DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, May we each use our extraordinary communications technologies to glorify You. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On January 7, 1927, trans-Atlantic telephone service began with a phone call between the president of Bell AT&T in New York City (1915 photo above) and the head of the British General Post Office in London. By day’s end, more than $6 million in new business had been made and a news agency had sent its first message from Europe to America.
- https://info.mysticstamp.com/first-official-transatlantic-phone-call_tdih/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone
- https://www.loc.gov/item/2014704821/
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING: On January 5, 2026, the CPB’s board of directors unanimously voted to formally dissolve the organization after 58 years. This decision followed the complete rescission of its federal funding in 2025 by Congress and the Trump administration. Individual NPR and PBS stations may continue operating via private donations, state funding, or other sources … if they can find them.
DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://x.com/Real_Ames/status/2008278850493415832 [2:32] to hear a Trumper answer a question and then turn it around on the questioner.
ELON MUSK: Starlink is providing free broadband service to the people of Venezuela through February 3.
FBI: As Dan Bongino heads back to the private sector, FBI Director Kash Patel on how the agency did during the year Dan was Deputy Director –
- 20% drop in nationwide murder rate
- 22% increase in child victims located
- 31% increase in fentanyl seizures
- 35% increase in espionage arrests
- 100% increase in arrests year to year
- 210% increase in gang and criminal enterprise disruptions
- 490% increase in arrest of nihilistic violent extremists
MAMDANI: CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1978619248910962816 [:08] to hear him campaign on a promise of eliminating fares on public busses. On January 1, 2026, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as the new mayor of New York City. On January 4, 2026, he increased bus fares from $2.90 to $3.
- https://abc7ny.com/live-updates/zohran-mamdani-inauguration-live-updates-nyc-mayor-sworn-new-years-day/18333683/
- https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/nyc-subway-and-bus-fare-increase-2026-what-riders-will-pay-starting-january/articleshow/126043382.cms
- https://notthebee.com/article/nyc-bus-fares-up-3-despite-mamdanis-promise-to-make-it-free
MEDIA: CLICK https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/2008292387689275538 to see a historic event on The View … one of the far left hosts celebrating the end of Maduro’s regime.
NORTH CAROLINA: This traditionally blue state has just flipped to red, with registered Republicans now slightly outnumbering registered Democrats for the first time in history.
PEACE ON EARTH: [5:01] – The Trump Doctrine makes a big change from all those “endless war” presidents.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Send Your angels to guard our communication infrastructure. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SCOTT ADAMS: Dilbert’s creator plans to spend his final days immersing himself in Jesus.
VENEZUELA: Cartoonist Gary Varvel offers a biblical justification for the arrest of Nicolás Maduro was indicted by the United States in 2020 on narco-terrorism and corruption charges. “Romans 13 teaches that civil authorities are ordained by God to restrain evil and punish wrongdoing, not to enable it. … [Maduro] has turned Venezuela into a criminal enterprise, stolen elections, crushed dissent, and even confiscated American oil companies while enriching his inner circle and impoverishing his people.
“Therefore, Maduro represents the very kind of lawlessness that Scripture says rulers exist to confront. A lawful order to apprehend him is not vengeance or imperialism; it is the proper exercise of God-given authority to uphold justice, defend the innocent, and place a clear moral boundary around evil. When a regime becomes a vehicle for theft, violence, and deception, confronting it is not only a political duty — it is a moral one.”
GRAMMY NOTES: [8:01] – My father was obsessed with sports. My mother could not have cared less. Four of their six offspring love sports. I’m one of the other two.
SHORTS:
CLICK https://x.com/Sassafrass_84/status/2008398870384918565 [2:25] to hear how we should talk to children about gender.
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