Douglas White

Last night, I made a simple request on X. I asked if anybody visiting Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day would stop by Alan’s grave and leave a photo for our family. What happened next honestly caught me off guard. By this afternoon, dozens of Americans from all walks of life had made the walk to Section 60 to visit SSG Alan W. Shaw. Veterans. Families. Complete strangers. People who had never met Alan, but chose to honor him anyway. For one day on social media, people put aside the constant noise and negativity and came together for something bigger than themselves. My notifications filled with photos, kind messages, prayers, and stories from people honoring not just Alan, but so many of our fallen heroes. I don’t think people fully understand what moments like this mean to Gold Star families. The fear is never just losing them. It’s losing them slowly over time as the world moves on and fewer people remember their name. But today showed me that Alan will never be forgotten. After years of watching social media reward some of the worst parts of humanity, today gave me a reminder that the good is still out there too. Thank you to every single person who stopped by to visit Alan today, said his name, shared his story, or took a moment to honor the fallen. This right here is the America Alan knew and loved enough to fight and die for. And today, y’all showed us all that it’s still here and it’s still worth fighting for. 🇺🇸

@Johnubacon Disagree. Prefer letting the play occur rather than have close plays blown dead. Plus challenges have some risk if you’re wrong.

I know rules are rules, and when a goal gets called back for an offside early in the play, fair is fair. But part of me can't stand it. Seems fundamentally different than reviewing a goal. Just my (probably unpopular) take.

@ManagerTactical Cobi Jones has to be on this list.

Alexi knows how to bait, he is a master baiter. Leaving Dempsey out of it was a genius move, from an engagement perspective.

@TroddenTrail "We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now all we do is put our hand in the next guy's pocket."

Because you wanted a Francis Scott Key Bridge update. *collapsed 2 years ago *primary contractor fired *budget initially 1.8 billion now 5.2 billion *completion initially 2028 now late 2030. Posting this in pencil.

French man arrives in Texas and gets the French beat out of him YEEHAW PARTNER

@Chris_arnade And coffee houses/roasters. Can get a good cup of coffee almost anywhere these days.

The proliferation in the U.S. of independently run brew-pubs, serving over ten small and/or locally made beers, is one of the nicest changes in last decade. I now find them wherever I go, and they have become my go-to choice, because I believe we all should celebrate the breaking of the Bud, Bud Light, and Miller monopoly.

@ProFootballTalk What's a normal weekend occupancy rate?

The draft is a big deal, but the eye-popping official attendance numbers are misleading -- and the NFL surely likes it that way. nbcsports.com/nfl/profootbal…

@WolverineCorner Juwan Howard

Giving away 2 things, the winner takes home both: - 1 Michigan natty replica trophy (12”) - 1 Dusty May Bobble Head Idc about followers so all you have to do to enter is like the tweet and reply with your fav Michigan basketball player of all time. agprinting24.etsy.com/listing/448654…

@ProFootballTalk This would be awful for the players and the fans. Lower salaries and less competition. Likely fewer franchises as well.

The ongoing assault on the NFL's antitrust exemption could create for pro football the same kind of chaos that college football has been experiencing. nbcsports.com/nfl/profootbal…

@Chiefmac3500 @ClayTravis Gift article link: wsj.com/sports/footbal…

@ClayTravis Pay wall Clay. I’m a retiree that doesn’t give my $ to the WSJ. Can you post to Outkick pls?

The Department of Justice has begun an antitrust investigation of the NFL over its rights deals. This is a HUGE story in sports media. The NFL has a limited antitrust exemption that is in danger of repeal. wsj.com/sports/footbal…

Hold up let him cook??

Give John Beilein a ring for this, too. He’s the one that got this program out of the desert. He got this program to the doorstep of a national title twice and this program wouldn’t be close to where it is now with the resurgence he led.

Congress has 2 real shots to sustainably reform Social Security (2027, 2029) before we have a 28% benefit cut or annual half trillion dollar deficit-financed emergency patches with accompanying inflation. Time to act is now. Read about it in my WaEx oped. washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4509373…

This is fun to watch

Passengers on a commercial flight captured the launch of Artemis II on camera The plane happened to pass near the launch trajectory at the exact moment of liftoff, giving passengers a rare view of the rocket launch right from their windows.

@Ooh_Rap_I_Ya She left her phone and everything is two factor authentication today.

why would they climb that shit again

Now that Artemis II has launched we have 10 days to get everyone on Earth a Planet of the Apes costume so we can do something hilarious when the astronauts return 😁

@ManagerTactical I bought tickets for all three games in the Silverdome in 1994 for around $400 total. It's amazing how unaffordable they've made this World Cup.

$900 each ticket for a World Cup group stage game between the USMNT 🇺🇸 and Turkey 🇹🇷 … and these ain’t the most expensive seats… This ain’t the resale market, these are FIFA prices. Game is gone.

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime. The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood. The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old. The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose. And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled. The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around. Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."

If Pulisic can get healthy and find his form, we might escape the group. But, this team seems like 1998 revisited. Talented, but not really a team. 0-3 is a very real possibility. #USMNT #WorldCup