Vinnie Crocitto

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

It’s award season at Pardon My Take and Jersey Jerry was congratulated by VERY special guests

[NFL Fashion Advice @fashion_nfl]

Still the one for me.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

An unexpected twist is taking center stage in an Arizona congressional race.

Republican Jay Feely, the former NFL kicker, is advancing to November's election and is now on track to face Democrat Amish Shah in one of the country's most closely watched House races.

The surprising connection? Shah was Feely's team doctor when he played for the New York Jets.

Now, the former kicker and his former team doctor appear headed for a congressional showdown in Arizona's 1st District — one of the nation's most competitive House battlegrounds and one of the wealthiest districts in the state, spanning much of Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Fountain Hills and north Phoenix.

[Vinnie Crocitto @VinnieCrocitto]

@nyjetshistory @BoyGreen25 @nyjets If the Jets don’t finally bring back the retro plane as their 5th helmet I’ll have no choice but to take it as a personal affront

[Hey Arnold Perfect Shots @heyarnoldshots]

The ending song from Haunted Train had absolutely no right to be this good.

[YES Network @YESNetwork]

Exactly 27 years ago today...

[Johnny Drama Chase @JohnnyDramaChas]

22 years ago today, the Entourage pilot premiered on HBO.

The series went on to run for eight seasons and a feature film.

At first glance, Entourage looked like a highlight reel of celebrity lifestyles, Hollywood excess, and unforgettable cameos.

But at its core, it was always about friendship.

Four guys from Queens navigating fame, relationships, financial setbacks, career highs and lows, and everything life threw at them—together.

That’s why Entourage has endured for more than two decades. Plenty of shows have captured Hollywood. Plenty have captured success.

But no TV series or movie has ever captured the bond of male friendship quite the way Entourage did.

[🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 @MericaCulture]

Jesus, I've seen what you've done for Olive Garden and I want that for our elections.

[Buck Sexton @BuckSexton]

"Old School" was a documentary

[The Italian American Civil Rights League @TheIACRL]

Zohran Mamdani wants to ERASE Italian Americans.

First, he denied our permit for Unity Day 2026.

Now, he is excluding Little Italy as a recognized location all together on the map.

Italian Americans BUILT NEW YORK CITY. Not third world Ugandans,

We stand AGAINST COMMUNISTS!

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

Today, on America’s 250th birthday, Susan and I are celebrating by giving $250 each to the first 25 million qualifying American children who sign up for their @InvestAmerica24 @TrumpAccounts.

This makes every child a shareholder in the greatest prosperity-creating engine the world has ever known — American capitalism. Through this public-private partnership, we’re giving the next generation a real stake in our economy and a path to the American Dream: education, a first home, starting a business, and building lasting wealth.

It unites us all in hope and optimism for every child’s future.

Happy 250th Birthday, America! 🇺🇸

https://t.co/Jd7nb98JDT

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

The Yankees are absolutely terrible--- what happened to this team?

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

September 10th began as one of the best days of my adult life. A new business I was helping out hit its first inflection point, the flywheels were spinning, I had quality time with the family. Cracked open a can of nitro cold brew and got ready for another day of war on X. 10/10 day.

My wife said, “Charlie Kirk got shot.” I opened the video and then life changed for everyone.

The grief fell down on me like a ton of bricks.

I was not as close to Charlie as Posobiec and others were. Charlie would text me, like he would hundreds of others each day. He was a modern-day Benjamin Franklin, and I was fond of him from afar. Who wasn’t? Charlie was one of the most impressive men who ever lived. Will Durant would need to return to life to give Charlie’s life the treatment it deserves.

I wasn’t sure what to make of him at the time. I watched his star rise at Turning Point and saw him navigate difficult media attacks and grow an empire.

One of the first people I talked to was Jack Posobiec, who said what I was thinking, “We thought it’d be you.” That wasn’t an insult. He wasn’t saying it should have been me.

All of us know that we might be murdered. It’s something we talked about frequently. Who will get shot first? We can say that it’s tragic to live this way, and so what?

As men you accept that there are enemies of civilization, not many allies, and those on the front will be framed for crimes, sued into bankruptcy, or killed.

I went to great pains to put my assets into vehicles for my children, to fund their 529s, to make sure that my family would have financial security. I nagged everyone in the fight to do this, literally telling people, “Assume you will be destroyed, your children will know their father was a historically significant person, your absence will be hard enough to deal with, don’t leave them broke too.”

I embraced the Stoic and samurai ideals of meditating on death. (Since then I’ve returned to Christianity, that is a different story for another time.)

I watched him show up at the RNC in 2016 shouting on a megaphone, “Socialism sucks.” Sadly, I lost most of my video footage from that era, but was able to locate that classic Charlie moment. (I posted it a couple of weeks before his murder.)

Why Charlie?

We kept asking that. Charlie was pure. If anything he was too righteous for this world. A lot of us to this day ask, “Why not me instead?”

I racked my brain and reached some conclusions that may not look good in the written word without facial inflection, but here we go.

Charlie was too pure. No one thought, “If I murder Charlie, then his followers will kill me and my friends and family.” I’m not saying this to criticize Charlie. He lived his Christian values. Some others on the right are seen a bit as more in the “grey area,” not walking fully in the light, as Charlie did.

Morally it’s a question I fight with almost daily. Are we too pure? Will all of our families be lined up against the wall like Tsar Nicholas’ was, as the neo-Bolsheviks bayonet our children?

Are we too Christian and kind?

My own regrets.

When text messages began to leak, my heart broke again. I’m going to carefully word these next sentences to avoid embroiling myself into the endless controversies and drama. I want no part of any of that and reject fully anyone’s attempt to bring me into it.

I wish I had talked to Charlie more often. I had no agenda or angle to work. He needed someone older and removed from the day-to-day whose only question was, “How can I help you, Charlie Kirk?”

We attended Charlie’s memorial service. Most impressive to me was the President of Hillsdale College. Even looking for this video has me choking up. This man loved Charlie. He didn’t see Charlie as a political tool or way to launder a pet political cause onto college campuses.

This is grief. This is true paternal love.

“Why is dad crying?”

During a trip to see my sick father in the hospital, I was listening to the worship music from Charlie’s memorial, weeping on the plane.

There was some comedic relief to the grief. I loathe worship music. Yet there I was playing megachurch jam band songs from the Charlie Kirk memorial. (Someone posted a Playlist on Spotify.)

“How the f—k did I end up a weepy mess listening to this shit?” As the saying goes, you either laugh or cry. For me it’s been both.

Between Scott Adams’s passing and Charlie’s, I was often getting up to leave the house. Had to walk, collect my thoughts, and go cry alone. I get over stuff that happens to me easily, probably too much so. My wife’s biggest complaint is, “You’re too nice and people take advantage of you.” My dad is the same way, and it’s something I’m working on with my oldest. You have to stand up for yourself. Not everyone shares our values. (In fact, most don’t, and they’ll even steal from you if given the chance.) Even so, there’s a lot to be said for not caring about yourself too much. The opposite end of that is endlessly brooding and greed.

I can get over a lot.

Charlie’s death is not something I am close to getting over.

Charlie Kirk got us back into church.

My wife and I hadn’t ever gone to church together unless it was for a wedding, and I hadn’t been inside a church to worship for decades. We went to a local church our friends attended, and it was packed. The pastor immediately mentioned Charlie’s murder and said he would talk about it.

I hated the sermon, as did my wife. We wanted a message of vengeance, not forgiveness and contemplation, and brotherly love. I rebelled against Josiah B. Trenham’s homily calling for us all to reflect for 40 days.

I’ve tried. I’m still full of hate and anger, almost one year later. Maybe my heart isn’t Christian enough, or maybe Christians have lost touch with the Polish Winged Hussars and other warriors who fought back against the Ottoman Empire and other primitives. Maybe Tsar Nicholas should have taken the Bolshevik threat more seriously.

My wife said of the church service we attended, “Maybe that’s the message we needed to hear.” I don’t have it in me to forgive Charlie’s murderer, the far left, nor the Tech and Wall Street guys who funded it all. I am not Charlie Kirk.

God knows I’m not Charlie Kirk.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The Viking Row has become one of the best things at the 2026 World Cup

Another Win for Norway

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

The amount of crying coming out of Belgium right now is insane. My roommate in college was from Belgium. They have good chocolate But let us not forget they declared neutrality in both World War 1 and WW2 and got conquered twice in short order just like they will be conquered tomorrow night. Sometimes might makes right. Without the USA there probably is no Belgium or World Cup at all or at the very least it’s a 3 team tournament consisting of the United States, Germany and Japan. So yes when one of our best players is wrongly suspended its clearly in the best interest of world sport for that decision to be reversed

[Disney Parks @DisneyParks]

This Fourth of July, step beyond the rotunda and into the story of Voices of Liberty through rare backstage access, personal reflections, and never-before-shared memories from performers past and present. 🇺🇸 Watch the full video on the Disney Parks YouTube channel: https://t.co/0ihyAgxXX1 🎞️
#DisneyCelebratesAmerica #July4th #USA

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[Drew Smith @DrewDisneyDude]

Whew, boy! Hottest 4th of July we’ve had in years!