Statement on behalf of Charlie Kirk's immediate family, his parents Robert and Kathryn, his wife, Erika, and his sister, Mary:
Charlie was a beloved husband, son, brother, friend, and father. Every court proceeding serves as a painful reminder of his death and the loss that has irrevocably impacted our lives and the lives of his children.
We remain deeply grateful for the support, prayers, and kindness we have received. This outpouring has sustained us during the darkest days of our lives.
Out of respect for the judicial process, we will not be commenting further at this time. We ask for continued privacy as we navigate this process and immense grief.
"For me, it's a matter of trying to make the most of what we are here and left with — to try and make them proud.”
Michael Strahan shares the moving history of his ancestors and the profound impact of tracing his family's American roots.
#DisneyCelebratesAmerica
Charles B. Hall became the first African American fighter pilot to down an enemy aircraft on this day in 1943. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his valor and his squadron presented him with a chilled bottle of Coke, a precious commodity in the Mediterranean theater.
@AMAZlNGNATURE Pangaea anyone? Fossils of all types have been found on different continents, continents that many species are no longer native to... Perhaps science has joined again what was lost?
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Austin Metcalf is dead.
Let’s stop dancing around the obvious.
Austin Metcalf received the death penalty.
Karmelo Anthony received 35 years.
One of them lives.
One of them gets a gravestone.
Save the faux outrage.
The real victim in this case is NOT the convicted killer.
The real victim is the young man who will never come home again and the family that will spend the rest of their lives grieving a loss that can never be undone.
This was a track meet.
A place for competition, teamwork, and sportsmanship.
NOT violence.
NOT murder.
And spare us the racial narratives.
Murder is wrong regardless of the race of the victim or the perpetrator. Any decent society should be able to agree on that.
Austin Metcalf lost everything.
His family got a life sentence of grief.
And while some are busy turning this tragedy into a racial debate, the Metcalf family is looking at the empty chair at the dinner table and remembering who actually paid the highest price.
Austin Metcalf got the death penalty.
Never forget that.
Elon Musk: There are no lords and peasants at Tesla. Everyone eats at the same table.
“I actually know the people on the line, because I worked on the line, I walked the line, I slept in the factory, and I worked beside them. So, I'm no stranger to them.
There are many people at Tesla who have gone from working on the line to being in senior management. There are no lords and peasants. Everyone eats at the same table. Everyone parks in the same parking lot.
At GM, there's a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla.
We give everyone stock options. Many people who are just working the line, who didn't even know what stocks were, we've made them millionaires.
And I just want to say that I'm incredibly appreciative of those who build the cars, and they know it.”
New York Times DealBook Summit, 2023
@shadyladykady@ArtyTrolls@charliekirk11@RealCandaceO Candace looked genuinely happy, even giddy here. Her crush on Charlie is evident in every way. She has seriously changed and not for the better. She is bitter and mean now.
Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.
He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.
Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.
Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.
Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.
Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.
Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.
The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.
🚨ENOUGH! Erika Kirk DESTROYS Her Demonic Attackers in Fiery ‘Woman of God’ Declaration – ‘The Gates of Hell Will NOT Prevail!’🚨
“Every single morning, I wake up to another vicious headline lying about me.
Comedians mocking me in whiteface. Haters screaming I’m ‘not fit’ to lead the organization my husband built with his blood, sweat, and tears. And now Candace Owens — of all people — publicly accusing me of murdering my own husband.
Let me say this clearly:
These attacks are not from God. They are from the pit of hell.
The enemy is raging because a woman of God has stepped into the gap. I am a daughter of the King, called and anointed for this hour. I grieve my husband every day in private — on my knees, with my Bible open — while these wolves feast on conspiracy theories, clicks, and lies for profit.
They want to destroy not just me, but the mission Charlie gave his life for. But greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world.
I will not be silenced. I will not step down. I will not bow to darkness.
This is spiritual warfare. And by the power of Jesus Christ, the gates of hell will NOT prevail.
Pray for me. Stand with me. Or get out of the way.
#WomanOfGod #TurningPoint #FaithOverFear #SpiritualWarfare”