larry gross

Father ,friend, companion,teacher,coach . Someday everything's gonna be different, when I paint my masterpiece- bob dylan

[larry gross @lgrosscoach]

My dad David on left my uncle on right. WWII vets
#VeteransDay

[Coach Hanson @Reghanson]

This is great. Both my daughters are in their 30’s and they will run things by me to get my thoughts. I don’t try to control their life. I give them my opinion and the freedom to make their own decisions

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe Democrats were capable of stealing the 2020 election while out of power, but somehow incapable of doing the same in 2024 while in power. That is a categorically, phenomenally dumb thing to believe.

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

Courtesy of @OccupyDemocrats

BREAKING: OMG LOL! IT WAS TRUMP WHO RUINED THE POOL ALL ALONG! New photographs from the drained Reflection Pool show no gashes but instead show TIRE TRACKS from when Trump took a vanity drive in 10-ton vehicles across it!

No wonder he’s so defensive about it…

For over a month, Trump and his minions have been pushing outrageous conspiracy theories about imaginary antifa vandals who have been cutting “350-foot gashes” in the Reflecting Pool, ruining the $14 million paint job that was rushed and done poorly.

Now that the pool has been drained once again, we can see that the only damage to the bottom of the pool is from when Trump had his motorcade drive over it, for some inexplicable reason.

It turns out there is a reason we use asphalt on roads and don’t just paint the ground blue.

“As a retired tile installer of 44 years, I was mortified to see President Donald Trump in his 15,000- to 20,000-pound armored SUV, along with a dozen other security vehicles, being driven across the just-resurfaced Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to ‘inspect it.’”

“It is never okay to drive a motor vehicle over a hydrostatic coating designed to hold water. The weight and pressure on the armored vehicles’ tires will absolutely shear and delaminate the newly recoated surface!” writes Brian Walkowiak in a letter to the Tampa Bay Times.

Literally anybody with half a brain could have figured that out…but it appears the President lacks even that, and all of his sycophantic yes-men are too terrified to tell him no.

He should be forced to pay back every cent of the cost to fix this pool from his own personal account…and then have the rest of it seized for being the proceeds of a criminal enterprise.

What a disgrace!

👇👇👇

[Howie Rose @HowieRose]

Update. The mad scientists in charge in Miami decided that seven perfect innings and 92 pitches from Eury Perez were enough for one day. That’s right. Perfect after seven. Done for the day. Modern baseball at its most confounding. Serenity Now!

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

A lot of of them are members of law-enforcement. FBI., Secret Service., Police Department, members of the military, bankers, school teachers, doctors, nurses, firefighters. Your next-door neighbor., these are Nazis, and they are fascist.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

I miss the days when we could all agree that white supremacists, Nazis and pedophiles were bad and belonged in fucking prison.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

The guys who most complained about wearing masks during Covid now wear bigger ones to intimidate people and to hide their identities.
Effing cowards and hypocrites . Shame on all of these racist asswipes

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Well, probably, maybe. Except for the many conditions and the capitulation we had to sign. But otherwise, sorta kinda.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

No cervical cancer deaths in women who had HPV vaccine

ZERO

Its an amazing vaccine that PREVENTS CANCER

RFK Jr hates it. Doesn't want you to get it.

Would rather you or your daughter got cancer than a vaccine

Strange man

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

A nuclear Iran with long range ballistic missiles and complete dominance in the Gulf will be Trump’s legacy.

Congrats, MAGA.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

March 9: "We're now totally independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil."

April 1: "It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil. We have tremendous oil and gas, much more than we need."

June 17: If I didn't agree to the MOU, we "would run out of reserves at about 4 weeks...we would really run out, and there'll be a time when you wouldn't be able to get it."

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is an astonishing document. Not a single war aim has been achieved, but Iran receives enormous financial incentives, and even Hezbollah gets some benefits. What an absolute disaster. https://t.co/uj3990eh6q

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

“So let me get this straight: You started a war, got people killed, torched billions of dollars, threatened global oil supplies & ended up with basically the same deal I had - except Iran gets way more money. And I’m the one you call weak?? 😂😂😂”

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

They warned me that if I voted for Kamala Harris we’d get a new deal with the Iranian regime worse than the JCPOA. I voted for Kamala, and they were right.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Dumb with a "b"

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

The contrast between Reagan’s speech at Point-Du-Hoc and Pete Hegseth today are like two different galaxies. Listen to how much reverence he gives to the same allies that Hegseth attacks.

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

LET THIS SINK IN

Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) nonfarm payroll employment data — Since January 1989 (around the end of the Cold War), the U.S. has added roughly 51–52 million net jobs.

Of those, Democratic presidents oversaw about 50 million (96–98%), while Republican presidents oversaw roughly 1–1.3 million (2–4%).

Based on data from the U.S Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and analyses from economists — Since 1989, the U.S. economy has performed better on average under Democratic presidents than Republican presidents across most major metrics - real GDP growth, job creation, unemployment reduction, and stock market returns.

REPUBLICANS DON'T KNOW HOW TO GOVERN.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

YES. YES. I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS. I started a spreadsheet in 2019 tracking every category where America is number one globally and people keep asking me to stop bringing it to Thanksgiving.

We lead the PLANET in medical debt. Not the developed world. The PLANET. There are countries where "medical bankruptcy" doesn't translate because the CONCEPT doesn't exist in their language. We invented it. We EXPORTED it as a field of academic study. German researchers fly here to observe it happening in real time. They take NOTES. We are a living laboratory and the experiment is "what if you made people choose between insulin and rent." We chose. Exposed. This is the thing we're best at.

We lead in incarceration. More humans in cages than China. China has 1.4 billion people and an authoritarian government and we STILL have more prisoners. We beat AUTHORITARIANS at their own game using FREEDOM. We did it with both parties cooperating across NINE administrations. Name ONE other bipartisan project that lasted fifty years. You can't. This is our moon landing. We just don't film it.

We lead in insulin pricing. $300 for a vial that costs $30 in Canada. Canada is VISIBLE FROM DETROIT. You can see Canada from a Walgreens parking lot where someone is deciding between half-doses. The same molecule. The same manufacturer. The border adds $270 of LEADERSHIP. That's what leading looks like. It looks like a 900% markup on not dying.

We lead in mass shootings. Not per capita. Not adjusted. RAW TOTAL. We have so many that researchers had to invent subcategories. School. Workplace. Concert. Grocery store. We have a TAXONOMY. Other countries have incidents. We have a CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM with peer-reviewed SORTING CRITERIA. That's infrastructure. That's RIGOR.

We lead in healthcare spending AND in maternal mortality among rich nations. Simultaneously. We spend $4.3 trillion a year and mothers die at rates that would concern a developing nation. We spent MORE money to get WORSE outcomes so consistently that it can't be incompetence. Incompetence wouldn't be this RELIABLE. This takes PLANNING. This is an ACHIEVEMENT of systems working exactly as designed across multiple industries cooperating to extract value from the specific biological event of someone trying not to die.

We lead in per-capita spending on our military while our veterans sleep in tents. We allocated $886 billion to defense and our soldiers come home to a VA waitlist so long that some of them die on it. We spent the money. We just didn't spend it on THEM. The money went somewhere. It led the way. Just not toward the people who fought.

I printed this tweet on a 24x36 poster. It's in my living room. My wife moved out last month but she didn't take the poster so I think she agrees.