A group stepped in to help a cat and ended up saving all her kittens days later. JuniperBestFriendsFelinesWhen Juniper the cat arrived at Best Friends Felines (a cat rescue group), she wasn't alone. Her mom and sister came along, but this time, she was the one that was pregnant.She joined the rescue's Last Litter Program, which aims to break the cycle of unwanted litters through spaying. This program gives cats like Juniper a chance at a healthier, happier life and ensures their kittens find loving homes.As Juniper settled into her foster home, everything went smoothly until a few days later. She adores people and enjoys snuggling in their armsBestFriendsFelinesThe expectant mom was affectionate from the start, chirping to her foster carer, Jen, and snuggling into her arms. "She's a chatty, vocal girl with plenty to say, and her purring could rival a motorboat," Best Friends Felines shared."She adores snuggles and already has everyone swooning over her stunning, multi-colored coat." BestFriendsFelinesA few days into foster care, she went into labor and gave birth to two little ginger kittens before noon. Exhausted, she needed assistance cleaning the second baby. "But then, everything stopped."A few hours later, the feline family was rushed to the vet as Juniper had trouble delivering the remaining kittens. BestFriendsFelinesThat afternoon, they decided an emergency C-section was necessary to save the lives of both the kittens and their mom. "The good news is we were welcomed with two more little babies, and Juniper roused quickly from the surgery."Despite concerted efforts, the two newcomers couldn't latch, but with swift supplementary feedings, they perked up. After an emergency C-section, Juniper and her four kittens were safe and homeBestFriendsFelinesWhen they were returned to Juniper, all four kittens were nursing happily, side by side. By the next day, the feline family was recovering wonderfully.The kittens—two gingers (boys), one void (boy), and one dark calico (girl)—started gaining weight and energy. "They are named after types of junipers: Skyrocket, Blue Arrow, Spartan, and Taylor." BestFriendsFelinesAt 11 days old, the kittens have doubled in size and developed plump bellies. The two ginger kittens (Skyrocket and Blue Arrow) are nearly identical, with equal weight and matching markings."They are both very placid boys, with Blue Arrow being the first to open his little eyes on day eight." Juniper is very loving and attentive to her kittensBestFriendsFelines"The other two are the life of the party. Spartan (void) loves screaming the song of his people anytime he is taken over for weighing—he lives for drama. Taylor also likes being a little dramatic, but that comes with being a calico."Juniper has begun taking short breaks from her kittens, soaking up affection from her foster carer before returning to her brood. She takes short breaks from her kittens and seeks affection from her peopleBestFriendsFelines"Despite being a little clueless about motherhood at the start, she is a wonderfully devoted momma."The kittens are blossoming into beautiful bundles of joy, moving around the nest and strengthening their legs. Soon, with their eyes open, they will be exploring and keeping their mom on her toes. All four kittens will soon open their eyesBestFriendsFelinesThanks to the program, Juniper, her mom, sister, and kittens won't have to go through the cycle of endless litters and can enjoy their lives as cherished and pampered cats. Juniper loves getting chin scritches, feeling happy and lovedBestFriendsFelinesShare this story with your friends. More on Juniper, her kittens, and Best Friends Felines on Instagram and Facebook.Related story: Three Blind Cats Come to a House Seeking Help, Family Brings Them in and Realizes One of Them is Pregnant

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Pray for California. A massive fire continues to rage through the west side of Los Angeles today, spread by winds of up to 100 miles per hour and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents in the Pacific Palisades area. Hollywood journalists want nothing more than a Resistance sequel, but so far it’s not happening. The fire started Tuesday morning in the Highlands neighborhood, nestled in the hills high above the Pacific Coast Highway. Only one road — Palisades Drive — connects the Highlands to the rest of the city. It soon became jammed as residents fled the area. Some residents even abandoned their vehicles, causing a problem for first responders racing toward the conflagration. Lefty Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had more important business to attend to in Africa — celebrating the inauguration of Ghana's new president — but a local news crew did spot a prominent local pitching in: "Police Academy" actor Steve Guttenberg. "If you leave your car behind, leave the key in there so a guy like me can move your car so that these fire trucks can get up there," Guttenberg pleaded to viewers. “There are people stuck up there," he continued. "So we’re trying to clear Palisades Drive, and I’m walking up there as far as I can, moving cars. ... There are families up there, there are pets up there. There are people who really need help.” The "Three Men and a Baby" star, a longtime resident of Pacific Palisades, served as grand marshal for the neighborhood's 2024 Fourth of July parade. God bless the Gute — and the brave men and women of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Global cooling Come back, Ricky! The Golden Globes handed out trophies Sunday night, but a smaller crowd than usual showed up to watch it. This year’s telecast, hosted by Nikki Glaser, snagged just 9.3 million viewers, down 2% from last year’s disastrous turn from last-minute fill-in host Jo Koy. Those numbers don’t sound awful, but just five years ago the show drew double that audience. Credit 2020 host Ricky Gervais, who skewered the Hollywood elite so relentlessly that some stars may still be in therapy from it … Orange Man Bad fatigue? Hollywood journalists want nothing more than a Resistance sequel, but so far it’s not happening. Stars united against President Donald Trump early in the 2016 presidential campaign. Sarah Silverman was among the first to play the Hitler Card(TM) against Trump. It failed. Madonna somehow avoided a Secret Service door-knock after saying she dreamed of blowing up the White House. Now, with Trump’s commanding Nov. 5 victory in pocket, Celebrity Nation could play its Orange Man Bad greatest hits. So far, the band remains pretty quiet. The Hollywood Reporter mourned that reality in a recent op-ed. Now, Variety takes a swing at the subject, reading between the lines to find that the true-blue Resistance is about to break open. Really. Just wait. It’s coming. “Entertainment Executives Want to Play Ball with Trump. The Stars Who Work for Them May Have a Different Idea,” reads the headline. The article cited trans actor Karla Sofia Gascon’s Golden Globes speech for his winning film “Emilia Perez” as proof. If you squint, you can see the writer double- and triple-crossing his fingers. “I am who I am … not who you want." Talk about defiance! Her message was about the dignity and rights of trans people, but given the timing of it, at a globally televised awards ceremony taking place two weeks before the inauguration of Donald Trump, you could hear another message nestled inside it: that the resistance isn’t going away. Four-plus years ago, stars actively wished for Trump’s death. Now, you have to read between the lines of an awards show speech to glean something remotely Resistance-y … Clint laughs last Warner Bros. Discovery had what could be Clint Eastwood’s last movie and said, “Eh, let’s dump it on streaming.” “Juror #2,” starring Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, and J.K. Simmons, appeared in a smattering of theaters before heading to VOD and Max. The film follows a father-to-be (Hoult) who fears he has a personal, and deadly, connection to the case he’s been asked to help adjudicate. Now, Eastwood is having the last laugh. The film has sat in the number-one spot on Max’s top movie list since debuting on the platform Dec. 20. Oh, and critics loved the movie, giving it a 92% “fresh” rating at RottenTomatoes.com.

Enough time has elapsed since Bitcoin hit the landmark $100,000 value — and hovered around that point ever since — to make some recommendations to those who have kept their distance from the most important cryptocurrency in the world. Buckle up! Of course, the disclaimer states that this is not financial advice. The twist is that what follows is, in a perhaps unexpected way, spiritual advice. The most important thing to understand about Bitcoin is that it’s not just another measure or “store” of value. But, of course, all Americans ought to see that America ceases to be America if it’s not America in cyberspace. The entrenched financial elite want you to limit your interactions with and ideas about Bitcoin. For them, the ideal is adding Bitcoin to their pre-existing basket of financial assets and instruments — just another set of numbers on a spreadsheet that they can convince people to buy in to. Not only does this approach allow them to control your interactions with Bitcoin and your ideas about it, it also allows them to control YOU with Bitcoin. That’s because Bitcoin truly is much more than “digital gold” — it’s a universal computational protocol that all but immutably preserves the information valued most by whoever uses it. And whoever uses it is determined not by casual choice but by “proof of work” — making the effort to expend energy on having a computer successfully compete to solve a math problem before others do. What’s more, Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer currency. Those who merely hoard Bitcoin are, in that sense, misusing it. Bitcoin permits ordinary people to create markets and exchanges for goods and services without having to use the legacy financial system that has frustrated Americans so much over the past decades and enriched itself wildly in the process. Using Bitcoin in this way epitomizes the American way of commercial and cultural life. Christians often recall the parable of the talents as one of Jesus’ most simple and powerful teachings. God gives us spiritual treasure and expects us to use it to make a spiritual profit, not just for ourselves but especially for one another. Those who bury their spiritual treasure out of fear that the Lord will be angry if we make a bad investment might be “rational” in their application of the precautionary principle, but they are failing to understand the economics of grace and salvation in a way that will lead them not to spiritual security but to spiritual ruin. This is the way to understand Bitcoin. There’s nothing wrong with buying Bitcoin to participate in the re-founding of American financial and economic life on a footing appropriate to our technological development. It might even get you and your friends “rich” — or at least keep you in the game. But if you stop there, it’s like burying your spiritual treasure and deluding yourself that you’ll be saved because you watch its ticker value trend up every day. Americans can only keep themselves American with regard to Bitcoin by treating Bitcoin the way Americans have traditionally and customarily treated their technology — confidently, competently, and constructively, in ways that mix the competitive and the collaborative into a dynamic and fruitful compound. Get Bitcoin and use it! Or else people, countries, ideologies, or cults that don’t like you very much are very likely to use it to control or even punish you. That’s true for all Americans, but it goes double for American Christians. Christians choose willingly to become the servants of God — not of the world, where the rules favor those who do whatever it takes to get ahead and stay there. Amoral or immoral power obviously gravitates toward money as a lever for increasing pleasure and control. Christians aren’t supposed to do that. On the contrary, they’re supposed to labor spiritually in the world on behalf of God and for his sake. Christians who refuse to bring this way of life to the realm of technology will find themselves on the losing end of the great spiritual war playing out in the visible and invisible worlds, the digital world very much included. Yes, it can be confusing and tempting to venture outside one’s comfort zone into the murky and fast-moving world of tech. But Bitcoin is special. Although it’s one of the most potent technologies in the world, it’s not very difficult to understand or use, and it can be used right now to build enterprises that can strengthen our way of life, our form of government, and our humanity itself. On that all-important basis, the benefits of AI and other cutting-edge technologies just can't compare to Bitcoin's potential. In fact, Bitcoin is so potent that it carries inherent danger — the danger of “eating the world,” as many say software has already done, and falling into the hands of a single amoral or immoral master or masters bent on perfecting a globalist system where Christ and God himself are seemingly disappeared from our past, present, and future. All the more reason why Christians will especially want to discipline Bitcoin like a well-trained beast of burden. But of course, all Americans ought to see that America ceases to be America if it’s not America in cyberspace. That means Bitcoin must be more than just another technology dominated by the United States government. It must be bent toward our best purposes and away from our worst temptations — not by law, but by use, in what Alexis de Tocqueville memorably described as the reciprocal action of one heart upon the other. The spiritual riches that result from this approach to Bitcoin are even better than the material riches caused by “number go up.” They’re good for America, good for you, and good for your fellow Americans. Try this — after you buy — and watch our country soar.

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