Hannah Schmitt

don’t be ignorant

[Hannah Schmitt @34schmitt]

@MeghanMcCain Are you forgetting it has happened multiple times… the hypocrisy of this is crazy.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism.

It’s disgusting and dangerous.

If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign.

Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness.

To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.

[Hannah Schmitt @34schmitt]

I don’t have words… 1st so uneducated about Autism 2nd- what an absolute asshole. So much rage at this administration.

[Acyn @Acyn]

RFK JR: And these are kids who will never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, they'll never play baseball, they'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨 BOOOOOM!!!

Senator Bennet might have just ended RFK Jr.'s chances of being nominated as HHS Secretary. Watch how he cuts through the BS and asks the tough questions.

THIS is how you do it.

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

until the day i die i will never understand how this wasn’t the end of it

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich just delivered a truth bomb about Donald Trump: "He's pathetic. He's small. He's a whiner...He's a damaged man."

[Hannah Schmitt @34schmitt]

WTF.

[Patrick Rynard @patrynard]

JD Vance says Americans without children should “face the consequences and the reality” and not get “nearly the same voice” in democracy

Vance: “Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children.”

[Jared Berggren @jberggren40]

I get a lot of parents asking me for advice regarding AAU. Here are my thoughts: 📖 ⬇️

I’m not here to attack AAU whatsoever. Playing AAU changed my life!

HOWEVER - AAU has grown into a whole different beast.

A mom told me she was being told her son has to play on the top AAU team now, and if he takes the summer off to play baseball instead, he’ll never be on a top team and won’t be seen by college coaches and won’t have a chance to play in college. The kid was in 6th grade at the time!🤦🏼‍♂️

My story is unique, and I’m not recommending this to anyone else, but I didn’t play AAU until after 10th grade.

I went from playing in my small hometown of Princeton, MN, to playing with Howard Pulley on the Nike circuit against future NBA all stars and committing to Wisconsin a few months later.

And AAU is what opened the doors to those opportunities!

But if you are in 5th/6th grade, is spending 10 hours in the car every weekend driving to Kansas City to play 4 games really the best use of your time?

You spend thousands of dollars throughout the summer to play in games where you might take 7 shots and never once finish with your left hand.

How much better does that make you?

What if those hours wasted traveling were spent in the gym instead? Getting purposeful reps working on your ball handling, finishing, and shooting?

Of course you also need to play games. Playing games is irreplaceable to build your IQ and general feel for the game.

And the memories of going on trips and winning tournaments with your friends will last forever. And that is important too.

But I think in general the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of games vs practice.

Playing games should be the reward. But when kids are potentially playing 100+ games a year between AAU and school / travel ball, the games mean less and less.

AAU is great. But kids aren’t being recruited in 6th grade. Team rosters change.

Kids shouldn’t be traveling every single weekend for tournaments. Let them be kids. Play other sports. Spend more time practicing and less time traveling. That’s my opinion.

And if you want to travel all over the country starting in 4th grade because you love it and it works for your family, that’s great!

But don’t do it just to keep up with the Joneses

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Holy sh*t Obama is bringing the fire!

[Hannah Schmitt @34schmitt]

My mom is my best friend on Snapchat lol.. something I never thought I’d say

[Hannah Schmitt @34schmitt]

Holy shit.

[Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn]

Now do Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education.

[Hannah Schmitt @34schmitt]

Every single word of this.

[Golden State Warriors @warriors]

Steve Kerr on today's tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

[Oklahoma Softball @OU_Softball]

Mental health matters, today and every day 💚

[Chad Asplund @chadasplund]

Thread: Tragically learned about another college athlete suicide - we're reaching near epidemic levels of suicide in this population. While important for colleges to have resources-this problem is much bigger than having/not having psych available. ITS TIME TO CHANGE THE CULTURE!

[Muffet McGraw @MuffetMcGraw]

The last 5 women’s basketball national championship teams were all led by women 👊🏼🏆 let’s keep this trend going!

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

When in doubt. Be kind.

[David Pollack @davidpollack47]

Kids aren’t the same but parents are officially out of control in youth sports. Trainers, private coaches, homework, year round grind. You will snatch the love of the game away before you create a hall of famer. Play all the sports.

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

Let us look into the eyes of the discarded people we meet, let us be provoked by the faces of children, the children of desperate migrants. Let us allow ourselves to be moved by their suffering in order to react to our indifference. #MigrantsDay

[Hannah Schmitt @34schmitt]

Lol

[R. Eric Thomas @oureric]

They say you have to set your clocks back on Sunday but I’m going to do my own research.