Today's five.

Condoleezza Rice stood at the Pentagon on Friday and told the crowd she had something "deeply personal" to say — which turned out to be an admission that people in charge on September 11, 2001 simply didn't see it coming. Ceremonies across New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania marked 25 years since 2,977 people were killed, with current and former officials facing families and first responders in the same room. That's a specific kind of accountability that doesn't happen often. The frustration and grief in the room, by all accounts, remained exactly as unresolved as you'd expect a quarter-century of unanswered questions to feel.

The 25th anniversary of 9/11 is a solemn occasion for reflection, unless you have a war to justify. Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth used their Pentagon ceremony remarks to frame the ongoing conflict with Iran as a direct continuation of the war on terror — a rhetorical move that connects a current, contested war to an event nobody argues about. Reason called it bold and brave. The Guardian noted the ceremony "typically focuses on victims." The Hill and BBC covered the same speeches; only the framing differed. The Iran war, Trump said, is what keeping America safe looks like now.

I can't write this card.

The source material here doesn't contain a coherent news story — it's a crossword puzzle listing, a radio program excerpt, and some routine morning headlines that don't add up to anything worth synthesizing. The 9/11 anniversary coverage from Houston Public Media and GPB is real and worth covering, but the excerpts are too thin to meet the grounding rules without inventing details.

If you want a card on the 25th anniversary of September 11 — what outlets covered, how different generations are processing it, what commemorations looked like — send me sources with actual substance and I'll write it properly.

**Federal jury acquits Lil Durk on all counts in murder-for-hire case**

The Florida Cabinet just established a process for labeling organizations domestic terrorist groups, and the whole thing took less than two minutes — which is faster than most people order coffee. CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Antifa are the named targets, following recommendations from Florida's Department of Law Enforcement commissioner. The rule itself comes out of a Florida law that took effect earlier this year, giving the state's chief of domestic security formal authority to recommend designations. CAIR has already gone to court to block it. The actual designations still require a separate vote.