This is the part they don’t play.
Melissa Doi. 32. 83rd floor. South Tower.
“I feel fire.”
Then she makes sure her mother hears it anyway:
“Tell her I love her so much. I love her. She was the best mother a person could ever have.”
An only child. They told her to go back upstairs. She almost got out.
Never forget her name. Never forget who did this.
Please pray urgently for the daughter of some friends of ours. She fell 12 feet yesterday at a trampoline park and broke her back in three places. She also has compressed discs and damaged ligaments in her neck. Her name is Lauren. She’s 9 💔
The total cost of Kawhi Leonard signing with the Clippers:
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Jalen Williams
10 first-round picks
2 first-round pick swaps
Freaking unreal.
Adam Silver you still have one more situation to resolve.
You and the NBA knew about Terry Rozier being under investigation for gambling for a whole year before he got traded to the Miami Heat.
Give one of the five first-round picks you took away from the Clippers and compensate the Heat.
Staten Island man struck by lightning while walking to a dentist appointment.
Thomas Fahmy says he is grateful to be alive and went to church on Sunday to thank God for giving him another chance.
"Once the lightning bolt struck me, the initial sensations that I had throughout my whole body were completely unprecedented; tingling, numbness, pain, just I feel this burning sensation."
"No burns. I had multiple body exams; no burns at all. I went to church on Sunday to say thank you, God."
@bennyjohnson Just goes to show, you can do everything right, go to the right schools, get a great job, and still be killed by a 3rd world cave troll while walking in New York.
Stay out of blue cities.
Dear Sane America,
Yesterday in Times Square, Pamela Cisneros, 49, of Queens, treated Seventh Avenue like an all-you-can-stab buffet. She looked like an over-stuffed burrito waddling around, pulled two kitchen knives out of a Target bag, and in about twenty seconds stabbed a 68-year-old man and then Erin Piacenti, 32. Erin died. The man lived. Cisneros then waddled toward police with both knives still in her hands, ignored every order to drop them, announced she’d rather kill the officers, shrugged off the tasers, and kept coming. So they shot her. And now, this is the part that apparently requires a think-piece...we never have to worry about her stabbing anyone else. Ever. See how easy that is? One afternoon of random murder in the middle of the most filmed intersection on the planet, a four-minute conversation that went nowhere, and then the problem is permanently solved. No ankle monitor. No “she’s struggling with her mental health” press conference six months later after the next victim. Just done.
Now imagine, just imagine....if we treated the rest of them the same way. Imagine we actually locked these people up when they stab strangers, or swing knives at cops, or keep proving they cannot be left around other human beings. Imagine we didn’t release them because the jail is “overcrowded” or because a judge thought a stern talking-to plus a bus token would do the trick. Imagine that when someone is in the middle of killing people in public and refuses to stop, we sometimes just kill them instead of hoping the taser works this time.
The results would be almost comically simple. Fewer people would get stabbed in Times Square. Fewer families would be identifying bodies at Bellevue. Tourists could walk past the ball-drop building without wondering whether the next person with a shopping bag is about to start a collection. Repeat offenders would spend their time in cells instead of back on the street collecting new victims. And the ones who keep coming at police with weapons after they’ve already drawn blood would, occasionally, not get a second chance. It would be boring, really. No more “unprovoked double stabbing” headlines every other month. No more body-cam footage of officers begging someone to drop the knife while civilians scatter. Just a lot of dangerous people sitting in prison, and a much smaller number of them no longer breathing because they chose to keep attacking after they were told to stop.
Apparently that’s the controversial part. Not the part where a woman is dead on the sidewalk because someone decided other people’s lives were optional. The controversial part is the idea that we might actually remove the people who keep doing it. Cisneros doesn’t get to stab anyone else. That’s the whole point. It wasn’t complicated. It wasn’t a failure of social services in that moment. It was a woman who looked like an over-stuffed burrito waddling around Times Square with two knives after she’d already killed someone. They stopped her the only way left. See how easy that is when you stop pretending the alternative is compassion?
Já deixando claro que:
O 3º episódio de #Lanterns não diz em momento algum que Hal Jordan recebeu o anel simplesmente por ser branco
Tanto que os Guardiões deixam claro que eles nem sequer compreendem essa questão racial na terra
O pai de John Stewart simplesmente falhou no teste e ele e a esposa preferem culpar os outros pela própria incapacidade, projetando em John a necessidade de ser o Lanterna perfeito
O episódio está explorando justamente essas diferenças de percepção e como elas se relacionam com o medo. Isso não transforma Lanterns em um discurso político; é simplesmente uma camada de comentário social inserida na história
Jonathan Sia was only 23 years old and just one week away from graduating when he was hospitalized with a kidney disorder.
After being intubated, he could no longer speak. In his final moments, his father said Jonathan began gesturing as though he could see someone.
He handed him a pen and paper, and although Jonathan was barely strong enough to hold it, he managed to write three words: “Jesus is real.”
Seconds later, his heart stopped. Jonathan passed away with a smile on his face.
Rest in peace.
Klay Thompson on Miami Heat players reaching out to him after he joined the team:
“Andrew was the first one because he’s the only one that had my phone number…Bam just reached out to me, D-Mitch…I saw Pelle in Spain. To see his work ethic, I didn’t know I’d be his teammate but I was very impressed.”
THE VIBES ARE AMAZING