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When athletes share their battles with mental illness

Roughly one in five American adults suffer from mental illnesses. Athletes might be more at risk. Here, eight of them tell their authentic stories.  

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When money talks, the bullshit walks.

Some saying I heard when hearing all this crap about trump and his involvement with the Russians. Political dumpster that is that administration.

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Political talk with my brother, sort of. But you can't deny that he can do the job. Haha

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Thanks, Obama

When President Obama was inaugurated (the first time), Twitter wasn’t quite three years old. Facebook had only been open to the general public for two and a half years, and Tumblr had just celebrated its second birthday.

In a self-described effort to become “the most open and accessible administration in history,” the @whitehouse started to use these platforms to talk directly to their constituents. And Tumblr got to be a big part of that. Over the last eight years, the Obama administration launched more than 20 different Tumblrs for different departments, agencies, and outreach programs. Here are some heavy hitters:

Official Government Tumblrs

The White House (@whitehouse)

Most notably, The White House’s official Tumblr, which launched on April 25, 2013. For almost 4 years, it has been their informational hub for current political events and activations. In keeping with the Tumblr tone, their very first post promised that “yes, of course there will be GIFs.” And yes, there were. We could not have been more excited or proud.

NASA (@nasa)

NASA launched nearly two years later. They’ve spent 59 years exploring the universe and dropped the most amazing information and visuals right to your dashboard. They also knew how to use GIFs. It’s not rocket science.

The U.S. Department of State (@statedept)

The DOS was actually one of the first official government Tumblrs, quietly launching in April of 2011. With a more serious tone, they kept their followers up to date with the world of foreign policy. And yes, they even had GIFs for that. We cannot stress just how good this administration was with GIFs, Tumblr. Much better than Taft’s.

Letters to President Obama (@letterstopresidentobama)

Typed and handwritten letters to POTUS scanned, uploaded, and answered by the President himself. There are thank yous to and from President Obama, there are people disclosing their fear for the future and hope for their community, there are tears in your eyes within the first five minutes of visiting this Tumblr.

The Department of Interior (@americasgreatoutdoors)

Maybe not the most well-known department, but the DOI has the most beautiful photos of any official government blog on Tumblr. This will remain true unless Joe Biden releases a Tumblr full of selfies within the next three days.

There was also the US Fish and Wildlife Service-Pacific Region (@usfwspacific), the National Archives (@usnatarchives) , the IRS (@internalrevenueservice), the Peace Corps (@peacecorps), and so, so much more.

Top Posts from the Community

This scientific trinity received over half a million notes. Say hello to these buddies:

And these uh, unverified photos of President Obama making the new $100 bill in MS Paint garnered over 650k likes, reblogs, and replies.

You want to click through to see the rest. 

This one is particularly timely. With over 300,000 notes, user @cognitivedissonance thanked Obama for ACA. Without it, they would not have been able to receive treatment for bronchitis.

Mic (@micdotcom) posted a GIF set of a girl who sort of represented all of our feelings about President Obama not being able to run for a third term. 

Neither are we, kiddo.

One more time, while we still can: Thanks, Obama.

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These guys are funny. But also dangerous as a tag team. 😂 Superior Swiss Intelligence... love it.

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I usually make my song for the year at the start of the year, but they're wasn't any good singles throughout the year that were worthy to me... until now. This track got to me and I hope to many too. Sound is wonderful, give me emotions and crazy enough, it's been put on repeat so many times that I count even count. So enjoy.

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Awesome awesome awesome album. Every track is damn good. What good music, good vibes, good everything from Abel. I can't remember when I've listen to an album and liked every song on it. This is the first for me. ... I think it was Pharrell's album "In my mind" but it was like two tracks I didn't like. But anyway, Abel, damn. This album is on repeat 24/7.

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Again, I damn near cried 😭. They're happy tears though.

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I’d rather be sane, then rich.

When one of my co-workers ask me to work for them, knowing that over 80 hours can produce a bigger payday, and I want to just punch every staff member in the face.

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Basically, me 👆🏽… and my brother 👆🏽

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Current beat.

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It was all about perseverance,Strength, Discipline… Love. This woman displayed all of these. She was the best person I’ve ever met. She was more than a friend, she was an influence, an instructor to my career path, a co-worker who guided me to the best worker and spoiled me to knowledge of the culinary world. She’s Dana. A culinary extraordinaire and someone who you can depend on when the pie crust or recipe or taste of a dish goes wrong. It’s tore me apart when I found out that my influence passed away. Coming home from work and hearing it from my mom, who together with her, were a pair who could not be brought down, talked down to even if you quit your day to even try, told me the grave news.

Dana, I could not believe you are gone from this world. I could still remember those days I would see you on the third floor of Macy’s making your calls to bridal couples. Blah blah to them and finding time to talk to me about baking, food, and even proper women for me. You were a second mother to me, telling me that you’ll do great in the culinary world. The advice, recipes and even the magazines to cooks illustrated that shown me hidden things to methods too difficult to do on a cutting board or pastry bench.

I would always ask you which appliance were better or method or recipe or even knife was best. You would tell me kitchen aid, grilling, chiffon, and wustuf, spell check that for me… And I would whole heartedly accept all those answers and buy them. Because I trusted you and knew you would not let me down with the knowledge and advice. It was just up to me to execute properly and professionally. I always wanted to make my mom, pops and bro proud in what I do, and I did that. But I always wanted to make you proud of me too. And I hope I did. You and Jeff we’re proud of me… Of me. A kid. And you saw that I achieved a lot in my time in the culinary world. But all I wanted to do was to be you. To get the knowledge and love and extraordinary know-how of the baking and cooking world. And I hope now I’m there.

I still remember when I told my mom that I won a trip to study abroad to China and to study under Martin Yan. She told you and just the excitement came out of all of you, moms, pops, you and Jeff. I went on my trip and when I came back, I invited you and Jeff to a dinner with my parents and relatives to see, meet and eat with Martin. Gosh, what a time. Eat eat eat, talk talk talk, eat some more, talk some more. It was a junction to get excited about because we all talked about life and cooking with Martin. I was really happy you were there to witness a big part of my culinary experience. Then a couple years later, I invited you to my colleges annual food and wine event. You tag teaming with my mom, stuff yourselves to the brim of different vendors specialities. Heck that’s what you’re suppose to do, and you two did it well. My mom met my chefs that mold me to what I am today a couple semesters back, but you didn’t. So I was so happy that you met my culinary scholastic mentors at the event. I still remember tell chef Nader and chef Claire to meet my influence who guided me to be strong in the field and loved me through it all. Beside my mom of course, it was you Dana. You. I still have that Facebook pic of you and chef claire smiling and talking. I captioned it on the bottom, “…my two influences.” Because you two were. Both made me strong and gave countless knowledge of the craft. I thank chef Claire but I especially thank you more because of the love you gave to me in the beginning. Claire was a hard ass, so there was no love but I appreciate everything, EVERYTHING, that chef did to me, molded me and gave me the knowledge to be a strong chef and discipline one too. That pic tho, will always be my influences. Always.

I cried when I heard the sad news you passed. Heck, ask mom. The machismo in me shed some tears but not a lot. I know you wouldn't want me to cry, but to be strong. Mom, rosa to you haha, said when she does pass, she doesn’t want people to grieve for her but to be happy and joyous. That she lived a long, strong, happy and loved life. Death is just the beginning and such. A much happier event will start after death, so just be happy. It’s hard that you’re gone. It just doesn't seem possible.

I’ll miss you Dana. You always wanted to see if I were to open an restaurant or bakery. I’m so sorry that I wasn't able to establish one before your passing but I will promise you that I will open one. And name it “dana’s place”… I’m kidding, even you’d smack me in the head and tell me I’m a dummy to do that. I loved you for keeping it real with me too. You never held back. Hence a strong woman you are. I’m sorry that didn’t happen, I know you would have been proud of any establishment I made in the culinary field, you and Jeff. I’m sorry that I didn’t contact you and Jeff to say hi, how are you and how’s everything. I always wondered what you were doing when that time passed. I felt as if that made me a bad friend. And now that you’re gone, I regret not pick up the cell and calling to check up on you and Jeff to see how my friends were doing. Now I call. I hear no answer but the sound of a voicemail of your voice. God. Man. Leave you a message, more like I rather give you a hug and kiss and talk about new recipes. Shit. I can’t believe you’re gone.

Dana Creason. I regret not checking up on you and the hubby to see how you guys were doing and to just hang out and such. But I do remember that I always said “love you” and you would always say “ love you too sweetheart” and give me a big hug and kiss. I will say that that my last encounter with you at the end, was that. So I will always have that in mind. Forever and ever. I will always talk to you in spirit about my culinary adventures and happenings, my ups and downs and knowledge of everything new. You can count on that Dana. And I will always say “ love you” and I will forever be your “sweetheart”.

we'll bake up a storm together again. Soon enough. I will never forget you. Ever.

Your friend forever, and chef,

David Ulep

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Wouldn't believe what specific memory/flashback came in my head when I heard this piece of nostalgia... 😊... 🙁... 😞

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🔥🏀💵👌🏽🦄

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Wait... 😯 Frye the finals? YESSS!! 😈 FRY NBA!! FRYYYYYY!!! BWAHAHA! 🔥

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... Yea, this happened. 🙄