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[Paddy Manning @gpaddymanning]

My tribute to Dad for The Sydney Morning Herald with good buddy Helen Pitt and sis Thea Burke ... thanks for the masterful edit @JillianMcClelland and kind comments @Kate_McClymont. https://t.co/6ZLoV94aFX

[andrew @andrewinaust]

@xskinn Happy birthday!🎂 🎁🎉

[andrew @andrewinaust]

@DrAllyLouks Will the book be available for Christmas in Australia?

[andrew @andrewinaust]

@grantcohn Fly into Sydney. Hire a car. Drive 2 hours to Hunter Valley. World famous semillon and shiraz. But also has the best (I think) Chardonnay at Scarborough Winery. Fly out of Newcastle direct to Adelaide for Barossa and Clare Valley and AFL Gather Round.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Crowds gathered in Dublin to protest Trump’s visit to Ireland, with demonstrators using imagery featuring Trump, Epstein and Netanyahu to voice their criticism.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Last night, Donald Trump, our pathological liar-in-chief, said:

“Every single promise I made to you as a candidate, I’ve delivered on. I’ve delivered on everything.”

Really?

Well, let’s go down the list.

Since becoming president again, Trump promised:

✅ $5,000 DOGE dividend checks. A lie.
✅ $2,000 tariff dividend checks. A lie.
✅ $1,000+ checks by repealing ACA subsidies. A lie.
✅ A 10% cap on credit card interest rates. A lie.
✅ “The lowest drug prices in the world.” A lie.
✅ $2 a gallon gas. A lie.
✅ An end to inflation “starting on Day One.” A lie.
✅ An end to “endless wars.” A lie.

And now, after all of those lies, Trump wants you to believe that he will give every American adult a $5,000 check - but only if the Republicans win the midterms.

No. I don’t think so. The Trump Administration is not about helping working families. It’s about giving a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the 1% and throwing 15 million Americans off the health care they have.

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

The internet is fucking wild

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

We slip to a 39 run defeat to the MCC and are now 2-0 down in the three match series. The MCC will be lifting aloft the iconic Volcanic Ashes trophy tomorrow. We live and we learn. Well, we live.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Nikki is on your birth certificate, as your **middle name**

You were born and raised with it, as your *middle name*

But let’s not pretend you don’t realize that Trump’s GOP would have no place for you if you went by Nimarata Randhawa.

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

In 2014, the Cincinnati Bengals cut Devon Still.

Then they immediately signed him to the practice squad, for one reason only. So his health insurance wouldn't stop.

His four year old daughter had just been given a 50/50 chance to live.

June 2, 2014. Doctors walk into a waiting room and tell Devon Still that Leah, his four year old, has stage four neuroblastoma. A pediatric cancer. Fifty fifty odds.

Still was a defensive tackle fighting for a roster spot. He missed most of training camp to be at the hospital, and when cuts came, he didn't make the 53 man roster.

For most players that's the end. No team, no salary, and critically, no insurance.

The Bengals signed him to the practice squad anyway. Not because they needed him. Because it kept his family covered, and gave him the freedom to fly to Philadelphia to be with his daughter whenever he needed.

Then head coach Marvin Lewis and the organization did something else.

They started selling Devon Still's number 75 jersey, and announced they would donate ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of the proceeds to pediatric cancer research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

A backup defensive tackle's jersey.

It became the best selling jersey in the NFL. Fans of other teams bought it. Rival organizations ordered them in bulk. Opposing players wore them.

The Bengals eventually handed Cincinnati Children's a check for $1.3 million.

Leah, meanwhile, was fighting. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Surgery to remove a tumor. Stem cell transplants. Her father documented all of it publicly, because he decided that if his family had to go through it, other families shouldn't have to feel alone in it.

Then on March 25, 2015, Devon Still posted this:

"June 2, 2014 and March 25, 2015 are days I will remember for the rest of my life."

296 days after the diagnosis, Leah Still was in remission.

There was one more scare, a serious complication from the transplant that summer. She beat that too. By December 2015, her scans showed no evidence of disease at all.

She got a Wheaties box. She and her dad won the Jimmy V Perseverance Award at the ESPYs, and she recorded a video message thanking everyone who helped her beat up cancer, because she was too sick to attend in person.

The Bengals eventually released Devon Still for real in September 2015.

And they made sure his medical insurance would stay active for five more years anyway, whether or not another team ever signed him.

Leah is a teenager now. Healthy. She and her dad have written children's books for kids going through what she went through.

Her advice to those kids: "You're not fighting this alone."

An NFL team spent a roster spot on a dad instead of a player.

For more stories like this, follow us on any platform @thesportsontap

[Kenny Devine @TheKennyDevine]

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[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1996, an Italian born diver named Cristina Zenato was on a routine dive off the coast of the Bahamas when a shark approached her. It did not attack. Instead, it circled her, revealing a fishing hook lodged deep in its mouth.

Most people would have frozen. Cristina reached out and removed the hook.
The shark, later named Foggy Eye, returned to her afterward and kept showing up at her dives. Word seemed to travel through the reef. One by one, other injured sharks began approaching her, each carrying its own hook, its own quiet request for help.

Over the next 20 years, Cristina removed nearly 300 hooks from sharks. She did this despite heavy opposition from family and friends who feared for her safety. She was never harmed.

Today she is known as the Shark Whisperer, a title earned through patience, trust, and an unshakable belief that these creatures deserve to be understood rather than feared.

Fear yields to purpose when you master your instincts.

[THE SOY PILL @thesoypill]

You've surrounded yourself with too many Yes men.

Think of how much you could improve from constructive criticism.

I propose you hire me as a No man

For 1,000$ a pop, I'll tell you No.

Like this: "No Elon, don't post that it looks like dogshit."

That one's on the house.

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

If you were going to post a picture of a shiny new statue you were proud of, would you include a kid falling off his bicycle in the foreground?

Answer: no. Because you're not insane.

[andrew @andrewinaust]

@RonniSalt @JasonGFalinski @Peter_Fitz @aaronsmith Tragic? I think it is a glorious thing to witness!

[Italian Football TV @IFTVofficial]

We boycotted it before it was cool

[Chef Joe Gera 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇹 @redhotnerd]

You were vaccinated. Multiple times. How do I know?

Because I cooked an event you attended in early 2022. The venue’s policy was: if you wanted to attend unmasked, you had to be vaccinated (this didn’t stop until April that year at this venue). You also had to RSVP well in advance and provide a negative COVID test before the event. So if you were there, you met those requirements. But by all means, keep bullshitting.