Andy Blackledge

Hemophilia, hot salsa, hockey, hyzer flips, health care, H2O+scuba, photography. Love is love.

[Andy Blackledge @andyblackledge]

Spotted at the #Yotes practice facility:

[Gretchen Ronnevik @garonnevik]

Our adult son went back to the Twin Cites yesterday where he lives. One of the places he works is a running store. When he got back to work, he found his boss posted this in the employee area. (Shared with our son’s permission)

It was hilarious. What a fun boss.

[Shawn DePaz @shawn_depaz]

This pic was taken mid dive actually

[Tim the Mammoth 🦣 @lessabler4]

Happy first day of Pride month!

FYI, if you’re the kind of person that complains about Pride month existing, you’re the reason Pride month needs to exist.

Sincerely, a straight guy who knows I have privilege being born that way because no one questions who I love or marry.

[Dora Pekec @dorapekec]

Mayor Mamdani signs an “executive order” to repeal NYC kids bedtime during the Knicks finals :)

[Darth Devil 🔱 @Darth__Devil]

I have a proposal @ASU_Baseball

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

Amazing kicker in the NYT’s list of the 100 Best Restaurants in NYC @ligayamishan

[y - Conor Hurley @CHurls13]

Konsta Helenius taking it upon himself to not only protect the puck with one arm, pinpoint a wrist shot glove dot for the golden goal, then absolutely bulldoze two Swiss players is insane lol

All at 20 years old following an impressive NHL playoff debut. Sabres have a PLAYER.

[Andy Blackledge @andyblackledge]

@sweetannieod *when* you see it. May it be so!

[Travis Chapman @Travispaints]

Imperial vision test. I painted with acrylic

[Jared Beasley @DbJared]

LAZARUS LAKE, 71, has stuck his cattle prod in the Pacific, finishing his third walk across America and his second Transcon. 💥

"hear me my friends
my feet are sick and sad
from where the sun now stands
i will walk no more
forever

apologies to chief joseph"

#lazcon COMPLETE

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

When people say "I'd do anything for my child," everyone praises them, but when a parent risks crossing a border to save their child from war, poverty, or danger, suddenly they're treated like criminals.

[Andy Blackledge @andyblackledge]

@TalesTucson Cheers! May your summer be tolerable 🔥☄️

[Andy Blackledge @andyblackledge]

@Smitty1915 Great article, Smitty! Congratulations on the silver linings in your life!

[Andy Blackledge @andyblackledge]

@ClueHeywood Old Linda Ronstadt live version should be towards the top of that list.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

The fight for Big Bend goes national this morning on NPR’s Studio 1A. We discuss the irreversible damage wall construction would bring to wildlife, archeological sites, local economies & one of the most beloved landscapes in Texas. Listen on your local NPR station or online. Also on the show: the fantastic @sammiecarrots and @travisbubenik.

[Mary Coleman @Mary_reports]

Thank you to Deserie Lopez for sharing this awesome video!

Per experts: "The 'rattlesnake combat dance' is a fascinating, highly ritualized wrestling match between two male rattlesnakes competing for dominance and the right to mate with a nearby female."

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Jon Stewart predicts the 2026 media landscape in 2002:

"We're all gonna get fired by the same guy one day. And it's gonna be like a freaky, cross-breed genetic between like, Dolly the Sheep and one of Murdoch's kids, and it'll just rule AOLTimeViacomWarner... synergy."

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

There was only one thing that surprised me about the Jubilee with MAGA die-hards.

It wasn't that some people scream and refuse to stop talking. It wasn't that these were mostly young people cheering and finding purpose in wars but never fighting in them. It wasn't that their politics is more of a cult of personality. All expected and found in all factions.

It was that, despite being political junkies, they had no idea about Trump's enormous corruption scandals because the corporate and independent media they consume doesn't mention it. They had no idea it existed:

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

Re the breaking MSN story (https://t.co/NBYLd2Mk8j)

A reminder that:

1) 97% of U.S. voters use paper ballots that are unhackable and can be hand-count audited if there are allegations of tabulation error or fraud.

2) The person behind this effort -- Kurt Olsen -- tried this previously in Arizona in 2022 and was sanctioned by the federal district court

("[The Court] finds that Plaintiffs made false, misleading, and unsupported factual assertions.")

3) Mr. Olsen was also sanctioned by the Arizona Supreme Court for lying about about elections in Arizona

("Because Lake's attorney has made false factual statements to the Court, we conclude that the extraordinary remedy of a sanction under ARCAP 25 is appropriate").