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[Coach Gilpin @CoachGilpin]

I received a phone call to tell me we had a U.S. Veteran whose wife had died and he had no one to serve as pallbearers. I was asked if our Patriot Football Team could help. I told our boys, and immediately 6 senior varsity players said they would do it. I could not be prouder.

[Kentucky Democrats @KyDems]

The Supreme Court blocked Trump's power grab to take away citizenship from Americans.

No one is above the law and Kentucky Democrats will keep fighting to protect your constitutional rights.

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

Yesterday I posted on insta about how the only protein my son has eaten in 8mo of cancer and chemo is popcorn chicken from Romans Deli - no other will do - and they responded by saying he could have free unlimited popcorn chicken 😭 complete with a lil laminated card

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A police officer in Phoenix has rented out an ENTIRE 144-SEAT MOVIE THEATER for over 100 middle schoolers after their end-of-year field trip fell through, so they could see Toy Story 5.

When they got there, he realized many couldn't afford popcorn or drinks...

..so he bought EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM popcorn, candy, and a drink too.

His name is Sean Reavies,

For many kids, it was their first time ever inside of a movie theater in their lives.

When the kids asked how they could pay him back, he told them:

"As you get older in life, help other people. As a payback to me. Would you do that? That's all I ask of you."

MORE OF THIS!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

In 1974, a twenty-six-year-old waitress in Los Angeles quietly gives her exhausted father one final deadline: three more months of music, then she comes home for good.

She has no idea the call that changes everything is already on its way, arriving three days before her own deadline runs out.

Her name is Stephanie Lynn Nicks. As a toddler, she could not pronounce "Stephanie." It came out "Stevie" instead, and the nickname stuck for life.

Stevie was born May 26, 1948. Her father's corporate career moved the family constantly — Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah before they finally settled in California when she was a teenager.

In 1966, she transfers into Menlo-Atherton High School as a senior. At an after-school "Young Life" meeting, a junior named Lindsey Buckingham starts strumming "California Dreamin'." Stevie sits down and starts singing harmony without being asked.

Two years pass before they speak again. Then Buckingham calls, inviting her to sing for his band, Fritz. She says yes.

Fritz opens for Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix but never lands a record deal. By 1971, the band collapses, and Stevie and Lindsey — now a couple as well as collaborators — move to Los Angeles to try again as a duo.

In September 1973, Polydor Records releases their album, Buckingham Nicks. Critics like it. Nobody buys it. The label drops them almost immediately.

Stevie takes a waitressing job at Clementine's, a Beverly Hills bar, earning $1.50 an hour. She also cleans houses on the side. Lindsey tours briefly as a backing musician for Don Everly. At night, the two of them keep writing songs nobody has heard yet — including one called "Rhiannon."

Here's what most people miss: by the fall of 1974, Stevie Nicks had essentially given up.

Her father had just undergone open heart surgery. Watching his daughter waitress and clean houses in another state weighed on him. So Stevie made him a promise: three more months. If nothing happened by January, she would come home and go back to college.

She kept the promise a secret from almost no one. She was tired, thin, and scared the music would never work.

Then, in late 1974, producer Keith Olsen plays a track from the failed Buckingham Nicks album for a drummer scouting a Los Angeles studio for new material. The song is "Frozen Love," a seven-minute epic closing the record. The drummer is transfixed.

His name is Mick Fleetwood, and his band, Fleetwood Mac, has just lost its guitarist.

On New Year's Eve, 1974, Fleetwood calls Olsen for the guitarist's name. Olsen tells him: Lindsey Buckingham. But Buckingham and Nicks are a package deal, Olsen warns — take one, you take both.

Fleetwood agrees, mostly because he needs a guitar player and has no particular opinion about the singer. He does not yet know what he has just done.

Stevie doesn't quit her waitressing job right away. She keeps working it for three more days after saying yes, unwilling to leave her boss without notice, unsure the opportunity is even real.

On January 1, 1975, Fleetwood Mac begins rehearsing with its new lineup. The band's next album, self-titled and released later that year, sells 500,000 copies by December and reaches Number 1 on the Billboard 200. Two of Stevie's songs, "Rhiannon" and "Landslide," become instant signatures.

Two years later, the band records Rumours while Stevie and Lindsey's relationship collapses in real time, alongside the marriage of bandmates John and Christine McVie. The album turns their breakups into songs. "Dreams," written by Nicks, becomes Fleetwood Mac's only Number 1 single in the United States. Worldwide, Rumours goes on to sell more than 40 million copies.

Stevie Nicks never went back to college. She stayed with Fleetwood Mac for decades, launched a solo career in 1981 with the album Bella Donna, and built a catalog now credited with more than 120 million records sold worldwide.

In December 2018, she is announced as an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for a second time — first as a member of Fleetwood Mac, now as a solo artist — making her the first woman ever inducted twice.

Decades later, a new generation of artists, including Taylor Swift, would cite her as a direct influence. Swift has called Nicks one of her childhood heroes, brought her onstage as a guest, and referenced her by name in a song of her own — a small tribute passed from one generation of songwriters to the next.

None of it happens if that three-month deadline runs out one phone call too early.

The waitress at Clementine's had no way of knowing how close she came to walking away — or how close the answer was to finding her first.

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

This is absolutely bonkers: newly uncovered text messages reveal that Republican operatives INSIDE the North Carolina State Board of Elections are secretly collaborating with the NC Republican Party to force local elections officials to obey partisan directives - or be fired.

This is a smoking gun: @DallasWoodhouse, the disgraced former leader of the NCGOP who Republicans nevertheless hired to help run the State Board of Elections, is working hand-in-hand with NCGOP legal counsel to pressure officials and even arrange votes.

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Mair Russell Jones, a gifted Welsh linguist at Bletchley Park, helped break German Enigma messages throughout WW2.

“For 4 years I’d done nothing but thought about German codes, while I worked, while I ate, while I slept.”

We should never forget women like her:

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Today, members of the King family joined The National Park Service in Atlanta in celebrating the upcoming (July 4th) reopening of the Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home, in which my father was born. I shared my thoughts about the reopening in my remarks at today’s gathering. Listen to some of those thoughts in the video.

The Birth Home on Auburn Avenue is part of the larger Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park around the Sweet Auburn neighborhood. The Birth Home has been closed for restoration since late 2023.

The Birth Home is right up the street and within walking distance of The King Center; however, The King Center is not a part of the MLK, Jr. National Historical Park.

King family members also in attendance and in the video: my brother, Martin Luther King, III, his wife, Arndrea, and their daughter, Yolanda Renee; Dr. Angela Farris Watkins (daughter of my paternal aunt, Dr. Christine King Farris); Farris Watkins (Angela’s daughter); and Isaac Newton Farris, Jr. (Aunt Christine’s son)

#MLK #ChristineKingFarris #SweetAuburn #Atlanta #TheKingCenter

[Mary Barry @mbbands]

@BeschlossDC I remember this - at long last some attempt at justice !

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

LBJ signs Civil Rights Act, today 1964:

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Trump's lawyers asked for E. Jean Carroll's consent to delay the $5 million awarded to her.

Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, informed Trump's team that "Carroll does not consent."

Kaplan says Carroll wants the immediate disbursement of the funds she has waited years to receive.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: New polling just released shows Senator Jon Ossoff DEMOLISHING his Republican opponent Mike Collins by 13 points in a state Donald Trump won in 2024. Ossoff is becoming an electoral juggernaut.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

BREAKING: The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled 2-1 that ICE cannot detain people under the Trump administration's massive new detention policy for more than 90 days without affording them a bond hearing.

https://t.co/bEpLmClKGr

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

José should be getting the Nobel Peace Prize

[Answer the Call @answerthecall]

We are deeply grateful to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce for their generous gift, helping us to provide lifelong support to more than 500 families of fallen NYC first responders. ❤️

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Daphne Park, the legendary “Queen of Spies,” trained wartime Resistance units yet was dismissed after exposing a senior officer’s incompetence.

She went on to become one of MI6’s most formidable operatives in Hanoi, Moscow, the Congo and Zambia.

Let us remember her:

[Courier Journal @courierjournal]

Blackstone is set to pay $18M to Kentucky's pension systems to settle a long-running lawsuit, though the case against other hedge funds remains open. Here's more: https://t.co/1y2hvMTn5T

[💙 Patricia Newman 💙 (dog lover) 💙 @pnewman51]

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[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This is what humility, decency, and integrity looks like. If we fight like hell and are able to stop Trump's Nazification of America — Jack Smith is EXACTLY the kind of patriot we need as our next attorney general.

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

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