Activist: "Slaughter is cruel. The animals are terrified."
Farmer: "I use a small abattoir ten minutes away. The animals walk off the trailer into a space that smells of cattle."
Activist: "They know what's happening."
Farmer: "There's no evidence cattle understand death as a concept. They respond to unfamiliar smells and sounds. Which is why we minimise those."
Activist: "They can smell the blood."
Farmer: "Modern abattoirs use airflow design to prevent that. Temple Grandin redesigned the industry around exactly this problem thirty years ago."
Activist: "But they die."
Farmer: "Yes."
Activist: "And that's not cruel to you."
Farmer: "The alternative in nature is a predator. Slower, more painful, animal conscious throughout. If welfare is the concern, the managed version is not the worst version."
Activist: "You're rationalising killing."
Farmer: "You can object to killing on principle. That's coherent. But the suffering argument doesn't hold when the system is run correctly."
Wolf slipped into a Jackson Hole dog park and everyone ran except the Chihuahua.
At a dog park near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, owners were standing around talking while their dogs ran loose, chased tennis balls, and played like it was any normal afternoon. Nobody noticed the wolf at first.
Some people thought it was just a large husky wandering in, until the dogs started reacting before the humans did. One by one, they backed away, tucked their tails, and ran toward their owners like they knew something was wrong.
Within seconds, the park cleared. Big dogs, small dogs, owners, everyone moved away fast.
But one woman suddenly realized she couldn’t find her Chihuahua.
When she turned back, her little dog was still standing in the middle of the park, barking straight at the wolf.
The woman froze, not knowing whether to run toward her dog or stay back and avoid making things worse. But the Chihuahua didn’t move. She kept barking, stepping forward just enough to make it clear the wolf had picked the wrong park.
After a short standoff, the wolf turned and left through the same opening it came in from. Nobody knows if it was curious, lost, or just passing through.
But the Chihuahua made one thing clear.
That dog park already had a boss, and she weighed about six pounds.
I’m told multiple US Senators and members of Congress contacted the White House and the President directly today about how toxic Tucker Carlson is.
One of them told me, “This cannot continue. The silence can no longer continue.”
Tucker is going to cost the GOP the midterms. Lots of republicans are sitting the midterms out over the GOPs refusal to condemn his vitriol because of who he is friends with.
I really don’t give a shit about his friends to be honest.
The woman who spent years cleaning hotel rooms — helped raise the man who now represents America on the world stage. And if we fail to honor her today, we are overlooking one of the most inspiring stories of sacrifice and love.
Hardly anyone talks about Oriales Rubio. Few people share her story. Few remember the long days she spent making beds, stocking shelves, and working tirelessly so her son, Marco, could have opportunities she never had.
She arrived from Cuba in 1956 with very little. Yet she devoted her life to building a better future for her family. Every early morning, every exhausting shift, every sacrifice was made with one goal in mind — giving her children a chance to succeed.
Marco Rubio witnessed that dedication firsthand. And everywhere life took him — the Senate, the White House, the State Department, and across the world — he carried the lessons and values his mother gave him.
She was always with him.
On September 27, 2019, Oriales Rubio passed away peacefully at the age of 88, surrounded by the family she loved so deeply and worked so hard to support.
After her passing, Marco shared words that touched countless hearts:
“God blessed her with almost 89 years of life filled with love. The love she had for her children is but a glimpse of the even greater love God has for His.”
From a woman who worked humble jobs to support her family... to seeing her son become one of America’s most recognized leaders — it is a story of faith, perseverance, and hope.
Only God can write stories like that.
Today, let us take a moment to remember Oriales Rubio and the countless mothers whose sacrifices helped shape the future of their children.
America is paying $40 million EVERY WEEK to the Taliban.
The bill to STOP IT has been sitting on @LeaderJohnThune’s desk for a YEAR.
That's over TWO BILLION every single year.
WTAF is John Thune doing???
It's time to BOOT THUNE.
Boater who fell off the Santa Barbara coast reportedly swam for five hours toward an offshore oil rig, saying he felt guided by what he described as an “angel,” with a harbor seal appearing to nudge him along.
In January 2022, California sea urchin diver Scott Thompson fell overboard in the Santa Barbara Channel during a night dive and was left stranded as his boat drifted away. Wearing only a T-shirt and shorts, he was forced into a grueling five-hour swim through freezing 52°F waters toward the faint lights of a distant oil platform.
During the ordeal, a harbor seal appeared and stayed alongside him, at times nudging and circling as if to keep him going. Thompson later said the animal’s presence gave him the strength to continue when exhaustion set in. Guided by the platform lights, he eventually reached the structure and was rescued by workers, suffering from severe hypothermia and dehydration. He later described the seal as a “guardian angel.”
Um Texas you have a YUGE problem. Over 500k Islamic migrants are in your state. This is how it starts. They have no business being here. Deport them all. Keep America Islam free.
Grateful to stand with faithful intercessors who believe prayer still matters.
America needs more than strategy. We need repentance, humility, and hearts turned back to God.