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"Born Lucky" on NYT List🎉

New York Times Best Seller🏆: "Born Lucky" will debut at No. 4 on The New York Times Best Seller List.

Thank you🙌🏻: This wouldn't have happened without War Notes subscribers preordering – your bookmarks are en route!
- Look back🔙: In our launch video, I said I would be honored if you joined me on the "Born Lucky" journey.
  - 😃This is about you — and every parent of a kid who is having a hard time.
  - 🌄"Born Lucky" is proof of the mountain-moving power of parental love.
Get more: 📚 "Born Lucky" should be restocked on Amazon on Thursday.
- ‼️You can get your copy at BornLuckyBook.com
✍🏼Don't forget to leave a review.
- Watch tonight📺: Why the "Born Lucky" journey is resonating with so many far beyond the autism community.
  - 🎙️Katie Miller joins us on parents retaking power in American culture.

Book events 📚: I would love to see you!!

📍Come out to the Orlando JCC in Orlando, Fla., this Sunday, October 12, at 2 p.m. with Jack Carr. CLICK HERE to get your tickets.
- 😱Ok, this is cool — yes, the Jack Carr — multiple No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr is out with a new novel, "Cry Havoc."
  - ‼️Carr and I are doing back-to-back events where we interview each other.

Warning🚨: The rise of antisemitic hate, celebration of terrorists and calls for the murdering of Jews in America and around the world should be the story of the week — if not month or year.

👀Have you seen it anywhere other than X? Did you see it on the network morning shows or evening news?
Last night🚫: Images and sounds from New York last night should shake us all to our core
- ‼️Marchers celebrating the October 7th attacks chanted:
  - 🎙️"We must show up stronger than we did the first October 7th. Louder than we did the first October 7th. To make it clear that we are not going anywhere."
‼️Marchers were carrying the Hamas and the Palestine flags. CLICK HERE to see.
🗣️They continued chants for violence against Jews
- 😶This is in America.
🤷🏼‍♂️Imagine if thousands were in the streets wearing Klan hoods or carrying tiki torches.
- 👀Never mind — I don't have to imagine — 50 people carried tiki torches in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Joe Biden talked about it for eight years.
🗣️Thousands are celebrating the biggest killing of Jews since the Holocaust, and New York's Democratic governor endorsed the Democratic mayoral candidate who repeats Hamas talking points.

🎤Maya Angelou said, "When people show you who they are, believe them the first time."

‼️If the…
- 🥷Iranian hostage crisis
- 💣Beirut barracks bombing
- 💣USS Cole bombing
- 🌆9/11
- ‼️Second Intifada
- ‼️2015 Paris Bataclan attack
- ‼️October 7th
❓…didn't teach us to believe the threats of radical Muslims, what will?

A Contrarian GOP 😶

📦We are in this box — what's more important, the president's words or his actions?

🤷🏼‍♂️Do we cover that President Trump says Illinois Governor Pritzker should be in jail or that he's removing illegal immigrants?
⁉️Do we cover his words about "all hell in Gaza," or do we cover that his negotiations are showing promise?
🤷🏼‍♂️Do we cover his claims that the economy is great or do we acknowledge that it is struggling?

📍Republicans are in a weird spot.

🙄They are in a government shutdown and trying to justify it while covering cultural wars.
- Watch tonight📺: Senator John Kennedy, R-La., on whether we should take Trump seriously, but not literally

Comey Pleads Not Guilty🧑🏼‍⚖️

‼️Ex-FBI chief James Comey pleaded not guilty over his 2020 Trump-Russia testimony — no one is surprised.

Hopping mad🤬: Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon went scorched earth on Comey's white glove treatment.
- 🎤"This is bulls--t," Bannon said. "They allowed Comey to do something they didn't allow anybody else to do. This is the problem. The problem is the system is rigged on this guy's side. OK? It's got to stop. Is Comey gonna be shackled? Is Comey gonna be strip-searched? Why? Comey's there for felonies.
  - Be fair⚖️: Comey is getting far better treatment as a defendant than either Bannon, Roger Stone or Peter Navaro.
👀Democrats once hated Comey — now they are cheering for him.

2️⃣Comey faces two charges:

🤥First is making a false statement to Congress — AKA lying.
‼️Second is obstruction of a congressional proceeding.

Watch tonight📺: Former federal prosecutor Shan Wu and Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Tom Dupree.

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