To be clear, Paget also reached out privately to apologize to me! Criminal Minds is still one of my all-time favorite shows, and I’m very excited to continue covering s19 (and hopefully beyond!)
An aerial view shows crews dismantling the UFC fighting venue on the South Lawn of the White House.
The grass on the Ellipse has been completely destroyed following the UFC viewing party.
REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz
“Don’t say something permanently harmful just because you’re temporarily hurt” @pagetpaget@aishatyler@Vangsness@ajcookofficial
What I’m trying to say is words have power. We ALL need to love more than hurt, even if others hurt us. The world is too hurt to not spread love back
It’s likely that “Americans moved past this reality “ because Biden’s appointed attorney general did not prosecute the inciter of the insurrection, suggesting to the populace that it wasn’t that important.
I saw a reel where a woman said "where are the trad wives who are 40, 50 years old? Why aren't they making these barefoot in the kitchen videos? Why is it always a 20 something year old?" Every woman knows the answer.
The Lessons I Learned from My Dad
I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.
Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.
I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.
I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.
I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.
Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.
That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.
Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.
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Like clockwork each election season, prominent Republicans in Colorado turn their confusion over how elections work into suggestions of election fraud rather than asking their county clerk or using Google.
Former President Joe Biden will also be in attendance for the opening of the Obama Presidential Center along with former presidents Clinton and Bush.
President Trump will not attend.
Listen up, leeches! Our very own Matt Rogers is hosting the Las Culturistas Culture Awards TONIGHT!
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@factpostnews MAGA can spew out the hateful and vulgar racist things about Mrs. Michelle Obama to their devious hearts content. But she was never a whore for Jeffrey Epstein.