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12/24/2025

12/24/2025

She jumped from a parade float and saved a choking toddler😮❤️

During a busy homecoming parade in Rockwall, Texas, cheers suddenly turned into panic. A toddler in the crowd began choking, his face turning red as air stopped flowing. While others froze, seventeen year old Tyra Winters reacted instantly. She jumped from the moving float without hesitation, focused only on the child struggling below.

The boy’s mother tried desperately but could not clear his airway. Tyra rushed in and used the Heimlich maneuver she learned at school. After two strong back thrusts, the child coughed and began breathing again. The moment stunned the crowd as fear shifted into relief within seconds, showing how fast training can change outcomes.

The toddler, two year old Clarke, fully recovered thanks to Tyra’s calm response. His mother later called her brave and thanked her deeply. Tyra credited her mother and school training for preparing her. Moments like this remind communities that everyday skills can become life saving tools...how many lives depend on quick thinking like this?



References:
CBS News, Texas cheerleader saves toddler using Heimlich at parade
People Magazine, Teen jumps from float to save choking child
NBC News, High school student praised for quick lifesaving action

12/24/2025

A postman in Texas named Alvin Gauthier was looking through the parcel bin in his truck when he came across a Christmas card sent in 1944. Soon, he discovered a series of other undelivered letters sent between 1942 and 1944, all written by the same man, a soldier named Marion Lamb who was stationed overseas during World War II.

A Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War, Gauthier immediately knew that he had to track down Lamb's family and put these letters in their hands.

On his day off and using his own money, Gauthier then spent five hours making the 379-mile drive to the home of Lamb's sister, Jo Ann Smith, in Jacksonville, Arkansas.

Learn more about this astonishing story

(story in cmt)

12/24/2025

He was cloned.

Dave Chappelle's transphobia is so visceral and so constant because it comes from a place of real turmoil. And I don't mean that in the reductive “all-homophobes-are-gay way.”

Dave Chappelle doesn't just hate trans women. He hates himself for being attracted to trans women. In turn, he hates them for even daring to exist and causing him so much internal conflict. When grown men can't deal with their feelings, they want to make everybody else suffer too. I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if he was eventually caught in a compromising position with a trans woman and immediately left public life again. Hopefully, it would be permanent.

Ten years ago, Dave Chappelle was still my favorite comedian. Now, I cannot STAND that rat-faced MFer.

Yet his place in the comedic pantheon is so solid that people just refuse to let go. I was talking about nostalgia earlier, and this is one of the instances when it’s detrimental. Longtime fans still see him as the engaging performer he was 20 years ago (and there’s a whole other conversation to be had about how much of a part Paul Mooney played in that), instead of the out-of-touch old man yelling at clouds and pandering to the right that he’s become.

They refuse to acknowledge his pathetic, continued downfall, so they instead pretend that everything he does is brilliant. And I’m tired of it.

I’m tired of all the excuses people keep making for his abject ignorance and bigotry.

I’m tired of comedians always attempting to hide behind jokes because they’re too cowardly to just be pieces of s**t with their whole chest. It’s nothing more than a disingenuous attempt at plausible deniability. They don’t mind *being* racist, sexist, or transphobic, but don’t you dare *call* them those things.

Dave Chappelle doesn’t tell jokes anymore, anyway. He has therapy sessions onstage, because (like most men his age) he refuses to actually talk to a professional and become a better person. He subjects his audience to his issues and they eat it right up every time.

And miss me with the projection. The only ones who are soft, sensitive or offended are these whiny “comedians” who can’t handle criticism and their army of meat-gazing sycophants. They claim they want free speech, but what they actually want is unchallenged speech. They want to be able to say whatever they want about whoever they want, without any pushback. And when they can’t, they cry about being censored, because accountability is a foreign concept.

Victimhood at its finest.

I don’t condone bullying, but I also feel like some of these men simply didn’t get beat up enough on the playground.

12/24/2025

The Beloved Community Global Summit brings together national and global leaders committed to confronting today’s most urgent challenges through the lens of nonviolence.

Taking place January 15–16, 2026, at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, the Summit will feature conversations on democracy, economic justice, public safety, mental health, and more—grounded in the Kingian philosophy of truth, dignity, and collective responsibility.

Join us in person or virtually.

Register here: https://thekingcenter.pulse.ly/5nd3djsmsh

12/24/2025

Atlanta's elite ranging from rappers to CEOs dazzled at the UNCF Atlanta Mayor's Ball, generating $4 million in vital funding for historically Black colleges and universities.

More on .com —> https://bit.ly/493Fs25
📸: Paras Griffin/Getty

12/24/2025

The ACLU of Missouri is suing the state and the Secretary of State over the implementation of the new congressional redistricting map.

The organization is requesting the courts suspend the map and prevent election authorities and the Secretary of State from using it until Missourians approve or reject it through the referendum process.

In September, Missouri lawmakers passed a mid-decade redistricting map aimed at drawing Democrat Emanuel Cleaver out of a seat. That effort to add a Republican congressional seat, done at the behest of the Trump administration, was signed into law by Gov. Mike Kehoe.

Full story: https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2025-12-23/aclu-sues-over-new-missouri-congressional-map-going-into-effect