🚨 CAUGHT ON CAMERA: DoorDash driver drops off food, snaps the delivery pic… then picks it up and leaves with it. 🤦🏽♂️
People are getting way too comfortable doing this. https://t.co/1ikCIxWsyl
To everyone coming for my sister Erika Kirk right now,
Three months ago we lost Charlie. A light that none of us will ever replace. The pain is still raw, it wakes us up at 3am, it sits heavy on our chests some days. Erika lives in that pain every single second
And still, last weekend at the gala, she smiled. I was there with Jack. She was working so hard to keep Charlie’s mission alive
Yes, she smiled. Because that smile is the same one Charlie fell in love with. The same one he used to tease her about, saying it could power the whole country when she turned it on. That smile doesn’t mean she’s “over it.” It doesn’t mean she’s forgotten. It means she’s still here. Still fighting. Still choosing to let a tiny bit of light in, even when her heart is shattered.
Grief isn’t a prison sentence that says you forfeit joy forever. Smiling doesn’t cancel out the tears she cries when no one’s watching. It doesn’t erase the nights she can’t breathe because missing him hurts so much.
Should her kids never see her smile again?
If you’ve never watched the person you love most slip away, if you’ve never had to figure out how to keep living when half your soul is gone, then please, have some grace
Erika, I love your smile.
I hope you never, ever stop smiling.
Charlie would hate it if you did.
Smile for your beautiful children, smile for Charlie, smile for you
Keep shining, my beautiful friend. We’ve got you. Always
— Tanya Tay 💔✨
As an American, as a Jew, and as Dennis, I am devastated at the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The truth is, as I write these words, I can’t believe I am writing them. I am in the denial stage of mourning.
As an American, we have lost the most articulate spokesman for America and its unique value system—a country founded to be free, based on Jerusalem and Athens, the Judeo-Christian value system and the Greek emphasis on logic and reason. Charlie was a uniquely gifted individual who, in his teens, created the largest movement of young Americans committed to preserving and growing America and its ideals. He tirelessly went from campus to campus, from Oxford to Utah, dialoging with any student who wished to debate him. Using his vast reservoir of facts and his exceptionally speedy and articulate mind, he gave them what seemed to be unlimited amounts of time, and then calmy eviscerated all their anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Judeo-Christian positions. I watched an inordinate number of these exchanges and thanked God that Charlie Kirk was there to do this work. America’s youth in particular have lost a moral and intellectual leader, one who would, perhaps, have one day become their president.
As a committed Jew, I thank God regularly that a non-Jew, a committed Christian, became one of the few great public spokesmen on behalf of Israel the Jewish communities outside of Israel. Few Jews could match Charlie’s knowledge and eloquent arguments on behalf of those two entities.
As Dennis, I have lost a very close friend. Charlie repeatedly visited me in the various hospitals that I have been in since November 12 of last year, when I suffered a catastrophic fall which has left me paralyzed. When members of the nursing staff heard that Charlie Kirk was visiting me, my room became the most popular one in the hospital. Charlie brought me the manuscript of his forthcoming book arguing that everyone—Christians as well as Jews—should observe Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, just as he and his family had begun to do from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. It is a measure of our close relationship that he dedicated the book to me. His brilliant exposition of these arguments provide clear evidence for the non-necessity of a college education for most young Americans.
My heart breaks for his young widow, Erika, and for his two children, who have lost as great a man and a father as children can have. And for Charlie, who did not live to see them grow up. For one of the first times in my 20 years with my wife, Sue, I have seen her sob uncontrollably. The Prager home is in deep mourning, as are the homes of countless Americans. The loss to us personally and to the country generally is immeasurable.
“I am changed forever more [after watching the Oct 7th video], there is your context madam presidents…this is not about a territorial dispute, it’s not about oppressors and the oppressed, it’s not about religion or ideology. Any agenda that was on the table before October 6 is forever gone, conversation is over. How dare you…what is wrong with you people, you know better…who do you answer to?...If Hamas behavior does not cross the line, then you don’t have one…light always prevails over darkness & good over evil.” powerful words from @DrPhil
6. The double standard with regard to rioting in the media (it’s good when it’s BLM, it’s bad when it’s Trump supporters) is egregious. And vice versa for those who engage in whataboutism.
5. The solution here isn’t going to be Twitter or Facebook crackdowns. It’s a renewal of a sense of civic solidarity and social fabric-building we have long abandoned.
1. What happened yesterday was absolutely horrifying and disgusting.
2. See above.
3. See above.
4. The attempt to blame all conservatives or Trump voters for the actions of those they have consistently and overtly condemned is politically-motivated, deliberately divisive drivel.
Day 4. Seven days, seven B&W photos of your life. No humans, no explanations. Challenge someone new everyday. Challenged by @TonyHunt07 challenging @Josh_Twin_One