David Weiss

Occupational Therapist, coach, dad, marathoner. Believer in “I’ll rest when I’m dead” credo. Believe “kids today” are actually pretty awesome.

[BrownsNation.com @BrownsNationcom]

Daryl Ruiter goes scorched earth on Johnny Manziel, saying the former Browns quarterback should take accountability for his career struggles and stop blaming the organization and fans in Cleveland.

"At some point, you need to be accountable for yourself and how you behaved and what you did and your lack of preparation. The Browns never stuck it to you. Browns fans never stuck it with you. Just keep us out of your mouth. You are where you are in life because of yourself. How about some accountability for that? How about, maybe, some self-deprecating humor about the clown show that you were and the unmitigated disaster that you were as a person and a football player? That was on you. That wasn't on the Browns. That wasn't on Browns fans or the city of Cleveland. It was on you."

(via @923TheFan)

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:

"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."

Source: @tomaskenn

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

This footage was recorded at 11:22 PM last Tuesday at Harborlight Animal Rescue in Savannah, Georgia. The dog is a two-year-old cream pit bull mix named Pip. Pip arrived at Harborlight four days ago. She was found alone in an abandoned property. She had no microchip, no collar, and no information about her past. The staff noticed that Pip wouldn't eat if anyone looked at her. She stayed in the far corner and trembled constantly. Every sudden movement made her retreat in fear. The staff tried everything they could to help her…
Then we recorded this...

[David Weiss @WeissyDOT]

@Godwin_n11 Or just stop being lazy and bake some potatoes to make mashed potatoes?!

[Epic Clip Vault @EpicClipVault]

WWII fighter pilot finds his fallen wingman’s grave after nearly 80 years

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The 2016 Cavs recapped their reunion trip like it was The Hangover

[David Weiss @WeissyDOT]

@ColMoeDavis @NancyCatLover He gives me bad guy from ‘Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls’ vibes…

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: There's been a lot of talk in this race about what it means to be a real man.

Recently on the campaign trail I told the story of my adoptive dad, Mark Talarico. Every Saturday morning, he would mow our lawn, and then without anyone asking him to, he would go next door and mow our neighbor's lawn because she was a widow. My dad never talked about it — he just did it, because that's what a man does.

A man takes responsibility, upholds his commitments to his family and his neighbors, and does what's right, even when no one is watching.

Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life, sell their soul to the highest bidder, or steal from other people in order to enrich themselves. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

I welcome this debate about what it means to be a man, and I don't think Ken Paxton or Ted Cruz are in a position to tell anybody what a real man is.

[Garrett Exner @Exner_Garrett]

Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:

The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.

He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.

After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.

Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.

He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.

When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”

Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.

[David Weiss @WeissyDOT]

@RonFilipkowski @lizzzyk66 Who would’ve thought the best day to celebrate “the 4th of July” on the country’s 250 year anniversary would be October 3rd? @tmorello ✊💯

[David Weiss @WeissyDOT]

@BarbMcQuade Does he remind you of anyone….?

[David Weiss @WeissyDOT]

@str2530 @RGIII I was wrong about Wemby- I thought he would be like rajah Sampson from the 80s-good player but tough when you are that lanky- but this guy is the truth. Plus- hate the Knicks. lol

[La Giornata Tipo @parallelecinico]

A sinistra, nel 2016, un ragazzo si trova in Nicaragua, è lì da due anni dopo aver abbandonato il basket e la famiglia per “portare la parola di Gesù Cristo” tra le persone più disagiate del paese. Una notte subisce una rapina e viene malmenato da quattro persone: gli serviranno sei mesi di cure dentistiche e due denti finti nuovi.

A destra, questa notte, c’è un ragazzo che ha trascinato Cleveland in finale di Conference dominando gara 7 contro Detroit, con 23 punti in 25 minuti in uscita dalla panchina. In bocca ha il paradenti perché, per esperienza, sa bene che i dentisti possono costare come un attico in centro storico a Milano.

Entrambi i ragazzi rispondono al nome di Sam Merrill.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Peace begins in the human heart, passes through relationships, takes root in neighborhoods and peripheries, and expands until it embraces the entire city and the world. Peace is built by promoting a culture that rejects violence, through daily gestures, education, and practical acts of justice. #PastoralVisit #Naples

[David Weiss @WeissyDOT]

@RonFilipkowski @joncoopertweets Also in the spirit of Rocky training montage songs, or Eminem’s “lose yourself”….nothing gets the kids of 2026 pumped up for an athletic event like some 1982 Laura Branigan,

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[tony franklin @coachtf]

The Top 1% Coach…32 minutes and 42 seconds of ideas about what it takes to be a top 1% coach…Many characteristics will surprise u and many Hall of Fame Coaches aren’t top 1% …A provocative thought process to design and evaluate your pathway forward

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

I’ve written a few campaign ads in my day.

But holy shit.

This ad from @ossoff might be one of the best I’ve ever seen.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Here is 2 minutes of Donald Trump on the 2024 campaign trail pledging to lower your energy and electric bills by 50% within 12 months of taking office.

Can we get an update on this from MAGA?

[David Weiss @WeissyDOT]

@tedlieu @_notnotmitchell Hey! I see your point but a shot at my Browns are Unnecessary when the Jets are sitting right there…