Will Carless, USA TODAY
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The word "hero" gets thrown around a lot. But it's clear the attack on the San Diego Islamic Center yesterday could have been SO much worse. 140 children were feet away from the attackers. Security guard Amin Abdullah engaged these cowards in a gunfight, and they ran away.
I spent the last week in the UK visiting family and friends. The paranoia and fear about visiting the US is very real. People are genuinely scared to fly here. They think they'll be arrested or shot. My plane home was half-empty
Say what you will about AI and ChatGPT but I’m here for an all-knowing app that merrily announces that I won a Pulitzer Prize in 2023: (I did not win a Pulitzer that year, or any other — yet)
Same post X vs. BlueSky I have more followers on X Zero engagement there X is cooked You’re in the right place
questioning why the NYT used this dashing photo of Nick Fuentes. This is what he actually looks like
Producer Lamar Salter and I are at Eradicate Hate in Pittsburgh where we are screening episode one of Extremely Normal! Come and join us if you’re here!
Per (utterly context-free) reporting in the Daily Wire, the DOJ is considering banning transgender Americans from owning firearms: That’s despite no evidence that trans people commit a disproportionate number of shootings, as I reported last week: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Another chilling detail from the indictment of the father of the Abundant Life shooter: She referred to another mass attacker as "the ultimate saint." I wrote about how killers are venerated as "saints" online a couple years ago: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Reading the indictment of Jeff Rupnow, whose 15 year-old daughter shot eight people in December, killing two. Things are still capable of shocking. Like this description of the actions of a boy in the class where the shooting happened. Imagine if this was your kid :(
#BREAKING Senator Chris Van Hollen was turned away at a military checkpoint while trying to visit Kilmer Abrego Garcia.l at the CECOT prison in El Salvador I was in the convoy as it was flagged down at the side of the road. Traffic continued as normal otherwise. We were 3km from CECOT
Basically identical posts Basically zero engagement on X Tons on here X is a joke. Long live this platform.
Steve Bannon is upping the ante in the weird hair stakes:
In amongst the smoke, soot and anguish of Los Angeles, i got to meet this legend, former pro surfer Randy Wright, who lives in his truck at Sunset Point in Malibu
Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood is a hellscape
Just landed at LAX and literally came down to land through the smoke from the #palisadesfire
I saw this utter 🤡 when I was on the ground in Asheville last week. Dude was in a full suit, being followed around by a camera and a guy with a sidearm, driving around in a huge shiny black SUV. Undercover, huh?
A big swathe of Asheville’s riverside art district was decimated by Tropical Storm Helene:
Interviewing artists whose work was destroyed by Tropical Storm Helene in Asheville’s riverside arts district
Over on X, “journalist” Glenn Greenwald is displaying a stunning ignorance about how op-eds work smh