Conne Kalweit

Saved, delivered, restored. Blessed beyond measure, a work in progress.

[Indiana Fever @IndianaFever]

the bench reaction to Caitlin Clark's record-setting shot 🔥

she finished with a franchise-record 45 points.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 NOW: Speaker Johnson just dropped this chilling line to every American to block the rise of COMMUNISM

"This is not a GAME! Everybody needs to understand these crazy little Mamdanis who are popping up all around the country — they are a DANGER to you and your family. This is not a GAME!"

"If they promise you free stuff, there is far more beneath those promises that even some of these people do not understand themselves."

"And so we are here as the Republican Party to stand on the founding principles of the greatest nation in the history of the world. It is our duty to do that."

"And we're doing it on behalf of all of you, even the journalists who don't agree with our policies all the time."

"You better agree on these principles because that's what keeps you free."

"By the way, it's what keeps the press free, okay? This is essential for your well-being and your family. This is not a game."

"This is not our Father's Democrat Party. This is not, we're not arguing our marginal tax rates anymore. We're arguing whether or not freedom is going to survive!" @SpeakerJohnson

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Share if you agree that the Senate shouldn’t take its August recess until it has passed the SAVE America Act.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Requiring an ID and proof of citizenship to vote is common sense.

It’s time to pass the SAVE America Act. RT if you agree.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

There are many moments when words simply aren’t enough. So instead of words, I offer a prayer.

Lord, I lift up @MrsErikaKirk to You. I don’t have the words she needs, and I don’t pretend to know her sorrow but You do. She is grieving a weight more than any heart was meant to bear. So I ask You, gently, to carry what she cannot.

Draw near to her as only You can. You are the God who “is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit” (Psalm 34:18). Surround her with Your presence when the silence feels unbearable.

The world sees loss. You see every tear, and Scripture says You keep them not one falls unnoticed (Psalm 56:8). You are the Savior who stood outside Lazarus’s tomb and wept, who knows grief from the inside. Be near to her pain, not distant from it.

Where she has no strength left, be her strength. Give her a hope that does not rest on her own, but on the risen Christ, who conquered sin and death and who promised that one day He will wipe away every tear and make all things new.

Until that day, let the everlasting arms hold her. Let Your peace, which surpasses all understanding, guard her heart and her mind in Christ Jesus. And let Your people surround her with love and steadfast prayer.

There is nothing more powerful than prayer, not because of who we are, but because of who You are. And there is a special power when we come together, for where two or three gather in Your name, You are there among them. So I ask this not because my words carry any weight, but because Yours do. May she be held. May she be comforted. And may she never once feel that she carries this alone.

In Jesus’ name, amen.

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk just posted this video of Spencer Pratt EXPOSING Mamdani to 240 million followers on 𝕏

SPENCER PRATT ISNT GOING ANYWHERE

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Cathie Wood just explained why the establishment will never stop coming for Elon Musk.

And the reason is worse than they think.

Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”

They didn’t forget. You don’t forget thirty years of marching and petitioning and begging for the machine that saves the planet.

Someone built it. Forced every automaker on Earth to follow.

Then they turned on him the moment he delivered exactly what they asked for.

Not because he failed them. Because he made them unnecessary.

A solved problem is an existential threat to every institution built to solve it. Kills the funding. Kills the committee. Kills every career that exists to manage the crisis rather than end it.

Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.”

Edison was hated too. By the people who sold candles. Every revolution looks like an attack to the people it makes obsolete.

Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”

SpaceX is not an escape. It is a forge. Build under the most brutal conditions in the solar system and every breakthrough comes home.

Most people at his level stop building and start protecting what they have.

Musk picks the hardest unsolved problem on Earth and runs straight at it.

That is not what terrifies them. What terrifies them is he does it without their funding, without their approval, without a single thing they can hold over his head.

A man you cannot buy is a man you cannot control. And a man you cannot control who keeps solving the problems you profit from is the most dangerous human alive.

They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.

Their grandchildren will live in the world he built anyway.

[NASA @NASA]

Happy 250th birthday, America! We got you a present. 🇺🇸

The red, white, and blue stars of this globular cluster shine like a sparkler waved on a dark night in this image from @NASAHubble, released in celebration of the United States' 250th anniversary.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

My hope for America is that it stops electing politicians who hate it.

[MELANIA TRUMP @MELANIATRUMP]

Freedom is more than a constitutional principle. 

Individual Liberty is the foundation that lets one create, build businesses, challenge convention, and pursue ideas without fear. 

Self-determination inspires different thinking. 

It’s the same free will our founders fought for in 1776 – and the same natural rights America protects today.

Happy 250th birthday, USA!🇺🇸

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14)

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? 🇺🇸

[Gene Simmons @genesimmons]

Happy 250th Anniversary to the greatest country in the world. Lest we forget, without America’s Veterans, America simply wouldn’t exist. All gave some. Some, gave all. God Bless America.

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

No, This Was Not “Just Basketball”

Brian Hamilton wants everyone to “bring the temperature down.”

Fine.

Let’s do that.

Let’s calmly state what happened.

Caitlin Clark was punched in the throat, kneed in the groin, and trampled in a sequence that had nothing to do with basketball.

That was not a hard screen.

That was not a box-out.

That was not two players fighting for position.

That was extracurricular contact, dangerous contact, and the kind of play the league itself later admitted required discipline.

And yet the column treats the real scandal as the reaction to the play, not the play itself.

That is the problem.

Online threats are wrong. Death threats are wrong. Doxxing is wrong. No player should receive them. No family should be targeted.

But the public still deserves consistency.

If Alyssa Thomas received credible threats, they should be investigated.

But the public has not seen the alleged threats. We have not seen a public police report. We have not been given meaningful details about what was said, who said it, or what law enforcement action was taken.

Meanwhile, shortly after the controversy, Thomas appeared publicly at an Arizona Diamondbacks game and threw out the ceremonial first pitch in a stadium that holds roughly 48,000 people.

That does not prove the threats were false.

But it does raise a fair question.

Is that consistent with someone facing an immediate, credible threat to her life?

If the threat was serious enough to make Thomas the public face of player victimhood, then why was there so little public context?

If the threat was not immediate, why is it being used to reframe the entire conversation?

That is a legitimate question.

And contrary to what some in the WNBA and media seem to believe, legitimate questions are not hate.

They are accountability.

Now compare that response to Caitlin Clark.

Clark was the victim of a documented stalking case that led to an arrest.

Where was the league statement?

Where was the urgent language about player safety?

Where was the private security?

Where was the public campaign around protecting her?

Where was the commissioner?

That silence matters.

Because when Alyssa Thomas reports threats, she is immediately framed as a victim.

When Caitlin Clark is stalked, hit, shoved, injured, flagrantly fouled, and attacked in non-basketball plays, the message is always some version of:

Relax.

It’s basketball.

You new fans just don’t understand the game.

That is insulting.

New fans understand basketball just fine.

They understand the difference between physical play and extracurricular violence.

They understand the difference between a hard foul and a cheap shot.

They understand the difference between competition and targeting.

And they certainly understand when a writer is trying to lecture them into silence.

This is not about one foul.

It is about a pattern.

Clark has been on the receiving end of an extraordinary number of highly publicized flagrant fouls, dangerous plays, and non-basketball contact. Some of it has been called. Much of it has not. The league’s own retroactive discipline proves officials have missed dangerous contact involving her in real time.

That matters.

It also matters that Stephanie White showed more energy defending the culture of the league and condemning online toxicity than she has shown defending her own player from repeated physical targeting.

That is not leadership.

That is damage control.

Hamilton argues that words must be measured because they can activate toxicity.

Fair enough.

But if words matter, so does silence.

Silence after Clark was stalked.

Silence after repeated dangerous contact.

Silence when her own organization should have demanded protection.

Silence when the league needed to make clear that its most important player deserved the same concern, dignity, and safety as everyone else.

The issue is not that people are too emotional.

The issue is that the WNBA has trained fans to believe outrage only counts when it protects certain players.

A league cannot demand moral seriousness about online threats while minimizing physical violence that millions of viewers watched with their own eyes.

Both can be wrong.

Both should be condemned.

But only one keeps getting softened, excused, and reframed as “just basketball.”

That is why fans are angry.

Not because they are new.

Not because they are trolls.

Not because they do not understand the sport.

They are angry because they see a double standard.

They are angry because they watched a player get struck in the throat, kneed, and trampled, only to be told the real problem was the reaction.

They are angry because Caitlin Clark’s safety seems negotiable until someone else becomes the victim.

And they are tired of being told not to believe what they can plainly see.

You can read Brian Hamilton's article by clicking on the following link: https://t.co/mk5BMV6rbQ

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Your relationship with God is the most important relationship you have. Every other relationship flows from that one.

I always knew that but I think when I became a mom, it really crystallized. And like all relationships you have to nurture it. Pray. Read His word. You are the one that has to get to know Him.

He already knows you.

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

As a writer, it is becoming increasingly difficult to cover the WNBA with the distance the job requires.

That is not something I say lightly.

Any serious writer understands the responsibility of separating observation from emotion, evidence from outrage, and analysis from personal bias. But Cathy Engelbert and the WNBA are making that separation harder by the day.

The latest example is almost impossible to defend.

The commissioner released a statement that appeared far more concerned with protecting the image of Caitlin Clark’s attacker than addressing what happened to Caitlin Clark herself... a star player who was throat punched, kneed, and trampled in a sequence that had very nothing to do with basketball.

At some point, silence becomes its own statement.

At some point, selective outrage becomes evidence.

And at some point, the refusal to protect the league’s most important player stops looking like incompetence and starts looking intentional.

Caitlin Clark did not enter the WNBA asking to be a symbol. She came to play basketball. She came to compete. She came to join a league filled with players she once admired.

Instead, she has been asked to endure a level of hostility that no professional organization should tolerate.

The physical play is only part of the issue.

The larger failure is institutional.

The league has failed her. The Fever have failed her. Too many players have failed her. And now the commissioner has failed her publicly.

The next few days will be telling.

At a bare minimum, the Fever organization, its coaches, and its players should publicly support Caitlin Clark and make clear that what happened to her should never be normalized.

They do not need to attack anyone.

They do not need to escalate the controversy.

But they do need to stand beside their teammate.

Because if they do not, it becomes increasingly difficult to see a healthy path forward for Clark in a league where she is asked to absorb repeated physical punishment, public minimization, and institutional silence without visible support from the people closest to her professionally.

There is also a human element here that should not be ignored.

Clark is not just a basketball asset.

She is someone’s daughter.

Someone’s sister.

Someone’s friend.

And at some point, the people around her... family, representatives, sponsors, and trusted advisors... may need to ask whether any amount of money, fame, or professional opportunity is worth this level of physical and emotional strain.

Basketball is supposed to be demanding.

It is not supposed to be dehumanizing.

Clark has handled it with grace. That should be acknowledged.

But grace should not be required in the face of repeated mistreatment.

There comes a point when asking a young athlete to keep absorbing the blows... physical, public, and psychological... becomes indefensible.

For months, I dismissed calls for outside intervention as excessive.

I no longer feel that way.

If the WNBA cannot protect its own players fairly, then perhaps it is time for someone outside the league to ask why.

Fans, media members, former players, abuse survivors, and anyone who cares about basic fairness should speak up.

This is no longer just about basketball.

It is about workplace protection.

It is about institutional accountability.

It is about whether a professional league can allow one of its employees to be targeted, minimized, and publicly abandoned without consequence.

The WNBA does not need another statement.

It needs accountability.

And it needs it now.

[Rabbi Brian Samuel @rabbriansamuel]

Here’s a good example of the difference between being under the Law and keeping the Law.

In America, we are expected to obey the speed limit. If we speed, we can be pulled over, given a ticket, summoned to court, and, if we continue to violate the law, even have our driver’s license revoked.

This is what it means to be under the law. The law is over us, and we are under its authority.

The law has the power to convict us and punish us when we break it.

Now imagine a righteous judge who does something extraordinary for us.

He pays every speeding ticket we’ve ever received. He removes every point from our driver’s license. He cancels every penalty against us.

But he goes even further.

He declares that no police officer can ever pull us over again for speeding. Whether we drive 56 MPH or 156 MPH, no officer can stop us, issue us a ticket, or bring us before the court.

This illustrates what it means to no longer be under the Law. The Law no longer has the power to convict or condemn us. We have been set free from its condemnation. We are no longer under its judgment.

But here’s the question:

Now that the speeding laws can no longer condemn us, and the officers of the law can no longer stop us, what should our relationship be to those laws?

Do we simply ignore them and drive however fast we want?

Or do we recognize that the speed limits are still good, that they exist for our safety and the safety of others, and therefore seek to obey them anyway?

If your answer is that we should still seek to obey the speed limits, then you understand why Messianic believers still seek to keep God’s Law, even though we are no longer under the Law.

[Carol M. Swain, PhD @carolmswain]

🚨 I STAND WITH CAITLIN CLARK 🚨
The WNBA’s poor judgment, biased officiating, and targeted physical play against the player who saved this league have gone too far.

Caitlin Clark deserves the same protection and fairness every star gets.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
IT’S TIME FOR JUSTICE.

WHAT YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW: 👉 Share this post immediately

👉 Tag @WNBA @CaitlinClark22 @IndianaFever

👉 Demand Commissioner Cathy Engelbert launch an independent review of officiating and player safety

👉 Comment #JusticeForCaitlinClark

👉 Watch & support the Fever — show them real fan power matters

The league only changes when the noise is too loud to ignore.
Let’s make it deafening.

#StandWithCaitlin #JusticeForCaitlinClark @jasonwhitlock #WNBAReform #ProtectOurStars

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

As a father, I cannot stop thinking about Caitlin Clark’s dad.

He raised a daughter who represents everything parents hope their children become: humble, tough, respectful, composed, competitive, and gracious under pressure.

And now he has to watch her get assaulted and left unprotected by the very league that should be protecting her.

This is not what basketball is supposed to be about.

The WNBA has ruined it.

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

The laziest narrative coming out of last night is that Caitlin Clark quit on her team.

That is not analysis.

That is people taking the most damaging possible interpretation of a moment and ignoring everything that led to it.

The real story is not that Caitlin Clark walked off.

The real story is that the WNBA, the officials, the Indiana Fever, and the people responsible for protecting the game allowed the situation around Caitlin Clark to build to this point.

This did not happen in one night.

This has been building for years.

If the WNBA cared about protecting Caitlin Clark, it would have addressed this long before last night.

If the Fever had stronger leadership, they would have been fighting this battle all season.

If the coaching staff had more experience, this would not be the first time the issue was treated with real urgency.

And if that had been one of my players on the floor last night, I would have been out there raising hell.

Not later.

Not in a press conference.

Right then.

Because that is what coaches are supposed to do.

They are supposed to protect their players. They are supposed to challenge officials. They are supposed to set the tone. They are supposed to make it clear that cheap shots, dead-ball contact, and unnecessary physicality will not be accepted.

That has not happened enough.

Caitlin Clark has been hit, grabbed, bumped, knocked down, and tested over and over again while the league hides behind the word “physicality.” At some point, physicality became an excuse for players taking liberties with the biggest star in the sport.

And everyone who should have stopped it kept doubling down on stupid.

The WNBA doubled down.

The officials doubled down.

The media gatekeepers doubled down.

The Fever too often looked like they were managing Caitlin instead of protecting her.

That is the part people do not want to talk about.

This is not about Caitlin being fragile. She has already proven she is tough. She has handled pressure, fame, criticism, jealousy, resentment, media scrutiny, and physical punishment with more grace than almost anyone in sports.

The question is not whether Caitlin Clark can take it.

The question is why she keeps having to.

That is why last night mattered.

The contact on the floor was ugly. The sequence afterward was unusual. Caitlin was removed from the game. She later walked toward the locker room without visible assistance. Stephanie White then gave one of her strongest public responses yet about the way Caitlin is being treated.

Those facts deserve to be viewed together.

Maybe there is a simple explanation for every part of it.

But fans are not wrong to ask whether Caitlin Clark finally reached a breaking point.

And if she did, the blame does not begin with her.

It begins with a league that has failed to establish a standard.

It begins with officials who have failed to control the game.

It begins with an organization that has too often seemed unsure whether it wants to unleash Caitlin Clark or manage her down.

It begins with a coaching staff that should have been challenging this treatment long before now.

A strong coach does not wait until the situation explodes.

A strong coach fights for her player early.

A strong organization sends the message early.

A serious league protects its product early.

Instead, the WNBA has allowed this to become normal.

That is why the “Caitlin quit” narrative is so dishonest. It skips the buildup. It ignores the failures. It pretends the only thing worth discussing is the player’s reaction, not the environment that produced it.

Caitlin Clark did not create this mess.

She has carried the league’s attention, ratings, ticket sales, and relevance while being treated like she should apologize for the growth she brought with her.

And now, after another ugly night, some people want to blame her for reaching whatever emotional or physical limit she may have reached.

No.

That is backwards.

The WNBA failed to protect the game.

The Fever failed to get ahead of the problem.

The officials failed to control the standard.

And Caitlin Clark is the one being asked to absorb the consequences.

At some point, this stops being about toughness.

It becomes about leadership.

And last night exposed a leadership failure at every level.