Chester Riggs

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Important announcement: I am upping my offer, $10 million dollars for a head-to-head basketball game between the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces and a boy's high school state title team of my choice. If the Aces beat my team, I will give them $10 million.

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

"I'm pleading the Fifth 😂😂

You've gotta be kidding me" ~ @AaronRodgers12

#PMSLive

[Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr]

Everyone needs to stop what they're doing and watch this clip right now!!!!

[Chester Riggs @ChesterMRiggs]

@AlexaBliz_ 16

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

Gerald Ford is the president America remembers as a klutz. Chevy Chase built a career on it. He fell down the stairs of Air Force One once and it followed him to the grave.

The man was probably the best athlete ever to hold the office. Starting center on Michigan's back to back national championship teams in 1932 and 1933, team MVP in 1934, and he turned down contract offers from both the Packers and the Lions to go be a coach and read law at Yale.

Then there is the fall nobody talks about.

December 1944. Ford is a lieutenant aboard the light carrier USS Monterey, somewhere east of the Philippines, when Halsey's Third Fleet sails into the middle of a typhoon. Not near it. Into it. Winds over 100 knots, seas the sailors describe as mountains, visibility zero. Three destroyers roll over and sink that night and roughly 790 men die. It remains one of the worst disasters in the history of the US Navy and no enemy was involved.

On the Monterey the aircraft break their tie downs. Loose planes, full of fuel, sliding around a closed hangar deck in the dark, striking sparks. The hangar catches fire. General quarters sounds and Ford heads for his station on the bridge, crossing the flight deck of a small carrier in a typhoon at night.

The ship rolls about 25 degrees. His feet go out from under him and he starts sliding toward open water.

What saves his life is a steel lip maybe two inches high running along the edge of the deck. It catches him just enough to spin him and drop him into the catwalk instead of over the side. In a sea like that, nobody would have found him. Nobody would have even known.

His own line about it later: I was lucky. I could have easily gone overboard.

He got up and went below to help fight the fire. Men died in that hangar. They saved the ship, barely. Monterey was so badly burned she had to be pulled out of the war entirely and sent back for repairs. Ford finished the war having gone from a physical fitness instructor who begged for sea duty to an officer aboard a carrier that collected 11 battle stars, and he left the Navy in 1946 as a lieutenant commander.

Thirty years later a comedian made him a national punchline for tripping.

The one time it actually mattered, he caught himself on two inches of steel in a hurricane, then walked into a fire.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On this day in 1944, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep in a stone farmhouse in Normandy. He was 56 years old, and he had spent almost his entire adult life trying to be worthy of a famous last name.

He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the First World War he went to France and was gassed and badly wounded at Soissons leading his men. That same summer his younger brother Quentin, a pilot, was shot down and killed over France. Ted came home with lungs and a leg that never fully recovered, and before he even left Europe he helped found the American Legion so that ordinary soldiers would have someone looking out for them.

Between the wars he did almost everything. Governor of Puerto Rico. Governor General of the Philippines. Businessman, explorer, writer. He could have spent the Second World War safe behind a desk. Instead, at 54, arthritic and walking with a cane, he talked his way back into uniform and into combat.

By 1943 he was fighting in North Africa and Sicily under Terry Allen, and their loose, unpolished, soldier-first style rubbed General Patton the wrong way. Patton had them both relieved of command. Roosevelt didn't sulk. He asked for another job, any job, as long as it kept him near the fighting. They made him assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division.

Then came D-Day. He hid a heart condition from the Army doctors. He wrote to his commander three separate times, in writing, begging to go in with the very first wave rather than watch from a ship. He was the only general to land in the first wave on any beach that morning, the oldest man in the invasion, walking through machine gun fire with a cane in one hand and a pistol in the other.

The boats came in a mile off course. Officers froze. Roosevelt limped up and down the beach under fire, studied the ground, and said, "We'll start the war from right here." Then he spent the morning waving men forward and sorting out the chaos so calmly that terrified 20 year olds looked at this old man with a cane and decided that if he wasn't scared, they wouldn't be either.

His son Quentin, named for the uncle killed in the last war, landed at Omaha Beach the same morning. They were the only father and son to come ashore together on D-Day.

He died a month later. A heart attack in his sleep. And here is the part that gets me. On the very day he died, the orders had just come through promoting him to major general and giving him his own division. He never saw the paperwork. He never knew he'd earned the Medal of Honor either.

At his funeral his pallbearers were seven of the most famous generals of the war, Bradley, Hodges, Collins, Barton, Huebner, and George Patton. The same Patton who had fired him. Patton wrote in his diary that Roosevelt was one of the bravest men he had ever known.

Years later Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic thing he witnessed in all of World War II. He didn't pause. He said, "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

1-0 US at the half and our men’s team has done the impossible: full stadiums in Seattle and San Francisco are wearing red, white and blue and singing along to the national anthem. Beautiful.

[Brent Hubbs @Brent_Hubbs]

NEW: Mike Leach made the Hall of Fame ballot after criteria changes — but if he's getting in, John Majors should already be there 👀

Majors won 3 SEC titles and a natty. Leach never came close.

Read: https://t.co/7ooHA3Z8jF

[Rick Scott @ScottforFlorida]

Everything else requires a photo ID. Why not voting? It’s time to secure our elections and pass the SAVE America Act.

[Dante 🇺🇸 @DanteTheDon]

Was not ready for Eric Church to deliver the best commencement speech I’ve ever heard.

Six guitar strings. Six pillars of a life.

Faith. Family. Spouse. Ambition. Community. You.

Tune them when you’re whole, not just when you’re broken.

Watch the whole thing.

[TodayInSports @TodayInSportsCo]

22 years ago today, the cover of Sports Illustrated. 🇺🇸

[elENoCHle @NewsBlast17]

The Bees Were Told Today And It Wasn’t Just a Photo Op.

During King Charles III’s White House visit, President Trump walked the royal couple straight to the newly expanded beehives on the South Lawn.

Melania had just unveiled a hive shaped like the White House itself.

Then a live bee landed calmly on Trump’s open palm while the King and Queen watched in surprise.

This wasn’t random.

In ancient British and Scottish tradition, especially among royal and rural families, you must formally “tell the bees” of any major change in the household: a death, a marriage, a new master of the house.

Fail to do so and the hive may abandon you.

When Queen Elizabeth II passed in 2022, the royal beekeeper performed the ritual at Buckingham Palace and Clarence House: “The Queen is dead. Long live the King.”

Today Trump, a distant Scottish Stuart cousin of the royals, publicly showed the thriving American hives to the King.

In the esoteric reading, this was a modern “telling of the bees” for the post-Elizabeth era: a symbolic handover and alignment of the two “hives” (the nations/societies themselves) under new stewardship.

This was a very public demonstration: Trump standing tall as the one in charge, and the King quietly capitulating on American soil.

The bees, and the world, just witnessed who holds the hive now.

[Jason Miyares @JasonMiyaresVA]

There's an old saying that says you can't cut corners on the Constitution. Our Virginia Supreme Court is about to find out just how many corners were cut on the recent gerrymandering amendment.

When the Democratic-controlled General Assembly in October 2025 decided to hijack a special session, rewrite its own procedural rules on the fly, and ram through a constitutional amendment mid-election, this was not governance but a naked power grab.

When Virginians were asked to vote on a deliberately manipulated ballot question in April 2026, the power grab was made worse. The Virginia Supreme Court has the authority and a solemn obligation to say as such. The judiciary serves as a check to that power and as the last line of defense when the other branches forget their limits.

Virginians have arrived at that moment.

What the Virginia Constitution requires is explicit. Proposed constitutional amendments must pass through two separate sessions of the General Assembly, with a general election of the House of Delegates occurring between those two votes.

This is no mere bureaucratic formality, but an intentional, deliberate and structural safeguard designed so that major changes to our governing document are considered by legislators answerable to voters who know precisely what is at stake.

As a circuit court judge already found, because the next qualifying House of Delegates election cannot occur until 2027, the process is void from the start. This is no technicality, but a bedrock requirement where amendments to our constitution should be fair, deliberate, transparent and accountable to the people.

Yet the manipulation doesn't end there. Once a proposed constitutional amendment passes the General Assembly the first time, the Virginia Constitution requires the Clerk of the House to transmit the text to every circuit court clerk across the commonwealth to post the amendment publicly for at least 90 days before the next election.

Instead, Virginia Democrats ignored this requirement and admitted as such during the 2026 General Assembly by clumsily attempting a retroactive correction, something that has never occurred before in the 400-year history of the Assembly.

Then there is the ballot language. Virginians were asked whether they wanted to "restore fairness" to elections. That is campaign rhetoric disguised as a ballot question, which tells a voter that opposing the amendment means opposing fairness. Does that strike anyone as neutral or fair?

The contention from Virginia Democrats that the voters have spoken is as manipulative as the ballot language itself. Certain facts remain facts. The Virginia Constitution requires voters to be given an honest and accurate description of what they are being asked to decide. That never happened. The process was unconstitutional, the language was unconstitutional, and from start to finish, Democrats manipulated both the public and the process because they knew they could never win on the merits.

Respect for the voting will of Virginians means more than manipulating the Constitution to produce a desired result. The justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia must rise to the moment and be the check of sanity and balance in the face of political manipulations.

Striking down this manipulated amendment will reinforce to every Virginian that our rules mean something, that the Constitution is not an obstacle, but a commonly shared playbook that binds all of us, regardless of party, to one set of rules. That good government is respected by law and through good process. That in Virginia, our laws are not suggestions to be sidestepped when inconvenient, but the fundamental criterion upon which all we claim to hold dear stands.

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[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

HOLY CRAP! Karoline Leavitt is calling out Democrats BY NAME who SPARKED the rhetoric leading to Saturday's attempt on President Trump's life

🔵 "Rep Hakeem Jeffrey just THIS MONTH said, 'we are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere all the time.'"

🔵 "Governor Josh Shapiro said heads need to roll within the administration."

🔵 "Senator Alex Padilla said people are DYING because of fear and terror caused by the Trump administration."

🔵 "Senator Elizabeth Warren: President Trump is making the country look like a 'FASCIST STATE'"

🔵 "Senator Adam Schiff saying President Trump using a dictator playbook"

Senator Ed Markey calling President Trump a dictator, saying that this administration's actions are authoritarism on STEROIDS"

🔵 "Governor JB Pritzker: 'Never before in my life have I called for mass protest disruptions. These Republicans cannot know a MOMENT of peace.'"

🔵 "Rep. Pressley saying we'll see you in the streets."

🔵 Monica M McIver, a Democrat representative on Capitol Hill, we will "not take this sh*t from Donald Trump. He thinks he's a DICTATOR. We are at WAR!"

"These are Democrat elected officials calling for WAR against the president of the United States and his supporters."

[Rocky Top Insider @rockytopinsider]

Duck Dynasty star Willie Robertson crashes Rick Barnes’ press conference at Tennessee on Thursday afternoon ⬇️

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

BREAKING: A Virginia Circuit Court has just ruled yesterday's redistricting vote UNCONSTITUTIONAL, and has issued an injunction BLOCKING the results from being certified, per @KenCuccinelli

This is BIG. It’s NOT over yet! 🔥

It's very likely this will end up at the state Supreme Court, who will make the final decision.

Keep fighting!

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

If you’re wondering how our elections in America are always so close, like how Democrats pulled ahead in Virginia’s redistricting within a few percentage points, this is how

Former CIA Operations Officer Gary Berntsen explains there are teams of people who rig our elections and keep the vote totals extremely close, by slim margins, so it’s believable and hard to prove fraud

Lara Logan interviews Former CIA operations officer Gary Berntsen. He explains, in detail, how elections are being stolen in America

He describes there are teams of statisticians, mathematicians, and hackers who map out every county and identify where margins can be quietly adjusted

Different techniques are used in each location so nothing matches in a recount. When a 70-30 county becomes 68-32, nobody notices. But when you add up these differences across an entire state, those tiny amounts of fraud decide outcomes

Both former CIA operations officer Gary Berntsen and author Ralph Pezzullo explain the strategy. They explain they don't flip the big blue cities. Instead they shave votes in the places no one ever audits

“They know where they can find the dead people... Mm-hmm.”

“They plan this, It's meticulous. It's meticulous. These guys are experts at this. It's not just a few guys in a back room. You're talking about hundreds of statisticians and engineers, and they work it, you know, for a year to plan and mathematicians and hackers.”

“We had a map out of Colorado when we were talking to our engineers, the guys that designed it, that stole the elections.

— We just go to every one place where Trump wins 70-30 and — Shaved it off.

We shave in every other place. We don't go near a Democratic place, because when they wanna do recounts, they're gonna go to the Democratic places. They don't realize we shaved in every other committee. We know every other county.

We know how to do this. And then in each of those things where they shave, they shave with a different technique in each one of those. So if you found something in, in one county, there's no continuity around the state that way.

So this is why the Republicans are so much at fault, because they have the power and the ability to show in their areas they can allow access to the machines, they can allow access to the source code”

People need to go to prison. Democrats are stealing elections nationwide in every county, in every state of America