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VPI: yesterday, today, tomorrow. side eye distributor. adult beverage imbiber.

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Hercules and Nessus, by Giambologna, 1599

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what are the odds?

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

NEWS: A judge in district court in Lubbock County, Texas, has granted the injunction requested by Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby. He’s set to be eligible for the 2026 season.

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@JohnSchick we do a lot of skillet pan style, typically i cook over a burner first for 5 mins-ish to get the crust more crispy before baking .

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@JohnSchick i’ve done a chicago upside down in a bowl, but not a skillet which i think you’re referring. i’ll get to one day, but today in honor of the knicks, i want a ny style.

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@JohnSchick @MMcCunney i can’t justify that either. we do a lot of skillet pizza, but i want thinner and crispier so i bought a 1/4” pizza steel for $75. just seasoned it & plan on trying tomorrow unless we have too many pool beers. 😂

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look, i don’t make the rules, but you now have to buy the t-shirt, cut off the sleeves and contemplate life over a vape and your light beer of choice.

[Tom McMillan @TomMcMillan63]

You can’t make this stuff up. Outer Banks, NC

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

84 years ago today, a pilot running out of fuel made a decision that won the Pacific War. Most Americans have never heard his name.

June 4, 1942. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan's navy is undefeated. Four of the carriers that burned Pearl, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, are steaming toward Midway to finish off the US Pacific Fleet.

At 7:52 AM, Wade McClusky launches from USS Enterprise leading 32 Dauntless dive bombers. Here's the detail nobody mentions: McClusky is a fighter pilot. He'd been given the air group weeks earlier and had barely flown a dive bomber in combat. Now he's leading every SBD the Enterprise has at the most important target in the Pacific.

9:20 AM. He arrives at the intercept point where the Japanese fleet is supposed to be.

Empty ocean. Nothing for miles.

The Japanese had turned. Nobody knew where. And now McClusky owns the worst math problem in naval aviation: his fuel is bleeding away, and every minute he keeps searching, he condemns more of his own pilots to ditch in open water where nobody will find them.

Doctrine is clear. Turn back.

McClusky keeps going. He works a search pattern, squeezing miles out of dying fuel tanks.

9:55 AM. Far below, a single Japanese destroyer is cutting a white scar across the ocean at flank speed. It's the Arashi, racing to rejoin the fleet after depth-charging the American submarine Nautilus. Think about that. A failed sub attack is about to give away the entire Japanese navy.

McClusky reads the wake like an arrow and follows it.

10:02 AM. The horizon fills with the entire Japanese strike force. Four carriers, their decks crammed with planes being refueled and rearmed. Fuel lines snaking everywhere. Bombs stacked in the open.

And here's the miracle: the sky above them is empty. Minutes earlier, American torpedo squadrons had attacked at sea level and been annihilated. Torpedo 8 lost all 15 planes. One survivor, Ensign George Gay, watched what came next while hiding under his seat cushion in the water. Those doomed pilots dragged every Japanese fighter down to the waves. The door upstairs was wide open.

10:22 AM. McClusky pushes over from 14,500 feet. Both squadrons follow him down onto Kaga. It's actually a mistake, doctrine said split the targets, but Lt. Dick Best catches it mid-dive, pulls out with two wingmen, and goes after Akagi alone. His single bomb pierces the flight deck into the packed hangar. It's enough.

By 10:28, Kaga, Akagi, and Soryu, the third hit simultaneously by Yorktown's bombers, are floating infernos. Six minutes. Three carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, gone. Hiryu follows them to the bottom that evening.

The cost of McClusky's gamble was real. Many Enterprise bombers never made it home, some shot down, others swallowed by the sea when their tanks ran dry. McClusky himself was jumped by two Zeros on the way out, took five bullets through his shoulder, and still flew his shot-up Dauntless back to the Enterprise.

Admiral Nimitz said McClusky's decision "decided the fate of our carrier task force and our forces at Midway." Japan never won another major battle.

One borrowed pilot. One destroyer's wake. One choice to keep flying when every gauge said go home.

[greg @greg16676935420]

Another case of cops thinking they’re above everyone else. Absolutely NO ONE should be microwaving fish in a public microwave.

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the 10s and 10s of fans getting their money back?

[David Teel @ByDavidTeel]

Instead of playing the first college football game in South America, #UVA and NC State this season will play the 519th at Scott Stadium. Whether Week 0 or Week 1, TBA.

https://t.co/oM5kw8vWP2

[William Seely @william_seely]

On this day at Belleau Wood in 1918, when a French officer urged the #Marines to retreat before the German advance, Capt. Lloyd Williams—a #VirginiaTech Corps of Cadets alumnus and graduate—replied with words that became immortal: “Retreat? Hell! We just got here!” 🇺🇸

The Marines held the line, helped stop the German offensive toward Paris, and forged the legend of Belleau Wood. Semper Fidelis. #MarineCorps @usmc @VTCorpsofCadets #BelleauWood #WWI

[Tom Fornelli @TomFornelli]

The Thunder are the third straight new NBA dynasty to come up short of a second title.

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

Shrey spelling 32 words in 90 seconds to win the Spelling Bee is the new greatest athletic accomplishment of 2026. I don’t even know how he said the letters that fast. Got a “Holy Mackerel” out of
@minakimes

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or hear me out opening a brewery in a post peak saturated craft beer market, while making WAY below avg swill in the literally the only part of the 757 where a military themed brewery wouldn't just print money. instead let's be inflammatory to half the craft beer customer base.

[The Virginian-Pilot @virginianpilot]

Armed Forces Brewing sues Norfolk residents, social media account for $50 million: https://t.co/fOyxmXN2GM

[House of Lowlights @HouseLowlights]

Shai lost the ball, so he threw himself to the floor and started rolling like he got hit by a truck.

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@WillsWorldMN oof 😂

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radford cleaned up their act. props to them.

[Top Tier @TopTierStateX]

Top 20 Colleges with The Highest STD Rates

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Centennial High School graduation in Franklin, Tennessee was held outdoors despite heavy rain and lightning

Weather is known in advance so the caroming could have been moved indoors but school officials had a “Rain or Shine” Policy so the Pre-Set Plans had to move ahead

They knew the rain was coming but thought they could get the ceremony done before the rain and didn’t want to move the ceremony into the gym. From what I could find they didn’t know if everyone would fit

They even had a backup plan incase it rained

Staff indicated that if it rained on Thursday, they’d try again Friday and go indoors if needed then. They stuck with the original Thursday plan rather than moving it to Friday

Many parents and attendees were extremely frustrated, calling it unsafe due to the lightning strikes. They were disappointing because it was such a milestone

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

One day you’ll miss the chaos that is T-Ball 🤣

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just last month. 78ish.

[Luce @lucyshow11]

You’re in high school in the 70s/80s what’s your choice of beer? 🍺

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all to the direction of some british experimental rock.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The Wizard of Oz turns 87 this year, and back in 1998, critic Rick Polito wrote what might be the greatest one-line TV listing ever for TCM.