There are moments when words feel inadequate, and today is one of them.
What happened at Bondi is heartbreaking beyond measure. An Australian place woven into our collective sense of ease and freedom became the setting for fear, loss, and unimaginable pain. My thoughts are with those who lost their lives, with their families and loved ones whose worlds have been shattered, and with all who were injured or traumatised simply for being there.
I think, too, of the bystanders and beachgoers… people who went to the shore seeking the simple pleasures of an Australian summer, and who instead were confronted with violence no one should ever have to witness.
I want to express particular sorrow and solidarity with the Jewish community, who had gathered peacefully to celebrate Hanukkah. A festival centred on light, faith, and endurance was met with hatred. That reality is devastating. Jewish Australians should never have to question their safety when practising their faith or celebrating their culture in public.
This tragedy is not occurring in a vacuum. Antisemitism has been allowed to grow louder, more visible, and more brazen, and the consequences of that failure are now painfully clear. When hatred is not firmly confronted, it does real harm. Actual harm.
Today is for mourning. For honest reflection and for recommitting ourselves to decency, responsibility, and the protection of one another… especially those who are targeted simply for who they are.
May those who were lost be remembered with dignity. May those who are suffering find strength and support. And may we not look away from the truths this day demands we face.
Spare Harry’s journey: From prince to soldier, then socialite, then his wife’s prop, and now America’s personal jester and the world’s favorite punchline.
Says the man who did a six hour Netflix documentary dramatizing his royal life. He is the drama. He is the trash of the family. And trash took itself out.
Harry is continuing his paid speaking circuit and is continuing to ridicule his family .
Harry jokes the Royals are like Downton Abbey, but the TV show has LESS drama.
Harry IS the drama! He’s got nothing of substance to say. He’s a performing monkey.
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Meghan Markle flew back to Uvalde on March 2024 to present a birthday cake to the sister of a teacher who was tragically killed during the school shooting
Meghan reached out to the family 2 DAYS after the massacre in 2022
Thomas Markle Sr has yet to hear from his daughter