Here lies the body of John Jay.
He died maintaining his right of way.
He was perfectly right as he ambled along,
but he is just as dead as if he was wrong.
• Burma-Shave
On September 20, 1973, singer-songwriter Jim Croce died tragically when a chartered twin-engine Beechcraft E18S crashed during takeoff in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He was just thirty years old.
The most heartbreaking part of the story arrived after his death. Just days before the crash, Croce had mailed a letter from the road to his wife, Ingrid, which she received after his passing. Weary of the grueling tour circuit and longing to watch their two-year-old son, A.J., grow up, Croce wrote that he was ready to retire from touring to focus on writing short stories, movie scripts, and living a quiet family life.
Do you remember hearing of this tragedy?👇️
Dr. Jesse McGuire’s trumpet stopped working during his National Anthem performance at the D-Backs game last night and OH WOW! The man has a voice! Well done Dr. McGuire!
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Back in 2003, a German film crew filming in the Gobi Desert captured an incredibly moving moment: after a tough two-day birth, a mother camel rejected her newborn. A nomadic family then performed the ancient Hoos singing ritual passed down for generations. Once the song ended, the camel shed tears and finally accepted her baby. This powerful scene became one of the most memorable parts of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Story of the Weeping Camel.
🚨 JUST IN: Footage has resurfaced of CNN's Brian Stelter FLOATING the removal of Fox News from the White House press pool under Biden in 2021 — same guy who is this morning MELTING DOWN that Trump removed CNN, MSNOW and POLITICO
"Fox should be viewed as a political tool? Should it be part of the White House press pool? The privileges that come with news gathering?"
Note how he framed it? He didn't say "this is an attack on the 1st Amendment!"
He called access to the White House a "PRIVILEGE" — NOT A RIGHT.
That's not his tone today, because it's Donald J. Trump who made the move.
The solution is VERY simple: you are free to lie on your own time. If you want access, STOP THE ENDLESS LIES AND PROPAGANDA!
NEW: DHS is responding to the video posted by Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) in front of the White House in which she criticizes Trump's immigration enforcement agenda as "going too far". Statement to @FoxNews:
“Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Mullin, there will be NO amnesty for illegal aliens. Not now, not ever. DHS is focused on delivering the most HISTORIC mass deportation campaign in American history—exactly as President Trump promised. Whether Congresswoman Salazar likes it or not, the men and women of ICE are enforcing the laws passed by Congress. To be clear: the only thing America should be giving illegal aliens is a one-way ticket home, or a generous $3,000 check for them to self-deport immediately. We will not ignore the rule of law.” -DHS spox.
I reread this every year.
I cry like a baby every year.
Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.
Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.
Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?
Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.
Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.
Lisa: Are you okay?
Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.
Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?
Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.
Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.
Lisa: I promise.
Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.
Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)
Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.
Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.
Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.
Lisa: What are you going to do?
Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.
Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.
In 2027, as the new face of the @WNBA, my first goal will be to encourage every player and every coach to stand for the National Anthem with their hands over their hearts.🇺🇸
#LetFreedomPlay
California has officially signed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” (AB 2624) into law. This bill was created only after I exposed widespread fraud in immigrant communities across America, specifically in California’s Medicaid, nonprofits and other welfare programs funded by our tax dollars.
These politicians need the fraud to continue and they sadly use immigrants to do so often. They fund nonprofits and NGOs with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year for immigration services, including free healthcare and have now made “immigration support service providers” essentially a protected class in California.
For example, if I film a hospice or a “learing center” with no patients receiving millions through Medicaid and the owner gives me a paper saying I cannot publish the video, I cannot publish it. If I publish it to expose them and they claim it caused them “fear” or a third party threatens them, I face a minimum $4,000 civil fine plus the legal fees of the individual or group suing me.
This bill was created by the Attorney General’s wife and co-sponsored by CHIRLA, a nonprofit that has received over $80,000,000 in taxpayer dollars for “immigrant support services.” Do you understand how this works yet? When the fraud is exposed, they create new laws to protect the fraudsters and penalize those who expose it.
By signing this bill, the Governor and California politicians expose themselves as the corrupt politicians they are. This is not the end, the fight has just begun. More to come soon, this is far from over.
The Trump White House is having a great run, and a great time!
@SecRubio’s birthday gift was a collage of his memes signed by the Boss.
Take a moment and appreciate what we have. 🤣
THE OP IN TURKEY
As someone who carried the nuclear football and oversaw White House military operations, I can personally tell you this AF1 decoy operation was textbook high-threat contingency planning.
Credible Iranian assassination threat → POTUS boards the legacy 747 in full view of cameras → slips out the far side into a catering truck → transfers to the C-32A while the jumbo jet flies as a decoy with press and staff aboard who thought he was with them.
Slick. Professional. Exactly how these things are supposed to work when the threat is real. Follow the plan.
The only people who should be upset are the ones who leaked highly sensitive operational details.
That compromise endangers future missions and the President himself. @PeteHegseth needs to hunt that down hard.
Protecting the Commander-in-Chief isn’t optional, regardless of political views. I worked for Clinton just as hard.
Well done to the teams that executed this. Shame on those who jeopardized his life for political favor. 🇺🇸