Matt

Just your typical accountant. Alabama grad. Still never had a hole in one in golf.

[Kerry Goode @KerryGoode]

America at 250: This Country Belongs to All of Us

When I was ten years old, I celebrated America’s Bicentennial with my family in Town Creek, Alabama. We had a big celebration at the local ballpark, barbecue smoke in the air, softball games, laughter, fireworks, and all the excitement a child could handle. I did not understand the magnitude of what we were celebrating. I just knew this ten-year-old boy was having a ball.

Now, fifty years later, I understand something I could not understand then.

Independence is not just fireworks in the sky. Independence is sacrifice. Independence is struggle. Independence is the right to stand in a country that has not always treated everyone fairly and still say, “This belongs to me too.”

Happy 250th Birthday to the United States of America.

Over the years, I have often wondered why every American should celebrate this milestone, including Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Indigenous Americans, Asian Americans, immigrants, and every group that has ever had to fight for dignity in this land.

The answer is simple.

We celebrate not because America has been perfect. We celebrate because we helped build it, shape it, defend it, challenge it, and push it closer to the promise it made.

At the base of the Statue of Liberty are the words, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Those words were not written for the rich, the powerful, or the comfortable. They were written for the worn out, the overlooked, the rejected, and the people searching for hope.

That ideal belongs to everybody.

Black Americans helped build America’s wealth through forced labor, then helped reshape its soul through faith, courage, culture, civil rights, and sacrifice. Hispanic Americans strengthened this country through labor, service, family, faith, military courage, and culture. Indigenous Americans are the original stewards of this land. Immigrants from every continent have helped shape America’s food, music, medicine, science, industry, and future.

America at 250 is not one group’s story. It is everybody’s story.

To celebrate America does not mean we ignore slavery, Jim Crow, lynching, segregation, redlining, discrimination, broken promises, or unequal treatment. Celebration is not silence. Celebration is not approval of everything that happened.

Celebration is claiming our place.

It is saying, “We survived this. We fought through this. We contributed to this. We bled for this. We belong here too.”

America’s greatest progress has often come from the very people it once oppressed. That is the miracle and the challenge of this nation. The people told they did not belong became the people who forced America to grow.

So on America’s 250th birthday, I celebrate possibility. I celebrate resilience. I celebrate the courage to tell the truth and still believe a better future can be built.

This country is not perfect.

But this country belongs to all of us.

[Matt @Mattrs1040]

@EvaLovesDesign Oooh I like this

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

DOGE was ill conceived, poorly executed, and a resounding failure.

It actually COST taxpayers about $10 billion by sidelining more than 154,000 federal workers on paid leave instead of letting them do their jobs. Agencies were hollowed out, services suffered, and accountability was blocked.

The damage is ongoing and taxpayers are still paying the price.
https://t.co/joJP2qVn92

[Iza S @Iza_2021]

BRADLEY DESERVED BETTER. 😡😭
After spending $1,500 on training, his family still gave up on him. The wife wanted him gone, she said they “couldn’t deal with him anymore.”They called him “too unpredictable.”

But Bradley is only one year old! he’s a baby🥺 What the volunteers saw was a quiet, calm, gentle soul, not chaotic, not aggressive. Just a sweet boy who stayed close to people, softly asking for love.

His kennel was filthy. The volunteer and another helper cleaned it. They bathed him, cleaned his paws and tail and he visibly relaxed, like he finally felt cared for 😭
Bradley has lived with kids and other dogs. He’s not broken, he’s just another #GermanShepherd who was failed by humans who quit too soon.

💔 He deserves patience and understanding, he deserves a real family. Bradley #A5744621
🆘 Can you foster in CA ?
🆘 Adopt anywhere 🇺🇸

📍Carson Animal Care Center
216 W Victoria St
Gardena, CA 90248

Please share. Let someone finally choose him.

[Alabama Soccer @AlabamaSoccer]

Gianna Paul puts us back on top!

📺https://t.co/ofQpb61DiF

#RollTide

[Matt @Mattrs1040]

Girl Scouts?😂😂 https://t.co/kTUTn4VWeZ via @YouTube

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

All his morning text messages... 😭 💞

Protect this man at all costs. 😭❤️

[SILENCED Brandon @PrettyBadLefty]

Man who sells cars that explode desperate to eliminate consumer protection bureau

[Fellaraktar🇺🇦 @fellaraktar]

BREAKING:

Trump nominates Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán to be the new head of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

[Alabama Soccer @AlabamaSoccer]

Rolled the Dores 😤

#RollTide

[george @StokeyyG2]

Italy scored this against France earlier tonight…

What a fucking goal.

[Matt @Mattrs1040]

The refs are literally doing everything they can to help Auburn.

[Keno’s mum 🇨🇦🇳🇬 @nero_joy_]

She was so furious 😅😅

[Thanos Papa @steveabbey_]

He is a natural 😂😂

[Matt @Mattrs1040]

@DailyTaxMemes Have you been able to call the prior CPA and ask why?

[Dr. Farbod MBBCh FRCEM @EmergencyBod]

When I saw the French navy with bagpipes on a military parade, I was not expecting an absolute banger!

[Matt @Mattrs1040]

@PerihelionX7 @JulieChangRE Has no one taught you empathy?

[Matt @Mattrs1040]

@jpcamposcpa SurePrep functionality is frustrating. Our firm abandoned it after one season and use CCH scan/autoflow. easier to use IMO. We use Prosystem fx for returns.

[Matt @Mattrs1040]

@zaynahbear This is my favorite one