Karen Rossetti

Teacher. Wife. Reader. Mom. Aggie. Disciple of Christ.

[Karen Rossetti @kr1828]

@YNSlovemoney Exactly!!!

[Karen Rossetti @kr1828]

@C0nservativeGal Same!! 😂

[Karen Rossetti @kr1828]

@RGIII @ChicagoBears @Simone_Biles @TeamUSA @USAGym Amen! So happy to see it! 🥺

[Karen Rossetti @kr1828]

Just let a man go before me in line at Aldi and he ended up leaving me the change from his purchase. Unexpected surprises are the best!

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

USA’s Nic Fink won a share of the Silver Medal in the Men's 100m Breaststroke.

Fink is a world class swimmer with a Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech and a 9-5 job working for Quanta Utility Engineering Services.

He gets medals on his day off.

[Karen Rossetti @kr1828]

Love this!! 😭🥰

[CBS News @CBSNews]

This bride surprised her groom, who is blind, with special wedding dress ❤️

[Texas A&M Women's Basketball @AggieWBB]

GOOD LUCK COACH 🇺🇸

We love you and can’t wait to watch y’all represent the USA! Coach and @usabasketball get started at 2 PM CT tomorrow versus Japan and you can watch on Peacock 🤠

#GigEm | #Olympics

[Matt Schwartz @Schwartz_Land]

Me sitting in the living room a couple hours after ⁦@CenterPoint⁩ texted to say power had been restored at our house.

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

This photo of Easy Company veterans at war’s end in Austria is well worth the closer look you’ll need to see their names 😎

[Karen Rossetti @kr1828]

@ComEd @CenterPoint Saw 6 trucks on our way back to Texas from Missouri. 🎉

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Ella Fitzgerald in a Houston jail cell for singing to an integrated audience, 1955.

—On 7th October, 1955, Ella Fitzgerald, Georgina Henry, Illinois Jacquet, Dizzy Gillespie, and jazz impresario Norman Granz were arrested for “shooting dice” in Fitzgerald’s dressing room at the Music Hall in Houston, TX.

Houston-born Jacquet had wanted to integrate audiences ever since he had played in Los Angeles in 1944 for a benefit organized by Granz (to raise money for the defendants in the Zoot Suit Riots). “I seem to excel on my instrument when I play for an integrated audience,” the saxophonist said.

“I love Houston,”Jacquet said after the October concert. “This is where I went to school. This is where I learned everything I know. I was fed up with coming to Houston and playing to a segregated audience. I felt if I didn’t do anything about segregation in my hometown, I would regret it.”

Granz arranged the show, and the contract was explicitly worded that the show would be integrated.

After the first set, the Houston vice squad stormed into Fitzgerald’s dressing room, guns drawn with the intention of stopping a second set. Fitzgerald and Henry were quietly drinking coffee, but Gillespie and Jacquet were playing dice in the corner, providing the police with an excuse for an arrest. Granz entered the room after hearing the police. He later claimed he saw an officer try to plant drugs in the bathroom. “I’m watching you,” Granz said, and the cop pointed his gun at Granz and threatened to shoot him.

The group was met by photographers when they arrived at the jail, tipped off by the cops, and all were booked and fined ($10) before being released. Granz and his musicians returned to perform a second set.

[Texas A&M University @TAMU]

In 1950, Texas Governor Allan Shivers gave the state’s replica of the Liberty Bell to Texas A&M to honor Aggies who served in #WWII, stating, “no one suffered more than the Aggies, so we will give it to them.”

Today, the bell is suspended in the rotunda of the Academic Building!

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

80 years ago today, medical personnel with the 2nd Armored Division pause to look at a sign made by local French citizens thanking them in Normandy, France on the 4th of July. 🇺🇸

[National Mall NPS @NationalMallNPS]

We're lighting up the night sky with colorful fireworks to celebrate 248 years of American independence. Happy Fourth of July! 🇺🇸 #July4th2024 #NationalMall #WashingtonDC 🇺🇸

[Empire State Building Observation Deck @EmpireStateBldg]

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

📷: @212sid

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

I can’t think of a better way to kick off the 4th of July than Major Dick Winters holding the American flag. 🇺🇸

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

For the upcoming 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we hope to reach 2 million followers.

Achieving this goal would not only be a tribute to the memory of Victims but also crucial support for our educational mission.

Your engagement is vital. Everyone can help.

[Texas A&M Baseball @AggieBaseball]

Howdy, Coach Earley!

#GigEm x @earleybaseball

[Texas A&M Track & Field/Cross Country @aggietfxc]

Lindon is Paris bound 🇬🇩👍

#GigEm // #AggieTF // @LindonVictor

[Texas A&M Baseball @AggieBaseball]

Mark your 📆, the Aggies are headed to Minute Maid Park in 2025!

📰: https://t.co/wVbBg3IGW6

#GigEm