Liam Boyle

The question isn't 'what are we going to do', the question is 'what aren't we going to do?'

[Dick “The Hammer” Hamilton @thehammer83]

My high school lacrosse team used to blast “walk in your trap take over your trap” at away games and then lose by 10 goals

[Ben Crew @BenjaminCrew1]

"I have to steal the Declaration of Independence because there's a treasure map on the back" is objectively the best plot ever for a movie. We're not going to be able to top that.

[Criminal Penguin @Crime_Penguin]

If Universal had any artistic integrity they’d show the Minions stuffing ballot boxes in Illinois to steal the state for JFK.

[Ultras Clips @ultras_clips]

Meet Paul Gregory, affectionately known as "Tango," he is a legendary superfan of Sheffield Wednesday and the England national team, famous for travelling to matches shirtless, regardless of the weather.

Besides his passion for football, Paul is campaigning to install life-saving defibrillators in every corner of football stadiums across the UK. The campaign was launched in memory of his later daughter Lauren, who passed away in 2023 👏

[sam 🇪🇸 @sambrazy]

The issue is if Haaland was born in America he’d be a division 2 basketball player

[Nico @elitetakes_]

All I’ll say is don’t run when it comes time to play flag football in summer 2028

[Andy Staples @AndyStaples]

“This doesn’t have to be the last soccer you watch for four years.”

Buddy, you ain’t the boss of me.

[Maryland Sports Report @MSRterps]

Getting Balogun off his red card just to look like we’ve never played before

[Boppa 🧟‍♂️ @ihatebbls]

Kadarius Toney coulda been a legend for USA soccer ain’t like he was using his hands in the league

[Sleeper @SleeperHQ]

Matt Freese with the World Cup on the line…

[Mac Algo @MacAlgoTrader]

As an American I never want to beat a team that is missing their best player. I want all the smoke. Guess things are different overseas.

[. @tosinmm_]

USMNT fans seeing that Folarin Balogun can play against Belgium

[Brian Lewerke @brianlewerke14]

“Your beer’s too cold”

[Molly @FSUmollz]

FIFA is such a world-class, respectable organization. A true beacon of integrity and transparency.

[Sherman McCoy @wasphyxiation]

> notorious womanizer despite being fat and bald
> retires at 42 as the richest man in the colonies by building a fortune on posting
> world-leading scientist in his SPARE TIME despite little formal education
> hired by the government during the revolution to schmooze people in France
> founded the future most powerful country on earth
> died at an old age universally admired

Reminder: Ben Franklin was the biggest baller of all time

[Cranky Federalist @CrankyFed]

Your pub's flag isn't on the moon

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[Logan Hall @loganclarkhall]

God Bless America

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

Happy Independence Day!

There’s a story from the end of the Revolutionary War I want to tell as we celebrate America’s 250th Birthday, and it’s one everyone in the world can learn from.

George Washington, at that moment, after commanding the American forces to victory, was the most powerful man in the new country. Many people talked about making him King of America.

Across the ocean, King George was sitting with an American painter, and asked what he thought Washington would do now that the war was ending. The painter said he believed he would go back to his farm.

The King said, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

As the war officially ended, Washington came to speak to Congress and said, “Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of Action.” He returned his commission they’d given him in 1775 - after more than 8 years of leading the Americans to victory without pay, and he was home at Mount Vernon for Christmas.

Of course, he was elected as our first President a few years later, and after two terms, showed the same selflessness again when he willingly gave up his power and went back to Mount Vernon again.

That’s true greatness. He had all the power in the world. But power, alone, does not make you great.

Washington’s greatness came from being a true servant - to a cause much bigger than himself. His greatness was his complete lack of selfishness.

The whole story of American Independence is a story of selflessness. It’s a story of people who set their self-interest aside and worked for each other.

We’ve all heard the line about “We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

Apparently, Ben Franklin might have actually never said that.

But that’s fine, because the same mentality is right there in the last line of the Declaration of Independence, published on this day 250 years ago:

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

We mutually pledge to each other.

No one was in this alone. No one was in it for themselves. This was a group of people with different backgrounds who were in it for each other.

Today is a reminder: greatness comes from what we do for each other, never what we do for ourselves.

That’s a lesson that applies no matter what country you call home.

It’s a lesson that doesn’t require any law passed by a politician, because, let’s be honest, if you’re waiting for selfless politicians, I really hope you are not holding your breath.

All of us have the power to be there for the people around us. For our families and friends. For our neighbors. For everyone.

All of us can reach for greatness.

It’s as simple as looking beyond yourself, seeing past the mirror, picking your eyes up from your phone, and pledging to be there for each other.

Happy Fourth. May you all find your own version of greatness today by lifting each other up.

Lift up your neighborhood. Lift up America. Lift up the World.

[Emily Domenech @ehdomenech]

Thomas Jefferson would have been so stoked to see F-18s ripping 360s over his memorial