Lonnie Luna II

Come for occasional good tweet unfollow in disgust when my frequent RTs destroy your feed. Proud Lumberjack. Cowboys, bball, Cosmere, and Destiny fanatic.

[Lonnie Luna II @LLunaTrexing]

Tim Pool here exhibits the main reason WHY Republicans are rejecting democracy and turning to fascism: their biggest complaints can't be solved with with normal governance.

Republicans are actually mad about hearing about diversity, seeing non-white people in commercials, and

[Tim Pool @Timcast]

But Elon, we have been telling you this.

You learned the hard way but maybe we can start to fix the cultural problems by gutting them from Twitter, a main hub for their organization

[Bibs @BibsCorner]

If Nico Harrison and Jason Kidd didn’t hate Luka, he wouldn’t have.

But we don’t get to live in that world.

[Eric Bott @EricJBott]

I bet @RoKhanna excuses this behavior by accusing the teen of once going to church or knowing a Republican.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

I kinda comprehend that there is no bottom with these classless, thoughtless grifters, but I’m still surprised when I see it so openly.
These are pathetic people. And they dishonor us all with every thing they do.

[Ankouv @itshyenatime]

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[Bob Sturm @SportsSturm]

The Brunson thing that is wild to me: he signed with them on a 48-month contract when he left Dallas. He delivered the title in month 48.

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Statue of Liberty, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi & Gustave Eiffel, dedicated 1886, 📸’s by @natlyphoto, PannaPhoto

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Teddy Roosevelt dedicated his life to using the power of the federal government to lift up his fellow man. He loved a good scrap — but he would have hated watching billionaires (and one trillionaire) throw a party on the people's lawn.

[Adam Ryan 🤝 @AdamRy_n]

Aldon Smith passed away this weekend. Most people are talking about his incredible ability, potential, and performance as a football player.

Even though that is all true. He was so much more than that. He was a great friend and his kindness changed my life forever.

I met Aldon our freshman year at Mizzou. He was redshirted and relatively unknown as an athlete. His giveaway was the biggest hands you'll ever see and his ability to dunk at 250lbs, but his size in many ways didn't match his personality. He was relatively quiet and in most scenarios would try to shrink into the room vs stand out in it.

Over the course of the next year, we became close. We were very different people, from different places, but we both connected on the feeling of being a bit lost in the beginnings of adulthood. That year, I never really thought about him as a football player. He was just this gentle giant who loved to play video games and talk about life.

His sophmore year he broke the single season sack record at Mizzou, became an All American, and his life changed forever.

He became a celebrity on campus. He became a household name in Missouri. He became a top NFL draft prospect.

I remember how crazy his life became, and how quickly. ESPN doing interviews. Fancy cars being "loaned" to him. And people everywhere inserting themselves into his life.

Despite the craziness, my friend was always a text away.

My junior of college, I decided to take my first stab at entrepreneurship. I wanted to launch a chapter of Camp Kesem.

Kesem is a summer camp for children whose parents have been affected by cancer. The camp would be totally free and be a chance for a kid to experience the magic of being a kid again. As a son of a breast cancer survivor the idea of being able to create this camp in Missouri meant the world to me.

The Livestrong Foundation was hosting a nation wide contest to win $10,000 as seed capital to get started. To win, you had to have the most votes.

I tried really freaking hard to win that competition. I was going up against some really influential people at huge schools. As a somewhat awkward kid in Columbia, MO I had no chance.

So I asked my friend Aldon for a favor. I asked him if he would help me out and promote the link to vote.

He did more than just posting about Kesem on Facebook, skyrocketing us into the top place in the country. He kept supporting me the next 3 years while I was working on building Kesem.

He showed up to have fun with the kids. He helped me fundraise. He helped me get Kesem to become an official organization sponsored by the NFLPA so he could publicly endorse us as as a player.

Since then Torry Holt, Larry Fitzegerald, and many others have supported Kesem. But Aldon was the first.

Kesem led me to move to Austin to work for the Livestrong Foundation. Kesem is how I met my wife. Kesem gave me the confidence to start Workweek and continue the path of building something from scratch.

But in reality, Aldon enabled all those things.

Throughout the years we had many amazing memories together. Having my wife and I vacation to his house in San Jose. Going to New Orleans for the Super Bowl and seeing his entire family make the trip. Meeting his son and watching him be a dad. The hilarious night we met Derek Jeter. Having the most intellectual conversations about life while playing Call of Duty.

I also saw him struggle. There's no doubt he was a complicated person. Truthfully, I don't know if he ever really figured out who he wanted to be. I know just because your'e 6'4, 250lbs, and get 5.5 sacks in a single NFL game doesn't necessarily mean you want to be a football player. No matter the reasons, he made many bad decisions in his life. Some of those mistakes made it hard for me to stay as close as we'd once been.

One day, not too long ago, I just decided to text him. It had been years since we really chatted. I just wanted to say thank you for all that he had done for me and that I was sorry I wasn't there for him more through his struggles. We FaceTimed after that, and it was like the old days all over again.

Aldon was more than the headlines, the mistakes. He was a generous, gentle soul, a kid at heart, someone who was endlessly curious about life... all in the body of a world class NFL player, bearing the weight of professional pressure and personal circumstances that most of us can't even imagine.

People are complex. People who make bad decisions can also do great things. A person can be hated by almost everyone and, yet, there are people in that person's life who still love them deeply.

I learned many of these lesson due to Aldon, and I'll carry them with me forever.

Rest in peace, Aldon. You won't be forgotten.

[Simone Kanter @SimoneKanter]

This remains one of the most unhinged things ever admitted on the record by a candidate for public office. To the NYT no less.

“I admit that I am trafficking in a deeply problematic lie. I know I am doing it, it makes me really uncomfortable, but I must do it to win. And so I will.” — Brad Lander

[🐢✨America Is Musty✨🐢 @DragonflyJonez]

Wild that Mike Brown is connected to all three of these iconic postseasons. Spurs assistant in 01. Warriors assistant in 17. Knicks head coach in 26. A progression of taking an asswhuppin, to being an assistant ass kicker, and then being the head ass kicker. What an arc.

[Chris Steed @csteed]

Basketball is a simple game.

Mitch Johnson over complicated it, the entire series, in three ways:

1. Exotic coverages: Brunson can’t beat you from the mid range, much like Shai couldn’t last series. Way too many traps, matchup zones, blitzes, etc. leading to the Knicks attacking long closeouts all series long.

2. Transition to build the lead, and then walk the ball up the floor and play not to lose, with the lead. There was a clock in every single game of the series where you could see the Spurs shift from fast to slow.

3. The Kornet minutes. Mitch chose a guaranteed negative 10 minutes on a game by game basis versus getting creative with his personnel.

We’ve never a series more negatively impacted by a coaching staff than this Spurs squad in the NBA Finals. And it was all EXTREMELY predictable and preventable.

Mike Brown was INCREDIBLE. No coach more deserving of a title than him.

[Evan @evan7257]

The socialists are celebrating the Knicks even though San Antonio is clearly a more working class city. In this essay I will…

[Joe @electionsjoe]

This might be the most openly racist campaign I have seen in my lifetime.

[David Aldridge @davidaldridgedc]

In a league of killers, Jalen Brunson is one of the best winners of his generation. He won two chips at Villanova in three years, and he's made the New York Knicks into NBA champions. At 6-foot-1-ish. He's a great, GREAT basketball player.

[🐢✨America Is Musty✨🐢 @DragonflyJonez]

Still ended their playoff run with the highest margin of victory in postseason history even after digging themselves out of all those holes. 2nd longest playoff game win streak ever. I promise you we’ll talk about this run forever. Lesser runs have been immortalized.

You’re a Sixers fan right? We still talk about the 01 Sixers run why on earth would you think we wouldn’t talk about the 26 Knicks run

[Andy Bailey @AndrewDBailey]

Jalen Brunson was spectacular in the closeout game and finished the series averaging 32.6 points.

Only players in NBA history to play 100+ minutes in a Finals and average more than 32.6 points:

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Rick Barry, Elgin Baylor, Kevin Durant, Allen Iverson, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Hakeem Olajuwon, Dwyane Wade and Jerry West.

[Rob Mahoney @RobMahoney]

There’s only one way to win an NBA title with a small guard as your best player—and that’s if they’re a total anomaly.

Jalen Brunson is a total anomaly.

[Isaac Harris @IsaacLHarris]

wrote this for the mavs in 2019 after spending some time with brunson. special player and special leader. fun piece to look back on

[Bobby Marks @BobbyMarks42]

Starting on Sunday, teams can begin negotiating with their own free agents and extension eligible players.

All 30 teams are now eligible to make a trade.

[Molly Morrison @mollyhannahm]

everybody is singing and screaming in the streets

all the cars are honking

there is nothing greater than sports