Mike Thomas

Upon the death of Warren G Harding 🇺🇸 #OTD 1923, Vice President Calvin Coolidge 🇺🇸 was sworn in on the family Bible by his father, a notary public, in his Vermont living room while Coolidge was visiting #POTUS ♥️

EPIC-MRA poll | 7/24-7/31 US Senate Michigan 2026 🟥Mike Rogers 46% 🟦Abdul El-Sayed 43% — 🟦Haley Stevens 44% 🟥Mike Rogers 42%

New - Senate poll - Michigan 🔴 Rogers 46% 🔵 El-Sayed 43% 🔵 Stevens 44% 🔴 Rogers 42% Epic-MRA #B - LV - 7/31

MICHIGAN POLL - Senate 🟥 Mike Rogers: 46% 🟦 Abdul El-Sayed: 43% —— 🟦Haley Stevens: 44% 🟥Mike Rogers: 42% EPIC-MRA (A) | 7/24-7/31

@RobertGreene The less your self worth depends on other people's opinions, the more freedom you gain to live on your own terms.

Start caring less what people think of you. You will feel a tremendous sense of liberation.

This is one of the most beloved paintings in America, and it puts its finger on something we all pass through, first as the child, and one day as the parent left behind... The painting is Breaking Home Ties, by Norman Rockwell, on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1954. A father and his teenage son sit side by side on the running board of a battered farm truck, waiting at a railway stop. A single track runs along the bottom of the picture. A ticket pokes from the boy's pocket. His suitcase is stacked with schoolbooks and wears a "State U" pennant. The train is coming to carry him off to college, away from home, for the first time in his life. Everything is in the way they sit. The son sits upright, scrubbed and dressed in his best, eyes fixed on the horizon, on the track, on the future rushing toward him. He is already half gone. For him that train is the beginning of everything. His father sits beside him in worn work clothes and scuffed boots, looking the other way, down the line, as if he cannot bear to watch it arrive. The same train means the opposite thing to him. For the son it is the start of a life. For the father it is the day the house grows quieter, the chair at the table sits empty, and the person he built his world around walks out into a life that no longer has him at its centre. Look at his hands. He is holding two hats. His own battered one, and resting on top of it, his son's crisp new one, held carefully together, because it is the last small thing he can still do for the boy... And then the dog, its head laid in the son's lap, gazing up, refusing to look away. Rockwell knew exactly what that was for: "The father couldn't show how he felt about the boy's leaving," he said. "The dog did." It has moved people for 70 years because every leaving is a beginning for one person and an ending for another. The child steps out into the world, as they should. And someone stays behind, watching them go, and loving them enough to let them go anyway...

@KaydenTokarski Great job on the podcast and you’re doing fantastic work on GH!

Thank you for having me back!

@TracyTea Their first and last scenes together!

Fake Ethan says he’s leaving for good. Lulu looks stunned #GH

@rodrigosworld81 Smartest decision he’s made in 30 years

#GH This is what Steve Burton meant when he said some fans wouldn’t like Jason’s new direction. I’m all for Jason leaving the mob behind.

@jessren Oh thanks! I can’t keep track of all these new guys lol.

@thomasjm1227 The new detective played by Jonathan Bennett

The new guy originally auditioned for Joe and they liked him so they wrote a different part for him. I think this is how we end up with so many actors who look identical. They all go out for the same part and they say why choose and put 4 of them on the show. #GH

Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem. — Unknown

I always regret the plans I made when I was in a 5 minute extroverted mood

i DO NOT like being asked why I’m not talking. I literally just don’t have anything to say. Please leave me alone.

My hobbies include: 1. Going home 2. Staying home 3. Being home

It’s truly inspiring to see all the women who lead Michigan. Whitmer, Slotkin, Benson (soon to be Gov) and Stevens (soon to be Senator). Lots of girl power coming from Rust Belt state.

There’s an old Chinese proverb that I love: “He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.”

I used to sneak out of my house to go to parties. Now I sneak out of parties to go to my house.

Major cheat code for life: Say less. Not every thought needs to be shared. Not every opinion needs to be voiced. Sometimes the smartest thing you can do is stop talking.