Mike Postiglione

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Does Not Rhyme
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Does Rhyme
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[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima.

Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes.

Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse.

No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed.

So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history.

When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive.

The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy.

At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong.

They convicted him anyway.

For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy.

Case closed. For fifty years.

Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project.

He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay.

A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001.

The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader.

Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Erling Haaland has returned to Norway, and it looks like he brought home a $750 Whiskey Raccoon from Wild Bill's Western Store in Dallas, Texas. What an authentic piece of American culture.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

There have been over 5 million total 18-game spans by players in MLB's modern era.

In none of them did a player have as many hits, doubles, triples, homers & steals as the @Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong over his last 18 games:

34 hits
5 doubles
2 triples
9 home runs
6 stolen bases

[TSA @TSA]

If you’re visiting for a very large sporting event & you happen to discover RANCH while you’re here… pls pack it in your CHECKED BAG on the way home.

Thank you.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[QBgami @QBgami]

Just realized the Europeans will be present to watch Joey Chestnut inhale 84 pork pistols on live television in honor of our nation’s independence.

That one will break them completely.

[Alex @ajak1033]

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[Ween @weeninfo]

12 Golden Country Greats is turning 30. To celebrate, we’ve got a 3-disc deluxe remaster (the non sample version) featuring two full discs of rare demos and studio outtakes. 36 tracks total. Available on 3LP Black, a Ween store exclusive “Powder Blue” vinyl, 3CD, and cassette.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

After CBS embarrassed Karen Bass by fact-checking her debate lies about the Palisades Fire, they clearly got the call. CBS filmed with me on my burned out lot for over an hour, and they turned it over to Karen Bass’ PR team to edit it into a comical 5 minute hit piece with clips from the Hills. They can’t beat my ideas, they can’t beat me in the debates, so they gotta try to turn my campaign into a sideshow. People are done with these skeezy political tricks, and I’m done with CBS. They’ll never get a word from me for my next 8 years as mayor. Adios! What outlet should I have in their absence?

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

good morning

I filed a FOIA to see what schools Miami (OH) TRIED to schedule this year.

Like Pitt, BYU, Ohio State, Kansas and more:

https://t.co/yTgYYCtu4b

[785 Sports @785SportsKSU]

Assuming K-State handles BYU, UCF, Houston, Texas Tech, and Arizona like they should, your Wildcats are headed back to the NCAA Tournament🔥

[John Kurtz @jlkurtz]

Good stuff from The Athletic here. Maybe just maybe K-State isn't as stupid as everyone helicoptering in with their takes this week seems to think.

https://t.co/rhDqrqfjPH

[Matt Norlander @MattNorlander]

Duncan Powell's Flagrant 2 on Bryce Hopkins.

One of the photos of the season, via M. Anthony Nesmith and Getty Images.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Man claims to have set a new world record by becoming the first person to hold a soccer match 5900 feet above the ground from a hot air balloon.

The group was seen playing soccer while an airplane circled around them.

"We set a new world record. The world's first hot air balloon football match at an altitude of 1800 meters," said Russian extreme athlete Sergey Boytsov.

Insane.

Video: sergeyboytcov / ig.

[College Basketball Report @CBKReport]

Kansas State now boasts a top-5 transfer class on 247Sports 🌾

5⭐️ PJ Haggerty – 21.7 PPG at MEM
4⭐️ Nate Johnson – 14.0 PPG at Akron
4⭐️ Abdi Bashir Jr. – 20.1 PPG at Monmouth
4⭐️ Tyreek Smith – 8.2 PPG at MEM
3⭐️ Khamari McGriff – 11.5 PPG at UNCW

Jerome Tang locked in 👀

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

A man who finished his wall using Lego bricks has now created tiny, magical rooms inside; each one bursting with charm and creativity you wouldn’t expect… 🧱✨