To help us understand what this concept means, it might be helpful for us to outline 4 things that saving grace is NOT and 4 things that saving grace IS.

This is gonna be pretty damn cool to witness

A kitten appeared outside a house. She happened to be the stepsister of a cat saved just weeks before. They share a heartwarming connection. Baby and FeliciaSparkleCatRescueA young cat, about three months old, wandered into the perfect place for help when she squeezed under a fence into a yard. Helen, the homeowner, noticed the cat's watery eyes and congested nose and knew she needed immediate attention and care.She contacted Sparkle Cat Rescue for assistance and rushed the cat, who was running a high fever, to the vet. After spending a night at the clinic, the cat, Felicia, was placed in round-the-clock care to aid in her recovery.Following several days of supportive care, Felicia began to show signs of improvement and woke up one morning with renewed energy. FeliciaSparkleCatRescueStephanie Grantham, the founder of the rescue, was thrilled to see that Felicia had devoured the food she'd left out the night before. "And she was hungry for more. It's warming my heart and soul to know she's turning a corner for the better," Stephanie shared with Love Meow.With Felicia on the mend, it was time to start socialization and daily cuddle sessions. "Each day, she's grown stronger and stronger." SparkleCatRescueA week after Felicia arrived at the rescue, Stephanie received a call about a tiny kitten, only a few weeks old, found lying on a neighbor's porch (near Helen's home). The kitten bore a striking resemblance to Felicia, and they realized the two likely shared the same father."Her look-alike, the much younger stepsister, was found in very poor condition. How she got there, we don't know." BabySparkleCatRescueHelen gently scooped up the kitten, Baby, and headed straight to the vet. Upon seeing how tiny and fragile Baby was, weighing under a pound, Stephanie offered to take her in and provide the urgent care she needed."Baby was at a critical stage at that point, and the first few hours she was in my care were rough. The thing she had going for her was a good appetite, and she ate wet food on her own." Within 48 hours, Baby's eyes brightened upSparkleCatRescueBaby cried throughout the night whenever Stephanie left the room after tending to her. Within 48 hours, her eyes brightened up, and she regained her strength, bouncing back on her paws, ready to play and explore.Meanwhile, Felicia continued to build her courage around people. She adored other cats and found comfort in their presence. It became clear she would need a feline companion for life. BabySparkleCatRescueOnce Baby had fully recovered, she was reunited with her sister, Felicia.Baby immediately felt at ease with her sister, while Felicia was enchanted by the kitten's boundless energy and curiosity as she inspected every corner of the room. Felicia and Baby were reunitedSparkleCatRescueNow, they spend their days playing together, with Baby leading the way in their games, stirring up all kinds of mischief and encouraging Felicia to join in the antics.Felicia is quite shy, but having Baby around gives her the reassurance she needs to try new things. They play together every daySparkleCatRescueThrough Baby, Felicia has discovered the joy of playing with toys and gained confidence by watching the kitten engage with people.Baby will soon move to her foster-to-adopt home, and Felicia will tag along, embarking on their new adventure together. Baby is the leader, showing her older sister the joy of playSparkleCatRescue"Baby's adopters have agreed to foster Felicia also since she is really coming out of her shell having her bubbly sister to play with."With Baby's playful presence, Felicia is slowly lowering her guard around people, trying to emulate her joyful sister during their daily escapades. Felicia is slowly coming out of her shellSparkleCatRescueThe two will never have to worry about another day, now that they have loving people to cater to their every whim. Baby has more than doubled her weight since she was rescuedSparkleCatRescueShare this story with your friends. More on Felicia, Baby, and Sparkle Cat Rescue on Instagram and Facebook.Related story: Cat Runs Up to Guy Trailing Him Home, Shortly After He Finds Tiny Kittens in His House

Is Pittsburgh Still Stronger Than Hate?

NewsGuard’s co-CEO advocated financial censorship and sneered at the American principle of free speech in a recent interview. During a C-SPAN appearance June 9 to promote his new book, The Death of Truth, NewsGuard co-CEO Steven Brill sneeringly and hypocritically pontificated about those who “actually believe in reality, and people who don’t.” Brill mourned the fact that anyone can post online without censorship from “gatekeepers,” making  the following shockingly anti-free speech statement: “The idea that everybody can have an opinion, [for instance] about who won the election … I think that is a dangerous idea.” While touting himself and NewsGuard as online arbiters of truth versus “misinformation,”  Brill himself made glaringly inaccurate statements. “The conservatives argue that the social media platforms veer to the left, when, in fact, all the data I’ve ever seen says that they seem to favor right-wing voices over left-wing voices,” Brill absurdly asserted. Yet multiple MRC Free Speech America studieshave shown that right-leaning voices are targeted for censorship more than leftist voices. MRC has repeatedly exposed NewsGuard for its leftist bias. In our most recent study conducted in Dec. 2023, Brill’s organization heavily favors left-leaning media sites (average score 91/100) over right-leaning sites (average 65/100). At another point in the interview, Brill dismissed censorship of the Great Barrington Declaration, a 2020 document signed by over 60,000 experts that critiqued  COVID-19 protocols, alleging, “The notion that that was suppressed, it wasn’t suppressed. It’s just people just looked at it and said ‘that’s totally bogus.’”  Yet The Twitter Files exposed how Big Tech specifically targeted the declaration and its co-authors. Brill also attempted to downplay the aggressive censorship led by legacy media, government and Big Tech against the COVID-19 lab leak theory, which he now admits to be “totally legitimate.” He did not acknowledge the harsh censorship of free speech because of the left’s initial rejection of the theory, as evidenced in MRC’s CensorTrack database. One caller referred to 51 intelligence experts falsely labeling the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation before the 2020 election—a claim that Brill himself promoted at the time. While Brill did not address this caller’s reference, when a second caller brought up the topic again, the NewsGuard co-CEO could no longer ignore it. Brill did admit to having made a mistake previously.  “I really screwed up … I basically said what the intelligence experts said, which is, ‘Gee, this sounds to me like it could be Russian disinformation.’ I then added, ‘But my opinion doesn’t matter. What matters is what the facts are,’” Brill claimed. Brill’s exact quote at the time was to call the laptop a “hoax perpetrated by the Russians.” The so-called experts to whom Brill referred, falsely and without  evidence, stated that the laptop of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son was Russian disinformation just prior to the 2020 election. Vice President of MRC Free Speech America Dan Schneider slammed Brill’s record of misinformation about the Hunter Biden laptop. “When pressed to answer a serious question, Brill had to admit that he was dead wrong about the Hunter Biden laptop,” Schneider said. “Brill’s NewsGuard, however, pretends to be an unassailable arbiter of online reliability. Yet more hypocrisy from NewsGuard’s Steven Brill.” Throughout his interview, indeed, Brill argued that supposed expert consensus should always be prioritized over free speech, despite making contradictory or false statements more than once. Brill even advocated for financial censorship regarding speculations about COVID-19 vaccine-induced deaths, quoting medical experts whom even Brill was forced to admit had been wildly wrong about some Covid-19 recommendations like not touching cardboard for days. “There is no way that any social media platform should be free … just to publish that stuff and get the associated advertising revenue,” Brill claimed of the vaccine debate, smugly suggesting that C-SPAN should divide callers not based on political views but on “who, you know, actually believe[s] in reality.” 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 so-called “hate speech” and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using MRC Free Speech America’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

All 49 Republican senators have signed onto a statement declaring support for access to in vitro fertilization."Senate Democrats have embraced a Summer of Scare Tactics—a partisan campaign of false fearmongering intended to mislead and confuse the American people. In vitro fertilization is legal and available in every state across our nation. We strongly support continued nationwide access to IVF, which has allowed millions of aspiring parents to start and grow their families," the statement declares.'Republicans are hypocrites, which may be worse in this case than Democrats, who are simply open about their support of destroying babies.' Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, has previously expressed support for IVF access."Like the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of Americans, including the VAST MAJORITY of Republicans, Conservatives, Christians, and Pro-Life Americans, I strongly support the availability of IVF for couples who are trying to have a precious baby," he declared in a post earlier this year.But BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey has previously called out Republicans for claiming to be pro-life while endorsing unrestricted IVF access."On the one hand, pro-life Republicans say they believe babies have the right to life. They'll even say life starts at conception," she noted in a March tweet. "On the other hand, many of these same pro-life Republicans adamantly support unrestricted access to IVF, which has resulted in the destruction, abandonment, and indefinite freezing of millions of embryos over the past several decades.""Yes, Republicans are hypocrites, which may be worse in this case than Democrats, who are simply open about their support of destroying babies," she declared. "I can’t stand the dissonance, the duplicitousness, the dishonesty. I can’t stand politics. Babies have a right to life. Period.""I have talked to many IVF moms - wonderful, Christian mothers who love their children - who only now realize the quandary they’ve placed themselves in. They have embryos frozen on ice, and they don’t know what to do. Discarding them feels wrong. Allowing them to be frozen indefinitely while paying the fee feels wrong. Adopting them out to a couple who may not share their beliefs and may mistreat them feels wrong. There's no easy answer, and they weren't warned about this when they went through IVF to begin with. No one warns parents about these heartbreaking ramifications. Few consider the ethics of this from the embryo's perspective," Stuckey noted. — (@) Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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