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A Mexican mariachi band performed the National Anthem in Chicago ahead of tonight’s #Eagles-#Bears game.
One of the most unique renditions of the anthem you will ever hear.
This is an honor of Latino heritage month.
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Dolly Parton casi chocó su automóvil la primera vez que escuchó a Whitney Houston cantar “I Will Always Love You”.
La canción había nacido casi 20 años antes, cuando Dolly decidió separarse profesionalmente de Porter Wagoner, el hombre que había impulsado su carrera.
Como él se negaba a dejarla marchar, ella escribió una despedida y se la cantó.
Porter terminó llorando.
Tiempo después, Elvis Presley quiso grabarla. Para Dolly era un sueño, hasta que su representante le exigió entregar la mitad de los derechos de autor. Aunque necesitaba el dinero, se negó.
Aquella decisión cambió su vida.
En 1992, Kevin Costner eligió la canción para “The Bodyguard” y Whitney Houston la convirtió en un fenómeno mundial. Dolly escuchó la versión por primera vez mientras conducía y tuvo que detenerse: estaba tan emocionada que temió sufrir un accidente.
“Tomó mi pequeña canción y la convirtió en algo enorme”, recordaría después.
La versión le generó cerca de 10 millones de dólares en regalías. Dolly invirtió parte de ese dinero en un complejo de oficinas situado en un barrio históricamente afroamericano de Nashville.
Lo llamó «la casa que Whitney construyó».
Dolly escribió la canción. Whitney la hizo volar. Y entre las dos crearon una despedida que el mundo nunca pudo olvidar.
Ahora las dos nos han dejado, pero juntas hicieron que una canción de despedida se volviera eterna.
Today I finally understood something about Donald Trump that I had been missing this entire time. And when it hit me — it hit me completely. Because, look at who this man chose to surround himself with.
Not billionaires.
Not people born into power.
Not people who had everything handed to them.
Karoline Leavitt — 27 years old. Ice cream shop girl from New Hampshire.
Trump looked at her and saw something the entire world missed.
Made her the youngest Press Secretary in American history.
Susie Wiles — a woman who has spent her whole life quietly strategizing from the background.
No fame. No spotlight. Just pure brilliance.
Trump looked at her and said — you will be my Chief of Staff. First female Chief of Staff in American history.
JD Vance — a soldier. A boy from Appalachia who served his country in uniform before he ever served it in office.
Trump looked at him and said — you will stand beside me.
Pete Hegseth — a soldier who gave everything on the battlefield. Two Bronze Stars.
Trump looked at him and said — you will lead our military.
Marco Rubio — the son of a bartender and a hotel maid. Two immigrants who came to America with nothing.
Trump looked at their son and made him the first Latino Secretary of State in American history.
My wife heard all of this tonight and said, "Do you understand what Trump actually did?
He did not build a powerful administration.
He built an unbreakable one."
Because every single person in it knows what it feels like to have nothing. And people who came from nothing never take anything for granted.
Tonight, say one prayer for this entire administration. And say a bigger one for the man who chose them.
Then pass this to every American who needs to understand why this administration hits different from every single one that came before it (Jeff Roush)
Ferrán Torres, who scored the game winning goal at the World Cup, is wearing a “Make Spain Great Again” hat right now at the victory parade in Madrid.
This is amazing.
The media’s heads are going to explode 🤣
The Great Lakes region and New York is literally choking on Canadian wildfire smoke right now.
This Canadian woman just answered the question everyone’s asking: “Why is Canada always on fire?? This is like the 6th year in a row.”
Her explanation:
“We used to have indigenous fire starters who could light a fire and control it on an entire mountain. They’d do prescribed burns so there wouldn’t be crazy forest fires.
You could drive along the highways in the early ’80s and the sides would literally be on fire — with an indigenous person walking right there controlling it.
But we banned them from their ancient practices.
Now we have crazy forest fires… ’Cause we suck.”
Her words. Not mine. Just like California and how they made wildfires even worse.
Chamath Palihapitiya takes a sledgehammer to Trump Derangement Syndrome live on CNBC.
Palihapitiya said refusing to open a savings account for your own child simply because it’s associated with President Trump is “INSANE!”
PALIHAPITIYA: “Now, can I just say something else?”
“You’re allowed to disagree with the guy.”
“You’re allowed to maybe dislike the guy.”
“But as an adult living human being that’s responsible for taking care of your family, you have to get past the TDS.”
“See where he’s right, see where he’s wrong.”
“But the TDS thing that’s stopping people from making a savings account for their children, that can give them free money…it is INSANE!”
@chamath
This is one of the most important moments ever aired on CNBC.
Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says the media lied to millions of Americans about President Trump, and that after going back to the original source material, he realized he had been completely misled about Trump’s character.
PALIHAPITIYA: “The reality is that most of us were lied to by the media about President Trump.”
“And if you just go back to the source material, you should take away two things.”
“One, he didn’t say half the things he said, and two, why did these other people just fabricate what they wanted to say so that they could essentially assassinate his character?”
“I think that that second thing is completely unacceptable in America, and there’s still been no repercussions, really.”
“I took the time to learn about it. I admitted where…you know, the way that I met him was, I admitted on the pod, which, you know, has millions of viewers.”
“And I said, I got it totally wrong because I went and I watched Charlottesville.”
“And, you know, the first person to call me? President Trump.”
“And I got to know him and I put the phone down, I called my wife, and I said, we got it TOTALLY, totally wrong. We were lied to.”
“And then I got to know him and he is fantastic!”
@chamath
What the Trump accounts need, is a way to pay into each kid’s Trump account easily and directly.
If a neighbor kid mows my lawn, I should be able to pay into his Trump account.
Let Godparents and Grandparents deposit directly on birthdays without going through parents etc.
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? 🇺🇸
America’s 250th birthday is not a Republican celebration.
It’s not a Democrat celebration.
It’s America’s celebration.
So if your state is refusing to participate, the question isn’t political… it’s simple:
Why wouldn’t you celebrate the greatest country in the history of the world?
This is one anniversary that should unite us, NOT divide us.
Put the politics away.
Celebrate the flag.
Celebrate our history.
Celebrate the heroes who built, defended, and preserved this Republic.
America turns 250 only once.
Let’s act like it.