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President Donald Trump Friday evening said he was ending deportation protections for Somalis in Minnesota "effective immediately." "Minnesota, under Governor [Tim] Walz, is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity," Trump posted on Truth Social. He continued, "I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota." Trump claimed that "Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER! President DJT." Minnesota has a sizable Somali population and the TPS program...

The Maine Supreme Court heard arguments last week in a case challenging a lower-court order barring a mother from taking her daughter to church because the girl’s father, who never married her mother, claims it is causing her “psychological harm.” Unholy Father Eleven months ago, Matthew Bradeen secured an order from the Portland District Court giving him the exclusive power to decide which religious activities his 12-year-old daughter, Ava, may participate in. Bradeen’s relationship with Ava’s mother, Emily Bickford, ended before Ava was born. Bickford has primary custody of Ava; Bradeen has visitation rights. Bickford and her daughter have been...

I must say I am very nervous, so…Well, thank you, Ambassador Waltz, for this invitation. It is an honour to stand on this stage with you and the other distinguished speakers here today, to shine a spotlight on the deadly threat faced by thousands of Christians in Nigeria. I would like to thank President Trump for prioritising this issue and for his leadership on the global stage, and calling for urgent action to defend Christians in Nigeria, to combat extremism, and to bring a stop to violence against those who simply want to exercise their natural right to freedom of...

As a Catholic, I've always thought the argument about women priests was a waste of time. There aren't going to be any, given Catholic Church doctrine. The Vatican is lately stringing the wokester women of the Church along on maybe deacons, but that's settled, too, the answer will be 'no.' It's hardly something to get upset about. Being a priest is just a role, and it doesn't give anyone an express route to Heaven if they don't behave. Why fuss about different roles played and insist on changing tradition which dates back to the Apostles when the idea is to...

The United States has experienced one of the largest declines in religiosity globally over the past decade, new research shows. There has been a 17-percent drop in in the number of U.S. adults who say religion is an important part of their daily life between 2015, when it was 66 percent, and 2025, when it is 49 percent, according to recent Gallup polls. This is the largest Gallup has recorded in any country over any 10-year period since 2007.

Thousands of posts on Biblical subjects by the grace of God. · 15h · Google AI claims when asked that it was written by people with diverse political opinions. How many of its developers were on the political right versus the left?I cannot say how many of AI claims were written by people with diverse political opinions, but based upon a 2020 report by CNBC[1] on “The most liberal and conservative tech companies, ranked by employees’ political donations,” then, as with most tech companies, we see Google as overwhelming liberal:Alphabet (Google) Democrats - $5,437,048 (88%), Republicans - $766,920 (12%)Some others...

Question: Whatever happened to some on the right who were so excited in 2022 to see one or two Muslim voices objecting to woke sex? In terms of organizational putting Mamdani on the map , it was Islam advocacy lobby: CAIR. Islam Mamdani appeared with trans flag. Zohran Mamdani pledges continued advocacy for transgender rights as Mayor of New York. November 7, 2025 — Zohran Mamdani, elected Mayor of New York City, secured a significant majority of the LGBTQ+ vote and has vowed to champion the rights of trans people.mygwork

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Sunday she will stop using “toxic” rhetoric, marking what would be a dramatic shift in a political brand hallmarked by derogatory comments. “I would like to say, humbly, I’m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics; it’s very bad for our country,” Greene said. “It’s been something I’ve thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated.” Greene said she realized that she has participated in or supported heated rhetoric that has resulted in threats toward others, a point of reflection for her. “I’m only responsible for myself and my own words...

If we’re being honest, it could just be that immigration is a lucrative issue for the bishops, while defending the unborn is not.America’s Catholic bishops are once again focusing their energies on immigration concerns, subtly undermining the Catholic Church’s teachings on the subject, while highlighting their hypocrisy on the defense of the unborn.The bishops might have a little more moral credibility on the issue had they authored a similar letter lamenting the never-heard cries of children boiled alive by saline solutions.Last week, 216 members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted in favor of publishing a “special message”...

What did Jesus really know about the Book of Enoch and the Nephilim giants? Does the Bible hint at “extraterrestrials” cohabiting with mankind in a forgotten golden age? Glenn Beck sits down with ‪@TimothyAlberino‬ for a mind-blowing conversation that connects the dots from Genesis 6 to the coming post-human apocalypse. As futurists like Yuval Harari openly declare the end of humanity, gene editing, artificial wombs, IVF, and transhumanism are rapidly remaking man in a new image. Alberino issues a chilling wake-up call to Christians: “There’s only one qualification for redemption at the cross of Christ — you must be human.”...

They describe the system, called Circulatronics, as more of a treatment platform than a one-off brain chip. Working with researchers from Wellesley College and Harvard University, the MIT team recently released a paper on the new technology, which they describe as an autonomous bioelectronic implant.As New Atlas points out, the Circulatronics platform starts with an injectable swarm of sub-cellular sized wireless electronic devices, or “SWEDs,” which can travel into inflamed regions of the patient’s brain after being injected into the bloodstream. They do so by fusing with living immune cells, called monocytes, forming a sort of cellular cyborg.After they’ve been...

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Says Pentagon ready to act in Nigeria, elsewhere if ordered by president to end persecutionDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the United States must defend persecuted Christians in Nigeria and other parts of the world facing harsh treatment for their beliefs. “President Trump has made clear that the United States will always defend the right of Christians to freely worship here at home and around the world,” Mr. Hegseth told The Washington Times. “As a Christian, this is also very important to me and my family.” Mr. Hegseth, a conservative Christian, said in a statement that the Defense Department,...

I wonder what Bishop Marcel Lefebvre would make of Cardinal Raymond Burke celebrating the pre–Vatican II “Latin Mass” in St. Peter’s Basilica on October 25. Lefebvre, of course, was a seminal figure in traditionalist Catholicism, who early on distanced himself from the reforms of Vatican II and in 1970 founded the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) to train traditionalist seminarians. The SSPX was canonically suppressed by the Holy See in 1975, but Lefebvre termed the action illegal and decided to ignore it. Then, in 1988, Pope John Paul II declared that Lefebvre was automatically excommunicated for consecrating four bishops...

The Ten Commandments have long been seen as the backbone of societal laws for thousands of years, but did you know that there were other commandments that didn't make the list? The Babylon Bee consulted with dozens of scholars to uncover the following list of commandments that ended up on the cutting room floor: Remember the sabbath day by wearing your favorite NFL team's jersey to church: Unless it's the Cowboys, for that is sin. Thou shalt install the toilet paper roll with the end of the paper coming out from under, not over, for over is a perversion...

A man identified as Jihad Dphrepaulezz has been charged with assault and robbery after allegedly attacking a Turning Point USA attendee during a protest at the University of California-Berkeley. Left-wing protesters disrupted Turning Point USA’s Berkeley event Monday, leading to violent clashes and arrests just two months after the assassination of founder Charlie Kirk. Authorities said Dphrepaulezz, 25, confronted a supporter at Monday’s event and forcibly removed a gold chain from his neck, prompting a fight that left both men bloodied, the New York Post reported. Dphrepaulezz is reportedly an employee of the California Department of Public Health. It was...

Being neither a religion nor an ideology, the body of opinion termed conservatism possesses no Holy Writ and no Das Kapital to provide dogmata. So far as it is possible to determine what conservatives believe, the first principles of the conservative persuasion are derived from what leading conservative writers and public men have professed during the past two centuries. After some introductory remarks on this general theme, I will proceed to list ten such conservative principles. Perhaps it would be well, most of the time, to use this word “conservative” as an adjective chiefly. For there exists no Model Conservative,...

The Supreme Court on Monday declined an opportunity to overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, tossing aside an appeal that had roiled LGBTQ advocates who feared the conservative court might be ready to revisit the decade-old decision. Instead, the court denied an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who now faces hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and legal fees for refusing to issue marriage licenses after the court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges allowed same-sex couples to marry. The court did not explain its reasoning to deny the appeal, which...

New York’s new mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has announced plans for a state-run luxury rehabilitation compound for homeless and addicted veterans — turning the relics of capitalist greed into centers of recovery, work, and collective renewal. The project, known as the Veterans’ Rebirth Compound, would combine housing, physical training, and political education to help veterans rebuild their lives through discipline, purpose, and solidarity. Empty hotels and abandoned corporate properties are being considered for conversion.

Speaking in English, and reaching a US audience directly, he reiterated the Catholic belief that every Christian will ultimately be judged on how they welcomed "the foreigner". In some of his strongest criticism to date of President Donald Trump's administration, the first ever US-born pope also warned that the US bombing of Venezuelan ships, suspected of carrying drugs, risked increasing tensions in the region.