Luke Polant

Trailside hockey

[Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy]

Update on the tragic bus crash in Virginia:

Five people are dead, including a 13-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy, after the driver of a motorcoach slammed into stopped traffic on I-95.

@FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs and our investigators are on the ground at the crash site working with the @NTSB.  

Local police confirm the driver of this motorcoach — a man from China who became a U.S. citizen — doesn’t speak English. He received his commercial drivers license from New York State in 2024.

Unacceptable. This is exactly why we are holding states’ accountable, enforcing the rules of the road, and cracking down on drivers who can’t speak English.

If you can’t be properly trained, read our road signs, or communicate with law enforcement, you have no business driving a bus.

Our investigators are reviewing New York licensing records, training documentation, and the driver's history. Any company, trainer, or school that contributed to putting an unqualified driver on the road will face intense scrutiny.

We’ll share more updates soon.

My prayers are with the loved ones of the innocent lives lost and those who were hurt in this horrific crime.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs has been arrested for allegedly strangling and suffocating a woman. Which sounds bad. But it could be worse per sports media — he could have introduced President Trump at a rally.

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

A doorbell camera captures two Soldiers—one a battle-hardened Sergeant Major, the other an officer—standing at a family’s door in full dress uniform. They wait with quiet dignity, heads up, eyes steady. The weight of what they’re there to do is written on their faces.

They’re not delivering good news.

As we approach Memorial Day, it’s easy to post flags and barbecues. But this is the real cost. Since our nation’s founding, as many as 1.4 million American service members have made the ultimate sacrifice—fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters—who never came home.

Every Gold Star family knows that knock. Every folded flag, every name on a wall, every empty seat at the table carries a story of love, duty, and unbearable loss.

Tonight I’m praying for every family who’s ever answered that door. For every name we must never forget. And for the brave men and women in uniform who still carry the hardest mission of all: telling a family their hero is gone.

We owe them everything.

Freedom isn’t free. It’s given by the blood of patriotic heroes.

[Congressman Jeff Van Drew @Congressman_JVD]

Steve Descano sat next to Stephanie Minter’s grieving mother and refused to answer a simple question.

His office dropped charges against Abdul Jalloh more than 40 times despite police warnings he was dangerous.

Three months later, Stephanie Minter was murdered.

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Jason Miyares calls out the sanctuary policies of Fairfax County and the victims who have been harmed and killed as a result of them while Fairfax DA Steve Descano sits next to him visibly uncomfortable and shaking his head.

[Washington Wizards @WashWizards]

THE FIRST PICK IS OURS!!!! 🤯

[Luke Polant @lukepolant]

@GrantPaulsen Just throws meatballs all night, DFA him please

[CatholicVote @CatholicVote]

HOLY SMOKES.

Italian physicist Paolo Di Lazzaro spent five years trying to reproduce the body image seen on the Shroud of Turin—and couldn’t.

Using intense UV light, his team was able to create small areas of discoloration on linen, but recreating the full image proved impossible with modern technology.

According to biblical scholar Jeremiah Johnston, Di Lazzaro estimated the process would require an extraordinary burst of energy:

"Paolo told me it would take 34,000 billion watts of energy traveling in one 40th of a billionth of a second to change the chemical makeup of a fine linen shroud to leave that image... 'We don't have that power on Earth.'"

"There was a chemical change to the shroud that if it had lasted longer than one 40th of a billionth of a second, it would've scorched."

This is incredible.

[Thomas Rid @RidT]

M Street and Wisconsin in Georgetown taken over by a large crowd of celebrating Iranians, chanting USA USA … not what I was expecting during my run today.

[Connor Griffin @RealCGriff]

“For all the young people out there, those dreams are formed now. Go chase them and go get them, because our country loves sports and it brings us together unlike anything else. And if you didn’t know that…you saw it in Team USA Hockey”

What a signoff from Tirico just now🇺🇸

[Cons @CaptainCons]

What today’s game and subsequent reaction reminded us is that there’s nothing wrong with being unapologetically American 🇺🇸

Having pride in this country, the greatest country in the world, is something that should be admired and taught in our schools and homes

What those boys did was help so many find that pride again that might’ve been tucked away in recent times.

Let it out.
Fly our flag.
Be proud.

That win was for all of us who love the United States of America and maybe, just maybe, we will all start showing it again

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

It was the anniversary of the Miracle on Ice, little Johnny Gaudrea Jr’s bday, and GW’s bday. They never stood a chance.

[TJ Oshie @TJOshie77]

For Johnny. For the brotherhood. For America. 🇺🇸

[Jim @Cackalacman]

This is why American is different. No disrespect to anybody else or other countries. Just speaking to and about middle class America. You can believe all you want about the power of the elite class riding around on yachts, private country club memberships, politicians using their platforms to divide and to enrich themselves and think they are better than everybody else.

When you get into the heart of America. This is what you get. This picture symbolizes America. There are still badasses by the C130 loads in this country. Don't let social media fool you. Please don't. Those boot wearing, blood spitting, potato eating SOB's are the silent majority I promise you. When it's time to kick ass and take names. They will be there. They won't be recording with their Iphones, driving Lexus SUVs. They won't be wearing Gucci shoes and Peter Millar golf shirts, Smathers and Branson belts but you'll know they are there. You won't hear them. You will see them. This picture symbolizes this country. Its toughness has never wavered from it's founding to modern day. It doesn't give up. It's gets knocked down, gets up and fights. So when you see that man with dirty hands, dirty boots, torn jeans missing a tooth, calluses on his hands and two toddlers hanging off his arm after a 14hr work day. Just know...that is America. That is the United States of America. That is the majority. Judge them how you want but never under estimate their resolve when their back is against the wall.

[Jimmy’s Famous Seafood @JimmysSeafood]

@HuffPost Go fuck yourself

[NHL @NHL]

46 years to the day of the Miracle on Ice. 🇺🇸

What a moment. #MilanoCortina2026 #WinterOlympics

[NHL @NHL]

JACK HUGHES!!! GOLDEN GOAL!!! 🫡 #MilanoCortina2026 #WinterOlympics

[big content guy @bigcontentguy]

Democrats- “We don’t need the tariffs”

Republicans- “We need the tariffs”

Eddie Olczyk- “Broken stick out there Boosh”

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

White NYC liberals march in support of mass murderer Maduro as Venezuelan Americans celebrate