Hey everyone , check out @jgray78 article on some thoughts I have on just one way policing can and does cause unintended harm. Thanks to Jeremy for giving me a broader reach on this. Looking forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts.
Thanks to retired #Birmingham West Precinct captain @Jerry5Wiley for sharing his thoughts. He illustrates his theory through the story of a single mother with an expired tag and no insurance who is stopped for speeding. https://t.co/GVaCAxofQC
What do these 6 kids all have in common?
They each completed our 50 Yard Challenge by mowing 50 FREE lawns in their communities for the elderly, disabled, single parents, and veterans.
With every 10 lawns, they earned a new color shirt, and at 50 lawns they received their black shirt (like a black belt in karate) 🥋—along with a brand-new mower, weed eater, and blower!
👉 Will your child be the next to take on the challenge?
Kids can join from any city, any state. Raking leaves and snow shoveling count too.
Sign up here: https://t.co/cUXfnpDBhS
(These kids are from previous years.)
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. 🇺🇸
More than 9,000 American soldiers are buried in the American Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach in Normandy. Some of them died on D-Day, most of those buried here died in the days and weeks that followed during the Normandy campaign.
At his address to the World Economic Forum in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq War, Secretary of State Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if the US plans for Iraq were just an example of American empire building.
Powell answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."
DISGUSTING. That thud you hear is all the heroes who served and died on those beaches rolling over in their graves. I hope their families will accept the apology of millions of Americans disgusted by this unprecedented desecration. He is NOT America.
90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.
Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.
Trump has just destroyed the US beef industry. No country in their right mind is going to import US beef.
After Trump cut funding for Screwworm monitoring programs, the dangerous flesh-eating parasite has been found in US cattle for the first time since 1966.
Gulf Shores, Alabama is where the South quietly keeps one of its best beach escapes.
White sand, warm water, seafood shacks, and sunsets that make you wonder why people keep overlooking it.