Saturday, June 27, 2026

Blessed Be Our God and Father

 
Blessed Be Our God and Father 
Sovereign Grace Music

VERSE 1
Blessed be our God and Father 
Who has filled our lives with blessing
Every gift from heaven’s fullness 
now is ours in Jesus Christ 
Oh, what riches of his favor poured out 
freely from His throne
We rejoice in praise for the glory of His grace

VERSE 2
Blessed be our God and Father 
Who before the world’s foundation
Knew He’d make us pure and blameless, 
changing sinners into saints
Oh, what mercy to be chosen
and in love to bear His name
We rejoice in praise for the glory of His grace

CHORUS
Hallelujah! to Your name be all the glory
Hallelujah! to Your name be all praise

VERSE 3
Blessed be our God and Father 
Who with unimagined kindness
Gave His Only Son to save us 
for the glory of His name
Oh what power in His passion, 
raised from death to endless reign
We rejoice in praise for the glory of His grace

CHORUS
Hallelujah! to Your name be all the glory
Hallelujah! to Your name be all praise
Hallelujah! to Your name be all the glory
Hallelujah! to Your name be all praise

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The Lord has made known his salvation...

The Lord has made known his salvation;
    he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness
    to the house of Israel.
All the ends of the earth have seen
    the salvation of our God.
  -Psalm 98:2-3

Every one who receives this Word, and by it salvation, receives along with it the duty of passing this Word on... Where there is no mission, there is no Church, and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.   -Emil Brunner Image

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King Charles will now 'protect the multi-faith nation' as new role defined Buckingham Palace unveiled a significant revision to the King's official role, with the newly released Sovereign Grant report 2025/26 describing His Majesty as the protector of faith across Britain's diverse religious landscape.
   The annual financial review of the Royal Household contains fresh terminology, positioning the monarch as someone who safeguards religion throughout the nation.
   According to the document: "His Majesty is Supreme Governor of the Church of England and protects the space for Faith within the multi-faith nation."

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Friday, June 26, 2026

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering...

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. -Hebrews 10:19-25

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Here's How Extreme the Dems Are Now, in New NY Congressional Nominee's Own Words  If you thought Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) was bad, she pales in comparison to how extreme socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic nominee for NY-13, is. She's currently a Ph.D. student at City University of New York.
   She had all kinds of deleted social media posts calling to abolish police, prisons, and borders. She also reportedly called America a "f**king disgrace," and said in an X post, "I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me."

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Congress Must End IRS From Silencing Churches and Pastors  Under this provision of the federal tax code, churches and nonprofit organizations risk losing their tax-exempt status if the IRS determines they improperly engaged in political speech. In practice, it has created a chilling effect on pastors, ministries, and faith-based organizations seeking to speak clearly on the moral and constitutional issues facing our nation. Image

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Caulking in Reflecting Pool was cut and tops of fence posts tossed in water, court filing says  As of Thursday afternoon, there have been seven arrests, seven federal citations and 18 police reports filed related to intentional damage to the pool, according to the Interior Department.

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Trump's Blowing Up Narcos. Biden Ignored Them — Now We're Learning Just How Bad It Was  DEA agents repeatedly monitored shipments of fentanyl pills — but did not seize them — as federal prosecutors sought to bring bigger criminal cases against traffickers of a synthetic opioid that the White House last year designated a 'weapon of mass destruction.'
   Agents and experts, however, said the tactic amounted to a gamble with public safety that potentially imperiled communities in and around Albuquerque and may have violated U.S. Justice Department rules intended to safeguard the public.

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The West Fails To Understand That Iran Operates Religiously Not Pragmatically  When governments become convinced that history, destiny, or God is on their side, they can absorb levels of pain that would break more conventional regimes. That is why sanctions, domestic unrest, and military pressure often fail to produce the outcomes Western policymakers expect. The regime has demonstrated repeatedly that it is willing to sacrifice tens of thousands of its own citizens rather than deviate from what it views as its revolutionary mission.

Unlike any other designated religion, Islam commands its followers not only to spread Islam throughout the globe but, in addition, to create a global Islamic Caliphate where no other religion but Islam reigns supreme. It explicitly commands adherents to “slay the unbelievers until all of dominion is for Allah” (Quran: Sura 9.5).
   Muslims, when confronted with the above verse, will beg to differ and reply that the above verse is referenced only when in battle. However, while some genuinely believe that, it’s equally likely that they will proceed to use taqiyya (the right to lie when used to advance Islam).

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Oregon School Counselor Urges Kids to Cut Off Family Who Aren't Pro-LGBTQ  A school counselor in the woke state of Oregon bragged online and in print about encouraging gender dysphoric kids to cut off and find an "alternative" to their family if their parents and other relatives don’t believe transgender propaganda.


Parents of the students there did what parents in America would almost certainly do in a similar situation, and they raised money to buy five portable air conditioning units for the school. The community got so involved that the parents needed just three days to raise the required €2,000...
...But Mayor Vincent Bouget is an actual member of the Parti communiste français (PCF), and if there's one thing Communists can't stand, it's the community doing stuff. Bouget ordered the school to remove the A/C because "it sets a precedent," and "in some neighborhoods, parents don’t have the means to act."

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Thursday, June 25, 2026

The Lord is gracious and merciful...

The Lord is gracious and merciful,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
The Lord is good to all,
    and his mercy is over all that he has made.

All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord,
    and all your saints shall bless you!
They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom
    and tell of your power,
to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds,
    and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
    and your dominion endures throughout all generations.
          -Psalm 145:8-13 Image

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BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules on Endless 'Temporary Protected Status' for Aliens  This is a major win not only for immigration reform, but for American workers who have long found themselves shouldered out of certain jobs in favor of foreigners who will accept lower pay and fewer benefits.

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Venezuela rocked by strongest earthquakes in over a century, as USGS fears up to 100K deaths — Trump vows US is ‘ready, willing, and able to help’   A magnitude-7.2 quake struck roughly 100 miles west of Caracas, followed just 39 seconds later by an even bigger 7.5-magnitude temblor, according to the US Geological Survey. 
   “High casualties and extensive damage are probable, and the disaster is likely widespread,” the USGS warned — estimating a 40% chance the death toll could climb to at least 10,000, and a 30% chance it could even top 100,000. Image

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The Mar-a-Lago Raid Was About Burying the Fake Russia ICA  The American people deserve the full truth and real accountability. Not performative hearings or selective leaks, but a thorough reckoning with how the intelligence and law enforcement apparatus turned against a political opponent—twice. The more documents surface, the more Nunes and others speak out, and the more the record is corrected, the clearer it becomes: the Mar-a-Lago raid was the logical extension of the Russia collusion hoax.

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Muslim Grooming Gangs Exploited More Than 250,000 British Girls  The report reveals that organized child rape gangs operated across at least 149 local authority districts while police, social services, schools, health services, and politicians failed to protect vulnerable girls, allowing them to be subjected to crimes such as repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, and forced conversions to Islam.
    According to the report, rape gangs have exploited children systematically across every region of the United Kingdom for decades.

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New Yorkers Elect Hamas-Lover Who Said 9/11 Was America’s Fault  Aber Kawas, a socialist and Palestinian activist, has won her election for the New York State Senate. She was caught on camera waving a Hamas headband and claiming the heinous 9/11 terrorist attacks were America’s fault because of capitalism and Islamophobia.


‘We Could Make Prisons Obsolete’: James Talarico Called To Slash Police Budgets and Spend the Money on Social Programs Left-wing Texas Senate candidate James Talarico says he opposes defunding the police and has a "proven track record" of supporting law enforcement. Perhaps that is true now, but in 2022, he called to slash police and prison budgets and redirect the money to social programs, a move he argued would "make prisons obsolete," video footage shows.

Sen. Warren: “Horrific” That Trump Encourages Women Not to Kill Babies   Sen. Elizabeth Warren went even further, telling the Huffington Post, “It’s horrific that the Trump administration is using taxpayer dollars to prop up a website that pushes pregnant women towards non-medical anti-abortion centers.”
   It might be something Warren opposes, but ‘horrific’, really? Sen. Warren thinks it’s horrific if a woman goes to a pro-life group instead of a pro-abortion one? She thinks it’s horrific if a baby lives instead of being killed.

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For the first time since a change in the law in the Netherlands, a child under the age of 12 has died by euthanasia. 
   The death of the child was confirmed by the country's health minister, Sophie Hermans, as she presented the annual report by the committee that reviews all late-term abortions and medically-assisted deaths of children to parliament on Monday.

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The restoration of the West can't happen without Christianity - and more people are realising it  Instead, many in the West have come to “blame civilization and structures of power for all inequality and suffering, and have placed their faith in an inversion of that order”.
  The result is an "anti-civilization discourse” that is being driven by “unmet, spiritual and psychological needs” stemming from the decline in Christian faith and the traditional values that once undergirded Western civilization.


The Pride backlash is growing as Americans push back against being told what to celebrate — and a few baseball players are showing that saying “no” still matters.

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The World’s Biggest Population Fear Has Flipped – and It Could Change Everything  Not only is the human catastrophe of low birth rates reflecting more widespread concerns, such as insecurity, it could also be undermining social cohesion.
   Rather than an exploding bomb of overpopulation, the world faces an economic and social implosion due to a lack of substantive support necessary to help raise much-wanted children.

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Reclaiming Pen and Paper...To preserve academic integrity in the AI era, schools must return to the basics   With another finals season in the books, prohibited AI assistance continues to be a problem at universities. It may not come as a surprise that students attempt to cheat using AI. What may surprise some is the ease of access to complex cheating tools that the AI era has given to students. When presented with the harsh reality of a technological arms race between individual tech-savvy students and the bloated college bureaucracy, the need for a return to more traditional testing methods becomes apparent.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2026

For the Lord will be your everlasting light...

The sun shall be no more
    your light by day,
nor for brightness shall the moon
    give you light;
but the Lord will be your everlasting light,
    and your God will be your glory.
Your sun shall no more go down,
    nor your moon withdraw itself;
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
    and your days of mourning shall be ended.
Your people shall all be righteous;
    they shall possess the land forever,
the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
    that I might be glorified.
The least one shall become a clan,
    and the smallest one a mighty nation;
I am the Lord;
    in its time I will hasten it.
-Isaiah 60:19-22 

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Rape Crisis Org Says It’s ‘Racist’ To Notice Muslim Rape Gangs Abusing UK Girls Yet, when rape survivors notice they are victims of racism at the hands of an ideology that views white women as property, the organization releases a statement condemning the report for being hateful towards Muslims.
   The report explains how the perpetrators of the rape gangs “operated under an honour and shame clan code that treated non-Muslim girls, especially white working-class girls, as property available for sexual use because these girls had no male protectors who could retaliate.” 
   The girls in the report were told they were “white trash” or “‘kuffar’ who merited punishment.” Some girls were forced to get abortions, some miscarried, and others were even trafficked to the Middle East and forced into Islamic marriages, according to the report.


The Islamization of the U.S. Military: America is Being Conquered From Within (Video)  An imam granted access to a U.S. military interfaith chapel stood before American soldiers and fed them this line: “Muslims don’t force people to convert. The Quran says there is no compulsion in religion. You do you, and I do me.”
   This is textbook taqiyya – deliberate deception designed to present a peaceful, tolerant face of Islam while concealing the doctrine’s true commands of dominance and conquest.

Socialism bankrupted her family in Venezuela. Now, she’s warning American studentsFor students who think socialism is a panacea, she said they should speak with people who have lived under socialist systems.

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The Abortion Pill Story The Medical Establishment Doesn't Want To Tell  A 2025 report found one in 10 women taking the drug will experience a serious adverse event. The FDA’s own data admits that one out of 25 women taking mifepristone ends up in the emergency room. Other data reveal that mifepristone has four times the complication rate of surgical abortions and that serious adverse events from mifepristone may be up to 22 times higher than previously believed. Image

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Next California exodus has been triggered as brokers are flooded with calls: Experts warn  A massive exodus out of California is expected to happen after SpaceX’s historic and OpenAI’s confidential IPO, unleashing an unprecedented wave of tech millionaires to Florida.
   Following SpaceX’s IPO on June 12 that set the company’s valuation above $2 trillion and made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, around 4400 SpaceX employees also became millionaires.

Critics contend that prolonged counting periods invite shenanigans and greatly diminish public confidence. Elections once concluded in a single evening increasingly resemble extended administrative processes where outcomes slowly emerge over time.
   Perhaps most troubling is the cumulative effect of these policies. Together, they produce an election system in which ballots are mailed automatically, collected by third parties, deposited in unattended drop boxes, cast without voter identification, registered close to Election Day, and counted over an extended period.


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Fully armed with the privilege of lying to Western citizens, Western governments told us many COVID whoppers, including: (1) The virus naturally evolved and came from a wet market.  (2) It was an order of magnitude more lethal than seasonal flu.  (3) Masks; church, school, and business closures; home confinement; six-foot human separation; restrictions on travel; isolation of ill or dying loved ones from their families; a general moratorium on funerals; and other arbitrary and capricious social distancing guidelines would prevent the spread of the virus.  (4) Natural immunity was ineffective. (5) The experimental mRNA injections were effective “vaccines.”  (6) The experimental mRNA injections would prevent infection, illness, and death.  (7) Children and healthy adults must be forced to receive the experimental mRNA injections, even though they are not likely to become seriously ill or die from the COVID virus.  (8) Any death that could be linked to an mRNA injection must be treated as a death due to the COVID virus.  
   These are just a few of the many lies Western governments told their citizens.  It was one of the greatest mass deceptions ever committed by Western governments against their own peoples.  It was, in other words, a widespread disinformation campaign against the public.

Prof. Angus Dalgleish: There will be a tsunami of cancer cases due to covid vaccines   Shortly after the mass vaccination campaign began, he observed a significant rise in cancer cases. These were aggressive cancers, a phenomenon called “turbo cancer,” where cancer progresses rapidly in people who received booster vaccines.  He believes there is a “tsunami” of cancer cases to come.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2026

“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.
-Isaiah 55:6-9

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FBI announces capture of fugitive in Turkey in alleged $3.7B Medicare fraud scheme  Patel said the operation was a "massive win" for the White House and served as a warning for those attempting to steal money from the U.S.

A greenie warehouse whose solar panels caught fire seven days ago is still blazing away with the smoke blackening the entire city, rendering air quality in some areas so bad it's impossible to stay there.

Conquered New York City: Muslims Turn New York Into a Victory March  Zohran Mamdani is now New York City’s first Muslim mayor – backed by a CAIR survey showing 93% Muslim voter turnout and 97% support for him, while only 42% of the overall city voted. That’s not participation. That’s conquest.
   They are taking our government. They are taking our streets. They are taking our institutions.

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The film that will make you believe in God-the visually stunning 100-minute documentary The Story of Everything  There is increasing evidence – a mix of anecdote and data – that what once seemed like the inevitable decline of religion in secularised Western society has recently been, if not quite reversed, then at least paused. Something in these anxious, divided times in which we live seems to be stirring. There are reports of rising numbers of young people going to church. Prominent scientists, for so long the prophets of a godless future, are coming out as Christians (including the widely admired psychiatrist Dr Iain McGilchrist). Pope Leo’s anti-AI stance has struck a chord with a generation not usually prone to listening attentively to papal pronouncements.
Set against such a backdrop, the timing of the visually stunning 100-minute documentary The Story of Everything makes perfect sense

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Congregants At Historic Slave-Owning Church Do Everything But Self-Flagellate In White Guilt Pilgrimage  Congregants of a predominantly white Virginia church took part in a black-led “slave trail” walking tour through Richmond to confront their congregation’s history of slave ownership.

In Another Sellout, Spanberger Turns Virginia Into Giant Weed Dispensary   Spanberger isn’t protecting Virginia from the marijuana industry; she is throwing the commonwealth under the cannabis.

I have spent most of my life under the apparently mistaken impression that the civil rights movement was about convincing people to stop treating me differently because I am black. This now appears to be an unfashionable position.
   The modern trend seems to be convincing everyone to become extremely aware of race at all times, preferably while yelling. I realized this while watching the reaction to the Karmelo Anthony verdict.
   Not the verdict itself, but the reaction.

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5 Years Post-Covid, Public Middle Schoolers Still Can’t Read Or Do Math COVID shutdowns account for part of the reason for stagnation among 13-year-olds. Despite multiple warnings that school shutdowns would create generational academic and economic harms, these students were the victims of pandemic-era governors who surrendered to teacher union demands that schools remain closed for in-person instruction.

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Monday, June 22, 2026

The Lord is at hand...

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. -Philippians 4:4-7

Prayer has everything to do with moulding the soul into the image of God, and has everything to do with enhancing and enlarging the measure of Divine grace. It has everything to do with enriching, broadening and maturing the soul’s experience of God. That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray. 
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The 10 Worst States for Homebuilding and Affordability in 2026—With New York Ranking Dead Last The Empire State fared worst among all 50 states and the District of Columbia, earning an F grade in the 2026 Realtor.com® Housing Report Card released on Monday. It earned a startlingly low score of just 8.5 points out of 100 due to its sluggish construction and high costs.


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Are witchcraft and paganism a threat to Christianity in modern Britain?Across Britain, interest in witchcraft and modern Pagan spirituality has become increasingly visible. Once relegated to folklore, Halloween imagery and historical myth, it now sits within a broader, more complex religious landscape in which traditional Christianity coexists with a growing range of alternative spiritual expressions.
   While the trend is evident nationally, it is particularly noticeable in parts of Britain with a strong Celtic heritage, where landscape, folklore and a deep sense of place continue to shape cultural identity. In such areas, nature-based spirituality has become increasingly visible within wellbeing culture, online communities and public discussions about faith. What was once regarded as a fringe interest now enjoys a degree of cultural legitimacy that would have seemed unlikely a generation ago.

3 shocking facts about James Talarico’s ‘Christian’ church  ...the ‘demonic’ agenda behind the Texas Democrat’s progressive church

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The United States: No Place Like Home  The World Cup is showing visitors the America many never see: a nation of friendly people, open spaces, family businesses, and everyday places built on trust.


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Drag queen VP of school board arrested for possession of videos 'depicting the sexual abuse of infants' in New York   A drag queen that sits on the school board as vice president in Cazenovia, New York who was accused of sexually explicit communications with a minor has now been charged with possessing child pornography. 


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Saturday, June 20, 2026

Holy God!

Holy God,
Holy and Mighty
Holy Immortal One,
Have mercy; have mercy on us!

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"My help comes from the Lord..."

I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
My help comes from the Lord,
 who made heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot be moved;
    he who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, he who keeps Israel
    will neither slumber nor sleep.

The Lord is your keeper;
    the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day,
    nor the moon by night.

The Lord will keep you from all evil;
    he will keep your life.
The Lord will keep
    your going out and your coming in
    from this time forth and forevermore.
   -Psalm 121

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White House UFC 250 Terror Plot Mastermind Was a DACA Recipient  “[Abraham] Alvarez never should have been here to begin with,” Sheriff Aaron Hanson told Fox & Friends. “He was an illegal immigrant who overstayed a visa in 2001. Unfortunately, he was granted DACA status by the Obama administration in 2014, and I think we’re seeing now how that policy placed our nation and my community at risk.”

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“As the Court explained, the substantive due process right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children includes the right not to be shut out of participation in decisions regarding their children’s mental health,’ which includes the right to information known to the school about whether a child exhibits symptoms of gender dysphoria at school."

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Brazilian Parents Sentenced to 50 Days in Jail for Homeschooling Their Girls "The prosecutor examined the witnesses and recommended for acquittal. An independent educational psychologist found no sign of neglect. The girls themselves described rigorous daily education. The judge convicted anyway – because a 15-year-old said she finds some music lyrics morally questionable, and because the curriculum didn't include state-approved content on gender," said Julio Pohl, Legal Counsel for Latin America at ADF International.

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From ‘Me Too’ To ‘Not Me’: Feminist silence about the UK rape gangs  Whatever happened to the MeToo movement? It went from ‘believe all women’ to ‘I don’t believe them and I don’t care about them.’ That has clearly been the case with the 250,000 young white girls who have been horrifically kidnapped, assaulted, raped, tortured and even killed by the UK grooming gangs. Women’s groups are silent. Image

Abortion estimates released by the Society of Family Planning’s #WeCount project show a slight increase in abortions and highlight how telehealth abortions are undermining state abortion restrictions in the post-Dobbs era.

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Our campuses are corrupt — and higher education is due for its comeuppance  But as more Americans recoil from higher education’s foul products, taxpayers, legislators and parents will increasingly wonder why they’re supporting it.
No wonder Congress is considering multiple bills to defund colleges and universities that are being undermined by big bucks from adversaries like Qatar and communist China — and no wonder the Trump Justice Department is suing schools like UCLA that let antisemitic violence and discrimination fester.
About time, too: No other industry this toxic would have gotten away with its pollution for this long.

Arkansas Student Scores Improve After State Rejected DEI and Focused on Fundamentals So weird what happens when you eliminate the social justice nonsense!

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