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don’t let them gaslight you. everyone knew who Caitlin Clark was before the fake race wars.
her logo bombs we’re going viral on tik tok, NBA players were talking about her before Angel Reese started that fake rivalry.
.@RealJayWilliams on @IowaWBB's Caitlin Clark:
"She is the biggest brand in college sports right now." ✍️
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CBS 60 Minutes sat with me for nearly 2 hours.
They put out more than 10 posts promoting that interview on their X
They used 1 minute and 17 seconds.
This is part one. The real answers to the questions they asked.
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I really hope @redbaronpizza does the right thing here. He deserves to keep his job and a big fat bonus.
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@redbaronpizza we the WORKING PUBLIC better not hear that this poor man is in trouble. A working man being punked/pranked is the epitome of a sorry generation that has not been raised to respect others much less their elders.
I want to start locating the parents of these kinds of people and show them their children and ask them if they are proud. Maybe some shame / humility will do well in society again. I grew up where if I was an ass to a friend or a person in the neighborhood my mama knew before I got home... after the asswhoopin I had to make my rounds of apologies and I am so grateful for it. Only took 2 times and I got my head out of my ass!
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I was on my way back from my son’s track meet in Minnesota and got a flat tire on a Iowa interstate. I tried to request roadside assistance in my Allstate app (because I don’t know how to change a flat tire), but was not getting a signal on my phone because of where we were in Iowa, so I was looking down messing with my phone and thought instead of using the app, I would call Allstate (which takes longer). I was thinking, it’s going to take a few hours for them to get to me once I get ahold of them, when my son goes, someone is here. Like this guy appeared out of no where, dressed in Iowa Hawkeye gear and goes, “Can I help you?” Long story short, his name is Zach Twedt, football player for Iowa Hawkeyes…I just wanted to appreciate him for being so kind and helping a stranger out, who needed to get her kids home safely. He could’ve kept going, but he didn’t! What a good dude! May God reward him for his kindness today!
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.@RealJayWilliams on @IowaWBB's Caitlin Clark:
"She is the biggest brand in college sports right now." ✍️
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Ilhan Omar Calls Obama To See If He Still Has The Number For That Birth Certificate Guy buff.ly/Qjbtx4R
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A 52 free-throw-attempt gap is the largest FTA discrepancy over a 5-game stretch in W Finals history.
No other Finals series has more than 9 FTA differential. The Valkyries has 78 to Dream's 130 or 10.4 FTA per game differential. The highest recorded gap was Game 4 with +18 FTA.
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My wife teaches English at a high school in Japan.
Last week, she gave her students a writing prompt:
"If you could be American for one day, what would you do?"
She read me the answers at dinner. She had to stop three times because she was laughing too hard.
"Own a pickup truck. I don't need a truck. I just want to say, 'Don't worry, I'll grab the truck.'"
"Have a garage. Not for a car. For 'stuff.'"
"Buy 48 rolls of toilet paper at Costco. I live with my parents. I want them anyway."
"Get a free refill. Then another one. Then another one. Until they ask me to leave. They won't ask me to leave."
"Water my lawn at 6 a.m. in a bathrobe and wave at my neighbor."
"Call my teacher 'dude.'" (My wife underlined this one. Twice.)
"Hang a flag on my house for no reason. Just because it's Tuesday."
And a lot of them wrote some version of this:
"Tell my dad I love him. Out loud. At the dinner table."
Then she had the class vote for the best answer.
The winner wasn't funny. It came from the funniest kid in the class. The truck kid.
"Stand up when the anthem plays, put my hand on my heart, and look around and see everybody else doing it too."
My wife asked him why he picked that one.
He shrugged.
"Because then you're never proud alone."
If you're not following her yet, her posts on North American Natives are simply fantastic.
Interesting reading and terrific topics.
The Apache bow was a practical masterpiece of available materials.
Hunters and warriors preferred flexible mulberry wood or cedar, often backed with animal sinew for extra power and durability. The sinew was glued on with a mixture made from boiled rawhide, then left to dry and shrink so it added tension and strength.
A skilled bow maker held high status because the process took days of careful work.
Arrows were usually composite. The main shaft came from straight river reeds, the plant the Apache called klo-ka (klo-KAH), or arrow grass. These reeds needed little or no straightening, unlike the wooden shafts used by many neighboring peoples. A hardwood foreshaft was inserted into the reed, and the point was attached to that. Early points were stone, with obsidian preferred for its sharp edge. By the 1800s iron points made from trade metal were common. Three feathers, bound with sinew, completed the arrow.
Quivers were made of tanned hide or rawhide and often carried fringe.
These weapons supplied food for the family and defended the land. They were remade and passed along as long as the materials lasted.
