Brian Salmela

Dad, husband, hard working, 49er, racing, bbq, wine, whiskey fanatic.

[Brian Salmela @nitefueler]

@LombardiHimself How about the effort from Big Trent to save the touchdown

[Brian Salmela @nitefueler]

@BaldyNFL @49ers @AtlantaFalcons Big Trent ran him down.

[Amy E. Sousa, MA Depth Psychology @KnownHeretic]

We came with hand painted scarves to hold above our heads reading “Save Women’s Sports.”

Our group was made of mostly lesbians who shared their own personal irony of feeling unsafe in a sea of pink and blue flags.

The pink and blue flags have come to be synonymous with anti-free speech, male boundary violation, and anti-consent.

We stood in @xx_xyathletics shirts that symbolize fairness and integrity for women and girls. Our voices matter. And we refuse to be silenced.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

When I started @xx_xyathletics 2 1/2 years ago, I could never have predicted that people would respond this way.

I just wanted to provide a brand that actually stands up for women instead of the pretend nonsense Nike and all the others do.

I'm still stunned every single day that a statement of fact -- there are two sexes (therefore women deserve their own sports & spaces) -- produces this kind of mob rage. It's truly deranged.

[Onyx Odds @OnyxOdds]

Career totals in their first 55 games:

Peyton Manning: 30 Wins
Brock Purdy: 39 Wins

Aaron Rodgers: 13,035 PASS YDS
Brock Purdy: 13,145 PASS YDS

Josh Allen: 92 PASS TD
Brock Purdy: 98 PASS TD

Every team passed on him multiple times

[Midnight Leaks @MidnightLeaksHQ]

May, 2016. CNN does a segment entitled "A Day with ICE in a so-called Sanctuary City."

CNN literally rode around with ICE from the break of dawn until nighttime, watching while ICE conducted raids and arrested illegals. ICE arrested some right at their jobs.

CNN was not criticizing ICE. They were celebrating ICE. It was "exclusive access" during the Obama years and CNN considered it a privilege to get to watch ICE work.

ICE even made a "mistake" arrest. CNN had no problem with it.

Six months later Trump won the election and ICE was then labeled the gestapo.

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

25 years of one-party Democrat control in Oregon is a masterclass in how leftist rule destroys a state’s ability to govern.

This is the same state whose governor leads a system that no longer requires students to prove proficiency in reading, math, or English to graduate high school.

2001–03 budget: $34 billion
• 32% education
• 25% social programs
• 12% infrastructure
• 12% administration
• 6% public safety
• 13% everything else

2025–27 budget: $140 billion (over 4× higher)
• 18% education
• 45% social programs
• 7.5% infrastructure
• 14% administration
• 5% public safety
• 10.5% everything else

Social programs went from $8.5 billion (25%) to $62.7 billion (45%) — 7 times more, nearly half the entire budget on handouts.

“Healthier Oregon” spends $1.3 billion giving free medical care to illegal migrants.

$724 million went to “homeless services” in 2024 — $60,412 per homeless person — while the homeless population rose. Walk Portland’s streets and see where that money actually went.

Oregon schools sank to the bottom of the country in reading and math. Democrats’ solution? Pass a law eliminating proficiency requirements to graduate, extend it again, then brag about higher graduation rates.
They’re not lifting people out of poverty or fixing education.

They’re building a permanent dependency empire with themselves in charge. Their ads say it plainly: “Vote for us or Republicans will take away your benefits!”

Governor Kotek can’t blame Trump. Democrats have controlled Oregon the entire time — even as the federal government flipped party control five times.

This is what one-party Democrat rule delivers.
#Oregon #DemocratFailure #Accountability

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

The Barbary states declared that the
Quran gave them the right to seize Christian ships and enslave their crews.
And the Pasha of Tripoli demanded tribute and declared war on America in 1801
Jefferson refused to pay. He ordered the Marines and the fleet to Tripoli instead.
That's why the Marine Corps hymn still sings
"…to the shores of Tripoli." We didn't negotiate with jihad. We ended it with cannon fire and steel.
America's first war as a free nation was fought against Islamic piracy and slavery.

[PFT Live @PFT_Live]

"Bonus coverage" is anything but a bonus for people who have paid for Sunday Ticket, when it keeps them from seeing a significant 4:25 p.m. ET game from the opening kickoff.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

We're the most technically advanced civilization in history. And the least competent at the same time.

SpaceX can catch a rocket. Delta can't land you at JFK on time, makes you rawdog the flight, and loses your bag.

Amazon gets you a package in 4 hours. The DMV needs 6 weeks for a license.

AI can pass the bar exam. Public schools can't teach kids how to do basic math.

Your watch can detect AFib. Your insurance needs 3 weeks to approve a visit.

Your car can spot a pedestrian and brake on its own. Your city can't keep needles off the sidewalk.

AI can design a new protein. Your hospital can't send you a correct bill.

AI can draw a building in minutes. The city takes three years to approve a duplex.

Satellites and cameras can track a car across the city. A man with 30 arrests walks out the next morning.

[Ian Williams @IWilliams95]

Omgggg Big 93!!!!! What a play!!

Gracen Halton!!

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

When Malachi Coleman was five years old, his mother left him and his two year old sister at a stranger's house.

She said she would be back.

He plays wide receiver for Wisconsin now, and he has never seen her again.

His father had already died. So at five, Malachi became the person responsible for keeping his sister Nevaeh alive.

They went into foster care in Nebraska. They lived in three different homes. He was abused in the system.

Then a couple named Craig and Miranda Coleman heard something at church and decided to become foster parents. They planned to take one child at a time.

At the end of their licensing class, the agency asked whether they would consider two siblings who were about to be separated from each other.

They thought about it for a couple of weeks and said yes.

The kids started coming on weekends in October 2014. They moved in that January. On November 20, 2015, Craig and Miranda adopted both of them.

Here is what Craig said about the boy who showed up.

"He was a broken kid."

Miranda said he lived for today and only today. Malachi says he was mean and selfish and would not do one kind thing for anybody.

So one day Miranda argued with him about it for an hour.

And at the end of it she did not ask him to become a good person. She asked him to hold a door open for one person. One door. One stranger. That was all.

He has not stopped since. He holds doors for everybody now, and he will tell you that kindness is the thing he cares about most.

When Nebraska started letting high school athletes earn money off their names, Malachi Coleman put his into a burrito at a local restaurant and sent a cut of it to the foster care system. He runs a foundation now that works to get kids out of foster care and into permanent homes.

The football is almost the small part.

He was a top 60 recruit out of Lincoln East and he stayed home and signed with the Nebraska Cornhuskers. It did not work. Eight catches as a freshman, then shoulder surgery, then nothing. He transferred to Minnesota and barely played there either.

Three seasons. Thirteen catches.

This year Wisconsin took him, because a coach who had him at Minnesota vouched for him. In his first game he caught four passes for 76 yards and a touchdown against Notre Dame, which was more than he gained in all of last season. Last weekend he caught a 46 yard touchdown against Michigan State.

He says he faked his confidence until it became real.

He got that line from his mother.

A woman once sat and argued with a furious, broken kid for an hour, and then asked him to hold one door open for one stranger.

Here is what he says now.

"I see myself as wanted."

[Patriot Network @usmidino]

QUIT YOUR BITCHING!!!!!!
Grandpa didn’t have a $90 month internet bill, a $130 phone bill, seven app subscriptions at $72 month, an Amazon addiction for $200 month, he didn’t have Netflix, Paramount or HBO for another $112 month and his haircuts didn’t need a ‘stylist’!

I’m worn out hearing people moan, “Our grandparents could buy a house on one paycheck, but now we can’t even afford rent on two!”
Yeah, maybe because Grandma wasn’t dropping half her income on $14 iced lattes and avocado toast shaped like art projects. Back then, if they wanted coffee, they boiled it at home in a dented pot. It tasted like burnt rubber and regret — but it woke you up and cleaned your pipes.

And Grandma wasn’t “out to brunch.” You think she had time for mimosas and hashtags? She was making something called whatever’s left in the fridge and feeding six people with it.
Don’t even start with Uber Eats. You think Grandpa was out here paying $38 to have a burger delivered three blocks away? Please. He grilled mystery meat on a rusted barbecue, and everyone called it dinner.

Now people cry about being broke while sitting in a house full of gadgets. Two SUVs in the driveway, six streaming services, three air fryers, and matching tattoos that cost more than their light bill. You think Grandpa had a tattoo? He did. It said “Korea, 1951,” and it came with trauma, not Instagram likes.

And the kids—Lord help us. “We can’t make ends meet, but Brayden needs the new iPhone!” No, he doesn’t. You’re handing an $1100 device to a child who still eats crayons and forgets to flush.
When we were kids, there was one phone. It hung on the wall like a family relic. The cord stretched just far enough for you to whisper secrets before someone yelled, “Get off, I need to make a call!” And guess what? We lived.

The TV? One. In the living room. With three channels and a dial that clicked like a safe. And if Dad wanted to watch bowling, you were a fan of bowling, end of story.

Now there’s a flat screen in every room, the baby’s got an iPad, the dog’s got a camera, and everyone’s wondering why they can’t afford rent.
Because you’re living like rock stars on retail salaries, that’s why.

Grandpa wasn’t leasing Teslas or buying $12 smoothies called “Green Zen Awakening.” He drove a truck that coughed smoke, rattled like a storm, and smelled like oil and hard work.
They lived within their means. Whatever Grandpa brought home on Friday — that’s what they had. They weren’t keeping up with the Joneses; they were keeping the lights on.

So yeah, Grandpa bought a house on one salary. But he also didn’t have a gym membership, three delivery apps, and emotional support crystals on his nightstand. His only support system was Grandma, who told him to quit whining and mow the yard.

Nowadays, everyone’s broke, anxious, and “manifesting abundance” while ordering tacos on DoorDash for the fourth time this week.
It’s not the economy — it’s the lifestyle.
Wake up, turn off your subscriptions, make your own coffee, and maybe—just maybe—you’ll smell the truth.

It’s truth....God is Good, God is Great, I thank HIM for this day and everything I have!!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Try making sunflower oil at home and you'll understand everything wrong with seed oil.

To make butter, you pour cream into a jar and shake it for ten minutes.

To make dripping, you roast a joint of beef. It makes itself.

To make olive oil, you crush olives and the oil runs out.

To make sunflower oil, you squeeze a sunflower seed as hard as you like, and nothing comes out.

Corn is about 4% fat. Nobody has ever bitten into a corn on the cob and had oil run down their chin.

To get oil out of seeds like these, a factory crushes them, washes them in a petrol-based solvent, cooks the solvent off, treats the oil with caustic soda, bleaches it with clay, then steams it at around 240 degrees until it stops smelling.

Every fat people ate for two million years could be made with your hands, a fire and a knife.

Seed oil needs a chemical plant and a fire certificate.

If your great-grandmother couldn't have made it in her kitchen, it has no business in yours.

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Tonight Jalon Daniels won his first game as an NFL quarterback.

He was on the Prime Video set afterward when he stopped talking and waved somebody over.

"Ma, come here. Ma, come here."

Her name is Star.

Jalon Daniels' father made it clear he was not going to be part of their lives. Here is what his mother decided to do about that.

"I wanted to make sure that he never felt that feeling of not having Dad there."

So she worked full time for an insurance company and took a second seasonal job at Toys R Us.

She drove him to Pop Warner practices. She would not let him sleep over at friends' houses until high school, though he could bring ten of them to hers anytime.

And when he wanted to go to a party, there was a condition. She parked outside of it.

"She let me know when it was time to leave," he says, laughing. "An hour and a half before the party ended, we were on our way home."

Here is the other thing she told him, over and over.

She wanted him to grow up to be the kind of man anybody's daughter could bring home to her mother.

Now the football, which nobody handed him either.

His sophomore year at Narbonne High School in Los Angeles, the coaches moved him back down to the freshman team.

He transferred to Lawndale High School, won the job, and Lawndale went 14 and 2 and took the first state championship in school history.

His first scholarship offer came from Tennessee-Martin. He committed to Middle Tennessee State. Then Kansas came to see him in December of his senior year, and he flipped.

He gave the Kansas Jayhawks six seasons. In 2021 he beat Texas in Austin, where Kansas had not won a game since 1938. In 2022 he threw for 544 yards in the Liberty Bowl. Then a back injury took 2023 away, and most players leave at that point.

He stayed. He graduated with a 3.58 GPA. He was voted team captain four times, which no Kansas player had ever done. And with the first real money he was ever allowed to earn, he started a foundation for single mothers raising athletic children.

He named it after her.

In April, all 32 teams passed on him for seven rounds. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers signed him as an undrafted free agent on May 8.

Tonight was his second career start. He went 19 of 25 for 189 yards and threw a touchdown to Bucky Irving. The Buccaneers beat the Dallas Cowboys 24 to 16 for their first win of the season after losing their first four.

One win does not make anybody an NFL quarterback, and he would tell you that himself.

But when the cameras finally found him, the first thing he did was make sure they found her too.

"No matter what, I was present, and he always knew I was present."

[Crazy Moments @Crazymoments01]

Three coyotes had our heeler surrounded in the back pasture. Ruby saw it before I did. She came across that field like a freight train and scattered all three of them into the trees. Then she walked back and stood over him like he was her foal.

[Portland Moderate. @pdxmoderate]

Portland is becoming a cautionary tale of what happens when local government abandons the basic responsibilities of governing and instead becomes a platform for ideological activism and national political theater.

City government should be focused on the fundamentals: fixing potholes, maintaining streets and parks, delivering permits on time, balancing the budget, protecting taxpayers, and ensuring public safety.

Yet in Portland, those core responsibilities increasingly compete with ideological agendas that have little to do with whether the city actually functions.

Our new three-seat ranked-choice system only compounds the problem. Candidates can prevail without earning anything close to broad majority support, allowing highly motivated ideological factions to wield disproportionate influence while moderate voters disengage, leave, or simply stop believing their participation matters.

Then layer in taxpayer-funded advocacy nonprofits, public-sector unions, consultants, and the permanent political ecosystem that benefits from ever-larger government—and you get exactly what Portland has: a system increasingly accountable to activists and institutions rather than the broader public that pays for it.

The result is not compassionate governance. It is expensive dysfunction.

Good local government isn't supposed to be revolutionary. It's supposed to work.

Fill the potholes. Process the permits. Keep the parks clean. Balance the budget. Protect public safety. Deliver competent services for the taxes people already pay.

That may sound boring to ideological activists.

But boring, competent, accountable government is exactly what Portland desperately needs right now.

@MayorKWilson
@GovTinaKotek

[The Gal @giveu2tictacs]

Good morning! This morning, Vote Red Oregon shared a photo on Facebook that was taken in Salem. It perfectly illustrates what Kotek has done to Oregon.

[Brian Salmela @nitefueler]

@crystalscuor Love the guys T-shirt!🤣

[Brian Salmela @nitefueler]

@SomeBuddyElse22 @20th_Centurygal Sorry, I don’t remember if he played it.