Jim Rouch

[Jim Rouch @JimRouch]

@lippyent Mary Tyler Moore

[Jim Rouch @JimRouch]

@ElenaBee0 I got 18. Can't remember for sure about the other two!

[Jim Rouch @JimRouch]

@Sofia50020Sofia Excess

[Jim Rouch @JimRouch]

@lippyent Donna Reed

[Jim Rouch @JimRouch]

@lippyent I dream of Jeanne

[Jim Rouch @JimRouch]

@lippyent Sally fields

[Kwasny @kwasny007]

We have Tina Forte @TinaForteUSA running to replace AOC. This is a major change that America needs. Spread this message far and wide.

Vote for Tina Forte

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[Jim Rouch @JimRouch]

@OleTimeHardball He's good but Wilt Chamberlain is th GOAT

[Gitmo (Health is a Wealth) 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Gitmo99]

Whether athletes should be compelled to wear a gay pride logo on their uniforms is a highly debated topic with strong arguments on both sides. Major sports leagues have largely shifted away from forcing compliance to avoid player discomfort and public division.

Does an athlete have a say in what appears on their uniform, or is that a decision by the team and league?

[Jim Rouch @JimRouch]

@iqrafatma1278 @NimraShahzadin Telephone number

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Samuel Chase might be the messiest Founding Father in American history, and almost nobody knows his name. Buckle up.

1762: He gets expelled from his Annapolis debating club for "extremely irregular and indecent" behavior. He is 21.

1765: He leads the Sons of Liberty in storming public offices and burning the local stamp distributor in effigy. The mayor's circle publicly brands him "a busy, reckless incendiary, a ringleader of mobs, a foul-mouthed and inflaming son of discord." Chase's response, basically: yes, and?

1776: Maryland is the holdout on independence. Chase races roughly 150 miles on horseback to Annapolis, strong-arms the convention into a yes, and gets word to Philadelphia just in time for the vote. He signs the Declaration of Independence at 35.

1778: As a congressman, he learns of a secret plan to buy flour for the French fleet. He allegedly tips off business partners to corner the market first. A furious 23-year-old Alexander Hamilton invents a pen name just to publicly destroy him, writing that his crimes were "infamous in itself, repugnant to your station, and ruinous to your country."

The pen name Hamilton invented to torch Samuel Chase? Publius. The same one he'd reuse nine years later for the Federalist Papers. The most famous byline in American political history started as a burner account for one feud.

Somehow Chase rehabilitates himself, and in 1796 George Washington puts him on the Supreme Court. His colleagues nickname him "Old Bacon Face" because of how red he turns when he rants from the bench. He rants a lot.

He rants so much, openly campaigning against Jefferson from the bench, that in 1804 he becomes the only Supreme Court justice ever impeached.

Now the twist. The official who presides over his 1805 Senate trial is Vice President Aaron Burr, who at that moment is wanted in two states for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel.

A Boston newspaper covered it under the headline "The World Upside Down": formerly the murderer was arraigned before the judge, but now the judge is arraigned before the murderer.

Burr ran the trial flawlessly. Chase was acquitted on every count. And that acquittal is the reason, to this day, that a president cannot remove judges just for ruling against him.

One man's rap sheet: expelled, mob ringleader, profiteer, justice, impeached, acquitted, and the accidental origin of the Federalist Papers. They don't make Founders like this anymore.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Not even 1 story

[Tyler Todt @tyromper]

I'll never understand the Elon hate outside of pure jealousy.......

I recently hosted an 18 person men's retreat.

Guys from all over the world off X met up in real life. It was awesome!

One man @rdsanchezjr the last night started tearing up about a brutal legal battle he endured during PEAK WOKE ERA.

He was wrongfully fired from a job he loved after 28 years of service with ZERO problems prior.

He didn't bend the knee, stood on his morals & principles & was fired for it.

He said,
"ELON MUSK gave me my life back."

Elon quietly paid for attorneys, helped him fight, & got him reinstated!!

No publicity.
No big thing.

Most billionaires are on yachts with models lecturing us about climate change.

Elon Musk fights fraud, corruption, saved free speech, does more for green energy than anyone, sends rockets into space & brings them back in one piece, is giving the world internet access, & somehow even helps the little guys in legal battles.

@ZubyMusic was at the retreat & messaged Elon a thank you with @rdsanchezjr & he even quickly responds back he's glad he could help.

Maybe, instead of everyone always whining about how the algo doesn't serve them or this or that.....

Just say thank you to the world's richest guy that constantly fights for humanity.

Thank you @elonmusk 🙏❤️

[Nina Varsavsky @ninavars]

Son feministas hasta que Bad Bunny les baila pegado.

Son socialistas hasta que descubren lo cómoda que es volar en primera clase.

Son ecologistas hasta que toca un fin de semana en yate o un vuelo a las Maldivas.

Son tolerantes hasta que se enteran de que votas a la derecha.

Son pacifistas hasta que alguien discrepa de ellos.

Son partidarios de la libertad de expresión hasta que escuchan algo que no les gusta.

Son antielitistas hasta que los invitan a un reservado VIP.

Son ciudadanos del mundo hasta que les toca tenerlos de vecino.

Son partidarios de repartir la riqueza hasta que les toca repartir la suya.

[A Soldier's Whisper @SoldiersWhisper]

These women, most barely in their early twenties stood at the front lines of human suffering.

Working 12-to-18-hour shifts in understaffed field hospitals and MASH units, they treated horrifying wounds from bullets, shrapnel, napalm burns, and landmines, often while mortar rounds exploded nearby.

With blood-soaked scrubs and trembling hands, they stabilized soldiers who arrived by helicopter in shock, missing limbs, or clinging to life. Many had never seen death before arriving in-country, yet they held dying boys’ hands, wrote their final letters home, and somehow kept going day after brutal day.

These courageous women of the Army Nurse Corps faced not only the horrors of war but also the emotional weight of watching thousands of young lives slip away, forever changed by what they witnessed in the bloodiest conflict, the Vietnam War.

#WarNurses #TheVietnamWar

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

A woman in New York City in 2012 accidentally threw out her diamond wedding ring. She realized it in the middle of the night and did the only thing she could think of...

She left a note on the windshield of a parked garbage truck.

When the garbage man got to work, he read the note, dug through tons of garbage and found her ring.

The driver's name is Gary Gaddist and he went through the garbage himself.

It took him about an hour, but he was able to find the garbage bag with paint rags in it and when he ripped it open, he found Danielle's ring...

[Toni @ToniLL22]

“Decades of decay do not happen by accident.”
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This meme nails it because it points out something the left desperately does not want people to notice.

When a city has been run by the same political machine for decades, at some point the excuse-making has to stop.

New York last elected a Republican mayor in 1994.

Seattle, 1964.

Minneapolis, 1957.

Portland, 1952.

Chicago, 1927.

Washington, D.C., never.

Yet every time crime spikes, streets decay, businesses flee, schools fail, homelessness explodes, and ordinary families start wondering if it is still safe to walk downtown, Democrats somehow find a way to blame Donald Trump.

Really?

Trump did not run those city councils.

Trump did not write those local policing policies.

Trump did not elect those prosecutors.

Trump did not tell city leaders to go soft on criminals, demonize police, tolerate open-air drug markets, ignore quality-of-life crimes, or treat law-abiding taxpayers like an afterthought.

The people in charge made those decisions.

And in these cities, Democrats have been in charge for a very, very long time.

That does not mean every problem can be fixed overnight. Big cities are complicated. But after decades of one-party rule, residents have every right to ask a simple question.

How is this working out?

If people are tired of high crime, boarded-up storefronts, filthy streets, rising taxes, and leaders who always have a scapegoat but never have a solution, then maybe it is time to stop rewarding failure.

Politics is supposed to be accountability.

If a restaurant gives you bad food for 30 years, you stop eating there.

If a mechanic keeps ruining your car, you find another mechanic.

But somehow, in big blue cities, the same crowd keeps getting power, the same policies keep failing, and the same politicians keep blaming everyone else.

At some point, residents have to decide whether they want change or just another round of excuses.

The meme is funny, but the point is serious.

Decades of decay do not happen by accident.

[Jim Rouch @JimRouch]

@td_nash I am surprised that more of the comments forget about Wilt. He is the GOAT. The others mentioned are all great players, but Wilt us the man.

[Jim Rouch @JimRouch]

@LLABTOOF_RETSIM @td_nash Where's Wilt?