𝔻𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝔾𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕥

🧡 Oklahoma State University Alum 🇺🇸|| Husband to an amazing wife and Proud father of 4 amazing kids || T1D Dad ||#diabetes || #gopokes || #thunderup

[MLB @MLB]

When Freddie Freeman’s son, Charlie, got to meet Fernando Tatis Jr. at the All-Star Game 👏

📹: ChelseaFreeman5 / IG

[kuz @kylekuzma]

After sitting here watching NBA free agency this year and overall NBA movement over the past 2 years somebody has to say it....

The new CBA was sold as parity, but the first and second apron are starting to function like a hard cap on player value, team continuity, and player movement.

Teams are no longer making purely basketball decisions. They’re making fear-based apron decisions. That means good players get squeezed, homegrown cores get broken up, fan-favorite teams lose their identity, and the overall product loses some of the nostalgia and continuity that made people fall in love with the NBA in the first place.

This isn’t about players not understanding business. It’s the opposite. We understand that the NBA is a business. That’s why the @TheNBPA has to operate with elite business acumen, elite negotiating strategy, and real foresight.

The owners and the league walk into these meetings with killers that continue to run circles around us time and time again with elite lawyers, economists, cap experts, media strategists, and long term business operators. Players deserve a PA that is just as sharp, just as prepared, and just as aggressive about protecting our upside.

Too often, it feels like players are informed after the fact instead of being truly educated and empowered before decisions are made. That cannot continue.

The next CBA is a do or die moment for us as players. It's only going to get worse for us. We need transparency, accountability, and a serious re evaluation of who is representing us and how they are representing us.

This is not anti parity. This is pro player, fan, and product. The league is strongest when players are valued properly, great teams can stay together, and the people representing us are operating at the same level as the people sitting across the table.

[Cincinnatus of Washington @Cincinnatus_DC]

@CornellCrits @LeftismForU It’s protected free speech in the same way that you’re free to call someone the n word: You can try to say it or do it, but that doesn’t protect you from the consequences of your actions.

[B-52 "BUFF" @BoeingB52BUFF]

A cocky fighter pilot flies up next to a B-52 and brags on the radio, "Watch this!"

He hits his afterburners, does a barrel roll, and then a tight loop. "Top that!" he shouts to the B-52 pilot.

The B-52 pilot just flies straight and steady for 10 minutes.

"How'd you like that?" asks the B-52 pilot.

The fighter pilot is confused. "What did you do?"

The B-52 pilot replies, "I went to the back, stretched my legs, went to the bathroom, and made myself a fresh cup of coffee."

[Backpirch Weather @BackpirchCrew]

In a potential worst case scenario for the Mariana Islands, Category 5 Super Typhoon Bavi has exploded to a new peak intensity of 180 MPH (285 kph) sustained winds and a minimum pressure of 901 MBAR.

She is now among some of the most powerful superstorms you will see in Earth’s oceans, and exceptionally life-threatening conditions are only hours away from ripping through the island of Rota.

[Golf Channel @GolfChannel]

The 21-year-old coming out FIRING!

Preston Stout nearly jars it for albatross on the par-5 2nd 🔥

Golf Central Pregame | @JDClassic

[Brandon Rahbar @BrandonRahbar]

Bennett Stirtz deeep 3.

His 36% from 3 last year at Iowa is misleading. Stirtz was the entire offense so most were self created, off the dribble and with the defense focused on stopping him.

Great shooter. Unlimited range.

[Jerry Thornton @jerrythornton]

They left home as boys 8 decades ago to go out and save the world. Last night they sat at the WWII Memorial together and celebrated their country's 250th. Still heroic.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...

...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY

He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."

His name is Rishi Sharma.

He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.

He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.

He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...

...FOR FREE

So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.

Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.

He does it out of pure gratitude.

In his words:

"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."

As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:

"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."

THAT is America.

250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...

God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Defence Index @Defence_Index]

🇺🇸 The U.S. plans to keep the B-52 bomber flying until 2050

Think about that.

When the B-52 entered service in 1955, the first iPhone was still 52 years away, the Soviet Union still existed, and most of today's air forces hadn't even been born.

Yet nearly 100 years later, this Cold War giant will still be carrying out missions for the United States.

With massive range, enormous payload capacity, and major upgrades underway, the B-52 continues to prove why it remains one of the most feared bombers ever built.

Aircraft have come and gone. Empires have risen and fallen.

The B-52 just keeps flying.

🇺🇸 1955 ➜ 2050

One bomber. Nearly a century of service.

[ⁿᵉʷˢ Barron Trump 🇺🇸 @BarronTNews_]

🚨At midnight, President Trump walked off the stage on the National Mall as fireworks lit up the sky, after delivering a patriotic speech to tens of thousands of Americans celebrating the greatest nation on Earth. “It’s an honor to be your president,” he told the crowd, and that one line said everything. No shame, no apology, no weakness, just a President standing before the American people on Independence Day and reminding the world that this country is still proud, still strong, and still blessed. “God bless you all,” Trump said as the fireworks began, and for a moment DC actually looked like America again. 🇺🇸

[Life and Football @LifeandBall]

🚨Coach Prime Deion Sanders accepted the challenge and did the Ice Bucket Challenge for Chris Johnson ALS

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

Two immigrants.
One American dream. 🇺🇸
@RealStevenAdams

America gave us freedom and opportunity.
Oklahoma gave us a home, lifelong friendships, and memories we’ll never forget.

Home isn’t always where you’re born. Sometimes it’s where you’re given the freedom to dream.

We’ll never forget where we came from and we’ll never stop being grateful for where we are.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

Nerves of steel!

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds flew just inches apart during a breathtaking flyover above the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

[Brandon Rahbar @BrandonRahbar]

Kenrich Williams asked what it meant to be a part of the Thunder 4 years ago by @AndrewKSchlecht:

“It means a lot, man. Like I said earlier in the season, I love being here. I would like to retire here.”

Kenrich has reiterated that sentiment several times since.

[Guns&Gadgets @Guns_Gadgets]

The USS Constitution, aka Old Ironsides, is the world’s oldest commissioned war ship still afloat!

She was launched in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed. The name “Constitution” was among ten names submitted to President George Washington by Secretary of War Timothy Pickering in March or May for the frigates that were to be constructed.

Happy Independence Day America! 🇺🇸🫡
#america250 #america #independenceday #july4th

[𝔻𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝔾𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕥 @G6Tulsa]

Hi

[Trump Girl 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲 @MAGA__Patriot]

I had no idea..

"This man was born in 1809.
In 1816, at age 7, he was forced to work because his family was expelled.
In 1818, he lost his mother.
In 1828, he lost his sister.
In 1831, he opened his first business and went bankrupt.
In 1832, he stood in the legislative elections and lost.
In 1833, he borrowed money to open another business and went bankrupt again.
In 1835, he met a wonderful woman. He falls in love with her, they get engaged, and she dies.
In 1836, he entered a dark period of his life: deep depression.
He remains bedridden for 6 consecutive months. But he gets up.
He gets up and in that same year of 1836 he runs in the legislative elections and loses again.
In 1840 he presented himself as an elector; he loses.
In 1842, he met the woman he would end his life with.
They fall in love, get engaged, get married and she gives him 4 children and they lose 3 (three).
In 1843, he appeared at the congresses and lost.
In 1845, he appeared again at the congresses and lost again.
In 1850, his son died.
In 1854, he ran for the Senate and lost.
In 1856, he ran for Vice President, he didn't even have 100 votes.
In '58, he ran again for the Senate and lost again.

And in 1860 ABRAHAM LINCOLN was elected President of the United States of America 🇺🇸.
He was elected for two exceptional terms (he was assassinated in beginning of the second term.) He was one of the most respected and impactful Presidents in the history of the United States 🇺🇸.

It's important to tell this story of perseverance because we see the hero, but we don't see the backstage of the afflictions. "

Wow. ...
I think this is a great example of Never Never Never Give Up! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[J @JayTC53]

OMG 👀 The F-35b Lightening 2 just stole the show at the National Mall for America 250!!

Watch the most advanced war fighting aircraft come to complete hover mode!

Greatest military in the world 🫡 🇺🇸