SOLID START FOR USA! 🇺🇸
Led by Jake Hanes with 14 points, the Americans delivered a flawless performance to kick off Week 2 on a high note against Cuba 🇨🇺! 🔥
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As someone who has spent three decades advocating for children, I find it deeply troubling that his first instinct is to make younger children criminally liable rather than address the failures that allowed this tragedy to happen in the first place.
Three children are dead.
The question is not why a 10-year-old should be punished.
The question is why minors have access to firearms.
The question is why violence continues to find its way into our schools.
The question is why our education, mental health, social welfare, and law enforcement systems repeatedly fail children before a crime is ever committed.
Real leadership requires more than reacting to headlines.
It requires understanding the problem.
Lowering the age of criminal responsibility may generate applause. It may generate media attention. But there is little evidence that it addresses the root causes of youth violence.
Children who commit serious crimes must be held accountable. But accountability should not become a substitute for prevention.
A senator’s responsibility is not merely to propose the harshest response. It is to propose the most effective one.
I have worked with vulnerable children for most of my adult life. Many have been abused, neglected, abandoned, exploited, or exposed to violence long before they ever entered conflict with the law.
It is easy to appear tough on children.
It is much harder to confront the adult failures that create these tragedies.
Before Senator Padilla asks Congress to treat younger children as criminals, perhaps he should explain why government has failed to protect them as children in the first place.
"I saw Kieffer Alas came out of the water. He was already crying, and I told him to go to the shore. Then I saw EJ Kapihe. He was also crying. He was telling me that Divine is gone." 😭
Cole Hartke scored 33 points as the U.S. Men's National Team 🇺🇸 stormed back for a reverse sweep of Canada 🇨🇦 (20-25, 33-35, 26-24, 25-21, 15-11) in VNL action.
His stat line:
➡️ 24 kills
➡️ 6 blocks
➡️ 3 aces
Recap: https://t.co/f2Ah1laQx1
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#VNL2026 WHAT. A. COMEBACK. 😮💨🔥
The USA 🇺🇸 storm back from two sets down to defeat Canada 🇨🇦 in an unforgettable five-set battle.
Leading the way with 33 points, 20-year-old Cole Hartke.
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❗️ "HI, I'M COLE HARTKE, AND THE WORLD HAS JUST HEARD OF ME"! 🇺🇲
Fantastyczny comeback w wykonaniu reprezentacji Stanów Zjednoczonych, która odwraca losy meczu i wygrywa po tie breaku w Ottawie z reprezentacją Kanady! ✅️
Obłędny występ zanotował 20-letni atakujący Cole Hartke, dla którego jest to przecież debiutancki sezon w ekipie Karcha Kiralyego. 🔝
📊: 🇺🇲 COLE HARTKE 🆚️
REPREZENTACJA KANADY 🇨🇦 (3-2):
▪️ 3️⃣3️⃣ PKT (❗️)
▪️ +26
▪️ 46% skuteczności w ataku (24/52)
▪️ 36% efektywności w ataku
▪️ 3 asy serwisowe
▪️ 6 punktowych bloków (!!!!)
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