Susan Nesom

[Susan Nesom @SusanNesom]

Can't stop watching this!! 😍😍 💙💛🏆💛💙 https://t.co/C8fvmvxJI0

[Angela Stanton King @theAuntieAngie]

21 years ago, I sat in a prison cell and learned I was pregnant.

Every sign pointed toward abortion. Every circumstance said this baby would never have a chance.

But I chose life.

I saw value in my daughter before anyone else could.

What I didn’t know was that her birth would help change laws in America. Fifteen years after I gave birth while chained to a hospital bed with a sheriff standing watch, that story reached the highest levels of government. And @POTUS granted me a full and unconditional pardon and signed legislation ending the shackling of women during childbirth in federal prisons.

Today, that same baby walked across the stage as a graduate of MIT.

From a prison birth to one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

Never let your circumstances determine someone’s worth.

There is value in life.

There is purpose in every child.

Go, baby. The world is yours. ❤️🎓
#MIT #Graduation #ChooseLife #Redemption #SecondChances #ValueInLife

[Tiger Vibes @Tiger__Vibes]

This is the best thing I’ve seen today lmao 🤣

[Brendon Fairbairn @FairbairnTV]

A few of the dads of the #LSU gymnastics team stole the show before the team headed off to the semifinals, putting their own “skills” on full display 😂

Even head coach Jay Clark was impressed.

@LAFirstNews @LSUgym

[King🐯 @DaBayouBandit]

2x Gymnast of the year
1x freshman gymnast of the year

Goat shit

but she’s a tiger

[Susan Nesom @SusanNesom]

@JayTC53 @RoKhanna Wasn’t the civilization that was threatened to be wiped out the actual regime/radical islamists? Not the entire population of Iran. How about everyone read the entire statement/post before yelling the sky is falling. 🙄

[NancyH @NancyH_60]

No Country, No Borders — Just Ocean: The Incredible Bajau Tribe…

This is the only "country" with no land borders.🌊

The Bajau people live their entire lives at sea, between Indonesia and Malaysia. Many are born on boats, grow up on water, and never truly belong to any nation - making them the last true sea nomads of the world.

Diving is survival for them. From a young age, they dive 30+ meters without equipment, with bodies adapted to pressure and eyes that see clearly underwater.

No land. No borders. Just the ocean.🌊

[LSU Gymnastics @LSUgym]

Superhuman. That's all.

Kailin Ch10 gets her fourth 10 on vault and 12th perfect score this season 🤯

📺 ESPN+ | @kailin_chio

[espnW @espnW]

Kailin Chio is on a PERFECT 10 TEAR ‼️

Chio scores her second 10.0 on the night on floor 👏

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

The National Mall celebrated the launch of ARTEMIS II right.

Beautiful tribute to NASA.

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 UNITED PASSENGER CATCHES INSANE NASA ROCKET LAUNCH FROM PLANE WINDOW — FLIGHT ATTENDANT LOSES IT MID-AIR

A United flight just turned into a front-row seat to history.

A woman captures the exact moment NASA’s Artemis II rocket launches… straight from her window at 30,000 feet.

And then you hear the flight attendant:

“15 years of flying… I’ve been praying to see something like this.”

• Rocket blasting through the clouds
• Crew calling it a “once in a lifetime” moment

He said he flew to Florida multiple times just to see a launch…

Canceled. Every time.

And then this happens midair.

What are the chances you randomly look out your window… and see history taking off?

[Susan Nesom @SusanNesom]

@HomanNews A

[Susan Nesom @SusanNesom]

@WHLeavitt Aaaaaaaaaaaaa

[ESPN @espn]

Flau'jae Johnson checks out for her final time as an LSU Tiger at the PMAC ❤️

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

I was flying Southwest from Dallas to New York. Three rows ahead of me, there was a young soldier in uniform. He looked barely 18. He was staring straight ahead, gripping the armrests. He looked nervous. When the drink cart came around, the flight attendant asked him what he wanted. 'Coke, please,' he said. 'Heading home?' she asked kindly. 'No, ma'am,' he said. 'Deploying. First time.' The whole row went quiet. The flight attendant didn't say a word. she handed him his Coke. Then, she got on the PA system. 'Ladies and gentlemen, we have a very special guest in Row 8 today. Private Miller is on his first deployment to serve our country. Since I can't buy him a drink, I’m going to ask a favor. If you want to write him a note of encouragement, pass it forward.' I grabbed a napkin. I wrote: 'You got this. Stay safe. - A dad from Row 12.' I watched as napkins traveled up the aisle. Napkins, receipts, pages torn from books. By the time we landed, the soldier had a pile of paper on his tray table three inches high. He stood up to get his bag, and he was wiping his eyes. He carefully packed every single scrap of paper into his rucksack. 'Thank you,' he told the flight attendant. 'No,' she said. 'Thank you.' We all walked off that plane a little quieter, reminded that freedom is just a word until you meet the kid who is defending it.

Credit: Margie Lee

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In 1951, a restaurant in New Orleans created a dessert on a dare and accidentally invented one of the most dramatic dishes in American culinary history.

The city was flooded with bananas. New Orleans was the single largest port of entry for banana imports from Central and South America in the entire United States, and Owen Brennan, the Irish-American owner of Brennan's Restaurant on Royal Street, wanted a dish that put the fruit at the center of the table. He handed the challenge to his chef Paul Blangé and his younger sister Ella, and told them to build something worthy of the restaurant.

What came out of that kitchen was Bananas Foster, named after Richard Foster, chairman of the New Orleans Crime Commission and one of Brennan's closest friends and most loyal regulars.

The dish is simple. Brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, banana liqueur, and fresh bananas cooked in a copper pan until the sauce is deep and glossy and the bananas are just soft enough to give. Then the rum goes in, the pan tilts toward the flame, and the whole table goes quiet for thirty seconds while blue fire burns off the alcohol and leaves behind something that smells like the best version of caramel you have ever encountered. Then it goes over cold vanilla ice cream and the whole thing is done in under ten minutes.

Seventy-five years later Brennan's still flames 35,000 pounds of bananas every single year for this one dessert. Seventy-five percent of all desserts ordered at the restaurant are still Bananas Foster.

It has been on the menu every single day since 1951 and it has never needed to change because it was right the first time.

© Eats History

#archaeohistories

[Susan Nesom @SusanNesom]

@TheLizVariant @nancy_hamm1 Well…..is it possible he drowned & was saved by dolphins? Or he actually built a city for them. 🤷🏼‍♀️🐟🐬🌊

[espnW @espnW]

ALL THREE of Kailin Chio’s Perfect 🔟s of the night 🔥

Chio is the first NCAA gymnast to score a Perfect 10 in all three events in a meet when only competing in three events 👏