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[Mike Solana @micsolana]

you're not having a hard time buying a house because jeff bezos owns a yacht. you're having a hard time buying a house because you voted for people who hate you.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him.

His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang.

Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on.

That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was.

Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose.

And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot.

So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out.

Then he simply outlived everyone.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake.

He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him.

The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway.

We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's.

Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?

[NittanyLawyer @IrishMomJD]

Hallelujah! He is risen!

[SurgePhilly @Surge_Philly]

Things got heated when a Middle Eastern man confronted protesters who were supporting the Islamic Regime of Iran at City Hall in Philadelphia. The man approached the protesters and asked why they weren’t speaking for the 50 thousand plus Iranians that lost their lives at the hand of the Islamic Regime and the Ayatollah. He went further, calling the protesters fake activists for not standing for the women of Iran who have been victimized by the regime’s Islamic tyranny. He called their protesting performative and a result of being guilty about not having anything better to do in life. They responded by harassing and surrounding him in an attempt to silence him. At one point, they had him completely surrounded and he was unable to move.

@FrankJScales got to ask the man what he meant when he called the protesters spoiled Americans. He said that America is the most ‘materially successful country in the world’ and that the people protesting have never been to the Middle East and are lucky to live in America. Thoughts?

[Matt Finn @MattFinnFNC]

NOW: Famed Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. HUGE Pro-USA, Pro-Iran, Pro-Israel celebratory demonstration. Dancing and crying in the street.

[Matt Finn @MattFinnFNC]

MASSIVE Iranian, Pro-USA demonstration shutting down Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles just took a moment of silence for American service members who have died and then chanted "USA! USA!" Predominant pro-Trump sentiment.

[Kiana Danial @KianaDanial]

If you’re not happy for the Iranian people today, it’s clear whose side you’re on.

Iran will be free 💚🤍❤️

[Thomas Rid @RidT]

M Street and Wisconsin in Georgetown taken over by a large crowd of celebrating Iranians, chanting USA USA … not what I was expecting during my run today.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

While Mehdi Hasan and Cenk Uyghur and Dave Smith and Tucker Carlsen and Hasan Piker and Bushra Shaikh and Calla Walsh and all the other miserable demons are crying,

This is Iran tonight.

I hope you all cry and seethe forever.

[Doog @doogadoo11]

If you’re bombing a country

And the citizens of that country are celebrating

You’re doing the right thing

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

In Tehran, people are cheering and celebrating amid reports of Khamenei's death.

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

The Iranian freedom rally that the Iranian channel would not show (it showed the anti war protest only).

[دانشجوی استاد کسروی @Mo32809229]

@georgegalloway Shut the fuck up.
We Iranians have been waiting for this moment for 47 years—for our killers, the IRGC members and the Ayatollahs, to be eliminated.

This news about 57 schoolgirls being killed is also fake news.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Operation Epic Fury.

President Trump has been willing to do what’s right and necessary to produce real peace in the region.

God bless the United States, our great military, and Israel.

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @__Injaneb96]

I am an Iranian and I would like to ask you to pray for the U.S. forces, and the Iranian people (Not the Ayatollahs' regime).

Long live the people of Iran, and God bless the United States of America.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

Being a dad is so fucking sick. People always made it sound scary but it’s dope as hell. This morning my 2 year old and I were stomping around pretending to be baby dinosaurs and cracking each other up, she’s my favorite thing in the world

[NittanyLawyer @IrishMomJD]

⁦@MikeFOX29⁩ #fox29
Delran, Burlington Co NJ

[Magills @magills_]

🔴: Not 2026 Hockey Gold Medal Winner
🔵: 2026 Hockey Gold Medal Winners

[Speaker @HoosierSpeaker]

Water covers 70% of the Earth.

The other 30% is covered by Connor Hellebuyck.

Nails.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Did You Know:

The CCP was so furious that Alysa Liu refused to skate for Team China that they sent spies after her and her father in America

The FBI discovered the plot and told Alysa, she has spoken publicly how China attempted to intimidate her not to skate for Team USA