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[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

REPUBLICAN SEN. TILLIS: “What Freakin’ parallel universe did I wake up in? You’re telling me — if it’s true — damaging the reflecting pool lining is something Pirro wants to prosecute… yet they’re releasing people who pled guilty to assaulting officers?”

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Vandals using chemicals on the Reflecting Pool

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

I have to do another video on the reflective pool debacle. They are trying to say it was sabotaged by the left. They are unable to see a flaw in their God king. The Trump administration dumped hydrogen peroxide to kill the algae and it stripped the paint.

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

WATCH: Emmy-winning reporter and KWQC TV6 morning anchor Dustin Nolan was visibly emotional as he announced on-air Friday that he’s quitting both the station and the news industry. He said the newsroom owed viewers “more than trends or sanitized news”

#quadcities #IApol

[Nicole Minét @mouvement33]

I lost a dear friend of mine in 2023. He was the grandson of Frank Lloyd Wright, and the last of the Organic Architects in the Lloyd Wright bloodline. His name was Eric Lloyd Wright. I knew him for 20 years. And I would give anything to hear what he would have to say about Obama's Presidential Center. Because all I see are Frank, Lloyd, and Eric in this entire campus. Three generations of Lloyd Wrights. If only everyone understood how special this first of it's kind Presidential Center truly is.

If you'd like to know more about Organic Architecture look up Frank Lloyd Wright. He was building like this in the early 1900s. A good example of FLW homes is Fallingwater in PA. 💙

[Jay Nisbett @JayNisbett]

Read this.

I will keep retweeting myself until you appreciate the extent to which I understand where things are going…

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “It was supposed to open Friday, it is not open because Trump says he does not want it open. When this bridge does open some day, if Trump ever lets it open, you should know that there is a competing bridge a little way down the river, a privately-owned very old very congested toll bridge that will likely LOSE some of its traffic…because of competition. It will lose some of its traffic to this pretty, brand new bridge that has just been built. The family that operates the competing old bridge, earlier this year, made a $1 million donation to Donald Trump’s super pac. In short order, a member of that family then got an in person meeting with Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The White House and the pac say that was just a coincidence…but after the million dollar donation, he gets this meeting, and then the SAME day of the meeting, Howard Lutnick calls President Donald Trump and then Trump suddenly discovers new supposedly trade-related reasons why he’s now suddenly against this bridge, even though previously he has been for it.” 🤦‍♀️

[JF @jstfarley]

This about captures it…

[ᜰ 🇦🇷🇯🇵 @markklfc]

Jamie Carragher on Japan leaving their World Cup dressing room spotless after the match:

🗣️ “I have to say, this deserves just as much attention as anything that happened on the pitch tonight. Everyone talks about goals, assists, and tactics, but this tells you everything about the culture of that team.

When I saw the dressing room, I honestly couldn't believe it. After ninety minutes of football, emotions running high, and a dramatic result, they still left the place looking like nobody had even been there.

People might look at it and think it's a small thing. It isn't. Small habits reveal big character. Respect doesn't only show itself during the national anthem or after the final whistle. It shows itself when nobody is watching.

That's what impresses me about Japan. They don't clean the dressing room because FIFA tells them to. They do it because it's who they are.

In football today, we're constantly hearing players talk about professionalism. Well, this is professionalism. Not social media posts. Not interviews. Actions.

And if I'm being honest, there are a lot of teams with bigger reputations that could learn something from this.

The scary thing is that this mentality often translates onto the pitch. Teams that respect every detail usually don't stop at cleaning dressing rooms—they respect every pass, every tackle, every minute of the game.

That's why people around the world keep talking about Japan. Not because they're trying to get attention, but because they keep earning it. In a tournament full of stars, they've managed to remind everyone that class doesn't always come from what you do with the ball it comes from how you carry yourself when the game is over.”

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

We have this, but kids cancer research was deemed wasteful spending.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Michelle Obama!

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

How the fuck do we have $300 billion to rebuild Iran after we spent $80 billion bombing it, when we don’t “have the money” for pediatric cancer research?

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The world works because millions of ordinary people keep choosing to be decent when nobody is watching.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

“It’s time to wake the fuck up”

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Half of my fellow graduate students when I was getting my PhD were foreign nationals. Do you realize one third of all the Nobel Prizes in sciences won by Americans were won by immigrants to America? If you’re gonna trail the world in practically everything, including your economy, it’s time to wake the fuck up”

[PaulBarron @paulbarron]

Steel sharpens steel. ⚔️

You don't grow in isolation, and you definitely don't grow around people who always agree with you. Surround yourself with the driven, the disciplined, and the brutally honest.

The friction isn't there to break you; it’s there to refine your edge. Better friends, better competitors, better you.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Here's the NY Times article everyone is talking about. A gift from me to you. 👀 https://t.co/cS2ZbncmFh

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Anthony Scaramucci: “My name is President Hillary Clinton. I’ve blown up the country by getting into a forever war, I campaigned on affordability and jacked the prices to the moon, but I’m focused on interior decorating and remaking the ballroom. I want to ask you, what do you think Fox News would be doing?”

Don Lemon: “Excoriating, they’d be running her out of DC, they would want to impeach her, they would say she’s inept and why is she focusing on such frivolous things”

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph by Haruki Murakami hits very hard:

“Once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”