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[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🚨 More Americans Died on One British Prison Ship Than in Every Battle of the Revolution Combined. The Empire Called It “Policy.” ☠️

They don’t teach this.

11,500+ American prisoners died on British prison ships during the Revolutionary War.

6,800 died in combat.

Let that math settle in.

The HMS Jersey — nicknamed “Hell” — held 1,000+ men in a space built for 400. Hatches battened down at night. No air. No latrines. Men died in their sleep and lay among the living for days. Dysentery. Typhus. Smallpox.

Rations: worm-infested meat. Moldy bread. Water so foul men drank their own urine.

The British Commissary embezzled the food meant for prisoners. Guards pocketed the difference. Every morning the cry went up: “Rebels, bring out your dead.” Bodies stripped naked, dumped in shallow sandbar graves. For decades after the war, bones washed up on Brooklyn’s shore.

And the choice they offered?

Switch sides. Enlist for the Crown. Get fed. Get freed.

Thousands chose starvation and death instead.
The British refused to classify Americans as POWs — because that would mean recognizing America as a nation. So they called them “rebels in arms.” Criminals.

No protections. No exchanges. Washington begged for prisoner swaps. The British said no. Because starving prisoners was strategic.

This wasn’t collateral damage. This wasn’t the fog of war. This was policy.

The Prison Ship Martyrs’ Monument in Brooklyn holds the bones of ~11,500 of these men. It’s one of the tallest Doric columns on earth. More American dead than Gettysburg, sitting in a crypt in Fort Greene Park.

Nobody visits it. Nobody teaches it.

Because the story of men rotting in floating dungeons, eating their shoes, refusing to betray their country — that’s harder to package than Bunker Hill.

But it’s the truer story.

Remember the ships. Remember what empire actually looks like.

Want video links? Search “HMS Jersey prison ship” or “Prison Ship Martyrs Monument” on X and YouTube — several excellent documentaries and historical breakdowns are available. The History Guy and American Battlefield Trust both have solid pieces on it.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

Under paragraph 2 of Rule VI of the Standing Rules of the Senate, “No Senator shall absent himself from the service of the Senate
without leave.”

Rather than communicating through secret phone calls or anonymous sources, McConnell has an obligation to disclose to the Senate the reason(s) for his extended absence and to request permission of the Senate to grant him the privilege of continued absence.

Without that disclosure and request, and without explicit Senate approval for his extended absence (which I am sure the Senate would grant), McConnell has an obligation to resign. But he is required to make the request under the Standing Rules of the Senate.

These are the rules, and it’s long past time for senators to actually follow them.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American Preacher uses common sense to explain how far off track America has become

“If you can get arrested for hunting and fishing without a license, but you can enter this country and remain in this country illegally, you got a country run by idiots

If you have to get your parents' permission to go on a field trip and get an aspirin at school, but you don't have to get their permission to get an abortion, you got a country run by idiots

If you must show identification to board an airplane and cash a check and check out a library book, But you don't have to show identification to vote in our elections. You got a nation run by a bunch of idiots

If the government wants to prevent and they want to take our guns away and turn around and send F-16 fighter jets to our enemy countries, take our guns away and give ammunition to our enemy countries, you have a country run by idiots.

— If your government believes the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars in debt is to spend more trillions of dollars in debt, you got a country run by idiots.”

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

Benjamin Franklin had a total of seven slaves in the early part of his life. We have evidence that they were humanely treated. Absolutely nothing exists, or was ever written, to the contrary, at a time where everything was meticulously recorded. Particularly by Ben Franklin.
In letters to his sister Jane, Franklin recounts a married couple, Peter and Jemima, in his charge who had horrible work ethic, but Franklin housed them together, did not separate or sell them as punishment, and he never harmed any of them. Ever. He had planned to free them in his will, but outlived them.
Franklin became an abolitionist in the 60s. He had no slaves at the end of his life.
Why did people become abolitionists instead of just freeing their slaves? Because slavery was institutionalized.
Slaves and their forever mortgages were often inherited for this reason.
In order to free a slave, you had to prove their meritorious service (like they saved a baby from a fire) to a court, and then pay £100 sterling per slave (about $20,000 in today’s money). You could let them all go, but they would be recaptured, subject to God knows what, and you’d still have to pay their mortgage. Debtors prison was extremely common, so you pretty much had to die to free them.
It’s a similar model too your student loan and credit card debt.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump announces he is filing for a RE-HEARING with the US Supreme Court on birthright citizenship after an ANCHOR BABY HOSPITAL was discovered in Texas

"Signs and Billboards are being put up all over our Southern Border, and Mexico, advertising BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, with 'Deliveries starting at $4000.'”

"That is a CRIME, and therefore, the Supreme Court’s ruling is wrong. I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY. This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don’t change their absolutely insane decision.”

“US CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE!”

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FULL POST:

“Signs and Billboards are being put up all over our Southern Border, and Mexico, advertising BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, with “Deliveries starting at $4000.”

Likewise, similar signs going up all over our Country. Billions of Dollars will be illegally made by this SCAM, with Citizenship going to anyone willing to pay.

It will be, by far, the number one way of becoming a citizen, and then the entire family will be allowed to follow. Not sustainable.

NOBODY SAW THIS COMING!!! AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE! In fact, that is a crime, and therefore, the Supreme Court’s ruling is wrong.

I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY. This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don’t change their absolutely insane decision.

Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

[Susan Kokinda @sjkokinda]

Trump got a motorcade, cavalry escort and cannons when he arrived in Turkey. The EU's Ursula von der Leyen got a van. That's the story of the Ankara summit. https://t.co/6tHsNc4pJ6

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.

The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.

Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.

Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.

They took until there was nothing left to take.

America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.

And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Not almost unprecedented.

It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.

The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.

Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.

That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.

Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.

No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has blood in its history.

But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.

It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.

When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.

By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.

Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.

The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.

They shaped the modern world.

AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.

1945 was the first test.

AI is the last.

That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.

The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

[Taya Bass @travelingflying]

Thomas Sowell: ”Slavery was much bigger and involved infinitely more people than people have realized. It was not confined by race. It was not defined or created by race. It existed for thousands of years.

A history professor once had a student come up to him and ask, ‘When did slavery begin?’ The real question is: when did freedom begin? Cause slavery existed as long as we have any records. From archaeological findings, we know that people were enslaving other people before they could read or write. It has always existed and has existed all over the world.

The number of White people enslaved by pirates in North Africa was greater than the number of Africans brought to the United States.

And yet, that’s not even mentioned.”

[Tony Shaffer 🇺🇲☢️ @tspooky]

Everything about @TheDemocrats - from the Trail of Tears, to the Confederacy and the Civil War, to Woodrow Wilson segregation, Japanese American internment, to the current flock of violent sexual deviants - is all about violence and hate - here @RepSusieLee shows how she is a true believer in the brand of violence...the whole party is Nazi adjacent at this point...

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Here you go!

Pass the SAVE America Act

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

I have no idea whether Seth Rich leaked the WikiLeaks stuff or why he was murdered. But I have so much respect for Ty Clevenger for sticking with this case with bulldog determination. If it weren't for him, we'd never have any chance of finding out. Now, maybe one day we will.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

Consider these words from 1920, written by French author Hilaire Belloc:

“The modern world imagines that it has outgrown religion. It has done nothing of the kind. It has merely forgotten it. And because it has forgotten it, it no longer understands itself. Men do not realize that the whole framework of their moral judgments, their political habits, and even their intellectual methods were formed within a Christian society and cannot exist long outside it. When that framework breaks, they will not find themselves enlightened, but bewildered; not free, but enslaved; not rational, but confused.”

[Bishop Fulton Sheen @Bishop_Sheen]

America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance – it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ, and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

You've probably heard this before, but it's always worth repeating. Something extremely cool about the "Star-spangled Banner," the American national anthem, is that it asks a question, and it's the question at the heart of everything in the American worldview.

"Oh, say, can you see
By the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed
At the twilight's last gleaming..."

So the anthem begins with a question and a scene. One man, a patriot, is asking another man, another patriot, "can you see it?" at sunrise after a long, dangerous night.

The "it" in question is going to be revealed to be the flag, our "star-spangled banner," which they had last fully recognized and honored as the sun set, daylight failed, and night crept over them the evening before.

Can you see it? Say! Can you see it?!

IS IT STILL THERE?!

"Whose broad stripes and bright stars
Through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched
Were so gallantly streaming..."

Here we find that the "it" is in fact the flag, our star-spangled banner, and we learn why the question is being asked.

The flag is described as having flown and streamed gallantly over ramparts of war through a perilous fight. All could have been lost. The flag, and even the fledgling country for which it stands, one nation under God and indivisible.

Say! Can you see it? Now that the light is back?

IS IT STILL THERE?!

"--And the rockets' red glare,
The bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there!--"

They could see it through the battle in the light of the rockets and bombs that threatened them, here and there in quick glimpses. But it was still there throughout! But now? At dawn?

Say! Can you see?

IS IT STILL THERE?!

"Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free
And the home of the brave?"

The urgency is palpable with every refrain. They have to know. It's the first thing they must know as the sun begins to light the sky, even before it rises.

IS IT STILL THERE?!

Say! Say!! Can you see? Can you see it?!

At the heart of every American beats the fundamental truth and reality that what we have here is precious, that it's worth fighting for, to the death if necessary, and that it's fragile. That at any moment it can be lost. That we have to remember to look for it because last night might have been the night in which it failed.

Every day, every year, every generation.

The American fight for freedom, to live in self-governance within ordered liberty, is ongoing and never-ending. The price of the land of the free is that it must be the home of the brave. We have to defend it, defend it, and defend it again, against all enemies foreign and domestic, because what we have is amazing, rare, fragile, and worth every cent of treasure, every drop of blood, and every risk to our sacred honor to protect it.

Our anthem is not a declaration. It is not a proclamation. It is not a statement.

It is a question.

Every time we sing our wholly unique national anthem, we as American ask the question again. IS IT STILL THERE?! Are we still America? Does that star-spangled banner yet wave?

Because it's a question, the answer is not known. It is not a guarantee. It cannot be taken for granted and isn't. And what an honor to ask and take up our part in the story, in the American Experiment, in the greatest country the world has ever known.

For tonight, the last night of our first 250 years, as the sun gave way to twilight's last gleaming and darkness overtook our land once again, the answer was still yes. We can see it even tonight in the red glare of rockets, with small bombs bursting in air, fill the sky with the noble tribute of fireworks once again.

And we all ask ourselves, will it still be flying at dawn?

This is what it means to be an American.

Happy 250th, America! Now for many happy returns!
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[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

"I am hunted like a fox by the enemy." A signer of the Declaration of Independence actually wrote those words. He moved his family five times in three months to keep them alive. Meet Thomas McKean.

McKean is one of the most important Founders you were never taught about, partly because he was too busy actually fighting to sit still for the famous painting.

Here's the setup. In July 1776, the vote for independence came down to the wire, and Delaware's delegation was deadlocked. McKean was one of its delegates, and he's the man who sent an urgent rider through a thunderstorm to fetch the third Delaware delegate, Caesar Rodney, for that legendary all-night ride that broke the tie and swung Delaware to independence. McKean helped make the yes vote happen.

Then, instead of hanging around Philadelphia to sign the pretty copy, he grabbed a musket. He took command of a militia battalion and marched off to actually fight the war he'd just voted for. Which is why, when almost everyone else signed the engrossed Declaration on August 2, 1776, McKean wasn't there. His signature got added later. In fact there's real evidence his name wasn't put on the document until years afterward, which can make him the last man to sign the Declaration of Independence.

And while he was out there, the British wanted his head. He was a marked man, a signer and a rebel officer, and they hunted him relentlessly. In 1777 he wrote to his friend John Adams the line that says it all: "I am hunted like a fox by the enemy." He described being forced to move his family five times in just three months, at one point stashing them in a little log house on the banks of the Susquehanna, only for them to have to run again.

Think about that. Not a general on a horse in a portrait. A husband and father dragging his family from hideout to hideout, staying one step ahead of soldiers who wanted to hang him.

He survived all of it. And then he just kept going. McKean served as President of Congress in 1781, meaning he was effectively leading the nation when the news arrived that Cornwallis had surrendered at Yorktown and the war was won. He later spent years as chief justice and then governor of Pennsylvania, and lived all the way to 1817, dying at 83.

A man who voted for freedom, fought for it with a gun, got chased across the countryside like an animal for it, and lived long enough to see the whole thing hold together.

Thomas McKean. Hunted like a fox, and never caught.

[Ron Coleman @RonColeman]

"In one stroke, Trump cemented American dominance over the world. Iran, China, India, Europe, Russia, Africa...all crushed. He pressed the "fix everything" button and all it took was paying 50 cents more at the pump for a couple of months.

"I'd say that was more than worth it"

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

Democrats filibustered the Civil Rights Act for 75 days.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

We dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, twice, and 80 years later they light up their cities in our colors as a show of how much they love us.

Meanwhile, we bailed half of Europe out, twice, and their governments take every last opportunity to signal how much they despise us.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism... Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.” - Theodore Roosevelt