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Bride In Tears After NYC Firefighters Surprise Her At Her Wedding To Honor Her Dad Who Died On 9/11
TikToker Kristin Marino, now Kristin Schnacky, was three years old when her father was lost, among other members of Rescue One.
On her wedding day, Kristin received a special surprise from the FDNY, who wanted to honor her next big milestone and also honor her late father's memory.
In a touching TikTok video, Kristin appears in her full, flowing wedding dress, stepping out of the hotel where she got ready.
"My dad couldn't show up to my wedding because he was taken from us on September 11th..."
"So look who did..."
Outside the hotel were Rescue One's two primary firetrucks with the team standing in full uniform, waiting to greet her. The team was a combination of new firefighters who'd joined since September 11th and even retired members who returned for the occasion.
Kristin reflected on the moment:
"I finally understand why they say, 'It's a brotherhood.'"
"I know my dad was smiling down, knowing I was taken care of."
"Thank you for never forgetting, FDNY."
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Some fellow TikTokers were deeply touched by the video.
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Others honored Kenneth Marino's and other lost firefighters' memories in the comments.
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To make the day even sweeter, Kristin was walked down the aisle by her grandfather, Kenneth's father, and her father's firefighter uniform was hung over the chair that she would have wanted him to sit in to watch her get married.
Kristin reflected:
"As a girl who lost her dad at a young age, I truthfully never dreamed of my wedding day the way girls usually do."
"The thought of walking down the aisle without my dad would bring me to tears."
"But having my Poppy (his dad) walk me down was exactly how it was supposed to be... and I know my dad was there with me the whole time."
You can watch the video here:
Thousands of families' lives were changed on September 11 with the falling of the Towers, first responders risking their lives, and bystanders impacted in the surrounding city.
This is a beautiful reminder of how we came together during that time and how people are still standing together to hold each other up when we realize yet another way that our lives look different because of the tragedy.
Kristin Schnacky was surrounded by love that day, and it was undoubtedly everything a late father might have hoped for for his daughter.
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Cardi B Goes Viral After Revealing The Hilarious Reason She Wants To Have More Kids
Cardi B is making the rounds to promote her new album, which led to the sort of charming confession that could only come from Cardi.
While on the Jennifer Hudson Show, the two of them got into a discussion about her children, and if she wanted to have more. She does, she said, but not for the reason that you might usually give.
No, Cardi B gave her the straight, honest truth, in a deeply hilarious way.
“The more kids you have, the less of a possibility you go to, like, a [nursing] home. One of them is gonna wipe my butt!”
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Commenters were deeply amused by her reasoning, because that's usually an inside thought that we don't share with others, let along an entire studio audience and those watching at home.
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Some people, including care teams but also fellow "butt wipers," chimed in with their experience. The job does often fall to daughters, and can come with serious impacts on the caregiver's health and potential for burnout.
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Still, super funny stuff. While Cardi B is mostly known for her rap career, some people were thinking she could easily switch tracks to comedy.
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Cardi B is known and beloved by her fans for her unpolished honesty, unfiltered sometimes to a fault.
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The rest of the interview is also charming, even if just to see how happy she is to talk about her children and their lives together. But she keeps it real, making sure her children know her roots and the world that formed their mom.
“They have like a lot of cousins and a lot of my friends, they still outside, they still in the hood and everything."
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As Cardi B has over a month until her album drops, it will be an interesting press tour to watch.
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Her new album Am I the Drama? drops on September 18.
Nancy Mace Melts Down After Dem Rep. Points Out That Cosmetic Procedures Are 'Gender-Affirming Care'
Representative Jacobs stated:
"I would just like to point out that it’s interesting my colleague from South Carolina is so obsessed with the issue of trans people, using horrible slurs to talk about them, when many people in this body have received gender-affirming care."
The California Democrat then gave examples of such care—some of which Mace appears to have taken advantage of herself.
"Filler is gender-affirming care. Boob jobs—gender-affirming care. Botox is gender-affirming care."
"Lots of my colleagues have received gender-affirming care, and let me be clear, everybody should have access to the gender-affirming care they need, and I think that we should respect everybody in this country."
Whether it was being called out for her hypocrisy or attention being drawn to her cosmetic procedures, Mace was enraged by Representative Jacobs' statement of facts.
In yet another example of her unhinged behavior, Mace screamed at Representative Jacobs:
"Ridiculous. You are absolutely ridiculous. What the hell is your problem? You are disgusting. You are an insult."
You can watch the moment here:
GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson had not recognized Mace, making her outburst also a violation of congressional floor procedure.
Speaker Johnson stated, while wielding the House gavel:
"The gentlelady is not recognized. The House will be in order."
Mace's mic was cut, but she could still be heard shouting in the background as Johnson tried to restore order.
Unable to gain an audience via C-SPAN, Mace took to X to cry victim—claiming the comments about boob jobs, Botox, and fillers were all about her own body.
Mace finished her X post with what many consider an antisemitic dig about Representative Jacobs' nose, writing:
"PS—I have a good surgeon if you ever want to get your nose done."
Mace's post didn't rally support to her side.
Representative Jacobs told The New Republic in an interview on Wednesday:
"Look, I didn’t actually say anything about Nancy Mace. I said many of my colleagues have had this kind of care. I think it’s very telling that she thought that I was picking on her. It sounded like she told [on] herself."
"And to be honest, I think everyone should get whatever gender-affirming care they want. Like, you do you, girl."
"But the idea that she would use that to target this already vulnerable population is horrible. She knows it gets her headlines and clicks. She thinks it’s going to help her in her campaign for governor of South Carolina. And she’s targeting vulnerable young people to do that."
Earlier in the interview, Representative Jacobs explained the context of the House floor exchange, saying:
"[Mace] offered a number of amendments that would have prohibited gender-affirming care for service members and their dependents, which would have included mental health care, that would have stopped trans people from being able to use the restroom that they need. There was a number of other things she was trying to do."
"This particular one we were debating was preventing trans service members from using the bathroom that they need to use. And she has, over the course of the last few years, said some pretty terrible things about trans people, constantly using the T-slur, using words like deranged and all this other really emotion-evoking terminology."
"She went after [Delaware Democratic Representative] Sarah McBride when she first got here, and I think just generally has tried to get attention by targeting trans people and in particular trans kids."
The California Democrat added:
"[W]hat Nancy Mace is doing is not about misunderstanding. She is intentionally targeting a vulnerable group of people because she wants the attention."
"It is cruel. It is mal-intended. And it is not just about she said something wrong once. This has been a very strategic targeted approach she has taken."
In response to another post Mace tagged her in on X that same day, Representative Jacobs wrote:
"I feel sad for you. Stop lashing out against trans kids and pretending it's to 'protect women'. Hope you get the help you need."
While Mace may have been shocked to learn her alleged (personally confirmed?) extensive surgical and non-surgical cosmetic procedures intended to enhance her femininity were the definition of gender affirmation, others were aware that cisgender people routinely get work done to feel more feminine or masculine.
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Johns Hopkins Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and the Association of American Medical Colleges list brow lifts, jaw recontouring, forehead cranioplasty, breast augmentation, and operations or non-surgical medical procedures—like fillers or Botox—to enhance or reduce specific body features—such as the face and chest—to appear more masculine or feminine as gender affirming care procedures.
The World Health Organization (WHO) definition states "gender-affirmative health care can include any single or combination of a number of social, psychological, behavioural or medical (including hormonal treatment or surgery) interventions designed to support and affirm an individual’s gender identity."
These procedures are routinely performed on cisgender people seeking their idealized version of the gender they were assigned at birth. But Republicans being ignorant of current science and medicine isn't new. After all, most of them still think gender and sex are binaries after decades of research and data have proved otherwise.
Sorry you didn't know what gender-affirming care was, Nancy.
But ignorance of facts doesn't make them untrue.
