I am not good at a lot of things. I cuss and sin a lot. I can be rigged and impatient. I'm tone deaf and super clutzy.
But, I'm really good at making babies laugh. If that's the only thing I'm good at for the rest of my life, I'm pretty pleased.
Hello my small but strong twitter friends,
Please pray for our family.
Everyone is physically okay but we are about to enter a very difficult and uncertain time.
It came out of nowhere and we were greatly unprepared.
Feel free to reach out, we just can’t discuss publicly yet.
🚨 THE FINAL RADIO CALL EVERY LINEMAN FEARS - AND AN ENTIRE IBEW CREW BREAKS DOWN
They gather around his truck. Silent. Still. Every man bracing himself for what they’re about to hear.
Then the dispatcher’s voice comes through the radio:
“Clear the airway.”
“This is the last and final call for Kyle Ferree.”
“He has climbed his last pole. His hooks are hung.”
“After six years of service, his work here on earth is done.”
“Kyle, may you rest in peace. Although you are gone, you will never be forgotten.”
“Kyle, you are now clear of duty.”
“Rest in peace, brother. Go with God. We will take it from here.”
And then - one by one - the crew checks out over the radio:
“2:08 checking out.”
“2:11 checking out.”
“2:17 checking out.”
“3:30 checking out, little buddy.”
“3:35 checking out.”
“3:36 checking out.”
And on and on… each man saying goodbye in the only way linemen know how.
Kyle Ferree was an IBEW brother.
A father of two with a third on the way.
A husband. A friend.
Gone in seconds during routine line work.
No reporters.
No speeches.
Just raw loyalty from the workers who climb in storms, ice, and darkness - and know this could have been any one of them.
Who’s really looking out for the people who do this job?
Head coaches are now obligated to wear #NFL licensed apparel on the sidelines.
In 2006, Mike Nolan and Jack Del Rio (others?) wore suits on the sideline. They had wanted to wear dress clothing on the sideline, but the league stipulated that it had to be designed by Reebok (and Joseph Abboud) because of their contract with the NFL.
saw a TikTok about a catholic high school football team whose pregame locker chant was “Our Lady of Victory, pray for us. Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for them.”
'We pronounce their names one by one'
Cardinal Zuppi read out the names of every child who has died in the Gaza conflict during a prayer vigil on the Eve of the Assumption
The list was 469 pages long and took SEVEN HOURS to read
It included the Israeli children killed on October 7th and the 12,211 Palestinian children killed since
“They ask us all to commit ourselves to finding or pursuing the path to peace with greater intelligence and passion, starting with a ceasefire and offering the conditions for doing so, from the release of hostages to not taking an entire people hostage.”
BREAKING | Pope Leo XIV will proclaim his first Doctor of the Church: St. John Henry Newman. On July 31, 2025, Pope Leo XIV received in audience Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, confirming the positive opinion of the Dicastery's Plenary Session: St. John Henry Newman will be proclaimed a Doctor of the Universal Church.