NASCAR All-Star format:
-350 laps; 75-75-200
-No "open" race; all cars start
-Invert top-26 after first segment
-Driver's combined finish first two segments sets order for final segment of 26 drivers: 2025-26 race winners, past champs, best combined segment finishers, fan vote
After an entire summer and years of travel with my family, I missed my Dad’s 1 and only NASCAR win for 8th grade orientation day.
I was so upset after that, It was all my mom could do to keep me from dropping out of school over the next 4 years. When my HS diploma came in the mail (I refused to go), my mom took it before I could toss it in the trash.
Teachers- Let your kids do important things with their family, don’t hassle them like this.
Been thinking about something @dennyhamlin said on his pod. Imagine MLB made every team use the same bat, glove, and spikes from the same company. Pitchers could only throw 90 mph and after the 3rd and 6th the score was adjusted so a team could lead by 1 run. The best batter and pitcher then had to tell everyone their technique. A casual flipping channels and seeing stats might think every game was super close and exciting, but a fan of the game watching from start to finish probably wouldn’t. Probably wouldn’t be much fun to play that way either.
This one will get you. @danorlovsky7’s tears say it all.
To get to watch your son who has overcome so many challenges get a moment in the spotlight has to be one of the coolest things ever.
Shoutout to Madden!!
Don't let all the blatant race-manipulation take away from the INCREDIBLE drive Ryan Blaney just put together.
Team Penske does it again!
#NASCARPlayoffs
The two industries that America was built on were fishing and farming – and we’re killing them both. On his boat in Maine, commercial fisherman Captain Devyn Campbell and I discussed the mysterious disappearance of cod off the coast of Maine and the latest reasons why small-scale fishing operations are going under.
During my announcement speech more than a year ago, I said that I have so many skeletons in the closet that if they could vote, I would be king of the world. I knew much would be made of my past. I have been around politics. I know of its hazards. I also knew that my vision and policies would inspire resistance in the establishment.
When you declare yourself foe to widespread corporate-government corruption and declare yourself counter-friction to a runaway war machine (a war machine killing innocents and draining our country’s coffers), you will inspire resistance in the establishment. (Put another way, many powerful people want to make sure the gravy train never stops. And I derail gravy trains.)
When you point out the morbidity of our two-party system -- a system that our first president warned us about, a system that is now largely predicated on hating fellow humans -- you will inspire resistance in the establishment.
When you’ve spent much of your life successfully fighting against our biggest corporations and worst polluters; fighting against mining, timber, hydroelectricity, and oil industries on behalf of the voiceless and the indigenous; fighting against agribusiness barons blithely ravaging the lives of small farmers and small towns, you will inspire resistance in the establishment.
When you remind Americans that censorship and other curtailments of our civil liberties always arrive burnished with a moral and patriotic gloss, you will inspire resistance in the establishment.
When you invoke our crisis of meaning, our deaths of despair, the addiction, and the many children lost to screens, ill health, and ennui, you will inspire resistance in the establishment.
When you are wary of reductive partisan ideology and group-think; and when you refuse the common coin of today’s public discourse -- a glib second-rate cruelty delivered via the screen -- you will inspire resistance in the establishment.
When you assert that to better our country we must work toward a politics that heals this divide and affirms our mutual belonging, you will inspire resistance in the establishment.
As you perhaps know, I am used to such resistance -- used to the bile and malign distortions that accompany speaking out on high-stakes issues. And I know that the establishment’s treatment of me -- while challenging -- makes perfect sense.
The dark and elaborately refined arts of partisan politics deployed to end my campaign (the documented censorship and shadowbanning; the out-in-the-open, anti-democratic, and well-funded attempts to keep me off ballots through expensive, complex, time-consuming legal challenges; the thwarting of debate access; the withholding of secret service protection; the paid staged protests; the sundry campaigns of defamation and scandalmongering) are the logical reactions of a threatened -- and very unwell -- status quo.
And underneath all of this -- underneath much of this election cycle, underneath much of this moment in our nation’s politics -- is a sort of destitution. A destitution of heart. It’s no small wonder so many people have withdrawn from civic life and democracy altogether.
A broken bond needs to be reestablished in our country. We need more soul-searching and less partisan warfare. Our work as Americans, whether we like it or not, transcends all labels and all parties. It seems we will recognize this reality and act accordingly; or be broken into it. History is not made occasionally on great stages by the privileged few but made daily in the depths of each human soul.
Ours is a beautiful nation, still. According to the Internet, our country (and our world) founders in chaos. But in post offices, parks, grocery stores our beauty still heartens and shines. We all see it every day.
It is in the name of that beauty that I work.
It is in the name of that beauty that I run to be your next president.
The true power of America is not its comfort, wealth, or military might, but its ideals of liberty, democracy, and
generosity.
This campaign is about honoring and restoring those ideals -- regardless of the defamation, evasion, and trickery. We knew those were coming.
We will not be deterred on this necessary journey.