Tim Phillips 🇺🇸

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[Tim Phillips 🇺🇸 @tim_j_phillips]

When did critical thinking die?

[Crazy Moments @Crazymoments01]

"Filmed four days ago at Memorial Hospital in Seattle, Washington.

Eight days ago, Officer Ryan Mitchell, 32, Seattle PD K9 Unit, and his six-year-old Belgian Malinois partner Atlas responded to an armed robbery call. Mitchell was shot twice in the shoulder and side. Atlas stood over him growling at everyone even paramedics until they convinced him they were helping.

Mitchell survived surgery but spent eight days in ICU. The department pushed hard for a hospital exception, explaining Atlas had been inconsolable - refusing food, refusing other handlers, just pacing and crying. The hospital agreed to one visit.

Footage shows Mitchell bandaged in bed as Officer Garcia brings Atlas in on leash. Atlas stops completely, staring, like he can't believe what he's seeing. Mitchell extends his arm: "Come here, buddy." Atlas breaks into a careful run, jumps onto the bed, and lies down across Mitchell's chest, deliberately avoiding his injuries. Mitchell wraps both arms around him and cries. Atlas presses his head under his chin and stays perfectly still.

"We've never allowed a K9 in ICU before," Mitchell's doctor told us. "But that reunion made me understand why we had to. That dog needed to see his partner alive and breathing."

Atlas refused to leave the bed after his hour-long visit - it took twenty minutes to coax him down. Mitchell goes home to Atlas next week.

Sometimes your K9 partner stands guard over you when you're down, and all you need is to hold each other again.

[Tim Phillips 🇺🇸 @tim_j_phillips]

@Pmaxwellfnp 🔨 📌

[Tim Phillips 🇺🇸 @tim_j_phillips]

@Tiana_Celine_23 Finally listening to a version of her vocals that don’t pierce my ear drums.

[Subi-doo 🐸 @suzamaroo]

Watch this guy absolutely roast this MAGA cunt muffin. Chef’s kiss 💋

[Tim Phillips 🇺🇸 @tim_j_phillips]

@khnh80044 I saw Journey at the Mid South Coliseum , Memphis in 1980. 18 years old. Great band.

[Love Music @khnh80044]

This was 44 years ago and the only tech for the singer was a microphone and a human voice…
It was another time and it was another place. 🔥�

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The Spanish broadcast of Malik Tillman’s free kick

MAJESTIC 🇺🇸

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

Most people pick watermelons by looking for that yellow spot on the bottom, but that’s actually not the best way to tell if it’s ripe.

This guy shows what the people who harvest them actually look for — and it’s something a lot of us have been ignoring. Way more reliable than just going off the color of the belly.

Do you have any grocery store hacks that turned out to be wrong once you learned the real way?

[Tim Phillips 🇺🇸 @tim_j_phillips]

@alexjmingolla Solid post!

[kuno @kunoo]

Crypto explained in 24 seconds.

[Roy Rogers Happy Trails Music Shop  @RoyRogers_HTMS]

In one of the coolest moments in rock history, Eddie Van Halen stood inside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and broke down exactly how he invented his legendary finger-tapping technique.
He explained how he stumbled on the idea as a kid — inspired by piano and classical techniques — and later saw Jimmy Page playing with one hand and turned it into the explosive sound that changed guitar forever. Then he plugged in and unleashed “Eruption” live, right there in the museum.
Watching Eddie demonstrate the birth of modern tapping in such a historic setting? Pure magic. That two-handed technique went from his bedroom to stadiums worldwide and influenced an entire generation of players.
Eddie didn’t just play guitar — he rewrote the rules.
One of the greatest innovators rock has ever seen. Rest in power, EVH.

[Khairallah AL-Awady @eng_khairallah1]

Google CEO, Sundar Pichai:

"If you don't learn to how to orchestrate agents now, you'll spend 2027 catching up to people who started today"

In 30 minutes he explains why the best engineers stopped writing code and started building agents.

Most people think building an agent requires an engineering degree.

It doesn't. It requires one guide and one afternoon.

Watch the interview, then save the exact setup below 👇

[Jessica Meir @Astro_Jessica]

We were thrilled to have you aboard the International @Space_Station, @FreddyLA7! Life up here literally orbits around strong international spirit and solid teamwork, just like the World Cup. @NASAJohnson and Houston were honored to host you. Enjoy your trip north, and safe travels! 🚀⚽️

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸🧐“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.

A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.

A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?

Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Thierry from arvy 🇨🇭 @ThierryBorgeat]

Imagine you spent 40 years doing the boring, responsible thing.

You opened a 401k at 23. You contributed every paycheck. You ignored the noise. You bought the index because Bogle told you to, because Buffett told you to, because every honest piece of financial advice for 30 years told you the index was the safest, most diversified, most rules-based way to own America.

The whole point was the rules.

The rules said: a company must trade for 12 months before joining the S&P 500. The rules said: it must show four consecutive quarters of GAAP profitability. The rules existed because in 1999 the index quietly bought a lot of stocks at the top, and pensioners paid the bill.

After the dot-com crash, S&P tightened the rules. Nasdaq tightened the rules. FTSE Russell tightened the rules.

For 23 years, those rules held.

Then SpaceX filed for IPO.

And the rules changed.

The S&P 500 waived the profitability requirement. Nasdaq cut its trading-history window from 90 days to 15. FTSE Russell cut its to 5.

Bloomberg Intelligence estimates the major index funds will absorb between 19% and 24% of SpaceX's float within six months. That's over $30 trillion of passive 401k and retirement money, mechanically buying a single newly public company at IPO valuations, because the rules said they had to.

Except the rules used to say they didn't.

Here's the thought exercise:

If you spend 40 years building a system designed to protect ordinary savers from buying overpriced stocks, and then you waive the protections the moment a sufficiently large stock asks you to, what was the system actually protecting?

Most of investing is about understanding what's a rule and what's a guideline.

A rule binds the rule-maker.

A guideline binds the saver.

You're allowed to find out which is which only after the fact.

[UCF Mike @UCFMike1]

The War on I-4 historical summary:

[Stan R. Mitchell @StanRMitchell]

If this kind of video is already circulating in May, the campaign ads heading into November are going to be absolutely brutal.

[UCF Softball @UCF_Softball]

Everyone is a starter.

Shoutout to the All-American bench for making an impact 🫡

[Carlie Guile @CarlieGuile_13]

I’ve been asked a few times “why UCF”—this! I’ve been fortunate to play for some great coaches and to watch great coaching—can’t wait!!!