Tim Milligan

[American Nightmare 🇺🇸 @thewakeninq]

A German fan said it best:

“If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive through it.”

Over 3.6 million fans packed stadiums for the World Cup, breaking attendance records. Millions came from every corner of the globe and experienced what the headlines never show: welcoming people, incredible hospitality, and a country unlike any other.

The media sells outrage. America sells itself.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

250 years ago today, a man stood up in a room full of nervous delegates and said the words that made America inevitable.

Not Thomas Jefferson. Not George Washington. Not Benjamin Franklin.

A Virginia planter named Richard Henry Lee.

It was June 7, 1776. The war had already been going for over a year. Men were dying. Cities were burning. And yet the Continental Congress still had not officially declared independence from Britain.

That morning, Lee rose and read aloud a resolution he had been instructed to deliver by Virginia:

"That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."

John Adams immediately seconded it.

The room erupted.

The debate that followed was so heated that Congress had to table the vote entirely. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and South Carolina were not ready. Their delegates had not been authorized to vote for independence. Some feared it was too soon. Some feared it was treason.

So Congress bought time. They postponed the vote for three weeks and quietly appointed a committee to draft a formal declaration, just in case the resolution passed.

That committee included Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and a soft-spoken 33-year-old Virginia lawyer known for his elegant writing.

Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson wrote the Declaration. It was adopted July 4. The world celebrated.

And Richard Henry Lee, the man whose words started everything, whose resolution is the reason any of this happened?

He had already gone home to Virginia. He missed the signing entirely.

Jefferson is immortalized. Lee is a footnote.

History is funny that way.

[Frothy Assets @frothyassets]

The name of a killed service member covered up by a Dow Jones index ticker is a pretty grim metaphor for how America often operates.

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

This is the direction. This is the energy. If you don't share it, people will be suspicious of you, and rightfully so.

[healthbot @thehealthb0t]

Here's Net Zero for you:

An estimated 40,000 child slaves—some as young as seven—work long hours for minimal pay in the dangerous conditions of Congo's cobalt mines, extracting the cobalt necessary for electric car batteries and other products.

[kevin harrish @Kevinish]

I love how when players do something dumb they have to explain themselves to Caleb Downs before they even talk to a coach lol

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

Here's a primer on what top national security officials mean when they say "continuity of government":

https://t.co/byTfsUF2I6

[Ohio Divided @BuckeyeNatty]

The narrative Desmond is pushing that #OhioState “bought” Jeremiah Smith is laughable

He committed a YEAR before signing

Meanwhile, Underwood didn’t even consider #Michigan until days before Signing Day with $12M on the table

Brain Dead of the Day: @DesmondHoward

[Ohio State Football @OhioStateFB]

2ND LONGEST TOUCHDOWN RUN IN CFP SEMI FINAL GAME HISTORY ‼️

[Eleven Warriors @11W]

JACK SAWYER SCOOP AND SCORE ♥️

[Tim Milligan @78mills]

@morpheuswhale Done

[Tim Milligan @78mills]

@CryptoGFishere Done ✔️

[James Li @5149jamesli]

Get you Jersey Mike’s subs while you can, before Blackstone replaces the real meat with fake lab grown 🤮

Also, call me old fashioned, but no private equity investment company should be able to make a profit while simultaneously bankrupting the company they are invested in. 🤷‍♂️

[🇨🇦Unacceptable Canadian Girl🇨🇦 @AreOhEssEyeEe]

Keep your children close If you're visiting the West Edmonton Mall.

This is terrifying.

[Buckeye Realm @BuckeyeRealm_]

#6 Robert Fitzgerald purposely twisting and pulling Jeremiah Smith’s leg after the play. Dirty play.

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

BREAKING: Diddy has been arrested and taken into federal custody by the FBI.

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

BREAKING: Legendary actor James Earl Jones dead at 93

R.I.P.