Jan Vater

[Fox 4 Weather KC @fox4wx]

6/8-11:50 PM update...NEW severe t/storm watch in effect including the KC Metro area through 4AM. Winds main threat. 50-70 MPH winds possible. Storms arrive on west side of KC ~1AM and zip through. #mowx #kswx #kansascity

[Augie Nash @AugieNash]

I had to do some deep file diving, but after all these years, I finally found the video!

Thanks to @William95274068 for sparking this search.

This video is a true treasure, with Lou talking about breaking the all time stolen bases record just a few days before this interview.

I hope you all enjoy it.

Lou was such a kind and personable man, and this video shows it.

#STLCards

[St. Louis Cardinals @Cardinals]

Congratulations to the 2026 Cardinals Hall of Fame class!

[St. Louis Cardinals @Cardinals]

No brainer!

Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina have been selected for induction into the Cardinals Hall of Fame presented by @EdwardJones!

[Chase Daniel @ChaseDaniel]

Such an honor to be able to lend my voice to this….This entire video gave me chills

Mizzou OWNS Homecoming! #MIZ

[Jake Chatzky @jchat85]

The most important new news I’ll ever share …

IM GONNA BE A DAD 💖🩷

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

WHOLESOME: Legendary New Orleans #Saints quarterback Drew Brees getting to see his Gold Jacket for the first time as he heads into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

🥹🥹🥹

What a moment for Brees.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults.

[Daily Chiefs @Daily_Chiefs_]

Travis Kelce high school QB highlights to make your Saturday a little better ❤️🔥

87 has always been different 🐐

[Adrenalin Patlaması @adrenaIinIendnz]

İtfaiyecilerin 11 saatlik uğraşından sonra "Artık umut yok, alan çok dar!" dediği yere gönüllü olarak girerek boruya sıkışan küçük çocuğu kurtaran 14 yaşındaki koca yürekli kahraman;

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

In 1984, Ruth Coker Burks was 25 years old, visiting a friend at a hospital in Little Rock, when she noticed nurses drawing straws outside a patient's room. Someone had to go in. She didn't wait for the straws. She opened the door herself. What she found inside would define the next decade of her life. 🕯️**

Inside was a young man reduced to bones — maybe 80 pounds, dying alone, terrified. He kept whispering one word.

*"Mama."*

Ruth told the nurses to call his mother.

They laughed.

*"Honey, we've called. He's been here six weeks. Nobody's coming."*

Ruth made them give her the number. She tried one last time.

The mother's answer was cold and final: her son was sinful, already dead to her, and she would not be coming.

So Ruth went back into that room. She took his hand. She stayed.

For 13 hours, she held the hand of a dying stranger, promising him he wouldn't leave this world alone.

When he died, his family refused to claim the body.

Ruth decided she would bury him herself.

She owned plots in her family cemetery in Hot Springs — where her father and grandparents rested. The nearest funeral home willing to handle an AIDS death was 70 miles away. Ruth paid from her own pocket. A local potter gave her a chipped cookie jar for an urn.

She used posthole diggers to dig the grave herself.

She spoke kind words over the earth because no minister would come to pray over a man who died of AIDS.

Ruth thought that would be the end.

It was the beginning.

Word traveled through the quiet networks of fear and desperation across Arkansas.

*There's a woman in Hot Springs who isn't afraid. There's a woman who will sit with you. There's a woman who will make sure you're buried with dignity when your own family won't claim you.*

They started arriving. Dying young men from rural hospitals across the state, abandoned by the people who were supposed to love them most.

Over the next decade, Ruth Coker Burks cared for more than 1,000 people dying of AIDS.

She personally buried 40 of them in Files Cemetery — digging the graves herself, with her young daughter beside her carrying a small spade, holding their own funerals because no one else would speak over these graves.

Of those 1,000 people, only a handful of families didn't abandon their dying children.

Ruth called parents. Begged them to come say goodbye. To claim their child's body.

Most refused.

*"Who knew,"* she said, *"there'd come a time when parents didn't want to bury their own children?"*

But she also witnessed something else — something that stayed with her.

She watched gay men care for dying partners with a devotion that shattered every stereotype. She watched a terrified community take care of its own — and take care of her.

*"They would twirl up a drag show on Saturday night and here'd come the money. That's how we bought medicine. That's how we paid rent. If it hadn't been for the drag queens, I don't know what we would have done."*

By the mid-1990s, new treatments emerged. The crisis began to shift.

And then, like so many heroes of the AIDS crisis, Ruth Coker Burks faded from public memory.

She wrote a memoir in 2019 called *All the Young Men* because she needed people to understand what happened in Arkansas. What happened across America. What happens when fear convinces people to abandon their own children.

And what happens when one person refuses to walk past a door everyone else fears.

She didn't have medical training. She didn't have institutional backing. She didn't have money.

She had compassion. Courage. Posthole diggers. And a family cemetery.

That was enough to make sure 1,000 people didn't die believing they were worthless.

The next time someone says one person can't change anything —

Remember the red bag on the door.

Remember the 13 hours she stayed with a stranger.

Remember the 40 graves she dug with her own hands.

She walked through that door in 1984. And 1,000 lives were forever changed because of it.

[NFL on Prime Video @NFLonPrime]

Patrick Mahomes understood the assignment 😂🤝

(via @Chiefs)

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

I loved it from the first time I heard it. Even now, in 2026, I'm still listening to it.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

This was 44 years ago and the only tech for the singer was a microphone and a human voice…

It was another time and it was another place.

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

As contagious as it is to watch Belushi, you just can't take your eyes off of Aykroyd.

The sheer amount of talent on that small stage is staggering.

The Blues Brothers performing 'Soul Man' live on SNL, in 1978.

48 years apart yet it is still incredibly impressive.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Her last kindergarten class came back to visit her… now they’re graduating 🥹

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

Beautiful. NFL analyst brought his autistic son, Madden, on set to celebrate and honor Autism Awareness Day, leaving everyone in tears.

Every life has inherent dignity. Disabilities don’t define a person’s humanity.

[Show Me Football @ShowMeFB]

Former #Mizzou AD DRF has now butted heads with the most important person on campus at two schools and has been told to kick rocks both times. Kinda telling.

[Baseball @mlbelites_]

“Dad how good was Yadier Molina?”

Dad:

[Tommy Hilfiger @TommyHilfiger]

introducing Travis Kelce as Tommy Hilfiger’s newest global brand ambassador and creative collaborator.

known for his presence both on and off the field, he brings a new perspective to timeless american style, blending confidence, individuality and a modern point of view. from the field to the front row, this is just the beginning.