Leading up to the birth of my first child, I remember having two main things on my mind: the fear of childbirth and dreading sleepless nights. And, let’s be clear — those were both valid concerns. However, along with the feedings and diaper changes to interrupt my sleep, I also found myself lying awake with another sense of dread: realizing just how much money you end up paying for a newborn baby.
A recent BabyCenter survey found that parents can expect to spend $20,384 on baby-related costs in the first year of their kid’s life (which, in “no, duh” news, also contributed to 89% of moms saying finances impacted their mental health). It’s a stress I was reminded of all over again as we welcomed our second kid this year.
The cost of bringing a newborn into the world goes far beyond baby gear. You’re looking at things like insurance, hospital bills, college savings, and more. According to the experts, these are the major financial things to plan for when you have a newborn.
Budget for essentials: hospital bills, health insurance, and basic needs
Budgeting for the essentials is key when it comes to not going into sticker shock when your newborn arrives. According to Michelle Paiva of The Finance Therapist, some of the basics worth saving for are “health insurance costs, hospital bills, and a little cushion for unexpected doctor visits.” You’ll have 30 to 60 days after your child’s birth to register them for health insurance during a Special Enrollment Period (because you didn’t have enough going on, right?).
From there, diapers, clothing, cribs, car seats, and feeding supplies will make up the core of your first major purchases. “If you can, start a small savings account for your baby’s future — it doesn’t matter if it’s $10 at a time; the habit itself builds confidence.”
Paiva recommends saving up for three to six months of basic expenses as a goal. However, if that seems high, something is always better than nothing. “Even $1,000 tucked away can give you breathing room,” she says. “What matters most is not a magic number — it’s having a plan and knowing you can adjust as you go.”
All the insurance
Life insurance for yourself and your partner can help protect your family, putting financial resources in place if (knock on wood) anything were to happen to either of you.
Disability insurance is another consideration, as it provides financial support if one or both parents are unable to work due to a severe illness or injury. Depending on your plan, this can help cover essentials like mortgage, childcare, and household expenses for a certain period of time.
Legal stuff: savings account, a trust, updated will
Sophoan Prak, a certified financial planner at Vanguard, shared the importance of estate planning and guardianship when welcoming a newborn to your family.
“Estate planning entails the creation of legal documents to specify your wishes for your assets in the event of your passing or inability to make decisions for yourself,” Prak shares. “It can involve setting up a trust, selecting beneficiaries for retirement accounts and life insurance policies, and how you transfer ownership of your assets. For underage children, it’s crucial to designate a guardian who can raise your child if you’re unable.”
Childcare costs
“Childcare is often the biggest shock, sometimes costing as much as a mortgage,” Paiva explains. I know for my family, having two working parents required finding childcare options early — and I’m likely not the first person to stress how expensive it can be. The cost of our daycare for two kids is not far off from the majority of my salary, something my husband and I had to account for and plan for when deciding whether I should stay at home or not.
College savings
While not all kids may choose to pursue college after high school graduation, it’s never a bad idea to have money set aside for if they do.
“Start investing in your child’s future goals now,” Prak advises. “While school might feel far off, it will be here before you know it. Opening a 529 savings plan, which is a tax-advantaged savings account, can be a great way to get a head start on saving for your child’s education. These accounts offer tax benefits, high contribution limits, easy gifting options, and flexibility — in fact, you can utilize a 529 for K-12 expenses, trade school tuition, college expenses, including room and board, and even for studying abroad.”
Unexpected costs
According to Prak, more than half of parents report spending $1,000 or more annually on unexpected costs. In my personal experience, that number has probably been even higher. From unexpected hospital visits to supplies we didn’t know we needed (who knew an infant could be so picky with a bottle type?), we spent a lot more in our first year than we had planned to.
“Consider saving a minimum of $2,000 or at least half a month of expenses for spending shocks, and 3-6 months’ worth of expenses — if you can swing saving a larger sum — in case of income loss,” Prak recommends.
The court’s conservative majority said they had upheld the landmark law, as liberal justices accused them of gutting it. In striking down a Louisiana voting map as a racial gerrymander, the court opened the door for other states to redraw their maps.
The Florida House of Representatives on Wednesday.Credit…Mike Stewart/Associated Press
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The Florida House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to approve an aggressive new map that would redraw the state’s congressional districts and could give Republicans up to four new seats.
The vote came about an hour after the Supreme Court issued a decision limiting a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act; the case was the main justification that Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, used to redraw Florida’s map.
Martin Luther King III assailed the ruling as weakening “the crown jewel of the civil rights movement,” a reference to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In a statement with his wife, Arndrea Waters King, he said the ruling went beyond a legal setback and was “a moral indictment that reflects a continued retreat from the promise of equal justice.”
“While future courts may address this ruling, the damage is immediate,” the Kings said, “and this moment demands that we choose whether to accept the erosion of our democracy or stand together to defend it.”
Voters casting ballots in Miami in 2024. Gov. Ron DeSantis has pushed a new map that would give Republicans more House seats. Credit…Scott McIntyre for The New York Times
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Perhaps nowhere in the country was the timing of the Supreme Court decision more dramatic than in Florida, where just as the ruling was announced, state lawmakers were debating an aggressive new congressional map that could give Republicans up to four additional seats.
In the State House, Democrats called for a two-hour break to digest the decision. Republicans disagreed and raced to pass the map. In the State Senate, the Republican Senate president briefly paused the proceedings to give lawmakers a little time to read the court decision.
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A series of rulings by the justices has weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times
Hmmmm … Fusion reactors produce Helium, which is a useful byproduct.
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On Tuesday, a fusion energy start-up announced that it has applied to join a U.S. power grid—a first that could one day see households and businesses powered by nuclear fusion.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is looking to join a power grid that is operated by PJM Interconnection and provides 182,000 megawatts of power to more than 67 million people living in 13 states and Washington, D.C. But technical hurdles to bringing fusion online remain—one major obstacle is actually producing a stable fusion reaction that generates more energy than it consumes.
The application process requires a potential energy provider to provide extensive technical information to the grid operator, including descriptions of the planned fuel type. In Commonwealth’s case, the company is developing a tokamak reactor design that uses high-powered lasers and powerful magnetic fields to combine two isotopes of hydrogen—deuterium and tritium—in a process that mimics the nuclear reactions in the sun. The promise of the device is that a fusion reaction could feasibly generate limitless clean energy. That energy, in the form of heat, is used to boil water into steam, which then pushes a turbine to produce electricity.
Much of that process remains theoretical, however, because physicists have yet to prove that fusion can work as a large-scale power source. Recent results from Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X demonstrated it could contain superheated plasma for 43 seconds. And its rival, the Joint European Torus, was apparently able to accomplish that feat for a full minute before its reactor was retired in 2023. While such capabilities are impressive, there is still a long way to go before a fusion device could be connected to a grid. Commonwealth plans to open its first power plant, called ARC (for “affordable, robust, compact”), in Virginia in the early 2030s. And the company aims to demonstrate an initial model, called SPARC (for “smallest possible ARC”), in 2027.
Commonwealth has demonstrated some success: The company’s toroidal field magnet technology was validated by the Department of Energy in September 2025. The superconducting magnets generate the magnetic field that is used to contain the high-temperature plasma generated by a fusion reaction. But Commonwealth has yet to test the full system.
Commonwealth co-founder and CEO Bob Mumgaard said in a statement that the company is committed “to delivering the benefits of fusion, and enabling a future with abundant, secure energy, [which] means that we’re not just proving fusion physics works—we’re showing exactly how fusion power plant watts get from our machine to the customer, working with the grid and a utility.”
“By becoming the first fusion energy developer to enter a major grid operator’s interconnection queue, we’re demonstrating that when you’re serious about building a power plant in the early 2030s, you act now,” he said. “This is execution.”
Commonwealth’s application will likely take years to be approved; the company will navigate a complex process that will include several impact studies and other analyses, as well as reviews of the its capabilities, readiness, safety controls, and other compliance.
PJM Interconnection did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Breastplates have dotted the battlefield since the 1300s, but it took until 1969 for them to appear on the runway. Yves Saint Laurent—who took inspiration from fine arts throughout his 40-year career—tapped sculptor Claude Lalanne to combine sculpture and fashion. In his fall 1969 couture collection, two models walked down the runway, moulds of their bodies worn on their dresses.
From then on, designers have offered their own renderings of the breastplate: armor-esque replicas, chiselled abs and perky breasts, and smooth, hard bodices among them.
Greta Lee in Issey Miyake at 2026 SFFILM Festival Opening Night. Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images
Zendaya in Tom Ford at the 2020 Critics Choice Awards. Photo: Getty Images
Rihanna performing in Loewe at the 2023 Super Bowl Half-Time Show. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
In the decades after Saint Laurent, the breastplate has remained ever-popular: Thierry Mugler, a notable fan of the look, sent Jerry Hall down his 1980 runway in a moulded corset with a flowing skirt; in 2022, Jonathan Anderson offered multiple interpretations, from muscleman abs to gold-plated organic sculptures at Loewe. But there was perhaps no bigger enthusiast than Alexander McQueen, who worked a wide variety of breastplates into his many collections across Givenchy and his namesake brand.
Although breastplates aren’t de rigueuer in street style, fashion-forward celebrities are also on board. Zendaya arrived at the 2020 Critics Choice Awards in a magenta Tom Ford body cast, while Rihanna hit the Super Bowl stage in another Loewe by Jonathan Anderson molded creation. And just this past weekend, Greta Lee attended the opening night of the 2026 SFFILM Festival in a glossy mahogany Issey Miyake. They’ve also retained their popularity on the runway, from longtime proponents like Miyake to newer talents like Grace Ling.
This year, the 2026 Met Gala, “Costume Art,” places fashion on the same lofty pedestal as fine art media. The breastplate, with its history as a hybrid of fashion and sculpture, serves as a reminder that the two are more connected than we often think. Below, revisit some of the breastplates that have walked the runways, from 1969 through 2026.
King Charles III on Tuesday delivered an optimistic assessment of American-British relations at what is arguably their lowest point in decades, telling a joint meeting of Congress that the two countries had always found a way to come together.
“The very principle on which your Congress was founded — no taxation without representation — was at once a fundamental disagreement between us, and at the same time a shared democratic value which you inherited from us,” the king said. “Ours is a partnership born out of dispute.”
True to form, King Charles has devoted a large chunk of his speech to environmentalism and “the natural wonders” of the United States. He spoke about what Teddy Roosevelt called “the glorious heritage of this land’s extraordinary natural splendor, of which so much of its prosperity has always depended.” This has been his life’s great passion.
Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, sits unmoved, looking toward the dais, as the king mentions trade relations between the U.S. and Britain.
“We celebrate the $430 billion in annual trade that continues to grow; the $1.7 trillion in mutual investment that fuels that innovation; and the millions of jobs on both sides of the Atlantic supported across both economies,” King Charles says, adding that “these are strong foundations on which to continue to build.”
King Charles notes that Britain and the U.S. have supported each other in “two world wars, the Cold War, Afghanistan, and moments that have defined our shared security.” He then says, “that same unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine.” His comments are notable given it comes as Trump has insulted the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, questioning his leadership and lack of support for the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.The subtext of this part of the king’s speech: Climate change is real, and NATO matters.
The king says that the same unified support for the United States in the aftermath of Sept. 11 attacks “is needed for the defense of Ukraine and her most courageous people — in order to secure a truly just and lasting peace.”
Many of the themes the king has mentioned — the foundations of democracy, the assurances of checks and balances, and how thoughtful debate strengthens the legislative process — land at a time when this Congress has ceded much of its authority to President Trump.
Lawmakers have spent much of this session battling through gridlock and dysfunction to get anything passed. Even today, it is unclear if a host of large legislative priorities around national security, agriculture, and food assistance, will be able to pass before critical deadlines.
On the morning of April 14, 2026, at Cotswold Airport in southwest England, a test pilot rose straight into the air. He was testing the VX4—an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, or air taxi—built by the British firm Vertical Aerospace. During the test, the VX4’s eight propellers lifted it like a drone. Then the four front propellers tilted forward, and the aircraft accelerated, no longer hanging on its rotors like a helicopter but cruising on its wings like a small airplane. Moments later, it reversed the sequence: the propellers tilted back up, and the aircraft decelerated, returned to a hover, and landed vertically on the same pad it had left.
In completing this test, Vertical—founded in 2016 and based in Bristol—accomplished one of the hardest feats in eVTOL development: its prototype changed from flying like a helicopter to flying like an airplane, then back again. But a prototype is allowed to fly because a regulator has agreed it is safe enough to test. A certified commercial aircraft, meanwhile, has to be safe enough for strangers to buckle their children into it.
Vertical is among the first Western developers to demonstrate piloted transition, but the April flight also matters because of the regulatory context. Other developers have flown to prove the technology works; Vertical is trying to build a case for certification. “The significance of this flight is that it has been achieved in a way that is aligned with the certification pathway from the outset,” says David King, Vertical’s chief engineer. In other words, Vertical is getting closer to the actual business of running an air taxi company.
King’s journey to eVTOLs began with his work at Boeing in 1989, on a military aircraft called the V-22 Osprey. The Osprey was the first production tiltrotor—an aircraft with propellers that can swivel on their mounts, pointing up for vertical takeoff and tilting forward for horizontal flight. For most of the next three decades, at Bell and then at Italian aerospace firm Leonardo, King worked on civil tiltrotors, the passenger-carrying cousins of the Osprey.
King decided to join Vertical in 2023 because the VX4 is essentially a tiltrotor with electric motors. “The beauty of the tiltrotor is it takes you less than a minute from the time you apply power to cruising on a wing,” he says. “The basic magic of being able to transition from thrustborne to wingborne is proven.” What remains is to tune the system to carry different loads in varied weather and on different routes.
Daniel Pleffken, an assistant professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida, who specializes in aircraft certification, is more measured about what the flight proves. “A successful flight shows that something can work,” he says. “Certification requires proving that it works safely, consistently, and under all expected conditions.” The aircraft still must accumulate evidence from failure tests, repeat flights, and design reviews before regulators will let it carry passengers.
Vertical’s situation is unusual. Since 2023, the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has overseen every test flight of the VX4. Most eVTOL companies fly their prototypes under research flight licenses, but the data they produce don’t count toward certification. Vertical flies under an arrangement that has been accumulating evidence toward certification for three years. “We are demonstrating to the regulator that we have the engineering capability, design assurance processes and internal governance required for full type certification,” King says.
The other two Western developers that have flown piloted transitions, California-based Joby Aviation and Vermont-based BETA Technologies, have done so under the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) experimental permit system. Chinese developers have moved faster—EHang received the world’s first eVTOL type certificate from Chinese regulators in 2023—but under a regulatory framework that Western airlines and aviation authorities don’t treat as equivalent. An experimental permit lets you fly, but does not build the same certification file. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), whose eVTOL rules the CAA has adopted, built a single new rule book. The FAA, by contrast, is certifying eVTOLs by stitching together rules written for small airplanes and helicopters. The European framework “is generally clearer because it was designed specifically for this class of aircraft,” Pleffken says.
But clarity, Pleffken stresses, isn’t the same as leniency. “The FAA, CAA, and EASA are using different regulatory architectures, but the underlying safety intent is not necessarily lower in one system than in another,” he says. The European system is cleaner to navigate because its rule book was written for eVTOLs from the start—but that makes it a clearer test to study for, not an easier one to pass. Vertical’s test flight counts, in other words, because the company has been studying for the right test, with the proctor in the room, for three years.
Even certification would not solve the whole problem. An air taxi is just one piece of a transportation infrastructure that barely exists yet. “The main constraint is increasingly the operational ecosystem, not just the aircraft,” Pleffken says. “Vertiports, charging infrastructure, airspace integration, pilot training, maintenance, and operational procedures all need to mature together. If one element lags, the entire system lags.” Vertiports are purpose-built takeoff and landing pads with chargers and air-traffic coordination—essentially, tiny airports scaled for aircraft the size of a large SUV. Few have been built. The air-traffic rules for how dozens of these aircraft will share low-altitude urban airspace with helicopters, drones, and one another are still being written.
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Vertical Aerospace’s VX4 electric aircraft flies during a piloted transition test flight on April 14, 2026. Vertical Aerospace
The California teacher and engineer accused of opening fire outside the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner believed it was his duty to target Trump administration officials, according to a note he sent family members about 10 minutes before the Saturday attack.
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, who lives in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance, is the armed suspect federal authorities subdued near the packed ballroom at the Washington Hilton, where President Donald Trump and other White House officials gathered with journalists, a federal official familiar with the case told NBC News.
Allen was armed with a shotgun, handgun, and knives when he rushed a security checkpoint and ran toward the ballroom where the black-tie dinner was being held, authorities said. He exchanged gunfire with law enforcement and was tackled to the ground.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday that authorities believe “the suspect traveled by train from Los Angeles to Chicago, and then Chicago to Washington, D.C., where he checked into the hotel where the correspondents’ dinner was at in the last day or two.”
The suspect’s writings
Just moments before the attack, Allen sent family members a note apologizing to his parents, colleagues, students, bystanders, and others for what he was about to do, according to a transcript of some of Allen’s writings provided to NBC News by a senior administration official.
“I don’t expect forgiveness,” Allen wrote. “Again, my sincere apologies.”
In the note, Allen criticized Trump without mentioning him by name. He wrote about lax security at the hotel, saying he had expected more.
He also described his “expected rules of engagement,” writing: “Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.” He appeared to be referring to FBI Director Kash Patel.
Later, he added: “I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.”
The senior administration official said that Allen’s brother contacted the New London Police Department in Connecticut when he received the note.
The department confirmed being contacted at around 10:49 p.m. Saturday, just over two hours after the shooting, “by an individual who expressed concern about the incident that occurred at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner earlier in the evening.” Police contacted federal law enforcement, and the caller was interviewed by authorities.
Allen’s sister told the Secret Service and Montgomery County Police after the shooting that her brother had a tendency to make radical statements, and he had referred to a plan to do “something” to fix the issues with today’s world, the senior administration official said.
A Bluesky account believed to belong to Allen and verified by NBC News included recent posts or reposts that were critical of Trump and his administration’s policies, as well as of the U.S. war with Iran and Russia’s war with Ukraine.
Described as a ‘borderline genius.’
The suspect, who was not shot but was taken to a local hospital, is expected to be charged in federal court on Monday. In a press briefing shortly after the attack, Trump called the suspected shooter a “whack job” and a “lone wolf.”
Public records and interviews show that Allen was a trained engineer who once interned for NASA, and participated in the Nerf club and Christian fellowship at his prestigious California university, before more recently developing video games and working as a part-time teacher.
Allen attended Pacific Lutheran High School in Gardena, California, where he was known for his inquisitiveness and intellect, a former volleyball teammate told NBC News. While he had not seen Allen recently, he remembered Allen as a “borderline genius” and “super stable.”
“Other people study hard,” said the ex-teammate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear it could affect his career. “He didn’t have to study. It would just come to him. He was really, really smart.”
Before he embarked on a cross-country journey, Cole Tomas Allen offered the people in his life a series of explanations for his absence, according to writings that the authorities say he left behind.
He had a personal emergency, he told his colleagues and the students he was tutoring. He told his parents simply that he had an interview.
But Mr. Allen appears to have had a much different and much darker plan when he set out on a train from California to Washington, according to two senior law enforcement officials who say he is now in custody, accused of charging through security outside the White House Correspondents’ dinner and opening fire.
Now, those who knew Mr. Allen are struggling to reconcile the man they knew with the shocking act of political violence that he has been accused of perpetrating.
The suspect, who the authorities have not publicly named but who was identified by the two officials as Mr. Allen, 31, of Torrance, Calif., is expected to be charged with multiple crimes in a court appearance on Monday.
The writing the authorities attributed to Mr. Allen bounced between remorse for the deception of friends and family and gratitude for a lifetime of love and support. In it, he displayed outrage at the policies put in place by the White House, and alluded to allegations of sexual misconduct, saying that he is “no longer willing” to allow a “traitor to coat my hands with his crimes” — an apparent reference to President Trump, though the writing does not mention him by name.
The two law enforcement officials who shared the writings with The New York Times asked not to be named because they had not been authorized to disclose the information.
It was uncertain on Sunday whether Mr. Allen had obtained legal counsel, and close relatives declined to discuss his arrest or did not respond to requests for comment.
The writing said the suspect had come to the Washington Hilton looking for members of the Trump administration.
“Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest,” the writing reads, apparently referring to Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director. It was not clear from the writing why Mr. Patel was mentioned by name.
The language seemed foreign to Mr. Allen’s neighbors, former classmates, and tutoring clients in Torrance, a suburb of Los Angeles. There, the home he shared was swarmed shortly before midnight Saturday by a S.W.A.T. team from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Mr. Allen was a registered “no party preference” voter — the California equivalent of an independent. His sole political contribution in available records appears to have been $25 to the campaign for Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee in the fall of 2024.
“He seemed like a completely average guy,” Max Harris, a senior at a local high school who had been tutored for several months by Mr. Allen, said late Saturday night as he stood near the crowd of federal authorities and onlookers who had gathered outside the modest, two-story house where Mr. Allen lived in Torrance.
“Like, I never would have expected anything like this from a guy like him.”
Mr. Allen was listed as a tutor with C2 Education, which issued a statement Sunday that said they were cooperating with law enforcement. “Violence of any kind is never the answer,” the organization said.
The authorities have said that the suspect in the Saturday attack was taken into custody shortly after charging through a security checkpoint and exchanging gunfire with federal law enforcement officials inside the Washington Hilton. He was armed with knives, a shotgun, and a handgun, authorities have said.
The suspect is initially expected to be charged with two counts of using a firearm and one count of assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon, Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said on Saturday. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday in Federal District Court, and additional charges are expected, she said.
Mr. Allen was born the oldest of four siblings in Los Angeles County.
As of Saturday night, Mr. Allen’s father was listed online as an elder at Grace Torrance, which describes itself as a Protestant church in the Reformed tradition.
In 2013, Mr. Allen enrolled at the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, an elite research university in Pasadena, Calif. At that time, according to federal data, Caltech admitted less than 11 percent of its undergraduate applicants.
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Investigators worked outside the California home of a man who is being held in connection to an attack at the White House correspondents’ dinner. Credit…Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press
Necessary for a presidential candidate to be able to read or even write even a congenital idiot can run for the presidency of the United States of America and serve if you were elected “
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Proverbs 27:22
New Living Translation
22 You cannot separate fools from their foolishness, even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.
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EVIL PEOPLE
They had been long accustomed to do evil. They were taught to do evil; they had been educated and brought up in sin; they had served an apprenticeship to it, and had all their days made a trade of it. It was so much their constant practice that it had become a second nature to them. – Matthew Henry
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king, the palace instead becomes a circus. — Turkish proverb,”
Hmmmmm…History is repeating itself yet again!
Isaiah 59:14
New Living Translation
14 Our courts oppose the righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth stumbles in the streets, and honesty has been outlawed.
Jeremiah 5:21
New Living Translation
21 Listen, you foolish and senseless people, with eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear.
This sounds just like today’s World although it was written about Israel in Babylonian captivity.
History repeats itself
Isaiah 59:9-15
New Living Translation
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So there is no justice among us, and we know nothing about right living. We look for light but find only darkness. We look for bright skies but walk in gloom. 10 We grope like the blind along a wall, feeling our way like people without eyes. Even at brightest noontime, we stumble as though it were dark. Among the living, we are like the dead. 11 We growl like hungry bears; we moan like mournful doves. We look for justice, but it never comes. We look for rescue, but it is far away from us. 12 For our sins are piled up before God and testify against us. Yes, we know what sinners we are. 13 We know we have rebelled and have denied the Lord. We have turned our backs on our God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies. 14 Our courts oppose the righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth stumbles in the streets, and honesty has been outlawed. 15 Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who renounces evil is attacked.
The Lord looked and was displeased to find there was no justice.
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