Jay Brown

By any means necessary.....

[nhtsagov @NHTSAgov]

July is winding down, and the first day of school is right around the corner! 🚸

Now is the time to remind yourself to always:
🟡 Slow down.
🟡 Stay off your phone.
🟡 Stay alert for kids.

Let's keep our kids SAFE this year. ❤️

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

On a Friday night in Red Bank, New Jersey, a man in a thousand-dollar suit and his wife sit down at a small wooden table near the window.

They have driven down from Manhattan for dinner. They have heard about this place from a friend.

A few feet away, a thin man in his sixties slips off his coat.

He has been homeless for more than a year. A caseworker told him there was a restaurant where he could earn a hot meal by washing dishes afterward.

Across the room, two Rutgers University-Newark students study the menu.

They have just ten dollars between them. Like many students on their campus, they live with food insecurity.

The waiter arrives.

There are no prices.

The wealthy couple is told the suggested donation is thirty dollars, with the option to cover someone else's meal.

The homeless man is offered another choice.

Donate if he can. Volunteer if he cannot. Either way, he will eat the same dinner, and no one will ever know which path he chose.

The students hear the very same words.

Every table orders the same meal.

Spring artichoke bisque. Soul-seasoned grilled chicken over angel hair pasta. House-made dessert. Coffee.

Every plate looks identical.

The ingredients are organic. The chef trained at the Culinary Institute. The service never changes.

By the end of dinner, nobody knows who paid, who volunteered, or who arrived with almost nothing.

That is the point.

The restaurant is JBJ Soul Kitchen.

Jon Bon Jovi and his wife, Dorothea, opened it in October 2011 after she was inspired by a pay-what-you-can café during the financial crisis.

She believed dignity should come before charity.

So every guest would be treated exactly the same.

The idea worked.

Within months, the restaurant was full every night. It later became one of New Jersey's highest-rated restaurants while quietly helping thousands of people eat with dignity instead of shame.

The mission kept growing.

New locations opened. Affordable housing was built. Shelters, scholarships, and community partnerships followed. By March 2025, more than 200,000 meals had been served.

Jon Bon Jovi still shows up.

Sometimes he clears tables. Sometimes he talks with volunteers. Sometimes he simply sits down and eats beside everyone else.

There are no autograph lines.

Inside these walls, every person is just another guest.

The homeless man leaves with his dignity.

The couple from Manhattan leaves knowing they fed another table.

The students head home with full stomachs and the last ten dollars still in their pockets.

For one ordinary evening, they were all treated exactly the same.

That is the legacy still being served—one meal, one table, and one act of dignity at a time.

[Traeyz ♠️ @TraeyzX]

Jay Leno says a widow tried to sell him a Ferrari for $350,000, so he helped her turn it into $3,750,000 instead.

​“I get enough free stuff like that, that’s right, that’s very nice. You don’t need to start screwing people over.”

​“I said, ‘If I can get you close to 4 million for that car, will you bake me some cookies?’ And she said, ‘Why? It’s not worth that much.’ I go, ‘It’s worth that much.’”

​“I don’t like it when I hear people tell me a story how they screwed some old guy out of a car. I hate those kind of stories. I like these kind of stories.”

[Josh Frydman @Josh_Frydman]

Kerry Wood took the mound at Wrigley for the first time in 14 years for #BananaBall and threw an incredible behind-the-back pitch for a strike @WGNNews @TheSavBananas #Cubs

[Jay Brown @GoChatCavs]

@wjcarter There will be obits.

[Billie Jean King @BillieJeanKing]

1 in 4 Americans, or 61 million people, lives with a disability.

36 years ago today, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, giving people of all abilities greater opportunity, access, and a brighter future.

The fight for inclusion, visibility, and equality continues today!

[CNN @CNN]

Facing death from stage four pancreatic cancer, former Senator Ben Sasse shares with CNN’s Jake Tapper what he believes American politics needs for the Republic to survive. Watch the rest of his emotional interview on CNN’s The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: Ben Sasse is Going Home: Lessons on Life and Death, Sunday, July 26 at 8pm ET, and available on CNN All Access on Monday, July 27.

[A Soldier's Whisper @SoldiersWhisper]

Beloved NY soldier killed by Iran came from military family, had smile that could ‘light up room’

Sgt. Angel Sarah Rampersad was a 28-year-old U.S. Army soldier from Ozone Park, Queens, New York, who was killed in action on July 17, 2026, during an Iranian missile and drone attack. The attack targeted the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan amid the ongoing military conflict between the United States and Iran.

Coming from a military family in Queens, Rampersad was remembered by her loved ones as a protective "gentle giant" who was active in her local church and excelled in track athletics during her youth.

She is noted as the 18th American servicemember killed since the outbreak of the war with Iran.🕊️

#Military #RIP

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

“Their names were scratched off or taken off a list in the Pentagon. To me, it is abhorrent, it’s criminal.”

Lt. Gen. @MarkHertling fights back tears as he describes the military’s last roll call, and what it means to erase four fallen soldiers from the Pentagon’s casualty list.

[The Forgotten War @ForgottenWarPic]

There is a famous photograph from the Korean War of a young Marine officer scrambling over a seawall, rifle in hand, leading his men off the boats and into the fight at Inchon. The man in that picture, Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, was dead within minutes of it being taken. He is one of the very few people on earth photographed in the last moments of his own life while earning the Medal of Honor.

Lopez was a Tampa kid, the son of Spanish immigrants, sharp enough to earn his way into the Naval Academy at Annapolis. By September 1950 he was a Marine first lieutenant, and he came ashore in the assault waves at Inchon, the daring amphibious landing that turned the whole war around. That is where the photographer caught him, going up and over the seawall at the head of his platoon, straight into the teeth of the beach defenses.

The beach was a mess of enemy bunkers and pillboxes, and one of them had his men pinned down with automatic weapons fire. Lopez did what a good officer does. He went after it himself. He crept up alongside the position, pulled the pin on a grenade, and raised his arm to throw it into the gun port.

At that exact instant an enemy gun caught him, hitting him in the shoulder and the chest. The wounds knocked him backward, and the live grenade fell out of his hand and dropped to the ground right next to his own Marines.

He was badly hit, bleeding, in shock. His arm no longer worked well enough to pick the grenade back up and throw it clear. He had a couple of seconds and one terrible decision to make. He could roll away and try to save himself, and let the grenade go off among his men. Or not.

Lopez pulled the grenade in underneath his own body, wrapped himself around it with a sweep of his ruined arm, and took the entire blast into himself. It killed him. It saved the men around him.

He was twenty five years old. His parents received his Medal of Honor. And that photograph of him going over the wall has hung in Marine Corps history ever since, a young officer forever frozen at the front of his men, seconds from giving up everything so they could live.

[Warren @swd2]

The irony that while the Department of War spent most of last week talking about testosterone replacement therapies, two bad ass women were doing the job most of us would never do.

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

“Glavine, Maddux and Smoltz told him to play shallow... He played the shallowest center field out of anybody and he took more hits away [than anyone]...”

Mark DeRosa breaks down his former teammate Andruw Jones ahead of his induction into the @baseballhall this weekend.

[G-PA @IndianaGPA]

Kids today have food allergies. We had mystery meat in the school cafeteria, served by a woman named Doris who smoked while scooping it. We ate it, paid for it, and came out of it completely invincible…✌️

[Jay Brown @GoChatCavs]

@jemelehill 😂😂😂

[Gabe Burns @GabeBurnsAJC]

Walt Weiss still remembers what Greg Maddux told him early in his first spring training with the Braves in 1998.

“Andruw Jones is going to be the best center fielder you’ve ever seen.”

This weekend, he finally becomes a Hall of Famer. https://t.co/NdpIz2c99c

[Larry Sabato @LarrySabato]

Signage for Snowflakes

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Sister Leticia Ugboaja, who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas, spoke out for the first time about her arrest while walking to Mass.

Ugboaja said she begged officers to let her attend Mass and receive Communion, but was told no. https://t.co/exdUPbddIA

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Tariffs are taxes. Full stop. When the US puts a tariff on Canadian goods, the first person paying is the American importer, not the Canadian exporter.

[Covie @covie_93]

-Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25.
-Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19.
-Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28
-Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30.

Don't let a draft dodger and a drunk former Fox & Friends Weekend co-host erase them.