Teaching is not only a profession, it’s the ultimate profession. It creates, it nurtures, it defines, and it supports all other disciplines and professions.

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This is America and it’s heartbreaking 💔

Tens of thousands of trees are being cut down in Georgia to make way for transmission lines for data centers - 1,000 miles of new lines are being installed by Georgia Power - Equivalent power of 4 million homes will be used - 330 homes impacted - 30 homes full demolished - 80% of power generated is going to data centers Estimated tens of thousands of trees being cut down for the new lines. 400 trees were cut down just one one property Where are the environmentalists??

Dr. Joseph Galati has been noticing a very alarming trend growing in the last 10-15 years in America “Physicians are not examining their patients anymore? That's like a thing of the past. When I see patients, every single patient gets in a gown and they're examined from head to toe. And patients will ask, "What are you going to do to me?" And I'll ask them, "Hasn't your other doctors been examining you?" And they're like, "No, they just sit and talk to me."” This is mainly driven by insurance companies - Doctors have to have quick appointments, often times 10-15 minute slots - Testing and medications have much higher reimbursement rates so they go with those over lengthy exams We need to kick big money out of healthcare

As Torah Jews, we say that we stand with the Palestinian people. Perverted Zionism is never Judaism, and the Zionist regime can never be representative of the Jewish people. Before the establishment of Israel, the Jewish community lived peacefully as neighbors with Muslims and Christians in the Holy Land. We pray every day for those beautiful days to come again. We stand with the Palestinian people. Israel does not represent Torah Jews. Israel is not the state of the Jews. Our hearts are shattered over the loss of so much innocent life. It pains us to the core how this is all carried out in the name of Jewish people. We want peace. We want to live in harmony. Like our grandparents did for centuries. May GD uplift the broken, heal the injured & finally bring upon peace to His world.

Trump officials claim, falsely, that they are splitting up families for the children’s benefit. motherjones.com/politics/202…

Amazon Web Services wants to release water from its data centers into Louisa County's natural water sources, including Lake Anna in Virginia “The draft permit on the table would give Amazon Web Services permission to release 280,000 gallons a day of cooling water from its data centers into Sedges Creek, which flows into Lake Anna. Amazon says it would only use this method during the hottest periods, which it predicts to be 4% of the year.” The most water is much warmer than the water it will be dumping into, this means with this much water it will likely kill the fish population and everything else adapted to the current environment Also Amazon says the water doesn’t touch servers but I found that doesn’t matter Treated Non-Contact Cooling Water: Does not touch servers directly but picks up metals like Zinc, copper, aluminum, cadmium This would be catastrophic

Israeli drones targeted me while I was clearly filming a report in an open space with all requirements (press signs on the car, vest and helmet with press signs, cellphones open and not doing anything else. I was told that Lebanese army was blocking the road somewhere, so i went there searching for where the Lebanese army is. I stopped at Arnoun-Yohmor-Kfartebnit roundabout because i didn't want to go further. I got outside my car, with my cameras in the cage and my microphone with PressTV logo. I was filming when the Israeli drones deliberately attacked where I was standing, and not my car. Two brave men were able to come to my rescue after about 15 to 20 minutes. I was trying to get away from my car as I was expecting they might retarget it. 6 shrapnels hit my body (1 right chest, 3 right leg, 2 left leg). I am better now. Targeting journalists is a war crime. I wish if any international legal side was able to benefit from this video to Glory to the resistance, our only hope in front of those zionist criminals.

🚨 BREAKING: Gavin Newsom Just Escalated His Fight With Trump’s Justice Department. Newsom’s office has formally requested emails, texts, memoranda, and Signal messages involving top DOJ officials that reference either Gavin Newsom or Jennifer Siebel Newsom. The request specifically names senior Trump Justice Department figures, including Pam Bondi, Emil Bove, and Todd Blanche. And it covers every communication from January 20, 2025, to the present.

St. Catherine's Monastery Library in Egypt is the oldest library in the world that's been continuously running. It was built back in the 500s under Emperor Justinian, right at the foot of Mount Sinai, a remote location that's really not easily accessible. That isolation is exactly what saved it. While wars, fires, and invasions wiped out pretty much every other big ancient library, this one survived. The monks were just trying to keep their community going, so they copied books for daily prayers, for teaching the younger monks, and for keeping records. Year after year, those practical copies piled up. What started as everyday stuff slowly turned into this incredible collection: early Christian writings, ancient Greek texts, medical books, and languages almost nobody speaks anymore. One of the craziest moments came in the 1970s when the monks were doing some repairs and found a hidden room stuffed with forgotten manuscripts. They call them the New Finds. A bunch of them were palimpsests, where someone had scraped off the original writing and reused the pages. Thanks to modern imaging tech, we've been able to read what was underneath: lost texts in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, even some early Christian hymns nobody knew still existed. It really felt like cracking open a time capsule inside another time capsule. The place is also home to the Codex Sinaiticus, one of the oldest complete Bibles we have, from the 4th century. Not a copy. The real thing. Finding it basically changed how scholars understood early Christianity. Think about it: this library has kept going through the rise and fall of empires, through Crusaders marching by, Ottoman rule, world wars, and modern politics. Just a handful of monks stubbornly keeping the lights on for nearly 1,500 years. That's why it's special. (Photo of the Saint Catherine's Monastery, looking down from Mount Sinai by Berthold Werner - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…)

There are tens of thousands of anti-Zionist Jews in America, yet the mainstream media won't acknowledges their existence. Take a look at this video. These are members of the Satmar Jewish community—an openly anti-Zionist Orthodox Jewish community that has opposed Zionism and the State of Israel for generations. Their loyalty is to the Torah, not to Zionist political movement. There are hundreds of thousands of Jews around the world who reject Zionism and do not identify with the State of Israel, but this reality is ignored by media outlets that present Israel as speaking for all Jews. Israel is not synonymous with the Jewish people. Zionism is not Judaism. Criticizing or opposing the State of Israel is not antisemitic. Source @authenttorahjew @TorahJudaism

Don’t believe Trump’s claim that he’s achieved victory in Iran. Compared to where we were on February 28, when he began this war, his so-called “deal” is a terrible failure.

The whole-of-government takeover by Israel is far worse than previously understood. America is handing over its most sensitive national security systems to Israel thru: - presidential memo NSPM-12 (01:18) - 5 Israel bills and (03:39) - Pax Silica. (05:36) This backdoor alliance floods US cyber, AI, crypto, and defense with Israeli tech, intel, and co-production while a known espionage powerhouse gains keys to the kingdom. (05:53) Sovereignty is being sold out. Secrets are now at risk of total compromise.

The Oglala Sioux Tribe strenuously opposes a possible visit to Mount Rushmore by Pres. Trump on July 3 and the federal plan to have a fireworks display there.

Both their parents have been detained since last fall—their dad at Alligator Alcatraz and then a detention center in Georgia, their mom at a federal facility in Arizona. Now, the Perez kids, all US citizens, have been on their own for months. motherjones.com/politics/202…

Justice for Jameson!

New: Billionaire Trump backer Jeffery Hildebrand’s Hilcorp runs old, low-producing “stripper wells,” and is one of the country’s largest emitters of methane, a greenhouse gas that can trap 80 times more heat than carbon dioxide. propub.li/3S8BMaF

Causeway sunset, New Orleans

In 2012, the people of Ireland were asked to choose their favorite painting in the world. They did not choose a Caravaggio, a Vermeer, or a Monet. They chose this: two lovers saying goodbye on a staircase... It is called Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs, painted in 1864 by Frederic William Burton. It is a watercolor, which makes its richness and depth almost impossible to believe, and it hangs today in the National Gallery of Ireland. The story comes from a medieval Danish ballad. Hellelil, a noblewoman, fell in love with Hildebrand, the prince who had been assigned to be her personal guard. Her father forbade it and ordered her seven brothers to kill him. When they attacked, Hildebrand killed six of them. At Hellelil's desperate cry, he spared the youngest, and that hesitation cost him his life. He died of his wounds. The surviving brother imprisoned her, and she did not live much longer... Burton could have painted the battle. He could have painted the deaths, the grief, the blood. Instead he chose the one intimate moment before all of it: the lovers passing on a turret staircase, stealing a final embrace, knowing what is coming. And every detail in the painting carries the weight of that knowledge. He does not seize her in passion. He bows his head and kisses her arm with a tenderness that is almost unbearable, because it is goodbye. She does not collapse into him. She turns to climb the stairs, her face hidden from him and from us, because to look back would make it impossible to leave. The Victorian novelist George Eliot saw the painting and described it perfectly. The face of the knight, she wrote, is "the face of a man to whom the kiss is a sacrament." And that is precisely why it has moved people to tears for more than a hundred and sixty years. It shows something that most of us have felt: not love at its beginning, when it is easy, but at the moment it must be given up, which is the moment that reveals everything it was worth. Burton understood that the most powerful thing he could paint was not the tragedy itself, but the last gentle second before it arrived, held forever in paint, so that the two of them never have to climb those stairs apart. Eliot, who was a friend of Burton's, captured it best: "It might have been made the most vulgar thing in the world, but the artist has raised it to the highest pitch of refined emotion." I started this newsletter because our predecessors left us extraordinary things, and almost no one teaches us about them anymore. Every week I try to. If that is something you would like to be part of, you can join here: James-lucas.com/welcome And if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible. Thanks for reading.

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