Chelsea R Leemon

Mini-vans are my dream car.

[Bob Lonsberry @BobLonsberry]

A middle-aged @usairforce colonel went through a shoot down and a parachute drop, was severely injured, treated his own wounds, ran five miles in enemy territory, climbed a 7,000-foot mountain, radioed the proclamation, "God is good," and then holed up in a crevice in near-freezing temperatures for two days while his brothers and sisters came to rescue him. That's America; that's the American military; that's the United States Air Force.

[THAT SOUTHERN DUDE @TSDmemes]

Women. Please stop doing this to yourselves.

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

❤️

[M. @resina_1]

No one has ever come close to her stage presence and light. An artist like her really comes around once in a hundred years, and we are truly lucky👑

[NukemTalksWrestling @NukemWrestling]

US politics is so wild.

Here's the Mayor of Knox County Tombstoning the US Secretary of Education

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This tortoise understood it can go much faster with the help of a vehicle: it also learned how to make effective turns.

[📹 Mh0MLiErcV8E97C]
https://t.co/UMkT3B3kmI

[2000s @PopCulture2000s]

britney spears, 2000.

[Jason Helmes @anymanfitness]

Last year, my daughter got cut from her 7th grade volleyball team.

She made the first cut, and thought she had a good chance. But on the second and final cut, they called her name, and she put her head down and walked out to the car where her mom and I were waiting.

She opened the car door, sat down, and started bawling. It was so hard to watch. She wanted to be on that team more than anything. I thought she was good enough, but the coach didn't.

My heart went out to her. But we didn't sugarcoat things for her. We told her we understood how much it stings. I've been cut before. Her mom had been cut from sports before, too. It's an ego shot and a gut punch.

We told her to go ask the coach what she could work on for next year. The coach gave her good feedback. And told her she was the "first girl cut". Which sounded promising, but only added to the sting. She said to me, "If only I had been a little bit better and made a few more serves..."

We told her she had a few choices. She could let this be the end. Or she could use this as fuel and fire. And to use it as motivation to work hard to make the team next year.

For a solid year, she practiced 4-5 times per week minimum. She went to every camp, every practice session she could find, found a travel team she could play on, and spent her entire summer at camps, practices, or in our backyard smashing the volleyball against our house (and denting our siding lol).

She had her tryouts this week. In the first tryout, she unleashed her new jump serve and hit 20 straight volleyballs over the net. The coaches were stunned. She said all the coaches came up to her immediately in the first 5 minutes with their clipboards and said, "What's your name?"

They started using her as a demonstrator, saying "Hey, Brooklyn, can you show everyone how to do this?" Even over the returning starters.

I asked her how she did when she got back. "Hey, you've been around a lot of volleyball in the last year. How did you do? Were you in the upper half of the players?"

She's a humble girl. And she proudly said, "I was the best player on the court."

She made the team, obviously. I'm beaming as a father this week.

I told her how proud I was of her. But not just because she made the team, or she's a great player now. But because she didn't give up. She didn't cry about it (after that first day). She didn't ask mom and dad to go lobby for her to be on the team.

She got after it and worked hard for a full year, taking no breaks. Her other volleyball friends were for sure taking it easier. Chilling out and vibing during the summer. She was attending camps and practicing and getting better while they were relaxing.

Sometimes as a parent, you hope you're teaching your kids how to do things.

But this was a case where she taught me how to do things. 100%.

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in America, contains glyphosate. Glyphosate exposure has been linked to all kinds of diseases, including Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. 95% of our corn, and much of our wheat, is routinely sprayed with Roundup. This is something every American should be concerned about. @joerogan #Kennedy24

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Look at this 1950s beach pic, everyone fit as a fiddle! No keto, vegan, or paleo diets. No gym memberships, no fancy fitness tech or wellness influencers. They also weren't drinking protein shakes or counting calories.

So what went wrong? A THREAD 🧵⬇️

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

Bringing your dad both screwdrivers because you don’t know what he’s talking about.

[2000s @PopCulture2000s]

a picture you can hear

[Sophie Vershbow @svershbow]

My version of a smoke break as a WFH employee who doesn't smoke is standing in the kitchen during the 5 minutes between video calls eating a pickle.

[Princess @themultiplemom]

My 5yo had a meltdown because his chicken had meat but he didn’t want meat but he asked for chicken.

And upon further investigation, he wanted bbq chicken not rotisserie. He calls rotisserie “meat chicken”.

I be positive parenting but children don’t be positively childrening.

[Kaveh MD @thehouseofpod]

You’ve heard of Elf on a Shelf but…

[Jackie Goldschneider @JGSchneid]

Hold your babies tight tonight and appreciate what you have. What a truly awful day in America. I’m sick to my stomach.

[Andy Herren @AndyHerren]

When someone is like, "Wow, I forgot to eat today!" late into the day, I cannot relate. There has never been a single day in my life in which I have forgotten to eat. Maybe I couldn't eat due to certain circumstances, but I didn't forget.

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

We have spent the past few years debating how oppressive the U.S. is. These images of Afghans clinging to a U.S. plane and falling from the sky are a damn sobering reminder that while there are no utopias, we'd better appreciate the society we were lucky enough to be born into.

[Kandee Johnson @kandeejohnson]

My heart breaks for @britneyspears …the “therapist” her family appointed who abused her, the forced IUD, forcing medications on her, not allowing her to leave her house. This evil control has been unreal and THEY have traumatized & done mental damage to her! #FreeBritney

[KingSpears @godkneebitch]

One thing that Britney’s management definitely failed to understand is that we fell in love with Britney the person NOT Britney the brand. #FreeBritney