Doug Leslie

Co-Laborer with smaller churches & nonprofits. Bleed Husker red. Views are my own. Retweets do not confer agrmnt.

[🇺🇸 𝓐𝓟𝓡𝓘𝓛 𝓢𝓟𝓐𝓡𝓚𝓢 🇺🇸 @AprilSpark1890]

💪🏼🇺🇸On July 18, 1863, Sgt. William Harvey Carney became the first Black American to earn the Medal of Honor after rescuing the U.S. flag during the assault on Fort Wagner. Though wounded multiple times, he refused to let Old Glory touch the ground, declaring, “Boys, the old flag never touched the ground.”
A true American hero whose courage and patriotism deserve to be remembered.🇺🇸💪🏼

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

The moment when the British granddaughter introduced grandfather to American grilled cheese.

[Dr. Kent Hovind @Hovind_Official]

We're told mountains take millions of years. But in 1943, a Mexican farmer watched a volcano erupt and build a mountain in ONE DAY. In nine years, it stood 1,100 feet tall. #Geology #Volcano #RapidChange

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

I will go with an underrated historical figure in American History:

Peter Francisco.

He is known as the Hercules of the Revolution and Washington’s One Man Army.

Mighty in stature and valor, his accomplishments include:

Hauling a cannon by himself so the British wouldn’t get it.

Escaping capture from a group of roughly 20 soldiers, killing some and stealing their horses.

Fighting in 6 major battles of the Revolutionary War and playing pivotal roles in many.

George Washington said this about him:

“Without him we would have lost two crucial battles, perhaps the War, and with it our freedom.”

I have a podcast coming out about him tomorrow morning…stay tuned!

[Doug Leslie @DougLeslie]

FANTASTIC!

[Messi World @M10GOAT]

تعليق المعلق الأرجنتيني بابلو غيرالت على هدف التعادل من الأسطورة ليو ميسي 😍🐐

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@NYCMayor Mamdani’s appointed advisory commission is recommending an 18.2% raise for himself and other elected officials purportedly because of inflation, yet his self-appointed Rent Guidelines Board — which is supposed to consider inflation in setting rents— froze rents for two years.

A question for the mayor:

How is this fair or appropriate?

[The College Investor @CollegeInvestin]

A small business can now put $2,500/year into its employees' kids' Trump Accounts - deductible to the business, tax-free to the employee.

If you're an S-corp owner paying yourself W-2 wages, "the employee" can be you.
https://t.co/qvicwSV1ll

[Live Free Podcast @TheLiveFreePod]

Katie Couric and her "expert" guest declare it's wrong and "disturbing" to believe America was founded on Christian principles.

Pastor @howertonjosh & @TimDavidBarton go to Founding Father John Adams to see if they are correct 👇

[Doug Leslie @DougLeslie]

T-ball videos are the best!

[Kat™ The Hammer ⚒️ @KatTheHammer1]

Kids T-ball, the gift that keeps on giving!
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[Emotion & Music @Emotion78687]

It remains one of the most beloved songs of all time. 🎶❤️

[Angela Rose @angelaroosee]

I spoke with the owner of the Drip Cafe in Denver, Colorado where the Denver Communists "protest" on the first Friday of every month.

The cafe has been vandalized and harassed for years because they are Christians. The Communists hand out the anti-cafe flyers on the street to prevent customers from going inside with false claims that they are homophobic.

The cafe helps homeless people get jobs, get ID's, haircuts, and helps them get access to food and clothing, while teaching them Christians principals that help them get off the street and improve their lives.

What incentive do communists have to keep people homeless, on drugs and on the street?

They are incredibly friendly and welcoming at the cafe! Highly recommend people stop on by! 869 Santa Fe Dr, Denver, CO 80204

[Doug Leslie @DougLeslie]

I LOVE this so very much.

[🇺🇸 William 🦅 @William258118]

Grandma is an absolute natural talk show host "Perfect every time", repeating the steps, uncanny😅

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

When I took over @USDA, we found taxpayer dollars funding grants on "racial injustice" in the pest control industry, research on queer and BIPOC farmers in San Francisco, and studies on transgender menstrual cycle issues.

That wasn't serving America's farmers and ranchers.

So we canceled those grants, called off 900 DEI trainings, and began reorganizing USDA to refocus the Department on its core mission. That was a good start—but there is much more work to do.

For too long, Washington prioritized a radical political agenda over the people who feed, fuel, and clothe our nation. Meanwhile, input costs soared, family farms struggled, and in 2023 America became a net food importer for the first time in generations.

Our measure of success is simple: prosperous farmers and ranchers, a stronger rural America, lower costs, and restoring America's food security. 🇺🇸🧑‍🌾

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now.

It was by design.

The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times “could not corroborate” my story despite talking to two of my friends.

I gave them the contact information for five friends.

They called the two who I clarified would not know about the abuse but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline, events, etc.

They simply did not call the other three.

I also gave them the names of all my former roommates who remembered him stalking our row house (which was about 5 houses down from his) and waiting for me to return. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it.

I gave them the names of other men I dated who might have remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us. I gave them emails to my landlord urgently ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town and diary entries talking about it - all time marked.

I told them that during pre-marital counseling I had spoken to my ex-fiance about the abuse because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror any time he lost his temper. They said oh NO we don't need to bother HIM (or my priest). Besides, I had written about it in my diary in detail, they reassured.

As the weeks dragged on I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I had already given them seemed to overwhelm them and I thought it meant they clearly had more than enough to verify my every claim.

My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that yes, I had told them that he was abusive—long before he ran for Senate.

Besides, they assured, my part in their reporting would be small. I thought my details would only serve to affirm Jenny and the other anonymous woman.

Jenny and I - having never met or spoken - both shared with these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse/love bombing. The third unnamed woman in the story did as well.

But tell me again how they “could not corroborate.”

[Doug Leslie @DougLeslie]

This is an excellent rebuttal by Hitchens.

[Taya Bass @travelingflying]

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.

Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.

Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

What an appalling speech the Mayor of New York delivered for the 250th anniversary of the nation.

Sadly, it reflects the view of America propagated for years by Howard Zinn and his like-minded colleagues in the universities and believed by armies of the young: a dark, oppressive country where common people are denigrated by tyrants and oligarchs, where immigrants are treated with contempt, where those with “soft hands” hold the wealth created by those with dirty hands.

No sensible person would claim that our country is without flaws, but the relentlessly negative picture painted by Mayor Mamdani is just absurd.

And it is the fruit of the Marxism that, sadly, is all the rage today.

[Doug Leslie @DougLeslie]

LOVE THIS!!!

[Epic Clip Vault @EpicClipVault]

This single mom passed the bar exam on her first try and her kids’ reaction will break you

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

That is hilarious