Dustin James

runner, husband, dad, Pike, Astros, Southwestern University Pirate, chemist, Christian

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

Excellent.

[United Cajun Navy @Unitedcajunnavy]

First shrimp boots on the ground, even in Venezuela! Our local ops team is already doing assessments and scoping out volunteer housing, stay tuned! Thanks @NewsNation and @EVargasTV for the hit! 🫡💪

[Astros Future @AstrosFuture]

Cristian Javier was great tonight for Sugar Land:

6 IP | 3 H | 0 R | 2 BB | 4 K

He threw 85 pitches, 52 for strikes, and generated 11 whiffs. #Astros

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

128 years since the most decorated Marine of all time was born. Don’t go to bed without wishing Happy birthday to Chesty Puller. 🇺🇸

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

January 2, 1949. “Blizzard of ‘49” hits Great Plains. 72 hours. 76 dead, 100,000 cattle frozen. Trains buried. Chadron, NE rule: “No travel. Roads gone.” 16-year-old ranch kid Don “Sled” Miller tied 6 sleds to 4 horses. Rope, no runners. Loaded 23 kids from 7 ranches cut off 40 miles out. No heat, no food. Rode 22 hours in -35°F. Fed kids snow + jerky. One horse died. All 23 kids lived. Army saw it, copied “Operation Haylift” next day—dropped hay from C-47s. Saved 2 million cattle. Don got Bronze Star. Became sheriff. Died 2016. His sled rope is at Museum of the Fur Trade. He said: “Snow stopped trains. It didn’t stop me.”

[Lee Greenwood @TheLeeGreenwood]

What will you be listening to this Fourth of July?

The soundtrack of America’s birthday is loading.

https://t.co/k1tE0enSsY

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

The HHS team is united behind one mission: end the chronic disease epidemic and restore the health of the American people.

Eat Real Food. Get Active. Together, we will Make America Healthy Again.

[Dan Hightower @Danhightower]

Daycare calls me. That's never good.

For them.

Daycare: "your son hurt his elbow and won't move his arm. Can you come take him to a doctor's office?"

Me (ex Special Forces Medic): "A real doctor is on the way to you now. I am 6 mikes out. Alert me of status changes."

I arrive at daycare. I locate the patient. 21 month old male. Scene is not safe. I drag the patient to cover and concealment behind a seesaw, away from the other small terrorists in the AO.

I begin my assessment. Blood sweep negative for massive hemorrhage. Mental status: conscious and verbal but confused (answers "dada" when asked for blood type). One breath every 2 seconds. Bilateral rise and fall of the chest. Strong carotid pulse, strong bilat radial pulse.

Teeth and tongue intact no blood no mucus no dip or foreign objects. Eyes PERRLA, negative JVD/trach deviation, C-spine intact upon palpation.

Heart sounds strong upon auscultation. Percussion negative for hemo-T. Abdominal quads normal upon palpation. Pelvis negative for book sign.

Arms and legs negative for crepitus. However, Patient indicates discomfort in right arm upon palpation and supination/flexion of the elbow.

Nursemaid's elbow.

I begin interventions. Supination/flexion technique complete at 1215. Palpable clunk on successful reduction. I write the time on his chest in Sharpie. I tape a popsicle to his hand and tell the patient to suck but do not bite/chew. I write "1 x popsicle (10g sugar)" on his chest in Sharpie.

I reassess the patient after performing interventions then package the patient for handoff to daycare/higher level of care. I yell at daycare over the Blackhawk in my head: "21 month old male!!! Nursemaids elbow!!! Treated with supination/flexion technique at 1215!!! Patient has 1 x popsicle onboard!!"

Daycare: "sir please leave."

Me: "you should have called my wife."

[OJAY @0xjstin]

Donald Trump talks about the brother who saved him from alcohol.

Donald Trump: I had a great brother who taught me a lesson, don’t drink. Don’t drink. And he said, don’t smoke. He smoked and he drank and he was a great guy. He was a handsome, very handsome guy.

Theo Von: Is he older?

Donald Trump: Quite a bit older, yeah. He had a problem with alcohol and smokes a lot. But, you know, I tell people, no drugs, no drinking, no cigarettes.

Theo Von: Yeah.

Donald Trump: I tell that to my kids all the time. I’d say, no drugs, no drinking, no smoke… he’d always tell me… don’t ever drink. Don’t ever drink… His name was Fred. Fred Trump. And he had a problem with alcohol. He got addicted to it… they say alcohol is tougher than drugs to get off of.

Theo Von: Yeah, I’m in recovery, actually. I’ve been in recovery, so, like, most of the last ten years from alcohol, from drugs and alcohol.

Donald Trump: Which is worse?

Theo Von: Drugs is the problem, but if I have a drink, then I… It’s tougher for me to prevent myself from getting drugs. It sets off a chain.

Donald Trump: Yeah….but which is harder to quit. I’ve heard alcohol is harder to quit than drugs, if that makes sense.

Theo Von: Oh, yeah. I mean alcohol, I can only imagine because it’s probably more readily available.

Donald Trump: Right. But, yeah. So you have a problem with that?

Theo Von: Yeah, It’s been in my family.

Donald Trump: Can you… Can you stay away from it?

Theo Von: Yeah, I’ve done a good job.

Donald Trump: I mean, how long have you been off?

Theo Von: I go to recovery meetings. I’ve been off most recently to a little over two years.

Donald Trump: Do you ever go back on?

Theo Von: Yeah, I’ve had stints where I go back on. And, um. And… And you don’t control it? Uh, it’s… It gets… It goes down. So you think it’s gonna be. You think you’re controlling. Oh, and then you’re… Damn. Yeah, you’re doing stuff. Go kart and racing with hookers and stuff. It gets bad not to do it.

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Two years to the month after Johnny Carson left The Tonight Show in May 1992, Carson made a surprise appearance on David Letterman in May 1994 to present the Top Ten List 👏 This would mark Carson's final appearance on television ever.

[Bongino Report @BonginoReport]

WATCH: @dbongino can't get enough of @natebargatze's America bit. This might be the only time SNL is funny.

This is a really good way to head into the weekend 😂

[🔨Robert The Builder 🇺🇸 @NobodymrRobert]

Make it happen.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

ELON MUSK: "You should be able to have a Starlink, like you have an AT&T or T-Mobile or Verizon or whatever, you could have an account with Starlink that works with your Starlink antenna at home with free Wi-Fi as well as on your phone. We're not going to put the other carriers out of business. They're still going to be around because they own a lot of spectrum.

It will allow SpaceX to deliver high bandwidth connectivity directly from the satellites to the phones, but there are hardware changes that need to happen in the phone. You should be able to watch videos anywhere on your phone."

[Playteaux @Playteaux1]

The Magnificence of America

[Michael Schwab @michaelschwab13]

This is hilarious

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

They're not freezing your rent, they're freezing your housing providers' income, while their expenses keep increasing.

The point isn't to make your housing affordable, it's to make providing housing financially inviable, so government(s) can seize the unmanageable properties.

Our lack of financial literacy is going to destroy us.
https://t.co/Eix9fVp1BK

[Houston Astros @astros]

PEÑA DOES IT AGAIN!

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

Traces of Texas reader Sara Block was nice enough to send in this wonderful photo of the aftermath of the infamous "blizzard of '57" that hit Corpus Christi that year. The blizzard paralyzed Corpus but it was extremely devastating in more northerly parts of Texas. It was the heaviest snow event in Texas history. At least 20 people died, as did tens of thousands of cattle, many of which froze where they stood. I spoke to an old farmer in Dalhart about ten years ago and he said he went out and found "Hereford popsicles." EESH!

Thank you, Sara. Super duper!

[John Kennedy @SenJohnKennedy]

Dogs are God’s way of apologizing for the relatives God gave us. I want you to meet Charlie.