Beyond the Lines Podcast - Nikki Watson

☦️ “God is everywhere. There is no place God is not…You cry out to Him, ‘Where art Thou, my God?’ And He answers, “I am present, my child! I am always beside you.’ Both inside and outside, above and below, wherever you turn, everything shouts, ‘God!’ In Him we live and move. We breathe God, we eat God, we clothe ourselves with God. Everything praises and blesses God. All of creation shouts His praise. Everything animate and inanimate speaks wondrously and glorifies the Creator. Let every breath praise the Lord!” - St. Joseph The Hesychast Subscribe @LoveInTheApocalypse

This is real

Pretty sure she isn’t “defying the right’s pronatalist narratives…” but walking right into them 🥴

Shapiro might win over Pennsylvania for different reasons - You can run a bad candidate against him in the swing state and he can win re election… but if he tries to run nationally in 2028, like we have already seen when they tried rolling him out as Kamala’s VP… the internet will eat him alive.

A former top official at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a storied civil rights organization at the center of a Justice Department prosecution, was indicted Wednesday in an escalation of the case against the nonprofit, officials said. Federal prosecutors in Alabama accused Heidi Beirich the nonprofit’s ex-chief financial officer, of overseeing payments to informants working with a variety of hate groups, Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters. A lawyer for Beirich denounced the allegations as an attempt by the Justice Department to “silence political opponents” and vowed she would fight the charges. “Violent extremists have not stopped or intimidated Dr. Beirich from her vital work during her time at the SPLC or in the six and a half years after she left the SPLC,” defense lawyer Michael Proctor said in a statement. “Dr. Beirich won’t be silenced or intimidated by the government’s false and politicized allegations now. She welcomes the opportunity to present the truth in court.” In April, Blanche unveiled an 11-count indictment against the SPLC charging it with bank fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering, saying it misled donors by using their money to secretly fund informants in extremist groups. The organization’s leadership denounced the case as an effort to weaponize the Justice Department against groups unfriendly to President Donald Trump. The SPLC’s donors intended their money to be used to combat extremist groups, they said, and that’s exactly what the informant program did. The indictment alleged the SPLC had defrauded its donors by paying more than $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to at least eight individuals working inside groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Movement. In some cases, prosecutors said, the source of the money was disguised through accounts associated with fictitious businesses. Beirich, in her role as chief financial officer, oversaw some of those payments, Blanche said. “She was part of the effort to open bank accounts in completely fictitious companies’ names and make payments to individuals for reasons that were not accurate or described,” the attorney general said Wednesday.

New York Magazine: On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order that calls for fewer childhood vaccinations and spacing out some vaccines into separate shots. The advice runs counter to the guidelines promoted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, adding more confusion for new parents navigating life-savings immunizations. For pediatricians, “selling” vaccination to patients has never felt more tiring or more critical. Anti-vaccine sentiment isn’t new, but its proponents are more vociferous than ever. Tessa B. Scripps, a pediatrician at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital, says sometimes she can’t break through to a family until they’ve come in for a few back-to-back visits. She says some of her patients who are resistant to vaccination are highly educated and even have medical degrees. “It’s surprising,” Scripps admits. “I really don’t know how to explain it.” Revisit Juno DeMelo’s report from April on the daily agony and exhaustion pediatricians are facing as they convince parents to vaccinate their children: https://nymag.visitlink.me/0NODZ8

Nothing says Queen Presidential female energy like jabbing yourself and egg freezing

President Trump signed an executive order today backing fewer routine vaccines for kids, calling to whittle down the number of recommended childhood shots to 11. The order builds on the Trump administration’s efforts to reshape the childhood shot schedule under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “This updated recommendation finally aligns the United States with other advanced and developed nations around the world,” Trump said during a briefing on Monday. “More importantly, it aligns us with common sense and knowledge.” He also called for splitting the combination measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine into three separate single-disease shots. “The MMR we want to have separate visits, separate times. The vaccine being broken into three separate single doses and vaccines being administered in separate visits,” Trump said. The order also directs the Department of Justice to investigate where states are in violation of exemptions for childhood vaccine mandates, including parental authority and disability accommodations as well as religious and medical reasons. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/delivering-gold-standard-childhood-vaccine-recommendations-for-americans/

Who’s gonna tell her?

The Atlantic: A news flash that won’t surprise anyone: Screen time is bad for young kids, Olga Khazan writes. But who can afford to follow this advice? https://theatln.tc/zCHVc3vu A Pew Research Center report found that low-income parents were more permissive with all sorts of screen time. “These differences likely stem from the fact that keeping kids off screens requires time and money,” Khazan writes. “Rich parents can hire sitters and nannies to watch their kids while they work or do chores. They can afford Instacart, DoorDash, and other labor-saving services. They are more likely to enjoy flexible and remote work.” And though a high income doesn’t guarantee a good childhood, “researchers have observed for decades that the children in families with more resources tend to have better outcomes in many areas of life,” Khazan writes. “High-earning and highly educated parents are likelier to follow all sorts of parenting advice on things such as breastfeeding and baby-led weaning. Because of this, researchers may never truly know if the advice appears to work because it’s good advice or because of the particular characteristics of the families who follow it,” Khazan continues. “Rather than scolding parents about screens,” she writes at the link, “society could do more to support families in ways that obviate the need for screen time.”

💢 Trump and a journalist who was asking about the Patriot system for Ukraine. Reporter: Zelensky says that his country urgently needs Patriot missiles. Trump: We need them too. Biden gave him a lot of them. Subscribe @NewResistance

💢 The FBI is establishing unprecedented ties with law enforcement agencies in Russia and China in sweeping moves to eliminate human trafficking, white slavery, and child abduction, according to Reuters. 🔹FBI Director Patel stated that over the past year, he has strengthened cooperation with Moscow and Beijing in the fight against transnational crime, including the illegal trafficking of fentanyl, cybercrime, and the sexual exploitation of children. 🔹As part of this cooperation, Patel is scheduled to travel to Russia in October, and he recently returned from China at the end of July. 🔹There has already been an exchange of experts: Chinese officials have visited the United States, and FBI agents have traveled to China to exchange intelligence and investigative information. 🔹They have conducted joint raids and arrests. In May, the FBI, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, and the Dubai Police jointly conducted a major raid on a cybercrime center in Dubai, resulting in the arrest of 300 people, the seizure of $300 million, and the liberation of thousands of workers who had become victims of human trafficking, according to the FBI. Subscribe @NewResistance

💢 'There is a group of people that wants me to just do it, and there is another group of people that doesn't want me to do it" [ 🧾receipts - XF] Subscribe @NewResistance

💢 Trump wanted to END the lockdowns, the thing that did MOST damage to our country — RFK Jr. 'We closed our schools, and our children are still paying the price for that' Subscribe @NewResistance

“No matter what lies MAGA says about you” 👍🏽👌🏽

Nino on SWU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fY3iqEuiKbI&pp=ugUEEgJlbtIHCQmjCwGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

The people screaming "No Kings" are the same people who spent years demanding Americans obey unelected bureaucrats without question. They defended censorship, applauded mandates, accepted government deciding who was "essential," and cheered while people lost their jobs, businesses, and access to society over private medical decisions. They mocked doctors who challenged prevailing policies, dismissed informed consent, and labeled anyone asking questions as "anti-science." That's not what science is. Science is challenged. It is debated. It evolves. The moment dissent is punished and discussion is silenced, it stops being science and becomes dogma. The United States was founded as a constitutional republic built on limiting power not blind obedience to government officials or self-appointed experts. If your definition of "No Kings" only applies to elected politicians while giving unelected bureaucrats, agencies, and powerful institutions a free pass from scrutiny, then you don't oppose authoritarianism. You've simply chosen different rulers. https://delcopatriot2020.substack.com/p/no-kings-then-stop-bowing-to-unelected?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=24vfjx

💥🇺🇦🇮🇷Will the Ukraine and Iran Conflicts Merge into Nuclear Armageddon?

Maine Democrats swapped out nazism for incest Kissing cousins: “A Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate has fathered two children with a blood relative, according to a new report. Maine nominee Troy Jackson and his longtime partner, Lana Pelletier, are second cousins who descend from the same great-grandparents, Thomas Pelletier and Edith Thibodeau, The Maine Wire reported. The couple raised two sons, Chace and Camden, though they never legally wed, and Maine grants no recognition to common-law unions, the outlet reported. Jackson labeled Pelletier his "wife" in earlier biographies but now calls her his partner, according to The Maine Wire. Jackson secired the Democratic nomination on July 25 and will challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November, the Associated Press (AP) reported. He took over for Graham Platner, who won the June primary but abandoned his campaign after being accused of sexual assault, NPR reported. Platner denied the accusation, but still exited the race.” 🔗

Eagles Defensive Coordinator Vic Fangio at yesterday’s presser: “I’m gonna be like Fauci and just take the 5th Amendment on all the questions. Did you guys see that? Omg.”