Daniel Epright

[𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖓𝖎𝖊✨ @Bennieeexyz]

My husband got a cease and desist letter from our HOA over a blanket fort, and now half the street is building their own out of spite.

It started small. Couch cushions, some string lights, a fort for our kids in the backyard for one weekend. The HOA called it an "unauthorized temporary structure" and gave us 72 hours to remove it.

Husband: "It's made of bedsheets."
HOA letter: "Structures of any material require approval."

He didn't take it down. He added a second room.

Neighbor Dave saw it over the fence and built his own the next weekend, bigger, with actual PVC piping. Then the Hendersons did one with battery-powered fairy lights and a working doorbell. Within a month there were six blanket forts on our street, each one slightly more elaborate than the last, all technically illegal.

The HOA sent a mass email demanding "immediate compliance across multiple properties."

Nobody complied.

It turned into a full-blown neighborhood tradition, forts standing every weekend all summer, kids running between them like it was some sanctioned event. The HOA eventually called an emergency meeting specifically about "temporary fabric structures," which is a sentence I never thought I'd type.

They lost the vote 14 to 3.

My husband framed the original cease and desist letter and hung it inside the fort like a founding document.

He calls it "the constitution."

The kids have no idea what it says. They just know you have to salute it before you're allowed inside.

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

🚨 New details revealed about who was behind Maria Bartiromo’s departure from Fox.

Ralph Giordano, Fox Business SVP of Programming, reportedly instructed Maria’s producers NOT to cover President Trump’s upcoming primetime speech on election integrity and China on her show.

Maria disagreed.

She wanted to cover the story because Americans deserved to know what the President actually said. They deserved the chance to hear his message and judge it for themselves.

She reportedly screenshotted Giordano’s directive and sent it to the White House.

The White House called Fox.

And suddenly, Maria was the problem.

Her executive producer was also let go.

After 12½ years, Fox parted ways with Maria. No goodbye. No farewell. Her name was stripped from the shows almost overnight.

Fox calls it a “business decision.” Her attorney says reports that she was fired are “absolutely and unequivocally false” and says they have the “receipts and witnesses.”

Whatever happened behind the scenes, Maria did what she believed journalists should do: stand her ground and fight to get information to the public.

President Trump called her a true warrior.

Maria Bartiromo proved exactly why.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

On 2nd September 2010, an 89 year old woman died alone in her flat in Torquay, England.

To most people around her, Eileen Nearne appeared to be simply a quiet elderly woman living an unremarkable life.

Then they began going through her belongings.
They found medals. They found wartime documents.
And an extraordinary story began to emerge.

Nearly seven decades earlier, Eileen had been a British secret agent operating behind enemy lines in Nazi occupied France. She was just 23 years old when she was sent into France in 1944 as an agent of Britain's Special Operations Executive.

Her job was incredibly dangerous.
Eileen worked as a clandestine wireless operator, transmitting secret messages between resistance networks in France and London.

Every time she switched on her radio, she risked discovery. German direction finding teams hunted illegal transmitters, and wireless operators could be captured if they remained on air for too long.
Eventually, they found her.

In July 1944, German security forces raided the house from which Eileen was transmitting. She was arrested and interrogated. Her captors wanted to know who she was working for and what she knew.

Eileen refused to reveal the truth. Instead, she maintained a cover story, claiming she was an innocent Frenchwoman who had been sending messages for a businessman.

She was tortured. She still did not give them the information they wanted. Eileen was eventually sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious concentration camp for women, and later transferred to another camp where she endured forced labour.

Then, as Nazi Germany collapsed in 1945, she escaped during a prisoner transfer. After everything she had survived, Eileen made her way through Germany while hiding from enemy forces until she finally reached safety.

She returned home after the war.
And then she largely disappeared from public view.
For decades, many of the people living around her had little idea what the quiet woman in their neighbourhood had once done.

When Eileen died on September 2, 2010, there was initially concern that she might receive a simple council arranged funeral because no close relatives were immediately known.

Then her wartime possessions were discovered.
The forgotten elderly woman had been anything but ordinary.

She had been parachuted into occupied France.
She had transmitted secret messages while the Gestapo hunted people like her.
She had been captured.
She had survived interrogation, imprisonment and a concentration camp.
And she had escaped.

Eileen Nearne had carried one of Britain's most dangerous wartime jobs when she was only 23 years old. Most of the world only learned the full extent of her remarkable story after she was gone.
Today, we remember Eileen Nearne.
1921–2010
R.I.P.

[Cielo 🇺🇸🇵🇷 @CieloBonit]

Fox News gives Maria Bartiromo the treatment “talent” like Jessica Tarlov deserves. Maria is an actual journalist with an impressive, trustworthy career. Jessica is a spoiled brat with a rich daddy who sits there, lies, and slanders innocent people daily. Maria is one of the few true journalists left, if not the last. The more I think about it, the more upset I get. In a world overflowing with wimpy Jessica Tarlovs who cry when Trump says “mean” things about her (in her own words), be a Maria Bartiromo, and I sure as hell hope you stand by her too. I’m beyond pissed about this mess and have zero reason to ever watch Fox again. They are in bed with China just like every other traitor who turns on Trump. They showed their ass when they called the 2020 election super early for Biden, and they showed us again. Shame on us if we keep making them money.

[SparksN123 @SparksN123]

Wake up all y’all.

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

Eric Trump just shut down the White House ballroom critics.

“I’m in hospitality. I’ve built some of the most incredible ballrooms in the world. What’s being built at the White House will stand alone. Give it a few years and the loudest opponents are going to feel like idiots.”

Then he went further:

“I know every inch of that ballroom. I know every piece of marble that’s getting selected. I know the columns, I know the chandeliers. And I know the heart and soul my father has put into it.”

This is not a talking point. This is a builder talking about a building.

While the media screamed “vanity project,” they demolished the East Wing, poured the foundation, and started raising a 90,000-square-foot complex with Corinthian columns, marble selected by the President himself, Italian-carved limestone, 40-foot ceilings, and space for a thousand guests.

Critics called it a joke.

Eric’s message is simple: wait a few years. Then look at it. Then decide who the idiots were.

History is being built in stone. The people yelling the loudest won’t be the ones standing in it.

[CRIXUS @CRIXUSwasHERE]

WHO AGREES👇WITH JAMES?🤔

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

It's common sense.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

The mom that raised the BEST President in American history.

[elise1029 @eliseOLeahy1]

You called the flight attendant.

Said you felt “uncomfortable.”
Said my dog looked “dangerous.”
Asked why a German Shepherd like that was even allowed to fly.

Ma’am, let me introduce you to Duke.

That “dangerous” German Shepherd spent six years deployed as a Military Working Dog alongside U.S. Special Operations. He wasn’t trained to intimidate civilians — he was trained to come home with everyone.

Duke is a certified Multi-Purpose K9.

Tracking hostile targets through desert heat that melted boot soles.
Detecting explosives before they became folded flags on grieving mothers’ laps.
Clearing compounds before young soldiers ever stepped through the door.

He’s been shot. Twice.

And he never broke command.

That scar on his shoulder you keep staring at? Shrapnel from an IED overseas. After the blast knocked him off his feet, ears ringing, body bleeding, Duke got back up and swept the perimeter. He located two secondary devices hidden along the exit route before his handler physically carried him out.

The limp you noticed when we boarded? That came from taking rounds during an ambush so his handler — a 22-year-old soldier on his first deployment — could make it home, hold his newborn son, and build a life outside a war zone.

Duke has military commendations.

He has a Purple Heart.

Official after-action reports credit him with saving more than forty American lives.

Know what else he has?

Zero bite incidents.
Not one. Ever.

The “intense look” you’re afraid of? That’s discipline.
The stillness that makes you uneasy? That’s control.
The size that worries you? That’s the same strength that dragged wounded men to safety.

The only people Duke has ever been trained to engage were armed combatants actively trying to kill U.S. service members.

Right now, he’s retired.

Twelve years old.
Arthritis in his hips.
Still scans every doorway out of habit.
Still positions himself between me and strangers without thinking.

He’s not scanning you because he wants to hurt you.

He’s scanning because once upon a time, if he didn’t, people died.

So no, ma’am — I won’t be changing seats.

He’s allowed to fly.
He’s earned every mile in this cabin.

But if you’d like to say something, you’re welcome to say thank you.

Trust me.

He’s heard far worse — from people who were actually dangerous. 💙🐾 🐕‍🦺🐕‍🦺

[Kortney ❤️ @KortneyGlavin90]

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[Sophie Cunningham @Sophiecunnin7]

Love you all 🥰

[helen henning @helenckh]

Maria has hired a lawyer. If this goes to trial, it could expose a lot FoX would like to keep secret.

[The Epoch Times @EpochTimes]

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This eye-opening documentary breaks down the long-running plan to weaken America from within — and what Americans can do to respond. Watch now on The Epoch Times.👇

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

We’re all pretty pissed, Mr. President !

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

Mel Gibson just said what many Americans are thinking.

There was a time when this country stood firmly united against communist ideology because we understood the threat it posed to individual freedom, limited government, and the American way of life. Today, we’re watching politicians openly embrace socialist and communist-inspired policies while too many leaders in Washington remain silent.

This isn’t about living in the past. It’s about recognizing the direction we’re heading and deciding whether we want to change course.

America needs leaders willing to defend constitutional principles, protect individual liberty, and put the interests of Americans first. That’s the America worth fighting to preserve—and restore. 🇺🇸

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

A seven-year-old boy in Tokyo was walking home from school.
He looked down at the sidewalk.

A 10-yen coin. Worth about seven cents.

He picked it up, turned around,
and walked two blocks to the local police box — the Koban.

Watch what happens next.

In most places, an officer would laugh,
pocket the nickel, and tell the kid to run along.

Not here.

The officer pulled out an official document.
He knelt down on the wooden floor so he was eye-to-eye with the boy.
With a straight face and full seriousness,
he asked for the child's name, the exact location found,
and the exact time.

He stamped the form.
He handed the boy a formal receipt.
Then he bowed from his knees and said:
"Thank you for doing the right thing. Japan is safer because of you."

Last year, people turned in over 4 billion yen in lost cash
to Tokyo police stations.
Over 70 percent went back to its rightful owners.

You don't get that kind of society by accident.

You get it by treating a seven-cent coin
like the honor of an entire country.

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

This was filmed last Monday morning at Veterinary Clinic in Richmond, Virginia.
The officer is Sergeant Paul Greer. He's 44 years old with the Richmond Police Department.
The dog is a nine-year-old German Shepherd named Kodak. Paul's K9 partner for eight years.
Paul and Kodak were paired when Kodak was fourteen months old. They went through sixteen weeks of handler training together in Chesterfield County. They worked patrol, search operations, and community events together for eight consecutive years. Paul estimates they logged more than eleven thousand hours on duty together.
Kodak retired from active service fourteen months ago when his health began declining. He went home with Paul, as K9 partners typically do when they retire. Paul converted the back bedroom into a dog room. Kodak slept on a memory foam bed beside Paul's side of the bed.
Over the past several months, Kodak's condition worsened gradually. His mobility declined. His appetite became inconsistent. Paul's veterinarian, Dr. Sarah Malone, had been monitoring Kodak carefully through regular visits and was honest with Paul each time about what she was seeing.
Last Sunday evening, Paul sat with Kodak on the back porch for a long time. He called Dr. Malone afterward.
The appointment was Monday morning at nine.
Paul wore his uniform. He told his wife he wasn't sure why, exactly. It just felt right. Like Kodak had always known him in it. Dr. Malone and her technician gave Paul as much time as he needed. He sat on the clinic floor with Kodak in his arms for a long time before Dr. Malone prepared anything.
Paul's wife stood in the corner filming quietly. She knew Paul would want to remember it.
Paul was holding Kodak close, talking to him quietly, when Kodak did something that made everyone in the room go still.
Kodak lifted both front paws. Slowly. With great effort. And placed them on Paul's shoulders.
He held on.
Paul pulled Kodak closer and pressed his face into Kodak's neck. Neither of them moved.
Dr. Malone paused. Stood completely still. Her technician stepped back.
The room was completely quiet.
Paul stayed there holding Kodak for a long time after that.
Dr. Malone told us: "In twenty-two years of practice, I have never paused during a procedure. I paused Monday morning. That dog raised those paws with everything he had left. That was not a reflex. That was a goodbye. And I wasn't going to rush it."
Paul's department honored Kodak with a formal tribute on Tuesday. A post on the department's community page has been shared over forty thousand times.
Paul told the department chaplain: "Eight years on the street together. Through everything. And at the very end, when he could barely move, he lifted his paws and held on. He was telling me it was okay.
That we were okay. I'll carry that for the rest of my life."
*Some partnerships are bigger than the job. Some goodbyes carry more love than any words ever could.”

[Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt]

“For 40 years Iran built a ring of fire around Israel. The jewel in the crown was Hezbollah. Hezbollah’s own jewel was the complex it dug into the Ali Taher range—the closest base of that caliber to the ‘little Satan.’

Yesterday, it fell to the IDF.
Twenty years in the making, with Iranian help and enormous expense, the base contained command-and-control rooms, weapons and supply depots and field clinics, all buried 30 to 50 meters into solid rock. Just ten kilometers from the Israeli border, with a clear view of the Litani and the Israeli Hula Valley, it was the place from which Hezbollah intended to coordinate its own October 7 in the Galilee.”

—@AmitSegal in today’s “It’s Noon in Israel” newsletter (free to subscribers. Available at Amit’s website.)