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[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

We miss you, and think of you often.

Session is wrapped. Spring is in bloom. I’m retiring soon. You two would have thrived in retirement. I trust you’re living it now.

We have our arms wrapped around your kids. They’re remarkable. We love them.

[JCPilot Sports @PilotSports]

Bailey Finck, Hadley Wachal, Mady Wachal and Kinley VanDeVere have been named to the all-BSC softball team.
Cora Pauling, Brielle Tufvesson, Miley VanDeVere and CJ Pauling are on the honorable-mention team.

[Jackson Bulls @Jackson_Bulls]

It's Sunday, but it's NOT a Ballgame Day for your Bulls.
Next on the schedule is a trip down the Mill Road on Wednesday to play the @Lakefield_Frogs. First pitch is at 7:30 p.m. at Stan King Field.

[Lee Larson @sportsdr44]

Jackson Bulls-Heron Lake Lakers II

[Jackson Bulls @Jackson_Bulls]

First time in a long time to say this:
Ballgame Day!
Your Bulls head to the other side of Jackson County for the traditional Mother’s Day opener with the Heron Lake Lakers.
First pitch is at 2:00.

[KATIE STAI @KateStaiRN]

🙌🙌

[JCPilot Sports @PilotSports]

RECORD-BREAKING WALK-OFF!
Bailey Finck hits a two-run walk-off home run to give JCC a 4-2 win over St. James in eight innings.
The homer is the 16th of Finck’s career, breaking JCC’s career record.

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Jimmy Kimmel responded directly to Melania Trump during his opening monologue on Monday night after the First Lady called for his firing: "I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject. I do. And I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it."

"You know how sometimes you wake up in the morning and the First Lady puts out a statement demanding you be fired from your job? We've all been there, right? What a day.

"As you know, they had to cancel the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington on Saturday night after a man with multiple guns and knives crashed the party and may have shot a Secret Service officer. Fortunately, the guy was wearing a bulletproof vest and is okay. He was charged today. No one was hurt, thank goodness. A lot of people were shaken up on a night that is supposed to be light-hearted.

"The White House Correspondents' Dinner, if you don't know, it used to be an annual event before Trump showed up, but every year they'd have a comedian roast the room. The President, the Vice President, members of the press—everybody got roasted. I did it once; I hosted it. It was a lot of fun.

"But this year they said, 'No comedian. We're bringing in a mentalist instead.' So on Thursday, three days before the event, in order to keep that cherished tradition alive, I did my own version of the correspondents' dinner on my show. I put on a tuxedo. We pretended we had an audience of luminaries. We used old footage of the Trumps, of Pete Hegseth, J.D. Vance, Kid Rock, Vanilla Ice, all the members of his cabinet, and we made it seem like they were all together in a room. We had a little roast.

"Again, this was Thursday, and there was no big reaction to it until this morning when I greeted the day facing yet another Twitter vomit storm, and a call to fire me from our First Lady, Melania Trump, saying I should be fired because of a joke I made, again, five nights ago.

"It was a pretend roast. I said, 'Our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at her. So beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.' Which obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they're together. It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he's almost 80 and she's younger than I am. It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination, and they know that. I've been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence in particular.

"But I understand that the First Lady had a stressful experience over the weekend, and probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house. And also, I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject. I do. And I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it... because, by the way, I also should point out: Donald Trump is allowed to say whatever he wants to say, as are you, and as am I, as are all of us. Because under the First Amendment, we have as Americans a right to free speech."

[Bon Jovi @BonJovi]

Getting ready for the road

[KATIE STAI @KateStaiRN]

@Timstai 🙄

[JCPilot Sports @PilotSports]

Brett Rossow and Mike Wierson threw out first pitches ahead of JCC’s game against Redwood Valley this afternoon at Wacker Field.

[JCPilot Sports @PilotSports]

JCC senior Bailey Finck drove in the 100th run of her career with an RBI double in the first inning.

[ABC News @ABC]

BREAKING: The Artemis II crew has officially set the record for the farthest distance that humans have traveled from Earth.

The previous record was set in 1970 by the Apollo 13 crew, which traveled 248,655 miles from Earth.

Follow live updates: https://t.co/HwfTJ9wa2l

[KATIE STAI @KateStaiRN]

@RoyalCaribbean @TrooperJason @CocaCola Yes, @RoyalCaribbean- this would be great to consider. It seems the waste of these cups would be a great option to reuse. We’d pay for the package, our cups would just be reactivated like the Wow Bands. Then you could charge $4.99 for all first time cruisers with all packages.

[KATIE STAI @KateStaiRN]

Good bye, sweetheart! 👋👋
Go back to SD and adopt some cats. You’re not good with dogs or goats.

[Kristi Noem @KristiNoem]

Thank you @POTUS Trump for appointing me as the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas. @SecRubio and @SecWar are incredible leaders and I look forward to working with them closely to dismantle cartels that have poured drugs into our nation and killed our children and grandchildren.

The Western Hemisphere is absolutely critical for U.S. security. In this new role, I will be able to build on the partnerships and national security expertise, I forged over the last 13 months as Secretary of Homeland Security.

We have made historic accomplishments at the Department of Homeland Security to make America safe again: we delivered the MOST secure border in American history, 3 million illegal aliens have left the U.S., we have located 145,000 children, FEMA delivered disaster relief at a 100% faster rate, we ushered in the golden age of travel, saved the American taxpayer $13 billion and revitalized the U.S. Coast Guard.

[Tim Stai @Timstai]

@mnguillotine 15 years of not believing in JCC Wrestling

[JCPilot Sports @PilotSports]

Mathias Liepold is in the Class A state semifinals at 127 pounds after a 7-4 win over Nathaniel Venske of Central Public. Liepold is guaranteed a spot in the top six.

[KATIE STAI @KateStaiRN]

Yes, Yes, Yes!!!!!!!!

[JCPilot Sports @PilotSports]

Carson Kolander gets a takedown with 9 seconds left to beat No. 7 Randy Sorensen 10-8 at 189 pounds.
JCC leads Minneota 24-21.

[KATIE STAI @KateStaiRN]

Way to go, Carson! BELIEVE! 🙌

[JCPilot Sports @PilotSports]

Carson Kolander is going to state for the first time after winning his true-second match at 189 pounds. Kolander lost his first match of the day, then won four straight.

[JCPilot Sports @PilotSports]

Carson Kolander gets a takedown in the final seconds to win the third-place match at 189 pounds.
He’ll have a true-second match for a trip to state.

[JCPilot Sports @PilotSports]

Mathias Liepold is in the 127-pound section finals after pinning fourth-ranked Logan Peterson of TMB in the semis.