I am appealing to the Day 1 #Texans culture knowers. Please avoid selling your tix to randoms on digital. Find a Texan if you can’t go. We are everywhere, and we will help you.
If you are a local national global and/or space badass, we are recruiting you to join us. 😎🙌❤️🏆🚀
Stop measuring your life against others. Constant comparison quietly drains your joy and your mental strength.
Put your energy into your own growth and your own path.
Fulfillment comes from moving forward, not from keeping score.
Struggling to wrap my head around this. Tim Tebow gave Congress a map with 338,000+ unique IP addresses in the United States that have traded/shared images of children being sexually abused in the past 6 months and NOBODY is talking about it.
Hot take: I think the reporters who are continuously asking Olympic gold medalists about an off-handed comment in the locker room are a much bigger issue than the comment itself
Mike Eruzione rips all the idiots criticizing the USA hockey team:
"Shame on you. We live in the greatest country in the world... But they don't want to talk about that. They've got to find something to bitch and complain about. Shut up and just enjoy what they did."
She ate lunch alone for 730 days straight. What this 16-year-old built from that pain now protects millions of kids worldwide.
Seventh grade. Natalie Hampton carried her tray through a packed cafeteria and felt it — that specific, suffocating dread of not knowing where to go.
She'd already learned what happened when you approached the wrong table. The silence. The turned backs. The whispered laughter that followed you all the way to the empty table by the wall.
The one everyone could see.
The one that said: nobody wants her.
For two full years — 730 consecutive lunches — that table was hers. Alone.
The bullying went further than whispers. She was shoved into lockers. Four physical attacks in two weeks. She came home with scratches and bruises. When she finally reported it, school administrators sent her to counseling — to find out what she was doing wrong.
The isolation grew so heavy she was hospitalized for anxiety.
Then ninth grade came. A new school. And almost overnight — everything changed. Students welcomed her. She made friends within weeks. She finally knew what safe felt like.
But she couldn't stop thinking about the kids still sitting at the wall table. Right now. Today.
She remembered what she'd needed most during all those lunches. Not a teacher. Not a pamphlet. Just one person saying: "You can sit with us."
So at 16 — with zero coding experience and "a lot of enthusiasm," as she put it — Natalie built exactly that.
She called it Sit With Us.
The idea was simple and genius: students sign up as "ambassadors," keeping their table open. Other kids privately browse available tables on their phones before ever walking into the cafeteria — and show up knowing they're already welcome.
No public rejection. No moment of judgment. Just a guaranteed seat.
Within 7 days of launching: 10,000 downloads.
Then the world found her. NPR. The Washington Post. CBS News. Messages from Morocco, Australia, the Philippines, France — kids who'd been eating alone for years, finally finding a place to belong.
Sit With Us now operates in 30 countries.
"Even if it helps one person," Natalie said quietly, "it was worth building."
She turned 730 lunches of loneliness into a lifeline for millions.
That's not just survival. That's transformation.
"Hockey's our game. It's the United States of America's game. It's the greatest country in the world."
I caught up with Matthew and Brady Tkachuk right after they won gold with #TeamUSA.
On the moment they've dreamed about forever, and their appreciation for St. Louis: