Nathan Foran

Fun loving, God serving, Dad of six, married to my best friend!

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

He drove his wife to one of the best hospitals in America for a planned caesarean. A routine one. Her second.

Charles Johnson watched her blood collect in a catheter bag for ten hours while he asked for help.

Kira Johnson died at 2:22am.

Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, 12th April 2016. Kira Johnson was 39. She spoke five languages, raced cars, ran marathons. The caesarean was scheduled. Everything about it was routine.

Her son Langston was delivered at midday.

By the afternoon her husband could see blood in her catheter. He told a nurse. He was told they would check.

He asked again. And again. A CT scan was ordered and then not performed. He has described being told, at one point, that his wife was simply not a priority right now.

He stood in a corridor for ten hours asking people to look at his wife.

They took her back to theatre just after midnight. There were three litres of blood in her abdomen. She died shortly after.

Her son Langston was twelve hours old.

Charles Johnson has spent the decade since as one of the most effective advocates in American maternal health. He founded 4Kira4Moms. He has testified before Congress. The federal Black maternal health legislation introduced in recent years carries work he pushed for.

He talks about one thing more than any other, and it is not the medicine.

It is the ten hours. He was standing right there, in the building, awake, articulate, asking. And it made no difference at all.

[voLs @MillerOfMemphis]

Think about it, this kid grew up in Franklin. Die hard Vols fan his entire life. Always dreamed of playing for the Vols. Committed to Tennessee knowing a 5 star QB was there. Stayed at Tennessee after ANOTHER 5 star QB came in. Stayed after losing the QB battle. Never faltered, complained. Just stayed the course. Got his opportunity when it came, and in just his second start won The Third Saturday In October, the biggest game of the season every year for Tennessee. Storybook stuff. And just look at him. Look at that smile. You know that smile is coming from somewhere deep down. That’s not a normal “victory” smile. Congrats, George. This is your moment. You deserve it. GBO 🙌🧡🍊

[Iredell Firewire @IredellFirewire]

TROUTMAN POLICE CHIEF ENDS OFF-DUTY SECURITY ASSIGNMENTS AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS

Troutman, NC - Troutman Police Chief Josh Watson has notified Iredell Statesville Schools that, effective October 26, 2026, his officers will no longer be authorized to work off-duty security assignments at Board of Education meetings.

The decision follows an October 12 incident in which Board Chairman Doug Knight requested the removal of a man who was reading sexually explicit excerpts from a book reportedly available in Lake Norman High School’s library. The excerpts included descriptions of sexual acts and anatomy that Firewire will not repeat in this post.

Troutman officers handled the situation calmly and politely asked the man to leave.

In his letter, Chief Watson cited concerns about the legal basis for requested removals, the protection of constitutional rights, and the expectations placed on officers assigned to these meetings.

“A request from the presiding officer does not, by itself, establish sufficient legal grounds for removal, detention, or arrest,” Watson wrote.

The board and school administration will now need to arrange alternative meeting security. Troutman Police will continue responding to calls for law enforcement assistance at board meetings within their jurisdiction. Officers may also continue working approved off-duty assignments at school sporting events and other school activities.

Firewire applauds Chief Watson for recognizing that officers must independently determine whether enforcement action is legally justified. His letter raises serious concerns about how requests to remove members of the public are handled.

Firewire's position is simple: If a book is appropriate for students to access in a school library, school board members should be willing to hear its contents discussed during public comment.

If board members find those passages too graphic to hear at a meeting, they should be willing to explain why the material is appropriate for students to read in private.

Excellent job, Chief Watson.

@isschools

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

BREAKING: Everett Public Schools (@EverettSchools) in Washington issues a public apology and will pay $275K in fees after they reportedly discriminated against Christian students.

The school reportedly forced them to seal their Bibles in envelopes so they wouldn't be "exposed" to other students, per NYP,

BIG win for Parents, Students, and Religious Freedom!

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Tonight, France burned. America, you should be watching very carefully.

Today, October 17, 2026, more than half a million people marched across France against the cost of living. By 8pm, around 400 had been arrested. In Paris, police turned water cannons on the crowds at Place de la République, and one march was stopped 150 meters from the Élysée Palace. Of the 195 people arrested in the capital by the afternoon, only one actually lived in Paris. Mobs forced their way into the city halls of Marseille and Lille. In Lyon, a tourism office was set on fire. In Rennes, barricades burned. Near Limoges, a highway was blocked and police cars were torched.

And then came Limoges.

A crowd of very young people stormed the city hall, a protected historic monument built in the 1880s. They flipped police cars in front of it and set them ablaze, then set the building itself on fire. The flames took the roof, the wedding hall, and the civil registry, the office that records every birth, every marriage, every death in the city. Tonight, the bell tower that has crowned Limoges for nearly 150 years collapsed.

The mayor's response: "It's a monument that is burning, not the Republic."

That is the problem in one sentence. Our leaders still think words can put out fires.

None of this came out of nowhere. For twenty years, the French political class has excused everything. Every riot was "anger." Every burned car was a "social symptom." Every attack on police was "a reaction to provocation." And the hard left, La France Insoumise, which officially backed today's mobilization, built its electoral machine on an alliance with political Islamism: refusing to condemn, refusing to name, trading secularism and public order for votes. In France we have a word for it. Islamo-gauchisme. Islamo-leftism.

Tonight you saw where that culture of excuse ends. A country where a mob can burn down a town hall, and the state arrives after the roof has already fallen in.

My dear American friends,

I say this with love, as someone who has lived among you and owes you a great deal: your midterms are on November 3rd. And the same alliance is growing inside your Democratic Party. The same far-left wing that treats disorder as protest and police as the enemy. The same activists who refuse to draw a line between legitimate dissent and those who openly despise the West. The same politicians who think tolerance means tolerating everything, including the people who want to burn it down.

It always starts with excuses. Then comes impunity. Then come the flames.

Same causes, same effects. If you create the conditions we created, you will get exactly what we got tonight.

France was the country of the Enlightenment, of cathedrals and town halls that stood for centuries. Tonight, one of them collapsed live on social media while the government called for calm.

My dear American friends, the only advantage you have over us is that you've been warned.

Vote like your city hall depends on it. Because one day, it will.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Progressive Christian Arrested For His Faith, Quickly Cleared Of All Charges https://t.co/cylFdvwPNK

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

108 years ago today, a red-headed farmer from Pall Mall, Tennessee did something in the Argonne Forest that still doesn't seem real.

Alvin York grew up dirt poor, a hard drinker and brawler, until a religious conversion in his twenties changed his whole life. When the draft notice came in 1917, he asked to be exempted as a conscientious objector. His church opposed war and so did he. The Army said no.

His battalion commander spent hours going through the Bible with him, trying to convince him that a man could fight and still be right with God. York went home on leave, prayed on it for two days on a mountainside, and came back ready.

On the morning of October 8, 1918, York was one of 17 men sent to slip behind German lines and knock out machine guns near Chatel-Chehery, France. They surprised a group of Germans and captured them. Then the machine guns on the ridge above opened up. Six Americans were killed instantly and three more went down wounded, including the sergeant in charge.

That left Cpl. York in command of seven men, most of them pinned flat guarding prisoners.

So York went to work. Every time a German gunner raised his head to fire, York shot him. He'd been shooting turkeys in the Tennessee hills since he was a kid and he was not missing at that range. When six Germans charged him with bayonets, he drew his pistol and dropped all six, starting with the last man and working forward, so the ones in front wouldn't realize what was happening.

A German officer, Lt. Paul Vollmer, emptied his pistol at York and missed every shot. Watching his men fall one after another, Vollmer finally called out in English and offered to surrender the whole position if York would stop shooting.

York agreed. Then he used Vollmer to order other German positions to give up as they marched back through the woods.

By the time he reached American lines, York had killed 25 men and was herding 132 prisoners in front of him with a handful of survivors.

When a general told him he'd heard York captured the whole German army, York said "No sir. I got only 132."

He was promoted to sergeant and received the Medal of Honor. New York threw him a ticker tape parade. Companies offered him a fortune to endorse their products and he turned almost all of it down. He went home to Tennessee, married his sweetheart, and spent years raising money to build a school for kids in the mountains who had no shot at an education.

When Hollywood finally made his story in 1941, he agreed partly to fund a Bible school. Gary Cooper won the Oscar for playing him.

The man who didn't want to go to war became the most famous American soldier of it.

[Kentucky Girl @Kentuckygirl1]

Metro Louisville Council members Betsy Ruhe and Tammy Hawkins should resign in disgrace.

After a viral road rage incident, this pair of geniuses saw an opportunity to go after a white man for allegedly following and attacking a black female motorist.

Racism, they wailed. "Hate crime," they said in a press conference, as they called for his arrest.

In their rush to cry racism, and drum up outrage and publicity, they publicly identified the WRONG white man and shared his photo all over social media.

But, of course, they didn't have the facts.

The truth is that a 20 year old black female engaged in an extended "road rage" incident with a white man on a motorcycle.

At one point they were both stopped at a light. The black female, who had a baby in the car with her, got out of her car FIRST, wielding a steering wheel cable lock as a weapon.

She hit the motorcyclist first, and then tried to use a stun gun on him.

The (convenient) video that was released to the public missed all that, and only showed the white man fighting with the woman.

He defended himself, and shoved her back into her car, closing the door on her. She then intentionally rear-ended the man's bike with her car before driving off.

An apology from these 2 dipshits is NOT ENOUGH.

The only racism here came from them, who assumed that the white man was the aggressor.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

A Brooklyn judge told a defendant the Second Amendment doesn’t exist in her courtroom, then gave him 10 years.

Dexter Taylor had no record and no victim. After NYPD tracked gun parts to his Bushwick apartment, they raided it on April 6, 2022 and took 13 firearms he’d built, plus a 3D printer.

Two months later, Bruen struck down New York’s handgun permit law. When Taylor went to trial in 2024, Judge Abena Darkeh barred that defense: “don’t bring the Second Amendment in here, this is New York.”

On May 13, she sentenced him to 10 years. Parole doesn’t start until 2032.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Telling an eighty-year-old woman to "check the portal" for serious biopsy results is cruelty disguised as digital efficiency.

My 82-year-old aunt had a lung biopsy done two weeks ago.

The doctor told her they’d have the pathology report ready within five business days.

Friday afternoon rolled around. No call.
She dialed the clinic’s main desk, her voice shaking with anxiety.

The receptionist cut her off before she could finish explaining:

“Doctor doesn’t give results over the phone anymore. All lab findings are automatically released to your MyChart patient portal.”

My aunt said, “Sweetheart, I don’t have a computer. I have a landline on my kitchen wall. Can the doctor just tell me if I have cancer?”

The receptionist sighed into the receiver:
“It’s hospital network policy. We can’t bypass the portal. You’ll have to have a family member create an account and view the file.”

My aunt spent an entire seventy-two-hour weekend sitting in her recliner, gripping her reading glasses, convinced she was dying.

I drove out to her house on Monday morning, set up a profile on my laptop, and pulled up the records.

The result was benign.

The pathology report had been uploaded four days earlier.

A doctor spent three minutes clicking an upload button, and an elderly woman endured four days of sheer psychological terror because the hospital decided a phone call was too expensive.

Since when did delivering medical news become a self-service task?

[Eli Yoder @Yodertoter40]

New York Democrats have declared WAR ON THE AMISH. Thanks to their unconstitutional attack on religion, they're now able to fine EACH unvaccinated Amish child $2,000 EVERY SINGLE DAY.
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The $118,000 bill is one day, not the cap. Three one-room schools alone already owe that much for 59 children, at $2,000 each.
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Health Commissioner Mary Bassett imposed it on December 15, 2022. She called the sum conservative because it assumed only one day out of compliance.
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Dygert Road was billed $52,000 for 26 children. Pleasant View was billed $46,000 for 23.
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Shady Lane was billed $20,000 for 10.
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Footnote 9 of the Second Circuit opinion records the state's view. Each day an unvaccinated student attends is a fresh violation and a fresh $2,000 fine.
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Another day for those 59 children is another $118,000. A 180-day year at that rate is about $21 million, and the families say they cannot pay the first bill.
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Joseph Miller, Jonas Smucker, and Ezra Wengerd run the schools. The schools sit in Clymer and Heuvelton, plus the Canajoharie settlement, and take no public money.
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They had a religious exemption for decades. On June 13, 2019, Democrats repealed it after measles spread through Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Rockland County.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill. Governor Kathy Hochul left it in force.
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A parent may not excuse a child for faith.
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Senator James Skoufis said the exemption was made up and fake. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz called it utter garbage.
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Counsel Aaron Siri told the New York Post the families can pay only if the state takes their land. Some in the community have talked of leaving the state.
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The case is Miller versus McDonald. The Second Circuit ruled against them on June 30 in 2026.
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A Supreme Court petition was due around September 28.

Make sure EVERYONE sees this. If WE don't stand up for these incredible men and women - WHO WILL?!?!?!
⠀
Where is the “my body my choice crowd now”? 

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

This is what a 34-week-old baby looks like outside the womb.

Virginia democrat politicians are trying to make it a "constitutional right” to abort defenseless children at this age, just because someone wants to.

No one has the right to dismember children limb from limb. 

Vote NO on Question 1.

[Dani California @heyred0929]

@RonDeSantis Should have been done 15 yrs ago

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

OMG. Deranged man just tried to run over a @TheMaineWire reporter with his car.

The man claims the reporter was "invading people's privacy" by filming a story in public.

This is attempted M*RDER.

[John F Kennedy jr @JohnFkennedy321]

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[Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo @ezekieldachomo0]

My beloved brethren, I greet you all in the precious name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Today, I write with tears in my eyes and a pain in my heart that words cannot fully explain.

I have buried people I loved. Members of my own family have been killed. Church members who worshipped with us, prayed with us and served God with us have been taken away from this world. People who woke up in the morning expecting to return to their families never came home.

And I keep asking myself...

What is our crime?

What have we done to deserve this?

Who have we offended?

What is the gain in all these killings?

Why should a child lose a father simply because that father professed Christ? Why should a mother bury her children? Why should widows and orphans be created again and again while the world watches?

My beloved, Christians are not asking for the death of anyone. We are asking for the right to live. We are asking for the right to worship God without fear. We are asking for our children to grow up, go to school, return home safely and praise God.

Jesus said in Matthew 5:10, “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

If our faith is the reason we are hated, then we will continue to hold on to Christ.

But I ask those who are killing innocent people: What do you gain when you destroy a family? What do you gain when you turn children into orphans? What do you gain when you make a mother cry over the body of her son?

Can blood build a better nation?

Can the tears of widows bring peace?

Can the graves of innocent people give anyone victory?

The Bible says in Romans 12:15, “Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.”

So I mourn.

I mourn for my family.

I mourn for my church members.

I mourn for every innocent Christian who has been killed.

I mourn for every widow who now sleeps alone.

I mourn for every child who asks, “Where is my father?”

And I mourn for Nigeria.

But even through my tears, I will not abandon Christ.

The Bible says in Psalm 34:18, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”

Lord, draw near to every broken family.

Lord, comfort every widow.

Lord, wipe the tears of every orphan.

Lord, protect those who are still living in fear.

And Lord, give wisdom and courage to those entrusted with protecting innocent lives.

We do not want revenge. We want justice. We want peace. We want a Nigeria where Christians and Muslims can live together, worship God according to their conscience, raise their children and sleep without fear.

My beloved Nigerians, how many more graves must we see before our hearts are broken enough to cry out together?

How many more mothers must we comfort?

How many more children must become orphans?

How many more churches must bury their members?

How many more families must disappear before we say, “Enough”?

I may be tired, I may be wounded, and I may have lost people I love, but I will continue to speak for the innocent.

Because silence cannot bring back the dead.

And fear will not make me deny my Lord.

As Jesus said in John 16:33, “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

May God remember every family that has lost someone.

May God heal Nigeria.

May God protect His people.

May God bring an end to the bloodshed.

And may the day come when Nigerian children no longer grow up knowing the sound of gunfire, but only the sound of laughter, worship and peace.

I remain your brother in Christ,

Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo

[QueenMother👸🏻 @QueenMother1976]

The internet saw a mom walking back to her seat at a Giants game carrying her baby, a backpack AND food while her husband sat there eating.

And whewww… they had that man’s entire character figured out within SECONDS.

People called him lazy. A deadbeat. Said she was basically parenting alone. Some were literally telling this woman to LEAVE HER HUSBAND.

There was just one problem…

They couldn’t hear what was happening. And they had absolutely no idea WHY this family was at that baseball game in the first place.

The mom, Erika Alvarez, eventually spoke out because the backlash toward her husband Ramses had gotten so bad.

And the context changes EVERYTHING.

Before she ever left their seats, Ramses had offered to take their baby.

Erika chose to keep the baby with her because it was chilly and having her in the carrier helped keep her warm.

While Erika was already up, SHE texted her husband a picture of the food menu and offered to grab something for him since she was passing it anyway.

Then she came back carrying everything.

That’s the moment the cameras caught.

What they DIDN’T capture was Ramses clearing her seat when she returned, offering to let her eat first, offering to take things from her and even offering to share/feed her some of his sandwich.

She told him to eat. Because she’d already eaten before the game…
and he hadn’t had a full meal that day.

But there’s another piece nobody watching that tiny clip could’ve possibly known.

Ramses was grieving the recent death of a close longtime friend who had played baseball.

According to Erika, there hadn’t been a funeral or memorial, so SHE suggested they go to a Giants game. She wanted her husband to sit down, watch baseball, eat some stadium food and have a moment to remember his friend.

She was taking care of him.

Yet the internet saw her carrying a few things for a few seconds and decided he was a terrible husband who expected his wife to do everything.

And apparently it went WAY beyond some snarky comments.

Erika said strangers found their personal information, and Ramses even received messages telling him to kill himself.

Over. A. Video. Clip.

Listen, I’m ALL FOR calling out men who sit comfortably while their wives carry the baby, the diaper bag, the food, the mental load and everything else. 😂

But this is such a perfect example of something social media has made us forget:

A camera can show you exactly what happened in a moment and STILL not show you the truth of the situation.

We saw her hands were full.
We couldn’t hear him offering to help.
We couldn’t hear her telling him to eat.
We couldn’t see the conversations they’d already had.
And we definitely couldn’t see the grief that man was carrying while his wife was quietly trying to take care of him.

Sometimes we’re not missing a little context.
We’re missing the entire damn story.

~Laydee Jane, FB

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Rice paddies heat the planet about as much as every aeroplane in the sky, and nobody has made a documentary about your pilau.

A flooded paddy is a man-made swamp. Under the water, with no oxygen, the same family of microbes that live in a cow's rumen break down plant matter and give off methane. It is a rumen with the cow taken out. Rice accounts for around a tenth of all the methane humans cause, and about 1.5% of all greenhouse gases, which puts it level with global aviation.

The response so far:

- Streaming exposés on rice: none
- Celebrities going rice-free for January: none
- Rice-free Mondays in school canteens: none
- Carbon labels on a bag of basmati: none
- Countries taxing it: none

Denmark, meanwhile, will bill its farmers for every cow and pig from 2030.

The cow's methane comes from grass, which pulled that carbon out of the air last spring, on ground too wet or too steep to plough, and it arrives with beef, milk, leather and a fertilised field. The paddy's methane arrives with a bowl of starch.

The chemistry is identical. One of them is a plant, and plants do not get prosecuted. The climate case against your dinner depends on only ever pointing the instrument at the animal.

Who decided which methane counts?

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

Kristin Logan had Stage 4 cancer.

She waited 9 months in Canada to get a diagnosis. And then she was given a brochure for MAID to use to kill herself.

Instead, she went to the United States for treatment and now she's doing great.

Canada must shut down MAID and help patients.

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

Michigan removes more than 20,000 sex offenders from registry, including the infamous Larry Nassar
https://t.co/kKASmJBtfo