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Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.
If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.
The Gospel is much more than a book: it is Christ Himself, the Good News for humanity that is confused, deceived, and disappointed by many evils. He satisfies our thirst for justice and truth, and He instills in us the courage to persevere in doing good and to place ourselves personally at the service of our neighbor.
In 1959, 9 yo Ronald McNair was told he couldn't check out his books from Lake City's segregated library. He went on to become Karate champion, earned an MIT PhD in physics, and became a NASA astronaut.
Today that library is named after him.
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
This footage came from a home security camera inside a house in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The elderly man in the pajamas is Harold.
He’s 79 years old and lives with a progressive memory condition that sometimes causes severe nighttime confusion something doctors often call “sundowning.”
Late at night, Harold occasionally wakes up believing he still has somewhere important to be.
Work.
An appointment.
A meeting from decades ago.
He’ll quietly get dressed and head toward the front door.
Before last year, it happened several times a week.
Twice, he actually made it outside before his wife Carol could stop him.
Once, a neighbor found him wandering down the street at 11 PM wearing slippers.
The family tried alarms.
Harold learned how to disable them.
Then everything changed because of a dog named Samson.
Samson was a two-year-old Golden Retriever their daughter brought over temporarily after a housing issue.
Nobody expected him to become Harold’s nighttime guardian.
A few weeks after Samson arrived, Carol checked the security footage from the previous night after realizing she hadn’t heard Harold get up.
At 1:17 AM, the camera showed Harold walking slowly toward the front door.
But Samson was already waiting there.
Harold tried to move around him.
Samson stepped sideways and blocked the path.
Harold tried again.
Samson calmly repositioned himself a second time.
Then the dog gently took Harold’s pajama sleeve in his mouth and slowly guided him back down the hallway toward the bedroom.
And Harold followed him.
The family later showed the footage to Harold’s neurologist.
The doctor reportedly watched it twice before explaining:
“This is recognized redirection behavior used for memory-related wandering. The dog is doing it correctly — instinctively — without training.”
Now Samson sleeps at the foot of Harold’s bed every night.
When Harold was told what Samson had been doing for him, he looked at the dog for a long moment and simply said:
“Well… somebody has to look after things around here.”
Sometimes the right soul arrives at exactly the right moment.
And sometimes it walks in on four legs.
Please join us for the 29th Annual James Madison Lecture featuring bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick! Mr. Philbrick joins Dr. Jeffry Morrison to discuss “The Revolution at 250” on June 29, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. Attend in person or via livestream.
DISGRACEFUL: ICE agents tear-gassed U.S. Senator Andy Kim at Delaney Hall detention facility in NJ today!
Kim was supporting hunger-striking detainees protesting spoiled food, no medical care & extreme heat when federal agents unleashed tear gas & pepper spray. Kim struggled to breathe & injured his hand in the chaos.
Stephen Colbert was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. A fitting honor for a champion of our democracy.
RETWEET to congratulate Colbert on this honor!
Back in 1935, Hollywood studio execs were uncomfortable showing Shirley Temple holding hands with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson while dancing!
But Shirley Temple reportedly reached for his hand anyway! 💃🕺
On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to the brave men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country that we love. It is a debt we can never fully repay, but we must never stop trying. I’ll always be grateful to our fallen heroes and their families, whose sacrifice reminds us of what it means to live for something greater than ourselves.
Generation after generation, men and women put on the uniform knowing the risk — and went anyway knowing they might not come home. Knowing their families would carry that for the rest of their lives.
To the families still carrying that weight — I see you. The pain doesn’t go away, but neither does the pride.
Freedom has never been guaranteed. It has to be earned, defended, and sometimes paid for in the hardest way imaginable. Today on Memorial Day, we stop, we slow down, and we remember those who did.
We honor them.
We thank them.
And we work hard to live up to what they died for. Keep the democracy they believed in worth believing in. That is the ultimate tribute for their sacrifice.
“For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors.
The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life.
The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others.
His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.”
~ Chief Sitting Bull, Tatanka Iyotanka, Hunkpapa Lakota, (1831-1890)
this was so sweet. Stephen Colbert just ended his final episode of The Late Show while singing "Hello, Goodbye" with Paul McCartney. his family and the show's crew then joined them on stage before Paul turned off the lights to the Ed Sullivan Theater
An 88-year-old man named Vietnam veteran was about to lose his home. The entire case had gone to his aunt. He was just sitting in a wheelchair and watching, crying because he didn’t have the money to fix his home or pay the fines.
His wife, who had passed away due to old age, had left him alone; he had no son or daughter. The condition of his house was poor, the paint was peeling, and water was dripping from the roof onto a broken floor.
The city had warned him earlier that if he didn't pay the fines, his house would be seized.
When the court officer read everything to the city attorney, the old man became despondent and helpless, and he broke down crying upon hearing it all. He covered his face with his hands and cried.
When the judge saw this, he immediately called for a 15-minute recess.
During the break, the judge contacted a local veterans' fund and a contractor.
When the break was over, the judge read the decision: "Mr. Harris, all the fines and fees are waived by the court." He also said that a local contractor would repair his entire home for free.
The veteran, still crying, said, "I felt like no one cared about me." The judge replied, "We care about you; you have done a lot for our country."