Mioso68

I’m old

[Mioso68 @Miosi68]

Dennis, Texas isn’t just Dallas, Houston, San Antonio & Austin. The counties around those cities vote red and almost all the cities under 500k (there are a lot) are very red. Even South Texas has trended red over the past 2 national elections. We can’t ignore the threat, but we’re good

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

Dad, how did California lose the biggest IPO in history?

[Texas 🇺🇸 @MustangMan_TX]

What a great point!

At least you’re moving on the back roads…

[shirish @shiri_shh]

bro immigrated from Mexico and took a $28/hr contract welding job in 2015.

didn't even know what SpaceX was.

they gave him $10,000 in stock and let him buy more through payroll deductions.

that stake is now worth $880,000.

and he's one of 4,400 employees who became millionaires on Friday. welders. technicians. cafeteria staff.

[Mikale Olson @realmikolson]

A wise man once said, if you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive across it.

These European World Cup tourists are experiencing the REAL America for the first time: not New York City or LA, but middle America and all its hospitality. 🇺🇸

[Mioso68 @Miosi68]

@RichOToole The Black Pearl

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Chick-fil-A has 37 cars in line with a wait time of just 1 minute 54 seconds. The workers make it rain condiments on me and treat me like I’m their favorite cousin.

Meanwhile, McDonald’s has 2 and a 1/2 cars in line with a wait time of eternity. The workers make it seem like their condiments are bricks of gold and treat me like I’m the stepdad they blame for their parents’ divorce.

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

Traces of Texas reader Eric Lorhmann visited Normandy a few years ago and took this powerful photo at Pointe du Hoc, site of one of the most dramatic and hard-fought battles of the D-Day invasion.

82 years ago today, on June 6, 1944, U.S. Army Rangers commanded by Lt. Col. James Earl Rudder, a native Texan, landed beneath these towering cliffs under intense German fire. Their mission was to scale the 100-foot heights, neutralize German gun batteries threatening the Allied landings, and hold the position at all costs. The Rangers climbed the cliffs with ropes and ladders while bullets and grenades rained down on them from above. More than half of Rudder's battalion became casualties during the assault. Rudder himself was wounded twice. But the Rangers dug in atop the cliffs and successfully fought off repeated German counterattacks for two days before being relieved. Rudder himself visited the spot with Walter Cronkite 20 years later and just said to Walter "I wish somebody could tell me how we did that." He, himself, was amazed.

Eric says that he actually shivered while standing here. Not from the cold but from thoughts of how unbelievably courageous Rudder and his rangers had been to attack this place 84 years ago. It's unimaginable to mere mortals like me. Those young men knew what they were facing and did it anyway. I have always wanted to visit Pointe du Hoc.

Thank you, Eric. What a photo!

[Calvin Applebottom II @_MaroonKoolAid]

Texas A&M joined the SEC in 2012. Lionel Messi is playing at Kyle Field before Georgia

[Mioso68 @Miosi68]

@TracesofTexas There is a nice bar in Fredericksburg that uses the old store as its theme. I believe the owner in Fredericksburg is the grandson of the original owner.

[Mioso68 @Miosi68]

@WallStreetApes It is a good thing. QT has their beer coolers very close to a side entrance. I’ve seen kids at my local location grab beer and leave.

[Mioso68 @Miosi68]

@ClayTravis This. California is bleeding citizens to Texas as well, and the overwhelming majority are the supporters of sensible policies and candidates. They are running from a broken system in California.

[@amuse @amuse]

TEXAS SENATE RACE: Remember, the House didn’t put the staffers who reported Ken Paxton to the FBI under oath, but the Senate did during trial where they admitted they had no evidence of any crime. The FBI didn’t find any either. It was political payback.

[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?

[Mioso68 @Miosi68]

@DawnBurford09 @mcafeenew @coffee_anytime @RedLivesMatterQ He went to McNeil, correct? RR ISD has not been tiny in many, many decades.

[T-Bob Hebert @TBob53]

If Texas doesn't make an honest effort to play Texas Tech in week 1 they are bitch made

You can't say you would win the Big 12 with your twos and threes and then refuse the challenge of a school who doesn't even have their multi million dollar star quarterback

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go—through our words, our actions, and our systems. We don’t have to be showing symptoms—like a white hood or a Confederate flag—to be contagious.

[Texas A&M University @TAMU]

First in Texas, Best In the SEC!

For the third year in a row, Texas A&M University has been named the #1 public university in the SEC by the @WSJ.

More than a ranking, it’s a reflection of how Aggies, united by our Core Values, step up as a force for good — shaping student experiences, driving research and creating real-world impact for our communities and beyond.

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#TAMU #AggieLeadership #GigEm