"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle." -- George Orwell

All thanks to needing chapstick my daughter just saved a woman's life just now. We were driving to eldest granddaughter's soccer game when she pulled over on some random patch of gravel on the side of the road to get Chapstick out of the back of the car. The road was busy. My granddaughters were noisy. Nonetheless she heard someone yelling faintly "help. Help!" She ran across the road and saw a woman laying on her garage floor. 78 years old. No family. No cell phone. Lovely home. She had been on the ground for over eight hours. She said she tripped over nothing. We all prayed with her until the paramedics came. I do believe in angels. And my daughter was guided by one today. All because of Chapstick

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People rightly praise him for his turn in Die Hard, but the real genius is in Apartment Zero

Ok this one is my fav now. 😂

One of the first times he criticized Kaitlan for not smiling, she was asking him about survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s child rape trafficking ring and the coverup. “What would you say to the survivors who feel like they haven’t gotten justice?”

33 years ago this weekend, two Delta Force snipers made a choice almost nobody would make. Master Sergeant Gary Gordon was 33, from Lincoln, Maine, with a wife and two young kids at home. Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart was 35, a farm kid from Newville, Pennsylvania. On October 3, 1993, they were in a Black Hawk circling over Mogadishu when another Black Hawk, Super 64, was shot down. Pilot Mike Durant was alive in the wreckage with a broken back and a crushed leg. His crew was hurt. There were no friendly ground forces anywhere near them, and hundreds of armed militia and locals were already converging on the crash site. From the air, Gordon and Shughart could see exactly what was coming. They asked to be dropped in. Command said no. They asked again. No again. They asked a third time and finally got the green light. Their helicopter set them down nearby and they fought their way to the wreck on foot. Two men, carrying only what they had on them. They pulled Durant out of the cockpit, set him up in a safer position, and started holding off the crowd. For a while, it worked. They kept the mob back with precise, steady fire while the numbers against them kept growing. Shughart was killed first. Gordon kept fighting alone. When he was nearly out of ammunition, he went back to Durant, handed him a rifle, and told him good luck. Then he went back out. He was killed minutes later. Durant was captured, beaten, and held for 11 days. He came home alive. He has said for decades that he's only here because of those two men. In 1994 Gordon and Shughart were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the first since Vietnam. The Navy later named two ships after them, the USNS Gordon and the USNS Shughart. They didn't stumble into that fight. They watched it from above, understood the odds, and asked three times to go anyway. Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart. Remember their names.

Thanks to Mike Schmidt, 1980 was a year the @Phillies faithful wouldn’t ever forget. He capped off the regular season in spectacular fashion 46 years ago today when his 11th inning home run carried the club to the NL East title. ow.ly/qYJ950ZUiw7

TAPPER: "Two years ago, President Trump said he thought he could get mortgage rates down to 3% or even lower. Last week, mortgage rates had the biggest weekly jump in four years. It's more than 7%. Why has President Trump failed to deliver on that promise?" HASSETT: "President Trump hasn't failed to deliver at all. The economy is booming … Absolutely true mortgage rates have to come down … And that's going to happen, I think, very quickly over the next few months."

TAPPER: “Is [Vice President Vance] wrong that prices are high?” HASSETT: “Oh, prices are high, in the sense that inflation went up about 20 percent under Joe Biden, and the inflation rate has gone way, way down…” TAPPER: “It is true that inflation was very high under President Biden, but when President Biden handed over the presidency to President Trump in January 2025, it was 3 percent. And it's currently 3.4 percent. I'm no economist, but it does seem like that's going up.”

Jane Doe's attorney says he believes more than 7 men may have participated in the alleged assault: GIUFFRA: “If you ask me, I believe there were more.” TAPPER: “So you think it's more than seven?” GIUFFRA: “I think so, but we'll never know. We will never know because of such the inadequate investigation that was done.”

Jane Doe's attorney says he still has some of the recorded phone calls his client made with some of the men accused of sexual assault.

Attorney for Christa Pike says she is still in the hospital on a ventilator, "critically ill."

Christa Pike’s attorney: “Christa has been and may very well continue to be severely punished… I don’t think attempting another execution is going to bring justice” for her victim’s family.

JENNINGS: “You could think Ken Paxton has made bad personal decisions, but at the same time, I don't want to put my face in a woodchipper and elect Democrats to run the country.” Scott Jennings, Xochitl Hinojosa, Jamal Simmons, and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis weigh in on GOP angst over key Senate races and whether Democrats will successfully flip both the House and Senate.

Jane Doe’s attorney says he and his client have received threats: GIUFFRA: “She's received multiple threats, and women who aren't even Jane Doe have received threats about what they're going to do to her. And, in fact, this morning, I received a threat. But I don't care… I'm not afraid of these people. But the threats, the abuse to protect what's going on, the status quo, these guys are disgusting. They should stay in their mother's basement and stay out of the world.”

Attorney for Christa Pike calls on Governor Lee to commute her sentence: "I think she has been put through some really, really bad mental torture and physical torture."

This is a gutting piece theatlantic.com/politics/202…

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Jane Doe's attorney responds to President Trump suggesting the Cornell 7 won't get a "fair shake" from NY Attorney General Letitia James: GIUFFRA: “I think to politicize something like this is just wrong. There are Republicans whose daughters are getting assaulted. There are Democrats whose daughters are getting assaulted. It has nothing to do with politics.”