Carlton Stroud

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

This is as spot on as you could be concerning The Lord, and how He communicates with us. Thank you @PhilipAMitchell for laying it out so plainly. Excellent on every level.

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

🤣After seeing this, now I think I need one🤣

[Shawn Hendrix @TheShawnHendrix]

Hey @elonmusk farmers need you to work with @JohnDeere

[Brexton Busch @brextonbusch]

You should be here. You’d be so proud of mom, Lenni, and I. Last night was for you. Love you dad.

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

WHAT A SPECIAL MOMENT.

Brexton Busch just gave his dad the only tribute that really fit.

At the Celebration of Life in Charlotte, the 11-year-old climbed into Kyle’s old No. 8 Lucas Oil Chevy, did the burnout, climbed on the roof, and took the bow. Same car, same celebration, same attitude — just the next generation.

Kyle Busch died May 21 at 41. Two Cup titles, more national series wins than anyone in history, and a personality that made half the garage love him and the other half hate him. Rowdy to the end. What stood out Friday night wasn’t just the smoke. It was watching an 11-year-old kid who grew up in that world execute the moment like he’d done it a hundred times.

The bow was always Kyle’s exclamation point. Brexton just made it his own. Legacy doesn’t always look like trophies. Sometimes it looks like a kid standing on the roof of his dad’s race car in front of 10,000 people who already know the story.

Kyle’s gone. The No. 8 and the bow aren’t.

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

WOAH.. Palmer Luckey is a PATRIOT. He also recently built a helmet that lets soldiers see enemies behind cover, control drones, and link every teammate to one live map.

It's called EagleEye, and it packs thermal vision, threat detection, and drone control into one display. The Army gave his company, Anduril, a $159 million prototype contract, and Anduril is now valued at $61 billion after making $2.2 billion in 2025.

Facebook pushed Luckey out in 2017 over his Trump support. Now Meta is a partner on this helmet, and Luckey is worth about $6 billion. Conservatives have Elon Musk AND Palmer Luckey on their side. If a civil war ever breaks out, Democrats are COOKED.

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

Jameis is AMAZING.

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

UPDATE for those keeping up with the eminent domain situation with Fenn Church. Since when is a for profit utility company a "Sovereign Power?" Alabama Power is so hell bent on taking his land, they are taking this to the AL Supreme Court. Pray for Fenn. Pls watch, and repost👇

[ClockworkAnge™ @ClockworkAnge]

I love everything about this.

This is Molly Tuttle and the Golden Highway performing a bluegrass rendition of the Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit”.

[The Food Manufacturing Guy @TipOfTheBanana]

Spam is cooked inside the can. The raw meat mixture goes into the can and the can is sealed. Then the whole thing is cooked, which is why it's safe to eat straight out of the can.

The ingredients are pork with ham, salt, water, modified potato starch, sugar and sodium nitrite. The jelly on top forms from the pork while it's cooking in the sealed can. The potato starch soaks up the juices so the block holds together when you slice it, and the sodium nitrite keeps it pink and cured.

Hormel started making Spam in 1937. During World War II the military shipped more than 100M pounds of it overseas, which is how it became a staple in Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines and South Korea.

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

The good old days. Phil Collins was 38 years old then, Eric Clapton was 6 years older, playing the guitar, it brings a tear to the eye.

Phil Collins - I Wish It Would Rain Down (1989)🎶🎤

[Carlton Stroud @bldr0929]

@johnrich @alabamapower Hallelujah

[Texas 🇺🇸 @MustangMan_TX]

HOLY COW! I LOVE THIS KID! 👏

Friday night wrestling on the farm provides some wild & amazing entertainment! 💥😎

“When Geese Attack!” 😳😂😂🤣

I’m pretty sure this was not his first rodeo! 🤠 I remember having a very angry rooster attacking me as a kid. It was flat out scary!

The sister’s laughter in this clip is just amazing. 😂🤣😆
There’s no way this kid will grow up to be a Democrat!

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

A couple years ago, Mikala Sposito applied for a work ethic scholarship from my foundation. She asked for $2,700.00 to help realize her dream of becoming a welder. (Actually, her first dream was to become an Olympian. As a kid, she excelled at horseback riding, dance, soccer, and track, but not quite at the Olympic level. So, Mikala adjusted her dream and focused on something within her reach. Precisely the kind of commonsense approach to making a living we try to encourage.) Toward that end, Mikala filled out the application, jumped through all the necessary hoops, and signed the S.W.E.A.T. Pledge, as all applicants must.

According to our internal ranking system, which is inherently subjective and relative to each batch of new applicants, Mikala scored a 94, and was awarded $2,100.00, or roughly 80% of what she asked for. This is typical of the average percentage awarded to an excellent applicant. As a rule, we almost never award the entire amount requested. We want our recipients to have some skin in the game, and we encourage all applicants to apply for additional scholarship funds elsewhere, which Mikala did. But in this case, if I had it to do over again, I think I’d have awarded Mikala the full $2,700.00. Why? Because this woman is precisely why I award work ethic scholarships in the first place, as recent headlines prove. Headlines all over the country that identify Mikala Sposito as the sole welder to represent Team USA in the upcoming @WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai.

This is a very big deal. The World Skills competition is often referred to as the Olympics of the skilled trades, so it looks like Mikala’s dream is coming true after all. And it seems to me her journey is worth a brief encapsulation. Before she applied for a scholarship from mikeroweWORKS, Mikala demonstrated an affinity for welding in SkillsUSA. As a senior at Dexter High School, she won 1st Place at the SkillsUSA Michigan high school competition and went on to place 14th nationally. Then, as a freshman at Washtenaw Community College, she repeated her success by taking 1st Place in the Michigan college division. She then advanced to nationals, where she finished 8th in the country. That earned her an invitation to the Team USA pre-trials, which whittled the nation's top 16 young welders down to three. At the final USA Weld Trials at the Robotics Technology Park in Huntsville, Alabama, each competitor was evaluated on precision, safety, technical execution, craftsmanship, and multi-process capabilities under extreme time constraints. Mikala Sposito took the Gold, officially becoming the first woman to represent the United States in welding at WorldSkills. Next week, she’ll face off against the absolute best of the best from all over the world.

I should point out that Mikala would prefer it if the press didn’t make a big deal of her gender, and I completely understand. (She’s a welder – not a “weld-her.”) But today, the industry is in desperate need of proof that women can and do excel in the trades. Nationally, just 4.3% of tradespeople are female. At mikeroweWORKS, our female applicants are closer to 20%, but I assure you that percentage could be much higher. Companies are anxious to recruit talented welders of any gender, and women need to understand and believe the opportunities are real. Mikala prove that in spades, and I want to offer her my sincere congratulations, and invite all of you to do the same. Because Mikala Sposito is exactly what our country needs a lot more of. People who understand that talent is never enough to compensate for laziness.

In her application, she wrote, “Hard work beats talent any day of the week, and nobody is going to outwork me. Period.”

She also connected with every point of the S.W.E.A.T. Pledge but said the final tenet resonated with her the most. “Some people choose to be lazy. Some people choose to sleep in. I choose to work my butt off.”
My favorite quote, however, is Mikala’s response to seasoned professionals who see her wield a torch and call her a “natural.”

“I’m not a natural,” she says. Far from it. And none of this came easy. I worked and trained 60-80 hours a week for two years to get here.”

Regardless of what happens in Shanghai, the job offers are already piling up, including the most recent from SpaceX. She hasn’t graduated yet, but the future looks bright, and I for one would not bet against her.

PS. I never do this, but since my name is in the title of the foundation, I suppose I can. Mikala – please accept the additional $600 you requested from mikeroweWORKS two years ago. Shanghai is expensive, and since you’re representing all of us, we’d like to provide you with a little walking around money. The check is in the mail.

Now…go get the gold!

[Cat 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸 @AllAmericanGrl1]

This commercial by Budweiser aired only 1 time in honor of those lost on 9/11/2001 ❤️🤍💙 #Neverforget

[Special Ops Magazine @specialopsmag]

On the morning of September 11, 2001, FDNY firefighter and Navy veteran Tim Duffy was tuning his 2000 Harley Davidson Super Glide Sport when the first plane hit. He put the plug back in, pulled on his FDNY shirt, and rode toward lower Manhattan.

Shortly after he got to the firehouse and put on his gear, the South Tower fell. As he drove toward the rubble, a photographer captured him on the motorcycle in full gear. After he arrived, the North Tower came down and buried him. He clawed free and went back to work. In the first hour he lost nearly three dozen friends. Months of recovery followed.

The motorcycle made it through that day. Duffy kept riding it for years, later putting it in service of 1 Soldier 1 Dog 1 Team, the group he started to match shelter dogs with veterans and first responders living with PTSD. This year the bike went into the Harley Davidson Museum in Milwaukee.

Duffy also served as Grand Marshal at Sturgis. He still shrugs off the word “hero.” He says he had a job to do.

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

Update on Mr Fenn Church’s fight to keep his land from being ransacked:
https://t.co/k0kkdVxNh7

[Larry Thompson @cltwulf]

From Karl Streed -

I BET YOU DIDN'Y KNOW ABOUT THIS: AFTER FLIGHT 77 HIT THE PENTAGON ON 9/11, THE FOLLOWING HAPPENED.

A daycare facility inside the Pentagon had many children, including infants who were in heavy cribs. The daycare supervisor, looking at all the children they needed to evacuate, was in a panic over what they could do.

There were many children, mostly toddlers, as well as the infants who would need to be taken out with the cribs. There was no time to try to bundle them into carriers and strollers.

Just then a young Marine came running into the center and asked what they needed. After hearing what the center director was trying to do, he ran back out into the hallway and disappeared. The director thought, "Well, here we are, on our own."

About 2 minutes later, that Marine returned with 40 other Marines in tow.

Each of them grabbed a crib with a child, and the rest started gathering up toddlers.

The director and her staff then helped them take all the children out of the center and down toward the park near the Potomac .

Once they got about 3/4 of a mile outside the building, the Marines stopped in the park, and then did a fabulous thing - they formed a circle with the cribs, which were quite sturdy and heavy, like the covered wagons in the Old West.

Inside this circle of cribs, they put the toddlers, to keep them from wandering off.

Outside this circle were the 40 Marines, forming a perimeter around the children and waiting for instructions. There they remained until the parents could be notified and come get their children.

The chaplain then said, "I don't think any of us saw nor heard of this on any of the news stories of the day. It was an incredible story of our men there.” There wasn't a dry eye in the room.

The thought of those Marines and what they did and how fast they reacted; could we expect any less from them? It was one of the most touching stories from the Pentagon.

It's the military, not the politicians that ensures our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It's the military who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag.

If you care to offer the smallest token of recognition and appreciation for the military, please pass this on and pray for our men and women, who have served and are currently serving our country, and honor the memory of those who have given the ultimate sacrifice!

God Bless The USA!

Never forget!!!

[Mike Bales™ 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Stephen Siller, 34, an FDNY firefighter, had finished his shift and was driving home to his wife and five children when he heard a plane had hit the World Trade Center. He turned around.
The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel was blocked, so he left his car, put on nearly 60 pounds of gear, and ran through it on foot. He reached the towers, went in with other firefighters, and was killed when the South Tower collapsed.
His family later created the Tunnel to Towers Foundation in his honor.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Never Forget 🙏🏻🇺🇸

[Mike Bales™ 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Michael Weinberg, 34. Off-duty FDNY firefighter.
September 11, 2001. He was at a golf course in Queens when the first plane hit. His sister worked in the second tower.
He left his clubs. Abandoned his car. Caught a ride into Manhattan. Geared up. Went in.
She made it out. He didn’t.
He died under a fire truck when the South Tower fell. One of 343.
He chose her in the time it takes to put down a golf club.
Rest easy, Michael.
Never Forget 🙏🏻