Ann Newman

[Congressman Greg Steube @RepGregSteube]

‼️BREAKING: My amendment to withhold 100% of U.S. aid to Nigeria until its government stops the slaughter of Christians has PASSED.

American taxpayers should NEVER bankroll governments that turn a blind eye while Christians are abducted, tortured, and murdered.

No more wasteful foreign aid!

[The Epoch Times - Bright @EpochInspired]

"Human stories are practically always about one thing, aren't they? Death."

Tolkien wasn't the only one to notice. From Plato's "Apology" to "Hamlet" to "Braveheart," the greatest stories center on how we face the end, or respond to loss.

[Catholic Frequency @CatholicFQ]

Please pray for the bishop!

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

If the races were reversed, would we hear more about this abominable crime?

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

ATTENTION EVERYONE IN MEMPHIS TENNESSEE

Tamboli's Pasta & Pizza REFUSED to serve four members of the Tennessee National Guard.

This is the owner, Miles Tamboli.

Would be a shame if everyone in the area knew they kicked out US servicemembers!

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

BASTILLE DAY

Following the French Revolution and during the Reign of Terror, 16 Carmelites were GUILLOTINED in Paris

The nuns of Compiègne sang Salve Regina and Veni Creator Spiritus as they went to their brutal deaths at the hands of the French Revolution

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

This baby has the same treatable condition that the male couple in Canada wanted their surrogate to abort. They are now suing her after she refused. A simple surgery post-birth can fix this defect. The surrogate mother showed heroic love.

[𝔃𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔞𝔰 𝔰 @OrdinariateUSA]

Reminder that leftists murdered 55,000 priests and nuns in cold blood in Spain from 1936-1939 during the communist Red Terror.

To compare, the Spanish Inquisition killed 3,000 people over 374 years.

Francisco Franco is a hero and saved Spain from the same fate that Eastern Europe endured under communist tyranny.

[Love Beyond Color @LoveBeyondCo1or]

White people have been fighting for black people since slavery, and they gave their lives to end slavery when they didn’t even start it. The least I can do is fight for them too. We have to End Racism Against White People Too. Love Beyond Color

https://t.co/t16vDCxLsX

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Democratic socialists say Sweden is an example of socialist success.

@johanknorberg sets the record straight:

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

Some people claim this baby boy is “just a clump of cells.”

One year later, he can freely move his body, radiate joy, and make eye contact.

He was never “just a clump of cells.” He was always a tiny, developing human being—valuable and worthy of life.

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you...”
Jeremiah 1:5

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨 SOMALI MAN TO NICK SHIRLEY: "This has to do with us being Muslim and from Africa! If you don't want us here, say you don't want Muslims!"

"Why are you sensationalizing the propaganda to attack our community?!"

NICK SHIRLEY: We're looking for fraud. Where is Safari Transportation company? It's not there.

MAN: How much are YOU making?!

SHIRLEY: Off YT.

MAN: You make money off attacking Somalis!

SHIRLEY: Fraud is fraud. This has nothing to do with fraud.

MAN: Islamophobes USE YOUR MATERIAL! Say to us, WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE! Guess what?

SHIRLEY: Say it. We're asking about fraud.

MAN: You hate Muslims!

SHIRLEY: This is FRAUD. This isn't a race issue, sir. This is about FRAUD. 💯

Keep Nick safe 🙏🏻 @nickshirleyy

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

😞😞

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Yes!

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

His lighthouse stood for 123 years. And in the end it was not the tower that failed.

It was the rock underneath it. 🇬🇧

Two lighthouses stood on the Eddystone Rocks before him, 14 miles south of Plymouth, and the sea destroyed them both. The first, built of wood, vanished without trace in the Great Storm of 1703, taking its builder and 5 other men with it. The second stood for 47 years, then burned one December night in 1755, down to the rock it stood on. 🔥

So Britain faced a question: how do you build on a rock the sea owns?

The Royal Society's answer was not a lighthouse man. It was John Smeaton, an Englishman from Austhorpe near Leeds, a maker of scientific instruments who had turned his mind to engineering.

He started with a question nobody had thought to ask. Why does an oak tree survive a storm? Wide at the root, narrow at the top. So he shaped his tower like the trunk of an oak. Wood had washed away and wood had burned, so he built in granite, every block dovetailed into its neighbours like a carpenter's joint in stone, pinned with dowels of marble. For the mortar he ran experiment after experiment until he proved which limestone sets hard even underwater, a lime the Romans had used whose science had been lost. He worked out why and brought it back.

3 years, 1756 to 1759, 14 miles out in the open sea. Then the lamp was lit, and the sea came to test it, winter after winter. It did not move.

He went on to build bridges, harbours, canals and mills across Britain, and because the only engineers Britain named were soldiers, he called himself a civil engineer, the first man in Britain to do it. In 1771 he and 6 others met in a London tavern and founded the first engineering society anywhere in the world. It still exists. 🏛️

His light burned for 123 years. When engineers finally found a fault in 1877, it was in the reef, not the tower. The sea was wearing away the rock beneath it. His tower had outlasted the rock it stood on.

In 1882 the lamp went out for the last time. But nobody scrapped his tower. The top came down stone by stone and went back up on Plymouth Hoe, where it stands today in its red and white bands. You can climb it.

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Look at any lighthouse standing on a British rock. That curve is his oak, still holding.

We are the home of British heroes.
There is a place for you in it.

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[dei gratia @DeiGratia64]

Catholic Fun Fact: Legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne was raised Lutheran but converted to Roman Catholicism on November 20, 1925. He was baptized by the Reverend Vincent Mooney, C.S.C., in the Log Chapel on the University of Notre Dame campus.
Rockne was profoundly changed by observing his players' faith. While traveling for away games, he noticed them waking up early and sacrificing sleep to attend Mass and receive Holy Communion. In his essay "Crossing The Goal Line," Rockne noted that joining his players at Mass helped him understand how their deep religious devotion served as a "powerful ally" to their character and performance on the field.
His wife, Bonnie Gwendoline Skiles, was Catholic, and his four children were raised in the Catholic faith. His conversion allowed him to join his family at the communion rail.
During an era marked by intense anti-Catholic sentiment and Ku Klux Klan activity in Indiana, Rockne’s public conversion gave American Catholics a powerful national symbol of belonging and pride. When Rockne tragically died at age 43 in a 1931 airplane crash in Kansas, rescuers recovered his body clutching his rosary in his hands.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Read it again. Such a good reminder.