The father of the 10-year-old boy who was saved by lifeguard Ryder Williams in Santa Cruz says his son was seconds from dying.
Sumit Rai says his son, Nathaniel, lost consciousness during the incident & says his daughter is traumatized after witnessing what happened.
"Ryder's only 16 years old himself. He's a teenager and for him to take that kind of leadership and go out and have that type of courage and bravery to go out and save someone else's life is remarkable, and I cannot thank him enough," Rai said.
"We got lucky that he didn't die, but this outcome could've been very different. I am incredibly and extraordinarily grateful to the lifeguard. He's the only reason that my son is alive."
I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.
Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.
Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.
People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.
Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.
He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.
That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.
There is a name for it.
So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.
The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.
And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.
Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.
And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.
Just another joke at our expense.
I was watching a kid do every assignment on a Chromebook today, and it made me wonder if we’ve rushed to replace something that was never broken. Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but schools should bring paper and pencil back as the default. There’s something about physically writing things down that helps it stick. Not everything needs a screen.
Can we please go back to TV shows having 20 to 26 episodes a season?
I’m tired of getting 6 episodes, finally getting invested, then being told to come back in 3 to 5 years for the next season. By then I’ve forgotten half the plot and everyone looks 10 years older.
Candace Owens had the #1 podcast in the world and has maintained near top of the charts status ever since.
Andrew Kolvet managed to ruin The Charlie Kirk Show, which was once a regular top 5, if not top 3, podcast.
It was incredibly popular before Andrew took over.
Candace Owens also hasn't spent a dime on advertising.
The Charlie Kirk show still struggles to attract an audience, even though it spends thousands, if not millions, on advertising.
Andrew, your engagement has fallen off a cliff, not hers.
The truth will continue to win.
White men have these violent fantasies of unaliving anyone who touches their daughter, but then a rapist comes along and they vote for him and put his name on their trucks.
What people fail to understand about Candace is she is sitting on mountains of evidence and displaying incredible self control by slowly revealing it so that the guilty hang themselves with their own ropes. So much more to come
And there you have it.
Donald Trump released these documents tonight believing they would finally prove the 2020 election was rigged against him.
Instead, his own release reinforced the exact opposite: Russia interfered to damage Joe Biden and benefit Donald Trump.
The central @HunterBiden -Burisma bribery smear was built on fabricated claims from an FBI informant with Russian contacts, a man now serving six years in federal prison. Meanwhile, Hunter Biden is winning millions in court over defamatory lies.
Trump tried to expose a conspiracy against himself and accidentally exposed the operation that benefited him.
Absolute, breathtaking incompetence.
Thanks for releasing the receipts, Donald!
Hi Viva!
I’m the one who initially broke this story way back in January so I can help you out here. I reported that Tyler went to Panguitch and he ordered the a steak, medium rare, which came with a side of mashed potatoes and vegetables. He did not order any beer and I made it clear at that time that the cameras at the restaurant were inoperable, but that Tyler paid with his card. (I believe I said credit card—so I indeed stand corrected if it was debit instead. Credit and debit cards tend to look alike, so forgive the mistake).
The receipt you are looking at is real and reflects my reporting. Tyler Robinson did not leave until approximately 10pm that evening.
Outside of a bullet train, it’s going to be a tough sell to explain how he could have possibly made it back to Orem shortly after midnight in time to be pulled over.
Going to have to drop a lot more cash on overwhelmed influencers and bodycam crashes, I suspect.
Great work @DiligentDenizen following up on this story. As we all know, there will be more to come!
BREAKING: Shocking new reporting shows that the ICE agent who murdered Johan Guerrero in Maine is “extremely mentally ill” and has a LONG history of violence, including brutally beating his wife and kids and throwing boiling water at his infant child, but was given a badge and a gun anyway!
They’re hiring the worst of the worst…
There’s no wonder why people are getting shot if this is the quality of person that ICE is putting on the street in their Gestapo squads.
Ashley Brouillette, the ex-wife of ICE killer David Brouillette, revealed his deeply disturbing past to the media after he called her and asked her to lie for him. She would not.
She revealed that he “once threw boiling water at her while she was holding their child,” which was confirmed by her mother Avis Collins.
His SECOND ex-wife – red flag right there – “alleged that he had stalked and harassed her and physically and verbally abused his daughter, according to multiple requests for temporary protection orders. Brouillette tackled his teenage daughter and smashed spaghetti in her hair, and during another outburst, he dragged his daughter around the house as she cried, she said.”
He once left his ex-wife a voicemail that said “And all of you should have your f——–g throats cut. Yeah, you should. Am I threatening that I’m gonna do that? Nope. Nope. But do I think that you should have your f——-g throats cuts? Or should have had them cut? Yep.”
A relative said that David was “extremely mentally ill” and said he attempted suicide twice at age 12 and was hospitalized multiple times. His daughter said that she came home from school once and he told her he had been sitting on a tree stump with a gun to his head.
This is the kind of person that Donald Trump is giving a gun to and sending out on the street to terrorize innocent people. It just goes to show that they are doing ZERO vetting and don’t care at ALL about who dies as a consequence.
David Brouillette needs to face justice for murdering Johan – but so does everyone up the chain who put him in a position to kill, because this man should NEVER have been allowed anywhere near a firearm.
The abuse the ex wife of the Maine ICE agent details in NPR interview is horrifying, including a 2022 police report of throwing his 13 year old daughter through a coffee table, a voice mail from last year saying her throat should be cut, and pulling a gun on her in the shower. She questions if ICE runs even a basic background check on recruits.