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[Dittie @DittiePE]

Michael Whatley — GOP Senate nominee in North Carolina, former RNC chair — had a registered sex offender give the opening prayer at a recent campaign stop. Pastor Daimon L. King, twice convicted (1998 and 2010) for offenses involving children, asked God to bestow "integrity and honesty" on the room and right the wrongs "hammered down on the conservative movement." The event was hosted by the Craven County Republican Party.

Whatley's campaign says he didn't know King and didn't organize the guest list — but this isn't a one-off. Whatley also has ties to Harvey Lee West Jr., another convicted sex offender, who West himself says Whatley appointed to NCGOP leadership roles (the Plan of Organization Committee, the 1st Congressional District Committee) during his time as party chair from 2019 to 2024. West pleaded guilty in 2000 to offenses involving three minors.

Pedos, rapists, Nazis. The Republican Party, ladies and gentlemen.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Jon Husted’s Ohio Senate campaign just fired its political director after WaPo revealed he participated in this batallion that’s a replica of Hitler’s personal guard & used Nazi soldiers as his profile pic.

This is grotesque—why do Nazis keep finding a home in Republican ranks?

[Harry who @HarryJoebanks34]

#NeverForget

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Last night, the President of the United States went on live TV and told his supporters to vote even if they weren’t registered and to “cheat like hell.” At the same event, the crowd shouted that Democratic candidates should be shot during Ted Cruz’s speech.

How the fuck is any of this being treated as normal?

[Reich-Wing Watch @ReichWingWatch]

🚨BREAKING: A Georgia sheriff’s sergeant who posed for the cameras with a “God & Family” sign just got sentenced for horrific crimes against a child in his family.

Meet Michael Scott Dorough, 46 — a former sergeant with the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office. He was arrested in March after Jones County investigators, with help from Bibb County, built a case charging him with inc*st, first-degree cruelty to children, child m*lestation, aggravated child m*lestation, and influencing witnesses.

Dorough pleaded guilty — but only to three counts of inc*st. The m*lestation charges were dropped as part of the plea deal. He was sentenced to 60 years, with the first 30 to be served in prison, and he must register as a s*x offender.

The victim is a female juvenile family member he had s*xual intercourse with between Jan 2024–Dec 2025, which resulted in a pregnancy and a birth.

His wife, Ashley Dorough, 40, was charged alongside him with first-degree cruelty to children and influencing witnesses. She also pleaded guilty, but as a first offender under Georgia law, meaning her record is sealed.

Ashley’s Facebook, meanwhile, features “faith” posts about Philippians 4:13, and a beach photos with the husband she was helping cover for.

The Ocmulgee DA’s office said the plea brings some measure of justice and closure to the victims and their families.

Do you think the sentence was fair? Let us know what punishment you think fits the crimes in the comments below.

[BigBlueWaveUSA2026® 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇦 @BigBlueWaveUSA]

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos fired a disproportionate number of journalists who wouldn’t support Trump & right wing propaganda.
So they founded a NEW newspaper to fight disinformation from the Trump regime.
Welcome & support the *The Washington Sun*
(and stop using Amazon)

[SayMay @saymaysmith]

In the past 48 hrs, Biden with stage iv cancer has:

1. Arrived in NY carrying his own bag
2. Attended 9/11 mass
3. Attended granddaughter’s bday
4. Attended 9/11 ceremony

And STILL has more energy than Trump!

[Katherine Barts @RFuryNews]

Donald Trump welcomed Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to The White House as honored guests. One is a walking human rights violation who runs the country most suspected of providing aid to the 9/11 hijackers, and the other is a former leader of Al-Qaeda. And Trump smiled and posed for a picture between them.

But please, tell me more about how Zohran Mamdani attending the memorial at Ground Zero is disrespectful to the victims.

[Joseph Puopolo @jpuopolo]

One of the remarkable pieces of history from September 11, 2001: 🇨🇦 Canadian Ambassador to NATO David Wright was the first person recorded in NATO’s own account raising Article 5 that day.

As the scale of the attack became clear, Wright reminded his American counterpart that this was exactly what an alliance was for: an attack on one could be treated as an attack on all.

Within 24 hours, NATO invoked Article 5 for the first — and still only — time in its history, in defence of the United States. 🇨🇦🇺🇸

Twenty-five years later, that is worth remembering. When America was attacked, Canada didn’t hesitate to remind the Alliance of its obligation to stand together.

That is what allies do. 🤝

#September11 #NeverForget #CanadaUSA #NATO #Article5 #Allies

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Does it not bother anyone else that the male reporters just stand there & watch like when Trump was asked a legitimate question by Journalist Rachel Scott & he lunged forward making a strange growling noise & then gets in her face while berating and pointing at her?

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

They refused to bathe. They refused to salute. They poached deer from an English lord's estate and used their washing water ration to cook it.

The night before D-Day they shaved mohawks and painted their faces like warriors.

Then they jumped into Normandy on one of the deadliest missions of the invasion.

This is the story of the Filthy Thirteen.. 🧵 1/7

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Someone said it isn’t suicide like we know of it. That they were dying either way. They just chose how. Heartbreaking.

[CSPAN @cspan]

Former Canada Prime Minister Jean Chrétien: "I have message for American friends...never mistake our generosity for weakness. Never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness...We bow to no one."

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Jack Smith: "I'll give you an example from my own life. I resigned as special counsel. I knew I needed a lawyer because the president had publicly said he wanted me imprisoned for doing my job. So I hired lawyers, and as soon as it became public, the president and the DOJ targeted that law firm simply because they don't want me to have a lawyer. They don't want anyone to represent me..."

[Voices From Vietnam @VoicesfromNam]

If you own a copy of We Were Soldiers Once... And Young, you are already holding a picture of him. The soldier on the cover, bayonet fixed, coming out of the elephant grass, is Rick Rescorla. Hal Moore called him the best platoon leader he ever saw.

He was born in Hayle, Cornwall, in 1939, a boy who watched American GIs stage through his town before Normandy and decided that was the life. British Parachute Regiment first, then Cyprus, then a uniform from a country he was not yet a citizen of. He joined the US Army in 1963 and by November 1965 he was a lieutenant in the 7th Cavalry in the Ia Drang Valley, the first major battle between American troops and the North Vietnamese Army. His men called him Hard Core. He came home with a Silver Star, a Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster, and a Purple Heart.

Then he became a corporate security director, which is where the story actually starts.

In 1990 Rescorla and an old Vietnam friend named Dan Hill walked the World Trade Center looking at it the way two infantrymen look at terrain. They found the weak point fast. The basement parking garage was wide open. They wrote it up and told the Port Authority that a truck full of explosives could be driven in and parked under the tower. The fix cost money, and it was declined.

On February 26, 1993, a truck bomb went off in that garage roughly thirty feet from the spot the two of them had circled.

Most people would have taken the vindication. Rescorla took the next step. He told Morgan Stanley the building was still a target and that they should get out of it entirely. The lease ran to 2006, so the answer was no. So he did the only thing left to him, which was to assume the attack was coming and train for it.

Every three months, no warning, he ran a full evacuation of every Morgan Stanley floor in the South Tower. Everyone went, down the stairwells, two abreast, at a pace he set. Senior executives went too, and he did not care that they hated it, and they did hate it. Traders being pulled off desks by a 60-year-old Cornishman with a stopwatch. He timed them. He made them do it again.

8:46 on the morning of September 11, 2001. The North Tower is hit. Over the public address system, the South Tower is told to stay put and return to desks.

Rescorla got on his bullhorn and told everyone to get out.

He was 62 years old. He was near the end of his career and he had every reason to be somewhere else that morning. Instead he stood in the stairwells and moved roughly 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees, plus hundreds of other people, down out of the building. To keep them steady he sang into the bullhorn. Men of Harlech. God Bless America. The Cornish songs he grew up on. Grown adults later remembered the strangest thing about the worst day of their lives was the sound of a man singing in a stairwell.

At 9:03 the second plane hit their tower, above them. Most of his people were already low or already out.

He called his wife Susan. She was watching it on television and she was falling apart. What he said to her was this. Stop crying. I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I've never been happier.

Then he went back up.

He was last seen on the 10th floor, climbing, still going against the flow of people coming down. The South Tower collapsed at 9:59. His body was never recovered.

Morgan Stanley had about 2,700 people in that building. Six of them died. Rescorla and members of his own security staff, who stayed with him.

He spent eleven years telling people that an attack was coming and being told it was too expensive to prepare for. Then he spent the last hour of his life proving he had been right, and making sure it did not matter.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

John Abruzzo was already at his desk on the 69th floor of the North Tower when the first plane hit.

He was a Port Authority accountant and a C5-6 quadriplegic.

His power wheelchair was how he moved through the world.

Most of his floor emptied fast.

Ten coworkers did not.

They lifted him out of his custom chair and into a lightweight evacuation chair the agency had bought after the 1993 bombing - the same attack that had already trapped Abruzzo in this building once before.

That first time it took six hours to get him down.

This time they took turns: two at the front, two at the back, sliding him down flight after flight, pivoting on every landing.

One person scouted ahead.

When they hit smoke they changed stairwells.

They even stopped at a Snapple machine.

Firefighters they passed offered to take him.

The group said no.

They would not leave him.

It took about 90 minutes to descend 69 floors.

They carried him over debris in the lobby and out through a broken window.

They were on the sidewalk roughly ten minutes before the North Tower fell.

The chair that brought him down is in the 9/11 Memorial Museum now.

The names of the people who stayed with him are not as widely known as they should be.

There was no speech.

No vote.

Just a group of office workers who looked at a man who could not take the stairs and decided his life was not someone else’s problem.

That is the story.

[Anonymous @OpDeathEaters]

Prosecutors in Poland, Norway and Latvia and police in Britain report that the US Justice Department is stonewalling their investigations and has not answered their Epstein evidence requests for over a year. #OpDeathEaters

https://t.co/CW93DI4rfW

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

One man has Stage 4 Bone Cancer, and the other claims he is the "healthiest president in the history of the country".

One is respecting the victims of 9/11 as their names are read, while the other is dreaming about how much more money he can scam from his supporters.