Christine Mrsich🌻

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Jorge Posada and Derek Jeter

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

A 1984 feature by Dan Patrick on a young Don Mattingly

[OldTimeHardball @OleTimeHardball]

You hold the deciding vote in the Hall of Fame case for Don Mattingly. Does he get in?

[Senator Andy Kim @SenatorAndyKim]

Secretary Mullin said I shouldn't have been at Delaney Hall, but I disagree.

This isn't about me. This is about the detainees and their families, the lawlessness we're seeing from ICE.

I was willing to take a risk and I'd do it all over again to keep people safe.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

After being pepper sprayed by ICE agents outside a NJ detention facility on Monday, @SenatorAndyKim said the agents absolutely knew they were firing on a U.S. senator. Totally outrageous.

[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

[Natasha @Natasha_Brynn1]

Four month ago, Alex Pretti was murdered by Donald Trump’s ICE.

RETWEET to honor Pretti’s life of service ❤️

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

July 26, 2020. A beach near Collingwood, Ontario.

Sixteen-year-old Jamey Ruth Klassen was supposed to be enjoying a quiet family vacation beside the icy blue waters of Georgian Bay.

Farther out on the lake, a man named Christopher Robertson had taken his kayak out alone for a peaceful paddle. Then the kayak filled with water and flipped.

Suddenly, he was stranded in the freezing bay, clinging desperately to the overturned hull while shouting for help.

Jamey didn’t hear him directly.

What she heard instead were strangers nearby calling 911, panicking about a kayaker who had disappeared beneath the surface and wasn’t coming back up.

Most teenagers would’ve stayed on shore.

The water was brutally cold. The distance looked impossible. Lifeguards and paramedics were already being called. Waiting would’ve been understandable.

Jamey never waited.

She ran toward the water and dove in.

Alone, she swam nearly 600 feet through Georgian Bay — the distance of two football fields — pushing herself farther and farther from shore toward the empty kayak floating in the distance.

By the time she reached it, Christopher Robertson was gone.

Then Jamey looked down.

Through the clear Canadian water, she could see him lying motionless twelve feet below on the lake floor.

She took one breath.

And dove.

The cold tightened around her body instantly as she reached the bottom. She grabbed Robertson beneath both arms and forced herself upward, dragging his unconscious body back toward the surface.

He wasn’t breathing.

His body hung limp in the water.

Jamey refused to let go.

She turned him onto his back, balanced his head against her shoulder, wrapped one arm across his chest, and began swimming him toward shore using only one arm and her legs.

Every second became harder.

Her muscles burned violently. Her lungs screamed. She had no formal lifeguard certification because the pandemic had canceled the courses she planned to take that summer.

Still, she kept kicking.

Then fear hit her.

Jamey realized she might drown beside him before reaching shore.

Exhausted and losing strength, she used the last thing she still had left:

Her voice.

She screamed for help.

A nearby paddleboarder heard her cries and rushed across the water. Together, they lifted Robertson onto the board while Jamey, shivering and exhausted, swam the remaining distance alone.

Onshore, police officers and paramedics immediately began CPR.

Moments later, Christopher Robertson started breathing again.

He survived.

Nearly a year later, Jamey Ruth Klassen received the Carnegie Medal — North America’s highest civilian honor for heroism. Out of millions of people, only eighteen recipients were chosen that year.

But Jamey barely spoke about herself afterward.

Instead, she used the scholarship money from the award to attend nursing school at McMaster University, quietly continuing the same instinct that had driven her into the freezing water that day:

If someone needs help, you go.

No hesitation.
No spotlight.
No waiting for someone braver.

Just a sixteen-year-old girl who saw a stranger drowning… and decided his life mattered more than her fear.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

This is Officer
Caroline Edwards.
She was attacked by the insurrectionists on January 6th. They cracked her heac open, resulting in a permanent brain injury.
For all those who support Trump's pardons and say you
"back the blue". You don't. You support fascism.

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

[DS | Wild Bloom 🌿 @DSWildBloom86]

The Story Behind the One-Take Masterpiece 📺
Did you know one of the most iconic commercials in TV history happened completely by accident?
In 1973, an advertising crew went down to a pier to shoot an ad for Oscar Mayer. They needed a kid, and 4-year-old Andy Lambros volunteered. With a fishing rod in one hand and a bologna sandwich in the other, he started singing.
He didn't just get through it—he absolutely nailed the entire song in one single take.
When Jerry Ringlien (the VP of Marketing) saw the raw footage the next day, he stopped everything and said, "That is the commercial."
They loved Andy's charm so much that they even kept the very end of the raw footage in the final cut—the unscripted moment where he looks at the crew, asks "How's that?", and takes a massive bite of his sandwich.
The Impact:
•It skyrocketed Oscar Mayer sales and cemented the jingle in pop-culture history.
•It put the legendary ad agency J. Walter Thompson "on the map" as an industry titan.
•It launched Andy's career, leading him to star in over 20 more major commercials.
Today, Andy is an accomplished artist, graphic designer, and computer programmer. But it all started on a pier with a sandwich.
Turn the sound UP and watch the magic happen below 👇
#RetroAdvertising #Nostalgia

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

Trump never has money for healthcare or VA staff or anything to actually make Americans’ lives better — but somehow found $1.8 billion to reward his allies with your tax dollars. That's corruption, plain and simple.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The activists who finally forced Ridglan Farms to release 1,500 beagles from the most wretched conditions, and thus saved them from sadistic experimentation, are some of the bravest and most dedicated people you can meet.

If you don't follow @waynehhsiung, please do.

[Just saying @kangaroos991]

👍👇#StandWithColbert #VoteBlue 💙

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

There is so much poetry in Stephen Colbert celebrating his finale on the exact stage where the Beatles changed culture in 1964. Singing "Hello Goodbye" surrounded by his family, band, and crew before Paul McCartney flipped the final power switch. The perfect full-circle goodbye!

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

LMAO brilliant Trump Silenced Colbert's Show - But His Last Night Broke the Internet 😭🤣😂

via Lego Geopolitica

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

On September 11, 1974, a ten-year-old boy named Stephen Colbert lost his father and two of his closest brothers, Paul and Peter, when Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashed into a cornfield hillside just three miles from the Charlotte, North Carolina airport. Only 13 of the 82 people on board survived. In a single afternoon, the youngest of eleven children in a warm, intellectually curious Catholic household went from a boy surrounded by laughter and big family energy to a kid sitting in a suddenly very quiet, very dark home with only his grieving mother for company. The two leaned on each other in a way that most people never experience. Lorna Colbert held herself together not out of bitterness, but out of a fierce, quiet love, and Stephen watched that and absorbed it into his bones. He later said his mother was never bitter, just broken, and that her example became the blueprint he carried for the rest of his life. For years, though, the real weight of the loss stayed buried. He floated through prep school detached, unbothered by the things other kids cared about, because nothing felt quite real anymore. It wasn't until he went off to Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia that the grief finally cracked through, and it hit him hard. He dropped from 185 pounds down to 135 during his freshman year, barely eating, barely functioning, consumed by a sadness he had held at bay for nearly a decade. But something remarkable happened on the other side of that collapse. He found theater. He found improvisation. He found that making people laugh was actually a way to connect with human suffering rather than run from it. He transferred to Northwestern University, stumbled into the world of Second City, and slowly built himself into one of the most empathetic, genuinely funny voices in American media. He later reflected that losing his father and brothers gave him an awareness of other people's pain that allowed him to love more deeply and connect more honestly with what it means to be human. That is not a small thing. That is everything. Via Chronicles Through Lenses

[World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen]

This is what displacement looks like in Lebanon.

Rabei's home was hit by a missile in 2024. His sons were injured. One lost his eye. Today, his family remains without a home. "Food, water—we secure what we can. Life continues," he told us.

Mohammed returned to Srifa is southern Lebanon after the ceasefire to find his home damaged, no water, no electricity. He couldn't even reach his house to see if it was still standing.

These are the families WCK shows up for every day to ensure that even in the hardest moments, no one is left without a meal. #ChefsForMidEast

[peter lane @peterlanee]

Paul McCartney on the TRUMPET playing “When The Saints Go Marching In” with Jon Batiste and The Late Show Band after the Hello, Goodbye performance

(via Rob Barnett on Facebook)