Jay W. Pennell

I’m not dreaming. That actually happened. #DAYTONA500 champions. Thanks to @austindillon3 & the entire @RCRracing organization for the experience. Work hard, kids. Don’t take no for an answer, chase your damn dreams & make it happen.

The Ride hasn’t even started and we’re already having a ton of fun in Sonoma!

My man tried to catch a beer thrown his way. That’s incredible. This is the kind of thing we need to see more of in the sport to drive it forward.

That was pretty epic, @CarsonHocevar

This was such a cool experience. It was great to work with the @SFGiants to highlight the 30th Anniversary @KPCharityRide. From the first call to the first pitch, they were a class act and extremely hospitable.

A huge thanks to the @SFGiants for the amazing hospitality and for the opportunity to throw out the first pitch tonight!

And away we go!

@DaleJr @keenparts2 Say it louder

I hope this never happens.

I understand what Probst is saying & the thought behind it, but the @NASCAROReillyAP Series has put on & continues to put on great racing - often the best of the weekend - plus provides drivers much-needed experience behind the wheel. Let’s maybe figure out the Cup Series first.

let me make sure i’m understanding this correctly the supreme court is refunding all tariff money back to corporations. the same corporations that didn’t pay a single cent of those tariffs to begin with. they passed every dollar directly to you through higher prices on everything you buy you went to the store and paid more for groceries. you paid more for clothes. for car parts. for literally everything. that money came out of YOUR pocket not theirs and now the refund goes to THEM? the corporations who used the tariffs as an excuse to raise prices even higher than the tariff itself and pocket the difference the american people funded the tariffs. the corporations profited off the tariffs. and now the corporations get a refund on money they never spent in the first place and nobody in washington thinks the people who actually paid should get the money back. not a single person has even suggested it guess we are never getting our DOGE checks either this country does not work for you. it works for them. it’s a joke and they’re not even pretending anymore

Just saw on FOX that Lee White has passed away. I always enjoyed talking with Lee and seeing him around the garage. Rest easy.

It's almost time! The trucks are loaded at the KPCRAA offices and tomorrow they head out to California! Our office for the week will be set up at The Lodge at Sonoma and we can't wait until our Riders start arriving!

This thing is absolute 🔥 @kylepetty @KPCharityRide @OffAxisPaint

It’s always great to pull back the curtain and show all the work that goes into planning the @KPCharityRide! Thanks for the time today, @JohnNewby_!

Looking for some weekend reading? Check out the feature article about the 30th Anniversary Kyle Petty Charity Ride in the March 2026 edition of @ridermagazine - available on newstands now! 📰 bit.ly/KPCRRiderMag

Our riders are going to love all the 30th Anniversary @KPCharityRide swag from WinCraft!

I’m so excited for everyone to see our full 30th Anniversary @KPCharityRide Route & Fan Event Schedule! Come out to welcome the Riders, meet our celebrities & make a donation to send a kid to @VictoryJunction! More details ➡️ bit.ly/2026_Route

@SethEggert91 Sending good thoughts to you and your dad, Seth.

Could use some positive thoughts and prayers right now. Dad’s going to be spending the night in the hospital. He’s had a number of falls and has had some mild confusion today.

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…