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Travelers at Houston Airport have reportedly reacted positively to ICE officers’ presence, with agents handing out water and holding spots in security lines so passengers can use the restroom.

I'm probably one of the few people who is happy to see people steadily have their jobs replaced by AI like this. Some days I salivate shamelessly if I think of it too much. Most jobs are filler & LARP. Made up and unnecessary. If you watch people work, you realise hardly anybody does anything and often they do it poorly anyway. I don't blame them. Why pour your blood, sweat, and tears into companies that don't value you, harvest your creative energy, and drain your life force? Many people reading this secretly know they're getting paid to do nothing for more than 85% of their 'working' day. Great civilisations of the past such as Ancient Greece could advance fields like geometry, philosophy, art, music, and engineering so immensely because people had idle time to think –– they didn't waste their entire day and peak consciousness pretending to be busy, doing mundane non-life affirming tasks. It'll look much worse until it gets better, but we may see an intellectual boom in our lifetime. An entire new economic landscape that rewards creativity and up-skilling. I am so bullish it's unreal.

🚨 The 30-year mortgage rate just hit 7% again. The timing couldn’t be worse.

🚨NEW FULL FOOTAGE of Alan Ritchson (Reacher) in a street fight with his neighbor Ronnie Taylor in Tennessee. It captures exactly what caused Ritchson to snap and beat the crap out of Taylor.

Anthropic CEO: “50% of all entry-level Lawyers, Consultants, and Finance Professionals will be completely wiped out within the next 1–5 years." grad students and junior hires are cooked.

Pulling down a half-million and still expecting taxpayers to pay for your kid's preschool is really...something.

Chicago Mayor Johnson: "We cannot jail our way out of vioIent crime… it's racist"

NEW: Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area. "If it's my way, I'll stay and hold and feed a nation. 26 million doesn't mean anything." "As long as I'm on this land, as long as it's feeding me, as long as it's taking care of me, there's nothing that can destroy me if I've got this land." Video: Local 12 WKRC

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Again, she is being completely dishonest. Notice that unmatched American grads are stable. Why? If foreigners are stealing seats, shouldn't that number be INCREASING? It's because she's either lying or stupid. Foreigners are mostly filling spots that Americans don't want.

Daily reminder: They want to kill you.

My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world ​— ​what is viewed as nothing ​— ​to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us ​— ​our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)