“Nearly 10 months after the 2024 elections, and the party is still embroiled in self-recriminations over where they’re talking, what they’re talking about and, now, the actual words they’re using. Or, more precisely: which words they shouldn’t utter.

In a new memo, shared exclusively with POLITICO, the center-left think tank Third Way is circulating a list of 45 words and phrases they want Democrats to avoid using, alleging the terms put “a wall between us and everyday people of all races, religions, and ethnicities.” It’s a set of words that Third Way suggests “people simply do not say, yet they hear them from Democrats.”

They span six categories — from “therapy speak” to “explaining away crime” — and put in sharp relief a party that authors say makes Democrats “sound like the extreme, divisive, elitist, and obfuscatory, enforcers of wokeness.” In the document, titled “Was It Something I Said?” Third Way argues that to “please the few, we have alienated the many — especially on culture issues, where our language sounds superior, haughty and arrogant,” according to the memo.

Among the blacklisted terms: privilege … violence (as in “environmental violence”) … dialoguing … triggering … othering … microaggression … holding space … body shaming … subverting norms … systems of oppression … cultural appropriation … Overton window … existential threat to [the climate, democracy, economy] … radical transparency … stakeholders … the unhoused … food insecurity … housing insecurity … person who immigrated … birthing person … cisgender … deadnaming … heteronormative … patriarchy … LGBTQIA+ … BIPOC … allyship … incarcerated people … involuntary confinement.

“We are doing our best to get Democrats to talk like normal people and stop talking like they’re leading a seminar at Antioch,” says Matt Bennett, Third Way’s executive vice president of public affairs. “We think language is one of the central problems we face with normie voters, signaling that we are out of touch with how they live, think and talk. In recent weeks, this has become a bit of a thing, with comedians like Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silvermanhighlighting how insane Dems can sometimes sound. Also, elected officials like [Delaware Rep.] Sarah McBride and [Kentucky Gov.] Andy Beshear are begging their colleagues to just be normal again.”

If the 4000 were gentiles, it seems important.

FBI agents on Thursday morning raided the Maryland home of John Bolton, the former national security advisor to President Donald Trump and a staunch critic of the president, NBC News confirmed.

The raid is part of a “national security investigation in search of classified records,” a person familiar with the matter told NBC News.

The probe is eyeing multiple instances of the use of classified documents in leaks to news media. NBC reported that the investigation into Bolton began during the Biden administration, but did not go further before President Joe Biden left office in January.

FBI Director Kash Patel tweeted “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission” at the same time his agents were raiding Bolton’s home.

WASHINGTON – The FBI was at former national security adviser John Bolton’s house in suburban Maryland, according to news reports.

Bolton, who served in President Donald Trump’s first term, has become a vocal critic of the administration’s foreign policy and called the president unfit to serve. Trump previously revoked Bolton's security detail and his security clearance after clashes over policy.

Trump canceled Bolton’s security detail despite the discovery of an Iranian plot to kill him.

FBI agents searched Bolton’s home as part of a national security probe ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, according to the New York Post. CNN also reported the search.

Andrew McCabe, a former deputy director FBI, told CNN on Aug. 22 the search was "really stunning." McCabe said there were reasons to look at the search "with a jaundiced eye" because of what might have motivated the search warrant.

“There is this very fraught relationship between the two, and the President's history of going after people, using the... levers of power that he has access to, particularly the Department of Justice, to go after people he doesn't like."

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Fraught relationship:

Please read this all in context. Too many people are reading just this first sentence, and they are building their own doctrine of salvation out of just one verse. Keep reading, for then you will learn who those are who are truly “in Christ Jesus,” and they are not all who merely give lip service to the Lord, who call him, “Lord,” but then do not do what he says (see Matthew 7:21-23). For, even though we are not under the liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws of the Old Covenant, that does not make us lawless. We still have to obey God’s commands.

So, who are those who are no longer under condemnation? Who are those who are “in Christ Jesus”? We are all those who now, by the grace of God, and in the power of God, by faith in Christ, walk (live in conduct, in practice) not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Our lives are now being guided and directed by the Scriptures, taught in the correct biblical context, and by the Spirit of God living within us, leading us in the ways of holiness and of righteousness, in walks of surrender to God, in obedience to his commands, and no longer according to the patterns of our sinful flesh.

Too many people, though, are trying to insert their godless and rebellious lives inside of Christ, and then are claiming that they are no longer under condemnation, just because they made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ. But they have not died with Christ to sin, and they are not walking in obedience to the Lord and to his New Covenant commands, because they have convinced themselves that God does not require that of them, even though it is what Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught throughout the Scriptures. But if sin is still our practice, we are not “in Christ.”

So, we cannot be “in Christ” by our own terms, according to our own sinful flesh. Just saying we are “in Christ,” by faith in him, does not make it true. We can put on an outward show of “Christianity,” but if our hearts have not changed, and if we are still living in conformity to our sinful flesh, and not in conformity to the righteousness of God, and not according to the teachings of the Scriptures, then we do not know Christ. For the mind which is still set on the flesh, to please the sinful flesh, is hostile to (antagonistic, belligerent, and warring against) God, for it does not submit to God’s commandments.

So, none of us are “in Christ” just by claiming that we are, by making a profession of faith in the Lord Jesus. We are “in Christ” who have died with Christ to sin and who are now walking (in conduct, in practice) according to his Spirit, and according to his commands, in the power of God, by the grace of God, and not of our own flesh. For if we live according to the flesh, still making sin our habit, and not obedience to God, the result is we will die in our sins and we will not have heaven as our eternal destiny. For those who are still living to please the sinful flesh cannot be pleasing to God.

Gospel:[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Walking in The Light

Based off 1 John 1-2
An Original Work / November 16, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

When I lift up my voice, and
Sing praise unto God,
I will fellowship with my
Lord and Savior, King.
In Him there is no darkness.
He is in the light of truth.
If we walk in His light,
From sin He purifies.

If we repent of our sins,
He’ll forgive us now,
When we humble ourselves, and
Before Jesus bow.
The man who says, “I know Him,”
But does not obey His truth,
There is no truth in him.
In darkness still he’s found.

Do not love the world of sin,
For it is hell bound.
If you follow the world, you’ll
Not in Christ be found.
The world and its desires
Will not last; they’ll expire.
The one who does God’s will,
Receives eternal life.

See that what you have heard from
Christ remains in you.
Then, you’ll remain in Christ, and
In His Father, too.
This is what He promised us –
His eternal life with God.
So, continue in Him, and
You’ll receive a crown.

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An Original Work / August 22, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Shalom

Our brother A. confided in me that he is struggling with masturbation/lust/pornography, which he wants to break free from.

Could you please pray for him as well?

May the Lord bless you abundantly (Luke 6:38, Job 42:10) and may he bless Israel in Jesus' name. Amen!

Soli Deo Gloria

PS And I pray that the Lord will send out harvesters into his harvest (Matthew 9:38).

So, just led to Matthew today, and I'm reading and something stood out in the sermon of the Mount

Matthew 5

17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

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right so this part we all know, to give context

18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

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Heaven and Earth do pass away, and a New Earth comes.. meaning the laws can pass away then, and be removed, or replaced.

Здравствуйте, меня зовут Виктория. Я выросла в стране со светскими взглядами, но самая распространённая религия здесь — ислам. Мои родители не очень ревностные христиане; я с детства ходила в церковь, была крещена в православии, но не могла назвать себя по-настоящему верующей. До совершеннолетия я вела, в каком-то смысле, довольно разгульный образ жизни: рано познакомилась с алкоголем и сигаретами. В восемнадцать лет я начала интересоваться христианством, и, честно говоря, это был худший год в моей жизни. Я стала больше думать о религии, и это постепенно помогло мне выйти из кризиса. Конечно, я читала Библию, молилась, но, честно говоря, уверена, что мои знания недостаточно структурированы, и хотела бы услышать ваш совет: с чего мне лучше всего начать?

Hi all,

I wonder if you can help.

Reading the NT and Jesus, overall, has very little to say in comparison to Paul. I understand Paul was a Jew who, persecuted Christians before becoming a follower of Christ, but did not know Jesus during his lifetime. Paul met Jesus, after he was resurrected, on the road to/from Emmaus.

Feel free to correct any of this that is incorrect.

What I can't understand is how Paul had such authority to a) seemingly become the leader of the disciples and taking ownership of their teachings to Jews/Gentiles b) authority/leadership of the church c) become the main reference within the NT

My understanding is that he was relatively wealthy and could afford to write more than most because he was able to afford paper etc and was well educated in comparison to most of the population.

Where is the biblical reference giving Paul such authority or was it just accepted that it was his by his peers?

Any clarification on these points would be appreciated, thanks

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Under Pope Francis, the rad leftists in the Church prayed that Pope Francis’ version of synodality would lead to the so-called “new morality” of the post Vatican II era. Of course it was the old immorality of the Church for 2,000 years prior to this new and improved morality.

Tom Fox did a marvelous job in that NcR article I posted yesterday, even with creeping senility, to highlight that new morality of the 1960’s he hoped Francis would confirm through synodality.
Poor Tom Fox! This will really make him crazy like a fox !

VATICAN NEWS:

Pope urges moral theologians to take St Alphonsus as their model​

Pope Leo XIV urges moral theologians to follow the example of St. Alphonsus Liguori and other saints as they reflect on the “challenges, changes, and conflicts” of the modern world in the light of divine revelation.

By Christopher Wells

In a message to the 17th International Congress of Moral Theology, Pope Leo XIV encourages participants to approach modern moral issues “following the wise and always timely example of the Saints, such as Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori.”

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The short video speaks for itself. Is this possible. If so what are the implications for the mainstream view of human evolution and history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi4gFfjzKck&ab_channel=MichaelButton

Pastor, and well-known author, Carl Gallups had a vivid rapture dream years ago.

Regardless of what one may believe about the timing of the rapture, I found his to be a very interesting dream.
But what I found to be even more interesting was 'the rest of the story' that he shares, in this video.

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Looks like I am lost.
I have been searching for a while subconsciously, which is how I found my way here.
Tonight was too much, I asked God and Jesus into my life.

Nothing. I feel more alone than ever.

....and those results are in:

Home Depot Sales Miss Expectations on Soft Demand​

Home Depot says it will raise some prices because of tariffs​

Target Q2 Earnings Miss Estimates, Comparable Sales Decline Y/Y​

Walmart Stock Slips as Q2 Profit Comes Up Short​

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Electric Bills Are Up 10% So Far This Year—Why They Could Keep Getting Costlier​

There is no way one can not see the economic trends in higher retail prices, climbing utility costs, layoffs, a shrinkage of business itself, as the opposite of the day one Trump economic promises. It is the polar opposite. Tariffs? Truth be told there has not been one fully completed and signed tariff deal with any country.

The liberal approach to crime.

Brent Hinds, the former singer-guitarist for the Grammy-winning heavy metal band Mastodon, has died in a motorcycle crash in Atlanta aged 51.

Hinds, who left Mastodon after 25 years in March 2025, was killed on Wednesday when his Harley-Davidson collided with a BMW SUV around 11.35pm, per Atlanta News First.

The Atlanta Police Department said in a report the driver of the SUV failed to yield while making a turn - with Hinds found 'unresponsive' at the scene and later pronounced dead by medics.

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Tried to get one in April and my claustrophobia took over. They kept trying to get me to go out of town to get an open MRI but with everything going on, it was difficult. I finally talked them into giving me something to calm my nerves and they gave me a lorazepam. I still had issues but got through it. I have been dealing with medical issues since February when I got pneumonia. Could you please pray that the MRI shows good results so I can get away from this stuff for awhile? I’d really appreciate it. By the way, that pill gave me a hangover! I guess they are highly addictive but I did not see the attraction myself.

Thank’s guys.

Michie

Hi all,

Sorry, new here, so not sure this is the right section. If not, please let me know and I'll move it, if possible.

Just wondered if anyone read this type of bible? I have recently purchased one that I believe was published c. 1820. Up until this purchase, I did not know these existed and wondered if anyone could help me understand that intent of it and how to use it etc.

Thanks!

Here I am on GCTV in Greenfield Mass.
This one is heaven on earth gospel

One judge wrote that Engoron erred by ruling before the trial began that the attorney general had proved Trump engaged in fraud.
In his portion of the ruling, Judge David Friedman, who was appointed to the court by Republican Gov. George Pataki, was scathing in his criticism of James for bringing the lawsuit.
"Plainly, her ultimate goal was not 'market hygiene' ... but political hygiene, ending with the derailment of President Trump's political career and the destruction of his real estate business," Friedman wrote. "The voters have obviously rendered a verdict on his political career. This bench today unanimously derails the effort to destroy his business."

It was an outrageous political attack against the leading candidate for president.

James Dobson, the influential conservative Christian therapist, author and radio personality who founded Focus on the Family, has died at the age of 89.

The Dr. James Dobson Family Institute announced Thursday morning that Dobson had passed away following a brief illness. He is survived by Shirley, his wife of 64 years, two children, and two grandchildren.

“Dr. Dobson was a pioneer — a man of deep conviction whose voice shaped the way generations view faith, family and culture,” said Gary Bauer, senior vice president of Public Policy at the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute, as quoted in the announcement.

“His bold leadership, integrity, and compassion helped equip countless families to thrive in a world of shifting values. He was a mentor, a counselor, and a steady voice of truth in turbulent times.”

Many individuals took to social media to give their condolences, among them conservative bestselling author and radio personality Eric Metaxas, who called Dobson “a hero.”

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The Governor want to remove that power from the voters and place it under his authority - a direct move against the Democratic Process.

Sure looks like a direct attack on the Democratic process to make political appointment without voters consent.

A Politico poll found that nearly two-thirds of California voters prefer retaining the state’s independent redistricting commission over returning authority to the Legislature to draw congressional lines.

Leidy Tatiana Mafla-Martinez, who built a significant presence on TikTok by posting videos with the locations of ICE operations in the Los Angeles area, was arrested on Friday by ICE agents. She reportedly has a DUI conviction. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the news in response to a Newsweek report.
"You bet we did, @Newsweek," DHS wrote on X. "Leidy Tatiana Mafla-Martinez is a CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN from Colombia who was convicted for driving under the influence in Los Angeles. Martinez entered the country in 2022 and was RELEASED by the Biden administration. Under President Trump and @Sec_Noem, if you break the law, you will face the consequences."

So too some of the sanctuary-city mayors may soon be charged and arrested.

Trump wins major victory: Appeals court overturns NYC civil fraud judgment​