Haitians are good people. Hard working people. @JDVance @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk @X platform have not right to spread false claims, to lie …they don’t love immigrants and they don’t love USA, a country of immigrants.. https://t.co/tKyPeQ36D5
Earlier this week, Michelle and I called our friend @KamalaHarris. We told her we think she’ll make a fantastic President of the United States, and that she has our full support. At this critical moment for our country, we’re going to do everything we can to make sure she wins in November. We hope you’ll join us.
The great Tom Watson on the 1st tee at Machrihanish 🏴 this morning. 📷 sent to me by my friend Hugh Sinclair in Campbeltown. Hugh caddied for one of the other players. He said that Tom was a perfect gentleman and chatted with the group the entire round.
So Neal Shipley was runner-up in the U.S. Amateur, took Low Am at the Masters and is currently -3 thru 10 on the day at the U.S. Open and T16. He finished 48th(!) in the PGA Tour University rankings. Three takeaways. One, he's a late bloomer. That's a still a very real thing in golf. Two, college golf is just ridiculously deep. Three, the PGA Tour U rankings are pretty incomplete. They don't count the U.S. Amateur which is the biggest tournament on the amateur schedule. I understand why, it's an NCAA-PGA Tour partnership thing so it only includes college and pro events. So Shipley never really had a chance. He went to Ohio State so didn't have the same strength of schedule as the SEC/ACC schools. He just barely got through PGA Tour Americas Q-School last week so he'll be playing there unless something special happens/he gets some more invites.
Either way, he's super fun to watch.
There is so much hate on this platform since it changed ownership, I wanted to post something that restores my faith a bit. Driving the backroads home from work tonight, I came around a curve & saw this guy helping a turtle cross the highway. In the middle of nowhere, Alabama.
1. On Monday, a federal judge dropped an extraordinarily important decision.
It has received ZERO media attention.
In 1871, Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan Act, which allowed people to sue law enforcement officers who violated their Constitutional rights. It was intended to curb white supremacist violence against Black Americans.
In 1967, the Supreme Court flipped it on its head.
They "interpreted" the Ku Klux Klan Act to provide "qualified immunity" to law enforcement officers who violate Constitutional rights in "good faith." It has allowed law enforcement officers who abuse their power to escape accountability.
A federal judge, Carlton Reeves, just issued a powerful ruling urging the Supreme Court to acknowledge its mistake and repeal the doctrine of qualified immunity.
Follow along if interested.
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Augusta National has the power to invite whoever they want to play in the Masters. It’s in their best interest to have the best golfers in the world. Clearly they feel the Official World Golf Ranking isn’t doing a perfect job of identifying those players. Niemann gets his wish.
Sen. Lindsey Graham: "The bottom line is - Conservatives are tolerant, we are kind of get out of your business, you leave me alone, I’ll leave you alone." @Acyn.
It is absolutely disgraceful that @HouseGOP and @SpeakerJohnson will not put #Ukraine aid on the floor for a vote. It would pass…
They are repressing the will of the American people. They cannot stay in power after November.
Despicable
Some of the Old Guard in golf never cease to amaze me.
Took my 4 and 1 year old daughters to the practice putting green to rip some putts.
Was wearing a lululemon tee and golf shorts.
Got kicked off the green - we weren’t in ‘proper golf attire.’
Love to see my 4 and 1 year olds get kicked off a practice putting green.
When is this going to end?
I’ll wear whatever you want me to wear on the golf course. But the practice facility?
Give me a break.
Nick Saban got fired up.
It was December 2014. A reporter asked about defensive lineman D.J. Pettway: “How gratifying is it to you to see him make the most of his second chance?”
Saban launched into a speech every human needs to hear.
(Pettway, who was dismissed from Alabama a year prior, returned to the program and earned his degree.)
Here’s Saban on Second Chances:
“There’s always a lot of criticism out there when somebody does something wrong. Everybody wants to know, how are you gonna punish the guy?
“But there’s not enough, for 19 and 20 year old kids, people out there saying, why don’t you give them another chance.
“Guy makes a mistake. Where do you want him to be? Want him to be in the street? Or do you want him to be here graduating?
“Muhsin Muhammad played for me at Michigan State. Everybody in the school, every newspaper guy, everybody was killing the guy because he got in trouble and said there’s no way he should be on our team. I didn’t kick him off the team. I suspended him, I made him do stuff.
“He graduated from Michigan State. He played 15 years in the league. He’s the president of a company now. He has 7 children, and his oldest daughter goes to Princeton. So, who was right?
“I feel strong about this now. About all the criticism out there of every guy that’s 19 years old that makes a mistake and you all kill him. And then some people won’t stand up for him.
“So my question to you is, where do you want him to be?
“You want to condemn him to a life sentence? Or do you want the guy to have his children going to Princeton?”
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It’s an important message in a world filled with hate.
My takeaways:
1. Everyone makes mistakes. We just forget our own.
2. We tend to judge others who mess up. The better response is compassion.
3. Mistakes are teaching moments, first and foremost. Don’t waste that opportunity.
4. One mistake doesn’t (necessarily) make someone a bad person. Most people have the potential to learn, move on and do better.
5. That said, mistakes require accountability and carry consequences. You have to own them.
6. Second chances don’t guarantee third chances.
7. If you want to feel self-righteous, condemn someone. If you want to actually make a difference, love them.
8. The world needs more loving discipline.
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Kevin De Bruyne.
That’s three points they wouldn’t have.
They’ll win the league by 10 points.
He makes a Michelin star meal looks like a midnight McDonald’s.