Jamie Johnson

love the lake, red dirt music and all sports!

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Taylor Farms’ CEO eating the lettuce to prove it’s safe

[QueenMother👸🏻 @QueenMother1976]

“This picture means more to me now than it did the day it was taken just 3 days ago.

The young man in the middle is my son. And not once have I ever questioned the color of the boys he calls his friends. I care about one thing: HOW THEY TREAT HIM.

These boys have laughed together, fished together, looked out for each other, and made memories they’ll never forget.

They don’t define each other by race—they define each other by loyalty, respect, and friendship.

The amount of hate I’ve seen over Black and White kids simply being friends has been heartbreaking.

As a mom, I’ll never understand why anyone would want to tear apart genuine friendships because of the color of someone’s skin.

I’m thankful my son has friends who accept him, encourage him, and enjoy life with him. That’s what matters. The recent tragedy has reminded us all how precious life is.

Instead of teaching our children who they shouldn’t be friends with, maybe we should be teaching them to love harder, stand up for one another, and see people for who they are.

I’m proud of my son. I’m proud of the young men standing beside him. And I pray they continue to be the kind of generation that breaks down walls instead of building them.

Love is louder than hate. Always. ❤️”
~ Jerica Nalls Zavala

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

An Open Letter to WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert

Dear Commissioner Engelbert,

This is no longer incompetence.

This is negligence.

You were handed the greatest gift the WNBA has ever received, and you are finding new ways to squander it.

For nearly 30 years, the WNBA has struggled to stand on its own merit. It has needed patience, protection, subsidies, excuses, advocacy, and endless goodwill. The league has been treated less like a professional sports product and more like a cause people were expected to support out of obligation.

Then Caitlin Clark arrived.

She was not just a star.

She was the lottery ticket.

She brought the audience. She brought the ratings. She brought the sold-out arenas. She brought fathers and daughters. She brought casual fans. She brought sponsors, road crowds, national television attention, and cultural relevance the WNBA had been chasing for decades.

She made people care.

And under your leadership, the WNBA has responded by acting uncomfortable with the very thing it begged the sports world to give it.

That is the failure.

You are not just mishandling Caitlin Clark.

You are mishandling the future of the league.

The WNBA wants her ratings but not her reality.

It wants her ticket sales but not her protection.

It wants her relevance but not her responsibility.

It wants the money she brings while acting annoyed by the fans she brought with her.

That is not leadership.

That is doubling down on stupid.

Let’s be very clear about what just happened.

A player made reckless, non-basketball contact to Caitlin Clark’s throat area while she was vulnerable on the floor.

The throat is not a shoulder.

It is not a hip.

It is not a forearm.

It is the airway. The larynx. The trachea. The structures that allow a person to breathe, speak, swallow, and get oxygen.

Contact to that area can become a medical emergency fast.

The WNBA got lucky.

That is the sentence.

The WNBA got lucky Caitlin Clark got up.

Because if that contact had caused a serious airway injury, a breathing emergency, a collapse, or something worse, nobody would be talking about “physicality” today.

They would be talking about how everyone saw this coming.

And they would be right.

You should have known better.

The league should have known better.

The officials should have known better.

The players should have known better.

The coaches should have known better.

And you, Commissioner, should have acted like the person responsible for making sure it never gets to that point.

Instead, the league reviewed the play, admitted enough to upgrade it, called it reckless, called it a non-basketball act, and responded with one game and a $1,000 fine.

One game.

For contact to the throat area of the most important player in your league.

That was an insult.

That was the WNBA admitting the act was dangerous, then punishing it like it was an inconvenience.

You did not send a message that player safety matters.

You sent a message that the WNBA will wait until something catastrophic happens before it grows a spine.

And if that day comes, the liability will not arrive quietly.

It will come with a very large “we told you so” attached to it.

Because fans have been telling you.

Basketball people have been telling you.

The video has been telling you.

The pattern has been telling you.

Caitlin Clark has been grabbed, bumped, shoved, poked, face-guarded, knocked down, crowded, tested, and hit while your league keeps hiding behind the word “physicality.”

Physicality is basketball.

Reckless contact is not.

Cheap shots are not.

A fist to the throat area is not.

And every time your league responds weakly, every time your officials miss it, every time your media partners minimize it, every time players mock the outrage, and every time your office stays too quiet, you are teaching the league exactly what it can get away with.

That is how standards collapse.

That is how trust dies.

That is how lawsuits are born.

You have an obligation to protect the players in your league.

Not just the players who fit the league’s preferred identity.

Not just the players the old guard approves of.

Not just the players whose fame makes everyone comfortable.

All of them.

Especially the player who has done more to grow the WNBA than anyone in its history.

This is not about Caitlin Clark needing special treatment.

This is about Caitlin Clark not receiving basic protection.

That distinction matters.

The WNBA does not protect stars because they are fragile.

Serious leagues protect stars because the product matters, player safety matters, and the future of the business matters.

The NBA understood this.

The NFL understands this.

Major sports leagues understand that when a generational athlete changes the economics of the sport, you do not allow resentment, weak officiating, cheap shots, and petty narratives to swallow the opportunity.

You are not protecting the game.

You are managing optics.

And you are not even doing that well.

The commissioner’s job is not to hide until the storm passes.

The commissioner’s job is to lead before the storm becomes a disaster.

Right now, the WNBA looks small, bitter, reactive, and unserious.

That is on you.

The officiating looks unprepared for the moment.

That is on you.

The discipline looks weak.

That is on you.

The league’s biggest star looks isolated.

That is on you.

The media narrative around Caitlin Clark has been allowed to become poisonous, dishonest, and dismissive.

That is on you.

The WNBA was handed the golden opportunity women’s basketball had been waiting on for decades, and instead of building around it with urgency, gratitude, and professionalism, the league keeps acting like Caitlin Clark is a problem it has to survive.

She is not the problem.

She is the proof of concept.

She proved the audience exists.

She proved the money is real.

She proved people will watch.

She proved women’s basketball can be mainstream, debated, emotional, commercial, and fun.

And your league is proving it may not be mature enough to handle what she proved.

That is the brutal truth.

Commissioner Engelbert, you are now on notice.

Not as a legal phrase.

As a public one.

The whole sports world can see this.

If Caitlin Clark gets seriously hurt because your league refused to establish a real standard, nobody gets to act surprised.

Nobody gets to pretend this came out of nowhere.

Nobody gets to say the warning signs were not there.

They are everywhere.

Fix the officiating.

Punish dangerous conduct like it is actually dangerous.

Stop letting players disguise reckless behavior as toughness.

Stop letting media voices gaslight fans who know exactly what they are watching.

Stop treating Caitlin Clark’s fanbase like a nuisance while cashing the checks her attention creates.

Stop hiding behind statements that say nothing.

And stop confusing silence with leadership.

The WNBA spent nearly 30 years asking to be taken seriously.

Caitlin Clark made that possible.

Now you have to decide whether you are going to protect the player who made the league bigger or keep letting the league act like she is the inconvenience.

Because if the WNBA cannot protect Caitlin Clark, it cannot be trusted with the future she brought it.

And if you continue to mishandle this, history will not remember you as the commissioner who inherited the Caitlin Clark era.

It will remember you as the commissioner who wasted it.

Sincerely,

A fan who is tired of watching the WNBA endanger its golden opportunity.

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

Caitlin Clark has openly spoken about her Christian faith, thanked God for her gifts, and carried herself with humility under relentless scrutiny.

Scripture reminds us, “If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before it hated you.” John 15:18. Deviants HATE this woman.

Whether you agree with her game or not, she has responded to criticism with resilience instead of bitterness. Character is revealed under pressure.

#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

Pointing out every traitor in Congress not supporting the Save America Act

[Christopher The Warrior @TheChrisMoreno]

Commissioner @CathyEngelbert & the @WNBA better address what happened to Caitlin Clark tonight publicly. The officials must be fired. Alyssa Thomas must be suspended and fined.

If not, she’s failed in her fiduciary duty as commissioner.

[Sali @salisthoughts]

Everyone needs to keep reposting this and tagging @CathyEngelbert @WNBA

[Today Updates 🇺🇸 @TodayUpdates0]

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump just posted a video of this young man exposing the 8 RINOs stopping the SAVE Act from getting passed:

1) Rand Paul
2) Thom Tillis
3) Todd Young
4) Jerry Moran
5) Susan Collins
6) Chuck Grassley
7) Lisa Murkowski
8) Mitch McConnell

Time to get loud MAGA.

Do you firmly support this?

A. Huge Yes
B. No

IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!!

MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏

[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.

[Just T.J. the Army Vet @thomas_garrard]

I owed a debt I could not pay.

HE paid a debt HE did not owe.

It’s Friday, but Sunday is coming.

Christ is King.

[Jamie Johnson @JamieBellendir]

@sadantnan @MarkMeadows @jameslankford we have expectations for you to carry out the will of Oklahomans, not your personal agenda. Pass the Save Act!

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

🚨 ABANDONMENT OF DUTY🚨

Before you watch this video, do one thing.

📣Share it.

Send it to everyone you know.

Because what you’re about to see is not political disagreement.
It is institutional failure in real time.

Every elected official swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States.

Not when it’s convenient.
Not when it earns applause.
Not only when they agree with the person speaking.

Always.

Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution requires the President to report to Congress on the State of the Union… to give account of the nation and recommend measures for its future.

Required.

That means this moment is not optional theater.
It is not a rally.
It is not a campaign stop.

It is a constitutional exchange between branches of government… a foundational ritual of accountability designed by the Framers themselves.

When lawmakers refuse to attend, they are not just skipping a speech.

They are refusing to receive a constitutionally mandated report.

They are elevating partisan emotion above institutional responsibility.

They are signaling that political grievance now outweighs the oath they swore.

That should alarm every American… left, right, independent… because the erosion of constitutional norms never starts with collapse.

It starts with absence.

It starts with excuses.

It starts with leaders deciding that showing up for the Constitution is optional.

Governance becomes performance.
Duty becomes branding.
The oath becomes decoration.

This video exposes that abandonment.

Share it… because silence is how institutional decay becomes normalized.

And when abandonment of duty becomes normal, republics weaken from within.
@GOP @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump

#SilentMajoritySpeaks
#AStoneGroove

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

If you think we should FIRE @LeaderJohnThune, repost this post.

[Dan Hill @dandinohill]

How to stop Thune and McConnell from blocking the SAVE Act:

5 GOP Senators can call for a meeting of the Republican Conference (often referred to as convening or calling a "new" or special conference meeting).

Then they can elect a new Senate Majority Leader and New Chair of the Rules Committee.

Get it done!!

[c 🦦 (offseason edition) @63wrlds]

my body genuinely cannot tell the difference between being chased by a lion and watching the usa-canada gold medal game

[Jamie Johnson @JamieBellendir]

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[Shawn Farash @Shawn_Farash]

One of the best things about hockey is when you commit a penalty you go to jail for 2 minutes.

In that regard hockey is tougher on crime than most democrat run cities

[Jamie Johnson @JamieBellendir]

@ElephantSignal A

[Jamie Johnson @JamieBellendir]

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