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"What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and it's grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible." John Lewis ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #goodtrouble @hiyakaiya

History. Made. Here. With 6️⃣ Bruins selected tonight, UCLA has set a new @WNBA record for most draft picks from a single institution! #GoBruins

And that's all six. Charlisse Leger-Walker is selected No. 18 overall by the Connecticut Sun. She'll be reunited with Gianna Kneepkens. The six UCLA seniors and 2026 national champions have been drafted -- a record for any school for a single WNBA draft.

Record-breaking Bruins! 🐻 UCLA has set the new record for most draftees selected in the first round of a @WNBA draft, surpassing UConn (4 in 2002). #GoBruins

UCLA’S ICONIC RUN CONTINUES 👏 The Bruins make history as the first collegiate program in WNBA history to have six players taken in one draft!

@newrepublic @aintscarylarry x.com/i/status/20422…

The Iran war increasingly looks not only like another shocking humiliation, but perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in American military history. trib.al/V0CbFMz

"This has got to have joy. This has got to have a lightness because they're already putting so much pressure on themselves." —UCLA women's basketball @CoachCoriClose on making sure her team is prepared ahead of games 🏀 (via @RichEisenShow)

You can't take the trophy with you. But the person you became chasing it? That's yours forever. "Banners collect in gyms and rings collect dust, but who you become and who you impact in these 4 years you get to keep forever." - Cori Close 🔥

Blue and gold for @UCLAWBB — first-ever NCAA National champions. Go Bruins!

Congratulations to Coach Cori Close and the @UCLAWBB team on your dominant performance during March Madness and your history-making national championship. To Coach Dawn Staley and @GamecockWBB: We applaud your hard-fought season. Your grit and excellence continues to inspire.

Shining in blue and yellow tonight from 8PM - 10PM to celebrate @UCLA Women's Basketball - your NCAA Champions. 🏆 Text CONNECT to 274-16 to get alerts on our lights! See the lights live: esbo.nyc/ecx

Congratulations to Lauren Betts and the sensational seniors at @UCLAWBB for winning their first NCAA Championship!

FIRST. EVER. NCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS. UCLA. 🏆 UCLA defeats South Carolina to win the National Championship. #WFinalFour

Settle in - our cinematic recap from our @bigten Championship win has dropped! 🎥🍿 #GoBruins

Meryl Streep: The SAVE America Act, if that passes, all the married women that have changed their names are going have to go to the registrar and prove who they are. Otherwise, when you get to the voting booth in November, you might be disqualified, because your name on your birth certificate doesn't match the name on the voting rolls. I think that women need to be heard

UCLA returns to the Final Four 🔥 The Bruins' 35 wins are the most wins by a Big Ten team in the last 30 seasons 🙌

They’ve been fighting for many decades, Jane Fonda and Joan Baez.

Steve Bannon: “We can use this, ICE helping at airports, as a test run, a test case, to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterms. Mike Davis: “I think we should have ICE agents at the polling places” Saying the quiet part out loud.

Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

please get a library card even if you won’t use it because cities will look at library statistics and use that to decide to keep libraries open and properly funded

I worked 20 years for a child sex trafficking rescue group. I want you to know this: 90% of Lost Children Are Found Within 30 Minutes. That statistic should both comfort you and wake you up. Most lost children are found quickly. But the ones who aren’t? They usually made one mistake. And here’s the uncomfortable truth: It’s often the exact thing most parents teach them. We tell our kids: “If you get lost, come find me.” It sounds logical. It sounds empowering. It’s WRONG! The Mistake Most Lost Children Make: When children realize they’re separated, they do three things almost automatically: They panic. They wander. They try to find you. Every step makes them harder to locate. From a search standpoint, movement creates chaos. Parents retrace their steps. Security scans zones. Staff lock down areas. Search works best when movement stops. When a child keeps walking, they move outside the original search radius. Helpers are looking where they were last seen — not where they’ve wandered. Stillness increases probability. Movement expands the problem. The first lesson is not “go find me.” It’s this: Stop. Stay. Yell. Why Stillness Wins: Think like a search team. If a child stays put: Parents can retrace steps. Security can scan systematically. Helpers converge to one fixed location. The search radius remains small. If a child keeps moving: The search area expands. Adults pass each other. Missed connections multiply. Minutes stretch into hours. Stillness keeps the math on your side. Teach Them Who to Approach: The second mistake we make as parents? We say, “Find an adult.” Not any adult. Not the nearest stranger. Children need a filter. Teach them to look for, if at all possible: A mother with children. Caregivers who already have kids with them are statistically among the safest people to approach in public settings. They are visible, stationary, and more likely to engage quickly. It’s a clear, concrete instruction. Children don’t process vague categories like “safe adult.” They process visuals. “Find a mom with kids” is visual. A Phone Only Helps If the Number Is Known: We often assume phones solve everything. They don’t — unless your child can use one. Even young children can memorize a 10-digit phone number with repetition. But you must train it. Practice it like a song. Sing it in the car. Chant it at bedtime. Turn it into rhythm. Repetition becomes recall. In an emergency, recall matters more than theory. The Code Word Rule: One more layer of protection. Choose a private family code word. Something only your household knows. If someone approaches and says: “Your mom sent me.” Your child asks: “What’s the code word?” No word. No go. This simple rule eliminates manipulation attempts instantly. It gives your child agency without requiring them to evaluate character. Real Safety Is Training — Not Luck! We don’t get safer by hoping. We get safer by practicing. Teach: • Phone number • Code word • Stop, stay, yell • Find a mom with kids Multiple skills. Simple instructions. Clear visuals. Five minutes of training can replace hours of panic. This isn’t about fear. It’s about preparation. Because when a child gets separated, the clock starts. And what they do in the first minute determines what the next thirty look like. That’s real protection.