Tim Locum

This July 4th, America turns 250 years old. And somewhere along the way, I think a lot of people forgot just how unbelievable that really is. Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of men put their names on a document knowing it could get them hanged for treason. They weren’t influencers. They weren’t celebrities. They weren’t protected by money or comfort. They were risking everything for an idea that had never truly existed before — that free people could govern themselves. Think about the bravery that took. No guarantee they would win. No guarantee they would survive. No guarantee America would even exist a year later. But they believed future generations deserved freedom more than they feared death. And for 250 years, generation after generation kept defending that idea. Farmers left their fields to fight. Young men stormed beaches knowing many wouldn’t come home. Families buried sons under folded American flags. Workers built this country with blistered hands through wars, depressions, disasters, and impossible odds. We didn’t get here because life was easy. We got here because Americans refused to quit. That’s why it bothers me when people act like this country is just some accident that appeared overnight. Freedom is fragile. History proves that. Nations collapse all throughout time when people stop appreciating what they inherited. You don’t have to believe America is perfect to understand it’s worth protecting. And maybe that’s part of the problem now. We’ve become so distracted by outrage, division, politics, and nonstop noise that we barely stop to appreciate the fact that against all odds… this experiment actually survived 250 years. That should mean something to all of us. Because long after politicians are gone… long after headlines disappear… America still belongs to the people living here, raising families here, working here, and hoping future generations inherit something worth saving. We should still be teaching kids about courage. About sacrifice. About the men at Lexington and Concord. About Valley Forge. About the people who crossed oceans with nothing but hope. About every generation that carried this country forward when it would’ve been easier to give up. That story matters. Especially now. 250 years later… and the American story still isn’t finished.

‼️WE ARE RUINING YOUTH SPORTS AND RUINING A LOT OF KIDS IN THE PROCESS. A @WSJ article this week painted a grim picture for youth athletes in America. The reality it laid out should stop all of us in our tracks. High school athletes are transferring schools not once, not twice—but sometimes multiple times in a single high school season.  Youth sports were never designed to be a marketplace. They were designed to be a training ground. The adult in the room—the one responsible for building young men—is now negotiating with a teenager who holds all the leverage. That’s not development. That’s customer service. And when you turn players into customers…
You stop coaching them. You start catering to them. We don’t need to eliminate opportunity. We need to anchor it. We need to create a system where kids can chase their dreams and still be rooted in something that actually builds them. Because if we don’t— We’re not just changing high school sports. We’re changing what it produces. And I don’t think we’re going to like the result.

@ErikLambert1 @Betsypaige24 What?!? Throwing money at something with no plan is the very DEFINITION of modern day government

@Betsypaige24 Not all of it is Illinois stalling. A big part is not doing the research needed to help explain the plan. The last thing a government wants to do is throw money at something with no clear vision.

#Bears president Kevin Warren made plenty of big promises. He insisted he was the perfect man to help the franchise build its new stadium. Mounting evidence suggests the man isn't just out of his depth, but grossly incompetent. (1/2)

Spencer Pratt’s campaign team deserves a raise because this ad is absolutely unhinged in the best way possible. 🤣🔥 At this point, I don’t even care if people love him or hate him… everybody is watching, sharing, laughing, and talking about it. That’s how you WIN the internet. Most political ads are boring scripted disasters. This one? Pure chaos. Pure entertainment. Pure viral genius. 😂🇺🇸

📣Public service announcement. Parents, your 16 year-old baseball player does not need a “baseball specific” strength and conditioning program. They need a strength & conditioning program that yields results, is energy system specific, and makes them more athletic. Find a good pitching or hitting coach if you want baseball “specific” training. A good majority of the “baseball specific” strength & conditioning programs are filled with fluff exercises, yield no scientific reason, and just flat out are not very demanding of these baseball athletes that are looking to get more athletic. Most are just a social hour with phones out and a couple “cool” machines that only one person can work on at a time anyways.

@NFL_DovKleiman Skip Bayless and Nick Wright. Perk is knocking on the door but the Hans Gruber stand in definitely gets the nod

Choose two mics to turn off forever:

@20th_Centurygal Heaven’s on Fire - KISS

Name a song that mentions "Fire" in the title or lyrics...🔥🎶 Let's see how many gems we can come up with.

@Demeter_Erinia We looked up at the sun to see which way was north, we drove over the hill to the oak tree, turned rt, went around the bend past the Smith farm, traveled 2 clicks until we saw the county line, hung a left right before it, headed over yonder past the orange barn and we were there

Serious question… How did people get to places before GPS??

No. 8 Millard South downed No. 1 Omaha Westside on the opening day of State baseball 6-3. Coach Greg Geary spoke on the win.

Who teaches boys how to become men anymore? I've spent 45 years trying to master that skill. Here's what I've learned works — and what doesn't.(6 points) 1/6 What doesn't work: telling them what to do. Lecturing. Rules without reasons. Boys don't become men by being controlled. They become men by being challenged. 2/6 What works: giving them something hard to do, watching them struggle, and staying present — not fixing it for them. The struggle is the curriculum. 3/6 What works: showing them what a man looks like under pressure. Not a movie version. A real one. Your version. 4/6 What works: standards without exceptions. The moment you make an exception for a talented kid, every other kid learns that talent buys privilege. You've lost them. 5/6 45 years. Thousands of young men. Numerous championships. The ones who became great men all had the same experience: someone who believed in them enough to refuse to lower the bar. 6/6 The boys who became men weren't lucky. They were loved enough to be held accountable. That's the whole system.

41 year old PGA Professional Ben Kern shot a 3 under par 67, the tied 2nd lowest round of the tournament so far, to comfortably make the cut at the PGA Championship. Ben is the GM of Hickory Hills GC outside Columbus and says he plays “once a week” with the members, playing off a +6 handicap. After playing well at the 2018 PGA Championship, he said he felt like he finally belonged after spending 6 years “chasing it” on mini tours when he left college: “Yeah, it just tells me, it shows me, it proves to myself that I can hang with these guys when I'm playing solid, and it was really nice. I felt good yesterday, didn't put up a good score, but the game's -- I hung my head high yesterday, and I had a goal today and I surpassed it.” He went on to say: “I spent a good amount of time five, six years after college chasing it, Q-School, mini-tours, and then got married and got in the business. Once I did that, I'm pretty happy with it. “I am not one to want to practice all the time, so the week in, week out grind doesn't really appeal to me anymore. So I'm very happy with what I'm doing.” Ben is currently the leader in total birdies for the tournament and no matter what happens this weekend, he will have one awesome story to tell his members back home. PGA Professionals are the lifeblood of the game and it’s awesome to see them performing on one of the biggest stages in the sport alongside the world’s best players. @PGAChampionship

Millard South gets a massive UPSET over No. 1 Omaha Westside to advance in the Class A state tournament.🚨 The Warriors have outscored the Patriots 23-4 in all previous matchups this season.😳 #nebpreps

PATRIOTS WIN! PATRIOTS WIN! Patriots defeat Omaha Westside HS this morning 6-3. Winning pitcher: Jackson Corey! Save: Preston Barber! #BlueCollarSwag #TPW @MSHS_Baseball #MillardSouthFamily

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“Cleaner behavior does not necessarily mean stronger formation”

My quick thoughts on the AD Search Committee: 🦡This kicks the shit out of the "Sedberry and the interim chancellor figure it out". 🦡Seven of nine members are UW alums spanning 1965 to present. Wisconsin went and found alums who reached the top of their fields and asked them to come home for this. This says something about the university's standing with the people it produced. Love seeing it 🦡Shannon (KSL Capital Partners) is an essentail addition to the committee. Next AD will face private-capital and capital-structure questions no Wisconsin AD has dealt with before. He's the only person on this committee qualified to pressure-test that Bottom line: Wisconsin took an extra few weeks to put together a very formidable group to make this hire. This is a genuine investment that signals respect for the for the magnitude of the decision. I give tremendous credit to @uwchancellor for overseeing this direction. #OnWisconsin

@Wisconsin_fam Let’s get a Barty Smith mention

Name a Green Bay Packer. But you can’t duplicate what anyone else has already said. How deep can we get?

Kids raised in coaching households learn things you can’t teach in a classroom. Resilience.
Teamwork.
Sacrifice.
Character.
Problem-solving. They don’t just watch you coach games.
They watch you lead people. And that lesson lasts forever.

Accurate

Boom! Scientists Discovered a Hidden Superhighway Inside You That Might Finally Explain Why Acupuncture Actually Works! How tattooed skin biopsies proved something over 4,000 years old. Buckle up…research just dropped a bombshell that is rewriting the human anatomy textbook and high fiving ancient healers at the same time! Deep inside your body lies an enormous, previously overlooked network called the interstitium. It is a vast, fluid filled web that acts like a secret third circulatory system alongside your blood vessels and lymphatics. It is not just empty space between tissues. It is a dynamic, interconnected superhighway made of collagen bundles suspended in a shimmering hyaluronic acid gel that soaks up water and lets fluids, cells, and molecules flow slowly but surely throughout your entire body, from skin to muscles to organs and back again. For over a century, scientists saw these spaces as isolated little pockets. But groundbreaking work starting in 2018 by pathologists revealed the jaw dropping truth: it is one giant, continuous network. When researchers examined tattooed skin biopsies, the ink particles had boldly marched from the skin deep into the fascia below, traveling through the interstitium in ways that made scientists say, That was not supposed to happen! Here is where it gets truly electrifying. This hidden highway might finally give Western medicine the biological proof it has been craving for acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. For 4000 years, TCM has described chi flowing along 12 specific meridians. Acupuncture needles target precise points along those lines. Skeptics have long asked for hard science. Now they have it. Studies, including tracer injections and dye experiments in living volunteers, show that when you inject dye into an acupuncture point, it does not just sit there or race through veins. It flows exactly along the traditional meridian pathways through the interstitial spaces between muscles, heading straight toward the heart. The dye follows the interstitium like a GPS guided river. Rebecca Wells, one of the lead scientists, sums it up perfectly: “I actually do think that the interstitium could be the link between Eastern and Western medicine”. The implications are massive and mind blowing. Cancer cells may hitch rides on this network to metastasize. It could explain autoimmune flare ups where gut particles travel to distant organs. It might even unlock better treatments for Type 2 diabetes by revealing how interstitial cells influence healthy fat production during weight gain. This is not just a cool anatomy fact. It is a paradigm shift that could reshape pain management, chronic disease treatment, and how we think about the body as a whole. Evolutionarily speaking, similar fluid systems appear in ancient creatures going back hundreds of millions of years. The interstitium is not new. It has been with us since the dawn of multicellular life. We are only now catching up. This discovery is pure science magic: ancient wisdom validated by cutting edge research, turning what looked like disconnected puzzle pieces into one breathtaking picture of how our bodies really work. When reading this, be sure to send condolences to the “debunkers” that stole this 4,000 year old empirical science from your health. They were wrong. Dive into the actual research papers: The groundbreaking discovery of the interstitium: nature.com/articles/s4159… The study on continuity of interstitial spaces across the body: nature.com/articles/s4200… Research visualizing fluorescent dye migration along acupuncture meridians: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC80… Your body just got a whole lot more awesome. The future of medicine is flowing through the interstitium right now, and it is going to be legendary!