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Explanation: Have you contemplated your home star recently? Featured here, a Sun partially eclipsed on the top left by the Moon is also seen eclipsed by earthlings contemplating the eclipse below. This spectacular menagerie of silhouettes was taken in 2012 from the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area near Page, Arizona, USA, where park rangers and astronomers expounded on the unusual event to interested gatherers. Also, faintly visible on the Sun's disk, just to the lower right of the dark Moon's disk, is a group of sunspots. A new solar eclipse will occur this week and give many people in northern...

TRUST IN THE LORD SONG DEVOTIONAL Beloved, our Heavenly Father lovingly calls His children to trust in Him with all their hearts. Even when we cannot understand His ways, we can rest in His ETERNAL perfect wisdom, faithfulness, and agape love. His plans are always ETERNALLY higher than ours, His ways are always truth, and He is always working all things together for good for our ETERNAL good for His ETERNAL glory. Proverbs 3:5–6 reminds us not to lean on our own understanding but to acknowledge our Heavenly Father in every area of our pilgrim life. As we faithfully abide...

US President Donald Trump has been weighing the possibility of declaring victory against Iran without achieving a nuclear deal, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing US officials. According to the officials, Trump privately floated the idea to his senior aides. If the US can keep Iran's nuclear program in check and traffic resumes in the Strait of Hormuz, then Trump would be more likely to extend the ceasefire "indefinitely," the officials told WSJ. In recent weeks, the president told senior aides privately that Tehran is "likely unable to revive its nuclear work," after Operation Midnight Hammer caused heavy...

Beloved, this YouTube video is really well said and taught, and we had to share it! This topic is a must-study for all last-day believers. We so need to know our Bible in Spirit and truth today to represent the Almighty rightly and truthfully (2 Cor. 5:17-21)! This huge sheep-in-wolves' clothing demonic movement is moving rapidly throughout our high-tech, lawless land today, as morality and moral absolutes are being eroded by godless demonic politicians. This movement seeks to continually divide believers and place them on the defensive while seeking to spread non-biblical teaching and Theology - John 17:17, 1 Tim....

Short video, Marco Rubio speaking about communism.

They’re struggling to foot the Z bill. Gen Z can no longer afford to revel in the footloose and fancy-free freedom of youth, as nearly half of twenty-somethings are financially supporting both a child and a parent simultaneously, forcing most to tap into their retirement savings just to stay afloat, per alarming 2026 data. It’s a tough break for the youngsters amid the surging cost of living crisis, a squeeze leaving roughly 70% of Americans in danger of healthcare, food and housing insecurity. And these newcomers to adulthood are left holding the bag. Oft-maligned as “lazy,” skittish brats with zero...

BRADENTON, Fla. - Bradenton police arrested 34-year-old Lindsey Gore on Sunday morning following a Saturday night hit-and-run crash that left a man critically injured. Bradenton police arrested 34-year-old Lindsey Gore on Sunday morning after a serious crash along 14th St W. Investigators said Gore was driving a Toyota 4Runner around 10:50 p.m. on Saturday when she struck a man walking his bicycle across the road. Police said Gore drove away from the scene in the SUV, which had noticeable damage to its front headlight. The victim was taken to the hospital where he remains with life-threatening injuries. Gore was charged...

Veteran actor Jeff Bridges has seen enough of Hollywood’s enthusiastic embrace of artificial intelligence (AI) to know it’s hastening the demise of people like him in an industry that has delivered so much to so many through pure human endeavor. But all is not lost for the son of Lloyd and brother of Beau. He used an interview to outline that if you can’t beat it, enjoy it, as he charted AI’s development since he first came across it as a video game character in the classic Tron back in 2010. If all else fails he can simply monetize his...

Albin Rhomberg, the man who photographed the bodies of more than 16,000 preborn babies in a shipping container as a grad student in 1982, spoke with Live Action's Simeon Harris for an interview about the discovery. Key Takeaways: * In 1982, Rhomberg photographed the contents of a repossessed shipping container: the bodies of more than 16,000 preborn babies. * Melvin Weisberg, the owner of a medical lab, had received the bodies of the aborted babies from abortionists in several states for storage, but had stopped making payments. * The men who came to repossess the storage container were told it...

A female detective in Britain has been fired and reportedly placed on a blacklist that includes rapists and murderers after she criticised her force’s LGBT policies as appeasing people with “cocks in frocks”. Detective Constable Rachel Fletcher has been fired for “gross misconduct” after she openly denounced guidelines from her former Northumbria Police force, in which supposedly transgender offenders could request to be strip-searched by a female officer. According to the Daily Mail, Fletcher was reported to a disciplinary panel by multiple male colleagues over her use of the phrase “cocks in frocks” when criticising the transgender policy of the...

I bought a package of boneless chicken breasts from Kroger with a label weight of 4.94lb at $2.28/lb, or $11.26 total. When I got home, I weight the package, which includes the packaging and diaper, and it weight 3.84lb, more than a pound under weight including the packaging. I took it back for a refund and this is where it gets interesting. The service manager, who was very nice to me, said that she couldn't take the package back because it left the store and asked what I was willing to take to keep the package. She then offered to...

9 August 2026 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Sta. Candida Maria de Jesus Parish - Naic, the Philippines Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First reading1 Kings 19:9,11-13The Lord was not in the wind, or the earthquake, or the fireWhen Elijah reached Horeb, the mountain of God, he went into the cave and spent the night in it. Then he was told, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord.’ Then the Lord himself went by. There came a mighty wind, so strong it tore the mountains and shattered the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord was...

Recent news reports discussing the upcoming launch of 'transgender' paper dolls for young children — funded by American taxpayers and promoting destructive, sex-rejecting, transgender ideology — have led many to wonder how our society lost its common sense. But an upcoming film documenting the 'work' of a sex researcher (and child sexual abuser) — who believed society might be better off if men were castrated like farm animals at birth — may hold the key to unlocking the mystery of the paper dolls. Key Takeaways: * The NY Post reported about new paper dolls for "gender diverse children ages 4-10"...

“Usually, I keep my private life quite private, but I have made the decision to start freezing my eggs, and I want to share that with anyone who is — and I want to share this because I was weighing it for a very long time, and I think that, you know, I was saving for it for a very long time, and there just isn’t a ton out there, I feel, and sometimes it can feel very daunting,” the New York Democrat said on her Instagram story Saturday. “And as women in general, we are not taught about our...

Bill Maher, host of HBO's "Real Time" talk show, stunned his mostly liberal audience by admitting that "President Trump's assertion that the Democratic Socialists of America are communists is accurate. I have mercilessly criticized Trump for his trillion lies, but in this instance I have to acknowledge the truth behind what he says." "Look, the DSA spokespeople reject the promise of liberty made in our nation's founding documents," Maher reminded his audience. "They want to replace liberty with collectivism and conformity enforced by a government that considers individuals as resources to be exploited without their consent. As liberals, we want...

8 August 2026 Saint Dominic, Priest on Saturday of week 18 in Ordinary Time St Dominic's in Brick, NJ, altar formerly from Asbury Park, which had closed. Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHabakkuk 1:12-2:4If the vision comes slowly, wait: it will come without failAre not you, from ancient times the Lord,my God, my Holy One, who never dies?O Lord, you have made this people an instrument of justice,set it firm as a rock in order to punish.Your eyes are too pure to rest on wickedness,you...

Whatever in the world possessed Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger's staff to think this was a good idea? For some inexplicable reason, they scheduled the Democrat to appear at a Saturday fiddlers convention in rural southwest Virginia. Needless to say, this was not her crowd, and they let her know it. The setting was Galax, Virginia, a small independent city in the Blue Ridge Highlands of Southwest Virginia, located very close to the North Carolina line. It's been called the “gateway to the Blue Ridge Mountains," and its identity has deep ties to old-timey Appalachian bluegrass music. Galax takes its role...

Mia Hughes lays out how the modern trans rights movement redefined a psychiatric condition as a healthy, natural variation of human existence to justify irreversible medical intervention. The doctors behind these “treatments” are activists first and medical providers second, emotionally blackmailing parents with the unscientific claim that gender transition is life-saving care.

Gad Saad @GadSaad: Yikes. No amount of evidence can convince some lobotomized people that this guy and his ilk are degenerate enemies of liberty. TECTONE 🇺🇸 @Tectone Aug 7: OLD HASAN CLIP RESURFACED: Hasan Piker advocates instead of imprisoning rapist relocate them to wealthy college campuses to rape wealthy white Christian women instead. August 8, 2026.

I hate how American politics feels like every election is an existential threat to the nation you, personally, want to see. I don’t trust Democrats to lead us well, and they don’t trust people like me and those I’d support to lead us well, either. That’s fine, but the idea that every election matters to such a degree is troubling. The left, though, has long made it a spectator sport. After all, Trump is an existential threat to democracy. He’ll completely remake America into a fascist state. Meanwhile, Democratic Socialists—people who are getting support from the Democratic Party when they...