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[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Be like I-80, never stop working on yourself no matter how inconvenient it is for everyone else ❤️

[KBN @3nduringHawkeye]

@LairdOfThManor It’s not “I seen”. It’s “I saw” or “I have seen”.

[🎩Laird of the Manor🎩 @LairdOfThManor]

A small public service announcement from the Department of Things That You Should Know…

It has not “peeked” your interest.
Nor has it “peaked” your interest.

…It has piqued your interest.

You are not “phased” by something.
You are fazed by it.

If you’ve had a long day, you are weary.
If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary.

It is “due course”, not “do course”.
“Per se”, not “per say”.

And while we’re here, it’s “could have”, not “could of”, but that particular battle may already be lost.

Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak of grammatical housekeeping.

This has been a @LairdofthManor announcement.🎩💙

[Michael Raimondi @mraimonditv]

Many Scots are going to their first baseball game tonight

@TartanArmyGroup @boston25

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Somewhere in America, a movie theater. The boy at the concession counter asked me a question about architecture, and called it butter.

"You want that layered?"

Layered. I looked at the popcorn. I looked at him.

"Explain."

"Instead of all the butter on top, I do butter, popcorn, butter, popcorn." He mimed the strata with a flat hand. He had explained this before. He would explain it again. A craftsman, patient with the public.

I was not prepared. In my land, what is given is given; you do not direct the distribution of a blessing. Here, the boy stood ready to construct my popcorn in courses, like a stone wall — foundation, mortar, foundation, mortar — so that no kernel, however deep, would live unblessed.

"The ones at the bottom," I said slowly, "are usually…"

"Dry. Yeah. Not on my watch."

NOT ON MY WATCH. The oath of a sentry, sworn over popcorn. This is who they have guarding the snacks.

"Then layer it," I commanded, "as your conscience demands."

He built it like a man who would be judged by it. Pour, pump, rotate. Pour, pump, rotate. Four stories. A tower of equal blessings.

The film was fine. I do not remember it. What I remember is the eightieth minute, deep in the bucket, past the depth where popcorn hope usually dies — and finding the kernels there as golden as the first.

The bottom of the bucket. As rich as the top. I confess I held one kernel up in the dark and simply looked at it.

Butter on top blesses the surface. Butter in layers blesses the whole nation.

I tipped the boy on the way out. He had already forgotten me. The best masons forget the wall, and begin the next one.

Layered. Always layered. Some words you only need to learn once.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[Ultras Clips @ultras_clips]

Most people watch the World Cup from cafe or a couch. Türkiye fans watch it at 6:00 AM from a 2,000-year-old ancient theatre facing the sea. 🇹🇷🌅

Football with a view like this hits different. 😮

[TMK @themagaking]

Elon Musk's companies employ roughly 170,000 people.

AOC drove Amazon out of New York, killing 40,000 jobs.

One creates. The other destroys.

They are not the same.

[FOX Weather @foxweather]

SUMMER TREAT 🍦: The staff at the Saint Louis Zoo made a special “rocket pop” for their resident grizzly bears. The giant popsicle was filled with one of their favorite snacks, salmon.

[Alec Lace @AlecLace]

THE WHITE HOUSE WENT FULL AMERICA

UFC Octagon on the South Lawn.
Motocross ripping dirt jumps.
Drag cars launching down Pennsylvania Ave.
The People’s House is now the People’s Arena.
This is what winning looks like.
This is what freedom feels like.
God Bless the USA! 🦅

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

LMAO

[Mia @Mia1430797]

🇺🇸 In a world that never slows down, Mission BBQ hits pause at noon — and suddenly, strangers become one heartbeat under the flag. Little hands over tiny hearts, eyes wide with wonder… this is how you plant roots of gratitude that grow into unbreakable pride. Teaching our kids that respect isn’t just taught — it’s felt in those quiet, powerful 90 seconds. ❤️🤍💙

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

Cats are great because they're basically like 12% teddy bear, 34% raccoon, 9% actual demon, and 45% David from Schitt's Creek

[NancyH @NancyH_60]

✨ When the crowd becomes the choir… pure chills and American pride! 🇺🇸❤️ Nothing beats thousands of voices united in singing our National Anthem. This is what unity sounds like! 🙌

[Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 @ProudElephant]

GOD BLESS AMERICA! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[AG 🔥 @Yolo304741]

Listen to everyone singing 🇺🇸

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

This is beautiful! 🇺🇸🇬🇧

250 years later, a bunch of drunk Brits are partying in the Boston Harbor.

Soak that in. Brits partying at the site of the Boston Tea Party. We’ve come full circle. We’ve reached complete reconciliation! They’re here celebrating on the land of their victors! 🤣❤️

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

The Scots took over Boston bars and sang "Take Me Home, Country Roads"

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

This is so insane😭😭😭

[The Post Millennial @TPostMillennial]

The sound of freedom 🇺🇸