Jon 🅿️utnam

Fascinating Declaration of Independence 🇺🇸 facts: The printed copy on the right actually pre-dates the more well-known, handwritten copy on the left, which wasn't produced or signed by John Hancock and other members of the Continental Congress until weeks AFTER July 4, 1776. 🧵

For some unknown reason, Thomas Jefferson is preoccupied this morning with recording the temperature. He writes that upon awaking at 6 AM, the temperature is a pleasant 68.0 degrees Fahrenheit, but that it is creeping up toward 70. On his way to Congress, Jefferson purchases a thermometer. It costs three pounds and 15 shillings. No-body knows why he is so concerned with the temperature today, especially, and for what reason he desires an accurate read.

@CoachRock73 We’re at Cedar Street. You need turn signals to walk through here.

@CoachPutt 6th street today

Legendary @CoachRock73 where you at?

After South Carolina reverses its position, Continental Congress votes to declare INDEPENDENCE from Britain, adopting a legal separation from the Crown. Charles Thomson, Secretary for Continental Congress, uses hash marks to note how many colonies voted for the severance from the Crown. John Adams writes in a letter to his wife, Abigail, that “the second day of July, 1776 will be the most memorable epoch in American history.” But although newspapers report the independence, no mass celebrations break out.

The New York Provincial Congress evacuates New York City as British forces approach. Yesterday, General Washington learned of 45 Royal Navy ships bearing down on New York from Sandy Hook. The situation looks dire.

Somewhere in America 1) a kid is prepared to lie about these being stolen 2) a ref is eager to throw a flag for thinking they’re not being worn 3) a coach is losing his mind over both 1 & 2 4) the pad itself, at its current production size, is not saving a single knee

@CoachSamJulen Debatable. Can have beer?

@CoachPutt Better than this?

Another day in the Golden Isles

…but catch the ball!

This guy wore a black silk glove on one hand for almost thirty years, and the reason why is wild. Meet Richard Henry Lee, the man who actually proposed American independence. Quick correction to what most people think. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration. But he didn't propose breaking from Britain. Richard Henry Lee did. On June 7, 1776, Lee stood up in the Continental Congress and laid down the words that started everything: "Resolved, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states." That motion, the Lee Resolution, is the thing that forced the vote. Jefferson was then assigned to write up the document explaining why. So the order people skip is this. Lee proposes the divorce. Jefferson writes the letter. Without Lee's resolution, there's no Declaration to sign. Now the glove. Back in 1768, years before any of this, Lee was out hunting on his own land and his rifle exploded in his hands. The blast tore four fingers off his left hand. For the rest of his life he covered the damage with a black silk glove. And here's the part I love. He turned it into a weapon. When he gave speeches, he'd gesture with that gloved, ruined hand, and people couldn't look away from it. Because make no mistake, this man could talk. People who heard him speak compared him to Cicero, the legendary Roman orator. He was the voice in the room. His own brother Francis Lightfoot Lee, who also signed the Declaration, was the quiet one. Richard was thunder. He grew up at Stratford Hall in Virginia, the same house where Robert E. Lee would later be born into the same famous family. He helped lead the colony toward revolution, served in Congress, later became president of Congress under the Articles of Confederation, and finished his career as one of Virginia's first United States senators. A man with half a hand, who stood up and said out loud the dangerous thing nobody else would put in a motion, and changed the course of history with one sentence. Richard Henry Lee. The man who moved that America should be free.

One vote stood between America and independence. The man who had to cast it was 80 miles away, battling cancer, as a violent thunderstorm raged. His name was Caesar Rodney. A lesser-known founder of the American Revolution, Rodney rode overnight on horseback from Delaware to Philadelphia, arriving just in time to cast the deciding vote for independence and sign the Declaration of Independence. 🇺🇲

Can I report a dumbass driver as a hazard on @waze? #ItsStillThere

Defending National Champion @IndianaFootball head coach Curt Cignetti (@CCignettiIU) explanation for Indiana's rapid transformation is a CLINIC in leadership: "If what you did yesterday seems important to you, you haven't done much today." 🍫🤯 👥 What changes results? People, Plan, Process. Results begin with people. Recruit high-character individuals (coaches and players), develop them relentlessly, and unite them around a shared vision. Talent may raise your ceiling, but character determines whether your team can consistently reach it! 📈 Culture can drift toward mediocrity by accident, but great cultures NEVER drift upward by accident. They are engineered through high standards, clear expectations, and accountability. As Coach Cignetti says, "How you do something is how you do everything." Every meeting, workout, practice, conversation, and decision is either reinforcing your standard or eroding it. 📚 Elite organizations are consumed with stacking value. They stack productive meetings, intentional practices, disciplined preparation, and consistent execution, they literally stack great days. Championships are simply the delayed byproduct of thousands of ordinary moments handled extraordinarily well. 🧠 The job of a coach leader: "The only limitations are those between your ears, and that's my job, to make sure those don't exist." Leadership is about expanding what people believe is possible and replacing self-imposed ceilings with confidence built through preparation. Yesterday's success is evidence, not a residence. The best teams refuse to live off old victories. They celebrate briefly, learn continuously, and return to work immediately. Every new day is another opportunity to earn the standard all over again. The scoreboard is always a lagging indicator. 🏆

After a Great conversation With Coach @CoachOwens_12 I am blessed to receive an offer from Brevard college! @542Simmons @RecruitSCramer @CoachPutt @karlellis_ @pepman704 @BigPlayDK7 @247recruiting

@coach_cogdill Congrats Coach!

Excited to be named as the Head Football Coach and Athletic Director at East Rutherford High School! Time to go to work! #wEaRe #togethER

This man can make an OT and QB miserable as a DL or catch over ANYBODY you try to cover him with in the secondary. I’m proud of the player he is, but I’m more proud of the person he is becoming! You want a dog? Come get you a dog!

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