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[FloRacing @FloRacing]

A hard change of fortunes in 24 hours for Robert Ballou, good news is he is okay. #USAC #ISW26

[USAC Racing @USACNation]

𝑷𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆 💨

@HunterPercent’s lead stands at 8 in the race for the USAC Indiana Sprint Week Parallax / ProSource Passing Master title.

He leads the way into tonight's @TSS_Haubstadt finale.

𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒔 ▶️ https://t.co/7riYRqi3zc

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

Grown adult professing not to be educated on the athletic differences between men and women. Another banner moment for the WNBA this week.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

For the first time in recorded history, a civilization has decided that the most enlightened virtue is to surrender its culture, heritage, women, and children without putting up any defence. Suicidal empathy shall prove to be the demise of the West.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Indiana Fever coach says she “isn’t educated enough from a scientific standpoint” to say if men should be able to play women’s sports. These people are batshit insane.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

My wife and I have made a list of five people we can sleep with if we ever get the chance.

She picked Brad Pitt, Sam Elliott, Tom Hardy, Kevin Costner, and Jon Hamm.

I’ve gone for her sister, her cousin, her best friend, the blonde UPS driver and the girl with big boobs at Dunkin’. Now I’m sleeping on the sofa because apparently she is not happy with my choices.

[Clifton Duncan @cliftonaduncan]

These all came out in 1995.

A big reason people are nostalgic for this era is that even if you only saw one movie a month, you could still see 12 bangers per year.

And it made our lives infinitely better.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most beloved paintings in America, and it puts its finger on something we all pass through, first as the child, and one day as the parent left behind...

The painting is Breaking Home Ties, by Norman Rockwell, on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1954. A father and his teenage son sit side by side on the running board of a battered farm truck, waiting at a railway stop. A single track runs along the bottom of the picture. A ticket pokes from the boy's pocket. His suitcase is stacked with schoolbooks and wears a "State U" pennant. The train is coming to carry him off to college, away from home, for the first time in his life.

Everything is in the way they sit.

The son sits upright, scrubbed and dressed in his best, eyes fixed on the horizon, on the track, on the future rushing toward him. He is already half gone. For him that train is the beginning of everything.

His father sits beside him in worn work clothes and scuffed boots, looking the other way, down the line, as if he cannot bear to watch it arrive. The same train means the opposite thing to him. For the son it is the start of a life. For the father it is the day the house grows quieter, the chair at the table sits empty, and the person he built his world around walks out into a life that no longer has him at its centre.

Look at his hands. He is holding two hats. His own battered one, and resting on top of it, his son's crisp new one, held carefully together, because it is the last small thing he can still do for the boy...

And then the dog, its head laid in the son's lap, gazing up, refusing to look away. Rockwell knew exactly what that was for: "The father couldn't show how he felt about the boy's leaving," he said. "The dog did."

It has moved people for 70 years because every leaving is a beginning for one person and an ending for another. The child steps out into the world, as they should. And someone stays behind, watching them go, and loving them enough to let them go anyway...

[Detroit Tigers @tigers]

1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ FOR TARIK SKUBAL 👏

[Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 @chadfelixg]

In college I worked on a project to plant a vegetable garden for students to browse as needed on campus.

End hunger.
Encourage healthy eating.

What little grew was taken in bulk by a few people, mostly non-students. Someone would just show up and pick everything they could carry and leave.

At my synagogue I volunteered for multiple free food, clothing and donation events.

Anyone could come in and get what they needed.

One couple came in and just started hauling things to their car. Armloads of clothes and books and food items.

The people who might have really needed it were too embarrassed to come in. I had to convince an older woman it was OK to take a few cans of food and a sweater she liked.

It had to be turned into a small fee event. $5 for all you can carry in a paper bag or something.

The college garden was abandoned after multiple tries largely because people kept destroying it at night.

I worked for a charity that offered free cooking courses with a box of vegetables at the end and no one came. The shelter residents wouldn't participate. The recovery patients wouldn't participate. The lower income benefits recipients wouldn't participate.

I've worked on multiple free food box campaigns for vulnerable communities. Identify families or individuals and mail them boxes of meal prep foods. Most of the boxes were tossed out. No one wanted fresh vegetables. They wanted free bags of chips and mac n cheese. We asked for feedback and that's what they told us. They didn't like 'healthy,' foods.

All this to say, there are plenty of people in need and an abundance of resources that could be used.

I have just never seen a 'free,' system work. Not once. It is always abused into oblivion.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

https://t.co/vYzKkrOdT0

[BowTiedBroke @BowTiedBroke]

Here is my personal list of vacation markets that I think are going to see the highest Foreclosure rates over next 2-3 years:

1) Broken Bow, OK
2) Blue Ridge, GA
3) Elijay, GA
4) Maggie Valley, NC
5) Helen, GA
6) Beech Mtn, NC
7) Mineral Bluff/Cherry Log, GA
8) Eureka Springs, AR
9) McCall, ID
10) Sisters, OR
11) Sandpoint, ID
12) Payson/White Mtns, AZ
13) Whitefish, MT
14) Lake of Ozarks, MO
15) Leavenworth, WA

Many of these were "Second home/family vacation cabin" markets before Covid. Then the lockdown caused a flood of AirBnB speculators in many small towns. That caused prices to skyrocket and a lot of FOMO buyers to jump on the "AirBnB is passive income" train from 2022 - 2025. I am already seeing quite a few foreclosures go all the way to fruition in some of the above towns (the process usually takes 1 - 2 years from the date of the last mortgage payment by the owner). I go into details of each of these towns in my Newsletter I'm releasing today.

In the next hour, I'll be dropping it at https://t.co/uY390cmOdD where I break down a specific foreclosure in one of the above towns so you know how to spot them and how they progress along the path of:

1) Last Made Mortgage Payment
2) Short Sale Attempt
3) Foreclosure paperwork
4) Actual Default Foreclosure
5) Bank Asset Manager
6) Sale of Property by bank

Today's write up will be wide open to everyone (because I feel this a very important topic to know/learn about in the next few years). If you've ever wondered what the Foreclosure process looks like and want to know more about what happened in the above towns, you will want to read it.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

LGBTQers are melting down over a new billboard in Lima, Ohio, that says "No child has two dads" and "No child has two moms."

The LGBTQ community complains they are being targeted, claiming the sign is "hateful."

The billboard is attributed to the organization Them Before Us, a "global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father."

Them Before Us is firing back at the LGBTQ critics, saying that a "mother and a father are a fact, not a feeling."

What a great (and true) message.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

This is the kind of desk we had when I was in high school. Just look at that son of a bitch. I feel like I came over on the Mayflower.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

-Dale Carnegie

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

Our corporate policy dictates that we replace executive mobile devices every 24 months.

This means I have a closet containing 400 perfectly functional older generation smartphones.

HR asked me when I was going to contact an e-waste recycling vendor to dispose of them.

I told them we can't recycle these devices yet.

I explained that the lithium-ion matrices need to undergo a prolonged biometric quarantine.

I said we have proprietary company data baked into the deep silicon cache that takes years to evaporate.

None of that means anything.

Data doesn't evaporate.

But HR stopped asking questions immediately.

Instead of recycling them, I mounted all 400 phones to a massive piece of plywood in the basement.

I connected them to a dedicated power supply and wired them into a segregated VLAN.

I wrote a script that forces every single phone to continuously stream a YouTube channel.

The YouTube channel just plays 10-hour loops of rain sounds.

I own the YouTube channel.

I'm generating ad revenue from 400 concurrent U.S.-based viewers.

The phones run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

My localized click-farm is currently netting me about $3K a month in passive income.

Last week, the VP of Ops wandered into the basement and saw the glowing wall of screens.

He asked me what on earth he was looking at.

I didn't even blink.

I told him it was a distributed mobile redundancy matrix.

I explained that we were stress-testing our cloud infrastructure by simulating high-density mobile traffic.

He called it an absolute masterclass in proactive load balancing.

He actually took a picture of my click-farm to show the board how innovative we are.

The company is paying the electricity bill to power my personal monetization engine.

I'm going to use this month's ad revenue to buy a new Herman Miller Aeron chair.

I deserve it.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 4, 1974, the Cleveland Indians had one of the worst ideas in sports history: 10 cent beer night.

A cup of Stroh's went from 65 cents down to a dime. Limit of six per trip to the counter, but you could go back as many times as you wanted. So basically unlimited beer.

It gets better. A week earlier these same two teams had brawled in Texas, so Cleveland fans showed up already wanting blood. About 25,000 packed the stadium, way more than expected.

By the middle innings it was total chaos. Fans were setting off firecrackers, throwing hot dogs and rocks, and running onto the field. A woman flashed the crowd. A father and son ran out and mooned the outfield. Streakers everywhere. Rangers manager Billy Martin just stood in the dugout blowing kisses at the drunks screaming at him.

Then the Indians tied it 5-5 in the bottom of the 9th. That's when it fully broke.

A kid ran out and grabbed Rangers outfielder Jeff Burroughs' cap. Burroughs stumbled, and Billy Martin thought his player was getting jumped. So he grabbed a bat and led the entire Rangers team charging onto the field to fight the crowd. Then the Indians came out with bats too, to protect the Rangers from thousands of drunk fans.

A reliever got hit in the head with a steel folding chair. The umpire, Nestor Chylak, got cut by a thrown rock and a piece of a stadium seat, and needed stitches.

He forfeited the game to Texas on the spot and called the fans "uncontrollable beasts," saying he'd never seen anything like it "except in a zoo."

The best part? Cleveland had four more beer nights already scheduled that season.

[Akito @itsak1to]

Michael Jordan's Nike contract paid him $2.5 million over five years. his mother demanded one extra clause that has since paid him over $1.3 billion.

in 1984 Jordan didn't want Nike. he wanted Adidas. he refused to even take the meeting.

his mother Deloris made him go.

Nike offered $500,000 a year - more than double Adidas. everyone in the room was ready to sign. Deloris wasn't. she called Nike's Sonny Vaccaro personally and told him her son needed something else: a percentage of every single shoe sold with his name on it.

nobody had ever done that. athletes got paid a fee and went home.

Nike reluctantly agreed.

they projected $3 million in Air Jordan sales for year one. they hit $126 million. in the first six weeks they sold 1.5 million pairs.

Jordan Brand now generates around $7 billion a year. Jordan personally collects roughly 5% of every item sold - over $350 million last year alone, decades after he stopped playing.

Nike was so unsure about him they wrote four escape clauses into the deal. he cleared every one in his rookie season.

"a shoe is just a shoe until my son steps into it." - Deloris Jordan

the salary made him rich for five years. the clause his mother insisted on made him a billionaire forever ↓

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Income and education are usually positively correlated. But sometimes the relationship breaks down. What's the most Democratic voting group in America? People with post-graduate degrees but lower-to-middle incomes.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Hi Letitia,

I am a meteorologist. Maybe I can be of some help here.

The wildfire smoke we have seen recently blanketing the skies across the central / eastern U.S. came from Canada. I attached an animation below on the left for your viewing pleasure.

Suing the Trump EPA is not going to stop forest fires any more than President Trump threatening to levy tariffs on Canada will stop them. In your case, the fires aren't our nation's problem, and in Trump's case, over 50% of fires in Canada are caused by lightning and because the majority of Canada's boreal forests are in remote locations that are difficult to access, proper forest management isn't easily feasible.

As for exceedingly high temperatures, what you are describing there is, well, summer. This your first year on Earth, lady? Summers are hot. They always have been. They always will be. And, in the case of unusual heat, the average number of heatwave events per year—defined as three or more consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures ≥90th percentile relative to 1991−2020 climatology (TX90p)—have decreased by 20.2% since the beginning of the 20th century (1994−2025 average minus 1901−30).

I am interested in scientific facts, not fairytales, and your frivolous suit should be dismissed in court no sooner than it is brought forward.

cc: @NewYorkStateAG