One of the cutest animals on Earth is a little smaller than you might expect. It’s the magnolia green jumping spider and its googly eyes are about as adorable as a person could hope! This itty-bitty spider is bright green in color and bold in expression. As someone who is intensely afraid of bugs… I can tolerate looking at this spider long enough to write this article! In fact, I might even be able to enjoy the sweetness a little bit. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Spoody Haven (@spoodyhaven) About the spider This googly eye spider swaps all the spooky for adorable with her precious expression. Her scientific name is the Lyssomanes viridis, but in her house, she just goes by Aloe! The account that posted her has quite a few special spiders and, when another spider passed, Aloe jumped in to partner with another one of the spiders in the family. I’m sure Aloe is going to love having a friend! But before you go looking for one of these spiders, take some time to learn about the environments they thrive in. True lovers of the magnolia tree, the magnolia green jumper loves a warm, moist climate. This image is from Instagram. What people are saying Folks took to the comments to express their obsession with this googly eye green spider. “Oh my gosh how adorable! I love her name too,” commented one spider fanatic. “I would love to have one of these someday.” “Omg I want one! They’re so adorable,” said another. This sweet little spider just might jump on your list of favorite animals. (Listen, I didn’t expect me to say that either). Be sure to check out the video of this beautiful spider to see its googly eyes in action. They look almost holographic! What do you think — would you ever want to keep a sweet little spider as a pet? The featured image for this post is from Instagram. The post Meet This Tiny Green Spider With The Cutest “Googly Eyes” appeared first on InspireMore.

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On Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS, fill-in host News Hour congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins set the bar awfully high for Republicans before they were permitted to criticize the Biden Justice Department. Desjardins brought up Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland (whom the House of Representatives recently voted to hold in contempt) and the apparently Earth-shattering news that he’d penned a defensive Washington Post op-ed calling Republican criticism of the Biden Justice Department “baseless, personal, and dangerous.” As a Democrat, Garland is immediately presumed to be nonpartisan. Any Trump Attorney General was immediately presumed to be not just partisan, but a co-conspirator in the impending authoritarianism. The very reason Garland was held in contempt was because his Justice Department has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena and release Special Counsel Robert Hur’s audio interview with President Biden regarding Biden’s past handling of classified documents. Washington Week disposed of that inconvenient fact in a few sentences. Lisa Desjardins: So, it's in this environment that the former president came to Washington this week. And part of that environment was also about Merrick Garland and the idea that the House held him in contempt. Leigh Ann, I want to talk to you about that, but, first, I want to point out that the attorney general actually did something unusual involving The Washington Post. He posted an op-ed this week about the justice system. This is very unusual for him in the Department of Justice. In this op-ed in the Washington Post, Attorney General Garland wrote, ‘We have seen an escalation of attacks that go far beyond public scrutiny, criticism, and legitimate and necessary oversight of our work. They are baseless, personal, and dangerous.’ Now, he published that op-ed the very day before Republicans voted to hold him in contempt in Congress. That has to do with the Biden classified documents case. Republicans want the audiotape of President Biden. But Speaker Johnson came out after that op-ed, and he said this about Garland: House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA): It`s a rich irony to hear this attorney general talk about weaponizing a function of government. That`s what the Department of Justice has been under his leadership, or lack thereof. Desjardins was dismissive: Republicans have offered just a few examples of weaponization. They pointed to the 2023 FBI memo, out of just one bureau, about Catholics. There was also an anti-abortion protester in Pennsylvania who had an aggressive raid at his house. But other than that, really, there`s not evidence of systemic weaponization of the Department of Justice.[!] Leigh Ann, how much do you think Republicans are going to continue to talk about this, continue to keep up these attacks, even as the head prosecutor in the country says it`s dangerous? So "just a few examples of weaponization" don't count for anything? They don't count with these liberal journalists, who did not want to report on the FBI talk of surveilling Catholic churches or the raid on Mark Houck's home. Her last line above seems to mean: Why won’t Republicans bow to a cynical, partisan accusation of “danger” from the Democratic-run Justice Department? PBS roundtables will refuse to admit that part of the "weaponization" allegation is the Biden DOJ's incredibly aggressive prosecution of suspects in the January 6 riot. Bringing charges against 1,380 people (with the hope of getting to 2,500) who protested Biden's election isn't seen as "weaponizing." The Washington Post’s Caldwell took the cynical approach. Leigh Ann Caldwell: They`re absolutely going to continue this. Not only do they only have a couple instances of weaponization, but they set up an entire select committee in Congress to investigate this issue, which hasn’t really resulted in any proof that there is actual intent to weaponize the Justice Department. But I will say that this is -- the reason this matters is because it motivates the base of the Republican Party, want to keep them fired up and motivated to come out for Republicans and former President Donald Trump on Election Day. And that`s why it matters. Democrats -- getting back to Merrick Garland actually. I was going to go in a couple different directions, but Merrick Garland -- [Crosstalk] Caldwell: So, Merrick Garland is defending the Justice Department because what the Republican attacks are doing is they are effectively delegitimizing people’s views of not only all the institutions but definitely the Department of Justice. This is something that is seeping deeper, deeper into American consciousness. You see this in polling, not only with all of government institutions, but specifically the Justice Department. And that’s why Merrick Garland is defending the Justice Department and the employees that work there… A USA Today reporter chipped in later in defense of the credibility of liberal journalistic roundtables like Washington Week's, against Republican attacks. Francesca Chambers, USA Today: And I was just going to pick up on that and say, go one step further. It's attacks on the justice system. It's attacks on the government writ large. It's attacks on the American media and trying to under undermine the credibility of everyone at this table as well. It's all of American institutions. Remember that this soppy defense of a Democrat-controlled Justice Department (and of the press) comes in the midst of a Democratic Party/liberal media barrage against conservative Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito truly meant to, ahem, "delegitimize" part of the justice system. This segment was brought to you in part by Consumer Cellular. A transcript is available, click “Expand.” PBS Washington Week with The Atlantic 6/14/24 8:07:00 p.m. (ET) Lisa Desjardins: So, it's in this environment that the former president came to Washington this week. And part of that environment was also about Merrick Garland and the idea that the House held him in contempt. Leigh Ann, I want to talk to you about that, but, first, I want to point out that the attorney general actually did something unusual involving The Washington Post. He posted an op-ed this week about the justice system. This is very unusual for him in the Department of Justice. In this op-ed in the Washington Post, Attorney General Garland wrote, we have seen an escalation of attacks that go far beyond public scrutiny, criticism, and legitimate and necessary oversight of our work. They are baseless, personal, and dangerous. Now, he published that op-ed the very day before Republicans voted to hold him in contempt in Congress. That has to do with the Biden classified documents case. Republicans want the audiotape of President Biden. But Speaker Johnson came out after that op-ed, and he said this about Garland. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA): It's a rich irony to hear this attorney general talk about weaponizing a function of government. That's what the Department of Justice has been under his leadership, or lack thereof. Lisa Desjardins: Republicans have offered just a few examples of weaponization. They pointed to the 2023 FBI memo out of just one bureau about Catholics. There was also an anti-abortion protester in Pennsylvania who had an aggressive raid at his house. But other than that, really, there's not evidence of systemic weaponization of the Department of Justice. Leigh Ann, how much do you think Republicans are going to continue to talk about this, continue to keep up these attacks, even as the head prosecutor in the country says it's dangerous? Leigh Ann Caldwell, Anchor, Washington Post Live: They're absolutely going to continue this. Not only do they only have a couple instances of weaponization, but they set up an entire select committee in Congress to investigate this issue, which hasn't really resulted in any proof that there is actual intent to weaponize the Justice Department. But I will say that this is -- the reason this matters is because it motivates the base of the Republican Party, want to keep them fired up and motivated to come out for Republicans and former President Donald Trump on Election Day. And that's why it matters. Democrats -- getting back to Merrick Garland actually. I was going to go in a couple different directions, but Merrick Garland -- Lisa Desjardins: Should we? Leigh Ann Caldwell: No. So, Merrick Garland is defending the Justice Department because what the Republican attacks are doing is they are effectively delegitimizing people's views of not only all the institutions but definitely the Department of Justice. This is something that is seeping deeper, deeper into American consciousness. You see this in polling, not only with all of government institutions, but specifically the Justice Department. And that's why Merrick Garland is defending the Justice Department and the employees that work there. He also did something very similar in a congressional hearing before House Republicans last week. Lisa Desjardins: Yes. Let's keep going a little bit bigger picture on this. I was in the Hudson Valley in New York. There's a few good swing congressional districts in that area. I was there earlier this week. And I spoke to one voter who told me he wasn't sure who he's going to vote for. You know, he said, like many voters, he doesn't want to think about it, isn't excited about the election. But then he told me, you know, whoever I vote for and whoever wins, it's rigged anyway, which is sort of a news, like it's not just if this guy wins. It's like if anybody wins, it's rigged. So, Evan, I want to talk to you about how deeply you see this idea permeating that our institutions, no matter what happens, are corrupt. Evan McMorris-Santoro: Oh, very deep. I think we're in an actual real crisis moment for the justice system, which is an extremely important element of our democracy. It's not just Republicans who are saying this or people, maybe undecided voters. I spoke with a TikTok influencer who covers news, right, who had a million viewers on our channel, very big deal. And I talked with the end of the Trump trial, because I wanted to see like how was this playing in this new medium, TikTok. And she said, look, my audience doesn't really care about it. If you have people who like President Trump, they think the thing is just rigged, it doesn't really matter what happens. And if people who don't like President Trump, former President Trump, they think that it doesn't really matter what happens. Nothing will really happen to him, that there is really an absolute, like there's like an ennui that is being built up about around the justice system. And all this conversations, you know, it's not just what's going on with the Trump campaign and Hunter Biden and everybody else and Donald Trump and all this stuff. Well, you also have a lot of these stories about the Supreme Court that don't look so great. This is a moment where you need people who lead the justice system, who care about the justice system, you need to step up and really defend it a lot more against a lot of people who are starting to think it doesn't count anymore. Francesca Chambers: And I was just going to pick up on that and say, go one step further. It's attacks on the justice system. It's attacks on the government writ large. It's attacks on the American media and trying to under undermine the credibility of everyone at this table as well. It's all of American institutions.

On Sunday's Meet the Press, fill-in host Peter Alexander lectured Rep. Byron Donalds that there is "no evidence" President Biden had "anything to do" with the Manhattan DA  Alvin Bragg cooking up 34 felony counts against Donald Trump. The name "Matthew Colangelo" -- the man who was Biden's #3 Justice Department official who joined Bragg's team -- rarely surfaces as "evidence" to NBC. Donalds calmly and methodically explained to NBC's Biden reporter/repeater how the Justice Department has been weaponized to interfere in the 2024 election with belated prosecutions that could have happened years ago. But first, there was the Bragg probe, and Donalds asserted that was election interference, which is why he and Speaker Mike Johnson and others believe the Supreme Court should "step in."  “Let me also explain this one.” @RepDonaldsPress to @MeetThePress host @PeterAlexander who asserted: “To be clear, Joe Biden, there is no evidence he had anything to do with this case...Why is it appropriate for Donald Trump to call for prosecuting his political opponents?” #MTP pic.twitter.com/fa7TfYM57m — Brent Baker ?? ?? (@BrentHBaker) June 16, 2024 PETER ALEXANDER: And to be clear, Joe Biden, there is no evidence that he had anything to do with this case. The Manhattan DA, as you know, began this investigation in 2018, before Joe Biden was even his party's nominee. I want to ask you about specifically what we've been hearing from Republicans and from Donald Trump claiming the Democrats are illegally weaponizing the Justice Department against Mr. Trump. Why is it appropriate for Donald Trump, then, to call for prosecuting his political opponents, including President Biden? DONALDS: Well, let me also explain this one. Now, what he did say was, is that we have always had this kind of gentleman's agreement that you do not go after the political leaders of the – of the oppositional party. When Donald Trump was president, he didn't – he didn’t have his attorney generals go after Hillary Clinton when she did violate the Espionage Act. He did not give that order. They did not go and prosecute Hillary Clinton. But now you have a situation where main justice has weaponized the Justice Department to go after Donald Trump. You have Jack Smith, who's chasing down Donald Trump on – on violating the Espionage Act, but at the same time, Robert Hur knows that President Biden has violated the Espionage Act. Robert Hur is not prosecuting Joe Biden....Jack Smith is trying to prosecute Donald Trump. Donalds called that "two-tiered justice." So Alexander robotically moved on to the next Biden/DNC talking point:  ALEXANDER: The Biden Justice Department obviously is also prosecuting Democrats. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, Henry Cuellar of Texas right now. They just prosecuted Hunter Biden as well. So is it only weaponization when it is Republicans that are being prosecuted? DONALDS: That's not true, and that's not even the same thing we're talking about here. What you've got to understand is – ALEXANDER: But they've prosecuted both Democrats and Republicans, so I think Americans would say is that equal justice? DONALDS: – Bob Menendez. First of all, Bob Menendez has gold bars with his name engraved on them from a foreign country. So that's what Bob Menendez's situation is. Henry Cuellar's situation just got into investigation. But it is without a doubt that these legal cases were all brought in the middle of a presidential election for one purpose, and that is to criminalize Donald Trump. That is to polarize Donald Trump. That is to persecute Donald Trump. That's the only reason why you even bring these cases in the timeframe that they're being brought. Alexander repeated: "And again, there's been a series of cases against Democrats as well." He rounded out the White House publicist packet by telling Donalds an FBI agent on the Hunter Biden probe received an explicit voicemail from a Trump backer that said in part, "You can ride but you can't hide” and “we'll hunt you down and slaughter you like the traitorous dogs you are." He asked Donalds to repudiate that violent threat, and Donalds did. 

On June 4, President Joe Biden released a new executive order that the administration claimed would crack down on the influx of illegal aliens crossing the border, despite previously insisting that his hands were tied regarding the immigration crisis.Border security and immigration experts told Blaze News that the administration's executive action will do very little, if anything, to actually reduce the number of illegal crossings into the United States.About the orderThe White House's executive order would only temporarily take effect if the number of illegal immigrants averages 2,500 over a seven-day period. The order also contains many exceptions, including for unaccompanied minors, those experiencing medical emergencies, and victims of a "severe form" of trafficking.Simon Hankinson, senior research fellow at the Border Security and Immigration Center at the Heritage Foundation, told Blaze News, "Coming three and a half years, and nearly 10 million illegal arrivals into Biden's term, this order is a purely political play. This isn't shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted. It's closing the barn door half an inch, while inviting more horses into the barn so they can bolt too.""Biden's belated and feckless executive action won't discourage anyone from coming illegally," he continued. "As long as they know from social media, smugglers, and friends that they'll almost certainly be released on arrival, people from 180 countries will keep on coming. As the daily crossing numbers and reporters at the border show, this 63-page executive action, riddled with exceptions, and without the will to enforce even its mild provisions, is having no demonstrable effect."Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas outlined the details of the order during a recent interview with ABC News' "Start Here" podcast. 'Asylum is very much still alive.'"Individuals encountered in between the ports of entry at our southern border will be barred from seeking asylum," Mayorkas explained. However, he went on to note, "The way in which they can seek asylum now, with this order in effect, is by using the CBP One app and making an appointment to arrive at a port of entry in a safe and orderly way, or accessing one of our many other lawful pathways that we have established for people to receive humanitarian relief without placing their lives in the hands of smugglers."Customs and Border Protection's CBP One application allows foreign nationals to schedule appointments at ports of entry along the border to file an asylum claim. Mayorkas reiterated that only illegal immigrants who attempt to cross the southern border outside of a port of entry could be barred from requesting asylum. "If the number of people we encounter averages for seven consecutive calendar days less than 1,500, then we will lift this bar," Mayorkas continued, adding that the administration "can" and has "the right" to reinstitute the ban if the average number of encounters reaches 2,500 per day for seven consecutive days. During the interview, Mayorkas commended the Biden administration for building additional "lawful pathways" for those seeking to claim asylum in the U.S."More than a million people have accessed those lawful pathways in the past year," he added. "Asylum is very much still alive, but we are deterring irregular migration in between the ports of entry and trying to cut out the smugglers."Mayorkas acknowledged that the administration knew the American Civil Liberties Union planned to challenge the executive order's legality. Conservative lawmakers have argued that the executive action lacks teeth, citing the narrow requirements that trigger its enforcement and the lengthy list of exceptions even once it is enforced. John Fabbricatore, a retired Immigration and Customs Enforcement Denver Field Office director and current Republican congressional candidate for Colorado's 6th District, told Blaze News that the order is "largely smoke and mirrors" that amounts "to a shell game.""It doesn't genuinely address the problem of securing the border. There isn't a clear plan for detention, leading me to believe that the order won't stop the release of many illegal aliens into the interior. To me, this amounts to an indirect form of amnesty through intentional inaction," Fabbricatore remarked.Biden blames RepublicansDuring the White House's announcement of the new executive action, the administration blamed Republican lawmakers for the open border crisis. "Earlier this year, the President and his team reached a historic bipartisan agreement with Senate Democrats and Republicans to deliver the most consequential reforms of America's immigration laws in decades," the administration claimed. "But Republicans in Congress chose to put partisan politics ahead of our national security, twice voting against the toughest and fairest set of reforms in decades."Hankinson told Blaze News that the Secure the Border Act, H.R. 2, was "real legislation that would have restored sanity at the border.""The Democrat-controlled Senate has refused to vote on the bill. The Senate 'bipartisan' bill that came out in February was mere water to HR2's wine. It locked crisis levels of illegal migration into law, failed to stop Biden's mass abuse of parole, failed to curb asylum fraud or the use of children to avoid immigration detention, and granted extraordinary discretion to an administration that has shown itself unworthy of it," Hankinson explained."The Senate bill also fed the United Nations-NGO beast that is encouraging and paying for millions of people to migrate illegally towards the United States," he continued. "Biden has tried to convince voters that the Senate bill was tough, but any objective analysis shows the opposite. Again, pure politics. Meanwhile, Biden refuses to uphold the rule of law by ignoring statutes already on the books that require detention of all foreigners entering the U.S. illegally, and granting mass parole in violation of the law's clear intent."Jon Feere, director of investigations at the Center for Immigration Studies, echoed a similar sentiment regarding the stalled Secure the Border Act, calling it the only "border-related bill that would begin to reverse the Biden administration's lawlessness."Feere told Blaze News, "The Biden administration does not want it to become law, an obvious sign that they have no interest in actually securing the border.""Everything the Biden administration has done on immigration has been explicitly designed to undermine enforcement of the nation's immigration laws and the result has been an unprecedented explosion in illegal immigration," Feere continued. "In order to put an end to the lawlessness, the Executive Branch would have to dramatically ramp up arrests and deportations of illegal aliens and invoke serious consequences for border-crossers and companies that hire them. This proclamation does nothing to discourage illegal immigration, and the chaos will continue."What will the executive order actually accomplish?Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) recently argued that the Biden administration's executive action will "attract and invite" more illegal immigrants to cross the southern border. He told Fox News, "This is gaslighting our fellow Americans. When Biden gets up and says, 'This is going to stop people from coming across the border,' when he says, 'It's going to secure the border,' in fact, it is making illegal border crossings worse."Fabbricatore told Blaze News that he agrees with Abbott, stating that the order "will encourage more illegal crossings."'A significant vetting and national security failure.'"Evidence of this can already be seen along the border. I predict we will see even more mass crossings before the November election," he remarked. "I don't see any positive effects from this executive order on the current border crisis. It seems more like a political move that President Biden needed to make before the election rather than a solution to the problem. Fraudulent asylum claims, of which less than 15% are eventually approved, continue to rise, reaching nearly 500,000 claims in 2023. The order doesn't address the limited detention space, and recent announcements about closing the Dilley Immigration Detention Center only worsen the issue by eliminating over 1,000 beds."Fabbricatore explained that even if the number of encounters drops to the executive order's 1,500 daily threshold, Border Patrol agents will still be unable to keep up."In a 2019 interview, former Obama administration DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson stated that 1,000 apprehensions a day constituted a crisis. This remains true today. Under the Biden administration, Border Patrol agents have been processing between 1,000 and 6,000 daily, which is unsustainable and represents a significant vetting and national security failure. The morale of the Border Patrol and ICE is extremely low, a condition deliberately caused by the Biden administration from day one," Fabbricatore told Blaze News.What happens now?As anticipated, on June 12, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its so-called "cruel" and restrictive executive order. The nonprofit, which filed the suit on behalf of two pro-immigration groups, claimed that the action "severely restricts asylum" and puts "thousands of lives at risk."After announcing the executive action, the Biden administration's CBP released an internal memo to San Diego sector Border Patrol agents instructing them to release most illegal immigrants from Eastern Hemisphere countries into the U.S. The communication directed agents to provide the individuals with Notice to Appear documents and release them from custody on their own recognizance, an instruction that contradicted the administration's claim that it planned to crack down on unlawful entries. In recent months, the San Diego area has been hit with a massive uptick in illegal immigration, with foreign nationals from all over the world attempting to unlawfully enter the country near the remote town of Jacumba Hot Springs. San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond told Blaze News, "This executive order is a facade, offering the illusion of security while doing nothing to address the real issues at our borders. This past weekend alone, thousands of individuals entered San Diego County, exacerbating the alarming number of over 151,000 street releases this fiscal year. This policy effectively allows anyone into the country, regardless of their background or intentions."Fabbricatore warned that the Biden administration will likely increase the number of foreign nationals it processes through its CBP One app."In my opinion this seems like a deliberate action to bypass Congress and allow thousands more to enter the country. Over 80% of these asylum claims will likely be deemed not credible and dismissed. However, given that millions of final removal orders are already pending in the ICE system, the administration knows these individuals are unlikely to be deported," he told Blaze News.With the country's immigration crisis a top concern for voters, it remains to be seen whether Biden's last-ditch effort to appear tough on unlawful crossings will earn him any additional votes. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seem equally unimpressed with Biden's executive order. 'A blatant contradiction.'Eighteen Democratic lawmakers, led by Reps. Delia Ramirez (Ill.) and Jesús "Chuy" García (Ill.), wrote a letter Tuesday to Mayorkas and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ur Jaddou, slamming the administration's executive action."Allowing the consideration of mandatory bars to asylum during initial asylum screening interviews will force asylum seekers to present legally and factually complex arguments explaining the life-threatening harms they are fleeing shortly after enduring a long, traumatic journey and while being held in immigration detention and essentially cut off from legal help," the letter read.Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) told Blaze News that the administration's executive order will not curb illegal immigration."The only way to end this self-inflicted border crisis is to end the perverse incentives that encourage mass illegal immigration," Green stated. "This executive order does not come close to doing that. In fact, it legitimizes crisis levels of illegal immigration, broadcasts to the cartels that they can continue to exploit vulnerable people, and allows Border Patrol agents to continue releasing illegal aliens into the interior if they don't claim asylum.""The cartels know this order won't change anything on the ground, which is why we've seen reports for almost a week now that mass numbers of illegal aliens are still coming across, completely undeterred by this unserious administration. A true leader in the White House would admit his open-borders policies have failed, and use his executive authority to reimplement the policies that worked, and enforce the laws he swore to uphold," Green added.Feere with CIS told Blaze News that Biden's attempt to appear tough on illegal immigration will not convince voters this November. "Nothing the administration does now will make a difference," he declared. "In fact, it's only going to get worse as the fallout from their open border agenda impacts all aspects of our lives, from crime to school overcrowding, not to mention the terrorist threats the administration has welcomed into our country."United States Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) told Blaze News that voters "see through this charade.""For three years Biden has lied about the border crisis, dodged responsibility by blaming Congress, and now in a blatant contradiction issues a meaningless executive order months before Election Day," Gooden said.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

For decades, we’ve been conditioned to accept lower living standards, lower rates of consumption, fewer and more expensive goods and services, and all-round more meager lives — not for the sake of spiritual health and discipline but out of a bogus environmentalism that makes a show of worshipping nature to enrich and entrench the illegitimate elite. Now, consummating that demented plan, technology has been pushed across a much different “final frontier” than advertised. Instead of saving civilization by bringing human ingenuity into the depths of outer space, we’re about to be told that life can only be preserved if we make a much more violating sacrifice — offering up human brains to run the energy-starved supercomputers we need to automate “green” governance out of human hands. Wokeness judges humanity too corrupt and wicked to achieve true justice on its own but unconditionally rejects God as the only source of complete and perfect justice. “World's first bioprocessor uses 16 human brain organoids for ‘a million times less power’ consumption than a digital chip,” runs the headline, and the details must be read to be believed: A Swiss biocomputing startup has launched an online platform that provides remote access to 16 human brain organoids. FinalSpark claims its Neuroplatform is the world’s first online platform delivering access to biological neurons in vitro. Moreover, bioprocessors like this “consume a million times less power than traditional digital processors,” the company says. FinalSpark says its Neuroplatform is capable of learning and processing information, and due to its low power consumption, it could reduce the environmental impacts of computing. In a recent research paper about its developments, FinalSpark claims that training a single LLM like GPT-3 required approximately 10GWh — about 6,000 times greater energy consumption than the average European citizen uses in a whole year. Such energy expenditure could be massively cut following the successful deployment of bioprocessors. It doesn’t take a weatherman to detect which way these winds of posthuman change are a-blowin’. As I’ve cautioned many times, wokeness — which is really simply the idolization of perfect justice, worshipping a distorted fragment of God instead of His whole — can’t be actualized without a woke supercomputer. That’s because wokeness judges humanity too corrupt and wicked to achieve true justice on its own but unconditionally rejects God as the only source of complete and perfect justice. Yet ironically, today’s priestly caste of “green” elites actually deny that other organisms, or even planet Earth itself, can save or redeem us. They reject the hierarchy, predation, violence, and masculinity of the natural world and see the Earth as, at most, concerned with its own flourishing — which, as we’re incessantly lectured, human beings are constantly hurting and putting at existential risk. The equation is simple. Their logic leads straight to one conclusion: Without man, God, or nature to save us, our only hope, in fact our duty, is to be found in building machines. And not just machines — superhuman machines built to rule us as humans have never been ruled before. Utterly. Comprehensively. Inside and out — down to the molecular, if not subatomic, level. But that’s just the start. Not only must these machines utterly dominate and control us in this way in order for our elite to realize their plans; we must actually become the fuel for these machines. Back in the post-’60s era of peak environmentalist panic, “Soylent Green is people!” became a pop-culture rallying cry of those who feared a future elite who fed us to each other under cover of conservationist convenience. Today there’s no need for fantasy or metaphor to drive the point home: As much as they surely want to feed us people, the higher ambition is to cut out the middleman and turn our bodies into “green” bioreactors for our mechanical overlords. That’s why, even though our digital rights must be constitutionally protected, we have to ensure that no American has a right to borg. “You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension,” one wag (ironically named Hegel Borg) reacted to the Neuroplatform news, quoting an 1898 Nikola Tesla quip that has turned into a meme. True, but misleading — the more serious problem, as our holiest men have known for ages, is that, spiritually, the mystery of our fallen condition is a man-made horror beyond our comprehension. Down the path of innovating an artificial new horror to be, we shall find no salvation.

While covering the first major anti-Israel protest in New York City on October 8, 2023, a day after the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, speakers and activists noticeably avoided mentioning Hamas by name, despite praising the group's attack. Instead, they referred to the group as “the resistance” and “freedom fighters.”I recall a particular instance during a fall protest on Staten Island when a Within Our Lifetime organizer accidentally mentioned Hamas before quickly correcting herself to say “the resistance.”The Hamas supporters now understand that if they have the numbers and willingness to commit violence, the authorities will give them free rein.As time has passed and Israel continues to degrade Hamas’ ability to wage war, the far left in the United States has grown more violent because America continues to support Israel. Far leftists' tactics have escalated to match their desire to grind our way of life to a halt, but they have a greater willingness to show who they really support: Hamas.Nowhere was that more evident than the “surround the White House” protest on June 8. Not only were there people holding signs saying they supported Hamas, but people were starting to dress like the terrorists. Julio Rosas/Blaze NewsMultiple protesters, some with their faces covered, were wearing the green headband that sported the Hamas logo, a common sight in Gaza before the war. They vandalized statues of Revolutionary War heroes. One of the headbands held up a bloodied face mask of Joe Biden. An American flag was burned nearby.Another group marched with a banner that said, “‘Jihad of victory or martyrdom’ Al-Qassam,” which is Hamas’ military wing.But more than just the open Hamas supporters across the street from the White House, other protesters in the crowd gave fist bumps and words of encouragement. Multiple protesters asked to take pictures with the terrorist wannabes.Hamas was not the only terrorist group represented. A masked man wore a baseball cap with a patch that featured the logo of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which operates in the West Bank.It cannot be emphasized enough that the pro-Hamas sentiments are not new. They were always there. But after testing the water for months, the protesters have become bolder to show their support for the terrorist organization and are willing to carry out acts to show solidarity. Julio Rosas/Blaze NewsSince last fall, I have been warning anyone willing to listen that these people won’t go to the Middle East to fight; instead, they will try to bring down America from within. After years of mismanaged immigration, worsened by Biden’s border crisis, the enemy is not at the gates — they are within the walls.It is clear that law enforcement in Washington, D.C., were told to engage as little as possible to avoid any violence from the protesters. U.S. Park Police, which have jurisdiction in Lafayette Square, only had 71 officers to monitor a protest that drew more than 9,000 people. Not only was its civil disturbance unit not on the scene, but the officers who were deployed did not wear riot gear. They were endangered by the lack of equipment and numbers to respond to a chaotic situation.The Hamas supporters now understand that if they have the numbers and willingness to commit violence, the authorities will give them free rein. It is a lesson that will be painful for the rest of the country should they become bolder in their actions and rhetoric. With the presidential election mere months away, you can be sure they will.

The Supreme Court may soon have a chance to strike down Michigan’s prohibition of public funding for nongovernment schools.

She’d help Trump.

A revival for a nation in need of divine intervention.