DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Help us to find joy in the simple moments of this season, and let that joy be a testament to Your love and grace. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

ACLJ: The American Center for Law and Justice has just filed a major federal lawsuit after a New York public school district forced students as young as 11 to spend two weeks analyzing images so pornographic that news outlets blurred them in their coverage.
The images, created by artist Keith Haring, included explicit depictions of sexual intercourse in various positions, graphic images of male and female genitalia, and depictions of genital mutilation and body mutilation. In addition to requiring students to study and analyze the images on-line, the teacher showed some of them on the classroom’s “Smart Board,” which drastically increased the size, and therefore the impact.
Parents were neither informed nor offered an opt out. When they found out and complained, the school district put the teacher on leave temporarily, then rehired her to teach seventh-grade English to many of the same children she had already harmed. At a school board meeting, the teachers union president publicly mocked concerned parents while school district leaders sat silent.
Haring was a prolific artist and an openly gay man who died of AIDS in his early 30s. Not only are the scale and breadth of his work remarkable, but also, especially in light of this evil art teacher’s assignment, the majority of it is not pornographic. In fact, he is most well known for his social commentary on issues like AIDS awareness, apartheid, war, communism, smoking and cocaine.
Point being … the art teacher could have introduced seventh-graders to Haring as an artist without ever once showing any of his sexually explicit pieces. But she didn’t.
- https://aclj.org/school-choice/-breaking-aclj-sues-after-seventh-graders-forced-to-view-pornographic-art-in-class
- https://aclj.org/school-choice/complaint-for-stephanie-b-and-jessy-r-on-behalf-of-their-children-v-watertown-city-school-district
- https://www.wwnytv.com/2025/09/26/source-watertown-teacher-placed-leave-over-sexually-explicit-art/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Haring
- https://store.usps.com/store/product/love-2025-stamps-S_581804
- https://www.etsy.com/market/keith_haring_home_decor
- https://www.wikiart.org/en/keith-haring/all-works
- https://artincontext.org/keith-haring-artworks/
EVERYDAY HEROES: [3:10] – What a great story!

HOLIDAY SHOPPING: I can think of several people in my life who would love one of these.

J6: Brian Cole, Jr., the man accused of putting pipe bombs outside Republican and Democratic National Committee offices in Washington, DC on Jan 5. 2021, is a “brony” (i.e., an adult man obsessed with My Little Pony. He created and posted to various social media accounts his original art, fanfic, and remixes of songs about the cartoon characters originally created to appeal to elementary-aged girls.
Mark R. Weaver posted, “I’m a prosecutor who has sent sex offenders to prison. Trust me when I say adults — particularity men — who show interest in this show need an increased level of law enforcement scrutiny.”
Indeed. Here is an example of Cole’s work: “Applebloom’s eyes snapped open as she sat up in her bed, panting heavily and sweat dripping from her red mane […] The skeletons, the zombified ponies rising up from the ground, their decaying bodies, rotting flesh sliding off from their bones. She buried her face in her hooves, crying silently at the horrible images that inhabited her mind.”
- https://notthebee.com/article/of-course-dc-pipe-bomb-suspect-was-obsessed-with-my-little-pony
- https://grokipedia.com/page/My_Little_Pony
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brony_fandom

MARKETING FAIL: McDonald’s created an ad about Christmas being “the most terrible time of the year.” The backlash was so bad, the company disabled comments on the post. I’ve been thinking about the ad and it occurs to me that they could’ve used the otherwise funny disaster scenes and made a very successful ad, if only they had kept the “most wonderful time” lyrics and ended with a heart-warming scene of family and friends celebrating together.

NETFLIX: CLICK https://x.com/libbyemmons/status/1998426552187416910 [1:35] to see the trailer for Netflix’s new movie, “Queen of Coal”, about a trans man who has to fight community superstitions about women in mines to achieve “her” dream of becoming a coal miner.

NEW YUCK CITY: CLICK https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1998464721922449669 [1:34] to hear who Mamdani has hired to advise him on public safety issues.

PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Please bless everyone in our nation who is struggling with hard times this holiday season. Uplift them, hold them close, and grant them peace. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
S&G: [9:34] – Sixth graders in a Maryland public school were shown material like the video above for “Transgender Awareness Week.” Thankfully, the parents were notified ahead of time and offered an opt out for their kids.

SCIENCE: Newsweek asked RFK Jr., “Why don’t you stop promoting conspiracy theories?” That’s like asking a man, “Why don’t you stop beating your wife?” ::eyeroll:: But RFK Jr’s reply was beautiful.
“My father told me when I was a little boy that people in authority lie and the job in a democracy is to remain skeptical. I’ve been science based since I was a kid. Show me the evidence and I’ll believe you, but I’m not going to take the word of official narratives. The way you do research is not by asking authoritative figures what they think. Trusting experts is not a feature of science, and it’s not a feature of democracy. It’s a feature of religion and totalitarianism.”

SIGH: Things I feel obligated to stick here, but suggest you ignore.
CLICK https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1998448627040268505 [1:08] to see three driverless Waymos locked in a ‘standoff’ on a dead-end residential street in San Francisco.
CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1997769790295830545 [:28] to hear Joy Reid say our country was founded by killers and leeches.
CLICK https://x.com/TheOfficerTatum/status/1998736977672487423 [:30] to see porch video of a Door Dash driver deliberately spraying a couple’s dinner with pepper spray. Door Dash has fired her and is cooperating with law enforcement.

WASHINGTON: Female athletes at Eastmont High School held a signature-gathering rally to support “Let’s Go Washington,” a citizen-based initiative aimed at strengthening parental rights and communication with schools and restricting males from participating in girls’ sports. Each initiative requires 309,000 signatures by early January to qualify for consideration in the next legislative session. Lawmakers may adopt the initiatives into law or allow the measures to appear on the November ballot in 2026 for voters to decide.

WOMEN’S SPORTS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/810737138210437 [:35] to hear about Henry. It would be nice to learn that Henry is actually a courageous activist for the rights of female athletes. His “win” made national news and probably helped move the needle on national opposition to this insanity. Or maybe he really is just another pathetically needy loser.
Either way, the country has swung hard right on this issue. According to CNN’s statistics guru, Harry Enten, 79% oppose allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports, up from 62% in 2021. The majority consensus crosses party lines, with Democrats at 67%, Independents at 64%, and Republicans at 94%.

GRAMMY NOTES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sKK6BBiUNNs for a sign that you should make the quilt.
SHORTS:
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nEJqJ-Q7AxE to hear a sweet final flight announcement.
CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/864322122972412 to see a clever crow having fun.
































































































