A federal district court on Friday ordered that a Colorado medical clinic run by two Catholic nurses can continue its abortion-pill reversal ministry, partially blocking a state law that had sought to ban the practice.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico said in his Friday ruling that Colorado's abortion pill reversal ban interfered with the religious rights of nurses Dede Chism and Abby Sinnett.

The Catholic mother-daughter team runs the Denver-area Bella Health and Wellness clinic. Part of their services include administering the hormone progesterone that can counteract the effects of chemical abortions.

Colorado in 2023 banned abortion pill reversal alleging that it constitutes a "deceptive trade practice." That same year the nurses sued the state over the ban, arguing that it impeded their religious beliefs and those of their clients.

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In late July 2025, a viral video sweptsocial media, showing two men proudly introducing their newborn son, conceived through surrogacy and funded by crowdsourcing. Initially, people celebrated the heartwarming footage as another beautiful example of modern family creation.

Within 24 hours, the celebration turned to horror. Brandon Keith Mitchell, one of the “fathers,” was revealed to be a registered sex offender convicted of soliciting nude photographs from a 16-year-old student. Police had found hundreds of sexually explicit videos of the child on Mitchell’s laptop and over 12,000 text messages between predator and victim.

Today, an innocent baby lives in the home of a convicted pedophile, not through tragic circumstance or system failure, but by deliberate design. The surrogacy industry delivered a child directly into the hands of a man legally prohibited from unsupervised contact with minors.

This case isn’t an isolated tragedy. It’s the inevitable result of a system that prioritizes adult desires over child welfare, treats babies as products, and has abandoned God’s design for how children should enter the world.

Celebrity permission structure: Explained

Celebrity endorsement has dramatically accelerated the cultural acceptance of surrogacy. Kim Kardashian, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Elton John and countless other celebrities have turned to surrogacy, with each story celebrated as both heartwarming and forward-thinking.

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How do you think AI has effected Christianity and the gospel, both positive and negative? Express your thoughts on it and its use in both casual use and in evangelism.

02 August 2025 – Pakistan​

Pray for Nabeela and Angelica, the wife and daughter of Ishfaq Masih, who has been imprisoned for blasphemy since 2017. He was sentenced to death in 2022. Please pray that the appeal against this sentence would succeed.

01 August 2025 – Pakistan​

Pray for Nawab Bibi, the wife of Zafar Bhatti, who is imprisoned for his faith (see Voice, July-Sept 2024). Nawab’s health is poor and she needs substantial care and support.

31 July 2025 – Uganda​

Pray for the untold number of Christians who have received death threats and suffered violence for leading Muslims to Christ. Pray that God would give believers wisdom and protection as they share the gospel.

30 July 2025 – Uganda​

Pray for the children and friends of Nasiimu Mirembe, who was stabbed to death by her husband two days after becoming a Christian in March. Nasiimu’s six children range in age from 3 to 18. She was 41 years old.

29 July 2025 – Uganda​

Pray for an end to the increasing violence perpetrated by hardline Muslims in eastern Uganda. Earlier this year an evangelist, Robert Kasozi, also known as Mulokole, was beaten and stabbed after he and his team led a widow to Christ during an open-air gospel meeting. Pray for the three co-workers who were also beaten.

28 July 2025 – Egypt​

Praise God for those in Egypt who seek to share the love of Christ often in hostile environments. Pray that He will be their shield.

27 July 2025 – Egypt​

Give thanks to God that two Christian converts who were locked in an Egyptian prison and held for three years without trial have been released. Pray for continued protection for Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo and Nour Girgis.

Bishop Abdallah Elias Zaidan, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, expressed approval of U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent comments recognizing starvation in Gaza.

“I commend President Trump for acknowledging that starvation is happening in Gaza, especially affecting children,” Zaidan wrote in a July 31 statement, adding: “And I urge him to demand the immediate expansion of humanitarian assistance through all channels in Gaza.”

Zaidan, who leads the Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon, has remained outspoken in his calls for “lasting peace” in the Holy Land.

The Lebanese bishop’s comments come after Trump told reporters during a meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland: “We’ll be helping with the food ... We’re also going to make sure that they don’t have barriers stopping people ... We can save a lot of people. That’s real starvation. I see it, and you can’t fake that.”

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Although the majority of Mexico’s population is Christian, many believers live in danger of persecution, particularly from criminal gangs, drug cartels and indigenous groups. In many parts of the country, the presence of criminal groups is growing. Christians who bravely speak out against their activities, or who are involved in community work or evangelism (especially with youth, drug addicts and migrants) are deemed a threat. That makes them a target. In some cases, Christian children or the children of church leaders are singled out.
In some Indigenous communities, those who decide to leave ancestral and traditional beliefs to follow Jesus face ostracism, fines, incarceration and forced displacement. Given that indigenous leaders are those who administer justice in such areas, believers have no one to turn to investigate wrongdoing and protect their religious freedom. These families can also face harassment from the community, such as property damage, restriction of access to schools for their children, and threats.
Mexico is a strictly secular state, and hostility toward the Christian faith and values has increased in general, while public expressions of Christianity face increasingly strong legal scrutiny.

Meet Mauricio​

“My suffering started when I accepted Lord Jesus. The authorities in my community first tried to take away my land title. They took away my certificate so that I couldn’t work my land, they imprisoned me and my wife for 24 hours, and finally, they took away our drinking water and public services.”
Mauricio, a Mexican believer.

What does Open Doors do to help?​

Open Doors strengthens persecuted believers in Mexico with biblical training, legal support, trauma care and socio-economic aid.

Please pray​

• Pray that God will protect His people living in areas with drug cartels and criminal gangs.
• Pray that God will continue to draw believers from indigenous communities to Himself and care for them.
• Pray for God to strengthen Open Doors local partners, so they can help build His kingdom in the country.

Take a look at this presentation by Walter Veith and see what he is saying. Do we keep our sinful nature till Christ changes our body?


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Or do we stop sinning once we are sealed and rid ourselves of the sinful nature at the close of probation?

Revelation 22:11
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

Are we seeing the rumblings of the Four Winds preparing to be let loose?

Revelation:7:1-4
1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

These four winds from what the Scriptures state shows that the four winds will be let loose at the time the servants of God are sealed.

Spirit of Prophecy tells us:

"We are standing upon the threshold of great and solemn events. Prophecies are fulfilling. Strange, eventful history is being recorded in the books of heaven. Everything in our world is in agitation. There are wars, and rumors of wars. The nations are angry, and the time of the dead has come, that they should be judged. Events are changing to bring about the day of God which hasteth greatly. Only a moment of time, as it were, yet remains. But while already nation is rising against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, there is not now a general engagement. As yet the four winds are held until the servants of God shall be sealed in their foreheads. Then the powers of earth will marshal their forces for the last great battle."-- Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 14.

And more..

"The restraining Spirit of God is even now being withdrawn from the world. Hurricanes, storms, tempests, fire and flood, disasters by sea and land, follow each other in quick succession. Science seeks to explain all these. The signs thickening around us, telling of the near approach of the Son of God, are attributed to any other than the true cause. Men cannot discern the sentinel angels restraining the four winds that they shall not blow until the servants of God are sealed; but when God shall bid His angels loose the winds, there shall be such a scene of strife as no pen can picture."--Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 408.

We are seeing the events coming at us in quick succession and we hear the lie of climate change and a 'deep state' behind it or a tyrant and yet Gods Word tells us what is behing it all...

In August of 1979 Pastor Howard Pittman has one of those near death experiences and he testifies that he was told that he was doing his good works in service to the false god of SELF!

Howard Pittman is shown that as of 1979 only about two and a half percent of people could go directly into heaven.

I believe that the Howard Pittman testimony is evidence that the Roman Catholic and Charismatic Catholic idea of "Purgatory" should NOT be laughed at by Protestants.

Please keep in mind that I was brought up out of Atheism by Pastor General Herbert W. Armstrong and his son Evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong and my mentors were some of the most vehement opponents of any idea remotely like this but I feel a responsibility to at minimum try my best to try to explain what I believe the Holy Spirit has been showing me since 1990.


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Howard Pittman's Near Death Experience​

If we read the Scriptures in their correct biblical context, we cannot miss the fact that what they teach as the life of a follower of Christ is someone who not only is a hearer of the Word, but is one who obeys the Word of God, in practice. The Scriptures do not teach what so many people are teaching as the gospel today, in that they do not teach that we can just give lip service to God and that nothing is required of us by God in the way of us dying to sin and walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands.

What the Scriptures do teach regarding salvation from sin and eternal life with God is that, by faith in Jesus Christ, if it is biblical faith, we die with Christ to sin, we are reborn of the Spirit of God, and we now walk, in conduct, in obedience to our Lord and to his commandments, by the grace of God, in the power of God. Sin is no longer what we practice, but obedience to our Lord is what we do by habit. We are not just hearers of the word, but we are those who are putting the word into daily exercise.

Yet, there are many people today who are teaching a gospel message absent of all obedience to our Lord and to his commandments, and absent of all death to sin, for they are teaching a “feel good” message which convinces the sinner if they just “pray the prayer to receive Christ” that now all their sins are forgiven (past, present, future), and heaven is secured for them when they die, but regardless of how they live. And although they know the evil they are committing is wrong, they walk away and just forget about it.

Some of them just do the “claim who you are in Christ” thing in order to alleviate any guilty conscience, but they are not really “in Christ” until they have died with Christ to sin and they are now walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands as a matter of life custom, although not necessarily in absolute perfection. For if their faith does not change how they live for the good and for the glory of God, in obedience to his commands, then it is not biblical faith which saves from sin and which promises eternal life with God.

So, we are to be those who look intently into the Scriptures and into what they teach, in truth, if taught in their correct biblical context. We are not to believe whatever someone else tells us is the truth, but we are to be seekers of truth who search the Scriptures ourselves for truth by reading them in their right context. And there we will learn that faith which saves results in us dying to sin and living to God in walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands or it is not genuine faith that results in eternal life with God.

[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 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 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]

My Sheep

Based off John 10:1-30 NIV
An Original Work / June 24, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

My sheep hear me. They know me.
They listen to my voice and obey.
I call them and lead them.
They know my voice, so they follow me.
They will never follow strangers.
They will run away from them.
The voice of a stranger they know not;
They do not follow him.

So, I tell you the truth that
I am the gate, so you enter in.
Whoever does enter
Will find forgiveness and will be saved.
Nonetheless whoever enters
Not by the gate; other way,
He is the thief and a robber.
Listen not, the sheep to him.

Oh, I am the Good Shepherd,
Who laid his own life down for the sheep.
I know them. They know me.
They will live with me eternally.
The thief only comes to steal and
Kill and to destroy the church.
I have come to give you life that
You may have it to the full…

They know my voice, so they follow me.

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An Effectual Doer
An Original Work / August 2, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I felt the Holy Spirit come into me. It felt like I was being shocked through my entire body and energy pulsated through me from my head to my feet. While this was happening, I closed my eyes because I was terrified. While my eyes were closed, I seen flashes of faces in black and white. They were all facing me except for one which was facing to my right. This lasted for roughly 10 seconds, everything suddenly stopped, and I opened my eyes. I heard a voice speaking to me in my left ear in a whisper, it began with "prepare for Ma or Mo" a word beginning with either of those. It ended with "for all nations". I was not dreaming, this happened while I was awake. I was the only one in my barracks room. My question is, has anyone ever had an experience like this or heard of someone having something like this or similar? Appreciate any and all insight!

The speaker, if translated to today, is a follower of Jesus Christ. This is someone who has died with Christ to sin and who is walking in obedience to the Lord, in practice, who loves the Lord, and whose desire it is to serve him with their life. This is someone whose life is committed to following the Lord wherever he leads in doing whatever it is that he commands, even if it means being hated, rejected, lied about, and mistreated, in return.

And this servant of the Lord is being lied about, and gossiped about, and slandered for their walk of faith in obedience to the Lord Jesus. Why? Because this is a person of integrity, who believes what the Scriptures teach in their correct context, and whose life is committed to obeying the Lord and to speaking his truth, even if it means being mistreated and lied about. For they know that the truth is what leads people to genuine salvation from sin.

But what this person is up against are those who fake their Christianity, who put on a show of righteousness, but who are arrogant, morally corrupt, malicious, those who speak lies, and those who deceive and manipulate and twist the Scriptures to their advantage so that they can keep on living in sin without feeling guilty for their sin. They are the self-indulgent who profess faith in Christ, while morally they are failing, sinking, and deteriorating.

And so the picture I am getting here is that God is presently rebuking the arrogant, the cursed, who wander from the commandments of God in order to chase after the desires of the sinful flesh, but while they confess faith in Jesus Christ with their lips, and while they show contempt and disdain to the truly righteous who are following the Lord in truth and in walks of obedience to the Lord. For they despise the righteous who call out sin for what it is.

But in the Lord’s rebuke, which could come in all sorts of manners to get the attention of the liars who disdain the commands of God while they verbally claim to know God and to be hearing from God, he is, in essence, saying to the arrogant that they need to stop lying, and tell the truth, and to stop being morally corrupt, and to live holy and righteously in obedience to the Lord’s commands, for this is what God commands of his followers.

This really is a loving appeal by God to the self-indulgent professers of faith in Jesus, who lie and who live immoral lives, to come to genuine repentance, to die with Christ to sin (not just once, but daily), and to live life according to the commands of God written down for us in the New Testament Scriptures. And this means now being truth tellers who love God and others, and who live godly and moral lives to the glory and praise of God.

And if those who are actively reproaching and showing contempt for the servants of the Lord Jesus who are living righteously, if they would now repent, and turn from their wicked ways, confess their sins, and now obey God and show love to those they once hated, that would, at least to some extent, take away some that reproach and contempt presently being aimed at those who are true servants of the Lord, who are doing as he commands.

But what we all need to understand here is that faith in Jesus Christ is not lip service only, and it is not a one-time event which takes place in our lives which now guarantees us forgiveness of all sins, and heaven as our eternal destiny, but while we continue in deliberate and habitual sin, and not in walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands. Faith which saves dies to sin and obeys God as a matter of life practice, and it continues until the end.

[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 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 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]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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God Rebuking the Arrogant
An Original Work / August 2, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Two sexual abuse victims of Jeffrey Epstein and the family of late Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre on Friday blasted President Donald Trump after learning that Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell had been transferred to a less restrictive prison in Texas from Florida.

“This move smacks of a cover up,” Epstein victims Annie Farmer and Maria Farmer, as well as Giuffre’s relatives said in a statement.

“President Trump has sent a clear message today: Pedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter,” the statement said, noting that the two women and Giuffre’s family had not been notified of Maxwell’s transfer before media reports of it.

Maxwell’s transfer to minimum security camp in Bryan, Texas, came after two days of meetings she and her lawyer had last week in Tallahassee, Florida, with a top Justice Department official.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-prison-florida-texas.html

If he's innocent, he's doing everything to make it look as though he's guilty.

Please ask God that if it is His will I can feel better and not be so anxious and sad. Please pray that I'm not getting sick. I ask in the name of Jesus. Thank you and God bless you. Carmen

The offshore wind industry had projected $65 billion in investments by 2030, supporting 56,000 jobs, with significant benefits for U.S. shipbuilding and maritime operations. The current administration’s actions mark a significant departure from the previous Biden-Harris administration’s goals of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and 15 gigawatts of floating offshore wind by 2035.

While the order doesn’t affect existing lease rights, it mandates a comprehensive review of current wind energy leases for potential termination or amendment and extends to both onshore and offshore wind development pending environmental and economic review.

SD election office publishes voter list labeling thousands as public assistance applicants​

Information is included in newly required free version of statewide registration spreadsheet​

The legislation passed in March. It requires the Secretary of State’s Office — which oversees elections — to make the state’s entire voter registration list freely available online, after the list was previously available only for a $2,500 fee.

Activists who favor the hand-counting of ballots, oppose the use of vote-counting machines and deny the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election were among those who promoted the legislation as an “election integrity” measure.

South Dakota Searchlight downloaded the list and found it included information such as each voter’s name, political party and address. It additionally included phone numbers and email addresses, if voters provided those two pieces of optional information

There was also a column identifying where and how voters registered, such as at a driver’s exam station, a disability services office, a military recruitment center, or while applying for assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, or the Women, Infants and Children program. [This has been removed, albeit with some shoddy implementation.]

A spokesperson for the office told South Dakota Searchlight in an emailed statement that the free spreadsheet contains the same information that was “traditionally” available by paying the $2,500 fee. [D and R politicians have stated the where/how data was not available in previous versions of the file.]

When asking public assistance applicants if they’d like to register to vote, the state Department of Social Services economic assistance application says “information regarding the office to which the voter registration form was submitted will remain confidential and be used only for voter registration purposes.”

Scott Soucek, the husband of a prominent Wisconsin GOP operative, has been accused of possessing child pornography.​

Scott Soucek of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, was arrested on July 24 and accused of accessing hundreds of child porn images through a file-sharing system.

Soucek isn’t just a Trump booster himself: he’s also the husband of a leading Republican Party operative in the state.

His wife, Stephanie Soucek, is the chairwoman of the Door County Republican Party. Last year, she represented Wisconsin as a delegate at the Republican National Convention.

In a Facebook post last October, Scott Soucek listed two dozen reasons why he planned to vote for Trump.

“I’m voting to fight against human/child trafficking,” Soucek wrote as one of the reasons.

More than 15 years before that post, Door County investigators analyzed his laptop, and he admitted to downloading child porn images in 2009. However, he was never charged with a crime.

The new criminal complaint filed against Soucek this month states that it “remains unclear” why the 2009 investigation into Soucek was not referred to the local district attorney’s office.

This could get interesting.....

“Based on the highly provocative statements of the Former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, who is now the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Friday.

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Earlier this week, Trump said he was “disappointed” in Russian President Vladimir Putin for his continued strikes on Ukraine and announced he was shortening the deadline to reach a peace deal from 50 days down to “10 to 12” days.

Medvedev responded to the new deadline in a rare social media post, alleging Trump was “playing the ultimatum game” with Russia."He should remember 2 things: 1. Russia isn’t Israel or even Iran," Medvedev wrote. “2. Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country. Don’t go down the Sleepy Joe road!”

Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics after weaker-than-expected jobs figures slam markets​

President Donald Trump on Friday fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near-halt.

In a Truth Social post that also directed even more fire at Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Trump accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of being a political appointee who was manipulating jobs data.

“I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s [Harris’] chances of Victory,” Trump wrote.

“We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,” he added.

CNBC has reached out to the BLS for comment. NBC News confirmed that McEntarfer has been fired. The BLS operated under the Department of Labor, whose commissioner, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, is a Trump appointee.

The stunning demand came the same day that the BLS reported a gain of just 73,000 nonfarm jobs in July, below market expectations. In addition, the bureau revised the two previous months down sharply, cutting a combined 258,000 from the prior counts, putting the three-month growth rate at a paltry 35,000. It was the biggest two-month downward revision since April 2020, the early days of the Covid crisis.

Long time ago, a guy in a corner office who was like a mentor to me, offered some great advice.

"Never punish anyone who brings you bad news."

Taylor has appeared on stage with Trump at campaign rallies in the past. But his attendance at the White House on Thursday comes as Trump faces increasing pressure over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender

Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test for American children and reinvigorate a national sports council.

Taylor and other figures from the sports world, including pro golfer Bryson DeChambeau and Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker joined Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House to become formal members of the council, known as the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.

Taylor was arrested in 2010 on rape and prostitution charges in connection with the assault of a 16-year-old girl. He pleaded guilty in 2011 to misdemeanor charges of sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute, was sentenced to six years of probation and ordered to register as a sex offender.

It says in my everyday life bible by Joyce Meyer that Joseph was thrown into a pit and was left there to die . He went from the pit to a palace and was labeled as a slave but didnt have a slave mentality. Some people have great opportunities given to them, and they do nothing with their lives. "The devil does not want us to have dreams and visions of better things. He wants us to stay in the pit and be "do-nothings". " I feel like i've been doing nothing for a very long time, especially during my addiction. Right now i feel as if im doing nothing now and am just waiting for an opportunity to come my way. I feel like im in a pit, but i feel like i've put myself in this pit by following the wrong people.

Live updates: Trump responds to bad jobs report by firing BLS commissioner; Markets plunge ​

Stock markets plunged Friday after a weak jobs report and major downward revisions to May and June employment figures set off alarm bells about the direction of the U.S. economy.


The U.S. added only 73,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate stayed flat at 4.2 percent, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. That was well below the expectations of economists, most of whom projected job gains of at least 100,000 in July.

Job growth in May and June was also far lower than first reported, according to the Labor Department, which shaved 258,000 jobs off of its past two reports. The bad jobs news followed President Trump’s Thursday night announcement of higher tariff rates on dozens of nations that hadn’t yet agreed to trade deals with the U.S., hours before his suspended “reciprocal” tariffs were set to take effect Friday. Those new rates will take effect Aug. 7.

I remember when Trump said, “We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say, ‘Please, please. It’s too much winning. We can’t take it anymore, Mr. President, it’s too much.’ And I’ll say, ‘No it isn’t. We have to keep winning. We have to win more!’”

President Trump said Friday he had ordered two nuclear submarines moved closer to Russia in response to “highly provocative statements” by a top Kremlin official.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, had taunted Trump directly in a recent post on X, saying “each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war.”