Monday, April 27, 2026
Bible Verses about Adversity, Tough Times, Hard Times, Difficult Times, Times of Trouble, Affliction
Bible Verses about Adversity, Tough Times, Hard Times, Difficult Times, Times of Trouble, Affliction ~ Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting, Encouraging, Comforting and Reassuring Bible Verses, Quotes, Passages, Scriptures, Quotations, Readings, Poems About, On, Of, For Adversity, Storms, Tough Times, Rough Times, Hard Times, Difficult Times, Times of Trouble, Affliction, Despair.
Bible Verses & Scriptures to Read When Going Through or Dealing with Adversity, Tough Times, Down Times or When Things Are Crazy. What the Bible Says about Adversity, Tough Times, Hard Times, Difficult Times, Times of Trouble & Affliction. God Is Our Help, Strength, Shield and Refuge in Difficult Times. We can trust Him during times of adversity, hard times, & all the time!
Thoughts (See Bible Verses for Hard Times below)
God is our help, refuge and deliverer. God is always with us, even when things seem like they are beyond crazy. Call upon God. Rest, Trust and Believe in God. Put your eyes and your focus on God, fill your heart and mind with the word of God.
Dear Friends, God is our deliverance. He loves us more than anybody can or will. When Dealing With Adversity, Storms, Despair, Tough Times, Hard or Difficult Times, In Times of Trouble, Affliction – Please read Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting, Encouraging Bible Verses & Quotes.
We should always ask God to direct our footsteps, and we should God’s direction. May you feel the peace and presence of God in your life. May you hear God’s voice and be comforted and strengthened, with renewed hope. It is also very important to surround yourself with godly people (friends, relatives, etc) that will encourage you and help you focus on God. May God provide people that will stand by you and encourage you as you pass through the fire.
If You Can Keep It: What the wealth gap means for democracy
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If You Can Keep It: What the wealth gap means for Democracy
Democratic New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
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A growing number of states are looking at implementing a wealth tax to fund social services.
California is among them, with a billionaire tax set to be included on its November ballot. And this month, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, and Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced a proposed tax on luxury second homes in the city. In March, Washington passed its first ever income tax – which has already been met with a legal challenge.
All this comes as the wealth gap in the U.S. grows to its widest point in three decades – and only looks set to keep increasing. In this installment of “If You Can Keep It,” we look at how tax codes have contributed to a growing inequality in the country, how to fix it, and what this wealth gap means for the health of our democracy.
Guests
Ray Madoff
professor, Boston College Law School; author, "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy"
Kyle Pomerleau
senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Morris Pearl
chair, Patriotic Millionaires; former managing director, BlackRock; co-author, "Tax the Rich!"
Sunday, April 26, 2026
Terrorist lecture at UC Berkeley — symptom of a much bigger problem
By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
Published April 24, 2026, 5:43 p.m. ET
A recent event hosted by students at UC Berkeley’s law school drew national criticism after featuring Israa Jaabis, a failed Palestinian suicide bomber released from Israeli prison in November 2023 as part of the hostage-prisoner exchange following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.
Berkeley’s response was to invoke free speech, insisting that the university must remain content-neutral toward protected expression.
But the deeper threat to academic freedom at Berkeley is not a single student-sponsored event. It is the conduct of faculty who are using departments, speaker series, official academic programming, and university authority to turn anti-Israel activism into institutional practice.
That conduct was recently on display in UC Berkeley’s Rhetoric Department, which sponsored a talk titled “Anti-Zionism Is Not a Luxury.” The event was promoted as one that “articulates and embraces an affirmative anti-Zionism,” calls for “the end of a Zionist world,” and presents anti-Zionism as “a vital necessity of existence.”
A recent event hosted by students at UC Berkeley’s law school drew national criticism after featuring Israa Jaabis, a failed Palestinian suicide bomber released from Israeli prison in November 2023 as part of the hostage-prisoner exchange following Hamas’s October 7 attack.
Nor was it a one-off for the Rhetoric Department. Since Oct. 7, 2023, it has sponsored or co-sponsored more than a dozen similarly one-sided anti-Israel events, raising an obvious question: Why would a rhetoric department become a reliable sponsor of activist programming?
The answer lies in the political commitments of the department’s members. Half of Berkeley rhetoric’s faculty, including the chair and other senior leaders, signed a statement issued just days after Hamas’ attack on Israel that openly took sides in the war — declaring solidarity “without hesitation” with those “who fight for justice in Palestine,” endorsing an academic boycott of Israeli universities, and omitting any mention of Hamas’ massacre of Israeli civilians.
The Rhetoric Department is far from unique. According to recent research, from fall 2023 through spring 2025, 34 Berkeley departments sponsored or co-sponsored 40 Israel-related events with an anti-Israel bias, and none without.
The pattern is unmistakable: The 10 Berkeley departments that sponsored the most anti-Israel events were all led by faculty who had publicly backed an academic boycott of Israel.
These aren’t random student groups organizing protests. These are professors using their institutional authority to advance a political agenda.
Nor was it a one-off for the Rhetoric Department. Since Oct. 7, 2023, it has sponsored or co-sponsored more than a dozen similarly one-sided anti-Israel events, raising an obvious question: Why would a rhetoric department become a reliable sponsor of activist programming?
The answer lies in the political commitments of the department’s members. Half of Berkeley rhetoric’s faculty, including the chair and other senior leaders, signed a statement issued just days after Hamas’ attack on Israel that openly took sides in the war — declaring solidarity “without hesitation” with those “who fight for justice in Palestine,” endorsing an academic boycott of Israeli universities, and omitting any mention of Hamas’ massacre of Israeli civilians.
The Rhetoric Department is far from unique. According to recent research, from fall 2023 through spring 2025, 34 Berkeley departments sponsored or co-sponsored 40 Israel-related events with an anti-Israel bias, and none without.
The pattern is unmistakable: The 10 Berkeley departments that sponsored the most anti-Israel events were all led by faculty who had publicly backed an academic boycott of Israel.
These aren’t random student groups organizing protests. These are professors using their institutional authority to advance a political agenda.
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Shooting Suspect ID'd as Cole Allen Pinned to Ground at White House Correspondents' Dinner
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Cole Allen, 31-year-old California teacher, ID’d as White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter
Published April 25, 2026, 11:01 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — The gunman who opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night has been identified as Cole Allen of Torrance, Calif. — with President Trump calling him a likely “lone wolf whack job” who “looked pretty evil.”
The 31-year-old, whom a federal law enforcement source confirmed is a teacher, was arrested after allegedly entering the Washington Hilton hotel and charging toward the ballroom where Trump and roughly 2,500 guests had assembled.
The gunfire broke out near the event’s indoor security screening area just after 8:30 p.m. — as salad was being served. The Secret Service rushed Trump out of the room as members of his cabinet ducked under tables before they too were evacuated.
Allen’s neighbor, who gave the name Jeff Smith, told The Post that “maybe he could be on the spectrum.”
What I Learned During the Jesus People Movement
Featured by strategicprayercommandmin, posted in Christian Articles, Prophetic Words
And What We Need To Do Now
Shorter Version Published in Elijah List 9-19-21: https://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=26135#word-truncate
By Melissa Nordell
The Jesus People Movement was a Holy Spirit inferno that began with a spark in Orange County, California in 1965 and grew exponentially like embers blowing in the wind across America and around the world. It transformed Orange County and as it journeyed afar it rapidly brought 20 million people to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, with converts who were saved in that time still bringing the Good News and discipleship to souls even today.
The Movement caused a dramatic change in Christian music as there was no contemporary Christian music before that time, nor Christian contemporary radio. In churches, guitars and drums, keyboards, bongos and singers began to provide worship instead of just the previous organs and pianos, choirs and hymnals. Jews for Jesus began. Christian television began. We learned that church could meet outside, and baptisms could happen in the ocean.
Barriers were broken down as those who had been previously uninvited began to worship in church in unity. Many new churches and denominations started at this time, and many new missionaries went around the world (including women on their own), fervent to see the lost saved. But what sparked and progressed such a movement of God during a raging political climate like the 60’s and 70’s?
This “Age of Aquarius” was an era of great stress and trepidation, not just an era of fashion and rock bands. There were dire concerns and fears including the Vietnam War and the creeping threat of communism. Every day the nightly news reported the number of casualties that had occurred in the Vietnam war and how many were missing (thousands each day) until people were numb to its reality. The United States was divided even more than it is today with one side for the war and the other against. Youth were being drafted with many defecting to Canada and some claiming exemption as conscientious objectors. Soldiers returned from the war with some suffering from PTSD, some with limbs missing, some burned, some former POWs, and others affected by Agent Orange. And if that was not enough, many soldiers were met with disdain, and some spat upon.
US brings back firing squads to deter ‘barbaric crimes’
The Justice Department has also reintroduced lethal injections to ‘deliver justice’ for victims and their families. There are three inmates on federal death row
A lethal-injection chamber at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla
Matt Mills McKnight/REUTERS
Keiran Southern, West Coast Editor, US
Friday April 24 2026, 7.37pm BST, The Times
The US Justice Department has said it is reintroducing firing squads and readopting the lethal injection as part of an effort to strengthen the federal death penalty.
President Trump reintroduced federal executions during his first term in office from 2017 to 2021, after what had been a pause of almost two decades.
President Biden then implemented a death-penalty moratorium and before leaving office commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 death-row inmates to life without parole.
The US Justice Department has said it is reintroducing firing squads and readopting the lethal injection as part of an effort to strengthen the federal death penalty.
President Trump reintroduced federal executions during his first term in office from 2017 to 2021, after what had been a pause of almost two decades.
President Biden then implemented a death-penalty moratorium and before leaving office commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 death-row inmates to life without parole.
Friday, April 24, 2026
The Minnesota Files: Unpacking the Bombshell Allegations of Medicaid Fraud and Political Power
Characters Charlotte Liam
Tháng Tư 23, 2026
In the rapidly evolving landscape of 21st-century media, the traditional gatekeepers of information are increasingly finding themselves challenged by an agile, technologically savvy force: the citizen journalist. Among this new vanguard of independent investigators stands Nick Shirley. His recent podcast revelation regarding the alleged misappropriation of billions in Medicaid funds in Minnesota has sent shockwaves through the political establishment, signaling a potential turning point in how constituents view the relationship between federal funding and local oversight.
According to Shirley, what began as a routine investigation into financial irregularities has morphed into a sprawling, high-stakes exposure. At the center of his allegations are two of Minnesota’s most prominent political figures: Senator Amy Klobuchar and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Shirley’s claims, characterized by their specificity and boldness, paint a picture of a calculated scheme, a “scam” that he asserts the perpetrators believed would remain forever buried beneath the bureaucratic layers of government.
This article explores the gravity of these allegations, the mechanism of the reported fraud, and the broader implications of Shirley’s findings for the current political climate.
Tháng Tư 23, 2026
In the rapidly evolving landscape of 21st-century media, the traditional gatekeepers of information are increasingly finding themselves challenged by an agile, technologically savvy force: the citizen journalist. Among this new vanguard of independent investigators stands Nick Shirley. His recent podcast revelation regarding the alleged misappropriation of billions in Medicaid funds in Minnesota has sent shockwaves through the political establishment, signaling a potential turning point in how constituents view the relationship between federal funding and local oversight.
According to Shirley, what began as a routine investigation into financial irregularities has morphed into a sprawling, high-stakes exposure. At the center of his allegations are two of Minnesota’s most prominent political figures: Senator Amy Klobuchar and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Shirley’s claims, characterized by their specificity and boldness, paint a picture of a calculated scheme, a “scam” that he asserts the perpetrators believed would remain forever buried beneath the bureaucratic layers of government.
This article explores the gravity of these allegations, the mechanism of the reported fraud, and the broader implications of Shirley’s findings for the current political climate.
How RFK Jr. Is Influencing America's Vaccine Playbook
Since taking the helm of HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has both backed vaccination as a public health tool and taken steps to undermine it.
By Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder Senior Writer
April 23, 2026, at 11:51 a.m.
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Since his confirmation to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has toed the line between backing vaccination as a preventive public health tool and making statements or overseeing developments that threaten to undermine that tool.
Here's a look at notable vaccine-related moves and remarks made by Kennedy or under his authority since he was sworn in as head of HHS in February of 2025.
Jump to a section:
Changing Vaccine Policy
Replacing the Panel That Recommends Vaccines
A Federal Study of the (Debunked) Link Between Vaccines and Autism
Re-examining the Childhood Vaccine Schedule
Vaccine Official Shakeups
Conflicting Comments on the Measles Outbreak
Cutting Research and Delaying Studies on Vaccines
Plan to Shake Up Vaccine Injury Program
Childhood Vaccine Task Force Revival
Thursday, April 23, 2026
TRUMP & THE SUPREME COURT - 04.23.2026 Chris Pinto
NOISE OF THUNDER RADIO - 4.23.2026
Today's Show: TRUMP & THE SUPREME COURT
Chris discusses the ongoing controversy between President Trump and the U.S. Supreme Court that continues to oppose the policies of the Trump administration. Is it just a coincidence that the court's rulings seem to be in favor of the Vatican's political policies of globalization? Could it be because we have a Catholic dominated Supreme Court? Yet Trump himself chose three of the judges who now oppose him, and the president has lashed out at Leonard Leo, the former Vice President of the Federalist society. Why? Because it was Leo ... a Knight of Malta ... who advised him on which judges to pick. Was Trump manipulated by the Vatican and powers of Rome?
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Trump awarded Israel Prize in absentia for ‘special contribution to the Jewish people’ at annual ceremony
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From the Liveblog of Wednesday, April 22, 2026Today, 6:47 pm
US President Donald Trump is awarded the Israel Prize, the country’s highest honor, in absentia, at the annual Independence Day ceremony in Jerusalem.
Trump was informed in December by Education Minister Yoav Kisch that he would be awarded the Israel Prize in the category of “special contribution to the Jewish people.”
Kisch signed an Israel Prize certificate in honor of the US president yesterday, declaring in a video sent to the press that he didn’t think there was “any other person who can mark such amazing achievements and a wonderful connection to the Jewish people except for Trump at this time.”
A highlight reel of Trump’s pro-Israel actions during both terms of his presidency is played at the ceremony, including footage from the announcement of the Abraham Accords in 2020, his speech in the Knesset in October last year, and his many meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the past decade.
The president is expected to visit Israel in the coming months and will be formally presented with the award at an in-person ceremony then.
Sam Sokol contributed to this report.
The War Report - Part 2
Volume 45 Issue Four April 2026
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The War Report - Part 2
“Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.” - Mark 13:33
The United States and the State of Israel are once again at war with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Given the fluid nature of the conflict, it is uncertain what the future may hold. By the time this issue is in your hands, the war may be over, or it may have expanded. This special edition of the Last Trumpet is titled “The War Report - Part 2” because it is a natural sequel to the July 2025 issue, published shortly after the conclusion of the Twelve-Day War last year. If you have not read this previous issue, we are happy to mail you a copy free of charge. It is also available on our website. Our goal in this issue is to report, as accurately as possible, what happened, not to tell you what to think. Nevertheless, these events are already reshaping history and have the potential to change the world forever.
Maximum Pressure
Iran’s ambitions to develop nuclear technology have long been a point of contention with the United States and the State of Israel. Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, but the U.S.-Israeli alliance is highly skeptical of this claim. Shortly after American President Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025, he made Iran a top priority. On February 4, 2025, Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum promising to restore “maximum pressure” on the Islamic Republic of Iran. An accompanying press release published by the White House insists that “President Trump will not tolerate Iran possessing a nuclear weapons capability, nor will he stand for their sustained sponsorship of terrorism, especially against U.S. interests.” (1)
Just days after Trump signed his memo reasserting his focus on Iran, a piece by the Wall Street Journal was published on February 12, 2025, which indicates that the State of Israel was seriously considering military action against Iran. The piece quotes Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz as saying, “Iran is more exposed than ever to strikes on its nuclear facilities. We have the opportunity to achieve our most important goal—to thwart and eliminate the existential threat to the State of Israel.” (2) Thus, we see that the concerns about Iran’s nuclear program are rooted in a fear that Iran might use nuclear weapons to destroy Israel. Given that Trump has positioned himself as a staunch ally to Israel, many wondered at the time if the United States would assist its partner in the Middle East with its operations against the Iranian regime.
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