RaqzDJor

...loving and trusting GOD completely.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

How EMBARASSING for UCLA.

Students can't even read at 6th grade level.

This kid got into college because of the color of his skin.

Period.

[🇺🇸Lady Vet @CoVet_81]

Good night, my adopted family and dear friends. 💤🌙

As the night grows quiet, may the love of our Lord Jesus Christ surround you and your home, bringing peace, comfort, and rest to your hearts. May His presence watch over you and those you love, especially in these still moments when the world finally slows and the day is laid to rest. ✝️🙏✨

Take time to be thankful for the people God has placed in your life. Hold your loved ones close, treasure your family and friends, and don’t forget those precious fur babies whose unconditional love fills our homes with comfort and joy. ❤️🐾🤗

May your heart be at ease tonight, your rest be peaceful, and your spirit be renewed. Stay blessed, sleep well, and may God continue to bless America always. 🌙😴

[radar PH @radarph_media]

A newspaper clipping about the young Jovito Salonga is making the rounds online, and it is easy to understand why.

The short article identified Salonga as a 27-year-old law professor who had already earned law degrees from both Harvard and Yale, and had just won the Andrew Cottier Prize for writing the best paper on International Law at Yale.

For many Filipinos, the clipping is not just nostalgia. It is an indictment.

At a time when the Senate is filled with a mix of lawyers, broadcasters, actors, former police officials, political heirs, executives, and career politicians, Salonga’s credentials feel almost unreal.

Long before he became Senate President, Salonga had already topped the Philippine Bar, studied at Harvard and Yale, taught law, and built a reputation as one of the country’s sharpest legal minds.

But Salonga was not admired for brilliance alone. As senator, he became one of the country’s most respected and principled public servants—a lawmaker known for independence, integrity, and courage even when his positions were unpopular.

He fought the Marcos dictatorship, defended political prisoners, survived the Plaza Miranda bombing, and continued speaking truth to power. After EDSA, he chaired the PCGG and helped pursue the recovery of ill-gotten wealth. As Senate President, he also led the historic 1991 vote rejecting the extension of the U.S. bases treaty.

That is why the old clipping stings. At 27, Salonga was already being recognized internationally for scholarship. Later, he proved that intelligence could be matched with moral courage.

The issue is not that only lawyers or academics should sit in the Senate. Public service can come from many professions. But the viral Salonga clipping reminds Filipinos of a higher standard: senators who were not merely famous, but formidable.

In that sense, the post is less about the past than the present. It quietly asks whether voters are still sending their best to the Senate.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Saint-Malo, Brittany, has one of the highest tides in Europe, with water that can rise 13 m over.

These houses are built as a sea wall and 4 layer glass on the front windows.

[📹 Easy Ride]

[SmokeyGirl25 @_SmokeyGirl25]

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[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

The most famous religious song in the world was not written as a prayer.

You have heard Ave Maria a thousand times. Everyone assumes Franz Schubert wrote it as a setting of the ancient Catholic prayer, the Hail Mary, but he did not...

This melody was never composed for the Latin prayer at all.

In 1825, at the age of 28, Schubert was working his way through a German translation of a poem by the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake. It is an adventure story, set among the warring clans of the sixteenth-century Scottish Highlands. In one scene, the heroine, a young woman named Ellen Douglas, is in hiding with her father in a mountain cave. Alone and afraid, she sings a song asking the Virgin Mary for help.

Schubert set seven songs from that poem to music. Three of them were sung by Ellen, and this was the last of her three. He called it, plainly, Ellens dritter Gesang — 'Ellen's Third Song.' Its opening words were the two she would naturally cry out in her prayer: Ave Maria.

That was all it took...

The melody was so achingly beautiful that, in the years that followed, people began fitting the full Latin text of the actual Hail Mary prayer over his music. The fit was so natural, and the result so moving, that in the popular imagination the song became the prayer.

Schubert died in 1828, at thirty-one. He had written more than six hundred songs, and much of his work was still unpublished and little known beyond a small circle in Vienna.

He never knew that one melody, written for a fictional girl in a cave, would become one of the most beloved pieces of music in human history.

It is a strange and beautiful thing. The most famous prayer ever set to music began as a song about someone who was simply afraid, and reaching, in the dark, for something to hold onto. Perhaps that is exactly why it has never stopped moving people. It was a real prayer before it was ever a holy one...

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[🇺🇸 Ronald Carter @USronaldcarter]

SCOTUS JUST PUBLISHED THE EXACT LIST OF RIGHTS PARENTS NOW HAVE IF A SCHOOL TRIES TO BLOCK THEM OUT

Not vague victories. Not "parents win somehow." NAMED PROTECTIONS. SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS. School by school.

🇺🇸 Advance notice — schools must tell parents BEFORE exposing children to the challenged books
🇺🇸 Opt-out right — parents can excuse their children from that specific instruction
🇺🇸 Free Exercise protection — forcing children into lessons that "pose a very real threat of undermining" religious beliefs is unconstitutional
🇺🇸 Preliminary injunction — this is ACTIVE NOW, not pending a future ruling
🇺🇸 Montgomery County, MD — the specific district that started this must comply immediately
🇺🇸 4th Circuit overruled — the lower court that sided with the school board was reversed
🇺🇸 Elementary grades targeted — the ruling applies to the LGBTQ+-inclusive storybooks in elementary English classes
🇺🇸 Nationwide signal — any district with a no-opt-out policy on religious-conflict content now faces the same legal exposure
🇺🇸 Administrative burden — schools must build notification and opt-out systems before the 2025-2026 year begins
🇺🇸 Case continues — the injunction holds while the full lawsuit plays out in lower courts

💀 6-3 vote
💀 Majority: Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett
💀 ZERO deference to the school board's "no opt-out" policy
💀 100% parental religious exercise — that is what the court protected

Every protection on this list belongs to parents. Not administrators. PARENTS.

Justice Sotomayor warned this "will be chaos for this Nation's public schools." These are the rights that caused that chaos.

I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

😮 Japan has a real-life “Monet Pond”

Located in Gifu Prefecture, it looks as if it came straight out of one of the famous artist’s paintings.

Crystal-clear water, colorful koi carp, and blooming water lilies have turned this spot into one of the country’s most unusual attractions.

The best time to visit is summer, when the pond most closely resembles Claude Monet’s iconic “Water Lilies” series.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“OK” originated in 1830s America as a joke abbreviation for the misspelled phrase “oll korrect.” It gained national attention during Martin Van Buren’s 1840 presidential campaign and eventually became one of the most widely used words in the world.

One of the world’s most common words started as a joke. In 1839, Boston newspapers popularized a trend of humorous misspelled abbreviations, and “OK” emerged from “oll korrect,” a playful spelling of “all correct.” While most of these expressions quickly faded, OK endured.

Its popularity grew further during the 1840 presidential campaign of Martin Van Buren, whose supporters formed “OK Clubs” that referenced both the abbreviation and his nickname, “Old Kinderhook,” taken from his hometown in New York. Today, OK is recognized around the globe and remains one of the most universally understood words in any language.

[SONS OF LIBERTY -MAGA MOVEMENT !!! @eagameover]

GOD BLESS YOU SIR 🫵🏻🫡
My respect 96 years .
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
AMERICAN MADE .

The GOAT !!

Clint Eastwood Said Something About Getting Old That Stopped Me Cold.
Aging is not gentle.
You are still here. Still present. Still watching the world move. But the body that carried you through everything - the wars, the work, the wildness of youth - begins to ask for more than you can give it. Joints that never complained now speak up in the morning. Eyes that once took in everything now flinch at the light. Breathing, which never required a single thought, starts needing little pauses.
But none of that is the hardest part.
The hardest part is the quiet.
At a certain age, you reach for the phone and remember there is no one left to call.
The people who knew you when you were young - who remembered the same summers, the same streets, the same faces
- are gone. One by one, then all at once, until the memories you carry have no one left to share them with.
So you tell the stories anyway.
To whoever will listen. With a little more color than perhaps the truth deserves. With a touch of pride you've earned and a grief you don't always name. You know the person across from you wasn't there. You know they can't quite feel it the way you do.
But you tell them. Because the telling is the holding on.
Those stories are not just memories. They are the proof that a life was lived. That people were loved. That things mattered.
And if no one asks for them - you offer them anyway, quietly, like setting something down on a table and hoping someone picks it up.
Old age is not simply what happens to a face or a body.
It is memory looking for a place to rest.
And what an older person needs - more than advice, more than solutions, more than someone telling them how to feel - is simply someone willing to sit down, be still, and listen.
Not to fix anything.
Just to be there.
That is the whole gift. And it costs nothing.
~Wild Whispers .

[SONS OF LIBERTY -MAGA MOVEMENT !!! @eagameover]

I LOVE THIS MAN !!
What example of a honest person .
All his movies are bad ass .
Great conservative man , I wish Trump would do something for him .

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

The Eucharistic Miracle of Legnica, Poland (2013)

On Christmas Day 2013, at St. Hyacinth’s Shrine in Legnica, a consecrated Host fell to the floor during Communion. It was placed in holy water to dissolve per Church custom.
After about two weeks, the Host had not fully dissolved. A red spot appeared on its surface, later identified as human heart muscle tissue showing signs of agony. DNA tests confirmed it was human.

In 2016, Bishop Zbigniew Kiernikowski officially recognized it as a Eucharistic miracle with “the hallmarks” of a supernatural event. The relic is now venerated in a golden monstrance at the shrine, drawing pilgrims worldwide.

It is seen as a sign affirming the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

BREAKING: ADVANCED ALZHEIMER’S PATIENT REGAINED SPEECH, MEMORY, AND BLADDER CONTROL AFTER SINGLE PSILOCYBIN DOSE

An 80-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer’s — who had barely spoken for YEARS — experienced RAPID and SUSTAINED improvement after taking 5g of psilocybin mushrooms.

During the acute phase, she entered a prolonged deep sleep-like state with profuse sweating.

~19 hours later, she spontaneously started talking again for HOURS — sharing detailed autobiographical memories she hadn’t expressed in years.

Over the following days, her family reported improved memory, walking, emotional connection, speech, and regained bladder control.

After 1 month, bladder control REMAINED RESTORED, and she was still functionally improved compared with baseline.

While this is just one published case report, the implications are enormous given that there are currently NO approved medications known to produce effects like this in advanced Alzheimer’s.

These findings urgently need replication. For millions watching a parent or loved one disappear to Alzheimer’s, even the possibility of restoring lost function warrants serious scientific investigation.

[ModernLiving_X @ModernLiving_X]

never swatch makeup testers on your FACE! 🦠

[Christopher Manion @realchrismanion]

This is a beautiful clarion call to the laity. As Bishop Sheen told us 54 years ago,

“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops, and your religious act like religious."

[Address upon receiving the "Knights of Columbus '72 Catholic Man of Action Award” (Speech, Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Doylestown, Pa., May 28, 1972)]

[Power Beast @powerbeastt]

6 eye contact techniques you should master.

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[Power Beast @powerbeastt]

1. The Triangle Technique

[Grace Gym🏋️‍♀️ @GraceGym_]

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[Rae ❤️‍🔥 @FiatLuxGenesis]

What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone momuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.' ~Pericles

The quest for eternal vouth in our culture speaks to the narcissism of our age--but also represents the loss of the extended family where the old passed on wisdom to the young.

Our society denigrates old age, so most fear it & remain perpetually stuck in a quest for a worldly youth.

Thus is transhumanism at its root.

(Grandma's Story by Heinrich Hirt, 1889)