Bill Young

Wise financial sage able to leap tall buildings with a single stimulus package.✝️ Isaiah 40:8

[Bill Young @youngbi]

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[ᜰ 🇦🇷 @markklfc]

Jamie Carragher on Japan leaving their World Cup dressing room spotless after the match:

🗣️ “I have to say, this deserves just as much attention as anything that happened on the pitch tonight. Everyone talks about goals, assists, and tactics, but this tells you everything about the culture of that team.

When I saw the dressing room, I honestly couldn't believe it. After ninety minutes of football, emotions running high, and a dramatic result, they still left the place looking like nobody had even been there.

People might look at it and think it's a small thing. It isn't. Small habits reveal big character. Respect doesn't only show itself during the national anthem or after the final whistle. It shows itself when nobody is watching.

That's what impresses me about Japan. They don't clean the dressing room because FIFA tells them to. They do it because it's who they are.

In football today, we're constantly hearing players talk about professionalism. Well, this is professionalism. Not social media posts. Not interviews. Actions.

And if I'm being honest, there are a lot of teams with bigger reputations that could learn something from this.

The scary thing is that this mentality often translates onto the pitch. Teams that respect every detail usually don't stop at cleaning dressing rooms—they respect every pass, every tackle, every minute of the game.

That's why people around the world keep talking about Japan. Not because they're trying to get attention, but because they keep earning it. In a tournament full of stars, they've managed to remind everyone that class doesn't always come from what you do with the ball it comes from how you carry yourself when the game is over.”

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🇯🇵 𝗡𝗘𝗪: This is how Japan left their dressing room behind.

In Japan it’s tradition to clean everything all the time no matter where you are, for them it means mindfulness, organization, and respect.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! Vice President JD Vance reveals he initially was not a Christian, but then started to realize — "If the Christians are right about the importance of virtue, and they're right about the importance of being a good father as opposed to how much money you make, and they're right about the importance of being a good husband as opposed to how prestigious your job is, then maybe they're right about these more fundamental questions!"

"I start asking, how do I be a good husband? How do I be a good provider? How do I be good at the things that actually matter? And the more that I asked those questions, the more that I felt like Christianity had the best answers. And it's interesting that that really is how it started for me."

"I didn't have a conversion on the road to Damascus. But I started to see these sort of rays of sunshine, these evidences of truth in Christian teaching."

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A backyard. A man. A grill. Four hours.

He never left it once.

Everyone else drifted, drank, wandered, laughed.
He stood before the flames, turning meat with a long fork, immovable.

I knew him at once.
The keeper of the sacred fire.

I took my place beside him.
I said nothing.

This is the first rule.
You do not speak first to the man at the grill.

After a long while, he spoke.

"Low and slow," he said, eyes never leaving the coals. "You can't rush it. Rush it, you ruin it."

I bowed my head.

A blade. A tea. A life.
None can be rushed.

I had crossed four thousand miles of ocean to hear my grandfather's words spoken by a man in a "KISS THE COOK" apron.

"Everything worth doing is slow," I said.

I have never cooked meat in my life.
But I said it as if I had said it a thousand times before.

He glanced at me.
Something passed between us. A current older than language.

His voice dropped, low, almost ashamed.

"My wife says just use the oven."

He shook his head at the fire.

"She doesn't get it."

"They never do," I said.

And this is where the man transformed.

For the first time in years, he had been understood.
He rose to meet it.

His back straightened.
His shoulders set.
His voice fell half an octave.

A teenager reached for the grill.
He lifted one hand without even looking.

"Not yet."

The boy retreated. He did not argue. He could not have argued.

A woman asked when the food would be done.
He told the flames, not her.

"It's ready when it's ready."

Three people approached.
Three were turned away with a single word each.

By the fourth hour, no one questioned him.
The whole party had arranged itself around the man and his fire, the way a village arranges itself around a shrine.

Then he turned to me.
He held out the fork.

"Watch it a sec. I gotta pee."

I have stood at the gate of lords with a naked blade in my hand.
Nothing has ever weighed as much as that fork.

I did not move my eyes from the coals.
I did not touch the meat.
I did not know how.
I would not learn.
To learn would be to break the moment.

When he returned, I handed back the fork without a word, as one returns a sword to its rightful master.

He served everyone before himself.
He ate last, standing, still watching the fire.

We never traded names. We did not need to.

He believed he had finally met a man who took grilling seriously.
I believed I had finally met America's last samurai.

Neither of us will correct the other.
Not now. Not ever.

So I have made a vow.

Every summer of my life, I will return to this country.
I will find a backyard. I will find a man at a grill.
I will stand beside him and say nothing until he speaks.
And when he says "low and slow," I will bow my head as if my grandfather had spoken.

I will die before I tell him I do not know how to cook meat.

"KISS THE COOK," his apron commanded.

I have obeyed.
I will obey again.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

After Germany’s 7–1 win over Curaçao, something even more beautiful happened.

While everyone else celebrated, players from both teams formed a small circle together, put their arms around each other, and prayed.

Germany’s Felix Nmecha later explained:

“On the pitch we’re opponents. After the game, we’re all Christians and brothers. We simply prayed together because we’re grateful.”

In a world constantly trying to divide people, moments like this remind us what really matters. ❤️

[Mati Smith🇦🇷 @Trumperizar]

🇯🇵 Terminó el partido contra Holanda y los japoneses se quedaron para limpiar todo el estadio.

La verdadera superioridad cultural.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a warehouse store. A fully roasted chicken costs five dollars, the raw chicken beside it costs seven, and I stood between them like a man between two truths.

Golden. Hot. Seasoned. Spinning in glory under the lights, in a line of its brothers. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents.

I checked the raw birds. Seven dollars. Pale. Cold. You must do everything yourself.

This is not commerce. Commerce does not move backward. Somewhere in this building, mathematics lies defeated.

I asked the man at the counter. "How is the cooked bird cheaper than the raw bird?"

"Been five bucks forever. They keep it that way."

"But the store loses."

"Yep. On purpose."

On purpose. I held my receipt with both hands.

In my land, a lord who lowered the price of rice in a hard winter was remembered for generations. They built him a small shrine. This store does it every day, with chicken, and tells no one.

A woman behind me grew tired of my reverence. "It's just a chicken, sir."

It is not just a chicken. It is a wound the merchant takes on purpose, so that anyone, on any day, with five dollars, eats like a lord. The bird is the message. The price is the vow.

I will confess: I bought two. I did not need two. The second was not hunger. It was gratitude, and it was delicious.

Some prices are not prices. They are promises.

I return every week now. I take one bird. I bow toward the deli, briefly, so as not to alarm the staff. They have begun nodding back.

The vow holds. The bird turns. Five dollars.

Long may it spin.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Spencer Pratt got 0 out of 24,000 votes in a late night LA ballot drop.

0/24,000

A guy getting around 30% support got 0 out of 24,000.

Astronomically small probability of happening.

Impossible.

California no longer even hides it.

Doors need to be kicked in.

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

Norway's World Cup team photo may be the greatest team photo of all time.

📸: 433/David Yarrow

[Tyler Todt @tyromper]

I'll never understand the Elon hate outside of pure jealousy.......

I recently hosted an 18 person men's retreat.

Guys from all over the world off X met up in real life. It was awesome!

One man @rdsanchezjr the last night started tearing up about a brutal legal battle he endured during PEAK WOKE ERA.

He was wrongfully fired from a job he loved after 28 years of service with ZERO problems prior.

He didn't bend the knee, stood on his morals & principles & was fired for it.

He said,
"ELON MUSK gave me my life back."

Elon quietly paid for attorneys, helped him fight, & got him reinstated!!

No publicity.
No big thing.

Most billionaires are on yachts with models lecturing us about climate change.

Elon Musk fights fraud, corruption, saved free speech, does more for green energy than anyone, sends rockets into space & brings them back in one piece, is giving the world internet access, & somehow even helps the little guys in legal battles.

@ZubyMusic was at the retreat & messaged Elon a thank you with @rdsanchezjr & he even quickly responds back he's glad he could help.

Maybe, instead of everyone always whining about how the algo doesn't serve them or this or that.....

Just say thank you to the world's richest guy that constantly fights for humanity.

Thank you @elonmusk 🙏❤️

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

🧵New Orleans just proved failing schools can be fixed at scale.

It became America’s first all-charter school district.

The results are staggering:

• 99th percentile nationally in reading growth
• 98th percentile in math growth
• The only state in America beating pre-pandemic levels in both subjects

This is what real reform looks like. THREAD 🧵

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

HEARTBREAKING: Her 10-month-old baby was cut in half with a knife in front of her, her husband shot dead, and she watched them split her second child's skull with a machete. They also cut off one of her hands.

This is life for Christians in Nigeria. The media remains silent.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Poland refused to accept Muslim immigrants and refugees.

Poland was called “Islamophobic.”

Today, Poland is safer than any Western European country.

Poland has no rape gangs or a single case of Islamic terrorism.

🇵🇱

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨 JUST IN: NORTH CAROLINA has just reported a *47,000% THOUSAND PERCENT* increase in autism billings, Nick Shirley's right-hand man David Hoch reveals

The fraud is literally EVERYWHERE.

"Now we see in North Carolina, the story came out today that they've had a 47,000% increase in autism billings, 47,000% over what 4 years?! It's impossible!"

North Carolina needs Nick Shirley!

@nickshirleyy @kayleighmcenany @SatAmericaFNC

[Bill Young @youngbi]

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[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in Asheville NC after a man who tried to DRAG A WOMAN INTO THE WOODS, KIDNAP, AND BEAT HER on a hiking trail...

...has just been ALLOWED TO LEAVE JAIL ON A $5,000 BOND!!!

Dillon Curtis has been arrested 15 TIMES before... INCLUDING a 2ND DEGREE KIDNAPPING charge from last July

...for which a judge ALSO let him walk on $4,500 bond.

According to the police report, Dillon followed Emily to her car, where he shoved her and tried to hit her.

She began calling 911 and he tried ripping her PHONE out of her hand while she was calling 911.

He threatened, in his own words, to "KNOCK HER OUT AND DRAG HER INTO THE WOODS."

Then two mountain bikers, Harvest and Trevor, drove up and the guy ran off.

Emily is alive because of those two strangers.

Please understand...a man already on bond for FELONY KIDNAPPING tried to kidnap a woman off an Asheville trail...

...and was charged with only FOUR MISDEMEANORS.

Bond: $5,000.

He will be out and terrorizing more women soon.

WE CANNOT CONTINUE LIVING LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Rape victims are often accused of adultery under Sharia law if they report being raped by married Muslim men.
Here is a shocking example:

A 13-year-old girl in Somalia was raped by a married Muslim man. Instead of punishing the rapist, an Islamic Sharia court sentenced the little girl to death. The Muslim rapist accused her of “seducing” him by appearing in public, and the court agreed — convicting her of adultery.

Hundreds of Muslim men gathered to stone her to death as an offering to Allah.

They laughed, cheered and shouted “Allahu Akbar” as she screamed in agony until her last breath. Not one man stepped forward to save the 13-year-old rape victim.

Everyone in the village heard her cries for help before the execution. Instead of intervening, they tied her hands behind her back and chained her feet. The local imam directed the men to dig a hole and bury her up to her waist so she could not move or dodge the stones aimed at her head.

For hours before and during the stoning she begged for mercy, looking toward her neighbors, her father, and every Muslim man taking part. Until her final breath she cried out, but no one rescued her. Of the hundreds of men present, none showed compassion.

The participants gladly joined this Islamic act of worship, ignoring her pleas and rejoicing with “Allahu Akbar” while brutally killing her.
This is not an isolated barbaric act.
This is Sharia law in practice — where the victim is punished and the rapist protected if he is married.

Not all cultures are equal.
Some protect the innocent.
Islam punishes the raped girl and calls it justice.

The West keeps importing this ideology while pretending it is compatible with our values.
It is not.

Share this. The world must see the true face of Sharia and stop the denial.