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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Freddy's story is a quiet tragedy of modern social media. A German fan road-tripping through America, marveling at everyday life in the South, built a following of 753K almost overnight, purely on good vibes and genuine curiosity.

Then the machine turned.

Old posts resurfaced without context, critics attacked him for the audacity of having a good time, and the fame he never wanted disrupted the simple trip he came for.

And he left.

It's hard not to see it as proof that these platforms often chew up the very authenticity they pretend to celebrate.

[John Slaughter, Esq. @JSlaughterEsq]

A couple of Germans on a road trip have done more to inspire patriotism ahead of America’s 250th anniversary than the entirety of the U.S. government.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

"My parents are fallible goofballs like anyone else. But there is something a bit different about the conversations at my dinner table—and something magical and rare about the people leading them."

[MYGOLFSPY @MyGolfSpy]

I'd bet cold, hard cash these would still finish in the top 5 of iron testing

40 years later... 😳

[Real Country Music @real_kuntry]

The Ride

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡ The woman in that photo is being used as a political prop by the NYT and she probably doesn't even know it.

The framing wants you to feel outrage at the cruelty of the cuts.

But the actual data point buried in the story is devastating to the narrative it's trying to build.

272k for a senior VP at a USAID-funded nonprofit is not a real salary. It's a subsidy. That job existed inside a closed loop: taxpayer money flows to USAID, USAID funds NGOs, NGOs hire professionals at inflated rates, those professionals build lives around compensation that was never stress-tested against the open market.

The entire salary was a function of proximity to the spigot. Not output. Not value creation. Not demand for her specific skills.

The $19/hour number isn't the system being cruel. It's the system being honest for the first time. The market is saying: without the government funding stream, your skills at 57 command 39k. That's the real price. The 272k was the fiction.

And here's what nobody in that thread will say: there are tens of thousands of people in the DC metro area alone sitting in exactly this position right now. Government-adjacent professionals whose entire compensation structure was built on a funding model that is being unwound. Not by AI, not by automation, but by simple political reallocation. And the market is going to reprice every single one of them.

The deeper pattern is that an entire class of professional jobs in America were never real market jobs. They were artifacts of institutional spending that created its own employment ecosystem. Government, corporate middle management, DEI departments, compliance layers, consulting firms that exist to service other consulting firms. The whole structure was a series of jobs that existed because the money existed, not because the work needed doing at that price.

That structure is now being compressed from multiple directions simultaneously. AI from one side. Spending cuts from another. Corporate efficiency mandates from a third.

And the professional class that built its identity, its mortgages, its kids' tuitions, its retirement plans around those salaries is about to discover what the open market actually thinks they're worth.

That's the repricing. This woman is just the first photo to go viral.

[Kyle Corwin @kylecorwintakes]

The Artemis II crew traveled a record 252,756 miles back to Earth since the Mets' last win.

[David Marcus @BlueBoxDave]

The last time the Mets won a baseball game Iran had a navy.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

True. Important read on university education.

[Kennesaw State Baseball @KSUOwlsBSB]

Death, Taxes, @DanielEPowell6

#BeDifferent | #HootyHoo

[Batfox Pictures @Batfox_Pictures]

One of the earliest releases by Oasis, “Supersonic” appeared in April 1994 on Definitely Maybe. Captured here at Maine Road in 1996, it remains a defining track from their debut era, written by Noel Gallagher.

[Bartolo Colón @BColon40]

Let pitchers hit again.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

I say this every year. Baseball starting the season with anything other than day baseball games in America is a disgrace to the flag and whoever approved this should be thrown in prison for life @MLB

[Peter Appel @PeterAppel23]

Why is Opening Day spread out over three days

Giants and Yankees play on Wednesday, six teams don’t start the season until Friday

Opening Day should be on April 1st every year featuring every team

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

“(Jay Bilas) doesn’t like the system that he helped create... Can we all admit his entire professional broadcasting life is based upon one thing. Duke"—Wisconsin-Green Bay head coach Doug Gottlieb on the hypocrisy of ESPN college basketball coverage.

[Kennesaw State Baseball @KSUOwlsBSB]

A deserving honor for No. 19!

@DanielEPowell6

🔗 - https://t.co/KLkpOdQb18

#BeDifferent | #HootyHoo

[Kennesaw State Baseball @KSUOwlsBSB]

Back to work 💼

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#BeDifferent | #HootyHoo

[Kennesaw State Baseball @KSUOwlsBSB]

Daniel Powell is DEALING

3.0 IP, 2 H, 6 K

#BeDifferent | #HootyHoo

[rob powell @rgpgreenville]

@havivrettiggur Smart

[SurfSkateThrash @SurfThrash]

Beastie Boys - Glasgow 1999
05:38 Root Down
08:53 Shake Your Rump
11:42 Time For Livin
13:40 Sure Shot
18:40 3 MCs and One DJ
21:37 Something’s Gotta Give
27:37 Remote Control
30:26 Body Movin'
32:30 Time to Get Ill
34:23 So What'cha Want
38:38 Intergalactic
43:08 Sabotage