Mike K.

Native of the great state of SD. Interests include faith, family, politics, tennis, Huskers, good music & Lyme Disease.

[Mike K. @ProBanker]

Pine Ridge

[The Guess Who @theguesswho]

The shows in Canada have been amazing and we are enjoying being back out on the road again.

Moncton, Halifax, and Laval gave us some great nights, and we’re looking forward to seeing everyone in Winnipeg on Friday.

We can’t wait to share more moments from the road with you.

[KXLG Radio @MyKXLG]

Council Defers Vote on 2nd Street Permit Extension #KXLG #LiveAndLocal https://t.co/rhJ2kqj7zG

[Mike K. @ProBanker]

@uscfan981 Great wheat and great basketball.

[Mike K. @ProBanker]

@jackie_ourada @NWSOmaha My guess is somebody shot something like a pellet gun at it. That is what the kids are doing for “fun” now a days. Especially if multiple cars experienced the same thing and weather was not a factor.

[Mike K. @ProBanker]

@VintageRockN_85 Yes

[Mike K. @ProBanker]

Wise words…

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Voltaire passed away today in 1778.

There are two quotes of his I always come back to:

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

and

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

[Mike K. @ProBanker]

They don’t draw it up like that anymore, but I wish they would.

[Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey]

All I'm saying is you could be throwing Back Shoulder to your Fullback with a Full Cage Facemask 😂

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

It never ceases to amaze me that we have OUR Mozart, Beethoven and Bach around, @PaulMcCartney and he is still performing his timeless music… forever grateful!

[Jannik Sinner @janniksin]

It was not my day today 💔 We've had an incredible year so far but now I need some time off. Thank you all for the amazing support and congrats to @jmcerundolo on a solid match. See you soon. Au revoir, Paris 🇫🇷🙏🏻

[Hail Varsity @HailVarsity]

Nebraska's Jordy Frahm is the 2026 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year 🏆

[Mike K. @ProBanker]

Amazing…

[Mike K. @ProBanker]

A good day to remember those that made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise]

Today is our nations Memorial Day. Enjoy your day and take a moment to remember the true meaning of this day. A day to pay our respects to all those who have given their lives in our country's defense. God bless these brave heroes and their families.

[Mike K. @ProBanker]

1st time trekking some backcountry roads in The Black Hills.

[Germán R. Abril @gerebit0]

No puedes acabar un partido así.
Hay que cerrar el estadio.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Almost no one knows the full story of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee.

In 1847, during the Mexican War, a young Lieutenant Grant served as an obscure regimental quartermaster. Robert E. Lee, already famous, served on General Winfield Scott's elite staff. They crossed paths once. Lee did not remember it.

Eighteen years later, they met again.

April 9, 1865. Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Lee arrived first, in an immaculate gray dress uniform, red sash, embroidered gauntlets, and a presentation sword with a jeweled hilt. He looked like an emperor walking to his coronation.

Grant rode up an hour later, alone, splattered head to boot in Virginia mud, wearing a private's field blouse with no sword, no sash, and no insignia except the dirty shoulder straps of a lieutenant general. The first thing he did was apologize to Lee for his appearance.

The surrender happened in the parlor of a farmer named Wilmer McLean. McLean had fled his old home near Manassas because the first major battle of the war had literally been fought across his front yard in 1861. Four years later the war followed him 120 miles and ended in his front parlor. He later said he could have wallpapered his house with the war.

Before any terms were discussed, Grant tried small talk. He asked Lee if he remembered him from Mexico. Lee politely said he did not. Grant said he had remembered Lee perfectly for almost twenty years.

Then came the terms, and they stunned everyone present.

Officers could keep their sidearms and personal horses. Enlisted men who owned their mounts could take them home for the spring plowing. No prison. No trials. Every Confederate soldier would be paroled and allowed to walk home, on his honor, unmolested by U.S. authority for as long as he kept his parole.

Lincoln had asked for leniency. Grant gave him more than he asked for.

When Lee mentioned, almost in passing, that his men had not eaten in days, Grant ordered 25,000 rations sent across the lines from his own supply trains that same afternoon. The Union army fed the army it had just defeated.

As Lee rode back to his lines on his old gray horse Traveller, Union batteries began firing celebratory salutes and Grant's men started to cheer. Grant rode out himself and shut it down on the spot. "The war is over," he said. "The rebels are our countrymen again, and the best sign of rejoicing after the victory will be to abstain from all such demonstrations."

He later wrote that he felt "sad and depressed" the rest of that day, not triumphant. He could not bring himself to rejoice over the downfall of a foe who had fought so long, so well, and had suffered so much for his cause.

Then came the chapter history almost forgot.

Two months after Appomattox, a federal grand jury in Norfolk indicted Robert E. Lee for treason. The penalty on the books was death by hanging. Lee wrote a single letter to Grant, citing the parole he had been given.

Grant was furious. He went directly to President Andrew Johnson and told him plainly that if the indictment moved forward, he would resign his commission as commanding general of the entire United States Army. He had pledged his personal word to Lee at Appomattox, and no civilian politician was going to break that word while Grant still wore the uniform.

Johnson backed down. The indictment was quietly killed.

The man who beat Lee in war saved him from the gallows in peace.

Twenty years later, Grant was dying of throat cancer in a cottage on Mount McGregor, racing in agony to finish his memoirs before bankruptcy and death caught up with his family. He won by four days. The book sold 300,000 copies and made his widow rich.

At Grant's funeral procession in New York in August 1885, his pallbearers walked side by side: Union generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Sheridan, and Confederate generals Joseph E. Johnston and Simon Bolivar Buckner. The same men who had spent four years trying to kill each other carried the coffin together through a million and a half mourners lining the streets.

Six years later, when Sherman himself died, the old Confederate Johnston traveled to New York again to serve as a pallbearer for his former enemy. It was a freezing February day with cold rain. Johnston, 84 years old, stood through the entire outdoor ceremony with his hat held over his heart. A friend pleaded with him to put his hat back on. Johnston refused. "If I were in his place," he said, "and he were standing in mine, he would not put on his hat."

Johnston caught pneumonia that day. He died a few weeks later.

That is the real ending of the American Civil War. Not at Appomattox. In the rain, at a funeral, with an old Confederate refusing to cover his head out of respect for the Union general he had spent his youth trying to destroy.

[Mike K. @ProBanker]

It’s almost like they filmed my backhand movement. 🙂

[SK @Djoko_UTD]

The Federer BH 👏

[Nebraska Men's Basketball @HuskerMBB]

You dreamed it.
They did it.

Relive the historic 2025-26 season in cinematic fashion.

🎞️ Premiering June 15th
⌚️ 6:00 pm CT
📍 Rococo Theatre
🎟️ On sale tomorrow at 10:00 am CT

[Mike K. @ProBanker]

Just imagine if we had more leaders like this…

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

I just had the craziest experience at the airport.

We are about to board a flight to Atlanta when the pilot from the incoming plane walks out of the jetway. Guy is probably late 50s, salt and pepper hair, military look. The kind of pilot you instantly feel good about seeing on your flight.

Pilot walks over to the counter, gets on the PA system, and starts addressing everyone. “Folks, I’ve been doing this a long time. Flying one of these jets is easy. The hard part is looking at 130 people and telling them their flight is going to be delayed.”

Audible groans throughout the boarding gate. Most people here are flying to Atlanta as a layover before another flight. 130 people just had their day become a complete mess.

The pilot goes on. “I get it, trust me. But here’s the deal: During our landing, we had a small mechanical issue. I’m not your pilot for the next leg, but I don’t feel confident the jet’s safe to fly until we have a mechanical team look it over, and I don’t feel comfortable asking the next pilots to fly you guys until we get confirmation.”

He points at the agents next to him behind the counter: “Now, none of this is the agents’ fault. Please be kind to them. I’m the one who made this decision, not them, so any inconvenience you experience is my fault. Just please know that I don’t do this lightly, and I’m only doing it because I believe it’s in the best interests of everyone’s safety.”

Now this is where the story gets crazy. The pilot puts the microphone down, grabs his suitcase, and all the people in the gate…

Start clapping.

I’m not joking, everyone starts clapping for the guy. 130 people who just had their travel plans ruined give an ovation to the guy who made the decision and delivered the message.

All because he addressed them with decency and transparency, took ownership of the decision, made it clear that it was necessary, and explained why it was in everyone’s best interest.

It’s honestly one of the best examples of strong communication—of strong leadership, for that matter—that I’ve seen in a long time.

@Delta, whoever your Atlanta to Wichita pilot was this morning, he’s one of the good ones. Please tell him the delayed passengers of flight 1637 appreciate what he did.

[Mike K. @ProBanker]

The Italian wins in Rome today. The streak continues. A superb player…

[Tennis TV @TennisTV]

“It’s great to see you back playing [at] the highest level of our sport” 💪

Two class acts 🫶

@janniksin @CasperRuud98 #IBI26