by | February 9, 2021 · 2:11 pm

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ANTIFA/BLM: On Feb. 6, left-wing agitators marched through Washington, D.C., chanting “Burn it down” and “Black lives matter.” They also threatened people eating dinner in restaurants.

CLICK https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1358216974749286401 [:55] to see individuals in black bloc fighting with police officers.

CLICK https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1358225315588411393 [:08] to see them carrying the red-and-black Antifa flag.

National Police Association spokesperson, retired Sgt. Betsy Smith, says it’s “extremely frustrating to law enforcement” that the media is obsessed with January 6th and white supremacists, while ignoring “the other 99 percent of violent riots that American law enforcement has been dealing with for the past almost year.”

CALIFORNIA: CLICK https://rumble.com/vdlsdd-petition-to-recall-calif.-gov.-gavin-newsom-approaches-1.5m-signatures-nece.html [3:33] to hear OAN’s report on the effort to get rid of Newsom. With five weeks left to go, the petition to recall is almost there. One America’s Pearson Sharp spoke with organizers who are urging all Californians to get out and sign the petition.

CATHOLIC HISTORY: I did not know this! [1:51]

CHINA FIRST: CLICK https://rumble.com/vdm2dn-bidens-first-foreign-policy-speech-no-more-america-first-on-china.html [4:30] to see OAN’s report about Joe Biden’s first foreign policy speech, which committed to putting an end to the America first agenda. This is especially so when it comes to China.

IMPEACHMENT: The looming (and unconstitutional) impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump has virtually no chance of success. The Democrat-majority House only needed a simple majority to send the articles to the Senate, but the 50-50 Senate requires at least 67 votes to convict. And any GOP senator who joins Democrats in voting to convict will likely face intense blow back from their constituents and local Republican Party chapters.

MSDNC: MSNBC released a TV promo in which it showcased reporter Mike Memoli fawning over Joe Biden’s coffee-drinking habits and how it felt to win the White House. The liberal news network’s tagline was “This is why you watch.”

NEW YORK: FINALLY! The State Supreme Court has ruled that Republican Claudia Tenney won by 109 votes in the country’s last undecided congressional race for NY-22. We’re in the 23rd, right near the border.

POLITICAL VIOLENCE: CLICK https://rumble.com/vdlytb-tipping-point-left-wing-mob-continues-with-kyle-shideler.html [4:27] to hear OAN’s report on continuing violence by Antifa and BLM, which naturally doesn’t get any attention at all from the political left. Because only right wingers are “dangerous.” Democrats are trying to use the issue to federalize law enforcement, which is an important step toward their One World goal.

PURGING TRUMP: Remember the old days, when Democrats mocked us for being Obama-hating whack jobs? As I recall, once he was gone, we focused on the new administration. Not so the Left.

Chase Bank has just notified the pro-Trump internet company, Covfefe Coffee, that they will no longer process payments.

A company spokesman said the company had been using the payment processor for two years without issue and that the declaration from Chase came completely out of the blue.

RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS: Tissue alert! A Florida waitress saved a boy and his sister from an abusive home. Orlando’s police chief said, “We probably would have been talking about a potential homicide investigation if she had not intervened when she did.”

It started when the family of four sat down in Flavaine Carvalho’s area of the restaurant. In fact, they sat in the only table where she could hold up a note that the boy could see without the parents noticing.

Carvalho became suspicious when she noticed bruises and cuts on the 11-year-old boy. When the parents wouldn’t let him order any food, her concern was raised to the level of genuine alarm.

First she wrote, “Are you OK?” on a piece of paper and held it up. The boy shook his head “No.” So she wrote a second note, “Do you need help?” The boy nodded. So Carvalho check with her boss and then dialed 911.

In custody, the boy told detectives that he had been beaten by his stepfather using a wooden broom, hung upside-down from a door frame by his ankles, and strapped to a furniture dolly on Christmas Day as punishment from Santa. His body was covered in bruises in various stages of healing. He also reported being denied food and was 20 lbs underweight.

The mother and stepfather have both been arrested and charged on multiple counts of child abuse. The boy’s 4-year-old sister did not show signs of abuse, but was also taken into the safe custody of the Department of Children and Families.

SEX TRAFFICKING: Former President Donald Trump’s efforts to create an office dedicated to fighting sex trafficking made an “incredible impact” over the last four years. So says the founder of SHAREtogether, a nonprofit organization dedicated to combating child sex trafficking.

“No former president in the history of this country has used his or her platform to denounce the exploitation of children and then appropriate funding. So we’ve seen an incredible impact over the years, over the last four years, particularly towards the support for law enforcement.”

SPENDING: President Biden is reportedly giving up a hike to the federal minimum wage in the “COVID-19 relief bill” on the concern that it might doom the bill’s chances at passage.

But left-wing Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, claims he won’t support the bill without a hike in the minimum wage. If Sanders votes no, Democrats will have to win over the support of Republicans to pass their bill through the Senate.

If passed, Porkulus Two will add another $1.9 trillion to our national debt.

TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION: A new report explains how the ChiComs are aggressively persecute their unruly citizens anywhere in the world with threats, kidnappings, and assaults. Since 2014, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been involved in at least 214 cases of physical attacks on its nationals abroad, the largest by far compared to other countries.

TRUMP ECONOMY: CLICK https://rumble.com/vdmc33-report-president-trump-oversaw-greatest-market-growth-in-u.s.-history.html [4:44] to hear about the historic good he did for us. The infamous “Trump’s Lies and Deceptions” count gave him one “lie” for every time he said his economy was the best in history. They were the liars.

TWITTER: Twitter suspended suspended conservative radio host Wayne Allyn Root without telling him why or for how long.

Twitter permanently suspended The Gateway Pundit for repeated violations of the platform’s “civic integrity policy,” which states that users may not use the platform “for the purpose of manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes.”

The actual policy is that no one may use Twitter in any way that may damage Democrats or help Republicans. But that’s okay. It just means that tens of millions of us will NOT be adding to Twitter’s profits.

GRAMMY NOTES: Sometimes I think about what it’s like to be Lil’ Buzz and it breaks my heart. He is so intelligent, but he can’t speak. He can’t ask questions or tell us how he’s feeling or what he thinks about. Thankfully, he has a tablet to help him speak and is using the computer keyboard to write out his own assignments. Next month, he and Bunny start in-person classes part-time. Mama enjoys their home school days, but the hybrid schedule will give her more time to do stuff with Bootz, so it’s all good.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/epochtimes/videos/193059095438682 [1:40] to watch an adorable little boy explain why he doesn’t want to ever get married. It’s hysterical. LOL

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by | February 8, 2021 · 3:10 pm

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ABORTION: Forty-eight senators have sent a letter to Majority Leader Schumer promising to block any bill that would undermine the Hyde Amendment or other current protections for the unborn.

CONFIDENCE: If it was Trump, it would say “EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE COUNTRY DOESN’T TRUST TRUMP!! DID YOU HEAR THAT?! EIGHTY PERCENT!! THAT’S 4 OUT OF 5 AMERICANS THINK DONALD TRUMP SUCKS!!”

HHS: FAUXTUS’ nominees for the top three spots at the Department of Health and Human services have two things in common. One, they are incompetent. Two, they are big supporters of abortion on demand.

1) Nominee for secretary of HHS – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra – has no background in the field of healthcare at all. His background includes attacking the First Amendment rights of pregnancy care centers in California, an effort he ultimately lost at the U.S. Supreme Court.

2) Nominee for deputy secretary of HHS – Wisconsin’s acting Secretary of Health Andrea Palm – has no healthcare education. She repeatedly exceeded her position’s lawful powers and, at public appearances, appeared not to understand the data. She’s been sued and lost after trying to close the whole state and for continuing to close and restrict religious gatherings. Under her leadership, Wisconsin hasn’t even completed its priority lists for who should be vaccinated and when; half of the vaccine doses provided to Wisconsin have not yet been administered.

3) Nominee for assistant secretary of health – Pennsylvania’s secretary of health Dr. Rachel Levine – is the worst of the three. Knowing it would lead to excess deaths, her office issued orders forcing nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients, then moved her own mother into private care. Six of the 10 nursing homes with the most COVID-19 deaths in the nation were in Pennsylvania — a direct result of Levine’s policy. Her leadership has put the commonwealth behind more than 30 other states in vaccine distribution, though overdoses from illegal drugs increased 11.7% under her watch.

IMPEACHMENT 2: Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Feb. 6 that congressional lawmakers are violating the U.S. Constitution with what he described as a “show trial” against former President Donald Trump.

The House impeachment brief (pdf) alleges that Trump incited a mob to breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 while lawmakers were convened in a joint session to consider the certification of Electoral College vote.

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: The Supreme Court issued a ruling late Friday night that California must immediately allow churches to reopen at 25% of occupancy — ending the state’s ban on indoor worship.

SAINT OF THE DAY: Today is the feast of St. Josephine Bakhita (b. 1869 in the Darfur region of Sudan – d. February 8, 1947 in Vicenza, Italy). In 1877, she was kidnapped by Arab slave traders and forced to talk 600 miles to a slave market. Over the next 12 years, she was bought, sold and given away more than a dozen times. Some owners treated her well. Some abused her viciously.

One took her to Italy where another placed her in a convent while the family was traveling. There she learned about Jesus and decided to join the order. When her mistress returned from her trip, Josephine refused to leave the convent. A superior in the order took her case to court, where she won her freedom.

She was baptized on January 9, 1890, receiving the Sacraments of Initiation from Archbishop Giusseppe Sarto, twho would later become Pope Pius X. She spent the rest of her life as a member of the Daughters of Charity, where she worked as a cook and a doorkeeper at her home convent. She also traveled and visited other convents telling her story to other sisters and preparing them for work in Africa.

She was known for her gentle voice and smile. She was gentle and charismatic, and was often referred to lovingly as the “little brown sister” or honorably as the “black mother.” When speaking of her enslavement, she often professed she would thank her kidnappers. For had she not been kidnapped, she might never have come to know Jesus Christ and entered His Church.

GRAMMY NOTES: I just did the math and realized I am coming up on the 50th anniversary of giving my life to Jesus! I don’t remember what time of year it was, only that I was 17. I’ll be 67 on May 7.

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by | February 7, 2021 · 5:27 pm

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by | February 7, 2021 · 5:11 pm

The Forbidden Movie

Mike Lindell’s 2 hour documentary about 2020 election fraud has been wiped from multiple platforms. You can view it @ (add http://)michaeljlindell.com.

When I put the full URL there, WP tried and failed to embed it, then wouldn’t let me erase the block! I had to delete the post and start over. I hope this works.

Full disclosure, I haven’t watched it myself, but I’ve heard it can be difficult to find. If one of you does sit through it all, I’d appreciate a review in the comments.

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by | February 7, 2021 · 4:56 pm

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2A: Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has introduced a bill that would enact some of the strictest gun regulations in the history of the country AND give the federal government sweeping power to decide who can own a firearm.

Among other things, the bill calls for mandatory firearm and ammunition possession licensing and prohibiting of certain types of guns and ammunition. It would not only require gun ownership be restricted to those 21 and older, but also require that individuals who apply for a gun license undergo a psychological evaluation along with members of their household.

Licenses would be denied if any history of hospitalization for mental illness, disturbance, or diagnosis is found. It would also prohibit any person from selling or giving a firearm or ammunition to another person unless the person has notified the Attorney General of the sale or gift. Those who are actually allowed to own a gun would also be required to purchase insurance.

CATHOLIC: In an interview with Catholic News Service on Monday, Pope Francis called for unity in the church, saying, “The Church [in the U.S.] is very alive, very, very alive. There are perhaps traditionalists groups, but we have those here in the Vatican too. This can be healed.”

He also soundly condemned fundamentalist groups who, according to him, sow discord and war. There was no similar condemnation of progressive groups. If he were an American, he’d be a Democrat.

CRITICAL RACE THEORY: [4:40] – Legal Insurrection’s William Jacobson talks with Tucker Carlson about the insidious spread of this highly racist ideology in America’s schools at all levels.

FOX NEWS: [3:54] – Lou Dobbs’ show has been canceled. I wonder how long Tucker will last.

I.D.: Pennsylvania requires one produce a photo ID before receiving a COVID vaccination. Wait, wut? Haven’t Democrats proven by shouting about it that requiring photo ID adversely affects impoverished and minority communities?

MICHIGAN: Detroit – CLICK https://rumble.com/vdl4bt-exclusive-new-video-shows-late-night-deliveries-of-thousands-of-illegal-bal.html [7:21] to see video evidence of what three election observers testified to in sworn affidavits – i.e., a white van bearing Detroit Election Bureau markings secretly delivering boxes and boxes of fraudulent ballots to the TCF Center in the wee hours of November 4.

Before the deliveries, Trump had a decisive lead. After the drop, Biden suddenly shot to the top. Legal ballots were delivered by USPS before the 8:00 pm November 3 deadline. Their chain of custody was supposed to be certified by both GOP and Democrat observers.

NON-INSURRECTION: D.W. Wilber (Counterterrorism Analyst, Former CIA) writes, “There was never any insurrection on January 6th, just like there is no such thing as white privilege or systemic racism. Those are all creations of the Socialist-Democrat Party used to create a political narrative that they exploit to create division in America.”

SENATE: On February 4, Republicans took advantage of a Senate procedure that allowed them to propose a series of amendments to the budget resolution to force Democrats to take a stand on a series of tough issues. Among those amendments and the vote counts included:

  • 100-1 opposing the defunding of police
  • 97-3 to support keeping the U.S. Embassy in Israel in Jerusalem
  • 50-50 on a failed amendment supporting the free exercise of religion
  • 50-50 on a failed amendment opposing the Biden administration’s move to restrict oil and gas leasing on federal lands
  • 50-50 on a failed amendment opposing a federal carbon tax
  • 50-50 on a failed amendment opposing stimulus checks for people in prison
  • 53-47 in favor of an amendment supporting the expansion of health savings accounts
  • 50-50 on a failed amendment to oppose packing the Supreme Court
  • 50-50 on a failed amendment to support the border wall
  • 51-50 in favor of a budget resolution for coronavirus relief allowing the Senate to proceed using budget reconciliation rules (to avoid a GOP filibuster)

The 50-50 votes were split across party lines.

UNITY: [25:17] – During his address to the National Prayer Breakfast, FAUXTUS emphasized faith as a unifer, while ignoring his administration’s hostile steps toward people of faith.

GRAMMY NOTES: Bunny and Bootz enjoy playing with Mama’s saint peg dolls. My favorite was when they put them all inside a doll house, then set up their toy dinosaurs outside the house, menacing them. It kinda feels like they get the whole spiritual warfare thing, you know?

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2020 ELECTION FRAUD: “The party line with regard to the 2020 presidential election, aggressively promoted by America’s corporate media and Big Tech, is this: There was no election fraud because the courts have said so. Both claims are false. Not just questionable, but dead wrong.” – Steve Mosher

A team of volunteer scientists and engineers took a close look at all the lawsuits that have been filed and summarized the results. I made the graphic above based on their findings. You can read the report at the 2020 Election Cases link below.

Of the 46 remaining lawsuits, 34 have either been withdrawn, consolidated with other suits, or dismissed due to legal technicalities such as lack of standing, timing, or jurisdiction, while 25 cases are still ongoing.

Those judges who dismissed suits never heard the actual evidence of election irregularities and/or fraud, since they did not allow it to be presented in their courtrooms. Such cases cannot be counted as a loss for Trump. If anything, they are evidence of a tragic failure of our judicial system to protect voters’ rights.

ABORTION: Never forget that Democrats are not pro-choice, they are pro-abortion. In fact, they are so much in favor of murdering innocent babies that they have again, for the umpteenth time, blocked legislation that would require that abortion survivors receive medical and comfort care.

BORDER: It will come as no surprise that the situation at our southern border is getting worse since FAUXTUS took office. Under Trump, nobody was smuggling people or drugs, because POTUS had all hands on deck out there. Now it’s Obama 2.0.

And that’s a serious problem … not because Trumpers are racist bigots, but because lots of bad people hate us. So far this year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in the Yuma sector have apprehended 14 Iranians who had illegally entered the United States. Who knows how many they missed.

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://rumble.com/vdkm0n-godless-fr.-altman-scorches-biden-democrats-for-abortion-stance-while-calli.html [14:25] to hear a new interview Fr. James Altman, roasting FAUXTUS and the many bishops who were silent about his extremism during the 2020 campaign.

“When you stay faithful, the grace that comes is greater than the pain … We go forward in joy and hope because our hope is in the hereafter. It’s not this life. … we will be persecuted; we can’t not expect that … we have to build our arks, our temporal arks and our spiritual arks.”

FAUCI: In this two-part report, Steve Hilton presents evidence that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s potential role in the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/NextRevFNC/videos/432344174486279 [15:50] for part one.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/NextRevFNC/videos/751055602196267 [14:56] for part two.

FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/whitehousebrief/videos/1060260721135352 to hear Glenn Beck. This is worth watching [6:01].

If you thought Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America was bad, this time under Biden, they are NOT playing around. All the key players are back in place and ready to kick things into overdrive. It was no surprise that Biden rejoined the Paris climate agreement and brought back John Kerry, who led the push for it. Biden’s picking up where Obama left off. And this is just the beginning.

JEN PSAKI PSUCKS: [4:37] – Just another day at the circus.

NEWSMAX: Newsmax has joined the ranks of Twitter and YouTube in censoring an interview with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for talking about voting fraud. Grrrrrr!!!!

You surely remember how, when it was the actually baseless accusation that Russia had hacked our election to favor Trump, ALL the Slimers did was talk about it! Now that it’s our concerns that Democrats hacked our election to favor FAUXTUS, we’re not allowed to talk about it. Even someone who hasn’t looked at a shred of the piles of evidence should find that suspicious. If they’ve still got a brain. And a soul.

NORTH DAKOTA: Thankfully, a bill has been dropped that would have demanded priests violate the seal of confession under certain circumstances.

RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS: An elderly Arizona man took advantage of the six foot rule to butt in front of another shopper. Or maybe he just didn’t understand that the other guy was actually in line.

Either way, when the clerk had run up the older gentleman’s order, he discovered he’d forgotten his wallet. So they guy he had cut off stepped up and paid.

The cashier asked, “He cut you off and you paid for his groceries. Why??”

He replied, “I hope that if one day my Dad forgets his wallet someone will step up and buy his milk and cookies.”

REBEKAH JONES: When the Florida Department of Health (DoH) fired Rebekah Jones last May, Jones claimed it was because she refused to falsify case numbers to support Governor Ron DeSantis’ plans to reopen the economy. Overnight, she became a heroine, garnering media attention and raising half a million dollars from gullible GoFundMe donors.

She’s back in the news again, this time facing a felony charge for breaching a government computer system. She is again a media darling, busily blaming Gov. DeSantis’ “goons” and raising big bucks to “Defend Science” on GoFundMe. As of Feb 5, she has raised $300,861 of her again half million goal.

Christina Pushaw at Human Events, examines Jones’ history in great detail, with many links to supporting evidence, and concludes that far from being the Left’s whistleblower, she’s just a petty, self-centered and morally-challenged conspiracy theorist.

REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) delivers remarks on the House floor leading up to the House vote [10:26] – House Democrats took the unprecedented step this week when they voted to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from her two committee assignments. Her “crime” was allegedly espousing violence and conspiracy theories on social media.

Meanwhile, the following Democrats were never disciplined in any way …

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who led the charge in the fake Russian Collusion conspiracy witch hunt was and is Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who was caught sleeping with a Chinese spy while serving on the House Intelligence Committee, is still on the House Intelligence Committee.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who famously told fellow Trump haters, “If you see anybody in that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”, is Chairwoman of the Committee on Financial Services and a member of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.

On February 5, reporters asked her to apologize for her remarks. She replied, “I did my apologizing yesterday. When are you going to apologize for the Russia hoax?”

Sister Toldjah said, “The press and Democrats alike may think they’re on to something here, but in reality, what they’ve done is make Greene more formidable. … We saw this play out for four years with Trump. And now they’re doing the same thing with Greene. It’s like these people just never, ever learn.”

SAINT OF THE DAY: In 1596, Saint Paul Miki and his 25 companions were tortured and crucified during the persecution of Christians under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Emperor’s Chief Advisor.

Hideyoshi and his solders had hoped the cruelty of these martyrs deaths would frighten other Christians into apostasy. Instead, the peace and joy of the martyred gave them the courage to hold on to their faith.

During this dark time, more than 3,000 Christians were put to death for their faith in Japan.

In 1858, after nearly three hundred years, when Christianity was finally legalized again, missionaries found thousands of the faithful worshiping in secret.

TOLERANCE: The winner in today’s Zero Self Awareness category is a well-known emergency doctor, Dr. Cleavon Gilman, who has been promoted by the Biden White House. On Thursday, he captioned a video of maskless Florida market-goers: “Naples, Florida. Let ’em die. I’m so tired of these people. No vaccine for y’all. I’m working in the COVID ICU tonight! I’m so tired of giving 200% while others in the U.S. can’t even help by simply wearing a mask!”

After taking heat, Dr. Gilman claimed he had to delete the post because of “Republicans trying to take my words out of context as if I deny medical care to people that don’t wear masks & ‘let ’em die.’ My point is that we can’t waste our energy on these COVID deniers. [They] are not gonna protect themselves so let ’em die. They’ll find out the hard way.”

So … “I’d never let anyone die, but if they’re not going to wear masks, let ’em die”? Did this stupid Republican get it right THIS time, sir?

GRAMMY NOTES: Buzz’s art class studied Modigliani portraits and African masks. Then, they studied their own faces in a mirror and drew self-portraits in that style. Buzz included the mirror handle! 🙂

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2A: January 2021 shattered the previous all-time high for the number of National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks performed in any month. The previous one-month record was the 3,740,688 NICS checks witnessed in March 2020.

CALIFORNIA: Long Beach – On February 2, Mayor Robert Garcia signed his name to a move by the city council to mandate all grocery and supermarket workers receive an immediate $4 per hour increase in pay. Kroger’s immediately announced it would be closing both of its Long Beach stores. Gosh, who could’ve seen that coming?!

CHICOMS: Uyghur, Kazakh, and other ethnic minority survivors of China’s brutal concentration camp system report that they witnessed and endured rape at the hands of Chinese government agents on a regular basis, including the use of electric batons to rape and torture women.

The ChiComs claim the camps are “vocational training centers” where members of local majority-Muslim ethnic minorities, particularly members of the Uyghur community, can learn the trade skills they need to compete with Han Chinese peers in the modern Chinese economy.

CINO JOE: Dr. Chad Pecknold, an associate professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America, says, “When a U.S. President cloaks himself in the outward signs of Catholic identity in order to expand access to abortion, or to use executive power to enforce a gender ideology that will inevitably threaten the freedom of the Church in this country, what you have before you is a Trojan Horse.”

Dr. Patrick Deneen, a professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, says, “What we are seeing is not something new, but something very old, and very ugly.”

EDUCATION: CDC Director Rochelle Walensky says vaccinating teachers is not a prerequisite for safe reopening of schools. The Chicago Teachers Union will be dismayed to hear that.

ELIZABETH WARREN: CLICK https://fb.watch/3rYMsyyGON/ [4:39] to hear Bill O’Reilly talk about a bill Warren is advocating that would allow the government to confiscate wealth from anyone who has more than $50 million in assets. Not cash. Assets. “What political doctrine espouses a seizure of private property? Would it be communism?“

FAKEBOOK: The almighty Zuck has struck again. Reform California, a group currently circulating petitions to recall Newsom, received a notice that Fakebook will no longer permit them to advertise, because … you know … somehow being mad at Gov. Newsom over his insane coronavirus restrictions makes you a Capitol Building rioter. Or something.

Also on FascistBook’s chopping block … gun rights. On Tuesday, the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a top Virginia gun-rights group, was deplatformed without explanation. When queried, the FB spokeswoman just said, “This was correctly actioned and we will not be republishing.” I guess the connection between defending our Second Amendment rights and bashing in a federal window with a board should not need explanation.

FLORIDA: Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced the widest and most aggressive range of regulatory and legislative solutions so far proposed by any U.S. state to tackle the problem of tech censorship. Details at the link.

INSURRECTIONISTS: In 1983, radical left-wingers bombed the U.S. Senate building. Six members of the Resistance Conspiracy were arrested in May 1988 and charged with the bombing, as well as related bombings of Fort McNair and the Washington Navy Yard. They said they were protesting U.S. military involvement in Lebanon and Grenada.

One of the bombers was Susan Rosenberg, who from the late 1970s into the mid-1980s, was active in the far-left revolutionary terrorist May 19th Communist Organization (“M19CO”) which, according to a contemporaneous FBI report, “openly advocate[d] the overthrow of the U.S. Government through armed struggle and the use of violence.”

When she was arrested in 1984, she was in possession of a large cache of explosives and firearms over 750 lbs and automatic weapons. She was sentenced to 58 years. After 16 years, President Clinton commuted her sentence to time service on his last day in office. In 2011, Rosenberg published a memoir of her time in prison called, An American Radical: A Political Prisoner In My Own Country.

I guess the fact that she was imprisoned, not for her political beliefs, but for acting on those beliefs with extreme violence. It doesn’t sound like she’s changed her tune much, since she is currently vice chair of the board of directors of Thousand Currents, a non-profit foundation that sponsors the fundraising and does administrative work for the Black Lives Matter global network.

MELANIN: This makes about as much sense as the old argument that their skin color made them unintelligent and sub-human.

NOBEL: Norwegian lawmaker says BLM deserves the peace prize, because, “They have had a tremendous achievement in raising global awareness and consciousness about racial injustice.”

Never mind that they’re committed to the violent overthrow of our way of life. Keep moving. Nothing to see here.

PARLER: CLICK https://rumble.com/vdjpej-the-real-story-behind-the-firing-of-the-parler-ceo.html [6:39] to hear Dan Bongino (who owns a stake in Parler) explain the real reason behind the firing of the Parler CEO, John Matze. Apparently, Matze is saying he was fired for his commitment to free speech; Bongino says that he and the other 2 co-owners were the ones for free speech. He says they fired Matze for wanting to “bend the knee” to Big Tech in order to get back up.

PURGING THE MILITARY: Obama did it when he took office. Trump spent four years building it back up to where it needs to be to keep us strong. FAUXTUS is busy destroying it again.

New Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has already ousted several hundred individuals on Pentagon advisory boards who are suspected of being Trump loyalists. He is said to be planning to oust several hundred more.

He has also announced plans for military-wide stand-downs during the next 60 days, so he can military members who hold to white nationalist ideology. The Pentagon has not defined whether these would last minutes or hours or what commanders could do to identify undesirables.

Clearly, looking for skin head haircuts isn’t going to work. Maybe they can strip everybody down and search for white supremacist tattoos?

I’m none too clear about how legal any of this is. Dismissing a political appointee from a committee is a far cry from firing a service member with whom the government has an employment contract. Doesn’t that require some cause that is justified under the UCMJ?

I’d be surprised if the Uniform Code of Military Justice currently has any statutes banning “political opinions the CiC doesn’t approve of.” And if such a thing were ever to be added, it would be open season on a majority of those serving, most of whom vote Republican.

RACISM: Under Trump, the DOJ filed a lawsuit against Yale University for allegedly discriminating against Whites and Asians in its admissions process … which of course they totally have been doing for 50 years. And, because FAUXTUS’ DOJ just dropped the suit, they will be able to continue doing it, because racism against Whites and Asians is hunky dory with Democrats.

SAINT OF THE DAY: On February 5, we celebrate St. Agatha of Sicily (231-251 AD) patron of Sicily, Palermo, Malta, the Republic of San Marino, bellfounders (people who make bells), wet nurses, and rape victims, and against breast cancer and firefighters and victims of fire. In Switzerland, she is the patron of all fire services.

Her legend tells us that she chose to become a consecrated virgin, vowing to remain celibate and give herself wholly to Jesus and the Church in a life of prayer and service. But she was beautiful, so like St. Agnes of Rome (Jan 21), a high ranking Roman named Quintianus she spurned had her arrested and brought before the judge … who happened to be him.

He expected her to give in to his demands when she was faced with torture and possible death, but she simply reaffirmed her belief in God by praying: “Jesus Christ, Lord of all, you see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am. I am your sheep: make me worthy to overcome the devil.” With tears falling from her eyes, she prayed for courage.

To force her to change her mind, Quintianus had her imprisoned in a brothel for a month where she was raped repeatedly. When she was brought before Quintianus again, she calmly reaffirmed her faith, so he sent her to prison where he had her stretched on a rack, torn with iron hooks, burned with torches, and whipped. Finally, he ordered that her breasts be cut off. (I’m sparing you some of the more gruesome images of her. You’re welcome.)

She probably died in prison, likely in the Sicilian city of Catania where she is buried, but there is no reliable account of her death. She has been a popular saint for centuries. Her feast day is celebrated with festivals, processions, and boob-shaped pastries or buns with cherries on top called Minne di Sant’Agata (“Breasts of St. Agatha”) or Minni di Virgini (“Breasts of the virgin”).

THANK YOU, COMRADE BIDEN: CLICK https://fb.watch/3s5lWCBj99/ [8:16] to hear Kait explain how Jack Dorsey’s Camp for Conservatives taught her how to keep her YouTube channel.

TRANS: On Wednesday, Senator Rand Paul questioned FAUXTUS’ nominee for Education Secretary.

Paul: “Do you think it’s fair to have boys running in the girls’ track meet?”

Cardona: “I think it’s appropriate for … I think it’s, it’s the legal responsibility of schools to provide opportunities for students to participate in activities and this includes students who are transgender.”

Paul: “So, you don’t have a problem with boys running in the girls’ track meets, swimming meets, name it, you’re okay then with boys competing with girls?”

Cardona: “Respectfully, Senator, I think I answered the question. I believe schools should offer the opportunity for students to engage in extracurricular activities, even if they’re transgender. I think that’s their right.” [Translation: I don’t care if it’s fair.]

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CALIFORNIA: San Francisco – In an effort to get the public schools open, the City of San Francisco has SUED the San Francisco School District!

The San Francisco School Board appears to be way too busy imposing wokeness on its closed schools to worry about actually teaching anyone inside them. Recently, it decided to rename 44 schools because they deemed their namesakes had ties to racism or slavery. Among them is Abraham Lincoln High School.

Now they’ve declared that “acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture.” And to prove how thoroughly they all understand things like facts and logic, they took what ABC called the “bold move” to get rid of the acronym “VAPA,” which is short for Visual And Performing Arts. From now on, they will be called the “SFUSD Arts Department.”

SFUSD? Because acronyms are racist. Or something.

CATHOLIC: Catholics from around the world are asking the Jesuit Order to publicly censure one of its mouthiest and most blatantly heretical priests, Fr. James Martin, for promoting a bastardized pro-LGBT version of one of the world’s most revered images of Our Lady – the Black Madonna.

Częstochowa is regarded as the most popular shrine in Poland, with many Polish Catholics making a pilgrimage there every year. A pilgrimage has left Warsaw every August 6 since 1711 for the nine-day, 140-mile trek. Elderly pilgrims recall stealing through the dark countryside at great personal risk during the German Nazi occupation. Pope John Paul II secretly visited as a student pilgrim during World War II. The feast day of Our Lady of Częstochowa is celebrated on August 26.

The rainbow was originally a religious symbol of God’s covenant with man that God used to convey to Noah (Genesis 9:13-17) that he would never again destroy the world by a flood. There are seven colors in a naturally-occurring rainbow. The number seven in the Bible often symbolizes completion, perfection, and the fulfillment of promises and oaths.

LGBT activists co-opted the rainbow in the late 1970s, creating a flag where the different colors are often interpreted as signifying sexual “diversity.” The LGBT rainbow flag, however, has only six colors, one short of a real rainbow and the perfect number. In the Bible, six is often associated with sin, imperfection, and even Satan. The book of Revelation says that the bringing together of three sixes is the number of the Anti-Christ.

The Catholic Church teaches that homosexuality is one of the four sins that cry to heaven for justice. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’ They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved” (CCC 2357).

The Catholic Church furthermore teaches that the homosexual inclination is also “objectively disordered” since God created sexual attraction for the purpose of drawing a man and a woman together to become husband and wife in marriage.

CHINA: The ChiCom’s top diplomat gave President Xiden his marching orders, telling him to stop interfering in the affairs of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and it’s militarization of the South China Sea. He didn’t mention undoing the Trump administration’s sanctions over human rights violations against religious minorities, but I’m sure FAUXTUS got the message.

CNN: Gee, what a surprise … practitioners of Left Stream Jerknalism is finding or dismissing Biden’s errors, lies, and omissions. Brian Stelter crows, “What a difference!” Yeah, really. But it’s not a difference in the performances of former President Trump and current FAUXTUS Xiden. CLICK https://rumble.com/vdi3oz-cnn-celebrates-fact-check-of-joe-biden-omits-numerous-errors.html [4:08] to hear One America News’ count of not just errors and omissions, but also just plain nonsense.

CUOMO: Oops, even the New York Slime is fed up with Governor Nipple Rings! Check out this tweet thread (which they helpfully illustrated with graphs to support their statements) …

“Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York said on Friday that New York City could reopen indoor dining on Feb. 14. But by nearly every measure, the coronavirus outbreak in the city is worse than it was when he announced a ban on indoor dining in December.

“As the governor spoke on Friday, citing the ‘current trajectory’ of cases as his reasoning for reopening, average per-capita case counts in New York City were 64% higher than when he announced the ban in December.

“Average Covid-19 hospitalizations in the city, while trending downward, were still 60% higher late last week than they were when Mr. Cuomo closed the restaurants.

“A member of the governor’s Covid-19 task force said the important metrics are not where the numbers are but where they are headed — and that trends are all headed downward, both across the state and in the city.

“Mr. Cuomo suggested test positivity rates for New York City had fallen by 30%, showing a chart depicting a drop, but using data points chosen from daily swings.

“The numbers he used were the highest and lowest daily numbers in January to that point, extremes that did not reflect the overall trend. The daily data, shown with a seven-day average to account for daily fluctuations, shows only a 17% drop, not 30%.”

Tweeters commented: “Almost nothing Cuomo has done throughout this pandemic has been based on data or science.”

“Seeing Cuomo get dunked by the NYTimes is rather enjoyable.”

“When they said trust the science, pretty sure they meant political science.”

“Yeah, it’s almost like they don’t know what the hell they’re doing. It’s that damned DeSantis!”

“But, but, but what about his Emmy and that amazing book?”

FACEBOOK: Last year, somebody put together an oversight board for Facebook and Instagram. According to the website’s FAQ page, “The Oversight Board is a global body of experts that will review Facebook’s most difficult and significant decisions related to content on Facebook and Instagram. It will make binding decisions on that content, which means Facebook must implement them unless doing so could violate the law. The board will also be able to issue policy recommendations.

“The board’s independent judgement is critical to its function. Both the board and its administration are funded by an independent trust and supported by an independent company that is separate from Facebook. The board’s structure, responsibilities, purpose and relationship to Facebook are outlined in the Oversight Board Charter. The board acts as a service provider to Facebook. Members of the board do not include current or former employees or contingent workers of the Facebook company.”

I’ve never heard of it before. It sounds good in theory, though its website is really odd, being mostly blank white pages. However, it apparently has done one notable thing, which is to order Facebook to remove Facebook’s censoring positive information regarding the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a treatment for COVID-19.

MASKS: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has invoked a power granted to it by the 1944 Public Health Services Act to make it mandatory for travelers and personnel to wear masks that cover both mouth and nose while waiting for, using, and disembarking from any mode of public transportation. The rule includes all forms of public transportation as well as all locations where people gather to board and includes persons who have been vaccinated.

Exemptions only apply to brief periods for eating, drinking, or taking medication, to children younger than two, and to people who are unable to remove a mask without assistance. Supposedly, persons with disabilities that make masks unsafe or impossible are exempt, but so far, the CDC has no issued any guidelines for them to be actually exempt. Operators are instructed to remove anyone who refuses to comply and the CDC reserves the right to impose criminal penalties to violators.

This is all for a disease that is no more deadly than the seasonal flu and that has multiple effective treatments, as well as multiple vaccine options. But yeah, tell us some more how it’s all about “public health.”

MIRACULOUS: On January 20, a gas leak caused an explosion that destroyed four floors of the building next door to the Virgen de la Paloma church in Madrid, Spain. The building provided housing for the parish priests, the parish school, and the Los Nogales nursing home. One young priest died in the explosion.

Although the chapel adjacent to the priest’s residence was demolished, rescuers found the consecrated host and the monstrance intact. Those covers are usually made of glass. It looks to me like it wasn’t even cracked!

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: CLICK https://www.prageru.com/video/the-anti-hate-group-that-is-a-hate-group/ [4:50] to see Prager University’s video about SPLC – Since 1990, this organization has been publishing an annual list of hate groups, something the Left Stream uses to punish groups so designated. E.g., Amazon doesn’t allow any of these groups to receive funds through its Smile program. More seriously, the list has inspired hate crimes against groups on the list.

And once again, the far left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has proven itself to be more of a hate group than a great many of the groups it chose for its latest list, which was released February 1. As far as SPLC is concerned, if a group holds biblically-based views on marriage, human sexuality, and sanctity of life, it goes on their list … regardless of what actions the group takes to promote those beliefs.

For example, the Ruth Institute has garnered the group bad publicity and unfair bias in the press and elsewhere because SPLC included it. But its founder and president, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, says, “The Ruth Institute is a global, non-profit organization leading an international, interfaith coalition to defend the family and build a civilization of love. If fighting sex abuse, pornography, and divorce makes us a hate group, so be it.”

TEXAS: The private, Catholic University of Dallas is standing strong against a trans activist alumnus who demanded a professor be fired for espousing the Catholic Church’s position on gender identity.

Among other things, the professor stated that the whole Biden administration poses a genuine threat to religious liberty, because it “will try to use the powers of the federal government to FORCE others, by their words and their deeds, including medical expertise and know-how–to participate in these falsehoods, these hormonal and surgical harms–these wrongs.”

In response, UD president Thomas Hibbs, and provost Jonathan Sanford, released a joint letter, upholding religious and academic freedom: “The university is following its existing policies and protocols in this matter, and will not yield to internal or external demands to divert from them. We are not in the business of limiting the speech of our faculty and staff when they speak on personal social media sites. …

“If anyone is wondering whether we uphold Catholic teaching, we do. Our Catholic identity and fidelity to its teachings is at the core of our mission.”

XL PIPELINE: Congressman Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) along with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) and 83 Republicans introduced the Keystone XL Pipeline Construction and Jobs Preservation Act.

This legislation authorizes the construction and operation of the Keystone XL Pipeline and declares that a Presidential permit is not required.

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AOC Confabulates … Again

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/officialbenshapiro/videos/441738950594244 [4:16] if you haven’t had your fill of Democrat donkey doo. I couldn’t get through it, but I understand that, in it, the Juvenile Drama Queen recounts her allegedly terrifying experience (cue tears) on January 6th when horrible, violent people sent by Ted Cruz made her fear for her life!

Reality check … AOC was in her office during the riot. Her office is in the Cannon Building which folks who know the area say is a six minute walk away from the Capitol Building. See map. The closest she got to the violence was when a cop stopped by her office to do a welfare check.

She was predictably pissed when her latest Big Fat Lie was ridiculed. She tweeted in high dudgeon, “This is the latest manipulative take on the right. They are manipulating the fact that most people don’t know the layout the Capitol complex. We were all on the Capitol complex – the attack wasn’t just on the dome. The bombs Trump supporters planted surrounded our offices too.”

People who have or do work on the Hill responded that the reason folks are sneering is that they DO know the layout of the Capitol complex.

But let’s just parse that last line that I bolded.

First, there were two small pipe bombs found on January 6. One was near the RNC headquarters, while the other was at the DNC headquarters. Again, see the map. That doesn’t qualify as “surrounding” the Cannon Building where “our offices” are.

Second, they were found around noon and rendered safe. I couldn’t find any report about how potentially deadly the devices may have been, but I also found no evidence that anyone was evacuated from the areas where they were found.

Third, the earliest news report I could find of their discovery was after 10 pm on January 6.

Fourth, investigators have now determined that a single man, whose identity is as yet unknown, planted the two bombs the night before the riot. There is a large reward being offered for his identity.

IOW, the two bombs were rendered safe and removed long before AOC had any reason to know they ever existed and there is zero evidence they were planted by a Trump supporter.

Tweeted by Jesse Kelly: “Michael Brown was a gentle giant with his hands up like David Hogg survived a school shooting like Christine Blasey Ford got assaulted by Kavanaugh like AOC almost died at the Capitol. Sensing a pattern? They lie. Stop believing anything these people say.”

Also Jussie Smollett.

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ABORTION: [3:04] – Video from the first Red Rose Rescue since FAUXTUS took office. One Catholic priest, Father Fidelis Moscinski, CFR, was arrested along with Lauren Handy and Jonathan Darnell for entering the facility, offering roses to the mothers inside, and refusing to leave.

When sidewalk protesters told a man leaving the abortion facility, “It’s not too late,” he replied “That f***ing fetus is gone, that s*** is gone. They put it in the trashcan.”

BRILLIANT: [1:51] – Crossing on a red light can be deadly. In Paris, more than 4,500 people were hit by cars in a single year, so they cooked up this spectacular campaign.

CATHOLIC: Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego bemoaned the fact that some bishops are arguing that abortion is not merely a preeminent issue in Catholic Social Teaching, but rather constitutes the de facto litmus test for determining whether a Catholic public official is a faithful Catholic. So far as McElroy is concerned, such a position reduces “the common good” to “a single issue.” Can you imagine if he said that about slavery?

EATING THEIR OWN: More evidence that no one is safe from the Left’s ire – Ingrid Seyer-Ochi spewed her outrage in an Op Ed for the San Francisco Chronicle about the “oozing white privilege” displayed by Bernie Sanders at the inauguration ceremony. Sanders says he was just trying to stay warm.

Mary Chastain took her down a peg or two at Legal Insurrection: “Lady, are you new here? Have you ever watched Sanders? Have you ever seen Sanders? … The man has no fashion sense. I don’t think he owns a brush. Sanders is a hypocrite. He screams for socialism, but owns three houses and is a millionaire.”

Chastain suggested Seyer-Ochi needed to do a reality check on herself. “Your privilege is showing, my dear. You obviously know you are more intelligent than everyone else so you had to woman-splain it to everyone. You obviously get to tell people how to dress and appear at any event.”

Seyer-Ochi is a former UC Berkeley and Mills College professor, an ex-Oakland Unified School District principal, and a current San Francisco Unified School District high school teacher. IOW, she’s the perfect Leftist – a loser with no sense of humor who is so self-righteous and judgmental that she can’t even bring herself to make nice to people who are firmly on her side of the aisle.

HONDURAS: The Honduran National Congress strengthened pro-life laws last week by amending the national constitution to declare that unborn babies have the same rights as born human beings under the law.

JOSH HAWLEY: CLICK https://rumble.com/vdgbr1-hawley-democrat-ethics-complaint-is-attempt-to-stamp-out-all-dissent.html [3:22] to hear Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) talk with OAN about the “totally abusive attempt” by Democrats to cancel him and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). He has filed a counter complaint which may reveal a connection between Democrat senators and so-called dark money groups. “You can’t bow down to the mob.”

JOURNALISTS: Reporters in the White House press poll are not happy about the fact that the White House is pre-screening their questions.

NEW YORK: Nine of the state’s top health officials have resigned in recent months. One of them says morale at the Health department “certainly was and continues to be at an all-time low” due to Democrat Governor Cuomo’s bizarre response to the pandemic.

Besides being publicly disrespected – “When I say ‘experts’ in air quotes, it sounds like I’m saying I don’t really trust the experts because I don’t.” – they have been frustrated by only learning about Cuomo’s capricious changes to virus regulations via his news conferences.

Most recently, Cuomo ignored the plan top officials drew up for dispensing COVID-19 vaccines. Their plan used county health departments with long experience in dispensing childhood vaccinations. Cuomo didn’t like that idea, which allowed each city to order doses directly from the federal government and work out the logistics locally.

Instead, he chose to micromanage vaccinations through the state and even signed an executive order imposing up to a $1 million fine and loss of all state licenses for health care workers who knowingly gave the COVID-19 vaccine to ineligible people.

When news got out that the inefficient system he concocted was resulting in unused, spoiled vaccine going in the trash, he threatened to fine hospitals if they didn’t distribute their vaccines fast enough. As of January 6, only 31% of the vaccine sent to New York had made its way into someone’s arm.

But hey, Andrew wrote a whole book about how his masterful management of the pandemic “saved lives.” So keep moving … nothing to see here.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: On January 28, McGill tweeted, “Today, we celebrate these initial steps on the path towards reclaiming full ownership over our bodies, our health, and our futures. We’re grateful @POTUS & @VP have begun to right the wrongs of the last four years — but this is only the beginning.”

POOP EMOJI: Amazon’s plans for its new Virginia headquarters feature a 350-foot structure dubbed the Helix with two spiraling outdoor walkways with trees and plants from Virginia that twist to the building’s top.

Art critics suggested it looks like the poop emoji, a villain’s lair, soft serve ice cream, and the Tower of Babel. Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan tweeted, “It looks like it’s been abandoned by some failed civilization and aggressive, invasive vegetation has taken over.”

RATINGS: Trump-Deranged cable news networks have seen their ratings drop dramatically now that they don’t have The Donald to kick around any more.

CNN saw the greatest decline in viewership since Biden took office, seeing rating drop by 44%. MSNBC also saw ratings plunge sharply, though not to the degree that CNN fell. Meanwhile, Fox News saw a slight ratings decrease but has mostly been able to hold steady during the early days of the Biden Administration:

TOXIC FEMININITY: Building off the scriptural foundations of the anti-Christ, Carrie Gress makes an in-depth investigation into the idea of an anti-Mary—as a spirit, not an individual—that has plagued the West since the ’60s. Misleading generations of women, this anti-Marian spirit has led to the toxic femininity that has destroyed the lives of countless men, women, and children.

After Amazon, Facebook, and Instagram banned the selling of the book on their sites, interest in it sky-rocketed. Amazon has relented and is currently sold out of hard cover, but it’s available on Kindle. Facebook and Instagram (owned by the same people) gave no explanation for why they are still banning the book.

TWITTER: Last Thursday, the always juvenile and often hyperbolic AOC tweeted this vicious and unfounded accusation at the junior senator from Texas.

On Thursday, Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy quickly wrote to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanding she forced AOC to apologize for making this “scurrilous charge” against Senator Cruz just because he engaged in constitutionally-protected speech and debate regarding electors.

On Monday, another, similar letter went to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed by 13 House Republicans.

Twitter censored 668 tweets from former President Donald Trump, claiming his tweets were inaccurate and that some posed a “risk of violence.” Then, they banned him completely from their platform. But as of 12:36 pm on February 2, 2021, AOC’s vile accusation was still posted on her unmolested Twitter account.

SAINT OF THE DAY: On the feast of Saint Blaise (February 3), many Catholic parishes offer Blessing of the Throats. Two candles are blessed, held slightly open, and pressed against the throat as the blessing is said.

Little is known about the man apart from the fact that he was the Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia where he was imprisoned, tortured and finally martyred by Licinius ca. 316 AD for refusing to renounce Jesus.

Tradition has it that, while in prison, he miraculously cured a small boy who was choking to death on a fish bone. His intercession has been invoked for diseases of the throat since the sixth century.

GRAMMY NOTES: We got buried. Twice. The photo is from yesterday. Today, the bird bath is buried. Thank God for our wonderful neighbor who had helped dig us out with his ginormous snow blower! Terry, you are the best!

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