Julie Randolph 🐝 🇺🇦

Mom, retired Horticulturist

[Julie Randolph 🐝 🇺🇦 @jprandolph1]

@cmclymer @RobGeorge Neighbor over oppressor! Let’s go Mexico!

[Julie Randolph 🐝 🇺🇦 @jprandolph1]

@AdamKinzinger My guess is Fetterman

[Julie Randolph 🐝 🇺🇦 @jprandolph1]

ATTENTION @haderdaily , please report to 40 Rock immediately, your special impersonation of a certain journalist will be needed on SNL. !!!

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[The Real Rodney Lacroix @RealRodLacroix]

🚨 BREAKING: Sexual Chocolate has dropped out of Trump’s Freedom 250 Concert.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

Im glad I was replaced!😇

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

No greater metaphor for this entire week than Pete Hegseth quoting a fake Bible verse from the movie Pulp Fiction to Pentagon staff.

[Julie Randolph 🐝 🇺🇦 @jprandolph1]

Viewed this in the morning, and it made my day. That’s my senator!

https://t.co/ALUnRBWaFQ

[Julie Randolph 🐝 🇺🇦 @jprandolph1]

@OfTheBraveUSA @SarahLongwell25 Attacking another country will be “sweet “ ?
He grows more disgusting, demented and evil every day.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Years ago Trump told a small group of us that he possessed “magical authorities.”

He was referring to the Insurrection Act. Trust me, he’ll use those powers to broaden his military crackdown in the U.S.

We need to be ready.

[Julie Randolph 🐝 🇺🇦 @jprandolph1]

Check out this interview with Graham Platner, who is running for Susan Collins’ senate seat. He makes a lot of sense and has some good advice for democrats.

https://t.co/cIcREwGz33

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Live your life in such a way that half the internet doesn’t start planning block parties when they think you’re dead.

[Rhonda Elaine Foxx @RhonnieF]

Marksville, LA.
Laurel, MS.
Beckley, WV.
Union, SC.
Cleveland, OH.

Google these cities. Their governors have soaring crime rates at home. But instead of fixing them, they’re playing political theater and sending National Guard troops to D.C. (away from their families and daily lives). To a city where crime is actually at a 30-year low.

This isn’t about safety. It’s about control. And yes, it’s racist. People want to be safe. But this isn’t the way.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

So MAGA let me get this straight…

On January 6th, Donald Trump didn’t have the power to deploy the National Guard.

But now he can send the national guard in to DC to conduct law enforcement???

Please, explain that one.

[Julie Randolph 🐝 🇺🇦 @jprandolph1]

https://t.co/PtMjTSRkV6

I am proud of my governor, in awe of Texas Democrats temerity, and so thankful democrats are standing together and fighting back.

[ABC 7 Chicago @ABC7Chicago]

A grandmother got a heartwarming surprise when her grandson showed up to pilot her flight to Chicago, delivering a touching tribute before takeoff. https://t.co/QlRnvkSnKE

[Julie Randolph 🐝 🇺🇦 @jprandolph1]

You’ll be smarter after you listen to this

https://t.co/U5LH7S49Vs

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

So, there’s a possibility that immigrant children may end up imprisoned in a detention center located in the middle of a Florida swamp teeming with alligators and I’m supposed to celebrate the country responsible for that?

I can’t. I just can’t.

[ABC 7 Chicago @ABC7Chicago]

The Village of Dolton will vote Tuesday night on purchasing Pope Leo XIV's childhood home. https://t.co/7sRs5qd0rK

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

OMG, QUEEN MAXIMA!
Look at her mocking trump! 🤣👑