Nick Allen 🌵

Christian, husband, father, Red Raider, USAF retired

[The CacŦus Stan 🌵🌵 @Pumpjack4L]

Does the Big Ten realize that one of their member institutions allowed Sorsby to play after placing 40 bets on his own team?

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

"I am a man. See me as a human being—not a birth defect, not a syndrome. I don’t need to be eradicated."

Frank Stephens pleads for the humanization of people with Down syndrome, studies suggest 67-90% are aborted in the United States due to faulty prenatal screenings.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[🔴CB⚫️ @SassyCBax]

FINALS HERE WE COME!!!!! Way to go @TexasTechSB !!!

[Texas Tech Football @TexasTechFB]

Texas Tech Hall of Honor member Mike Leach is on the ballot for the NFF College Football Hall of Fame for the first time alongside 3 other of our former head coaches.

[Nick Allen 🌵 @DubParks]

@TTUAlumniAssoc 1938 under Pete Cawthon (Elmer Tarbox from that team pictured below)

[Mr. Stache (Big 12 Propagandist)🌵 @red_stache23]

I would like to thank both UCLA & Alabama softball for just playing ball with respect and class. No bitching and whining and moaning unlike 2 SEC teams we previously played in the tournament (and i got a really strong hunch about the next one we play)

[Nick Allen 🌵 @DubParks]

@WattMells Everything seems fine in game 2 so far...

[Shelby Hilliard @ShelbyCHilliard]

“Holly [Rowe] was talking about, 15 out of 23 players were transfers. I only had three, so what am I going to do?” Glasco said. “You have to grow the program.”
https://t.co/Iw3xtldumF

[Jennifer Greenberg 🕊️ @JennMGreenberg]

James Talarico also said:

“Not once in the entire Bible does Jesus ask us to worship him. All he asks, is that we follow him. Love like He loved. Love the outcast. Welcome the stranger.”

Which, interestingly, is exactly what we’re told the antichrist will say in 1 John 2:22.

“Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.”

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

Anonymous

The doctor casually crosses out the bright red allergy warning on your intake form. "I see you listed an allergy to this medication. That's extremely rare. It's usually just mild nausea. We're going to proceed with using it today."
You: "It’s not nausea. My throat closes. Do not administer it."
Dr: Sighs heavily, clearly annoyed. "Dr. Google strikes again. I’ve been practicing for 20 years. I know what a true allergy looks like. It's a hassle to change the protocol now. You will be fine."
You: "I am not asking for your opinion on my lived medical history. I am stating a documented allergy. If you administer a drug I have explicitly refused, that is medical battery."
Dr: Raising his voice "There's no need to use that kind of tone with me, I'm the professional here just trying to do my job!"
You: "Would you like to document your decision to intentionally trigger anaphylaxis in my chart right now, or should I call the charge nurse to find a doctor who will listen?"
Aftermath:
He slammed his clipboard down on the counter, muttered about "entitled patients ruining medicine", but swapped the medication. You woke up safe, breathing perfectly fine.
Insight:
The ego of an authority figure will often treat their statistical probability as more valid than your actual reality. Never let a doctor's arrogance overwrite your survival instinct. You are the only expert on your own body.

[NyanChuu🔮🇯🇵🍭 @tanpukunokami]

To one religious extremist in my inbox.

You keep sending me graphic images and saying things like:

“Did you forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki?”
“You’re just America’s bitch.”
No.

I didn’t forget.

No Japanese person forgets Hiroshima.
No Japanese person forgets Nagasaki.

But I’m not going to look at some American kid, student, tourist, or friend today and hate them for what happened 80 years ago.
That’s not strength.
That’s just letting the past rot inside you.

Yes, Japan’s postwar occupation is complicated.
Yes, there are things people still argue about.

But Japan rebuilt.
Japan moved forward.
And part of that history includes its relationship with America.
Remembering the past does not mean living as a prisoner of hatred.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not props for your rage.
They are Japanese memories.
Japanese pain.
And a warning to the world.

I will not let you use our dead to feed your hate.

[Jennifer Greenberg 🕊️ @JennMGreenberg]

Talarico also said, “Not once in the entire Bible does Jesus ask us to worship him. All he asks, is that we follow him. Love like He loved. Love the outcast. Welcome the stranger.”

Which, interestingly, is exactly what Jesus says the antichrist will teach in 1 John 2:22 🥴

[Shelby Hilliard @ShelbyCHilliard]

“Softball is not my ride or die. I work hard for it but my job here is to spread my faith to as many people as I can and right now I use softball to do that.”

Texas Tech’s NiJaree Canady spoke on her faith and how she has used softball as the platform to share that.

[Vader Red @Vader_Red_]

Here’s some food for thought today:

Why is spending on External NIL “taboo,” but nobody questions programs spending 3–5x more internally on their softball programs to gain a competitive edge? Money has always influenced winning — NIL is just a different way

[Freedom 250 @Freedom250]

101-year-old World War II veteran Don Graves — the last surviving flamethrower operator from his battalion, which fought on Iwo Jima — sings “God Bless America” at the National Memorial Day Parade.

[🦅 felipe the dogtor 🦅 @felipe4prez]

florida spends 7 million on baseball, 5 million on softball, 35 million on football, but their fans have the audacity to say texas tech is trying to buy championships.

[Nick Allen 🌵 @DubParks]

@sportsiren

[Seeing Scarlet @SeeingScarlet_]

NIJA CANADY MY GOAT!!!

"our lead off batter gets hit idk how many times....they didn't want to shake our hands, we're playing for each other."

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Never forget.