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The number 153 belongs to a special class of numbers that are equal to the sum of powers of their digits. In other words, these are n-digit numbers that equal the sum of the nᵗʰ powers of their own digits. For example, 153 = 1³ + 5³ + 3³ Such numbers are known by various names—narcissistic numbers, Armstrong numbers, “numbers in love with themselves,” or perfect digital invariants. These remarkable numbers have fascinated number theorists for decades.

🚨 NOW: President Trump just took the stage at the first-ever midterm convention of any party. Lee Greenwood only. Packed arena. Equal crowds outside. Nobody giving up a seat. Texas love. USA chants. Fake News choking on a room they said nobody would fill. FINISH THE JOB. 55 days to the polls. Hand it to radical Democrats and America spends a decade climbing out of bedlam. Vote Republican and leave the world in the dust. Trump: greatest two-year comeback in presidential history. Over $20 TRILLION in outside investment. Old world record was about $3 trillion. Turn a two-year surge into a 250-year lead. Let him finish. Keep Congress. Make America greater than ever. VOTE REPUBLICAN. FINISH THE JOB!

I’m heartbroken to hear of the passing of my friend Gloria Steinem. I was fortunate to know her well over the years. Through decades of advocacy, she never stopped fighting for a better, more equal society. My heart is with her loved ones and everyone she inspired.

I am deeply grateful and relieved that this day has come – for the last living 20 hostages who have been through unimaginable hell and are finally reunited with their families and loved ones, and for the civilians in Gaza who have experienced immeasurable loss and will finally get the chance to rebuild their lives. The road to this deal was not easy. My Administration worked relentlessly to bring hostages home, get relief to Palestinian civilians, and end the war. I commend President Trump and his team for their work to get a renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line. Now, with the backing of the United States and the world, the Middle East is on a path to peace that I hope endures and a future for Israelis and Palestinians alike with equal measures of peace, dignity, and safety.

Nozick presents this thought experiment in “Anarchy, State, and Utopia” to explain his entitlement theory of justice: Picture a society where wealth is distributed in a way everyone agrees is perfectly just. We call it D1. Now Wilt Chamberlain (famous NBA player for the zoomers) makes a simple offer: Drop 25¢ in the box if you want to watch me play. Fans love it and happily pay. By season’s end, Wilt has $250,000. Welcome to D2: Wilt is now far richer and the original “just” pattern is gone. Nozick asks: If D1 was fair and D2 resulted from purely voluntary choices with zero force or fraud, why would D2 be unjust? Evidently, liberty inevitably disrupts any fixed pattern of wealth. To preserve perfect equality (or any rigid distribution), the government would have to keep intervening, blocking voluntary trades, taxing, and redistributing. So true justice isn’t about the final snapshot. Justice is not equal outcomes or any version of “equality” in the sense proposed by egalitarians (leftists). Justice in a free society is about whether people acquired and transferred their holdings legitimately through voluntary means.

Reverend Joseph Darby Jr. advocated for the people of South Carolina with his heart and soul. A pastor, organizer, and champion for civil rights, he believed deeply in the very idea of America — that we are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives. During his remarkable career, Reverend Darby led with integrity, humility, and determination, and made countless lives better. A legacy that will endure. I will always cherish the years of friendship we shared. Jill and I are keeping his family and all of those who knew and loved him in our prayers. May God bless Reverend Darby.

Throughout our decades of friendship and partnership, I've known Reverend Jackson as history will remember him: a man of God and of the people. Determined and tenacious. Unafraid of the work to redeem the soul of our Nation. I've seen how Reverend Jackson has helped lead our Nation forward through tumult and triumph. He's done it with optimism, and a relentless insistence on what is right and just. Whether through impassioned words on the campaign trail, or moments of quiet courage, Reverend Jackson influenced generations of Americans, and countless elected leaders, including Presidents. Reverend Jackson believed in his bones the promise of America: that we are all created equal in the image of God and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives. While we've never fully lived up to that promise, he dedicated his life to ensuring we never fully walked away from it either. Jill and I are grateful to Reverend Jackson for his lifetime of dedicated service and inspirational leadership. We extend our love to the entire Jackson family, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and all those who counted Reverend Jackson as a mentor, friend, and hero.

What was life really like under communism? Bulgaria is now turning that question into a tourist attraction. In Sofia, an €18 “Communist Tour” takes visitors through Bulgaria’s 45 years under communist rule - from the former Communist Party headquarters and a secret-police investigation facility to Soviet monuments and a memorial to the regime’s victims. Capitalism is now selling tickets to communism. But real life under communism was not a three-hour walking tour. It was the entire horizon of a person’s life. For many Bulgarians, the system provided employment, basic housing, public education and healthcare. That helps explain why memories of the period are not entirely uniform - and why some older people still feel nostalgia for its relative stability. But that security came with an enormous price: one-party rule, censorship, political persecution, secret-police surveillance, confiscation and collectivization of property, forced-labor camps, shortages, queues and severe limits on what people could say, read, believe or do with their own lives. Communism began with an immensely powerful ideal: eliminate exploitation, reduce inequality, give dignity to workers and organize society for the common good. Perhaps many of its early believers genuinely meant well. But when one party claimed the exclusive right to define the “common good,” idealism became coercion. Without a free press, political competition, private initiative or meaningful accountability, there was no effective way to correct mistakes - or restrain those exercising power. The promised equality too often became equality in scarcity, while a new political elite enjoyed privileges unavailable to ordinary people. The architecture tells the same story. Travel through former communist countries and you repeatedly encounter the same landscape: enormous government buildings, vast squares and row after row of grey, standardized apartment blocks. Parts of Bulgaria reminded me vividly of the China during the 1980s and 1990s. The resemblance was not accidental. Soviet architectural models, centralized planning and standardized construction methods spread throughout much of the socialist world. Rapid industrialization required millions of people to be moved into cities and housed quickly. Prefabricated concrete blocks were inexpensive, functional and easy to reproduce. Individuality, ornament and local character became secondary. In systems already suspicious of private luxury and individual expression, uniformity could even be presented as a virtue. Yet while ordinary homes were made repetitive and impersonal, communist governments loved enormous, muscular sculptures: heroic workers, soldiers, farmers and mothers standing upright, gazing confidently toward a radiant future. These figures represented communism’s idealized “new human”—strong, selfless, productive and devoted to the collective - almost like a robot! The contrast was striking: Private life was standardized. State ideology was monumentalized. These buildings and sculptures show both the ambition and the tragedy of communism: its desire to build an entirely new and more equal society—and the authoritarian, colorless and frequently brutal reality that emerged when human complexity was forced into a single political design. That is why these tours matter. Communism should not be reduced to either nostalgia or a tourist spectacle. People should be able to examine the distance between the promised utopia and the lives that were actually lived. As someone who grew up in China, this history did not feel remote, but disturbingly familiar. As socialism regains appeal in parts of the U.S., Bulgaria’s history should ring a warning bell: without checks on power, the promise of equality can become a machinery of control.