Peggy Darnall

[The Old Curmudgeon @Pokeycorky]

America thanks Team Norway and all the Norwegian fans,

It’s been an absolute blast watching you!
You all rock!

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝐹𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑥𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑦. 𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑚 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑚𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑. 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ, 𝑚𝑦 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝐺𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤. 𝑅𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑥𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦. 𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡. 𝐼𝑛 𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑠’ 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒, 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑛.

[🔱⚓️🏴‍☠️🇺🇸I'm The One Called Doc🇺🇸🏴‍☠️⚓️🔱 @hmcrem]

USCGC Eagle. She is one of only two active commissioned sailing vessels in the United States military today, along with USS Constitution.

Facts and Figures

Length of EAGLE: 295 ft. (roughly equivalent to a football field)
Number of sails: 23
Sail area: 22,227 square feet
Tallest mast: 150 feet (roughly equivalent to a 15-story building)
Length of rigging: 6 miles
Working crew: 55
Maximum people capacity: 239
Weight: 1,655 tons (EAGLE’s hull and decks are made of steel)
Speed under sail: 17 knots (20 mph)
Speed under power: 10 knots (11 mph)
Gallons of fuel oil: 24,215
Weight of anchors: 3,860 lbs.

History of EAGLE

She is the seventh Coast Guard cutter to bear the name in a line dating back to 1792, including the Revenue Cutter Eagle

Built at the Blohm+Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, Germany in 1936, and commissioned as Horst Wessel,  EAGLE  was one of three sail-training ships operated by the pre-World War II German navy.

Named after a Nazi martyr, Horst Wessel, the barque was used to train cadets and members of the Hitler Youth before and during WWII.

After the war, Horst Wessel was given to the United States as reparation. She was given to the United States Coast Guard, which commissioned her into service as USCGC Eagle (WIX-327). She sailed from Bremerhaven to Orangeburg, New York, United States in Jun 1946 with both her new American crew as well as most of her former German crew, including Captain Schnibbe.

The German crew was disembarked at Camp Shanks before Eagle proceeded to New London, Connecticut, United States. She visited Kiel, West Germany in 1972 at the invitation of the West German government; Kiel was Horst Wessel's home port for some time during the ship's tenure as a German Navy ship.

[Kentucky Baseball @UKBaseball]

Tyler Bell is headed west!

At No. 10 he is the second-highest pick in school history!

@BellTyler28 x #MLBDraft

[Blue Chips Media @BlueChipsBBN]

Just a couple of former No. 1 Overall picks chatting it up 🤝

Kentucky LEGENDS @JohnWall & @AntDavis23 were seen together at the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas 😼

(📸: @WashWizards)

[Kentucky Men’s Basketball @KentuckyMBB]

📸 @SphereVegas

[Kentucky Athletics @UKAthletics]

Top 10% again 👏

For the 14th consecutive year, UK Athletics ranked in the top 10% of Division I athletics programs in the Directors' Cup.

[OBVIOUS SHIRTS® @obvious_shirts]

The A stands for All-Star. Congrats PCA! #PCA #Cubs

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

We keep blaming teachers for declining literacy.
But we're raising a generation that consumes information through 15-second videos, endless scrolling, and constant notifications. Then we assess them as though they've spent years building the reading stamina to sit with a complex text for 30 or 60 minutes.

Scrolling is a sprint.
Reading is a marathon.

Today's students interact with language differently than any generation before them. They skim. They swipe. They jump from one idea to the next. Yet our literacy assessments still require sustained attention, deep comprehension, inference, vocabulary, and the ability to remain engaged with complex texts.
Those are essential skills. They always will be.
But if children spend far less time reading books outside of school than previous generations, why are we surprised when reading stamina declines?

This isn't about blaming parents or lowering expectations. It's about recognizing a profound cultural shift. Schools are increasingly being asked to develop skills that many children have fewer opportunities to practice beyond the classroom.

Teachers matter.
Instruction matters.
But literacy has never begun with a standardized test.

It begins with hearing stories, seeing adults read, turning pages, asking questions, imagining new worlds, and discovering that some things are worth staying with long after the first page.

If we want stronger readers, we can't place the entire burden on teachers. Building literacy has always been, and will always be, a shared responsibility between schools, families, and the culture our children grow up in.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

You don't see a ship like this every day.

The USCGC Eagle, roughly the size of a football field, is set to lead the America 250 Parade of Sail, with her massive square sails and three towering masts turning heads before the celebration even begins.

Built in Germany in 1936 and brought to the United States after World War II, the Eagle has spent decades training future Coast Guard officers and remains America's only active square-rigger in government service.

[Murphy's Bleachers @murphysbleacher]

3:05 start? More time to pregame 🍻

Oh, and welcome back to Chicago, @cardinals 😏

#cubs #cardinals

[Jacob Zanolla @jacobzanolla]

Pete Crow-Armstrong has been named the National League Player of the Month for June

[Kentucky Men’s Basketball @KentuckyMBB]

Best fans in the nation 👏

[QueenMother👸🏻 @QueenMother1976]

“I work the front desk at a small doctor’s office, and I wish people could see what happens on the other side of the phone.
Every day, older patients call us confused.

They are told to use the patient portal, upload documents, check lab results online, fill out forms before the visit, and confirm everything through a link.
Some of them do not know what a portal is.

Some do not have a smartphone.
Some have one, but they are afraid to click the wrong thing.
Last week, a man in his late 80s called about his test results.

He said, “Ma’am, I don’t mean to bother you, but the computer says I have a message and I don’t know how to open it.”
He sounded ashamed.
That broke my heart.

He should not have to feel ashamed for needing a human being.
Technology can be helpful. I understand that.

But when people who built this country are made to feel helpless because everything became a login and a password, we have gone too far.
Not everything needs to be an app.
Not every answer should be hidden behind a screen.

Sometimes people need a voice.
A patient person.
A real human who says, “Don’t worry, I can help you.”
Progress should not leave seniors behind.

Because one day, the world will move faster than us too.
And I hope someone is kind enough to slow down.

~Unknown

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“Take Five” by Dave Brubeck Quartet was recorded 67 years ago today.

Two years later it became a surprise hit and the biggest-selling jazz single ever.

[Tara LaRosa @TaraLaRosa]

Greatest new song to come out of the World Cup! ⚽️❤️🇺🇸 Welcome To The Land Of The Free!🇺🇸❤️⚽️

[Just Baseball @JustBB_Media]

Just Baseball's NL Player of the Month: Pete Crow-Armstrong

[104.3 The Score @thescorechicago]

Cubs star Pete Crow-Armstrong just had one of the greatest months of any player in MLB history.

[CUBS WORLD @CubsWorld80]

🚨Pete Crow-Armstrong , Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig are the only players in MLB history to put up these numbers in a single month:

375+ batting average
.775+ SLG
80+ total bases
15 walks
10+ home runs
5+ stolen bases

PCA also lead all of MLB with a 236 WRC+ in June

#cubs

[Michael Busch Lover @BuschMVP]

I thought this ball went 450 feet off the bat😭😭😭😭