Janice

Jesus' disciple, wife, homeschooling mother of 8 precious children, Chem Eng, runner, sharing the light of Jesus in upstate NY.

[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.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Thank God @POTUS was elected and our country’s border no longer looks like this.

These images out of Spain are an unfortunate reminder of the consequences of mass migration and the radical left-wing globalist policies that have enabled the Invasion of the West.

@BillMelugin_: "Just look here, do you see any women or children? I mean most people would call these folks so-called asylum seekers. These are young guys just flooding into the country and overwhelming what if any border there is."

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Read this Fauci diary entry closely. Officials would not admit the vaccine was not stopping spread because it might weaken the legal case for mandates. That is not science. That is a cover-up to justify coercion.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Iranian woman in Sweden:

“Pedophilia is legal in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Little girls are married off to adult men.

We’re trying to raise awareness, but Western feminists are completely ignoring us.”

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

These young women are heroines. They're peacefully protesting against the grotesque unfairness of men playing in women's sport. The only people who are "f*cking insane" here are those making a mockery of fair sport for women and trying to bully girls like this into silence.

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

Kelsey Grammer, dad of 8, on the US education system:

“I think the educational community has really dropped the ball, probably deliberately in a lot of ways.

They don’t like the idea that we are a great country. Somewhere along the way, our education system decided we aren’t, and that’s what they teach our children.

“If you’re learning that from your teachers—and we believe our teachers—you start to think, well, maybe they’re right.

“You begin searching your soul for why you come from a ‘crap’ place, why you’re not a good person, why our country isn’t good anymore.

“That means mom and dad aren’t very good either, are they? There’s a whole series of questions that follow.

“What we’re doing to our children is basically child abuse.

“Someone deliberately set out to introduce the idea that we aren’t a good country through our educational system.”

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

"We’re going to bring this heroic young man, and his family, into the White House with, perhaps, the boy he saved, to give him a High Civilian Honor. Very brave, he deserves it!" - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸🇺�

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

My story about pulling our son out of NC public schools to homeschool him reached far more people than I expected.

So I owe you the full explanation. Fair warning: it's worse than you think.

1) My son was in a class with many kids that could not speak the English language.

Zero English. None. Not a word.

You might be asking yourself... well, how did lessons occur in the classroom?

I'm glad you asked.

In fact, the way the teachers communicated with the Spanish-speaking only students was by using their personal iPhones as translators, speaking instructions into the iPhones, and the iPhones spitting out the Spanish instructions to the Spanish-speaking students, and then the Spanish-speaking students speaking Spanish into the iPhones, and the English questions/answers coming are read out for the teacher.

If you're exhausted just reading that...good. Now hold that feeling.

Imagine you’re an English-speaking student sitting in that same classroom, like my 5 year old son was.

Every lesson is interrupted while translations happen and naturally, the teacher’s attention is constantly divided.

The pace of learning slows DRAMATICALLY for everyone else.

The consequence is that the classroom stops being optimized for the students who can already understand the instruction and instead becomes an exercise in overcoming a language barrier that never should have existed inside an American, English-language classroom in the first place.

A place built to teach kids who are ready to learn quietly becomes a place mostly occupied with bridging a gap in language.

I don't think my five-year-old should spend one irretrievable year of his early schooling waiting at that bridge.

2) I saw the writing on the wall for the future of my county's school system and realized that not only was the future incredibly bleak, but downright aggressively woke in a way words fail to describe.

For multiple months, our school system allowed kids to:

a) Create Anti-ICE protest signs inside of the schools
b) Exit the school grounds, often WITHOUT SUPERVISION by ANYONE
c) Stand along busy highways and scream "FUCK ICE" for a few hours

Most shockingly, it was clearly encouraged by the schools, by leadership, and by many of the teachers.

That was political activism.

It gets worse... for years Buncombe County has forced biological girls to deal with biological males (who call themselves trans) to enter into girls locker rooms and bathrooms.

This has been happening for years and no one dared to try to change or speak up until very very recently... that should tell you a lot about what the school leadership believes and their political bent.

There is an evil lie that I see being spread by many that have condemned our decision to homeschool.

That lie is this:

“Public schools are neutral. By homeschooling, you’re only exposing your child to one side.”

This is a grossly evil lie.

In fact, the opposite is happening.

Schools are not neutral institutions simply because they are publicly funded; every school day has a limited number of hours, and every lesson taught means another lesson isn’t.

There is a finite amount of time in school, everyone understands this, which means priorities matter.

Every hour spent discussing political activism is an hour that isn’t spent on reading, writing, mathematics, science, history, or civics.

So when schools increasingly prioritize activism, identity politics, or current political causes... something else inevitably gets pushed aside.

Guess what? That’s not neutrality, that’s a choice.

What so many parents continue to discover is that their child comes home with a head full of ideas about the world that are purely one-sided because that's all there was time for.

Nuance is lost because nuance is time-consuming.

Is there TIME for nuance when half the class cannot speak English and you're speaking into a translator?

Of course not.

A child who can chant but cannot argue the other side hasn't been educated, they've been conditioned and the conditioners always, ALWAYS believe they're doing the child a kindness.

3) I'm fairly confident that today's school system is not designed for boys at all, it's purely designed for girls.

I'll give an example.

One of the schools in my area noticed that boys were throwing pine-cones (calling them grenades) and playing with sticks (calling them guns and swords).

This made the girls in the class uncomfortable.

So the school banned the boys from playing with sticks or pinecones outside, saying that the boys were playing "violent games" and should stop.

One group's nature (the girls) became the rule.

The other group's nature (the boys) became an problem... and once you see it, you see it everywhere.

Classrooms rewards staying still, staying quiet, non-aggression, obedience.

So ask yourself honestly... if you designed an institution that graded children partly on their ability to sit motionless for six hours, who would you expect to win?

Girls, of course.

Boys "get into trouble" FAR more often than girls, and the "offenses" are things like being too aggressive, not staying in line, fidgeting, or being "defiant" for staying buried in a book instead of the worksheet.

The punishment schools reach for first is often to take AWAY recess, which is literally the physical release every study says he needs, as the penalty for needing it!

At my table, he can stand up when he needs to move. He can go deep on the thing that lights him up instead of being dragged off it. He can build his imaginary armies.

He can be exactly the boy he is and have that be an ASSET instead of someone saying that's a problem.

4) No teacher, no matter how gifted, no matter how well-meaning, walks into that classroom knowing my son the way we know him, and no one ever will.

The single most important qualification for teaching a child isn't a degree or a curriculum or a district budget..

...it's just how much do you actually care whether this SPECIFIC kid makes it?

How far would you go for him?
How late would you stay for him?
How many times would you explain it again and again?
How completely would you refuse to give up on him?

And on that measure, the whole world loses to his mother (who will be homeschooling him), it's not even close.

Nobody on earth will ever love him more than she does.

Nobody will study him, root for him, ache for him, and delight in him the way she does every ordinary day.

There has never been anyone on this earth more qualified to raise my son than the woman whose love for him knows no depths and has no end.

Hope that helps clarify a few things.

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

How communists collapse the food supply, in 5 simple steps.

• City stores subsidize food prices, undercut private grocers → private grocers close.
• Demand and reselling empty city stores.
• Government forces suppliers/farmers to accept lower prices → suppliers cut production or quit.
• Food shortages appear; rationing and black markets follow.
• Food supply collapses (as in Soviet, Venezuelan, and other price-control failures).

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

James Woods Declares NYC Electing Zohran Mamdani Will Be Known As The Moment When America Was GONE Forever

“I think the election of Mandani was the most dangerous event to happen in this country since, the Civil War and slavery, horrible, beyond imagination.”

"How you could ever allow this Muslim invasion and cancer. And you say, well, what are you, are you prejudiced? yes, I'm sorry to say it…”

“I'm prejudiced against a religion that's really a political jihad that actually has in its revered text that you will kill every non-believer. I'm a Catholic believe certain things… This is America.”

[Janice @janicegossman]

Please sign to support honoring the memory of those lost on September 11th with dignity. - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/hTywkplA2K via @Change

[Amir Tsarfati @beholdisrael]

I am convinced that our redemption is drawing near!

That is exactly why I stepped away from the constant flow of news.
That is also why many are no longer following.

The world is captivated by what is happening.
I am captivated by Who is coming.

Don’t be of the world.
Be in the Word!

“Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

Matthew 24:44 (NKJV)

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

RFK Jr. explains why Fauci had such a problem with early treatments like ivermectin:

"Tony Fauci's problem is this: there's a little-known Federal law that says, 'You cannot give an emergency use authorization to a vaccine if there is any medication approved for any purpose that is shown effective against the target disease.'”

“So if Tony Fauci or anybody had admitted that hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin are effective against COVID, it would have been ILLEGAL for them to give the emergency use authorization to the vaccines, and they could have NEVER gotten them approved. And a 200 billion dollar enterprise would have collapsed."

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Well, I have some news that's going to make some people uncomfortable...

My wife and I are pulling our youngest out of North Carolina public schools and my wife will be homeschooling him.

And no, we're not sorry about it.

We didn't come to this decision lightly. We prayed on it, argued about it, ran the numbers, lost sleep over it.

But every road led back to the same common theme: nobody on God's green earth loves that boy more than his mother and I do, and nobody is more responsible for who he becomes than us.

Yet, rather ironically, despite believing this somewhere along the way, we handed that responsibility to strangers and... trusted them with it.

His mind. His values. His time. His education. His TRUTH.

...and this past year, for the first time, we stopped and asked whether they'd earned that trust.

We don't think they did.

So we're taking it back.

Yeah, we're scared. Scared we'll get something wrong. Scared of the workload. Nervous about what people will say.

But I'll take the fear of us doing it ourselves over the quiet horror of watching our son be indoctrinated in utter BS woke nonsense and be laughed at for believing in God and mocked for liking President Trump (all of which occurred this year.

So yeah, he's going to read the hard books. The ones they'd rather he didn't.

He's going to learn history that hasn't been run through an anti-White woke filter.

He's going to know exactly where he comes from and what he believes.

Most importantly, he's going to grow up watching his mother choose him, to spend every day, all day with him, over what was easy.

They had their shot. They blew it.

We've got him from here. 🇺🇸

[Janice @janicegossman]

We were up there the same day! Small world!

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

The view from top of the Washington Monument wow

[Ken Ham @aigkenham]

We are not animals; we were specially and uniquely created in the image of God, separate and distinct from the animals.

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Mamdani just set off a devastating domino effect with his new tax on the second homes of the wealthy in New York City. He's bragging about forcing those evil capitalists to pay their fair share so the City can fund more libraries. But has he ever actually done the MATH? And I mean real math, not socialist math. Because the rich homeowners will do the real math. And they'll LEAVE.

Socialist math ALWAYS leads to suffering for the very people it promised to lift up. Here's what Mamdani just set into motion:

First, high-end owners will just dump their properties. Why pay the tax when it's cheaper to rent a nice hotel? And they'll sell low because 1) NOBODY wants to pay that tax, so buyers will just factor it into the property's cost and offer less, and 2) the longer the sellers wait to sell, the more they're being taxed. So, selling low is cheaper. Because math.

That will drive down luxury property values citywide. Sounds great, right? Well... unless you're a developer. Let's say you've already gotten funding from the bank to build new housing, including that affordable housing the socialists love so much. But now, the expensive units at the top of the building won't sell for nearly as much as the bank was hoping for. So, they run the math and the project stops.

Now, all that's left is a giant hole. And all those people hired to build that building - hundreds of excavators, plumbers, electricians, and ironworkers - just lost their jobs, their hourly paychecks, and their pension credits for the year.

From there, it's more basic math - supply and demand. The supply doesn't get built, so the demand increases and the rent for other affordable units goes up. The policy sold as "pro-working class" just made their lives more expensive.

But at least the City will generate more taxes for the libraries, right? Nope. The rich will dump their second homes, so there goes that tax money. Nobody will want to buy that property as a second home, so maybe it will sell to someone living there full time. That's a win by Mamdani's math, but it also means nobody's paying that tax anymore. And also, all those people who just lost their jobs won't be paying taxes either. But hey, at least you stuck it to the capitalists!

That's socialism in a nutshell. Thanks, Mamdani.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

This is the message young girls receive when athletes like Sophie Cunningham use their platform to speak the truth in love.

Courage IS contagious. It sounds cliche, but it's true.

[Janice @janicegossman]

@SLOTUS @VP What a beautiful family and new blessing.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

BREAKING: Rep Brandon Gill just introduced a bill called the "Citizenship Act" which ENDS birthright citizenship for the children of illegal alien invaders.

This MUST pass.

Birthright citizenship for illegal aliens must STOP