Dennis Shimer

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

General Omar Bradley called it the most dangerous mission of D-Day. He was not wrong.

At 6:30am on June 6, 1944, 225 Army Rangers approached a 100-foot sheer cliff face on the Normandy coast called Pointe du Hoc.

Their mission: climb it.

The cliff was vertical. The Germans were at the top with full visibility of everyone below. As the Rangers fired grappling hooks upward, the Germans cut the ropes. Shot the men hanging on them. Dropped grenades over the edge onto the climbers beneath.

The Rangers kept climbing.

It took roughly 40 minutes. Men fell. Men were shot off the ropes. The ones behind them grabbed the ropes and kept going.

They reached the top.

Then came the gut punch: the massive 155mm artillery guns they had been sent to destroy were gone. The Germans had moved them inland before the invasion. The entire mission had been sent to destroy guns that weren't there.

Most commanders would have regrouped and called it done.

The Rangers fanned out. Two miles inland, they found the guns, hidden in an orchard, already aimed at Utah Beach and loaded to fire. They destroyed every one with thermite grenades.

Then they dug in. Cut off, with almost no ammunition, no reinforcements, and no resupply, 225 men held Pointe du Hoc against relentless German counterattacks for two full days.

When relief finally arrived, only 90 Rangers could still stand and fight.

Their names are carved on a memorial in Normandy. Most Americans today cannot name a single one.

[Dovi Safier @safier]

“It was one of the most monumentally unselfish things one group of people did for another.”

-#DDay veteran Andy Rooney on the young 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy 82 years ago.

Required watching for every young person today!

[Baby News Network @BabyNetworkNews]

Chinese Emperor Baby Trump is HILARIOUS... 😂

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

A reporter asked me what are three of my core values. Here’s what I said.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

This may be the most articulate response I’ve ever heard to this question.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Larry Ellison just asked the one question no journalist on Earth can answer.

A Wall Street Journal writer told Ellison to his face that Elon Musk doesn’t know what he’s doing.

Ellison didn’t argue. Didn’t get emotional. He just asked a question.

Ellison: “This guy is landing rockets on robot drone rafts in the ocean, and you’re saying he doesn’t know what he’s doing. You ever land a rocket?”

One question. No recovery.

Ellison: “Who are you? Why should I believe you as opposed to my friend Elon?”

This is the question the entire media class has been dodging for a decade. Who are you to judge? What have you built? What have you shipped? What problem have you solved that didn’t involve a keyboard and a deadline?

Ellison: “You’re there in front of your Apple Macintosh typing up an article saying Elon’s an idiot.”

They sit behind a laptop they did not engineer. Using a network they did not build. Running on silicon they cannot explain. To tell the world that the man sending humans to space doesn’t know what he’s doing.

They have never built anything heavier than a Word document.

And they publish it with absolute certainty.

That’s the part that should disturb you. Not the criticism. The confidence behind it. The total absence of self-awareness it takes to judge disciplines you wouldn’t last a single semester in.

Musk does not operate in opinion. He operates in the physical layer of the universe where the math closes or the rocket does not come home.

His critics operate in a text editor.

He built the vehicle that carries NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. The satellite constellation delivering internet to active war zones. The EV that forced every automaker on Earth to abandon their combustion roadmap.

His loudest critics built a byline.

So why the coordinated hatred?

Because they lost the leash.

The attacks didn’t escalate because Musk got worse at engineering. They escalated because he bought X. He cracked open the algorithm. He handed the public square back to the people. And he shattered their ability to control what you’re allowed to think.

They don’t hate the engineer.

They hate that the engineer took their monopoly.

You cannot cancel a rocket. You cannot publish a hit piece on gravity. You cannot edit the laws of physics.

They own the syntax.

He owns the physics.

One of them is going to Mars.

[Dennis Shimer @DennisShimer]

“Was the tomb really empty?” Take a minute to watch this. ✝️ https://t.co/gvXZSGfs5w via @Not_the_Bee

[Dennis Shimer @DennisShimer]

GPD Group Multisite Capabilities & Experience https://t.co/564uz875RT via @YouTube

[Dennis Shimer @DennisShimer]

It is indeed a joy to be challenged daily as part of an amazing team at @GPDGroup (and I don't use those words lightly)
GPD Group Multisite Capabilities & Experience https://t.co/564uz875RT via @YouTube

[Dennis Shimer @DennisShimer]

The video is gut wrenching and amazing for the ending and what it means, the observation is important and thought provoking.
Purely by God's grace I could have stepped forward at every point and well before I became a believer, rather than ever rebelling, I resolved to live my life the same way. Adding that faith before marriage provided the ultimate reason, resolve, and multiplied blessings of seeing that chain continue.

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

This is a sweet video...

I like to tell people that your family is not your fate.

You’re not doomed to become your parents or to live exactly as you lived in your own childhood.

If you came from a broken home, full of anger, constant arguing, and disorder, you don’t have to repeat that. You can escape it.

But, almost paradoxically, you don’t escape it by obsessing over how you were wronged in your childhood. That usually pulls you right back into it. That’s why so many men who swear they’ll never become their fathers end up doing exactly that.

You escape it by being future-focused for the good of others. You escape it by building something that blesses people beyond yourself, in your community, in your church, and especially in your family.

You can be the link in a new chain. God brings beauty from ashes, and he has a habit of extinguishing a hellish heritage and, through a bold-hearted, repentant man, replacing it with the beginnings of a heritage shaped by heaven.

But “your family is not your fate” cuts both ways. Maybe you’re not the first link, but the second or third in a godly heritage. You were blessed with advantages, growing up in church, reading the Bible, living in a home with present parents. If you take that for granted, your life will look very different from theirs, and not in a good way.

The good life, as the Bible defines it, grows out of a Christian who wakes up and asks the LORD, “How can I obey you today, for your glory and for the good of others into the future?”

[Dennis Shimer @DennisShimer]

Well apparently I had at least one thing in common with @ScottAdamsSays

[Shibetoshi Nakamoto @BillyM2k]

this was scott adams’s favorite dilbert comic

you shall live on forever in your body of work, sir 🫡

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

"The man on the middle cross said I could come..."

This might be the best 3-minutes of preaching I've *EVER* seen. If you don't feel this in your soul, you need to check your pulse 😭🙌

[Dennis Shimer @DennisShimer]

Op-ed: Five things I guarantee will happen in 2026 https://t.co/x3wOTmB7sj via @NTBTakes

[Dennis Shimer @DennisShimer]

OPINION: People were so busy laughing at Glenn Beck’s AI Washington, they didn’t notice how historically accurate it was https://t.co/cfTGdM0D0n via @NTBTakes

[Dennis Shimer @DennisShimer]

Never misses an opportunity to make a stong point well. Lessons in thoughtfulness.

Op-ed: A knock still echoes … thoughts on the senseless death of Rob Reiner https://t.co/lYxrTaXHga via @NTBTakes

[Tom Patterson @MtnMapper]

I completely rebuilt the North America Physical Map. Version 2.0 is more accurate, detailed, and prettier. Available here: https://t.co/A0n8Zddj7A

[Edward Graham @EdwardG1911]

Yesterday, I spoke with @AccuWeather about our ongoing response to Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica. @SamaritansPurse has already mobilized staff and aircraft’s to deliver aid and work through the local church. Our 757 offloaded earlier this week and our DC-8 departed yesterday loaded with tarps and other supplies. Tomorrow our 767 takes off with a tier 2 hospital to replace a destroyed medical facility. The storm has brought devastating destruction to families and communities across Jamaica, and @SamaritansPurse is committed to staying until the work is complete. Please pray for the people of Jamaica, that they would know they are not forgotten and that God loves them.

[Dennis Shimer @DennisShimer]

"Oh yeah" say the grandpas in the crowd.

[G-MA & G-PA @GPAIndiana]

Grandpa Rock Playlist 💕 I’m feeling old now 😂😂

[The Real Mr Bench @therealmrbench]

When satire from 2013 becomes reality in 2025.

[Dennis Shimer @DennisShimer]

Scottie Scheffler shares deep perspective on satisfaction of winning https://t.co/bqFXTj0RTs