DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Grant us the graces we need to intentionally choose Your will over our own desires, every moment of every day, regardless of who is or isn’t watching. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
CBS: [7:34] – CBS’s parent company, Paramount Global, has been sold to Skydance Media in an $8 billion merger, which was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on July 24, 2025. The deal includes CBS, CBS News, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central, among other assets. Skydance, backed by Oracle founder Larry Ellison and led by his son David Ellison, made concessions like eliminating DEI and committing to an ombudsman to address alleged bias in CBS News.
CRUZ: CLICK https://x.com/tedcruz/status/1952390476473966882 to hear Sen. Ted Cruz reveal that he never spoke with Biden during the entire four years of his presidency. Not once.
DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SHBKgeFsQx0 to hear how hard they’re finding it to actually raise campaign money, instead of stealing it from taxpayers. Grok tells me the New York Slime has reported that the most recent disclosure reports show …
- Republican National Committee (RNC) currently has five times as much money as the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and,
- The Republican’s super pac, MAGA Inc., has $177 million cash on hand, while its Democrat counterpart, PAC Future Forward, has a whopping $2,826.08.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/us/politics/maga-inc-future-forward.html – N.b., I refuse to pay to read the Slime, so can’t check these claims as I usually do.
FLORIDA: Following a six-day undercover operation targeting online child predators, Florida arrested 48 pedophiles.
LIFE: [3:37] – CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/737237009169007 to see a guy go from “it’s a woman’s choice” to “maybe if it’s just the morning after pill” after watching the video above.
MARY’S MANTLE: Women in many cultures, including those of the Middle East, use their shawls as baby blankets and as cloth baby carriers to keep the hands free for daily tasks. While the theological and artistic depictions of “Mary’s mantle” typically emphasize Mary’s shawl used as a cloak, she likely used her shawl/mantle to swaddle Jesus when he was a newborn, to cover Him when he slept, and to carry him against her skin while she worked.
The etymology of the word “mantle” offers more opportunities for meditation. The Latin word “mantellum” meant “cloak, cloth, hand-towel, napkin” perhaps related to the Latin “manus” for “hand” – e.g., “manuscript” = “hand written”). In Old English, “mentel” referred to “a loose, sleeveless garment worn as an outer covering, falling in straight lines from the shoulders” and in Old French “mantel” meant “cloak; bedspread, cover.” From the 1300s, it has referred to something “that which enshrouds, something that conceals, a covering”, thus the layer of the earth between the crust and core.
- “Mamacha Maria” by Artemio Coanqui (Peru) is on page 20 @ https://arte-mio-gallery.my.canva.site/catalogue
- https://www.etymonline.com/word/mantle
- https://thelittleroseshop.com/blogs/the-little-rose-shop-everyday-faith/wrapped-in-marys-mantle-what-does-this-mean
- https://aleteia.org/2019/05/04/place-yourself-under-the-mantle-of-the-virgin-mary-with-this-prayer/
OKLAHOMA: In an effort to prevent leftist ideologies from infiltrating Oklahoma’s classrooms, teachers relocating from liberal-leaning states will be required to pass a new certification test to prove they align with Oklahoma’s curriculum standards.
RUSSIAN COLLUSION: [11:23] – Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff doesn’t pull punches.
TEXAS: CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1952387626423476490 to hear Gov. Abbott play hard ball with Texas House Democrats who have left the state to break quorum and block a Republican-led effort to pass a redrawn congressional map that would flip five Democratic congressional districts to favor Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterms. By refusing to come to work, they seek to prevent the House from achieving the two-thirds majority (100 out of 150 members) needed to conduct business, effectively stalling the vote. Gov. Abbott’s threat to remove them from office has the force of a 2021 Texas Supreme Court decision.
CLICK https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1952463495867269370 [:57]. The Texas House has passed a motion to issue arrest warrants for those legislators who fail to attend a mandated session. GOOD! I used to get into trouble for being ten minutes late to my shift. Skipping out altogether while still expecting a paycheck? ::eyeroll::
CLICK https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1952457586038706464 to watch live cam of the Texas House, which is set to convene today at 3 pm.
- https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-statement-on-house-democratic-quorum-break
- https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/texas-democrats-leave-the-state-to-prevent-redistricting-vote-5896083
- https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/texas-house-votes-to-arrest-democratic-lawmakers-who-left-state-5896495
TRANS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1445970146460543 to hear the trans-detrans story of a young man who was abused and lied to by his pediatrician and his therapist. Thank God he never did more than socially transition for a couple of years, so is now a fully intact, fully functional man.
SHORTS:
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5l-wKAfqqzE. I think these two could recite the phone book and make me laugh.
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