On April 25, 1976, during a game between the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium, two protestors ran onto the field and tried burning an American flag.
Cubs center fielder Rick Monday quickly ran over and grabbed the flag to save it before the protestors could light it on fire. His quick action was met with a standing ovation from the crowd.
When asked later about the incident, Monday said: "If you're going to burn the flag, don't do it around me. I've been to too many veterans' hospitals and seen too many broken bodies of guys who tried to protect it."
Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸
A U.S. District Court has ruled that parts of the government including FBI and HHS and cannot urge, encourage, pressure or induce social media sites to remove content containing protected free speech. A much needed decision!
🇺🇸 Happy July 4! 🇺🇸
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Front page of WSJ now covering the Louisiana Judge's injunction against federal censorship of social media.
From his decision: "During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’”
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"Grandpa, were you alive during COVID?"
"I certainly was! It was very scary."
"Did you know a lot of people who died?"
"Well, no. But 7 million people died!"
"7 million people died in our country alone? Yikes!"
"Well, no. Around the world."
"In a week or two?"
"Well, no. But over the course of 2 1/2 years."
"What was the world population then?"
"7 billion."
"So 0.1% of the world's population died over 2 1/2 years. But I suppose a lot of them were children, so that's sad."
"Well, no. COVID barely affected children. It was almost entirely people in their mid '70s or older who died."
"Mid '70s?! What was life expectancy back then?"
"Um, if I remember correctly it was around, uh, mid-70s."
*awkward silence*
Reuters awkwardly found that Joe Biden and every living former U.S. president – except Donald Trump – are direct descendants of slaveholders: Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and – through his white mother’s side – Barack Obama.
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NEW: From S&P Global to the London Stock Exchange, tobacco companies are crushing Tesla in the ESG ratings. How could cigarettes, which kill over 8 million a year, be deemed a more ethical investment than electric cars?
One answer: Tobacco’s gone woke.🧵https://t.co/DVJrp65cSQ
I’m embarrassed that I ever supported the Teacher’s Union.
This is Soviet/China style communist authoritarian bullsh#t.
EVERY MEMBER OF THIS SCHOOL BOARD NEEDS TO BE RECALLED!
Now we are learning that if we say NO to men in our spaces we can be arrested. We are in desperate need of protection for actual women. This is absolutely insane.
New CDC Director Mandy Cohen recalls how she and her colleagues came up with COVID mandates during her time as NC Health Director.
“She was like, are you gonna let them have professional football? And I was like, no. And she’s like, OK neither are we.”
It's 2023, my white cousins go to high school in Hawaii. They're regularly called colonizers by some of the native kids there.
In 1959, 93% of Hawaiians voted in favor in statehood. It was the greatest voter turnout in state history.
“What we’ve seen is a lack of transparency, a lack of information, a lack of honesty with the public, compounded by grossly incompetent leaders—including Dr. Fauci and Dr. Walensky. Repeated failure of people deemed as experts.”
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