MikeAustin

Dad. Doc. Dork. Dog Dad. He / him.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Trump knows almost anything his kids do involves inside information because of his presidency. By his own logic, that should mean they step back and stay clean.

Instead they lean in. Companies they invest in keep winning administration contracts. It’s wrong, unprecedented, insanely corrupt, and cannot be allowed to continue.

[MikeAustin @MikeAustin]

@Jalopnik 96 911/993 Midnight Blue Cabrio. Bought it when money too tight. Selling it felt right at the time. Have missed it ever since.

[Lizzie K. Foley @LizzieKFoley]

I'm just going to point out that @CongressmanKean took approximately 644 hours of paid sick leave. He voted against giving his constituents 40.

[MikeAustin @MikeAustin]

https://t.co/Eor8QotrGp

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: Mike Johnson paints this as though it’s some partisan witch hunt. But if you don’t want to be prosecuted for crimes, don’t do crimes.

And he’s talking about running a protection racket. And we are already seeing that this Trump administration has run what some have called one of the largest pedophile protection programs in American history.

And so when Mike Johnson tells a group of wealthy donors, I'm the only thing standing between you, and a consequence that should rattle at the conscience of every American.

What he wants to do is create—or rather, not even create, because it’s already been created—but protect a class of impunity in America that says, “You can commit whatever crime, and so long as you pay a check to us, we will protect you.”

And that is a model of extortion in American politics. And you know what? That’s their pitch.

[MikeAustin @MikeAustin]

@TexasMonthly So glad you visited and highlighted this special place. The smoke will burn your eyes a bit but so very worth it.

[MikeAustin @MikeAustin]

@Bringatrailer I suspect this will bring a nice return. Geez.

[PGA TOUR @PGATOUR]

"Playing big is one of the last things my mom said to me, and something I hold very dear in my life."

Wyndham Clark's mom Lise was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in 2012 and passed away a year later. Clark took the loss hard. Then a college golfer at Oklahoma State, he admitted storming off the course at times in anger and starting to drive as fast as he could, unsure of where he was going.

Clark has battled that anger at times throughout his golf career, and the 2023 U.S. Open champion faced another climb after a rough 2025 season where he notched just two top-10 finishes and placed No. 56 on the FedExCup. But through committed work with mental coach Julie Elion, he has turned a corner in 2026, and he arrived at Shinnecock Hills for the U.S. Open at 18th on the FedExCup with a win at last month's @CJByronNelson.

Clark battled throughout the week on Long Island and emerged with a one-shot victory over Sam Burns, becoming the third player to win a U.S. Open in both California and New York (joining Billy Casper and Tiger Woods).

"I feel like my purpose here on earth is not to be a great golfer, but to use my platform to hopefully help inspire people," Clark said recently.

It hasn't always been easy, but Clark is now his national champion for a second time, and he'll continue to share his battle with others.

[Ian Weissman, DO @DrIanWeissman]

Children’s hospitals have issued safety warnings about rising electric scooter injuries. “This is not a toy. We are seeing traumatic brain injuries, facial trauma, abdominal trauma, fractures, lacerations. These are serious injuries.”
https://t.co/yh0P715hfr

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

This is getting incredibly pathetic. Trump now says he may have to drain the Reflecting Pool after his botched “renovations” quickly left it infested with algae. Instead of taking responsibility, he’s blaming vandalism—not his own shoddy work or the science experts warned about from the start.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Not joking but @elonmusk should have to pay for this right?

You broke it, why do we all have to pay for it?

[Zackory Kirk @zackoryk]

A Walmart shoplifting call, allegedly involving stolen diapers, ended with a 1-year-old child being shot and killed by Senatobia, Mississippi police.
#kohenwiley #senatobiamississippi #tatecountyms

[Sean O’Meowlly🍭 @NeedMyNutsLickt]

I’m a now deleted post by Daniel Cormier, Eric Trump DM’d him and asked him “are any of the fights tomorrow rigged?” 👀
#UFCWhiteHouse

[MikeAustin @MikeAustin]

@JaredSandler @NewbergReport Don’t know how they give up on him when Jansen back.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

NEW: Ken Paxton backed the DOGE cuts that weakened screwworm defenses and put Texas cattle at risk. https://t.co/5IwnvPhvSU

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Dr. Annie Andrews has won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in South Carolina.

She will face Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham in November.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

At times we experience the night of faith, the weariness of believing, the fatigue of the spirit, a sense of inadequacy in the face of the Gospel’s call, the bitterness of our failures. These nights are a time of blessing and a place for rebirth. #ApostolicJourney

[MikeAustin @MikeAustin]

@bonniekristian @CTmagazine Agreed. Don’t vote based on profession of faith alone, but on a candidate’s positions & actions. Yet, many current GOP positions are arguably MUCH worse to many of us attempting to live lives consistent w the Gospel. An imperfect Talarico gives us hope for a more balanced future.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

.@SenTedCruz the guy who didn’t defend his wife and who left Texas as an brutal Snow storm was arriving to Texas, talking about the meaning of “masculine”…🤣🤣🤣😆😅😇hello?