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For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. -JC
Dominus vobiscum

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

I need your book recommendations.

Over the last few years I've spent a lot of time reading about Western history.

I've decided to focus more on biographies.

Some I've considered:

• Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
• Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
• Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy by Edmund Morris
• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
• Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg
• Alexander of Macedon by Peter Green
• The Quest for El Cid by Richard Fletcher
• Godfrey of Bouillon by John C. Andressohn
• Frederick the Great: King of Prussia by Tim Blanning
• Prince Eugene of Savoy by Nicholas Henderson
• Conquistador: Hernán Cortés by Buddy Levy

I'm super interested in interesting lives.

Warriors, explorers, statesmen, kings, adventurers, empire-builders, founders, defenders of civilizations.

The kind of person whose biography sends you down a 20-book rabbit hole.

If you could recommend only ONE historical figure to obsess over for the next year, who would it be?

And what's the best book ever written about them?

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

🔥 Rubio SHUTS DOWN Cory Booker Cold: “No Navy. Wrecked Economy.”

Booker’s questions were completely asinine — one of the dumbest performances you’ll see in the Senate.

Cory Booker exposed again as all talk, no substance.

Rubio just dismantled him.
Pathetic.
What do you think? 👇
#CoryBooker #MarcoRubio #SenateClowns #AmericaFirst #GOP

[Catholic Answers @catholiccom]

Mormons and Catholics believe in two different Gods. Both call God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but each means a totally different thing from the other.

In Catholicism, God is three persons in one divine nature. God is immaterial and absolutely simple. In Mormonism, the three persons are distinct in substance and essence. They are made of material and exist in a material world.

In Catholicism, God created everything ex nihilo (from nothing). He brings everything into existence, and all existence is contingent on him. God is the uncaused cause—the ultimate explanation of all things.

In Mormonism, God does not bring all things into existence from nothing. Instead, he organizes eternally existing matter. This matter has existed forever, and all things, including god, are made by it.

This should already suffice to show that Mormons worship an altogether different "god" from Christians, so Mormonism is not a type or denomination of Christianity.

But setting aside that debate for the moment, there is a more fundamental question: is the Mormon view a sufficient explanation for why anything exists at all?

It is not. Eternal matter cannot explain its own reason for existence, let alone existence itself. Only a theology where God is the very act of being can explain reality fully.

Why? Continue reading below 👇

[Gary Michael Voris @Michael_Voris]

First, YOU are using the term Apocrypha, a term used by Jewish leaders to try and discredit Christ’s followers.

Second - the prophecy from Wisdom 2 is fulfilled by Jesus on Golgatha.

Third - the Septugint which contained the “Apocrypha” is the OT text quoted 90+% of the time in the NT.

Fourth - turn it around, Paul quotes a Greek poet from 500 BC. “In him we live and move and have our being”. If the absence of text in the NT make it non-inspired, does it presence in the NT then insure its inspiration?

[Hannah Strege, LSW @HannahStrege]

✨Listen up, former embryos✨

An embryo is a stage of human development.

When a sperm cell and egg cell fuse at fertilization, a new human life begins.

In humans, the embryonic stage lasts until the end of the 8th week of development.

Embryos don’t “become” human later. They are human from the beginning.

Some embryos develop in the uterus. Some develop for a time outside the body in a laboratory.

Different location.

Same human being.

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

JUST IN: President Trump walks off Air Force One after 2:00 AM. Trump NEVER stops working for us

NOBODY works harder than President Trump

Protect President Trump at all costs 🙏

[Jum @JesterJum]

Men don't have commitment issues.

Most men keep the same friends, same barber, same football team, same clothes, same habits for YEARS.

It's YOU they don't want to commit to.

Men are naturally loyal to what rings them peace.

That's why men stay attached to childhood friends longer than relationships sometimes.

Cold reality.

A man can stay loyal to:
-a broken home
-a rusty care
-a football team that loses constantly
-and the same cologne since 2014

but suddenly he "fears commitment" with YOU?

Think carefully.

Women blame "male commitment issues" meanwhile ignoring:
-their attitude
-male orbiters
-attention addiction
-emotional instability
-and disrespect

Interesting strategy.

Men commit HARD when they find peace, loyalty, respect, and emotional safety.

That's what some women miss.

A man avoiding commitment usually means one thing:

He enjoys access to you...but doesn't trust you long-term.

Brutal truth.

Women think "he's scared".

No.

Sometimes he just calculated the risk and quietly decided "not worth it".

Huge difference.

Men commit to things that improve their lives.

Friendships. Teams. Passions. Purpose.

So if he avoids committing to YOU...that alone should hurt and make you think.

A man will tolerate struggle, pain, and inconvenience for the things he truly values.

Remember that.

Men don't struggle with commitment itself.

They struggle with committing permanently to women who disturb their peace.

[Sabin Howard @SabinHoward]

There are two types of people in this country. It’s people that take responsibility for their lives and those that blame everybody else for their situation.

I made a monument about our country rising to the occasion! The World War I Memorial in DC

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

There it is:

🚨🚨Investigative journalist @laralogan Logan Drops A BOMBSHELL, Trump went after Maduro—knowing Venezuela coordinated with Iran and the CCP and helped overthrow the United States government on November 3, 2020. And the intelligence community covered it all up.

In other words: Sidney Katherine Powell VINDICATED ONCE MORE: Precisely why the regime went after her:

@SidneyPowell1: “I can hardly wait to present all the evidence we’ve collected on Dominion—starting with the fact that it was created to produce and alter voting results in Venezuela for Hugo Chávez, and then shipped internationally to overthrow governments, including this one the United States government.”

Venezuelan Military Intelligence whistleblower CONFIRMS that the Central Intelligence Agency outsources its election rigging software and voting machines [smartmatic] to multiple countries, including the U.S., from Venezuela.

"My name is Hugo Carvajal Barrios. For many years, I was a high-ranking member of the Venezuelan regime...

…Smartmatic was born as an electoral tool of the Venezuelan regime…I know this because I placed the head of IT of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in his position, and he reported directly to me. The Smartmatic system can be altered-this is a fact. This technology was later exported abroad, including to the United States. Regime operatives maintain relationships with election officials and voting-machine companies inside your country..."

REPORT: Dominion deleted 2.7 million Trump votes nationwide.

Data analysis finds 221,000 Pennsylvania votes were switched from President Trump to Biden.

941,000 Trump votes were deleted.
States using Dominion Voting Systems switched 435,000 votes from Trump to Biden.

[Mr. Pool @MrPool_QQ]

🔻 SUNSCREEN ENTERS YOUR BLOODSTREAM IN UNDER 24 HOURS. THE FDA CONFIRMED THIS IN 2019. THEY DID NOT PULL A SINGLE PRODUCT. THEY TOLD YOU TO KEEP APPLYING.

In January 2020, a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA found that six active sunscreen chemicals — including oxybenzone and avobenzone — absorb into the bloodstream after a single application. Not after years. After one use. At concentrations exceeding the FDA's own safety threshold by 180x to 500x.

The FDA did not recall them. They issued a statement: "Continue to use sunscreen."

Oxybenzone is a confirmed endocrine disruptor. It mimics estrogen. It crosses the placental barrier. It has been found in 97% of Americans tested. It is in breast milk. It is in amniotic fluid. It is in your children before they are born.

A former formulation chemist — 11 years at a top-3 sunscreen manufacturer:

"We had internal absorption data by 2014. Full transdermal penetration within 26 minutes of application. The compounds don't sit on the skin. They were never designed to. The delivery mechanism is identical to a pharmaceutical patch. We knew this. The mitigation strategy was never reformulation — it was public messaging. Keep the consumer applying. The margins on chemical sunscreens are 1,400% above production cost. Mineral alternatives cost 4x more to produce. The decision was financial. Every internal document confirmed that."

They told you the sun causes cancer. What they didn't tell you:

Vitamin D — produced only through direct sun exposure — is the single most critical regulator of immune surveillance against malignant cells. A 2023 meta-analysis confirmed: Vitamin D deficiency correlates with a 30-60% increased risk of colorectal, breast, and prostate cancers.

They blocked the one thing your immune system needs to fight cancer. Then sold you a chemical that enters your blood and mimics hormones. Melanoma rates have increased 320% since 1975 — the exact period sunscreen use became widespread.

The paradox is published. McGill University, 2023: "Sunscreen usage is climbing, but so are melanoma and skin cancer rates."

They didn't protect you from cancer. They removed your defense against it and charged you $14 a bottle.

15 minutes of direct sun daily. No screen. Arms and face exposed. Your body produces 10,000-20,000 IU of Vitamin D in that window — the amount they sell you in pills because they blocked the free version.

CODE: JAMA-2020-6CHEM / OXYBENZONE-97PCT / VIT-D-IMMUNE / MELANOMA-320-1975 / MCGILL-PARADOX-2023

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They made you afraid of the sun so they could sell you a hormone disruptor and call it protection. The sun is free. That's why they taught you to fear it. Share this.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

I’ve referred these allegations to DOJ’s new Fraud Division for criminal investigation. Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and intimated whistleblowers, they must face justice.

[Mr. Pool @MrPool_QQ]

🔻 YOUR BODY WAS ALWAYS CAPABLE OF REGROWING TEETH. THE GENE WAS NEVER MISSING. IT WAS SUPPRESSED. JAPAN JUST PROVED IT BY UNBLOCKING IT WITH A SINGLE INJECTION.

In September 2024, Kyoto University began human trials on a drug that regrows teeth in adults. One injection. New teeth in 9 weeks. No implants. No dentures. No surgery.

The drug deactivates USAG-1 — a protein that blocks tooth regeneration. Remove the block, the tooth grows. Like it was always meant to.

The question nobody is asking: what activated USAG-1 in the first place?

A former molecular biologist — 11 years in a dental research lab funded by one of the three largest implant manufacturers:

"We identified in 2011 that fluoride accumulation in jaw tissue amplifies USAG-1 expression by up to 340%. The more fluoride in the bone, the stronger the suppression. We submitted the paper. Rejected by every journal in 6 weeks. Funding pulled 3 months later. I was told the direction was 'not commercially viable.'"

Not commercially viable. Because dental implants generate $5.4 billion per year. Dentures: $3.8 billion. Root canals: $15 billion. A $24 billion industry built on the assumption that teeth do not grow back.

They did not discover regeneration in 2024. They suppressed it for decades. A mouth that heals itself does not need a dentist every 6 months.

Fluoride calcifies the pineal gland. Fluoride suppresses tooth regeneration. Fluoride was added to your water in 1945. The same decade they built the dental insurance industry.

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Your teeth were designed to regenerate. Something stopped them. Now you know what. Share this.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

California’s machine didn’t bury Spencer Pratt because he was on track to win Los Angeles. They buried him because he was already making the entire rigged operation look mortal.

That’s the part they can’t afford. A pragmatic outsider running on crime, homelessness, and basic competence ... using modern AI-driven ads instead of the same tired yard signs and mailers ... started cutting through the hopelessness they’ve spent years cultivating.

He wasn’t some generic Republican reciting talking points. He was showing people what a fixed city could actually look like, and too many were starting to pay attention.

So they moved. Not in November, when a Pratt run might have made Karen Bass uncomfortable. They moved now, in the primary, because five more months of him existing would have done permanent damage to the illusion that resistance is pointless in California.

The machine can survive losing. It cannot survive voters realizing the game isn’t as locked down as they’ve been told.

This was panic dressed up as inevitability.

When the establishment has to openly kneecap a candidate in the jungle primary just to protect the narrative, it tells you everything about how fragile their control actually is.

They didn’t kill his campaign to save the city. They killed it to save the con. And everyone watching just saw the mask slip.
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[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

10 years. 10 years. I’ve listened to every Dem & never Trump pundit call Trump, Elon and anyone else who voted Republican a Nazi. And now they line up behind Platner, with an actual Nazi tattoo. Unbelievable.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

He was born in Mexico City. He crossed the border without papers. And the day his green card arrived in the mail — he walked straight to a Marine Corps recruiting office and enlisted.

That was Rafael Peralta. That was who he was from the very beginning.

On November 15, 2004, 25-year-old Sergeant Rafael Peralta was leading his unit through house-to-house combat during the Second Battle of Fallujah — one of the bloodiest urban battles of the entire Iraq War. When he opened a door, insurgents opened fire. He was shot multiple times in the head and fell to the ground.

Then a grenade landed inches from his face.

Seven Marines who were present all say the same thing: despite his critical wounds, Peralta reached out, pulled the grenade beneath his body, and absorbed the full force of the blast.

He died. They lived.

The Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy both recommended him for the Medal of Honor — the nation's highest military decoration. Three different Secretaries of Defense denied it, claiming there was not sufficient proof that he had acted with conscious intent. Yet his own Navy Cross citation states clearly that he pulled the grenade to himself "without hesitation and with complete disregard for his own personal safety."

His mother, Rosa Peralta, refused to accept the Navy Cross for seven years. She believed her son deserved more. She still does.

In 2017, the U.S. Navy commissioned the USS Rafael Peralta — an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer — carrying his name across every ocean on earth.

And now, in May 2026 — more than 21 years after his death — lawmakers in Congress have introduced legislation (H.R. 8973) and the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act includes a provision authorizing the President to award Sgt. Rafael Peralta the Medal of Honor posthumously. The Pentagon has also made a favorable determination supporting the award. The fight, at last, may finally be reaching its end.

A man who was not yet a citizen fought and died for this country. He became a citizen while in uniform. And for over two decades, Washington debated whether his final act was heroic enough.

We don't debate it. We know what he did.
Did you know? Rafael Peralta had voluntarily requested to join his unit on that mission — it was not even his assigned assignment that day. He chose to be there.

Say his name. Share his story. Make sure the world remembers Sergeant Rafael Peralta.

[sacredchad @sacredchad_ig]

Giovanni Battista Bugatti was the official executioner of the Papal States for 68 years, from 1796 to 1864. He carried out 516 executions under six popes.

He was a devout Catholic. He attended Mass before every execution and prayed for the soul of the condemned. He gave each one a pinch of snuff tobacco as a final earthly comfort.

He lived just across the Tiber from the Vatican. He was only allowed to cross the river to carry out a sentence.
When Romans saw him cross the Ponte Sant’Angelo, they knew someone was about to die.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

This is one of the most impactful speeches delivered by the Pope.

He just received a 7-minute standing ovation for affirming the dignity of human life, from the moment of conception to natural death, in front of the Spanish Parliament

"The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization."

"Can a community that casts into the shadows the unborn child, the elderly, the sick, those who suffer in silence, or those who depend entirely on the care of others be called fully just?"

Watch.

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

Forgive me my sins, O Lord, forgive me my sins; the sins of my youth, the sins of my age, the sins of my soul, the sins of my body; my idle sins, my serious voluntary sins; the sins I know, the sins I do not know; the sins I have concealed for so long, and which are now hidden from my memory. I am truly sorry for every sin, mortal, and venial for all the sins of my childhood up to the present hour. I know my sins have wounded your Sacred Heart, O my Saviour, let me be freed from the bonds of evil through your most bitter Passion, my Redeemer.

Amen.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🎯

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Three cheers for Pope Leo's comments regarding the Christian foundations of Europe and the defense of the unborn. Echoing the sentiments of Pope Benedict XVI, Leo reminded his audience that the essential structures of European society and Europe's commitment to human rights are unthinkable apart from Christianity. And speaking before a hard-left Spanish Parliament, the Pope presented an admirably consistent ethic of life, defending migrants, to be sure, but also insisting that no society which "casts into the shadows" the unborn can be called truly just. With bracing clarity, he insisted, "Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence." And he concluded that "the moral greatness of a nation" is manifested in this principle. That he has been received so warmly in Spain I take to be an encouraging sign that the people of that country, especially the youth, have finally had it with a soul-flattening secularist ideology.