On October 31, 1991, a 79-year-old Mary Anne MacLeod Trump stepped out of her Rolls-Royce on Union Turnpike near her home in Jamaica Estates, Queens, when a 16-year-old mugger grabbed her purse and threw her to the ground, and what followed was not just a violent crime but the event that quietly reframed the entire final decade of her life and revealed how her son, the real estate billionaire Donald Trump, actually showed up when it mattered for the people he loved. Mary Anne's purse contained $14. She refused to let it go. The mugger beat her on the pavement, breaking her ribs, fracturing multiple bones, causing a brain hemorrhage, and inflicting permanent damage to both her sight and her hearing, injuries from which she never fully recovered.
A bread-truck driver named Lawrence Herbert witnessed the attack, chased down the teenager, and held him until police arrived. The assailant later pleaded guilty to robbery and assault and received a sentence of three to nine years in prison. Donald Trump subsequently tracked down Lawrence Herbert and sent him a personal check specifically intended to keep Herbert from losing his home to foreclosure, a quiet, direct, and entirely unpublicized act of gratitude for a man who had saved his mother.
Mary Anne spent the last nine years of her life significantly diminished by that attack, her vision and hearing permanently impaired, surviving her husband Fred by approximately a year before dying on August 7, 2000, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, at age 88. She had come to America 70 years earlier with $50, worked in other people's mansions, married a builder from Queens, raised a future president, and in the end was mugged on her own street for $14, her Rolls-Royce parked just feet away. The death notice in the Stornoway Gazette, the newspaper of her Scottish hometown, read simply that Mary Ann Trump, aged 88, was the daughter of the late Malcolm and Mary MacLeod of 5 Tong, the fishing village she had left at 18 and never stopped belonging to.
The real dessert served at the state dinner with King Charles. A chocolate beehive gâteau with honey, vanilla custard, and almond sponge. A true celebration of honey.
Thank you Bret Baier for snapping the pic.
Understand this: The movies and shows about the crucifixion have been tame when compared to what He actually went through.
Even The Passion Of The Christ was forced to hold back a little in order to avoid an X rating.
Crucifixion was, and still is, arguably the most excruciating death someone can experience.
The night before in Gethsemane, He was sweating blood. This is known as hematidrosis. This would have caused His skin to become extremely sensitive, thus making the beatings to come even worse.
The fear He felt was the beginning of His feeling the weight of our iniquities being laid on Him.
Yet - in this moment, He didn’t demand that the Father take it from Him. He only asked for the cup to pass Him over if it was within the Father’s will.
Up next came the Cat of Nine Tails, or a Roman Flagrum. This was a weapon with long leather “tails”, each embedded with sharp bones and metal.
He was flogged 39 times as Jewish law mandated “40 minus one”, because 40 was said to kill a man.
This flogging wasn’t like being punished by your father’s leather belt.
Every strike tore flesh, every strike exposed muscle. Every strike exposed nerve endings. Every strike tore flesh to the bone.
This would be like getting struck with razor blades over and over again, leading to hypovolemic shock from blood loss.
Oh, and the crown of thorns? These weren’t rose thorns. These were thorns which were 2-3 inches long. Beaten into his skull.
These thorns would have pierced his skull, tripping the trigeminal nerve, thus causing unimaginable pain and even more blood loss from the dozens of head wounds.
At this point, extreme nausea and dizziness would begin to set in.
What came next? Carrying the cross. Which weighed around 300lbs. This would be like carrying two full kegs on your back.
Splinters and wood grating against the open flesh on His back. And He had to carry it 650 yards, or close to a half mile.
Imagine carrying a log on your back after being skinned alive.
Up next? He was nailed to the cross with spikes 5-7in in length. Piercing His wrists - this no doubt pierced the median nerve, causing extreme burning sensations up and down His arms.
A spike was driven through his ankles - severing nerves and tendons. This would have felt like standing on broken glass every time He pushed Himself up in order to breathe.
He suffered for 6 hours.
His chest muscles collapsing, making every single breath a fight for life.
His shoulders were dislocated, His arms stretching unnaturally long.
His heart was struggling to pump blood.
He was extremely dehydrated, His lips cracking.
His heart more than likely literally ruptured from the stress.
And on top of all of that, He had to feel a separation with the Father for a period of time in order to REALLY bear the weight of our sin.
He took up this burden for ALL sin before Him, and ALL sin which came after Him.
HE DID IT ALL FOR US.
To free us. To defeat sin. To give us a pathway to the Kingdom.
Every sin we commit is exactly why He had to do it.
And the real kicker? He knew what was coming when He rode into Jerusalem … and He didn’t turn around. He kept going.
For us.
🚨 OMG. President Trump is TOYING with them now 😭
REPORTER: Iran threatened US tech companies
TRUMP: With WHAT? What did they threaten them with? BB guns? They don't have much left to threaten. 😂
REPORTER: My question for you is—
TRUMP: YOU made a statement. What did they threaten them with? I don't know. Tell me. How did they threaten them?
REPORTER: All I know is that they threatened them, sir
TRUMP: What does that mean?
REPORTER: Fair enough
TRUMP: They said something nasty?
REPORTER: Are you helping the companies?
TRUMP: You don't even know what the threat WAS! What was the threat? I haven't heard it. What was the threat? Did they say they're going to blow them up? You know what they're not going to do? They're not going to hit them with a nuclear weapon!
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Mind blowing: Tesla & SpaceX just announced the TERAFAB project: >1 Terawatt of AI compute per year. 80% for space, 20% for Earth. If successful, this isn't just a new chip, it’s the hyper-commoditization of AI hardware. Here is the math on how this breaks the cost curve. 🧵👇
To model the price crash, we use Wright’s Law: every time cumulative production doubles, unit cost drops by a constant percentage. The formula is Cₓ = C₁ · x^(log₂(P)) Instead of scaling by 100x like rockets, Terafab aims for a 10,000x scale compared to current foundries. 📉
Right now, flagship AI chips are scarce (~millions/year), so cumulative doublings take time. Prices stay high. If Terafab hits 150B+ units annually, volume doubles in months. Per-unit cost violently compresses down to the raw cost of silicon & energy. 💥
Why send 80% of this compute to space? Because once chip cost approaches zero, the ultimate bottleneck is electricity. Earth’s grid can’t handle Terawatts of new load. Space offers unfiltered, 24/7 solar energy. No grid constraints. ☀️🛰️
esla builds the chips at unprecedented scale. SpaceX launches the orbital data centers. This shifts AI from bespoke, power-constrained Earth data centers to an industrial-scale orbital infrastructure. 🌌🔋
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Verified: Shooting at Riverfront Live (4343 Kellogg Ave, Cincinnati East End) ~1 AM today during DJ Fresh birthday concert. 9 shot: 1 critical, 5 stable, 2 released at UC Med; 1 at Good Samaritan. No deaths reported. 29 shots fired. No suspects named; ATF assisting. Isolated incident. Mayor: "senseless mass shooting." Police presser at 2 PM. Original 13 count appears incorrect.