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[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

"I shall never forget that beach...one dead soldier in particular who caught my eye. I wonder about him. What were his plans never to be fulfilled, what fate brought him to that spot at that moment? Who was waiting for him at home?"
— Corporal William Preston
D-Day

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[blake southward @blakesouthward]

@CoachOakMSU at the end walking past McMahon. Crazy how things work out. #HailState

[Luke Falk @coachlukefalk]

Every training camp I had at Washington State University, Coach Leach would share the same story.
The story of two kids. The rich kid and the poor kid.

The rich kid has two choices. He can become spoiled, entitled, lazy, and expect everything to be handed to him because he has been given more. Or he can take every advantage of what he has been given—resources, coaching, opportunities—and use it to become even better.

The poor kid has two choices too. He can say, “I never had a chance. Nobody gave me anything. The world is against me.” He can feel sorry for himself and use it as an excuse. Or he can say, “I may not have what they have, but I am going to outwork everybody.” He can become tougher, more driven, and more relentless than everybody else.

It was a powerful message in a locker room full of people from different backgrounds, different families, and different life experiences. Some guys came from wealth. Some came from almost nothing. Some had every opportunity. Others had to fight for every inch.

But despite all of those differences, everybody still had the same choice.

You can take ownership and use what you have as fuel.

Or you can become victim-minded. You can look for excuses, blame your circumstances, become entitled, and convince yourself that because of what you have—or because of what you do not have—you cannot become what you want to be.

It is not about how you start. It is about what you choose to do with how you start.

The rich kid can waste what he has been given or use it to build something greater. The poor kid can use his circumstances as an excuse or as fuel.

In the end, greatness does not come from starting with more or less. It comes from which person inside of you that you choose to feed.

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[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Just going to leave this here.

[Scott Van Pelt @notthefakeSVP]

Been at ESPN a long time - this one was an all timer. Before social media, it was as viral as a story can be. I watched it on a tape in the news room. I couldn’t stop watching his teammates.

[Tim Tebow @TimTebow]

Look at the map. 338,000+ red dots.
Unique IP addresses trading, distributing, and sharing child sexual abuse material… children under 12.

Do you notice the blue dots? Probably not. Those are the actual investigations.

Law enforcement needs more resources, more support… a bigger rescue team.

This is a fight of good vs. evil, and we are losing.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

A five-years-too-late admission that Georgia illegally certified 315,000 ballots in the 2020 election, handing Joe Biden a “win” by just 11,779 votes, is not a small detail. It is a historic breach of democratic accountability. The fact that President Trump eventually won reelection does not erase what was done. He was vilified, canceled, and relentlessly prosecuted for stating what has now been acknowledged as true all along. If this passes without consequence, it will eventually be looked back on as the moment when inaction, not the wrongdoing itself, became the defining failure of democracy.

[Southern Miss Baseball @SouthernMissBSB]

A few words from Coach Christian Ostrander

📲: https://t.co/d1VBRQuR9F

#ETM | #OTR | #SMTTT

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Senator John Kennedy reads an internal memo from the Minnesota Attorney General's office

They openly say they did not stop the Somalia immigrant fraud because Democrats would lose votes

“Here's what a fraud investigator in the Attorney General's office said. She said, There is a perception that I'm quoting now, that forcefully tackling this issue would cause political backlash from the Somali community, which is a core voting block for Democrats”

Seriously, how are Democrats not getting raided and thrown in prison

[Aaron Fitt @aaronfitt]

And now first-base coach Matt Schilling has been ejected ... and it looked like he also got an additional suspension for arguing too long. This is a tough scene. Umpires completely making this thing all about themselves in the first inning. Gross.

[Aaron Fitt @aaronfitt]

You've got to be kidding me, Angel Campos. You're going to toss a coach in the first inning of a CWS Finals game? Grow up.

[Kendall Rogers @KendallRogers]

How in the world do you toss a coach on the first inning of a CWS Finals? What in the world ....

[blake southward @blakesouthward]

@NCAABaseball has to be better. Complete disgrace to throw out two coaches in the biggest game of their career because you got your feelings hurt over a subpar strike zone. Let’s go @CoastalBaseball.

[blake southward @blakesouthward]

Oh man. Good stuff right here.

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

A teen with Down syndrome visits his mother's grave to tell her that he graduated 🎓🤗

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Under Biden, FEMA took money AWAY from Americans in need of disaster relief and spent it on 5 star hotels for illegals.

Pure evil.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Here’s RFK, Jr. calling out Bernie Sanders for accepting millions in big pharma contributions. This is the real story of the RFK, Jr opposition. Big pharma is terrified of him.

[Christian Collins @CollinsforTX]

"If you're a criminal, you'll be deported."

— Barack Obama, November 20, 2014

This is exactly what President Trump is doing right now, but Democrats still pretend to be outraged.

[Mississippi State Men's Basketball @HailStateMBK]

Watching this on repeat 🔁

#HailState🐶 x @Ford

[Sid Salter @sidsalter]

Starkville Rotarians heard from MSU Foundation assistant director of gift planning Kevin Randall. A Starkville native, Randall is also an NCAA football official. On Dec. 14th, Randall was the head referee for the 125th Army-Navy game. Craig Randall, his dad, coached at MSU.