J.J. LaMay

Still trying, now with MS. Oh and epilepsy!

[A24 @A24]

https://t.co/dmweZJ5XfM

[J.J. LaMay @j_lamay]

@SheaSerrano

[J.J. LaMay @j_lamay]

The Best of Frisbee (feat. Zach Galifianakis) - RENO 911! https://t.co/yhPtGFnIoY via @YouTube

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

he's not going to say it again

[Jeremy Diamond @JDiamond1]

I barely recognized the journalist Ali al-Samoudi when I saw him this week. He had been imprisoned by Israel — without charge and without a trial — for a year, during which time he lost half his body weight.
He is one of 105 Palestinian journalists who have been imprisoned by Israel since October 7, 2023 — most without charge, according to @pressfreedom.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Crazy car crash near a school playground in Philly….thankfully a crossing guard was near by to help with the situation and then gave @NBCPhiladelphia an epic interview of what happened

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

If you pitched this as a screenplay, every studio would reject it for being too on-the-nose.

Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit ranked 2,149th in his high school class. Zero FBS scholarship offers. Not one. He walked on at Cal, fought for a starting job, transferred to Indiana for his senior year, then led them to 16-0 and the first national title in school history. Heisman, Walter Camp, Maxwell, Davey O'Brien, Manning, Big Ten MVP. 41 TDs, 72% completion, 8-to-0 TD-to-INT ratio in the playoffs.

The Raiders took him #1 overall Thursday night. $54.56M fully guaranteed. Only the third player ever to win the Heisman, win a national championship, and go first overall the next spring. Burrow. Newton. Mendoza.

Then he skipped Pittsburgh.

The biggest stage in football, the moment every kid imagines from the second they pick up a ball, and Fernando watched the call from his living room in Florida because his mom Elsa is in a wheelchair and the travel is hard for her. She was diagnosed with MS when he was 4. She wrote a letter to her sons in The Players Tribune in 2015 promising the disease "won't affect us in the ways that matter."

The part nobody talks about: while every other top pick was on stage, Fernando announced the Mendoza Family Fund the same day. $500K personal donation to the National MS Society. Committed to raising $1M over three years. He hasn't taken an NFL snap and he's already given more to a cause than most players donate in a full career.

He and his brother Alberto have already raised $360K through the Mendoza Bros. Burger at BuffaLouie's in Bloomington. At Christmas, he handed four families dealing with MS $10,000 each for an Adidas shopping spree.

Both his parents are children of Cuban refugees who fled Castro. His dad rowed at Brown, won a Junior World Championship in 1987, and played high school football in Miami next to a teammate named Mario Cristobal. Fernando beat his dad's old teammate in the national championship game in January.

Every athlete talks about playing for their family. Fernando actually did it.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Are the women back there somewhere? Yes, I think I see them.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Jon Stewart has a plan for Passover to come out victorious over Easter #TDSThrowback

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there was an imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?

Gabbard: The only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president. It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat.

Ossoff: It is precisely your responsibility. This is the worldwide threats hearing where, as you noted in your opening testimony quote, you represent the ic's assessment of threats.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Steve Kerr is now an Oscar winner….of course he was the executive producer of the documentary "All The Empty Rooms" a seven-year project documenting the untouched bedrooms of children killed in school shootings 🙏

[J.J. LaMay @j_lamay]

Oh what a day to be in Alabama

[Film Festival @LifeIsAFilmFest]

Larry David’s new series LIFE, LARRY, AND THE PURSUIT OF UNHAPPINESS will premiere on HBO Max on June 27.

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

stop passing notes in class

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.

[J.J. LaMay @j_lamay]

https://t.co/7VI7qTeWqj

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

this show ain’t big enough for the both of them

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Trump's Surgeon General nominee refuses to say health care is a human right.