Thom Beuning

PXP Seattle Thunderbirds, WHL

[Thom Beuning @ThomBeuning]

@Reganrant Not this?

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So far, this @SeattleTbirds Prospects Draft is brought to you by the letter “J” (Wyatt) Jolleys, Jax (Bubnick), Jett(Evans) and Jace (Magner)!

[Thom Beuning @ThomBeuning]

I have known two Bruce McDonald’s in my life. Both were huge @SeattleTbirds fans. Both could recite T-Birds history to you. Both gone too soon.

[Seattle Thunderbirds @SeattleTbirds]

The Thunderbirds mourn the loss of longtime Season Ticket Holder and friend, Bruce McDonald.

Bruce was a part of Seattle hockey for nearly 5 decades and will be missed by his many, many hockey friends and family at the accesso ShoWare Center.💙 💚

[Dean Abbott @DeanAbbott]

I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again.

Very few people appreciate what America lost when we lost newspapers.

Just being able to sit down every morning in silence and peruse news, opinion, sports, advice, recipes, interesting human interest stories all in one place was such a pleasure.

The Internet has never produced anything that comes close.

[Thom Beuning @ThomBeuning]

Seems like something is missing?

[Mason Black @NHLRankKing]

Top CHL Scorers

[Thom Beuning @ThomBeuning]

Congratulations to Bill Wilms, retiring after 25 years as part of the Vancouver Giants broadcasts. Also did three seasons (1995-98) of T-Birds broadcasts and many years of the WHL on Shaw TV.

[Dave Minuk @ICdave]

Jets goalie prospect Thomas Milic told us he snagged 5 Tyrel Bauer bobbleheads for his family back home in B.C.

That earned him a clap from the Albertan who was walking past.

The two go back to their time in junior together with Seattle.

Recap: https://t.co/zLSDb4vRGB

[Thom Beuning @ThomBeuning]

@Reganrant @RileyPollock21 To be fair, the Brandt Centre is a good parent. Have often been sent up to my room there. The long lonely walk up the steps gives you time to reflect on your misdeeds.

[Dave Minuk @ICdave]

Cochrane, AB vs Yorkton, SK after Tyrel Bauer finished his check which resulted in he and Turner Ottenberit having a chat.

Of course given they were teammates with the Thunderbirds maybe just reminiscing about good times in Seattle.

[Georges Laraque @GeorgesLaraque]

Yeah @Seahawks we’re CHAMPIONS, let’s GO!!!

[Thom Beuning @ThomBeuning]

SEAHAWKS!!

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Happy. Condorversary Matt O’Dette!

[Mike Commito @mikecommito]

On this day in 2013, the @Condors brought a live condor out onto the ice for the national anthem. It went as well as you’d expect #Hockey365

[Alex Daugherty @AlexDaugherty1]

The @mkeadmirals had a raucous melee with the Grand Rapids Griffins last night.

Reid Schaefer, newly recalled for the Preds, didn’t play in the game, but liked what he saw from his Admirals teammates.

“We don’t like to get pushed around.”

[Thom Beuning @ThomBeuning]

Three games vs. the Rams, each could have gone either way, decided by a total of 7 points.

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

Sally Hemings was the mother of several children with Thomas Jefferson. She was also enslaved by him. Mixed-race, legally considered property, her body and her future were never her own under the laws of slavery.

Enslaved women had no legal right to refuse sexual violence. Their children inherited bondage at birth. At just 16 years old, while living in Paris where slavery was illegal, Hemings faced an impossible choice. She negotiated her return to enslavement at Monticello in exchange for what Jefferson called “extraordinary privileges” and a promise: freedom for her unborn children.

For more than 32 years, Sally Hemings raised four surviving children in slavery, quietly preparing them for lives beyond it. She secured their emancipation. She secured their futures. She never secured her own. Sally Hemings died enslaved.

Shannon Lanier, the sixth great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, works today as a television reporter in Houston. Growing up as a Black man connected by blood to a founding father forced him to live with a history many Americans were never taught. He later wrote a book confronting that inheritance.

When photographer Drew Gardner invited Lanier to participate in *The Descendants* project, Lanier hesitated. Would telling this story be mistaken as excusing Jefferson’s actions? Would truth be misread as praise?

Gardner’s response was simple and direct: if this story is told, more people will finally know Sally Hemings’ name. More people will confront the reality that Jefferson had a Black family—and that it existed within slavery, not romance.

Gardner hopes the image does what history books often avoided: force conversation. Force discomfort. Force acknowledgement. Not to soften slavery, but to face it fully.

This story is not about reconciliation without truth. It is about visibility. About refusing silence. About ensuring that Sally Hemings is remembered not as a footnote, but as a woman who endured, negotiated survival, and shaped freedom for her children in a world that denied her humanity.

History does not change when it is hidden. It changes when it is confronted.

[Seattle Thunderbirds @SeattleTbirds]

Update on Gramer:

After clearing all tests and scans he was released last night from the hospital and is with family resting and recuperating.

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

We're witnessing an Easter Island-level collapse of societal IQ and ethics.

[Thom Beuning @ThomBeuning]

2023 @SeattleTbirds champion on the move.

[Chicago Blackhawks @NHLBlackhawks]

trade alert🔔

📰 ➡︎ https://t.co/1OUAm56khD

[Thom Beuning @ThomBeuning]

@Kirkland Guy Flaming, the Pipeline Show.

[Canadian Hockey League @CHLHockey]

"This is where we wanted to be and in this situation."

Hear from the @SeattleTbirds #LetsGoBuffalo prospect Radim Mrtka as 🇨🇿 prepare to face 🇨🇦 in the #WorldJuniors semi-final!

📹 https://t.co/kl89NkABaT