Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 engagement report

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• Aug 28, 2026282x their median

  Bonnie Pierce got out of her burning St. Paul home. Then she ran back in for her toddler. Firefighters found her shielding her daughter with her own body. She had already made it outside. She went back anyway. That is not luck. That is a mother deciding her child’s life was worth more than her own. She died Monday from her injuries. The little girl she covered is expected to recover. Bonnie was 38. She was a mother of four. She used her last minutes as a shield. A lot of people talk about love. Very few would walk back into a fire to prove it. We just watched people stand outside a courthouse for a woman accused of killing her own three children. That circus got attention. Bonnie Pierce gave her life and barely got a fraction of it. Honor does not belong to the spectacle. It belongs to the woman who ran toward the fire. Remember her name. Pray for her children. This is what love looks like when it costs everything.

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• Sep 5, 202661x their median

  Jelly Roll has the right to free speech. He also has to live with what he said. He chose the anti-Trump jokes. He chose the monologue. Now a police fundraiser at the president’s club does not want him on the stage. Blue Lives Matter just pulled his invite to this year’s Big Blue Bash at Mar-a-Lago. Kyle Reyes, the owner of the company, put his name on the statement. Guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! showed an anti-conservative streak a large part of Jelly Roll’s audience did not sign up for. He even said he didn’t care if fans stopped listening to his music. None of this had to happen. You cannot tell people you don’t care what they think and then expect them to stay fans. Jelly Roll needs to make a real apology. Not a shrug. Not another bit. Otherwise more groups will reject him, and undoing this will only get harder.

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• Sep 28, 202648x their median

  Ana Navarro used ABC and The View on Monday to tell Miami to knock Maria Elvira Salazar out of Congress. That’s a campaign ad on a licensed network. Shut down The View or make ABC lose the license fight they’re already in with the FCC. I’m not a fan of Rep. Salazar for promoting amnesty for some people in the U.S. illegally. I’m also not a fan of Navarro using her network to tell people how to vote, and I don’t like ABC letting it happen on their watch. On The View Navarro named Coral Gables, Key Biscayne, and downtown Miami. She said the race is even. She told people to go vote for Democrat Elliott Rodriguez. She said “we can actually knock this woman out,” meaning Salazar. Navarro lives in that district. She was telling people how to vote. This wasn’t a slip. It was a get-out-the-vote hit on a House race. A broadcast license isn’t a right to run turnout operations. It’s a public franchise. The FCC already yanked eight Disney-owned ABC stations into early renewal this year. ABC sued. Navarro just handed the FCC a legal gift. If a co-host like Navarro can point at a map, name the challenger, and call for the incumbent’s scalp, the “talk show” cover is gone. Salazar is the same Florida Republican I’ve criticized for selling a legal-status bill that works like amnesty. Navarro wants her gone for the opposite reason. They can argue that on their own time. Don’t do it on broadcast air the public owns. Cancel The View or make ABC pay the price for abusing the public airwaves. Viewers can vote however they want. ABC doesn’t get to use a federal license to tell them who to pick.

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• Aug 30, 202642x their median

  It takes a big man to admit he was wrong on television. Bill Maher did that Friday, and I respect him more for it. On Aug. 21 he said Trump’s endorsements were collapsing. Trump texted him the receipts. Maher came back and said he overstated it. It wasn’t true. Two hundred sixty endorsements this cycle. Nine primary losses. Why can’t more entertainers correct the record in public? It would make them more trustworthy and, frankly, more watchable. We all know why they don’t. A lot of them are not entertainers. They are party spokesmen with a studio audience. That is why they stopped being funny. Good for Maher for saying it out loud. Next step is getting it right the first time.

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• Sep 8, 202641x their median

  Welles Crowther gave his life walking people off the 78th floor of the South Tower on September 11, and it still took 25 years to treat that like the act of heroism it was. Today Trump gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His mother Allison and his sister Paige took it on the Ellipse. Crowther was 24. Equities trader. Volunteer firefighter out of Nyack. Boston College lacrosse. His father gave him a red bandana when he was a kid. He said he was going to change the world with it. He put that bandana over his face, got strangers who thought they were already dead down the stairs, and went back up. He made three trips and saved as many as 18 lives. He died in the lobby when the building came down. That’s not fiction. That’s a man who kept a promise. New York produces a lot of disappointment these days. It also produces heroes like Crowther. The medal doesn’t bring Welles Crowther back. It honors what he did and reminds us he was a lot more than someone who wore a red bandana.

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• Sep 29, 202635x their median

  Another one of Brad Pitt’s kids just erased Pitt’s last name in court and I’m supposed to clap. I won’t. Pitt’s daughter Zahara is 21. A Los Angeles judge signed the order today and she’s now Zahara Marley Jolie. Maddox already did it two weeks ago. Shiloh and Vivienne dropped it too. Adults can change their name all they want. What they don’t get to do is treat Pitt like a stain while keeping every door that name opened. That’s what makes this public display by his kids so sickening. They disrespect him in court filings and newspaper ads, likely with Angelina Jolie’s encouragement, then keep enjoying the privileged life he helped provide them. Pitt adopted Zahara after he and Jolie got together. The hyphen went on the birth certificate because he wanted those kids. There’s no criminal conviction that says he abused them. There’s a decade of a divorce war, a mother who never stopped campaigning, and children who grew up inside that campaign. A newspaper ad and a courthouse stamp aren’t proof of a crime. They’re a public slap. Pitt’s kids keep the schools, the passports, the last name on the old credits, and the fortune that came with being a Pitt. They just don’t want the word on the diploma. That’s not courage. That’s a performance of loyalty to one parent named Jolie. If the kids want distance, they can have it in private. Publishing it is meant to punish him. Jolie clearly encourages that. Pitt doesn’t look bad in this. His kids and his ex-wife do. If anything, the estranged family just made Pitt look sympathetic.

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• Sep 26, 202633x their median

  CNN has no right to a seat on Air Force One. The White House left them off Trump’s flight to a college football game today and gave the spot to Real America’s Voice. That was the correct call. A judge can restore a press pass. A judge can’t restore a newsroom that spent years running cover, loading the language, and treating our country like a problem. CNN isn’t a neutral camera. It’s a political operation that still wants the credentials of a wire service. Fake news doesn’t become real because it flies on a government plane. Access isn’t a constitutional prize, it’s a courtesy. When a network burns that courtesy, it loses the seat. Trump’s team finally treated CNN like what it is and I’m glad to see it. The rest of the press will scream about the First Amendment. They always do when the invitation list changes and they’re not on it. The First Amendment protects their right to publish. It doesn’t put them on Air Force One. If CNN wants back on that aircraft, it can start telling the truth on the ground. Until then, keep them off the plane.

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• Sep 5, 202619x their median

  A company image is fragile. Once customers decide the brand is a joke, the stock follows. Nike used to stand for winning. Then it became known for a Dylan Mulvaney campaign. The stock is now down almost 80 percent from its 2021 peak and Nike is being dropped from the S&P 100 after nearly 18 years. That is not a mood. That is company value. Nike is the cleanest recent example of go woke, go broke. The product still exists. The trust does not. Brands that lecture their buyers should not act shocked when those buyers leave.

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• Aug 30, 202617x their median

  Dolly Parton kept politics at zero and the show at 100, and that is why her death hits harder than most. She was laid to rest Friday in Nashville, next to her husband. Her niece confirmed it on Saturday. The service was simple and private. That fit her. Throughout her career she sold her music to the public while keeping the rest of her life offstage. That’s how Dolly kept her magic alive. Many entertainers spent the last twenty years lecturing people who paid for their performances. Dolly never did that. She understood the job: you don’t break the spell, you hold it until the last note. If her passing teaches anyone in this business anything, it should be that. Stay in character. Leave the pulpit at home. She did it for a lifetime, and almost nobody else can.

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• Sep 5, 202612x their median

  Kelsey Grammer is right. Reparations are wrong. He said his grandparents survived the Depression and World War II. His grandfather spent 28 months in the South Pacific. That man does not owe anyone money for a crime he did not commit. Neither do the Italians who came after the Civil War. Neither do the Irish who came through Ellis Island. Living Americans are not a debt collection agency for the 1800s. You cannot tax people for the color of their grandparents and call it justice. That is a political program. It is not fairness. America already fought a civil war and rewrote the Constitution. The country does not owe a second bill to every identity group with a lobby. Treat people as individuals or stop pretending this is about healing. Grammer said what most politicians will not. He is correct.

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