Becca Ryun

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Fight night energy is taking over DC.

UFC Freedom 250 is almost here. 🇺🇸

[Daniel Turner @DanielTurnerPTF]

Happy Flag Day. Happy birthday @realDonaldTrump and God Bless America 🇺🇸

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Happy Birthday to the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. A relentless patriot who fights every day for the country he loves, the people he serves, and the American Dream. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Ned Ryun @nedryun]

The adventure is beginning.

[Ned Ryun @nedryun]

Heading out the door for an adventure.

[Ned Ryun @nedryun]

Little 7 on 7 action today at Shenandoah University in Winchester. @jj_ryun with some nice touchdowns, including this one.

[Loudoun Valley Football @FBvikingstrong]

Great work tonight at the Loudoun Showcase …represented Loudoun Valley Football with high level performances. @jj_ryun @AidenOliverLVFB @ethanlaf3 #2026seasonloading #vikingstrong

Appreciate @andrejones1185 @CoachBarnisky @masetraining for putting on another great showcase!

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

Why did Massie lose tonight?

Massie went from principled libertarian during COVID, to GOP leadership lapdog under McCarthy, to anti-Trump Epstein obsessive in 2025 after tweeting about that issue a whopping three (3) times in the decade prior. The nail in the coffin for him was voting against OBBB in 2025 because, according to Massie, it did too much to secure the border.

Trump mercilessly trashed Massie in 2020–calling him a “disaster” for America and Kentucky and saying he should be thrown out of the GOP entirely—but Massie easily swatted that away and won 81-19, so you can’t say he only lost because of Trump. He went toe-to-toe with Trump on COVID in 2020 and won overwhelmingly.

Massie lost because he went from being perceived as a quirky but lovable nerd who seemed to genuinely believe everything he said, to looking like a clout-chasing influencer who cared more about getting TV time with Democrats on an issue he clearly never cared about until five minutes ago than he did about representing his voters.

We’ll never know what caused the apparent personality change—maybe it was the death of his wife, maybe it was the McCarthy race followed by McCarthy’s ouster, or maybe it was a desire for notoriety or media acclaim and a lucrative podcasting career outside of Congress—but the drastic change was undeniable, as was the seeming lack of interest in much of anything happening in Kentucky.

Blame Trump, blame Israel, blame Epstein, blame the tragic death of a spouse, I don’t care. But you cannot just wave away 2020 Massie going face-to-face with the Trump machine and winning in a rout only to get smoked six years later.

Massie’s voters didn’t really change all that much, but he did, and they noticed.

[Ned Ryun @nedryun]

Congress: you dirty little peasants making $70,000 a year can never understand how hard it is to live off $174,000 base plus other financial perks. . .

[JJ Ryun @jj_ryun]

Enjoyed meeting @CoachQHunter and talking about @EmoryHenry_FB.

[JJ Ryun @jj_ryun]

Just wanted to thank Coach @mikegete20 for a great time competing at the Loudoun Showcase yesterday. Thanks also to all the other coaches who helped pull it together.

@andrejones1185 @CoachBarnisky @masetraining @DarkVisors @CoachDaveBishop @FBvikingstrong

[Ned Ryun @nedryun]

Just chatted with @DrMakaryFDA. He’s at peace with it all. As his friend, I’ll say it’s a shame corporate interests won out in the end. But he fought the good fight and he’s going to do absolutely great things in the future.

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

🚨 BREAKING: The Virginia Supreme Court has overturned the Democrat gerrymandering referendum, ruling that the process to put in on the ballot was unconstitutional.

Virginia will keep their 5 Republican districts.

[Ned Ryun @nedryun]

We have a new nephew: Derrion James Ryun. Officially adopted today by my younger sister. She’d fostered him for the last 3 1/2 yrs, began the process of adoption a long time ago. Today was the culmination of years of sacrifice and love. She’ll continue to foster, BTW.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Ned Ryun @nedryun]

Funny how this always seems to go in one direction. But when it comes to a democrat, say like Joe Biden, who’s clearly suffering from dementia? Oh, he’s fit as a fiddle and he could serve another four years.

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

Not a single person crying about how the Supreme Court has made it impossible for black people to get elected supported Winsom Sears over the affluent white lady.

Not one.

[Ned Ryun @nedryun]

Happy birthday to this legend @jimryun. One of my favorite pics of him. He was in a post 1968 Olympics slump. The night before mile final at 1969 NCAA mile finals he’d run in two mile. Shredded his feet. KU needed him to win the mile to beat Villanova for team title. . .

[Wade Miller @WadeMiller]

I voted no against the rigged map and elections proposition.

[Loudoun County Republican Women's Club🇺🇸 @LoudounGOPWomen]

📣 We’ve got a great speaker lined up for our next meeting: Ned Ryun, CEO of American Majority is joining us. Don’t miss out!

🗓️Thursday, April 23
⏰ 6:30PM - Mingle; 7:00 PM - Program
📍LCSO Ashburn Station - Community Room

https://t.co/jUe3J8Q1br