I want to introduce you to Steve. He’s 83. His wife died a few months ago and he comes to this lodge in Spring Mill, Indiana and draws. He taught art in Terre Haute, IN his whole life. He also did courtroom sketches in court cases. In the comments I’ll share some pics from his sketchbook. He was excited when I said I was going to share his sketches with the world.

A bedroom in San Francisco. Around 1976. A six-year-old girl sat on her bed and wrote a book. She titled it The Book Worm. She wrote, by hand, one hundred and forty-two pages. She was a shy child. She would write elaborate stories for hours alone, the way other children watched television. A few years later, a flood swept through the house and destroyed the manuscript. She did not stop writing. She kept writing through middle school, through the Connecticut boarding school Hotchkiss, and through Princeton, where the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison taught her in a creative-writing workshop and called her one of the best students she had ever had. She graduated from Princeton in 1992 with a degree in English. She moved to New York. She worked at D.E. Shaw, a hedge fund, while she tried to finish her first novel. At the hedge fund, she sat near a vice president four years older than her, named Jeff Bezos. Her name was MacKenzie Scott. She and Bezos married in 1993. The next year, they drove together from New York to Seattle to start, in a converted garage, an online bookstore called Amazon. She was one of the company's first employees. She wrote its first business plan. She handled the accounts. She helped pack the first orders the company ever shipped to customers. It took her ten years, in between Amazon and the four children she and Bezos raised together, to finish her novel. She published The Testing of Luther Albright in 2005. It won the American Book Award the following year. Toni Morrison, asked to comment on it, called it "a sophisticated novel that breaks and swells the heart." A second novel followed in 2013. Then, in January of 2019, after a long trial separation, MacKenzie and Jeff Bezos announced they were getting divorced. In the settlement, she received about four percent of Amazon. At the time it was worth around thirty-eight billion dollars. It was, by most accounts, the largest marital settlement in the history of the world. She dropped her married name. She took her own middle name, Scott, in its place. And then she started writing the cheques. In May of 2019, four months after announcing the divorce, MacKenzie Scott signed the Giving Pledge. "I have a disproportionate amount of money to share," she wrote in the letter that accompanied it. She meant it. Now here is the part worth sitting with. Most billionaires set up large foundations with carefully branded names, staffs, grant applications, and quarterly progress reports. MacKenzie Scott did the opposite. She and a small team began quietly identifying nonprofit organisations doing strong work on racial equity, gender equality, economic mobility, education, public health, and LGBTQ rights. Many of these were small groups whose entire annual operating budgets were smaller than a single one of her cheques. When they decided to fund one, the organisation would typically learn about it by getting a phone call, out of nowhere, from an intermediary they had never heard of, asking how to wire several million dollars into their bank account. No application. No proposal. No restrictions on how the money could be spent. In 2022, after years of working in near-silence, Scott set up a website called Yield Giving to publish a record of her grants. In 2023, for the first time, she ran an open call, allowing small non-profits she might never have heard of otherwise to apply. Then the giving kept accelerating. By July of 2020, Scott had given out one point seven billion dollars in unrestricted grants to a hundred and sixteen nonprofits. By the end of 2022, she had passed fourteen billion. By the end of 2024, nineteen. By the end of 2025, MacKenzie Scott had given away twenty-six point three billion dollars to roughly two thousand seven hundred organisations across the United States and abroad. In 2025 alone, she gave seven point one billion. About seven hundred and eighty-three million of that went to historically Black colleges and universities — Howard, Spelman, Morehouse, and many others — more than doubling the round of HBCU gifts she had made five years earlier. Most of the time, the press did not know until the recipients announced it themselves. When she finally posted a year-end essay on Yield Giving in December of 2025, she wrote that the dollar totals would dominate the news coverage, but that the real story was happening inside the communities the money had reached. A six-year-old girl in San Francisco wrote a hundred-and-forty-two-page novel by hand, and lost it in a flood. She kept writing. She studied under Toni Morrison at Princeton. She wrote one of Amazon's first business plans. She published two literary novels. In 2019, she walked out of the largest divorce settlement in history, signed her own giving pledge, and started writing cheques to nonprofits she had picked herself. She did not put her name on a single building. She did not start a foundation called the MacKenzie Scott Foundation. She just kept finding good organisations and wiring them money. She had spent her life writing. Now her writing was, mostly, just the cheques.

This will be a never ending saga for the Metcalfs no matter what. Their son is gone and the nightmare will continue for the rest of their lives. I cannot stop thinking about that poor family. Keeping them in prayer.

I look forward to the day when your life no longer echos of this scum bag and his dealings. Thanks for your coverage but gosh it must be horrible to wade into their cesspool on the daily.

Pauper. If only someone had set up donations for his defense. And then if only his parents hadn’t bought a new house in a gated community with said defense funds. IDGAF. 🤷‍♀️

Thank you, Sarah. Keep up the great work!!

🇺🇸AMERICA FIRST or SENATE FIRST? Ted Cruz talks a big game but has he DONE ENOUGH? ▸ Fought hard enough to boot Leader Thune? ▸ Rallied to FORCE the SAVE America Act? ▸ Pushed to NUKE the filibuster? ▸ Pressured RINOs to deliver the MAGA agenda? Or has he stayed too quiet while Thune blocks everything 80M Americans voted for? Drop your take👇🏻… Real America First? or Senate swamp?

PRO TIP: If you keep them in prison, we won’t have to live like this anymore. Violent criminals do not belong back on the streets.

If there not already they should be this is disgusting

Be brutally honest: Are you deeply outraged that, while hundreds of millions of Americans and I are struggling financially, Elon Musk has now become the world's first trillionaire, with more wealth than he could spend in 1,000 lifetimes? Yes or no?

The hardware store closes at 6PM.. It's 5:58 when a kid walks in. The kid can't be more than sixteen. Soaking wet and shaking from the rain... "We're closing." Tom says. "Please. I just need a lock. For a door." Something in the kid's voice. Terror. Desperation. "What kind of lock?" "I don't know. Just one that keeps people out." The kid's got a black eye. Fresh. The kind that's still swelling. Tom doesn't ask. Just walks to aisle seven. Shows him the locks. The kid reaches for the cheapest one, $8.99. "That one's garbage," Tom says, "Won't stop anyone determined." He hands him a deadbolt. Heavy duty. $34.99. The kid's face crumbles. "I only have twelve dollars." They stand there. Store empty except for them. Tom takes the deadbolt to the register. Rings it up. "Twelve dollars." "But," "Sale price. Today only." The kid knows there's no sale. Knows this old man is lying. Tries not to cry and fails. Tom bags it. Adds a screwdriver. Free. "You know how to install it?" The kid shakes his head... They drive in Tom's truck. Don't talk. The kid directs him to a rundown duplex on the east side.   Upstairs apartment. Door frame cracked. Old lock broken, hanging loose. Tom installs the deadbolt. Takes him fifteen minutes. Tests it. Solid. Hands the kid both keys. "Someone tries to get in, you call 911. You hear me?" The kid nods. Tom's halfway to his truck when he hears it, "Why?" He turns around. The kid's standing in the doorway, backlit, holding those keys like they're made of gold. "Why did you help me?" Tom thinks about his own son. Twenty years ago. Different city. Same desperate eyes. Didn't make it. "Because you asked," Tom says simply. He drives home. Doesn't tell his wife. Doesn't think much about it. Three weeks pass. A woman comes into the store. Tired eyes but smiling. "Are you Tom?" "Yes, Ma'am." "My son told me about you. The lock you sold him." She's crying now. "His father, my ex-husband, he's not a good man. That lock kept us safe until I could get the restraining order. Until we could breathe." She hands Tom an envelope. "It's not much. But it's the thirty dollars we owed you, plus a little more." Tom tries to refuse. She won't let him. "You didn't just sell him a lock," she says. "You saw him. You saw us. When we were invisible." After she leaves, Tom opens the envelope. Sixty dollars. And a note from the kid: "Installed three more locks for neighbors who needed them. Taught myself how... "Going to trade school next year. Maybe I'll work in a hardware store someday. Be someone like you. -Marcus" Tom's manager notices him crying by the register. "You okay?" "Yeah," Tom says. "Just... yeah." That night, Tom stayed two minutes past closing. Then five. Then ten. In case someone walks in at 5:58PM. Soaking wet. Desperate. Needing more than just a lock. Tom learned something. The last customer of the day may be the most important one we ever serve.

Austin Metcalf: A brilliant student, standout athlete, and shining light gone too soon. 🕊️🇺🇸 From the football field to the classroom with a 4.0 GPA, Austin was a leader, a peacemaker, and a young man full of promise whose smile lit up every room. This tribute honors his incredible journey and the beautiful legacy he leaves behind in Frisco. May his memory continue to inspire us all to live with purpose, faith, and kindness. Rest in peace, Austin. You are deeply missed. 💔

About like when Abbott said he would punish the Dems for leaving the state. He went on Fox News acting all tough and didn’t do sht. He’s a pathetic bush/rove repubic and needs to be voted out of office.

Greg Abbott doesn’t trust judges? Wasn’t he a judge? Does he really think the legislature is going to vote to close the primary?

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