There are some days that feel impossible to forget. For Samantha Biemer, one of those days happened, in large part, because of her loving boyfriend. With a whole field of sunflowers at their disposal, Samantha came up with the brilliant idea of having a picnic there. While this sounds perfect in theory, there was one problem: It had just rained, making the ground not great for a picnic. It would have made sense for the couple to come up with a new plan for their date. That said, Samantha’s boyfriend, Brennan Watson, could tell how much she wanted to have a picnic while surrounded by sunflowers. So, to make that possible, he went out of his way to find extra flooring, in addition to their blanket, to ensure they and their food stayed dry. Brennan even carried her so her feet wouldn’t get dirty! The result? Absolutely incredible! @sammieebeee best sunset ever #adayinmylife #datenight #countryboy #sunset ♬ Sun to Me – Zach Bryan There is so much to love about this date! For starters, this field is straight out of a movie. It really does seem like it was made for a romantic picnic. But that was just the start of this magical date. Soon enough, the sun began to set. As luck would have it, the couple was treated to what Samantha calls the “best sunset ever.” Instagram Couple Experiences the “Best Sunset Ever” Amidst Beautiful Sunflowers And to think, they could have so easily missed out on this date had it not been for her thoughtful boyfriend. It goes to show that some of the best moments are the ones we have to go out of our way to make happen! Instagram “What a dream. Happy for y’all,” someone shares in the comment section of the video, with another adding, “Made my heart so happy. Cherish that man and he will always treat you like a queen!! This is awesome.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Couple’s Post-Rain Picnic In Sunflower Field Turns Into “Best Sunset Ever” appeared first on InspireMore.

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The Biden-Harris administration reportedly colluded with foreign government entities in silencing Americans’ free speech, and one congresswoman has had enough. According to documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) in September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) took advice from UK government censors on how best to crush speech. The shocking documents came amid Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-SC) campaign to defund foreign censorship and prevent domestic election interference by suppressing speech. They also come after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to censoring COVID-19 speech after government pressure. As alleged by AFL, the Biden White House hosted the UK government Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU), which in turn told federal officials in 2021 to create a dedicated and centralized hub to lead government-wide censorship campaigns. The British also advised enacting legislation to allow government coercion of social media and punishing Big Tech if they didn’t comply, all violating the First Amendment.  AFL noted that attendees at the UK-U.S. event included “high-level staff from the White House, the NSC, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Departments of State, Treasury, Defense (DOD), Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S. Agencies for International Development (USAID) and Global Media (USAGM), as well as high-ranking officers in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.” Mace, the House Cybersecurity Subcommittee chairwoman, was working to prevent government-tech election censorship collusion such as swayed the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor, as a 2020 MRC poll illustrated. Mace also recently introduced the No Funds for Fascists Act, as the New York Post reported, which would prevent U.S. taxpayer funds from going to foreign governments that undermine free speech and pressure Big Tech. Mace introduced her bill in reaction to the “extreme, over-the-top, and un-American” UK-US censorship effort exposed by AFL, according to the Post. Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on “hate speech” and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

The leftist journalists at ProPublica pose as "A Pulitzer-winning, non-profit newsroom focused on investigative journalism in the public interest." But that journalism tends to rip conservatives as a danger to America. The headline writers for their latest effort, a 6,000-word expose in the Sunday New York Times Magazine by Ava Kofman (in partnership with the liberal nonprofit newsroom ProPublica) certainly know how to scare the paper's liberal readership: How Two Billionaire Preachers Remade Texas Politics  They control Republican politics in the state. Now they’re poised to take their theocratic agenda nationwide. Kofman introduced readers to Texas State Rep. Glenn Rogers, who portrays himself as a die-hard conservative who was nonetheless not pure enough for those two scary Christian conservative billionaire preachers, at least in the reporter’s telling. In reality, Rogers had disappointed two men: Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, billionaires who have made their fortunes in the oil industry. Over the past decade, the pair have built the most powerful political machine in Texas -- a network of think-tanks, media organizations, political-action committees and nonprofits that work in lock step to purge the Legislature of Republicans whose votes they can’t rely on…. She found a left-wing spokesman to put in their two cents. “It’s hard to think of other megafunders in the country as big on the theocratic end of the spectrum,” says Peter Montgomery, who oversees the Right Wing Watch project at People for the American Way, a progressive advocacy group. …, It is no accident that Dunn and Wilks have concentrated their energies on infusing Christianity into education. Many far-right Christians trace the country’s moral decline to Supreme Court rulings in the 1960s and early 1970s that ended mandated prayer and Bible reading in public schools. Texas recently proposed an overhauled reading curriculum that strongly emphasizes the Bible “in ways that verge on proselytizing,” according to Brockman, the scholar at the Baker Institute…. The Times has displayed an amusing habit over the past decade for portraying the Texas legislature as skewing even further and further to the right over the year (surely there’s no room left to shift by now), a trend that accelerated under Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. This story adds a conspiratorial edge to the paper’s usual liberal fearmongering. Kofman used poll data to paint conservative Christians as dangers to the republic. Last year, researchers at the [leftist] Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution found that more than half of Republicans support Christian Nationalist beliefs, including that “being a Christian is an important part of being truly American,” that the government should declare the United States a Christian nation and that “God has called Christians to exercise dominion over all areas of American society.” They have also found that Christian nationalists were roughly twice as likely as other Americans to believe that political violence may be justified…. Later, Kofman claimed “The slogan Make America Great Again can be interpreted, not unreasonably, as a dog-whistle to make it Christian Again, too.” Her sources for fact-checking were almost uniformly liberal. David Pepper, the author of Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call From Behind the Lines and the former chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, calls this trend the Texas Lesson. “It’s a tragic case study in how statehouses have flipped from serving the public interest to serving the far-right interests of private donors,” he told me…. Kofman really has it in for school vouchers, decrying them with lines that could have been lifted from an anti-choice pamphlet. Gov. Greg Abbott faced a primary challenge in 2022 from a candidate on the far right backed by Dunn and Wilks. Abbott won, but later began to advocate forcefully for the school-voucher program….Abbott’s newfound ardor for vouchers was striking. He asked faith leaders to “go to the pulpit” for the measure and called four special sessions of the Legislature in an attempt to rally the House into passing it. That vouchers undermine church-state separation while also draining resources from public schools has made them appealing to both free-market fundamentalists and far-right Christians. Yet vouchers are unpopular in rural districts across Texas, where Friday-night football games are sacrosanct and private schools are scarce. When Abbott failed to corral the votes he needed, he began to vigorously campaign against the holdouts, including Rogers. “How did someone who pitched himself as a governor committed to public education end up leading the charge to destroy public schools?” asks James Talarico, a Democratic member of the House and a former public-school teacher. “Follow the money.”

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Old-school education remains essential.

The rules will likely be enforced unfairly because Harvard has a long record of deeming insufficiently progressive speech as harmful.