Bryan Caskey

Husband, father, lawyer. The South is Permanent Press - it doesn't wash out.

[Bryan Caskey @BryanCaskey]

@JakeSherman Platner isn't really good with the concept of consent.

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

Democratic consultant interviewing new candidate to replace Graham Platner in Maine Senate race

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

What an amazing and breathtaking photo…

Photo by Elle Lookbook…

[Bryan Caskey @BryanCaskey]

Belgium and USA

[Bryan Caskey @BryanCaskey]

@ATRightMovies Most any Bond movie will do, but Goldfinger is the top.

https://t.co/8AkbJqKJff

[Novig @Novig]

Belgium vs USA match preview

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: The Belgian federation is challenging FIFA's decision to let U.S. forward Folarin Balogun play in World Cup match. https://t.co/yHYgbs4xcI

[Jomboy Media @JomboyMedia]

USA's Folarin Balogun will be available to play in the round of 16 match against Belgium since his one-game red-card ban was suspended, per @AdamCrafton_

[French Demon☀️👹🇫🇷 @frenchdemon666]

🇺🇸 : France i need help plz
🇫🇷 : I can't im broke
🇺🇸 : It's against the british
🇫🇷 :

[Bryan Caskey @BryanCaskey]

Happy Independence Day, Europe.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Trump administration tells the International Criminal Court it has “no jurisdiction” over Americans & will not cooperate with any investigations.

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

"Up the Rebels. Down the British."

[Bryan Caskey @BryanCaskey]

Happy 250!

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Vin Scully called games involving Connie Mack, born 1862, and Julio Urias, born 1996.

[Bryan Caskey @BryanCaskey]

@JonahDispatch I would love a Back to the Future of someone going from 2026 to 1996.

[Paul Keeley @drcrouchback]

Sail perpendicularly into their line, shattering it and forcing devastating close-quarters combat with superior gunnery.

[Mahir 🇹🇷🇬🇧 @ScrewderiaF1]

Football fans after DR Congo’s elimination:

[Cadillac Formula 1 Team @Cadillac_F1]

Marking the moment in full color.

With this year’s British Grand Prix taking place over Fourth of July weekend, we’re paying tribute to our American roots 🇺🇸

[Bryan Caskey @BryanCaskey]

Today, right now, the morning of July 1 in 1863, the dismounted cavalry troopers of Gen Buford delayed a larger Confederate infantry advance because Buford saw the importance of denying the Confederates the high ridge south of a little town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg.

[Bryan Caskey @BryanCaskey]

The Dutch coach is the most Dutch looking person, ever.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

250 years ago today, on June 28, 1776, a half-finished fort made of palm tree logs and sand did something it had no business doing: it beat the most powerful navy on earth and saved the American South. We just hit the 250th anniversary of one of the most improbable victories of the entire Revolution.

The setup looked hopeless. A massive British fleet under Admiral Sir Peter Parker sailed into Charleston harbor to crush the rebellion in the south before it could grow. Guarding the city was an unfinished little fort on Sullivan's Island, defended by Colonel William Moultrie and a few hundred men. The walls weren't even done. One British officer reportedly figured they'd flatten it in an hour.

Then the palmetto logs did the impossible. The fort was built from soft, spongy palmetto wood packed with sand, and instead of shattering when the British cannonballs hit, the logs just absorbed them. Iron sank into the mush and stuck. The fleet hammered that fort for hours and could not break it, while the American gunners coolly fired back and tore the British warships apart. Several ships ran aground. Admiral Parker himself got hit so hard that the blast literally ripped the seat out of his pants.

And then the moment that became legend. When a cannon blast knocked the fort's flag down, Sergeant William Jasper climbed out over the wall, in the middle of the bombardment, grabbed the fallen colors, and raised them back up so everyone could see the fort still stood.

By nightfall the British fleet limped away. They wouldn't seriously come back to the south for nearly three more years. South Carolina loved that fort so much it put the palmetto tree on its state flag, where it still flies today.

A quarter of a millennium later, the lesson still lands. Sometimes the thing everyone writes off as too soft and too unfinished to matter is the exact thing that refuses to break.