Jimmy E @waitforit

"Hitler didn't snub me. It was President Roosevelt who snubbed me. The President didn't even send me a telegram. When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. What's the difference?" Jesse Owens. After being snubbed by FDR almost 40 years earlier, President Gerald Ford surprised Jesse Owens in 1976 by inviting him to the White House. Jesse Owens was not only honored, but also received the "Presidential Medal of Freedom". One year before Jesse Owens’ impressive feat at the Berlin Olympics, a young Jerry Ford watched on as Jesse Owens, nicknamed the “Buckeye Bullet”, broke three world records and tied a fourth in less than one hour at a Big 10 track meet in Ann Arbor. As President Ford would recall before presenting the Medal of Freedom: "I saw Jesse Owens at a Big 10 track meet in Ann Arbor, as 1 of some 10,000 or 12,000 spectators, when he broke three world records and tied a fourth. His performance that day in the broad jump--26 feet 8¼ [5 5/16] inches--was not equalled for 25 years. It was a triumph that all of us will remember." Fifteen years later, revisiting the same stadium, Jesse Owens received a standing ovation when he urged his audience, and I quote: "To stand fast with us for freedom and democracy." The ONLY man in the world Jesse Owen`s refused to race was "Cool Papa" Bell.

My editor on VIOLET was one of those people who cut the prints in the theaters.

Best of Kubrick @KubrickPoint

5 days ago

When The Shining opened in 1980, it had a different ending. Days later Kubrick sent people into the theaters to physically cut it out of the prints. Here's the scene almost nobody saw🧵👇🏻

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Do you have any idea how shit at your job you have to be to have 55 European countries actually agree on something 😂

Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen

5 days ago

BREAKING: UEFA sources tell @talkSPORT all 55 Member Associations have decided to boycott the men's and women's World Cups in protest at Gianni Infantino's Fifa Forward Enterprise plans. UEFA members agreed on an emergency call that began around 2pm today that they will not

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"Lucky" is probably the best show on TV right now about Anya Taylor-Joy not wearing a bra.

Is anyone looking after the interests of the babies ?

Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83

6 days ago

The Scottish government is giving public money to fund a “Queer Milk Group,” in which male transvestites meet weekly to feed their chemically created chest juices to helpless infants for their own sexual gratification. thetimes.com/article/c6b5d0…

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Read this if you want to understand the issues beyond rage-bait.

Ajoje⚽⚖️ @israel_ajoje

7 days ago

This one is really dicey. FIFA is registered as a non-profit association under Swiss law. Its 211 member associations own it. It pays no corporate tax in Switzerland. And right now, while the ink is barely dry on the 2026 World Cup final, it is in advanced discussions to sell a

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Keanu Reeves says he turned down $12,000,000 for Speed 2 and went to Winnipeg to play Hamlet ‘It just didn’t feel right a bus that can slow down is a ticking clock a boat is not a ticking clock so I said no to 8 figures and flew to Manitoba to do Shakespeare for scale in the dead of a Canadian winter at the Manitoba theatre center’ ‘Fox then blacklisted me for year costing me a lot of roles, speed 2 came out and became one of the most notorious flops of the 90s it won a razzie’ ‘Sandra bullock has called doing it her biggest career regret my Hamlet got a review from the Chicago Trubunes’

Nine Lives, Zero Fucks! Alley Cats on Netflix August 7

Latest heat shield design looks great!

Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane

a week ago

SpaceX Starship Heat Shield Comparison Between Flights 10-13. It’s getting better every time. This is what progress looks like. 🦾

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“The Odyssey, but it’s Freddy trying get back to Germany after the World Cup.”

Odysseus was away from his home for 20 years, ten years fighting in the Trojan War and ten more years struggling at sea before being "washed ashore" in Ithaca, at his home. After everything he endured, he returned to Ithaca alone, aged, weary, burdened with suffering and sorrow, and unrecognizable to everyone. Dressed in rags so no one would recognize him, he was accompanied by Eumaeus, the swineherd, who also did not recognize him. As they approached the palace, Odysseus saw Argos, his beloved dog and friend who had missed him during his time in Ilion (Troy), now in a very miserable state. Homer describes Argos as covered in ticks, neglected, lying still as if waiting for something, his death, but not quite ready yet. A brief conversation takes place over Argos between Odysseus and Eumaeus, after which Odysseus enters the hall with the suitors. Now, Argos is ready to die. He can finally take his last breath, as the moment he had waited for over 20 years had arrived, he saw his best friend one last time. His longing and hope for the return of his master had kept him alive for 20 whole years. Only Argos recognized him. The hero Odysseus, deeply moved, could not hold back a tear, which he secretly wiped away so that Eumaeus wouldn’t see it and suspect something. "νόσφιν απομόρξατο δάκρυ" "he secretly wiped away his tear." Homer writes: Rhapsody ρ, Line 290 Thus they were speaking to each other, But the dog, lying down, lifted his head and ears; Argos, Odysseus’ faithful dog, whom he once raised but never got to enjoy, as Odysseus left early for sacred Ilion (Troy). 295. ... lying in a pile of dung spilled in front of the gates by mules and cattle, which the servants took to fertilize Odysseus' estate. 300. There Argos lay, full of ticks. The moment he sensed Odysseus near him, he wagged his tail and lowered both ears, but he couldn’t get up to reach him. Odysseus saw him from afar and secretly wiped away his tear so Eumaeus wouldn’t notice, and then he asked him: 305. "A wonder, this dog, Eumaeus, lying in the manure. He is good in body, but I’m not sure if he’s as swift as he is beautiful, or if he’s one of those table-fed dogs of men, kept only as an ornament by lords." 325. As he said this, he entered the well-built house and went straight into the hall with the shining suitors. And the fate of black death seized Argos, immediately after he saw Odysseus for the first time in twenty years.. Homer Pavlos✍️

When mom has spent a little too much time with the kids...

Teach your children guitar so they won't have any money left to spend on drugs.

Éowyn didn't defeat the Witch-king alone The dagger Merry carried was forged in the North-kingdom when the Dúnedain were young, made for one enemy: Angmar and its sorcerer king. Tom Bombadil pulled it out of a barrow and handed it to a hobbit who'd never heard of any of that Centuries later the same blade found the same enemy. Nothing else would have done it. Merry's stroke broke the spell holding the Witch-king's unseen body to his will, and only then could Éowyn's sword finish him Now the cold part. The grave that held the blade lay open because the Witch-king himself had sent an evil spirit to haunt those downs. He armed the hand that helped kill him No living man could stop him. The smith who forged his undoing had been dead a thousand years Call it the last revenge of Arnor

@MoronPundit I’m just living how I want to to make myself happy

سبب خروج مصر بكل بساطة رغم انها مقدمة كانت مستوى تاريخي امام الارجنتين هو المدرب حسام حسن ، الطبيعي عند اي مدرب ماعنده حتى ابسط مبادىء التدريب لما تصير عليك ريمونتادا من 2-0 ل 2-2 والمباراة باقي عليها 5 دقايق لتنتهي انك تحاول تهدي فريقك وتهدي اللعب وتوصل للاشواط الاضافية وبعدها لكل حادث حديث ، لكن يلي سواه حسام حسن على المستوى المعنوي جن وجنن كل اللاعبين معاه ودخلهم بمرحلة توتر مو طبيعية وعلى المستوى التكتيكي خلاهم يهاجمو بجنون بدون اي ادراك تكتيكي وكأنهم مهزومين 5-0 وطبعا اول ما انقطعت منهم الكرة مرتدة قاتلة وهدف! ادار المباراة بشكل كارثي جدا وفقد اعصابه وخلى فريقه كله يفقد اعصابه.