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“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.” -Alexis de Tocqueville

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

A game between Argentina and Cape Verde that will leave you speechless 🇦🇷🇨🇻

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

One of the best finishes of this FIFA World Cup has left Messi in shock

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is real footage from 127 years ago.

A family was performing their acrobatic act in Paris, in 1899, and someone was there to film it...

What you are watching was captured by the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, the two Frenchmen who pioneered cinema. Only a few years earlier, in December 1895, they had held the first public screening of projected film in history, using their invention, the Cinématographe.

Now they were pointing their camera at the world around them, recording ordinary life as almost no one ever had before: workers leaving a factory, a train pulling into a station, and this, a family of acrobats throwing their bodies through the air.

The performers were the Kremos, a celebrated troupe who had created their signature act just a few years before this film was made. They were what circus people call icarists, specialists in a breathtaking discipline where one performer lies on their back and launches another into the air with their feet, catching and re-launching them like a juggler using human beings instead of clubs.

The family kept the act alive for generations. Their descendants were still performing, on stages around the world, more than a century after this film was made...

[Purple Peaks @purplemtnpeak]

Stop sleeping on Lauri Markkanen

Career averages with Jazz

PPG: 23.7
RPG: 7.6
Stocks: 1.3

While shooting: 47.4/37.5/88.6

Only NBA player to ever have 100 dunks and 100 3’s in a season 🔥

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

I hope you guys are watching this game. It’s a 16 seed in OT against the defending champion 1 seed.

[Michael Scotto @MikeAScotto]

The Utah Jazz and Josh Okogie have agreed to a two-year, $12 million deal, including a team option for the second year, league sources told @hoopshype. Okogie is a noted defender who shot 38.5% from 3-point range last season. ESPN first on the deal. HoopsHype first on team option

[BrickCenter @BrickCenter_]

Caitlin Clark on getting punched in the throat by Alyssa Thomas:

"I did think it was a flagrant foul. Our reffing just needs to be better… The league has to do better protecting our players."

"The harassment, the hate, none of that is ok."

[NBA @NBA]

The Finnisher 😤

Lauri Markkanen led all scorers with 23 PTS, 4 REB and 2 AST in today's win for Finland 🇫🇮

(via @FIBAWC)

[Manifest History @ManifestHistory]

On this day—July 3, 1863—the third and final day of the Battle of Gettysburg was fought.

General Robert E. Lee ordered a massive frontal assault against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge. Lt. Gen. James Longstreet was placed in overall command of the attack, which featured Maj. Gen. George Pickett’s division along with troops from Maj. Gen. J. Johnston Pettigrew and Maj. Gen. Isaac Trimble.
After a lengthy artillery bombardment, roughly 12,500 Confederates advanced across open ground under heavy Union artillery and rifle fire. The assault, later known as Pickett’s Charge, was repulsed with devastating losses. Only a small number of Southern soldiers reached the Union line before being driven back.

The failure of the attack marked the high-water mark of the Confederacy and effectively ended Lee’s invasion of the North.

[Caitlin Clark News (Fan Account) @22CCnews]

The Odd Couple with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington:
Caitlin Clark Ranked 11th? Parker Says Players Are Jealous

Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington react after Caitlin Clark was ranked just 11th among guards by her fellow WNBA players despite placing much higher with fans and media. Parker argues players are the worst people to vote on All-Stars and awards because personal relationships, rivalries, and jealousy often influence the results. Kelvin says it's hard to believe there are 11 guards better than Clark, but also pushes back on newer Clark fans who often mistake the WNBA's naturally physical style of play for players targeting her. He believes some of the backlash and criticism WNBA players have received from Clark's fanbase may have influenced this vote, with some players potentially taking their frustrations out on Clark at the ballot box. Is this a basketball judgment, a reaction to the Clark phenomenon, or something else entirely?

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[Kerrod Gray | Professional Golf Coach @kerrodgraygolf]

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[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

So damn good. I’ve listened and watched this 10 times. You should too.

[Hans Olsen @GBSHansO]

We’re at the “hard times created strong men, strong men created good times”part of America.
Paine wasn’t quite 40 when he said this.
This dude was ready to deliver.
I love our forefathers.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Do you recycle? Think you’re helping the Earth?

Probably not.

“It’s a sacrament of the green religion,” says @JohnTierneyNYC.

Even @Greenpeace now admits “most plastic simply cannot be recycled."

[NBS Golf @GolfNBS]

Two things to watch in the takeaway:
wrist angles and forearm rotation.
Clean those up, and the rest of the swing has a much better chance. 👊🏌️‍♂️

[Tour Swings Tommy @TourSwingsTommy]

Um what?

This is really really good.

[Logic Universe @LogicUniv]

🇺🇸 250 Years of America in 16 Defining Moments

1776: Declaration of Independence
1787: U.S. Constitution
1863: Emancipation Proclamation
1865: End of the Civil War & 13th Amendment
1917: U.S. Entry into World War I
1920: Women Gain the Right to Vote
1941: Pearl Harbor
1945: End of World War II
1954: Brown v. Board of Education
1963: March on Washington
1964: Civil Rights Act
1965: Voting Rights Act
1969: Apollo 11 Moon Landing
2001: September 11 Attacks
2020: Pandemic & Nationwide Protests
2026: America’s 250th Anniversary

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

On this day, 2 July 1863, the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg was fought.

>20,000+ casualties in a single day
>Little Round Top held
>The Peach Orchard overrun
>Devil’s Den, the Wheatfield, and Culp’s Hill soaked in blood

By nightfall, thousands of young Americans lay dead across names that had meant nothing the day before.

Gettysburg reminds us that nations settle their arguments one of two ways.

With words, or with violence.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

On May 30, 1922, an elderly man in a dark coat stood at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial.

He was seventy-eight years old.

His hair was white.

His body was frail.

Two officers helped steady him as he prepared to climb the marble steps.

The monument behind him belonged to his father.

The weight he carried belonged to history.

His name was Robert Todd Lincoln, the last surviving son of Abraham Lincoln.

And that day, at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial, he made his final public appearance.

President Warren G. Harding led the ceremony. Thousands gathered to honor the man who had guided the nation through civil war and given his life before the healing could truly begin.

But many eyes turned toward Robert.

He was not only a guest.

He was a living bridge.

A man whose childhood had touched the Lincoln home in Springfield and whose old age now stood before a national shrine.

Robert was born in 1843. He studied at Harvard, became a lawyer, and lived much of his life under a name that no private person could ever fully escape.

Being Abraham Lincoln’s son brought honor.

It also brought sorrow.

On April 14, 1865, when John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre, Robert was in Washington. He rushed to the Petersen House and sat through the night near his dying father.

He watched the president become a martyr.

He watched his father become memory.

Years later, tragedy found him again.

In 1881, Robert was serving as Secretary of War when President James Garfield was shot at a Washington railroad station. Robert was there, close enough to rush toward the wounded president as panic spread around him.

Garfield lingered for weeks before dying.

Then, in 1901, Robert arrived in Buffalo as President William McKinley was shot at the Pan-American Exposition. He was nearby when the news broke. McKinley survived for several days, then died from infection.

Three presidents.

Three assassinations.

Robert had been present or nearby for all of them.

The coincidence haunted him.

He once remarked that there seemed to be a certain fatality about presidential occasions when he was present.

His life held another strange thread.

As a young man, he once slipped between a moving train and the platform at a station in New Jersey. A stranger grabbed him by the collar and pulled him to safety.

The man who saved him was Edwin Booth, one of the most famous actors of his time.

He was also the brother of John Wilkes Booth.

History seemed to circle Robert Lincoln in ways almost too strange to believe.

Yet he was more than a witness to sorrow.

He served on General Ulysses S. Grant’s staff near the end of the Civil War.

He became a respected attorney in Chicago.

As Secretary of War, he helped oversee the army during a period of change.

Later, as minister to Great Britain, he represented the United States abroad with steadiness and restraint.

In business, he led the Pullman Palace Car Company through difficult years and remained one of the most prominent figures of his generation.

Still, he preferred privacy.

Perhaps he had seen too much of what public life could cost.

By the time he stood at the Lincoln Memorial in 1922, Robert was the last living child of Abraham and Mary Lincoln. His brothers had all died long before. His mother was gone. The world of the Civil War had faded into textbooks, monuments, and old men’s memories.

He alone still carried the family line back to the house in Springfield.

To the White House during war.

To the room where his father died.

Four years later, in 1926, Robert Todd Lincoln died in Vermont, just before his eighty-third birthday.

He had lived a life of privilege, service, grief, and restraint.

He had never sought to become a symbol.

But history made him one anyway.

In the photograph from the memorial dedication, he looks tired but composed, leaning on those beside him as he climbs.

Behind him is the seated figure of Abraham Lincoln carved in stone.

In front of him is a nation still trying to understand what that life had meant.

Robert Todd Lincoln was the last living link to the president who held the Union together.

And until the end, he carried that link quietly.