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“This book is the product of massive and original scholarship....the book requires an almost total rethinking of how we look on Mary today, this in the light of how medieval Christians understood her.”—Fr. James Schall amazon.com/Mary-Art-Prayer-M…
This hit me like a lightning bolt: where sovereignty comes from. H/t @DataRepublican and @JoshuaLisec for the key.
Whom do we ask what is true? what is right? what should I do? what should we do together?
Therein lies the source of sovereignty: our free will.
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This hit me like a lightning bolt: where sovereignty comes from. H/t @DataRepublican and @JoshuaLisec for the key.
Whom do we ask what is true? what is right? what should I do? what should we do together?
Therein lies the source of sovereignty: our free will.
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🚨 FROM BIG TECH TO DIVINE CALLING — How a profound dream and Christian awakening led DATA REPUBLICAN to walk away from her tech career:
She has the receipts.
Donations to Amy Klobuchar.
A long career in big tech.
Then late 2019, just before COVID,
Jesus got her.
In this interview with @stevegrubershow, Jennica Pounds (@DataRepublican) recounts the exact moment the call became unavoidable: a dream in late summer 2020, during peak COVID, BLM, and woke fever, where a deaf woman heard a voice and was told she had already chosen the hard path.
DataRepublican gives her testimony during the Steve Gruber Show via @DataInterpretr:
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DATAREPUBLICAN: “I became a Christian later in life. I was in big tech for a really long time, and it was in late 2019, just before COVID. I have donations to Amy Klobuchar to prove it, okay?”
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“But Jesus got me as well, He should. And you know, right after that, COVID happened. Tyranny happened, and we all remember. Those times… the whole country was gripped by the Black Lives Matter, by the woke fever, right?”
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“And then I'm learning to be a new Christian during these times, and I read about the Great Commission… But then I was sitting there thinking… I can't do this… big tech, they'll fire me. I can't come out with these strong religious opinions.”
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“But sometime in late summer 2020… I had a dream… And I was walking down a path, and the path split into two. And it was clear to me that one involved heavenly rewards, but lack of earthly safety. But the other path involved… no rewards, but safety here on earth.”
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“I saw both paths, and I straight up asked, ‘Can I have it both ways?’ And then I heard a voice, which is extra weird because I am deaf. And I'm telling you that I heard it. I actually heard a voice say, ‘You chose the hard path.’”
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“I found myself on an island, and there was this big storm coming… I started to dig into the sand… I came up with gemstones… and I started throwing them into the storm. And as soon as I threw them into the storm, the palm trees sprouted all around me and made this big wall protecting me from the storm.”
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“When I woke up, I texted my pastor… He says, the storm represented the evil coming for you, and the gemstones represented God's word… when you were throwing God's word into the storm, the palm trees sprang around you to represent righteous people… men who… have protected me up to this point.”
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“I was being called into something much more public, which was super weird because I'm deaf and I can't speak. I don't even like going to the grocery store, but here I am… a public face… Everything since then was a miracle setting me on this path, and all I know is that I have to spread God's word, reveal the truth… This is the only way out of the problem is to accept God.”
📝*POX Note(s):
Truth always hits home personally before anyone sees it on the outside.
Before any of this, Jennica had the background and the paper trail to show where her life used to be aligned. But a profound personal shift changed her direction completely—occurring right as major institutions across tech, media, and government were tightening their grip under the banner of crisis management.
For her, that dream left no room for hesitation. It wasn't about finding a middle ground; it was about recognizing the difficult path already laid out ahead.
As a deaf woman, experiencing that moment brought a deep, unmistakable clarity.
In a time of real desperation, she turned toward her faith—finding strength in Scripture that felt like solid ground amidst an gathering storm.
The support system that rose around her wasn't something she built on her own; it was made up of people already positioned to stand firm.
That personal turning point launched her public work: building open-source tools, mapping federal grants, analyzing the reach of NGOs, and eventually writing *UNELECTED*.
The pattern of institutional control she documents today—where crises are amplified to justify tighter oversight—is something she first had to confront on an individual level.
Once that calling was clear, there was no turning back. The real proof is in the timeline: the shift in priorities, the faith, and the work that followed. Choosing to trust God wasn't just a matter of private comfort—it became the practical step needed to live outside a system that resists genuine reform.
Receipts > narrative
I just finished reading @DataRepublican's excellent book. It is a must-read both for the long history of the way our institutions of democracy have become institutions of autocracy and for its analysis of the basis of sovereignty.
If you ever wondered why the Guardians of “Our Democracy” have been trying so hard to shut you down, you want to read this book. amazon.com/Unelected-Jennica…
I'm not crying. Much.
TODAY I still struggle to understand why Trump, even as a billionaire, continues to maintain habits like this. What if I told you that the billionaire President of the United States does something every single morning that he refuses to allow ANYONE else to do for him — a tradition his father taught him more than 60 years ago, and the reason behind it carries a powerful lesson about what TRUE character really means?
For over 60 YEARS, Donald Trump has reportedly polished his own shoes every morning.
Not his staff. Not hotel workers. Not professional shoe polishers.
TRUMP himself.
With his own hands. His own polish. His own time.
White House staff have reportedly offered on numerous occasions:
“Mr. President, we can take care of polishing your shoes.”
Trump’s response has always been:
“NO. My father taught me when I was a young boy: A man polishes his own shoes. It builds CHARACTER. It reminds you that no matter how successful you become, you should never think you are above basic discipline.”
Think about that.
Trump has reportedly maintained this shoe-polishing routine since his childhood in the 1950s.
Throughout the building of his business empire.
Throughout becoming a billionaire.
Throughout becoming PRESIDENT.
Still.
Every.
Morning.
He polishes his own shoes.
Staff members have reportedly seen this routine: Trump wakes up, and before important meetings, presidential briefings, and the responsibilities of running the country — he sits down with his shoe polish and brush and takes care of his own formal footwear.
“My father said: ‘The day you become too important to polish your own shoes is the day you lose your character.’ I never forgot that.”
For over SIX DECADES, Trump has reportedly continued to practice the lesson his father taught him.
More than 60 YEARS of everyday discipline that nobody photographs, nobody applauds, and something most people might never even know about.
Simply a son remembering a promise he made to his father:
“I will never become too important to do this myself.”
Here's the lesson this teaches us:
True character isn't built during the biggest moments of life — it develops through the small daily disciplines you follow for DECADES, even when nobody is watching.
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If you are a Protesting Christian, you may never have seen this Wisdom:
Resplendent and unfading is wisdom, and she is readily perceived by those who love her, and found by those who seek her.
She hastens to make herself known in anticipation of their desire;
Whoever watches for her at dawn shall not be disappointed, for he shall find her sitting by his gate.
For taking thought of wisdom is the perfection of prudence, and whoever for her sake keeps vigil shall quickly be free from care;
because she makes her own rounds, seeking those worthy of her, and graciously appears to them in the ways, and meets them with all solicitude.
All hope is not lost.
Join us on the Mosaic Ark for a clear-eyed look at the midterms, the real (messy) Crusades, and why Christian hope outlasts the pundit cycle.
Latest episode: youtu.be/EjXV7df4hIM
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This is how you do it. I'd vote for you now, Mr. Rubio.
@SecRubio
🚨🇺🇸 Rubio just picked the opposite side of Vance on the Iran war: he’s staying, he’s defending it, and he won’t rule out 2028
Two days after the vice president blamed the war for losing the Senate, the secretary of state told the Times the opposite.
Gas prices are nothing to brag about, he admitted, but Trump “deserves a tremendous amount of credit” for the war anyway:
“That is the price of leadership... the willingness to do things that may not be politically popular.”
Rubio also shot down reports he’s leaving, saying he’ll serve to the end of the term, and refused to say whether he’ll run for president:
“I literally will not talk about 2028 anymore.”
He once said he’d be the first to back a Vance campaign; today he gave Trump the loyalty Vance didn’t, and Trump is the one who decides which of them the party gets.
Source: New York Times / Writer: Daniel
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Just went airborne in the JETSON ONE. Personal flight isn't the future anymore — it's here. ⚡🚁 @jetson_aero
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The ruminant family, and the one job each of them does that nothing else on earth can.
The cow turns a wet hillside into beef and milk, and leaves the soil better than she found it.
The sheep grows a fireproof, waterproof, compostable coat every year, out of grass and rain, and then gives it away for the price of a haircut.
The goat eats the bramble, the scrub and the invasive weed that strangles everything else, and asks only for a weak point in the fence.
The water buffalo makes the milk that becomes real mozzarella, standing in marsh a cow would sink in.
The yak gives milk at an altitude that would kill a lowland animal in a week, and carries your bags up there as well.
The reindeer feeds and clothes entire peoples above the Arctic Circle, on lichen and moss, in the dark, for months.
The bison built the deepest soil on the planet by walking across it and eating.
Seven animals, one gift each, and not one of them can be replaced by a crop, a machine or a sachet.
Every one of them is classed, this decade, as a liability on a spreadsheet by somebody who has never been cold.
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Michael Alfonso, a Catholic from Wisconsin who has been elected to Congress at the age of 26, becoming the youngest member of Congress, completed a novena to Our Lady of Victory with his wife the day before his primary election.
We've had the vote. We (MAGA Republicans) lost the vote. What do we, as Christians, do with the vote? This Friday evening, the Mosaic Ark sails the perilous waters of post-midterm results. There may be analogies drawn with the Crusades. (And, yes, I am 99.99% certain you can't predict what we're going to say!)
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Welcome aboard, as we sail into the future! youtube.com/live/blGM7oYODv0
I'm seeing idiotic predictions about resignations allegedly coming from Trump's cabinet members after Tuesday's votes.
Excuse me, but duh.
Did Obama's cabinet resign after the mid-terms in 2010? NO.
Quitting now would be as ridiculous as getting a bad grade on your mid-term exam in a course and dropping the course altogether.
Take the feedback, learn from it, and do better.
Everyone who quits now proves his or her unsuitability to be elected to public office ever again.
Why would we vote for you if we can't rely on you to take the heat when things get rough?
Hold the course!
@SecRubio @SecScottBessent @SecDuffy @JDVance @PeteHegseth @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump
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