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@MarshallLocke @SpeakerJohnson @LeaderJohnThune Sadly, I'm right there with you

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@ryanmouquegolf My swing suffers from significant casting. I have good rotation and bring the club/irons back and close to parallel, so don’t want to lose speed and strength in the swing. what are some of the best ways to get the wrists down and even/ahead of the club when it meets the ball.

[Mykhailo Fedorov @FedorovMykhailo]

Congratulations to Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi on his appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

This is a breath of fresh air and a new source of hope in the fight of free people for freedom and justice. It is the voice of change that could no longer be ignored.

Now, the high expectations of the Ukrainian people must be met with a clear vision for bringing the War of Independence to a successful conclusion, a strong team and decisive action focused on saving the lives of our service members, accelerating the robotization of the battlefield, delivering asymmetric strikes and exhausting Russia’s economy.

I also called General Oleksandr Syrskyi to thank him for the defense of the Kyiv region, the Kharkiv counteroffensive and other historic battles.

These achievements are already an important part of Ukraine’s history.

But now we must move even faster, write the next chapters of that history and correct the mistakes of the past.

Thank you to everyone who made this possible.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

The World Cup was exactly what America needed, at exactly the right time. In an era when nearly everything divides, sports has a unique ability to unite.

The World Cup is special because it is one of the few events where we are not rooting for a city, a college, or a pro franchise. We’re rooting for the country.

Moments of shared identity like this are rare, but they matter. During this month, people who disagree about almost everything else can wear the same jersey, root for the same outcome, and debate the same Balogun red (bad call).

Americans found a moment to come together and root for the country as one. More than 33 million watched the last US game, an audience larger than that for the college football title game or the deciding NBA Finals game. And that was for a round of 32 game. Against Bosnia. The audience will be bigger against Belgium tonight.

So much of entertainment is personalized today as we all watch a different show at a different time on a personal device. But the World Cup is best viewed in a crowd, in a community, and hence dozens of cities have created public viewing venues. Hundreds of thousands of people in dozens of cities will attend a public watch party at a park or random stadium tonight, just to be able to passionately chant “U-S-A” in unison and celebrate collectively.

The tournament has also given millions of visitors a chance to experience America beyond the headlines. They have come for soccer, but they leave having experienced the cities, food, culture, stadiums, and even gas stations. They’ve also seen the extraordinary diversity that defines the US, reflected even in our own team.

They see a nation different from the headlines that often dominate international news and they share these stories with their communities. That’s the real value of hosting an international tournament and comes at an opportune time.

At the same time, many (most?) Americans have a multicultural identity. For them, rooting for the US does not preclude rooting for another team, or several. It’s a chance to reflect on what makes one an American without losing family ties and personal history.

The World Cup gives Americans a different perspective. We’re accustomed to being the favorite. We have the largest economy, the leading military, and the most successful companies. What we don’t have is the best soccer team, at least not on paper. This month we’re reminded what it’s like to be the scrappy underdog, trying to compete with the big dogs like France, Spain, and Argentina.

When you're the favorite, winning is merely meeting expectations. When you're the underdog, every win is a step forward. For a country that so often occupies the role of the favorite, we seldom have the chance to appreciate incremental progress. Whether we win or lose tonight (and we will win), this tournament has been a huge success and has illuminated the path for the next 4-year cycle.

Americans were ready for a reason to cheer together. The US Men’s National Team has given us one.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today marks the 250th anniversary of one of humanity's brightest, strongest, and most influential dreams – the American Dream of an independent, free, and prosperous nation that defends people's freedom, faith, and the pursuit of happiness.

That dream has endured many trials. It did not merely survive – it has, for two and a half centuries now, served as an example for other nations and helped the entire humanity stand firm and become freer. This was especially important in the 20th century, when America helped save the world from the rule of tyrants and built the alliances and partnerships that, for the first time, gave a large part of humanity lasting peace and the opportunity to develop in freedom.

Now, in the 21st century, America's influence and importance are certainly no less. And we see that particularly clearly in Ukraine, which is fighting for its independence, freedom, and our people's right to happiness with much the same hope, the same purpose, and the same determination with which Americans won and defended their own independence.

We deeply value the support of the United States, especially now, during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. American weapons – from the Javelins that President Trump decided to give to Ukraine to the Patriots that most reliably protect the lives of our people – everything the United States has provided to help us defend our country demonstrates the strength of the American spirit, American resolve, and American technology.

And we know the value of all these words better than anyone. When we ask America for Patriots, we believe that the values of respect for life and for people that prevailed 250 years ago will prevail again today. The world needs the kind of leadership that guarantees protection for freedom and for life.

I wish America a happy Fourth of July, the President of the United States and all Americans every success, and all of us around the world who value America – fruitful cooperation. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." That is what unites all of us – all who respect America and thank America today.

May the dreams of free people always triumph over the evil and hatred of those who seek to destroy freedom. America, thank you! I am confident that if we're in it together, we'll definitely achieve peace! Congratulations on your Independence Day!

[NATO @NATO]

Repost to join us in celebrating our Ally the 🇺🇸 United States on their 250th Independence Day! #4thofJuly

#WeAreNATO 🤝 @USNATO

[Hanna Liubakova @HannaLiubakova]

I can't, can't, can't listen to complaints and hopelessness anymore.

I come from a country that is probably the last place on earth that should be giving anyone hope. And yet, I often feel like I'm the only person in the room who knows what to do and is prepared for the worst.

Fine. Let's just get back to work.

Meanwhile, in countries with elections, separation of powers, and free media - despite all the attacks on those systems - people tell me they're not optimistic, that they're frustrated.

I'm not the most diplomatic person, so forgive me (or don't), but how is frustration helpful? So what?

I think we should focus on what can actually be done: define our goals clearly and then work toward them, step by step.

The funny thing is, I'm far from naive. I know exactly how bad things can get. Maybe that's precisely why I don't see despair as a strategy.

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@brianros1 💯Agree, we need many more politicians with a moral compass.

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@Mark_McEathron 💯

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@cabsav456 🇺🇸

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

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@georgewbarros @paulg @KatStepanenko 🇺🇦

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@jaynordlinger 🇳🇴 🇺🇸 Gratulerer med dagen

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Happy May 17, Constitution Day, to all Norwegians. Norway is a great democracy (constitutional monarchy being a distinctive, noble type). Long may you wave. And long live democracy in general.

[Office of the Chief of Naval Operations @USNavyCNO]

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle stepped aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) and USS Mahan (DDG 72) to personally thank the Sailors for their tireless service over the course of a historic 11-month deployment.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Every attempt to shut down campus speech should trigger an independent investigation asking two questions:

1) Did administrators do anything to stop the censorship?

2) Did administrators do anything to encourage, excuse, or facilitate it?

Students are responsible for their own actions. But the deeper scandal is administrative complicity.

In a healthy university, the answer to right-wing demands to fire a professor would be: “No way.” And the answer to left-wing attempts to shut down a speaker would be: “Not on my watch.”

Does that sound fanciful? At this point, probably. Because it has become hard to imagine administrators actually acting this way.

The dirty little secret is that too many of them have enabled this for years. Some are hired into ideological jobs built around policing speech, running BRTs, and managing “harm” rather than protecting open inquiry. Sometimes the damage comes through omission: refusing to punish obvious censorship. Sometimes it comes through commission, as at Stanford Law School several years ago, when administrators actively helped the shutdown along. Here, it looks like a combination of both.

So yes, blame the students. They are adults, not infants or automatons. But look squarely at the administrators who are supposed to defend academic freedom and freedom of speech—and who too often undermine those values instead.

We have long since passed the stage where tolerated—and often facilitated—shutdowns and shoutdowns can be treated as somehow distinct from university policy. If campuses allow, and especially if they facilitate, the systematic silencing of locally unpopular points of view, that should not be treated as some weird tragic coincidence. They have the power to stop it. They don’t.

Worse, they often train students to think like censors and then protect them when they act that way. Until universities prove otherwise, the systematic shutting down of unpopular voices on campus should be understood as formal—or at least semi-formal—university policy.

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

When I was at Harvard, the sociologist David Riesman took an interest in me and personally arranged my transfer to St. John's College in Santa Fe.

At Harvard, I sat in large lecture halls listening to brilliant people talk. At St. John's, I sat around a table with fifteen students reading Euclid, Plato, and Dostoevsky, and we argued about what those texts actually meant.

That experience rewired my brain.

I learned that understanding doesn't come from being told the answer. It comes from wrestling with hard questions alongside other people who are also wrestling. The tutor at St. John's doesn't lecture. They ask questions. They let the silence sit. Their only role is to ask questions, not to lecture.

It’s the practice I've spent my entire career bringing into schools and classrooms. I watched what happened to students, including myself, when the conversation was real and the texts were worthwhile, and I've been sharing this tradition with young people my entire life.

Riesman saw something in a working-class kid and pointed me toward a tradition of learning that changed my life. I've been trying to pay that forward ever since.

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@kvallier @christopherrufo I applaud your efforts and dedication. Some actually have to do the hard work of reform rather than performance mostly
for his peers.

[Cate Hall @catehall]

basically every lasting and beautiful thing that humans have ever done was accomplished by someone who was uncertain, someone who wondered whether they were up to the task