Jessica Messica

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

Jesus wept.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Larry Kudlow to GOP Sen. Lankford: "Right now, you, the leadership are bungling everything... Nothing is getting done. Your messaging is non-existent. You lost your swag."

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Sunny Hostin: No one is above the law!

Also Sunny: How can you arrest my son?! I’m a former federal prosecutor and he went to Harvard!

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Sunny Hostin: "No one is above the law"

Sunny Hostin now: "How dare you arrest my son? My name is Sunny Hostin!"

[TOMI$IN🏅 @tomisinfcb]

🚨 Lamine Yamal on facing Lionel Messi in the FIFA World Cup Final:

🎙️ Reporter: "Lamine, how does it feel to face Lionel Messi in the biggest match in football?"

Lamine Yamal: "It's difficult to put into words. Messi holds a very special place in my heart. Everyone knows the photo of him bathing me when I was just a baby, and now, years later, we're meeting in a World Cup final. Football really is unbelievable sometimes."

"For me, he's the greatest player of all time. What he's doing at 39 years old in this World Cup is simply insane. He's still deciding matches, still leading Argentina, still showing the world why he's the GOAT. As a football fan, it's impossible not to admire him."

"But once the referee blows the whistle, all those emotions have to stay outside. I'm not playing against my idol—I'm playing for Spain. We respect Messi and Argentina, but our dream is to bring the World Cup home. Sometimes football asks you to put your feelings aside, and that's exactly what I'll do."

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

The VAST majority of Americans SUPPORT the SAVE America Act’s common sense requirement for photo ID to vote in our elections.

It’s time to pass the SAVE America Act.

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

Yes, those photos you’ve seen are real.

More than 18 years ago, a baby named Lamine Yamal and his mom Sheila met Lionel Messi at a UNICEF fundraising photoshoot.

Today, their achievements on the pitch inspire millions. Off the pitch, both Messi and Lamine Yamal use their voices and platforms as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors to support and advocate for children around the world.

The goal? That every child survives, thrives, and fulfils their potential.

We are proud to have them on our team.

Credit: Joan Monfort

[MAZE @mazemoore]

In 2018 Obama gave a long speech on "saving democracy," during which he talked about Russia "hacking" elections and accused Republicans of not doing enough to secure our elections.

All the major news channels covered it of course.

BTW, two years earlier Obama had received intel that Russia did not hack our election. He spent two years pushing that lie.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

Agree.
When they cry for “equality,” what they really want is to be treated the “equally” as those who have worked hard and put in the time.

Well, no.
If all you do is whine and insist that everyone cater to you, you are not equal to those who work hard. You do not get the same rewards.
You just don’t.
You are not equal to them.

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

And so the World Cup final will be between two teams who couldn’t beat Cape Verde in 90 minutes.

[mila 🍰 @lastgrlon_earth]

why does my stomach have the nerve to growl when the fat is literally right there for it to eat

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I don't think the GOP fully grasp how badly they are fucking up right now.

I'm talking to people who normally have ZERO interest in politics who are legitimately pissed off.

They are not seeing the major reform they thought would happen and are REALLY MAD about it.

No true accountability.
No true mass deportations.
No meaningful decrease in the deficit.
Lots of very long vacations and no work.
No bills being passed that REDUCE the government involvement in their lives.

I'm very worried the GOP is sleepwalking toward a midterm reckoning they don’t see coming.

People are pissed off that they voted Trump into office and then the GOP continues to slow-walk every reform people want.

Where are all the DOGE cuts that were promised?
Where is the SAVE ACT?
Why haven't we defunded the Taliban yet?

Why are bills passing the House and then disappear in the Senate?

Why are the GOP still funding Left-wing NGOs that target and hate MAGA Republicans?

Why are members of the GOP pushing for mass amnesty instead of mass deportations?

People are waking up and they aren't happy about it.

People believed they were voting for the Trump agenda. and instead, many feel like they’re getting the same old Washington.

If Republicans in Congress don’t start producing tangible results, they’re going to discover that frustration has consequences...

...And by the time they realize how deep-seeded that frustration is, it may already be too late.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Read it again. Such a good reminder.

[BuffaloRon @BuffaloRon]

Me: I'm going to eat healthy

Lettuce: I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea

Oreos in the pantry: I would never do that to you

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima.

Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes.

Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse.

No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed.

So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history.

When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive.

The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy.

At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong.

They convicted him anyway.

For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy.

Case closed. For fifty years.

Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project.

He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay.

A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001.

The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader.

Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On this day in 1944, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep in a stone farmhouse in Normandy. He was 56 years old, and he had spent almost his entire adult life trying to be worthy of a famous last name.

He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the First World War he went to France and was gassed and badly wounded at Soissons leading his men. That same summer his younger brother Quentin, a pilot, was shot down and killed over France. Ted came home with lungs and a leg that never fully recovered, and before he even left Europe he helped found the American Legion so that ordinary soldiers would have someone looking out for them.

Between the wars he did almost everything. Governor of Puerto Rico. Governor General of the Philippines. Businessman, explorer, writer. He could have spent the Second World War safe behind a desk. Instead, at 54, arthritic and walking with a cane, he talked his way back into uniform and into combat.

By 1943 he was fighting in North Africa and Sicily under Terry Allen, and their loose, unpolished, soldier-first style rubbed General Patton the wrong way. Patton had them both relieved of command. Roosevelt didn't sulk. He asked for another job, any job, as long as it kept him near the fighting. They made him assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division.

Then came D-Day. He hid a heart condition from the Army doctors. He wrote to his commander three separate times, in writing, begging to go in with the very first wave rather than watch from a ship. He was the only general to land in the first wave on any beach that morning, the oldest man in the invasion, walking through machine gun fire with a cane in one hand and a pistol in the other.

The boats came in a mile off course. Officers froze. Roosevelt limped up and down the beach under fire, studied the ground, and said, "We'll start the war from right here." Then he spent the morning waving men forward and sorting out the chaos so calmly that terrified 20 year olds looked at this old man with a cane and decided that if he wasn't scared, they wouldn't be either.

His son Quentin, named for the uncle killed in the last war, landed at Omaha Beach the same morning. They were the only father and son to come ashore together on D-Day.

He died a month later. A heart attack in his sleep. And here is the part that gets me. On the very day he died, the orders had just come through promoting him to major general and giving him his own division. He never saw the paperwork. He never knew he'd earned the Medal of Honor either.

At his funeral his pallbearers were seven of the most famous generals of the war, Bradley, Hodges, Collins, Barton, Huebner, and George Patton. The same Patton who had fired him. Patton wrote in his diary that Roosevelt was one of the bravest men he had ever known.

Years later Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic thing he witnessed in all of World War II. He didn't pause. He said, "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

[Ans @PakForeverIA]

Lamine Yamal caught his little Brother on the big screen

So Cute ❤️

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

That priceless moment when you can tell how much P:osh Spice loves football 🤣🤣

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

In 2005, David Beckham opened his football academy in Greenwich, London.

Among the young footballers there that day was an 11 year old boy named Harry Kane.

Standing beside him was Katie Goodland, a girl he had known since their school days in East London.

They posed for a photograph with Beckham.

At the time, it was simply a picture of two children meeting one of England's biggest football stars.

Harry and Katie could never have known what the next two decades would bring.

The childhood friends grew closer, began dating as teenagers, and built a life together.

Harry kept chasing football.

He rose through Tottenham's academy, endured loan spells, fought for his place, and eventually became one of the greatest goalscorers England has ever produced.

In 2018, he captained England at the World Cup and won the Golden Boot.

In 2023, he broke Wayne Rooney's record to become England men's all time leading goalscorer.

And the girl standing beside him in that old photograph stayed beside him through the journey.

Harry proposed to Katie in 2017.

They married in June 2019 and went on to build a family together, becoming parents to four children.

Years after that photograph was taken, Harry even joked that Beckham was probably Katie's childhood crush.

But life had written a different story.

The boy who once stood beside his football hero became England captain.

And the girl standing next to him became his wife.

Sometimes, an ordinary photograph is only ordinary because we haven't seen the future yet

[GOLZ @golz_tv]

“I think this is personal. It's a real personal attack on this young man.”

Scottish legend and former Chelsea midfielder Craig Burley has come to USMNT star Christian Pulisic’s defense and hits out at pundits from FOX Sports. 😳

“I don't like it,” Burley said on ESPN FC about Pulisic’s critics.

“I get it, he's had a tough tournament because he started well, got injured, hasn't really found his flow again, ends the tournament the way he pretty much started and got injured.

“But the pile-on, the pile-on to an individual, is way over the top.

“It's like, if Christian Pulisic had a great tournament, the U.S. would have gone all the way. That's kind of how the talk is.

“And I get it, he has a responsibility, and he didn't come into this tournament to try and be under par or play badly.

“But to me, if I was Christian Pulisic, I would be big-time annoyed. In fact, if I was Christian Pulisic, I think I'd be digging some of these people out, personally.

“Because it seems to me it's almost a personal attack on an individual rather than an analysis of the football that's gone before.

“Because if it's an analysis of the football, you could go through pretty much the whole team and say, well, he had a bad game, he had a bad game, the goalkeeper made a mistake, you saw Sergiño Dest had a terrible game, letting balls bounce in the box, all that sort of stuff.

“But it seems that he has been painted up there as the poster boy, and now that some of them, who should know better by the way, some of them, because they've been in that position, want to kill him. They're absolutely killing him.

“It’s people from FOX. It's the same people that when Flo Balogun was told he could play, they were on that network, and they embarrassed the hell out of themselves for about half an hour.

“They all danced around the fact that it was wrong, and said, this is the greatest decision in the history of U.S. sports, Flo Balogun's going to play. That's how embarrassing these people are. They have no shame.

“You're criticizing a player for not carrying a team, no further than you yourself never carried a team.

“You know, it’s not like some of these past players got to the semifinal or whatever and they said, well, he had a disrupted tournament.

“Look, do I think he's perfect? No. But I'll tell you one thing about Christian Pulisic, and going back to [Landon] Donovan and one or two others, at least he's had the stomach to go to Europe over a long, long period of time and forge out a pretty good career for himself at Dortmund, at Chelsea, at Milan.

“He’s gone over there for a long period of time and he has produced some very good performances.

“Some of this lot sitting on their cozy sofas, they can't say that. Yeah, they can talk about what they did in MLS, they can talk about what they did now and again with the national team, but they didn't have the stomach, some of them, to go over there and train your butt off and play at elite level for years at a time.

“They dipped their toe in the water and they jumped back over the pond. But yeah, they want to sit here and kill him.

“And listen, they can analyze games all they want. I don't care. That's their job. But here, I think this is personal. It's a real personal attack on this young man.”