Zac Smith

Northwest Missouri State University graduate, farmer, corn and soybeans, member of Storm Team 6

[Krysta 🤫🦜 @FeverBallUp2]

Bro its this angle of caitlin clarks CURVED BOUNCE PASS between Rhyne Howard legs to a cutting lexie hull jumper for me‼️

Like the split second from decision To execution.. just wow

#FromAnywhere|#NowYouKnow|

[Zac Smith @atchisonco]

Do you see?

[Zac Smith @atchisonco]

Very rarely in my life have I sided with Whitlock, but he gets it!

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[Zac Smith @atchisonco]

FYI Atchison county Missouri is in a severe thunderstorm warning! It hasn’t been touted yet but it’s here!

[Zac Smith @atchisonco]

Well we all know what youth feels like and here’s what it looks like…

[Zac Smith @atchisonco]

@KSHB41 Key West seems like a better choice, duh, let’s bring them to the center of the us just in case we have an issue so it
Can spread from
The center outwards?

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Bro must have felt so good after this fart of the century

[OldTimeHardball @OleTimeHardball]

Where does George Brett rank all-time among 3B?

Top. 3? Top 5?

[Andy @andreas_nigbur]

The Oil Lie

Oil isn’t rare, it’s also not made from dead dinosaurs. It’s the 2nd most common liquid after water and is the Earth’s lifeblood. The scarcity myth was a Rockefeller lie to dramatically increase the oil price.

The system tells you that oil is liquefied dinosaurs (biotic theory) so you believe it's scarce and pay whatever they want. Lie. Oil is abiotic—a liquid mineral generated by the Earth's own engine through high-pressure and high-temperature processes in the mantle. It is the lubricant for tectonic plates. Depleted wells from the 70s have been found to be fuller today than before.

Why?
Because the Earth's system pumps it from the subsoil. It doesn't run out; it regenerates. By extracting it on a massive scale, we are drying out the Earth's gears. This is why there are more earthquakes and creaking faults: we are stripping the oil from the engine.

The fossil theory (coined by the Rockefellers and the Smithsonian in the late 19th century) is the greatest economic hack in history. If oil came from organic matter, it would have a biological signature (nitrogen, phosphorus, etc.) that would degrade. Crude oil is pure polymeric hydrocarbon.

The Thomas Gold Thesis
This expert (whom the system tried to discredit) proved that methane and oil rise from the depths of the mantle. Hydrocarbons are primordial constituents of the Earth's formation. By calling it fossil, they tell you it's a resource that's running out. If Humanity knew that oil is like tap water for the Earth, the geopolitics of the parasites would go down the drain in a single day.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The Kelpies are two monumental stainless-steel horse-head sculptures in Falkirk, Scotland, each about 30 meters (100 feet) tall and weighing roughly 300 tons.

Honouring Scotland’s industrial heritage and the working horses that once powered its canals.

[Hoop Central @TheHoopCentral]

Jamal Murray threw a lob to Christian Braun off the glass —

This angle is crazy. 🔥🤯

[Paul White Gold Eagle @PaulGoldEagle]

Everything went dark over this Texas suburban street… 🌙🌩️

Then a sudden lightning flash revealed something massive moving through the neighborhood — gone again in seconds, but the wind kept getting louder and louder.

Watch the final flash carefully… it gets way too close.

😳⚡#reels #fyp #nature #love #rain

[𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 👑 𝙳𝚒𝚟𝚊™ @1776Diva]

⛰️ You'll be tempted to write this off as AI… it’s not.

You’re watching a mountain goat move like gravity doesn’t exist from its own POV.

How is this even real? 🐐

[Pediavenir @Pediavenir]

🚨🇺🇸 ALERTE INFO – Un touriste a filmé des dinosaures pendant une excursion en Alaska

Ces animaux ont normalement disparu depuis 600 milliards d’années 🤯

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Missouri man claims to have found a mammoth femur bone in northwest Missouri, films himself carrying it out of a river.

Self-funded paleontologist Jason Howery says he has been searching for and finding Ice Age remains for 20 years.

"When you're looking at that type of staining that's on there, and the mineralization of it, it's definitely an authentic piece that hasn't been seen in 10,000-plus-years," Howery said.

"It's all of the hard work coming together over 20 years of doing the research, doing the analysis, doing the fieldwork, and being there and being the first person to have permission to go in and find the right places to look."

The bone reportedly weighs 92 pounds.

[Hurrdat Sports @HurrdatSports]

Worth the listen.

Tony Osburn never thought about leaving Omaha, even after the success he had in @OmahaMBB’s historical run last season.

Tonight, as his collegiate career came to an end, he shares why he never once thought of leaving the place that took a chance on him.

[Zac Smith @atchisonco]

@meyerkorth6 Huge game! When the “starters” aren’t on fire, sometimes there’s a fire waiting to burn up the nets! Congratulations Leah on stepping up to the challenge!

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

Ok, I need to level up my AI skills. This is just amazing.

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

Mom and dad packing for that all inclusive trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico they paid for 3 months ago