• Marc wins another title then signs to go back to Honda. • Fabio loses patience with yamaha and goes to Aprillia. • Marco stays with Aprillia • Martin goes to KTM • Pedro moves to Gresini • Fermin goes full factory • Pecco gets dropped and signs for VR46

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So in the UK 16 year old WON'T: Be able to use social media Drink Smoke Vote But you will be able to join the army and fight for a government who hates you. And soon they'll possibly let 26 year Olds vote. @LabourParty and @Kier_Stammer are an absolute joke. Total joke.

On the morning of June 6, 1944, Lt. Dick Winters had already survived one disaster before the sun came up. His C-47 roared over Normandy through a wall of flak, flying too fast and too low. He jumped anyway. The prop blast ripped his leg bag clean off, taking his rifle, his ammo, and most of his gear. He hit the ground in occupied France armed with a knife in his boot. Most men in that situation hide. Winters started walking toward the sound of the war. By dawn he had scavenged a rifle, collected a handful of scattered paratroopers, and learned that his company commander's plane had gone down with everyone aboard. Just like that, a quiet lieutenant from Pennsylvania who didn't drink, didn't curse, and wrote letters home about wanting to find a peaceful farm someday was in command of Easy Company. A few hours later a battalion officer gave him one of the great understated orders in military history. German fire was coming from a farm called Brecourt Manor, hammering the troops coming off Utah Beach. The order was basically: there's fire along that hedgerow, take care of it. What was actually there: four 105mm howitzers dug into a hedgerow network, connected by zigzag trenches, covered by machine guns, and defended by roughly 60 German troops. The guns were dropping shells directly on causeway exit 2, where thousands of Americans were trying to get off the beach. Every minute those guns fired, men died in the sand. Winters had 12. He did not charge. He crawled forward alone to study the position, then briefed his men like he had all the time in the world. Machine guns here to pin the defenders. Compton, Guarnere, and Malarkey crawling along the flank. Hit the first gun with grenades and speed from a direction the Germans never expected. It worked almost exactly as drawn. The first gun fell in minutes. Then his men used the German trenches as a highway, rolling up the battery one gun at a time, beating back counterattacks, and dropping blocks of TNT down the barrels to destroy them for good. In the middle of the firefight, Don Malarkey spotted what he thought was a Luger on a dead German and sprinted into open ground to grab it. The German machine gunners held their fire, apparently deciding that anyone that reckless had to be a medic. He made it back alive. It wasn't even a Luger. At the second gun, Winters found something better than a pistol: a German map showing every artillery and machine gun position covering Utah Beach. He sent it up the chain immediately. On the most important morning of the war, a 26-year-old lieutenant had just handed the Allies the enemy's entire defensive layout for the sector. When reinforcements under Lt. Ronald Speirs arrived, they stormed the fourth and final gun. About three hours after it started, the battery was silent and the exits off Utah Beach were open for thousands of men who will never know his name. The cost: one American killed, a few wounded. The Germans lost around 15 dead and a dozen captured. Winters received the Distinguished Service Cross and later said the best decoration he ever got was a sergeant telling him years later that his men trusted him with their lives. The assault on Brecourt Manor is still studied at West Point as a textbook example of a small unit destroying a fixed position. Around 60 defenders. Four guns. Twelve paratroopers and a lieutenant who started D-Day with nothing but a knife. If it sounds familiar, it should. This is the same Easy Company from Band of Brothers. The difference is that none of it was fiction. And when Winters was asked decades later if he was a hero, he gave the answer that still gets quoted at his statue in Normandy: "No. But I served in a company of heroes."

Finally watched the Michael Jackson movie. Absolutely phenomenal. The choreography was absolutely unreal.

Dick Winters was wounded 82 years ago today in Carentan…what a leader. 😎 - 2 combat jumps 🪂 - 4 Campaign Stars ⭐️ - CIB 🪖 - Distinguished Service Cross 🇺🇸 - 2 Bronze Stars 🎖️ - Purple Heart 💜 - French Croix de Guerre 🇫🇷

For those of you interested in race medical care, let me introduce to Delta 7, the absolutely indomitable Doctor John Hinds. An incredible human whose loss is still felt every single day youtu.be/ocHeJG5o8N0?si=qrXt…

Jorge Martín explica que ha perdido el control de su moto en la salida del GP de Hungría de #MotoGP y pide disculpas a todos los pilotos que ha perjudicado

Following his crash and collision during the #HungarianGP 🇭🇺 David Muñoz suffered fractures to his pelvis. The Spaniard is currently undergoing surgery at a hospital in Budapest. Everyone of the team wishes him all the best and a speedy recovery. ❤️

David Lammy is an absolute humiliation.

Pedro made Marc work for that 🫡

No brainier today folks. @37_pedroacosta 👍

God I hope we ditch this mickey mouse track.

Really don't believe that start 🤦‍♂️

Whatever your thoughts on a Senior TT being declared after one lap, three things aren’t up for debate: Gary Thompson and his team do an amazing job, and you wouldn’t want his role. Believe me. You cannot control the weather. Dean Harrison is a worthy winner. He’s been sublime!

Oh look … here’s Rachel from accounts not doing “foreign Interference”

Today, we remember Alan Turing, who died on 7 June 1954. A mathematician, codebreaker and pioneer of modern computing, Turing's work helped shorten the Second World War and laid the foundations for technologies that shape our lives today. For decades, his achievements went largely unrecognised, and he faced profound personal challenges because of who he was. Yet his contribution to science, innovation and society remains extraordinary. On the anniversary of his death, we honour a man whose ideas changed the world and whose legacy continues to inspire generations of thinkers, problem-solvers and innovators. Photo: Princeton University Archives – Public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)

Taking another Jump in Normandy 75 years later.

BIG FIGHT BREAKS OUT INSIDE POLAND’S WROCŁAW ZOO 😂 A rhino and a baby deer were having a playful fight together ❤️ The baby deer somehow managed to scare the rhino and send it running 🦌🦏😭

Oh, John. John, John, John. You met surviving veterans at Normandy and you actually managed to type the words "safeguard their legacy and the freedoms they fought for" without your keyboard bursting into flames from the sheer hypocrisy. These men fought to keep invaders off British shores. Your government cannot even manage to keep illegal immigrants out of a hotel in Dover. They fought for British sovereignty. You preside over a government that gives away territory to foreign powers and grovels to international courts. And the veterans. Oh yes, let's talk about the veterans, shall we? The same veterans your government is currently hounding through the courts. The same veterans you treat like criminals while foreign criminals walk free. The same veterans whose memorials you visit for photo opportunities while your policies spit on everything they actually fought for. "Responsibility to safeguard their legacy." You wouldn't recognise their legacy if it marched up and saluted you. They fought for a Britain that was proud, sovereign, and secure. You are overseeing a Britain that is none of those things. Here’s the thing, John. You and the entire Labour government are the enemy. Those veterans have something you don’t time. They have already outlived every enemy they’ve ever faced, and they will outlive you too. They’re watching right now. When your government collapses, your name won’t be remembered in the history books. It will be a punchline in pubs. Smile for the cameras. They’re still watching.