Dear Twitter friends,
If you accept my #LinkedIn request, or I yours, I promise that I will follow up with a personal message.
No, it is not a sales pitch. No, it is not an automated response.
It’s how I thought this whole social connection thing is supposed to work. 🤷🏻♂️
Thank you to all who fought and sacrificed in freedoms defense all those years ago. Incredible footage here. Blessed that both my uncles survived and will never forget the over 400,000 who did not come home.
Tonight my family and I watched Swiss Family Robinson. Absolute classic.
One scene in particular struck me.
Right after the Robinsons land on shore from their shipwreck, the mother suggests the family kneel in prayer before building a shelter.
Bring faith back into film.
Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.
More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump signs major DOGE EXECUTIVE ORDER, helping FIRE Deep State rogue federal workers in policymaking roles, and holding them accountable for undermining the America first agenda
LFG! KEEP DOGEING 🔥
"It's been almost impossible to fire a federal employee."
"This treats employees like private sector workers."
"If they mess up, they can be removed quickly rather than taking long."
“When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual way. He doesn’t stir up his earthquakes or send forth his thunderbolts. Instead, he has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home out of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the mother’s heart, and she puts it into the baby’s mind. And then God waits. The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies.”
Longer than some of the audiobooks I have listened to, and deeply insightful
Above all, it left me with a deep sense of gratitude for the men and women who answer the call to serve this great nation https://t.co/Lc6BSsYjOE
BYU President Shane Reese identified 3 underappreciated keys to success: a strong work ethic, realistic self-view (especially intellectual humility), and kindness. These traits define those who punch above their weight, regardless of starting talent. M&D50