Melissa Baker

Work hard, play harder, but parenting is the hardest! #RB4LF. Illinois State Softball Alum

[Domantas Sabonis @Dsabonis11]

Hoped to light the beam on opening night, but still really special to start another season in Sacramento in front of this fan base 🟣

[Melissa Baker @bw_lashes]

@MagnusSav Drops 35 shots! 🤣 rough night.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Yeah Wemby is good and everything, but he’s not the only ridiculously skilled person in this arena 🤯

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@NDuncheon7 @RDuncheon Congrats! Can only imagine how special it is for you. Looks like you have some good DNA 😁

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@melefante6 Tax

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@Hosster4 @WingsBulletin @DallasWings Did Vrabel or Russini post the pictures? Paige posted the pictures. Pretty big difference of 2 people getting caught and being posted by others and someone posting pictures with their friend.

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@TommiPedruzzi ROI

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@boringlocalseo Local Rank

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Best money I've ever spent as a CEO... an internal AI transformation hire.

He doesn't care about title. He just wants to ship. And he goes across your entire org, sales, revenue, hr, apps, tech and kills stupid manual processes.

Such an underrated unlock I have since hired 2 more.

[JR_Astros @JR_Astros]

@HawkEmDownChris The Natural, Will Nushcler Clark

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@jordan_ross_8F Marketing

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@itsolelehmann Cowork

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@BoucherNicolas Claude

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@WorkflowWhisper Layoffs

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@traveljunkie56 @MeliMels99 To protect cats like you!

[HausenKS 🌾 @HausenKS]

Last political post for awhile I hope, but this has to be said.

I’m not a Trump supporter and honestly, a lot of people who aren’t Trump supporters are still completely fed up with the far left right now.

Not because of “progress,” or “fairness,” or any of the values they claim to own. It’s because of the behavior: the purity tests, the tribalism, the reflex to label anyone who disagrees, even slightly, as an enemy. One wrong word, one nuanced opinion, one “I don’t fully agree,” and suddenly you’re a fascist, a bigot, or “part of the problem.” That’s not activism. That’s a cult mindset.

Compromise is treated like betrayal. Questions are treated like violence. And “the science” gets invoked like a religious slogan, right up until the data becomes inconvenient, then it’s ignored, reframed, or shouted down. Meanwhile, the same people who demand empathy have none for anyone outside their in-group.

Normal people are exhausted. We want solutions, not moral grandstanding. We want reality, not ideology. And we’re done pretending this kind of insane extremism is “just being passionate.”

Sincerely,
Normal people everywhere

[Frank Michael Smith @frankmikesmith]

This is exactly why you don't force kids into sports.

Alysa Liu's entire life was dedicated to skating.

Not by choice, but because her father demanded it.

She won the US Championship at 13, but announced her retirement at 16.

She threw her skates in the closet and decided to experience the world.

She hiked to Everest base camp, got her driver's license and studied at UCLA.

After a ski trip in 2024, she had the itch to lace them up again and nailed a double axel.

She announced her comeback, but only on her terms.

She wouldn't allow her father (or anyone) to tell her what to eat, when to train or how to dress.

The result was athletic and creative liberation.

Despite the hiatus, Alysa entered Milan as the favorite to win gold and delivered on the hype.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Sentiments of Venezuelans

I’m going to say this once, and I don’t care if it makes people uncomfortable.

If you have never lived in Venezuela
If you did not grow up there
If you did not watch your country collapse in real time
If you did not stand in food lines
If you did not watch your parents lose everything they built
If you did not have to leave your home with nothing

Then shut the fuck up.

You do not have an opinion.
Your opinion does not matter.
And you don’t get to lecture anyone about what’s happening there.

I’m Venezuelan.
I lived there most of my life until my early twenties.
I watched my country go from a functioning democracy to full blown socialism right in front of my eyes.

This is not politics to me.
This is trauma.

Before socialism, Venezuela was not perfect, but it worked.
There was trade.
There was money coming in.
There was investment from the US.
There were jobs.
There was food.
There was medicine.

My family had five businesses.
We had our home
We had investments.
We had a future.

Then the government started nationalizing everything.
Private companies were taken.
Foreign investors were pushed out.
Imports were blocked.
Price controls destroyed production.
Corruption exploded.

And everything died.

Not slowly.
Violently.

People didn’t suddenly become poor because of “capitalism” or “the US” or whatever bullshit slogan people like to repeat online.

They became poor because socialism destroyed incentives, destroyed production, destroyed trust, and destroyed hope.

People today in Venezuela are not debating ideology.
They are trying to survive.

They are trying to find food.
Trying to find medication.
Trying to keep their families alive.

So when I see people in the West posting from comfortable homes, full fridges, stable currencies, and safe streets talking about “imperialism” or “US bad” or “Trump this or that”

No.
It’s not complicated.
You’re just ignorant.

China is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Russia is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Cartels are not rebuilding Venezuela.

They are stealing.
They are extracting.
They are draining what’s left.

If the US comes in and reinvests
If refineries get rebuilt
If infrastructure gets restored
If imports open back up
If food, water, and medicine become accessible again
If people can work and earn with dignity

Then yes.
Let them take all the oil they want.

Because at least something gets built instead of destroyed.

This is something to celebrate.
Not because it’s perfect.
But because for the first time in a long time, there is hope.

Hope that families can eat.
Hope that people don’t have to flee their country.
Hope that Venezuela can function again.

If you’ve never lived through a country collapsing
If you’ve never watched socialism destroy everything around you
If you’ve never had to leave your home because staying meant starvation

Then again
Shut the fuck up.

This isn’t theory.
This isn’t politics.
This is lived experience.

By Stephen Subero

[Melissa Baker @bw_lashes]

@zohir_rafi @LegionHoops And then?

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@Dhalsimulation @NBA_NewYork The fans?!? More like the organization!!