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Physician, surgeon, educator #medtwitter #mededtwitter #columna #politics Retweeting does not imply endorsement wikipedia/John_F._Sarwark

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Chicago Bears https://t.co/FZ5WhDryb9

[University of Illinois @UofIllinois]

Nothing beats a C-U summer ☀️

[SONS OF LIBERTY -MAGA MOVEMENT !!! @eagameover]

GOD BLESS YOU SIR 🫵🏻🫡
My respect 96 years .
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AMERICAN MADE .

The GOAT !!

Clint Eastwood Said Something About Getting Old That Stopped Me Cold.
Aging is not gentle.
You are still here. Still present. Still watching the world move. But the body that carried you through everything - the wars, the work, the wildness of youth - begins to ask for more than you can give it. Joints that never complained now speak up in the morning. Eyes that once took in everything now flinch at the light. Breathing, which never required a single thought, starts needing little pauses.
But none of that is the hardest part.
The hardest part is the quiet.
At a certain age, you reach for the phone and remember there is no one left to call.
The people who knew you when you were young - who remembered the same summers, the same streets, the same faces
- are gone. One by one, then all at once, until the memories you carry have no one left to share them with.
So you tell the stories anyway.
To whoever will listen. With a little more color than perhaps the truth deserves. With a touch of pride you've earned and a grief you don't always name. You know the person across from you wasn't there. You know they can't quite feel it the way you do.
But you tell them. Because the telling is the holding on.
Those stories are not just memories. They are the proof that a life was lived. That people were loved. That things mattered.
And if no one asks for them - you offer them anyway, quietly, like setting something down on a table and hoping someone picks it up.
Old age is not simply what happens to a face or a body.
It is memory looking for a place to rest.
And what an older person needs - more than advice, more than solutions, more than someone telling them how to feel - is simply someone willing to sit down, be still, and listen.
Not to fix anything.
Just to be there.
That is the whole gift. And it costs nothing.
~Wild Whispers .

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

Statement from Chairman George H. McCaskey and President & CEO Kevin Warren:

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Order Shielding Trump Family From I.R.S. Audits Will Remain, Blanche Says https://t.co/ntYmYPEegG via @NYTimes

[NASA @NASA]

What's up for June?

The solstice brings summer to the Northern Hemisphere. Jupiter and Venus will appear close together in the night sky, and Mercury will join them soon after. The Moon will also pass in front of Venus on June 17. Learn more: https://t.co/Ujal0GZVJU

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Inside the Ebola Epicenter, the Virus Rages With Little to Stop It https://t.co/I0O1B8PCWJ via @NYTimes

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Bill Gates Spent Years Crafting His Image. Now It’s Cracking. https://t.co/NRoLt6Loci

[Northwestern Athletics @NU_Sports]

Happy birthday to the Voice of the 'Cats, @DaveEanet 😼🗣️

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@WildcatReport The best 🏅

[Louie Vaccher @WildcatReport]

Great broadcaster. Better guy. 🎂

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[Peacemaking Saint @PeacemakingSt]

“As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free”

Chills every time.

Here is the Tabernacle Choir and the West Point Band performing Battle Hymn of the Republic 🇺🇸🎺

A must-listen this Memorial Day:

[NCAA Lacrosse @NCAALAX]

Kelly Amonte Hiller built a dynasty 🏆

2 National Championships as a player
9 National Championships as a coach

#NCAAWLAX

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Memorial Day:

“We remember the famous names of war. But Memorial Day also belongs to the countless grunts like Red Madsen — ordinary Americans who carried extraordinary burdens, fought brutal battles, came home changed, and quietly built lives afterward. Their sacrifices deserve remembrance too.”

[Steve Futterman @sfutterman]

CBS RADIO'S FINALE - 1927-2026 - The final CBS News Radio broadcast. This was the 11.31pm eastern time broadcast. The anchor is Christopher Cruise. From the Broadcast Center on West 57th. It was a pretty good 99 year run. @CBSNews @CBSRadio

[Paul Vallas @PaulVallas]

Another major setback for CTU President Stacy Davis Gates and Mayor Brandon Johnson. Despite CTU’s typical voting shenanigans, more than 60% of members voted against the proposed $8.5 million increase in member dues. Just three weeks earlier, 87% of teachers refused to participate in CTU’s May Day rally.

Between the lack of financial transparency, spending nearly 80% of member dues on politics instead of member services, and injecting politics into pension fund investments — to the financial detriment of teacher retirements — CTU members are rapidly losing trust in their union leadership.