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Sarah Jane Parker • Allergy-friendly foodie and blogger

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New recipe today! Dairy Free Cherry Brazilian Lemonade https://t.co/YH1fcW67jh via @thefitcookie #dairyfree

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Easy Dairy Free Hot Fudge (Gluten Free) https://t.co/EYJ7sZHMHl via @thefitcookie #dairyfree

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Man Unsure Whether Wife's Vanilla Honey Goat Butter Spread Is For Toast Or Face https://t.co/9kQb3f7zjp

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@bitzybean @AlaskaBird__ I remember seeing clips of this event at the time and being irritated that she just brushed off people with “I’m too pregnant for this”. I told my husband at the time why go to a debate and not even debate.

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@Redd986 @TheMilkBarTV 💯 That immediately came to mind. She drummed up accusations of drug abuse in that debate with no proof to intentionally get things off track, too.

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@MikeWingerii I like meat sticks, like Chomps, Dukes, or lately I’ve been buying the big bags of store brand ones from Sam’s Club to save money (they’re uncured). My husband likes hard boiled eggs to keep on hand (when I remember to make them 😂)

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

A Canadian grandmother was euthanized without her consent.

An 83-year-old Canadian grandmother was euthanized under the country’s Medical Assistance in Dying program on July 10.

Brigitte Stegemann was killed despite having previously declined it because of her Christian faith.

And her family says she was declined the right to give final verbal consent.

Brigitte Stegemann, known lovingly to her family as “GG,” died by lethal injection at The Pearl, a long-term care facility in Belleville, Ontario, where she had lived for the previous two years.

She had been diagnosed with untreatable Stage IV stomach cancer about five months earlier.

Her granddaughter, also named Brigitte, held legal power of attorney and had served as her primary caregiver and advocate for more than 12 years. Facility staff routinely contacted the granddaughter for decisions about medications, treatments, and daily care.

Approximately two months before her death, Stegemann was asked about Medical Assistance in Dying.

According to her family’s public statement, she “clearly stated that she did not wish to pursue it.”

As a devout Christian, she said the practice conflicted with her personal beliefs and faith. She wanted to die naturally.

While the granddaughter was away on a 10-day vacation, facility staff held private discussions with Stegemann about MAiD without informing her family or any advocate. The family was never given a clear answer about who initiated those conversations, a serious concern given Stegemann’s diminished capacity, severe hearing impairment—she was completely deaf in her left ear and had very limited hearing in the right—and frequent periods of lethargy and unresponsiveness.

When the formal assessment occurred on July 6 and 7, the family described Stegemann’s sudden alertness as anomalous after days of near-unresponsiveness. During the capacity evaluation, the physician had to repeat questions repeatedly because of her hearing loss.

Stegemann repeatedly gave incorrect answers to basic questions about her own life.

When asked if she had any siblings, she said she had none—though she was the second-youngest of 14 children. She also said none of her siblings were still alive, even though some were and she had spoken with one the previous week.

She became disoriented, began to cry, and said, “I forgot about the grandkids,” confusing her living siblings with her great-grandchildren.

The family corrected the vast majority of her answers and the granddaughter objected directly, questioning how Stegemann could possibly be deemed capable of consenting to her own death.

The physician explained the procedure in language the family found euphemistic and misleading for an elderly woman of Stegemann’s background, describing it as receiving medication, feeling peace, falling asleep, and promising she “would not lose control of her bowels.”

The family was then ordered to leave the room.

The power-of-attorney holder’s request to remain was denied. When the physician emerged, she stated flatly, “I have deemed her capable of making her own decisions,” and informed the family that Stegemann had consented.

The procedure was scheduled for July 10.

The family was left “shocked and distressed.”

They later discovered that the death date had been set before any official MAiD application paperwork was completed. Facility staff, including the home manager, then filled out and witnessed the forms themselves without notifying the power of attorney, despite the family’s daily visits.

On July 8, the date was briefly advanced by a full day simply because the physician had an opening in her schedule. The home manager admitted she had personally completed the paperwork.

On the morning of July 10, the family took Stegemann outside to the patio for fresh air and a scoop of her favorite strawberry ice cream while waiting for her pastor to arrive.

Her clear wishes to be surrounded by family and to have her pastor present were treated as secondary to the schedule.

After returning to her room, an intravenous line was inserted amid what the family described as a significant, alarming amount of blood covering Stegemann, the bedding, and the surrounding area. When the physician arrived, Stegemann remained silent, her hands held in a prayer position, and gave no verbal response.

The family had been strictly assured that Stegemann would be asked for a final, explicit verbal confirmation on the day of the procedure to ensure she still wished to proceed.

“Tragically, we were left alarmed and horrified when the clinical team completely ignored her silence and carried the procedure forward regardless,” their statement said.

Stegemann was dead shortly afterward.

In their account, the family described what happened as “a systemic failure driven by clinical arrogance, a total lack of transparency, and a blatant disregard for the safeguards meant to protect vulnerable patients.”

Once a vulnerable patient had explicitly declined MAiD because it violated her Christian faith, the facility should never have targeted her for re-evaluation behind closed doors while her primary advocate was away—especially when staff had no difficulty contacting the granddaughter daily for routine decisions.

The family is now speaking out in the hope that Stegemann’s story will serve as a warning and an urgent call for greater clinical transparency, mandatory family inclusion for cognitively vulnerable patients, and strict legal accountability for facilities that operate outside the law.

Canada legalized Medical Assistance in Dying in 2016.

By April 2026 the country had already recorded more than 100,000 euthanasia deaths. Cases like Stegemann’s underscore the profound risks the system poses to elderly, hearing-impaired, and cognitively vulnerable patients whose prior refusals and diminished capacity are overridden in the name of “choice.”

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

The Bible was written on three continents.

Asia.
Africa.
Europe.

In three languages.

Hebrew.
Aramaic.
Greek.

By over 40 different men:

Shepherds.
Kings.
Prophets.
Fishermen.
A tax collector.
A doctor.
A tentmaker.

Written in palaces and prisons.
In deserts and cities.
In freedom and in exile.

Across roughly 1,500 years.

66 books.
One continuous story:

Creation.
Fall.
Redemption.
Christ.

Most of these writers never met.
No committee planned it.
No editor stitched it together.

Yet it opens in a garden with the Tree of Life
and closes in a garden with the Tree of Life.

Different writers.
Different centuries.
Different cultures.

One voice.

Because behind the human hands was a divine Author.

Men held the pens.

But God wrote the story.

[The Fit Cookie @thefitcookie]

@AndrewKolvet @JoelWBerry My son has been cooking a lot of hamburger helper over summer break at his fraternity house. It costs more than just beans and ramen, but he is training for track all summer and working in landscaping and needs some protein. So it’s a cheapish and easy option for him.

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@noagendajusttru @phillypatriotz @AndrewKolvet @JoelWBerry That guy is just being a pain in the butt and picking fights.

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@RodeHolst @AndrewKolvet @JoelWBerry Both my daughter and son in college do as well. My daughter has a limited diet due to allergies, but she cooks regularly and even though her food tends to cost more than the extra cheap stuff, she is still saving money by cooking at her shared dorm kitchen.

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@Alex_Simy_Mend @TheJoeySwoll Wait, what? I didn’t even recognize him. That’s him in the photo? I couldn’t figure out who it was at first, I’m really out of the loop

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@willspencer What really bothers me with Shawn’s clip is that he acknowledges it opens a door to a realm we shouldn’t be messing in, then immediately says it did good things for him and other people. I wonder if he said that to prevent backlash.

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@megbasham Reminds me of @willspencer story. I’m sure Shawn won’t share the details publicly, but something happened that he doesn’t want to talk about.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

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@OhareAmber @RavenGrace0613 I’m pretty sure she was paid for that interview, too, and won’t disclose it. Harvey’s PR guy admitted to hiring influencers to do interviews to make Harvey look better. He paid upwards of $100K for video series….

https://t.co/PrjqjHpLYf

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@toreycervantes @RavenGrace0613 I was just thinking about that yesterday, if she was really interested in that, she’d learn from people who are doing good work there like Tim Tebow and stop supporting abusers. She’s just virtue signaling basically.

[Don Pettit @astro_Pettit]

I finally have all 1.2 million raw image files from my latest mission to ISS! Here is a sample of one of my favorite Milky Way photos, taken from the Cupola with Nikon Z9, Arri Zeiss 15mm lens, T1.8 with custom sidereal drive that cancelled out star motion relative to our orbit.