DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Please grant us all the graces we need to be generous to those you place in our paths. We pray in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
BORDER: CLICK https://x.com/Timcast/status/1976856663908139342 [1:40] to hear Don Lemon condescendingly “explain” that illegal entry by an alien is just a misdemeanor, which is “not a criminal act.”
1) Violating 8 U.S. Code § 1325 – Improper entry by alien is only a misdemeanor for a first offense by someone who has never been convicted of a crime. After that, it’s a felony.
2) A misdemeanor is considered a criminal act.
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
- https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/criminal-defense/what-is-a-misdemeanor/
CHARLIE KIRK: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/731532573018225 to hear him talk about IVF. I agree that everyone should read Brave New World. It was definitely one of the most impactful books I have ever read.
EVERYDAY HEROES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bt1o5dG8Yxg to see a bus driver rescue a lost toddler. She stayed with the child until officers with the Tampa Police Department arrived to locate the child’s family and return him.
FIRST LADY: [5:33] – On Friday, Melania Trump announced that, thanks to her efforts, eight Ukrainian children who were displaced during the country’s ongoing war with Russia have been reunited with their families.
HISTORY: One of the displays inside the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, Poland, is a collection of suitcases that once belonged to “undesirables” taken to Nazi death camps.
JAMES: CLICK https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1976521792509649387 [:22] to hear a CNN talking head claim that everyone in American commits mortgage fraud. Something similar could be said about business owners tending to overvalue their business assets when applying for bank loans.
CLICK https://x.com/thecjpearson/status/1976701878701637979 [:36] to hear an MSNBC talking head make an absurd claim. CJ Pearson asks, “Is he aware that we were all in fact alive the last four years?
- https://x.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1758604686154735660
- https://x.com/thecjpearson/status/1976701878701637979
LIFE: Chase and Cooper were identical twins who were miscarried at 22 weeks. Their mother chose to share their photos, saying, “I want people to know that this is what a 22-week-old child looks like.”
MASSATWOSHITS: A Christian couple from Woburn, Massachusetts has lost their license to foster children because they refused to sign a gender affirming policy form from the Department of Children and Families (DCF).
Since 2020, Lydia and Heath Marvin have have fostered eight different children under the age of 4. Their most recent foster child was a baby with complex medical needs who stayed with them for 15 months.
Last week, the Trump administration sent a letter to DCF, addressing the lawsuit and specifically mentioning the Marvins. The Massachusetts Family Institute and Alliance Defending Freedom has also filed a federal lawsuit against DCF regarding this issue.
- https://www.mass.gov/foster-care
- https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/massachusetts-foster-parents-discrimination/
MIDDLE EAST: [10:06] – The hostages are coming back on Monday!
MIRACLE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9O7dMweIaqs to hear Lee Strobel tell the story of Barbara Snyder’s instantaneous healing from multiple sclerosis.
PANTS ON FIRE: CLICK https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1976711457753776141 [:50] to hear House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries frame the Schumer Shutdown as “Republicans voting to gut health care.”
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, In this time of division and moral decay, we pray in Jesus’ Name that all people, families, institutions, and leaders receive Your perfect and holy guidance. Amen.
RIFs: [8:49] – Currently, more than 4,000 federal employees have received termination notices. Federal employees are entitled to 60 days written notice before separation (termination), although this can be shortened to 30 days with approval from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). N.b., it is the OPM that is currently in charge.
While these RIF (Reduction in Force) notices begin upon notification, they run independently of the shutdown. Federal employees who receive RIF notices will be out of their jobs once their notification period ends. If the shutdown ends prior to that date, they will receive retroactive pay for any days they were on furlough.
Unless their agencies voluntarily rescind their notice, they will be required to return to work for the remaining notice time to wrap up affairs or perform limited transition work. Since Trump has prioritized cutting the federal work force and all the department heads are his people, this is unlikely.
Some employees can appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) within 30 days of separation, potentially delaying enforcement or seeking reinstatement with backpay. And some RIFs include buyouts or early retirement incentives.
- Source: Grok
SHUTDOWN: CLICK https://x.com/ThomasMHern/status/1976843713570914623 to hear a Democrat ignore three facts: (1) The Republican majority in the Senate is not big enough to pass the CR. (2) The CR is clean, so there’s nothing the Republicans can offer to take out to appease the Democrats who, for their part, are demanding $1.5 trillion in excess spending. (3) Extending subsidies is something that can be debated during the extension the CR would grant our legislators to do the job they failed to get done before the deadline. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nLFgZKK-Ghg to hear Jake Tapper tell the truth.
SHORTS:
CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/809717501353253 to see what one guy did about his nosey neighbors.
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DGEkzVXbji0 to hear about Sir Smacks-a-Lot.
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