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[Fitz🍀 @CheapSeats411]

Happy #NationalScotchDay to all who celebrate.

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

Traces of Texas reader Sweetwater Sal posted this on my Traces of Texas forum and I actually laughed out loud. I think I'd buy this! 😃

Thank you, Sweetwater Sal!

[Baba Banaras™ @RealBababanaras]

Iranian girl Fatemeh whose video got viral when she riped off her hijab during January protest & demanding the freedom, equality & dignity for Iranian women has been executed by Islamic regime.

Leftist media will not cover this news, you need to tell the world. 💔

[John P Erwin III MD MBA MACC (#BigPoppy ) @HeartOTXHeartMD]

SuziQ had to fly back to the ranch in TX yesterday to get some papers to finalize her Mom‘s estate.

Suzi loves these temps.

Me? Not so much!

[Evil MoPac @EvilMopacATX]

This is a real RAID HEB DOWN TO THE STUDS kind of Bertha update, y'all

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Ridurre le liste d’attesa è una delle sfide più importanti per la nostra sanità.

I primi dati del 2026, certificati da Agenas, ci dicono che siamo sulla strada giusta: nei primi sei mesi di quest’anno sono state effettuate 1,6 milioni di visite ed esami in più entro i tempi previsti rispetto allo stesso periodo dello scorso anno.

È un risultato incoraggiante, frutto del lavoro avviato con la riforma sulle liste d’attesa.

Sappiamo bene che c’è ancora molto da fare e che troppi cittadini aspettano ancora troppo per una prestazione sanitaria. Per questo continueremo a lavorare con determinazione, insieme alle Regioni, per garantire tempi sempre più rapidi e un servizio sanitario più efficiente.

[Hunter Williams @Hunt_Wx]

This week will bring our hottest stretch so far of the summer here in Austin, TX.

Wednesday goes up to 101 for the second triple digit day so far of the summer.

Then Wednesday should be the hottest with highs 100 to 105 degrees across Central Texas.

[Carol M. Swain, PhD @carolmswain]

Sometimes we need a polite way to speak the truth in love. #humor

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

Every Tuesday and Thursday for EIGHT YEARS STRAIGHT, a 73-year-old grandfather has volunteered at a Virginia hospital NICU to hold babies fighting for their lives, some weighing under 2 POUNDS.

And before he lays each one down, he whispers the same blessing over every baby:

"Grow strong. Grow smart. Grow kind." ❤️

His name is Dave Whitlow. He's 73 years old.

He's not a doctor or a nurse. He's a retired government manager, a father of two, a grandfather of three... who decided his retirement belonged to the smallest, most fragile babies in Richmond VA.

Every visit, he holds five or six of them, babies smaller than a loaf of bread, whose parents can't be there every hour because they need to work.

So Dave is there and he's never once missed a day.

"It's the best gig I've ever had. It just feels right."

He doesn't just hold the babies, he says the job is holding up the exhausted parents and the worn-down nurses too. "It all kind of gets tied together, they need God's love too."

For 8 years, every single baby gets the same blessing before he lays them down:

"Grow strong. Grow smart. Grow kind."

Why those words?

"This is what I want from people in general."

He says that somewhere out there in the world are eight years of kids, currently walking, running, starting school, who will never know that when they were two pounds and fighting for every breath, he held them and spoke those words over their lives.

That brings him joy.

He calls that NICU a family he never expected and can't imagine leaving.

GOD BLESS Dave Whitlow.

Grow strong. Grow smart. Grow kind. 🇺🇸

[Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX]

Texas mourns the loss of Army Pvt. Isabella Gonzales of Carrollton, killed in action serving our nation in Jordan. She was just 19 years old. Her courage and sacrifice represent the very best of Texas.

Cecilia and I pray for her family, and for the family of 1st Lt. Tyler Feehan of Hawaii. Our nation is forever indebted to them both. God bless our fallen heroes, and God bless Texas.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Ford's smaller EV pickup truck spotted charging at Tesla Supercharger for the first time. It'll come with a native NACS charging port and an LFP battery.

Ford is aiming for it to have a starting price of ~$30k and launch next year. Going to be interesting to see if they can come anywhere close to that starting price.

[Josh Johns @JoshJohnsWx]

BREAKING: Tropical Depression Two has formed in the Gulf. It is expected to strengthen into Tropical Storm Bertha in the next 24 hours and then target the Middle Gulf coast. Hurricane hunters are flying into it as we speak, and we will bring you updates.

[Kristen Currie @KristenCurrieTV]

BREAKING: Austin included in the forecast cone of what is expected to become Tropical Storm Bertha.

[Sandro van Kuijck @Everydaysandro]

Driving My Tesla from the Arctic Ocean to Tierra de Fuego in the Dead of Winter…

I am proud to announce that on July 16th, I became the first SOLO person in history to drive the FULL length of the Americas with an Electric Vehicle!

Total Duration: 747 Days
Countries: 15

Longest Wait Time to Charge: 3 days (Peru)
Fastest Charge: 35 Minutes (Chile)
Distance driven - 46,961km (29,350mi)
Windshield broken: 0
Flat tires: 0 (OMG) - No Spare
Ran out of Range: 1 (Chile - Atacama Desert)
Total energy consumed: 8,444 kWh
Ave Energy Consumption: 179.8 Wh/km (286Wh/mi)

Bribes Paid: 1 - $100 USD
Robbed: 0
Fines: 0
Breakdowns: 0
Dogs Adopted Me: 100+
Funny Police Searches : 2

The Pan-American Highway is the world’s longest highway, almost spanning the full length of North and South America. Before today, no one had yet driven from the tippy top of North America (Tuktoyaktuk) into the Darien Gap to the southern tip in South America (Ushuaia) in an electric vehicle solo - unsupported. My Model X, Beluga, was converted into the ultimate stealth overlanding rig, with a full kitchen, running water, Starlink and 300 watts of solar panels on the hood, which allowed us to roam across some of the best most remote places on Earth with confidence.

The real challenges here…border crossings, cartels, and corrupt cops, yet I embraced it all. Charging on the other hand, was quite a puzzle sometimes, being a foreigner and having very little information to go on. I discovered how far along the electric movement is and where the short comings lie…and I can say with confidence that Tesla Supercharging is the best and most reliable infrastructure out there…

I wanted to showcase that anyone with a dream can make it happen, without needing all the answers. Thank you to all the kind strangers that helped along the way, and the countless dogs that adopted us and kept guard at night!

https://t.co/N9RAmkI8Vx

The irony..Ushuaia currently doesn’t have any power…so this message is coming from Space, Powered by my Custom Solar Panels!

@Tesla

[Strictly 4 My X’ers @Lizzs_Lockeroom]

A cheat sheet to hopefully help folks avoid the 🌋💩

[a. rao @4arrao]

@HeartOTXHeartMD @ThunderDan63 Chavin Pierre Zero Sparkling Chardonnay, works too

[a. rao @4arrao]

What a day - hiking sleeping lion lion mountain@Fort Davis and dinner at the fabulous @cochineal _marfa

[rudy koski @KoskionFOX7]

Big crowd at Mansfield Dam, watching the second gate open
@fox7austin

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

This might be the first politician I've seen talk about this