the Bible says that the Ark was built with lower, middle, and upper levels. There are perfect right angles inside the formation that could not have been produced naturally.
   What I have shared so far is just the tip of the iceberg, because there is so much more evidence. So how did an absolutely enormous three level ship that is roughly the size of a World War I-era aircraft carrier end up so far away from any major body of water in the Mountains of Ararat?

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More Somali Daycares Under Investigation for $5 MILLION in Suspected Fraud   An investigation has revealed allegations of large-scale fraud in Somali-run daycare centers in Seattle, Washington, with some facilities receiving tens of thousands of dollars monthly in taxpayer funding while showing no evidence of childcare activity. In total, over $5 million in potential fraud was identified across two neighborhoods.

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Wednesday, September 23, 2026

But we have the mind of Christ...

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
    The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.  The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. -1 Corinthians 2:12-16

The guidance of the Spirit is generally by gentle suggestions or drawings, and not in violent pushes; and it requires great childlikeness of heart to be faithful to it. The secret of being made willing lies in a definite giving up of our will. As soon as we put our will on to God’s side, He immediately takes possession of it and begins to work in us to will and to do of His good pleasure.  
-Hannah Whitall Smith

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At the UN, Trump Gives Iran’s ‘Vile Regime’ a Stark Choice   Trump confronted head-on the claims that he is fighting an unnecessary war, noting the threat from the Islamic Republic has been longstanding, but that his predecessors preferred to appease the mullahs — or just ignore them altogether and hope that the “Death to America!”-chanting hordes would simply melt away.


   The Communist Chinese, CNN, the European Union, and Mark Carney.

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The CCP is conducting unrestricted warfare against America. Similar to the KGB’s ideological subversion campaigns that the real Yuri Bezmenov dissected, this doctrine encompasses many fronts that are unnoticeable to the untrained eye. No other country comes close to coordinating this much intentional damage across psychological, chemical, and technological methods.
   Most Americans have no idea it is happening because the media and politicians from both parties are complicit. Never forget that the CCP has killed more people than any regime in history. Its century-long reign of terror has included the Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, and Tiananmen Square Massacre. Bringing down America from within is its most insidious mission yet. Don't miss!

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Brandon Gill Blasts Democrats for Using Illegal Immigration As 'Path to Political Power'   It's no secret that Democrats see illegal immigration as a way to fundamentally transform America. By importing people from cultures that are wholly incompatible with our own, they seek to destroy this country and subjugate its citizens to a Third-World quality of life. But Rep. Brandon Gill isn't going to let this happen on his watch, and he's calling out the Democrats who want to give benefits to every illegal alien, and are even suing to do so. Image

Brandon Gill Brutally Hammers Muslim Communist Hasan Piker for Attacking His Wife: He’s ‘the Poster Child for Why We Need to End Birth Tourism’   One wonders why it is that Muslims such as Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker fixate on their rivals’ wives. El-Sayed keeps attacking JD Vance’s wife, and now Piker is going after Gill’s beautiful wife. When all else fails in a fight between Muslim and infidel foes, Muslims resort to attacking women. It’s the Islamic way.

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Where Did 4.5 Million Illegal Aliens, Who Arrived Under Joe Biden, End Up Staying in the U.S.?  "The records show illegal immigrants from around the world dispersing far beyond communities along the southern border, reaching major cities, suburbs, and smaller communities with relatively low immigrant populations."
   None of those communities requested this massive influx. Most were ill-prepared for the sudden population increase. The strain on many communities' services and infrastructure was severe; in many cases, they broke under the strain.

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Utah Mail Carrier Charged After Dumping Hundreds of Ballots  This comes to us at a key moment, six weeks ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. It's a demonstration, once again, how fraught the entire mail-in ballot system is. This is a system tailor-made for fraud and interference, and yet several states still employ it, despite examples of interference just like this. Image

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Energy groups warn Hochul to restart Indian Point nuclear plant or ‘the lights go out’  “If Governor Hochul was sincere about jump-starting nuclear power to cut electricity prices, she would be pressing the Trump administration to expedite the recommissioning of the Indian Point nuclear power plant, where the extensive infrastructure needed is already in place,” said Steve Milloy, senior fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute.
   “But that is not what’s happening,” he added. “She is only sincere about her insincerity.”

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She Helped Write the WHO's Vaccine Messaging-Then Took The Covid Shot and Her Life Collapse  Leidl told the inquiry that she had been suspicious of the COVID narrative from the beginning. She was listening to the CBC announce daily death tolls, and she knew the numbers needed to be contextualized as a rate per 100,000. When you did that math, she said, the death rate was, in fact, similar to seasonal flu.
    She took the vaccine anyway. She was between contracts, up for a job in Europe, and she needed to be vaccinated to travel. The coercion was practical, not ideological. She received her first dose with no incident. Five weeks later, on June 10, 2021, she received the second.
    Seven days after that, she woke up in pain, got out of bed, and collapsed on the floor.

Pandemic of the Vaccinated: Fiji, a highly covid-vaccinated country, now has an AIDS (VAIDS) epidemic  So, with essentially no intravenous drug use whatsoever in Fiji, and no sex industry to speak of, this whole HIV narrative makes little sense precisely because what we are witnessing are VAIDS diagnoses directly linked to the PsyOp-19 modified mRNA slow kill bioweapon “vaccines.”

Canada: Euthanasia killing of Christian grandmother now under criminal investigation  Law enforcement in Canada is now investigating the July 10 euthanizing of a confused Christian great-grandmother against her will, as the case captures global horror at the ramifications of Canada’s so-called “medical aid in dying” (MAiD) regime.

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Tuesday, September 22, 2026

“Be still, and know that I am God."

“Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!”
-Psalm 46:10

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent, and God will speak again.  -François Fénelon

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Thousands of flights across the US were snarled on Monday, ​with incoming flights halted for hours at major East Coast airports  The ‌issue started around 9:45 a.m. when workers accidentally cut a telecom line in New Jersey used by the FAA. This forced a halt to incoming flights at major airports on the day that 130 world leaders and dozens of ministers were arriving in New York for the annual high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.

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UK: Police impartiality 'under threat from Muslim staff who defend Hamas' Muslim police who defen d Hamas are damaging forces' impartiality.
   The warning came in an analysis of police officer associations, which highlighted how some are entering 'contested ideological, religious or political territory'.

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What Were 13 Chinese Nationals Doing in a Smuggling Boat Off the Coast of Key Largo? CBP says their Air and Marine Operations first spotted the 27-foot craft, and authorities stopped it and arrested the 13 Chinese nationals along with the suspected smuggler, a Cuban national, eight Ecuadorian nationals and one Dominican national. Authorities seized the boat and sent the suspected illegals to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Pablo Valent for processing.

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City Tells Volunteer Fireman He's Unqualified Because of His Homeschool Diploma  Andrew Coates has a state EMT license in Nebraska and is a volunteer firefighter who wanted to turn that volunteer work into a profession. But while the state of Nebraska simply says firemen have to be high school graduates, the city is claiming that it will only accept diplomas from accredited high schools, excluding homeschoolers like him.

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Multiple Lindsay Clancy Jurors Broke the Rules, but Guess Who Might Be Investigated  In other words, multiple jurors were not assessing Lindsay Clancy as an individual who murdered children with premeditation and no remorse, but as a human with female genitalia whom they could use as a lay figure for advancing their own political and cultural ideology.

Bourbon Psychology: Mr. Beam and I May Have Figured Out Why Lib Chicks Are Bonkers  Liberal women have state-of-the-art birth control and the right to kill unborn children that somehow sneak past, including abortion-until-birth in 10 states and Washington, D.C. For the oppressed handmaidens who are "forced" to give birth, nannies are only too happy to raise someone else's kids while mommy dearest empties boxes of Franzia and ghoulishly cheers on Lindsay Clancy with more than a hint of envy.

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Monday, September 21, 2026

God knows our heart better than we ever can...

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.
  -Isaiah 55:8-9

God knows our heart better than we ever can. He is the only one who can separate the true from the false; he alone can purify the motives of the heart. But he does not come uninvited. If chambers of our heart have never experienced the healing touch, perhaps it is because we have not welcomed the divine scrutiny.   -Richard J. Foster

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Church of England Pulls Exhibit Celebrating Palestinian Jihadis  The Church of England is just leftism at prayer, and so it was hardly surprising that, as The Times put it in its headline on, of all days, September 11, “Church of England promotes tapestry ‘with tribute to jihadists.’” Well, of course. Leftists have their heroes and saints just like everyone else.
   The Times explained that “the fabric that will go on display at Leeds Minster appears to show the names of 12 members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and one member of Hamas.”
   Ultimately, this did not happen; saner minds prevailed. The BBC reported Friday that “a church exhibition honouring people who have lost their lives in Gaza has been removed from show after it emerged the display was said to feature names of several Hamas fighters.” Image

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America’s Islamification: Third-Largest City in Michigan Morphing into the Next Dearbornistan – Flipped in Less Than a Decade into a Muslim Enclave   Warren, Michigan, the third-largest city in Michigan, has fallen to Islam and is now becoming the next Dearborn. City officials and police have actively aided them in conquering the city. Christian churches are being turned into mosques and the city has turned into a third-world Muslim enclave.

Michigan Mayor Sued Over Alleged Discrimination Against Jews, Christians   Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan is facing a federal civil-rights lawsuit accusing his administration of using taxpayer-funded city resources to promote Islam while refusing comparable recognition to Christian and Jewish holidays and retaliating against a journalist who challenged the disparity.

America "will most likely be majority non-Christian" within the next 50 years, a professor at Johns Hopkins wrote recently in the New York Times.

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So it appears Matt Walsh is right. What was on trial in Massachusetts is a mother’s right to kill her children.
   In fact, shortly before the Clancy trial began, a new law was passed in the state allowing for abortion up to the moment of birth. But you can only “abort” a process, not a human being. The argument was always about the abortion of a pregnancy—the process of fetal development. Suddenly the ground beneath our feet shifted into new territory, whereby a person can be “aborted.”
   If a woman can kill her full-term baby at the moment of birth, why not a day or two later? A month later? Or five years later, perhaps?

I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar—But Blame It On The Boogeyman  Follow the bouncing ball. Lindsay admitted to strangling her three children. She went to trial. Her deeply distraught husband was called as a witness. The women who supported Lindsay judged that he was to blame, either literally or emotionally. After the trial, women with “deepened conviction” in their souls then shifted blame toward the one male juror who refused to absolve her of her criminal responsibility. And then—to add insult to injury—during the deliberation process, another male, this time the judge, refused the “feminist icon’s“ defense lawyer’s attempt to remove that juror.

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We are more than 150 years past the end of slavery in America, and yet Nikole Hannah-Jones is more obsessed with race than any Confederate leaders whose likenesses are carved upon the side of Stone Mountain.


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Security expert hails Trump's Greenland pact as a 'big deal' on par with Alaska purchase  Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised the Greenland agreement, writing on X, "This historic deal is a huge win for the United States and the American people. Thanks to President Trump's vision and leadership, this historic agreement permanently guarantees U.S. security interests in the Arctic at zero cost to the U.S. taxpayer.
"Greenland will forever be part of the strategic defense area of North America and exclude any adversary from it and the surrounding area. This deal permanently and completely addresses our national security concerns in Greenland."

Greenlanding the news...How the media tried to turn victory into defeat   Rather than admit the pundits were wrong and Trump once again made a great deal, the press immediately began spinning gold into, well, feces.

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Biden-era inspection reports expose Kennedy Center disrepair, safety hazards that Trump seeks to fix   Well before President Donald Trump intervened to fix the Kennedy Center, two evaluations conducted early in the Biden administration laid bare the horrid condition of America's iconic performing arts center that included outdated fire safety systems, poor protection against terrorist attacks, water leaks in a transformer room, rusted wiring that violates code and extensive cracks in walls and roof panels, according to documents reviewed by Just the News.
   The 2021 and 2022 maintenance and structural reviews by architectural experts exposed extensive concerns about the condition of the building, including health hazards like lead-painted steel beams, insufficient ventilation in bathrooms and failing sealants containing a cancer-linked chemical.

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In July, four orders of Catholic nuns and several Catholic healthcare ministries filed a federal lawsuit against New York, arguing the state’s new assisted-suicide law forces them to participate in ending patients’ lives in violation of their faith. Image

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Saturday, September 19, 2026

I Set My Hope on Jesus...

 
I Set My Hope on Jesus (Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing) 
 Matt Boswell, Matt Papa, Sing!

Verse 1
When this life of trials tests my faith,
I set my hope on Jesus.
When the questions come and doubts remain,
I set my hope on Jesus.
For the deepest wounds that time won't heal,
there's a joy that runs still deeper.
There's a truth that's more than all I feel;
I set my hope on Jesus.

Chorus
I set my hope on Jesus,
my rock, my only trust,
who set His heart upon me first;
I set my hope on Jesus.

Verse 2
Though I falter in this war with sin,
I set my hope on Jesus.
When I fail the fight and sink within,
I set my hope on Jesus.
Though the shame would drown me in its sea,
and I dread the waves of justice,
I will cast my life on Calvary;
I set my hope on Jesus.

Verse 3
Though the world call me to leave my Lord,
I set my hope on Jesus.
Though it offer all its vain rewards,
I set my hope on Jesus.
Though this heart of mine be prone to stray,
give me grace enough to finish.
Till I worship on that final day,
I set my hope on Jesus.

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing — Verse 3
Oh, to grace how great a debtor
daily I'm constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
bind my wand'ring heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here's my heart, Lord,
take and seal it,
seal it for Thy courts above!

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Only those who try to live near God...

And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. -Luke 12:42-44

Only those who try to live near God and have formed the habit of faithfulness to Him in the small things of our daily life, can hope in times of need for that special light which shows us our path. To do as well as we can the job immediately before us, is the way to learn what we ought to do next.  -Evelyn Underhill

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There Is No Such Thing As A Moderate Democrat Anymore  The DSA is also pushing to “demilitarize police departments, disempower police unions, and redirect funding to public services as steps toward fully abolishing the police and prison system.” The socialists want to abolish ICE, “legalize migration, grant amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status, provide a path to citizenship for all permanent residents, and end visa caps and quotas.”

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Algerian police seize Bibles as 12 Christians arrested for holding non-Muslim service During the operation, police seized all Christian literature, mobile phones and identity cards of those present, said the sources, unidentified for security reasons. The women were released to be questioned the following morning, while the men were held until late at night, some until 3 a.m.

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"Lindsey wasn't even at the crash scene," he told NewsNation. "These were investigators that got it in their mind that there was a black Dodge Durango involved. They got on Flock, found the first black Dodge Durango, that belonged to Lindsey Isaacs, and pinned that on her."

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Friday, September 18, 2026

Thou only knowest what we need...

Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. -Matthew 6:31-32

Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of Thee; Thou only knowest what we need; Thou lovest me better than I know how to love myself. O Father! give to Thy child that which he himself knows not how to ask... Teach me to pray; pray Thyself in me.  -François Fénelon

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Why Trump’s Plan To Stop Noncitizens From Rigging The Census Might Work This Time  If implemented, millions of illegal aliens would no longer distort the political map. House seats and Electoral College votes would be divvied up based on population numbers reflecting the “We the People” our system exists to represent. The rule would neutralize foreign influence; eliminate the undue political power sanctuary jurisdictions have accrued through decades of mass illegal immigration; and restore the “one man, one vote” principle by ending the dilution of Americans’ voting power that has occurred through counting non-citizens in the population figures used to draw up districts.

Secretary Rollins on SNAP Fraud Fight: Trump’s USDA Has Moved Almost 6 million Off Food Stamps  Rollins said USDA found “250,000 people that are using dead people’s social security numbers in one state alone,” as well as “hundreds of fancy cars” associated with names receiving SNAP benefits. “But we have gotten, we have been able to root out so much already,” she said.

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We ran the data on trans teen suicide panic — and found the claims are misleading Protecting children from transgender treatments does not increase suicide rates — and our data proves it.
   There’s no question that suicide is higher among children who believe they’re transgender, a heartbreaking reality that demands intervention. 
   Kids who assert they’re “born in the wrong body” typically suffer from serious mental-health issues, including depression and anxiety, that are themselves linked to suicide risk.

Blue States With Strong Teachers' Unions Are Terrible At Literacy Reforms   A 2026 analysis from the Progressive Policy Institute found a strong negative correlation between the political power of state teachers' unions and states' adoption of evidence-based early literacy policies. PPI Director of Education Policy Rachel Canter conducted the analysis, comparing union-strength rankings from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute against literacy-policy data from the ExcelinEd education advocacy group. At least eight of the ten states with the worst student literacy scores lean Democratic and have politically powerful teachers' unions. Only five of the worst ten are Republican, and one is a swing state.

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Cult of Anthropic Insiders Rumored to Be Worshipping Claude as a God  "If we build a superintelligence, we will first fall in love with it. Then we will worship it. Finally we will make sacrifices to it."

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Bishops, Evangelicals, and Conservatives Push Back on Canada’s Military Prayer Ban  Conservative defence critic James Bezan wrote on X that the new instruction was “a disturbing departure from Canada’s longstanding commitment to religious expression.”
   He accused the government of using the Armed Forces as a testing ground for progressive social experimentation and called the policy unnecessary and regressive. He said the directive excludes military members of faith, interferes with longstanding traditions, and infringes Charter-protected freedoms of religion and expression.

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Hamas-Linked CAIR Forces Maryland School Board Member to Submit to Islamic Blasphemy Rules  Where are the lawyers? This was not a criminal case. It was extra-legal enforcement. No statute required the apology. No court ordered the visit. The First Amendment still covers the post. She was not prosecuted. She was processed. That is how a blasphemy norm arrives here — not as a bill titled Sharia, but as a resignation threat, a camera, and a press release.

Abdul El-Sayed Decries 'Disturbing' Breast Cancer Research Funding; Claims It’s a Disease that Affects People With 'Social Power and Privilege'  Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed believes that breast cancer should not be funded – the guy hates women, that’s the only conclusion you can come to with that attitude. He claims it’s a disease that affects people with “social power and privilege.” Evidently, women dying from breast cancer doesn’t matter to the Muslim Supremacist.


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California Drags Pro-Lifers To Court For Crime Of ‘Offering Hope’ And Abortion Pill Reversal  The state’s argument exposes the deeper problem. Hope is welcome when it leads a woman toward abortion, but it’s subject to crippling fines when it helps her sustain her baby. Information is called empowerment when it supports abortion but “misconduct” when it makes continuing a pregnancy after starting an abortion possible. That is not protecting choice; it is enforcing a preferred choice.

FDA in 2020 knew its COVID jab monitoring system didn’t work, yet used it anyway  It appears they wanted to keep using the flawed system because they could use it as evidence the jab had no ill effects, when in truth other monitoring systems and doctors nationwide were finding the jab appears to cause significant heart and other health problems.

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Monkeys, Hula Hooping, and the Death of General Education From Harvard to NC State, broad general education requirements let students substitute niche courses for a common academic foundation.

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